Chapter 160 Clues
"Heh... I didn't expect it was you who reported him. But wouldn't it be considered betrayal to report someone from your own organization to other organizations?" Dorothy asked Aldridge in return after hearing what he said, and the other party spoke calmly.
"No, I reported him for the sake of the Artisans' Guild. Think about it, if Deer Skull really relied on devouring a city of people to produce sufficiently good works, and defeated me in the competition to sit on the Golden Seat, and his actions were later investigated and exposed, the secret agents and the Glowing Church came to ask for an explanation, and he was already one of the Golden Seats, and to a certain extent directly represented the entire Artisans' Guild, so he would not be dealt with at all. If the other two seats were dealt with accordingly, then Deer Skull, who had already become a Golden Seat, would have the ability to directly split the Artisans' Guild.
"Ultimately, this will lead to a comprehensive deterioration in the relationship between the Artisan Guild, a major government, and the Glorious Church, which is absolutely detrimental to the future of the Artisan Guild. Our report is also for the future of the entire society."
Aldrich responded righteously. After listening to Aldrich's words, Dorothy suddenly decided that it was quite reasonable. Deer Skull's behavior was indeed playing a joke on the future of the entire society. Regardless of whether Aldrich did it intentionally or unintentionally, he objectively saved the lives of the people in the city. In this respect, he was undoubtedly right.
"So what happened afterwards? Deer Skull was expelled from the Artisan Guild, so you were the final winner, so why didn't you become gold?"
Dorothy continued to ask, and Aldridge spoke after taking a breath of relief.
"In the end, I did win and was qualified to be promoted to the gold level. However, Lu Ku was resentful of my victory and secretly tripped me up during the final ceremony, which led to an accident during the promotion ceremony and I suffered backlash.
"In fact, this ritual was not a complete failure. After the ritual, I had already obtained most of the gold level and abilities. However, the backlash from the ritual also caused serious damage to my body, especially the spiritual network that stores spiritual energy. Now, although I am barely half gold, I can only store spiritual energy that is about black level.
"I can't retain more spirituality. I only have black-level spirituality. Not to mention gold, even red and chalk-level abilities are difficult to release. This is why I have so many stone statues hidden in the school, because I can only use external objects to release and use high-level abilities. So in the battle just now, your fight with Deer Skull's men was the key to determining the entire battle."
After Aldridge finished speaking, Dorothy nodded thoughtfully after listening to him.
"It seems that the backlash of this ritual has directly reduced the old guy's MP limit by more than half, so he needs so many mana potions to fight."
"You said that Deer Skull tripped you up and caused you to fail in your promotion. Then his actions should be directly hostile to the entire Artisans Guild. Did no one in the Artisans Guild care about him anymore?" Dorothy continued to ask. Directly crippling a person who had worked so hard to be promoted to gold, this kind of thing would definitely not be tolerated by the Artisans Guild. Before, they just expelled him, probably out of consideration for their old friendship. Since he created this gold seat in the Artisans Guild, why not just kill him directly?
"Of course, the Golden Council immediately issued a hunting order for Lu Ku, but Lu Ku found a new backer at this time. I don't know how he persuaded the Silence Society, and the Dark Coffin Cult accepted him. The upper echelons of the Dark Coffin Cult came forward to mediate and wanted to protect Lu Ku, and the Golden Council was persuaded by them."
Aldrich responded, and Dorothy couldn't help but speak in surprise.
"Can this convince you?"
“Hehe… When they were able, the Underworld Cult used the Artisans Guild’s rules to persuade the Artisans Guild. They proposed to make a deal with the Artisans Guild, saying that they were willing to exchange something from the Underworld Cult for the life of the Deer Skull. The decision on this thing would be made by the Artisans Guild.
"Trading is the rule of the Artisans Guild. We can do business with anyone. Since others have not proposed a deal, the Golden Council will try to accept it. In order to compensate me, the Golden Council decided to give me the right to choose and let me take something from the Order of the Coffin to make up for my own losses."
Aldridge continued to speak. Listening to Aldridge's words, Dorothy's eyes showed a trace of curiosity, and she asked.
"So, what did you choose?"
Listening to Dorothy's question, Aldridge smiled slightly, and then continued to speak.
"I chose the unfinished work of the Deer Skeleton who had already joined the Order of the Coffin.
"His work? What do you want that for?"
"Haha, it's not revenge. For us 'Shi', the process of creating works is the process of advancing to gold. Once the gold advancement ceremony begins, there is no turning back. If he wants to become advanced to gold, he must hold the ceremony after his works are completed. I want it. Without the works, he will never be able to advance to gold."
"But in this case, won't you be in a situation where you fight to the death? Is it that serious?" Dorothy said in disbelief. Aldridge's action was equivalent to creating an absolute enemy at the peak of the Red Stage for herself, who was already half-disabled.
Aldridge continued to answer Dorothy's questions easily.
"Of course, I am a person who holds grudges, even if I am disabled. He destroyed my ceremony, so he will never be able to succeed and advance.
"After that, I left the upper echelons of the Craftsmen's Guild and began to live in seclusion in a random city, acting as an ordinary city manager of the Craftsmen's Guild in the city where I lived in seclusion. And Deer Skull was looking for me like crazy, trying to take back his work. He and I played hide-and-seek with each other for more than a hundred days.
"Occasionally he would find me and call me, but I would always be warned in advance and I would get the help of the senior members of the Artisan Guild and other old friends to fight back. After that, I would move to another place. After going back and forth several times, it was not until thirty years ago that I was introduced by my old friend Amanda and became the principal here. I have been working here until now, and finally I was found by that guy again.
"This time, he learned his lesson. In order to avoid alerting the enemy, he did not come to investigate personally, but sent two inconspicuous Black Ranks. After the reconnaissance, in order to make a quick decision and not give me time to find my old friends like before, he directly asked his subordinates to summon their bodies to fight me, thinking that this would be enough to defeat me.
"Hehe... What he didn't expect is that I met a reliable new friend here."
As he said this, Aldridge glanced at Dorothy, who also twitched her lips after hearing what he said.
'This old guy is really something. He is willing to risk his life to prevent his enemy from getting promoted. However, judging from the current situation, he can only do so. And he is actually friends with Saint Amanda, the donor of this school? It seems that he has quite a lot of connections.'
"Now, you already know almost everything about the grudge between me and that guy. So, Ms. Meshhos, what else do you want to ask?"
Aldridge continued speaking to Dorothy, who immediately responded.
"Mr. Aldridge, you are the Beyonder of the Stone Vice-Initiator, right? I would like to ask you if you know any information about the path to Initiation."
Dorothy said bluntly, and Aldridge looked at her playfully before answering seriously.
"Although I had guessed it before, I never thought that you, Miss Meshhos, were really an extraordinary person related to Enlightenment. More importantly, you are still an apprentice and cannot choose auxiliary spirituality. Therefore... you have been on the journey of Enlightenment from the very beginning. You are truly an extraordinary person who has been Enlightened. Am I right?"
In the face of Aldridge's words, Dorothy did not respond, but just remained silent. Seeing Dorothy's response, Aldridge laughed and spoke.
“Hahahaha…Amanda, Amanda, you were right to introduce me to this little place. I didn’t expect that I would be able to see a person who has set foot on the path to enlightenment here, a genuine extraordinary person who has never appeared in our era. I didn’t expect that my old bones would be able to witness history, hahaha…”
Aldridge laughed heartily, and after he finished laughing, he continued to look at Dorothy, and then he spoke a noun.
"The Star Numbers Book Society is the only secret society in secret history that has been recorded and traced back to the origin of "Qi". It was active from the First to the Fourth Epochs. It was once prosperous but perished in an unknown disaster.
"The ruins of the Star Numbers Society are all over the continent. Anyone who wants to peek into the secrets of 'Enlightenment', the best way is to look for these ruins. I also got the opportunity to use 'Enlightenment' as a supplementary spiritual power during an accidental expedition to the ruins of the Star Numbers Society. I can tell you the location of this ruins, you may be able to find more things inside."
As he spoke, Aldridge looked seriously into Dorothy's eyes, then slowly spoke.
"The ruins are not far away. They are in the Kingdom of Prit, in the capital of this country, Tivian."
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