Chapter 817 Aleister's Lies and Plans
Although the fall of the first generation of Hong Xiang had nothing to do with him.
But Christina still felt a strong sense of excitement, pride and a strong sense of identity.
——This is my backstage, it’s really amazing! Do you have such a backstage?
After Aleister left, Christina excitedly discussed with the other students how great Aleister was and how powerful she was to be able to defeat the first Red Phase.
There seemed to be stars twinkling in her eyes, and her words were almost fanatical.
It's like a believer.
Meanwhile, upon hearing that Aleister wanted to eat something, a somewhat nervous Adolf decided to take Aleister to Leipzig for a good meal. The old lich, on the other hand, was concentrating on finishing the experimental ritual.
Although the lord of Leipzig was frozen in a natural refrigerator on the top of the ziggurat, this did not affect their trip to Leipzig.
To be honest, Leipzig is a very high-quality tourist city.
It was obvious that Adolf, as the vice-president, was not very confident about the quality of the canteen at the Spirit Tower.
Of course, there must be a cafeteria in the Psychic Tower.
After all, it’s the Academy of the Undead, and that doesn’t mean all the students are undead.
Aleister still remembered that during the promotion ceremony... when Aiwass and Bayard sneaked out of the Arc Moon Manor to eat, they ran into many students from the Psychic Tower who had just finished their evening classes.
It seemed to be around nine or eleven in the evening, and a large group of young necromancer apprentices in robes of dead leaves came out to look for food, hungry. It was clear that the pressure of schoolwork was quite heavy.
At that time, the Tongling Tower was still in the city center, and at least the snack street at the school gate still existed.
The Ziggurat was now located in the suburbs, even in the mountains. It took Aleister over half an hour to fly from the center of Leipzig on his Leviathan. The closest inhabited area was a small fishing village that doubled as a port.
But let’s not talk about what delicious food and fun things there are there. Just a trip through the mountains... if you walk, it will take at least two or three hours to go there and back.
Through this isolated and boring life like that of a monk, students' affinity for the twilight path can also be cultivated.
When students' moods become calm every day, they no longer feel itchy, nor do they want to go out for adventure or fun, they completely lose the sense of time passing, and no longer have worldly desires, and even want to just muddle along for the rest of their lives... Having this degree of twilight affinity is almost enough to be promoted to the third energy level.
But Aleister rejected Adolf's friendly proposal. Although the Path of Love were all gourmets with a strong appetite and were picky, she was actually just looking for an excuse to get closer to the students.
The leaders came to inspect the school.
But surprisingly, the food in this cafeteria is quite good.
There were seven or eight different kinds of smoked and grilled sausages, fried pork chops, beef rolls, crispy pork knuckle with pickled mustard greens, barbecued meat, fried meat patties, and sweet cookies, all placed in the ritual formation to maintain a constant temperature. There was also vinegar-braised beef, beef meatballs, and braised lamb simmering in the pot...
——Meat, meat, meat, meat, meat. At a glance, the whole restaurant is full of meat except for the bread!
This is much better than what the Avalon people eat! !
Aleister was almost moved to tears.
If only I could have another bowl of rice...
For a moment, I even thought about asking Aiwass to come over and eat for a few days.
She had been staying at Prince Szijjártó's manor for the past few days. The food there was quite good, but it was actually closer to the style of the Fleur-de-Iris, delicate and beautiful. It was similar to the food Aiwass had enjoyed at the Palace of Silver and Tin—dinner consisted of about twelve or thirteen courses, with more than ten of them being from the Fleur-de-Iris style.
Even the food at Avalon's Star Bistro restaurant was lacking in flavor, and the portions weren't large.
“The meat is fresh…”
Adolf looked at Aleister and quickly explained, "It's really the meat of pigs, cows and sheep..."
He was a little worried that Aleister would mistake the meat for the output of the "assistants".
“…It looks pretty good,” Aleister praised, “I like it very much.
"But...what about the students' nutritional balance? And why are there so much meat here, but the children are still so thin?"
Aleister selected her dishes and found a table to sit down. Many of the students who had come with her also grabbed a few dishes, their appetites so small that Aleister even suspected they were trying to lose weight.
Aleister hadn't seen many fat students along the way.
On the contrary, there are quite a few students who are extremely skinny and suspected of having anorexia.
But as soon as she asked this question, she felt as if she had really become a leader coming to visit.
But thinking about it carefully, this wasn't a big problem - because Aleister had originally wanted to move the Ziggurat to Avalon. Once the Ziggurat was built, Aiwass could really be considered their direct leader.
"Ah, about that..."
Adolf smiled helplessly, sat opposite Aleister and explained softly.
The Spirit Tower is a college for necromancers. Although it is also one of the four major forces in Xingti, there are no extraordinary people on the path of love here.
The extraordinary people on the path of dusk value having no desires and are extremely lazy.
Although there's a free cafeteria, students don't bother eating unless absolutely necessary. A simple drink of "Number One" or "Number Two" is enough to keep them hydrated. And the life-sustaining properties of "Number Two" prevent the decline in health that comes with long periods of not eating, preventing them from starving to death.
——If you are not lazy enough, it usually means that your adaptability to the evening path is not high enough.
"So generally speaking, not many people come here to eat?"
Aleister was a little surprised: "It tastes so good..."
Is it such a waste?
"It's okay, there's a preservation technique."
Adolf replied briskly, "Whether it's finished food or fresh ingredients, preservation techniques can be used to maintain their condition. As for nutrition...all you need to do is take the mixture regularly."
"The preservation technique is really useful..."
Aleister sighed.
Avalon has so few good conservators. When Aiwass's painting was being preserved, it took a week to find someone to do it. Not to mention the "wasteful" use of food preservation.
But in Xingti, the cost of a preservation spell is even cheaper than a pot of stew.
Is this the effect of supernatural powers becoming widespread in society...
Adolf continued, "Because the alchemists have been increasingly oppressing the botanists lately... As a result, the botanists, who rely on the Alchemy Association for their survival, need to provide more and more alchemical materials every month. This has also indirectly squeezed vegetable production, after all, vegetables and potion ingredients are produced from the same fields. In big cities, the price of vegetables will also rise due to the rising prices of alchemical materials.
"Plus, grain is a key export profit item and one of the few stable sources of profit for Xingti. Therefore, grain production is essential... These factors contribute to the high prices of vegetables in Xingti. Farmers typically set aside a plot of land outside their wheat fields to grow their own food.
"After all, the difficulty of preserving vegetables is much greater than that of using meat - I think this is also an important reason."
"……why is that?"
Aleister, who was eating, looked up in surprise: "Is preservation more difficult to use on plants?"
She had never heard of this before.
"I know……"
At this moment, Aurora came over quietly: "I want to say something."
She had just been holding onto Albert tightly from a distance...and she heaved a sigh of relief when she saw that what Aleister was eating was actually human food.
After all, the Son of the Moon doesn't have a very good reputation in Xingti.
Previously, due to the pressure from the Red Lady, no one dared to show it. But it will probably be different in the future...
When Vice Principal Adolf saw Aurora and Albert coming over, he understood why they came.
It must have something to do with their mentor, Fernando Brunzwick Jr.
After all, Fernando Brunzwick Jr. was Adolf's student, and Adolf was also concerned about how to solve his problem.
He then enthusiastically introduced Aleister, "This is Aurora von Goethe... and this is Albert Lore. They are both my disciples' disciples, so they can be considered my grand-disciples. These two children are both geniuses who have reached the fourth energy level at such a young age... Albert is only in his early twenties, and Aurora is not even twenty yet. They are the future of our Psychic Tower."
——You may not believe it, but I am only eighteen years old.
Aleister thought to himself, looking at the two people.
Aurora's beauty even took her by surprise - her beauty was like that of a platinum doll, and that lifeless feeling had an unusual beauty.
That feeling... if I had to describe it, it would be "not alive." She felt more like a 3D model, and if she were still, people would mistake her for a detailed, one-to-one figurine.
Is this the future successor of Master Chongbo?
And the other one...maybe he is a true genius.
Albert Lore – Inventor of the Armed Gargoyle, future Star Antimony Darkside.
He looked a bit like a depressed Harry Potter... or a programmer who'd been working overtime for a month and hadn't slept well, forming a stark contrast to the girl beside him. Although he looked as if he was about to die at any moment, you could still tell he had a handsome appearance.
Aleister gave them a friendly smile: "Hello, both of you... Then, Miss Goethe, why is this?"
Aurora's pupils trembled violently when Aleister named her.
But her expression and voice remained unchanged as she softly spoke, "Because plants are still 'alive.' And if you want to preserve living things with preservation techniques... it would be very difficult."
“Alive…”
Aleister was thoughtful.
That's true...even if vegetables are taken out of the ground, they can still continue to reproduce. From a certain perspective, they may not have completely died before being blanched.
Whether it's meat, corpses, artwork, or buildings, they don't have "life." Therefore, preservation is much simpler to perform.
"The preservation technique that rescued the students earlier...was it used by the principal?"
"It's me. I cast a preservation spell on living things to save them from 'dangerous situations'. I used this method to transport the children to me."
Adolf, the contemporary Dark Phase, replied, "The preservation technique that completely protected the Ziggurat and separated it from the living world was the principal's."
"If you use the preservation technique on a living person..."
Aurora whispered, "It can also turn a dying person into a stone statue, thus halting the 'death process'. It can also save people."
"It is like this, the honorable Miss Aleister..."
Albert had learned Aleister's name from Christina before, so he asked directly: "Our mentor... nearly died in the previous promotion ceremony. Aurora and I saved his soul.
"But he's still in 'imminent death' mode, and I just heard your prayers...included Aiwass.
"Excuse me, is this the 'Pope' Aiwass?"
"Yes."
Aleister smiled and nodded slightly.
She didn't even have the level to pray, so praying was useless. She said this because she wanted to spread the word—others might not understand, but in the Spirit Tower, where the first promotion class was the Ghoul Priest, students generally had some knowledge of divine arts.
Albert breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "I also wanted to become a ghoul herder back then, so I studied prayer for a while. Although I'm not very familiar with prayer, I remember that 'respectfully' should be a phrase used to address the celestial minister. Even the apostles are not qualified to use this kind of prayer call..."
"...But you have indeed borrowed divine power. Is this because... His Holiness's power has transcended the material world?"
"--Yes."
Aleister smiled, nodded, and said, "I am not a 'perfect man'. This divine power is a miracle he gave me. Without Aiwass's seal, I would never be able to mobilize the power of a perfect man."
This is the truth, but it is also a lie.
This is also one of Aleister's goals.
When she heard that Aiwas wanted to send the power of the church to help Xingtan survive the chaos... she had a vague idea, and now this idea has become clearer and clearer.
——She wanted to build faith in Aiwass.
Although Aiwass himself would not think so much, but for Aleister who has surpassed the incarnation... Aiwass will eventually ascend to the dream world.
Being an apostle would be fine, but to become a celestial minister, one must have followers in the material world.
Although neither the Pillar Gods nor the Celestial Officials required any "power of faith," after ascending from Apostles to Celestial Officials, they could no longer descend to the mortal realm normally. They must have their own representatives in the material world to expand and elevate their own concepts.
If a celestial being is forgotten by everyone, even the concept to which he belongs may be forgotten. And if you want to expand the concept, it cannot be done in the dream world, it must be done in the material world.
That's why the Silver Crown Dragon had to establish his own path of authority in the material world... and only then could he rebel against the path of power in the dream world.
Originally, this could be considered a "fantasy." But now, it is getting closer and closer to the "future" -
——[Kill the fifth-level extraordinary person and gain 4500 free experience].
The experience gained by the first generation Red Prime Minister was four times that of Earl Dawn.
Although both were at the fifth energy level, their experiences were completely different...
Aleister herself was only at the fourth energy level, but with the help of external forces based on the way of transcendence, contracts and sins, she jumped one and a half energy levels and killed the first generation Red Phase, who was also considered a leader in the fifth energy level.
This is exactly the behavior that is in line with the way of transcendence.
The practice of this behavior made Aleister feel that he had touched the wall of the fifth energy level very clearly.
By investing a maximum of 2,000 experience points, she will be able to participate in the promotion ceremony at the end of this month!
And her current experience reserves are sufficient.
If everything goes well, she will be a true fifth-level transcendent next month.
By then, all she would have to deal with were the affairs of the Dream Realm, the Celestial Officials, and the Pillar Gods... It wasn't too early to start planning for Aiwass's deification. It was even a little late.
"We wish to rely on the power of the great and sacred Lord Aiwass to rescue our mentor..."
Albert said: "I am willing to pay any price for this."
"--Me too!"
Hearing that Albert only counted himself in the "price", Aurora hurried to catch up.
And Aleister just smiled and nodded: "Okay."
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The boundless starry universe and the mysterious end of the star abyss.
Humans opened the gates of hell with their own hands, ushering in a new era of martial arts.
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(End of this chapter)
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