Chapter 708 Boarding the Ship and the Thief
When Honey Badger headed for the 22nd Circle, she was accompanied by the Pope's guards.
When she left, she had quietly transformed into a middle-aged man with a serious face.
He had a white mustache and short, grayish-white curly hair. He wore a Star-style butler uniform and quietly followed a petite young girl with long black hair.
Bayard couldn't just appear from nowhere in the Theocracy, so Aiwass needed to enter the Star Antimony as someone other than Aiwass and Bayard. Therefore, she removed her disguise and revealed her true self.
Aiwass never imagined that... the first batch of supplies he mobilized after becoming Pope was to buy the most expensive elf-style white dress for his own trumpet.
The two of them walked all the way to the first ring, and there was silence all the way.
The honey badger didn't ask any questions, and Aiwass - or Miss Aleister - just calmly held the crow, sitting in the public transportation facility that circulated like the subway, watching the surrounding scenery quickly turn.
It wasn't until they entered the port area that the noisy noises from the goblins instantly made the stagnant space flow:
"A travel pass to the Church, a must-have for any visitor! Only six gold coins or eight white crowns!"
"Elf clothing! Authentic handmade elf clothing—wouldn't the young lady take a gift with her when she leaves? And handmade silver jewelry in the elf style!"
"A collection of the last three days' worth of newspapers! From six countries, a total of thirty-six daily newspapers! You can get news from all over the world right here in the Theocracy!"
"Snake people delicacies! Handmade dates, iced sherbet! Intact black tea for sale at a low price!"
Aleister ignored the goblin vendor who was trying to sell him elven clothing and turned his head slightly.
When she tilted her head, the honey badger behind her had already bent down slightly respectfully and listened attentively to the order of this "young lady":
"Go buy me a newspaper... and some sherbet."
The honey badger disguised as a middle-aged butler did not change his expression when he heard the order.
The butler simply said politely, "These fruit juices need to be added with wine, you..."
As a housekeeper, Honey Badger couldn't directly ask her daughter "Can you drink?" So she chose a smarter way to remind her.
After all, wine is a product of the path of love. Whether it is the banquet host, Hengwo or Xuetiansi, the rituals are all related to wine.
Greed, excitement, hunger, drunkenness, estrus... After entering these states of "strong desire", the pupils will uncontrollably turn scarlet - this is also the main means for the Hawkeye organization to identify the Children of the Moon hidden in the crowd.
"——long-winded."
Aleister just sneered and raised her head like a proud little girl: "I just want to drink! Will you buy it for me?"
But she did not deny that she would get drunk, nor did she say things like "I can't get drunk".
Now the honey badger understood.
Aleister meant that even she couldn't suppress the characteristics of the Moon Child after drinking, but she still drank. Her purpose was to transform into the Moon Child state in public.
"……yes."
So the honey badger obeyed the order directly and went to buy newspapers and fruit juice.
As Aleister waited for her to come back, she was suddenly bumped lightly by a gray-haired child behind her.
Just as she was about to glance at the man, her view was blocked by a sudden surge of people.
Feeling the amethyst necklace hanging around her neck disappear, the corners of her mouth twitched slightly, but she did not explode immediately.
That necklace was not an extraordinary item, it was just an ordinary piece of jewelry.
Jewelry crafted by a master artist, imbued with the power of the maker's path of beauty, often becomes transcendental. And as long as a sufficiently beautiful creation is created, the power of the path will be reflected back. A true master jeweler is unlikely to fail to become transcendent.
Therefore, we can often judge whether jewelry is an extraordinary item by the simplest criterion of "whether it looks good or not".
It is beautiful enough, and even the gems, gold and silver may be real, but it has no extraordinary powers - there is only one explanation, that is, the jewelry itself is a replica.
Some noble ladies who weren't Transcendents would purchase jewelry that looked just as beautiful as Transcendental jewelry, but without any special properties... similar to the so-called "skin." This kind of jewelry, while beautiful enough, was also safer... because genuine Transcendental jewelry could easily attract robbery by wild Transcendents.
There are a lot of this kind of jewelry in the warehouses of the Church.
Because those goblins like to deal in this kind of "high imitation" jewelry.
If they were sold at the price of imitations, the Theocracy would not care; but if someone tried to sell them as the originals—that is, as extraordinary items—then the market supervisors would send people to confiscate them.
Ironically, those who are caught are usually not the goblins, but the humans who purchase goods in bulk from the goblins.
When Aleister left, the small suitcase that Honey Badger carried for her was filled with this kind of top-grade imitation jewelry - although it was imitation, it was also genuine jewelry. They could be sold at a very scary price, and this was also the money Aleister used for her activities in Star Antimony.
The reason why Aleister let the thief succeed was because, as the child of the moon, she could keenly smell the scent on the other person - a very faint, but particularly recognizable and pungent smell.
——That is the smell of formalin, the tissue preservation fluid that the necromancers of Xingti come into contact with most.
The scent still lingered on him, indicating he hadn't been in the Theocracy long. He was carrying a suitcase toward the port, suggesting he'd be boarding a ferry soon. And there was only one ferry waiting...
That is to say, they will meet on the ship soon.
A good entry point.
Aleister's mouth corners rose slightly, and at this time the honey badger had already walked silently behind her.
"Newspapers are quite expensive," Honey Badger said, handing Aleister the newspapers, which came with a black leather briefcase. "Forty Star Antimony gold coins—that's enough to buy four hundred newspapers in Star Antimony. In Iris, it's even more than eight hundred... Selling things in the Theocracy is really lucrative."
"Here you go, here's the sherbet."
Aleister made a crisp sound.
“…Now?”
"certainly."
After Aleister finished speaking, he exchanged the briefcase for fruit juice - a popular drink among lizardmen and snakemen, an alchemical juice imitated in desert areas where there are no fruits.
Basically, it is a kind of fruity champagne made from flavors, flavorings, alcohol and sparkling water, with ice cubes.
In modern terms, it means "pure technology, without any natural ingredients"... and in this era, this kind of beverage involving alchemical products is much more expensive than pure natural fruit juice.
Aleister took a big sip of the Snakeman brand handmade fruit juice, which reminded Aiwas of modern carbonated drinks, and a look of obvious pleasure appeared on his face.
"Let's go."
Aleister said briskly.
(End of this chapter)
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