Chapter 785
Still Driven by Salary After All
Alistair was currently high in the sky.
After receiving news from Little Crow, Alistair had planned to take a car to the Spirit Tower. However, she unexpectedly discovered a huge advantage of her child—
Leviathan could fly right after being born!
Although its carrying capacity was not high, its speed was quite fast!
So this trip, Alistair couldn’t bring anyone with her… she could only leave Selene and Honey Badger here for now. She then reverted to her original form as Alistair, and with Night Demon, rode on Leviathan, preparing to go to the Spirit Tower to retrieve people.
Alice’s intention was very clear—the other party was already planning to leave, but someone was unwilling to let them go. Therefore, they proactively invited Alistair to have a chat, intending to bring up Pope Eivass to apply some pressure.
Even Alistair herself never expected that the bait she casually cast would be reeled in so quickly.
She actually didn’t expect Christina to be able to do anything for her, nor did she really bet everything on Christina, hoping she would help her dig up people.
Eivass was originally from HR and knew what qualities were needed in this line of work—cruel, ruthless, and cunning. Alistair naturally knew that with Christina’s naivety, it would be good if she wasn’t deceived.
Alistair’s recommendation for Christina to study Necromancy was mainly because she was truly gifted in this area.
Of course, Alistair also knew… Christina’s Path of Balance level must be artificially inflated. As a commoner Alchemist, without financial backing, it was difficult for Alchemists to even go through the Ascension Ritual.
But conversely, if she truly had talent, she would have found a benefactor long ago. After all, this was Leipzig, the City of Knowledge.
Count Leipzig’s ability to assemble this world-renowned team of Extraordinary individuals was based on his reputation for being willing to pay and sponsor. A benefactor who was willing to spend money, didn’t claim credit for results, didn’t care about the return on investment, and didn’t interfere with research directions was an angel that scholars could only dream of.
And his funding could not cover all scholars, nor could the entire city have only him as a wealthy person.
After all, Valentin I was a great Alchemist. In Star Antinomy, Alchemy was a very noble art.
You could look down on Necromancy, you could consider Demon Scholars cruel and evil, you could think that Extraordinary individuals on the Path of Love were insane, and you could even consider the Children of the Moon to be parasitic aliens in society… but Alchemy alone could not tolerate any discrimination; researching Alchemy was absolutely politically correct.
In such an environment, nobles whose own children had mediocre Alchemy skills would basically support a few Alchemy teams to show their strong support for Alchemy. The academic level, research achievements, and Energy Level on the Path of Balance of these Alchemists would become topics of boasting at noble banquets.
In a sense, this was also a form of Pokémon battle. Talented children would never wait until graduation before their mentors sold their personal information and they were noticed by well-connected wealthy individuals.
And Christina hadn’t even reached the Second Tier… regardless of whether it was due to lack of money or not, this indicated that there must be a problem with her talent on the Path of Balance.
On the other hand, the Twilight Path—as someone who had died and come back to life, she was naturally attuned to the Twilight Path. She could at least ascend to the Third Tier.
Extraordinary Abilities begin to undergo a qualitative change from the Fourth Tier onwards. Without talent, even with full mysterious knowledge and studying every day, one couldn’t level up. Trying to advance by luck was impossible. Not to mention that ascending from Third to Fourth Tier could already be life-threatening.
From this perspective, the Third Tier was already the ceiling for mortals. If we were to compare it to the academic world on Earth, it would be roughly equivalent to a doctoral student level—even the worst doctoral student would be respected and called an expert; but to go further would not be something achievable through effort alone.
Part of the reason Alistair was willing to point her in this direction was also Alice. Although Christina needed Alice to bond her soul, Alice also needed a body that could accommodate the power of twilight to parasitize externally.
Alice was not a wandering soul, but an Earthbound Spirit. Without an “anchor,” she could not exist independently.
This was like how parents would treat their child’s spouse very well after marriage, which was actually hoping that the other party’s parents would treat their own child just as well. In addition, Christina was indeed quite unlucky, which somewhat aroused Alistair’s compassion.
…Who would have thought that Christina would give Alistair a big surprise.
On her first day at the Spirit Tower, she dug up two talents for Alistair.
Albert Lore, and Aurora von Goethe.
Alistair was very familiar with the former… he came from a Necromancy family and was the inventor of Armed Gargoyles. His grandfather’s grandfather was the second Black Aspect of Star Antinomy, and the chief disciple of the first Black Aspect.
In later versions, he was the professional mentor for Necromancers and the first Black Aspect after Star Antinomy was rebuilt. He was considered the native protagonist of Star Antinomy, with a plot status equivalent to the Pure White Saintess.
And the latter was even more significant.
—Because her maternal grandmother’s brother was now an Apostle of the Twin Mirrors; and although she herself was from a noble family, her entire family was killed by a Child of the Moon, and she dedicated her life to finding the killer and seeking revenge.
The killer had nearly killed her as well, but she managed to survive by hiding in the belly of a stitched-together corpse, suppressing her breath and heartbeat with all her might.
She had been afraid to come out after that, subsisting on the flesh and blood of corpses to supplement her essential nutrition… until the stitched-together corpse rotted and stank, and she, almost comatose, was discovered by the police who were investigating the scene.
She could be considered a young girl with a strong protagonist aura.
Later, she avenged her family and became a student of Master Amber. After Master Amber became the descending vessel for the Amber Heavenly Envoy, she became the only person in the world who had mastered the art of lossless resurrection.
In the original game’s plot, Eivass preserved Yulia’s soul precisely because he wanted to find the legendary Master Amber and resurrect Yulia.
As long as he could find him and provide most of the deceased’s soul, he would be willing to help complete the resurrection ritual. His resurrection technique could fill in missing souls; if a complete soul could be provided, he could also perform lossless resurrection.
But this was extremely difficult.
Master Amber was an Imperial, born in the 15th century, older than the entire Star Antinomy… he was the same age as the first Black Aspect, and the two were friends.
That year, he was inspired by the Path of Beauty and became the world’s first Amber Craftsman. He had been living until now through the life-extending abilities of the Twilight Path.
Now he was living in seclusion in Star Antinomy under the guise of an ordinary Preserver. Only Extraordinary individuals on the Fifth Tier of the Path Adaptation or the Path of Beauty could sense his existence.
Moreover, the mentors of these two talents that Christina dug up were both Count Little Fernando Bruzvik—a Fifth Tier Extraordinary, the dean of the first department of the Spirit Tower, an honorary colonel in the Ministry of the Army, the vice-minister of the Star Antinomy Ministry of Railways, and one of Avalon’s most vigilant enemies.
It could be said that Count Bruzvik was the most powerful and influential person in the entire current Spirit Tower, apart from the Black Aspect!
And the current Black Aspect was his mentor!
Alistair vaguely remembered that he even became the next Black Aspect—but unfortunately, he encountered the worst era.
Before he could fully display his abilities, he was personally killed by a Fallen Heavenly Envoy. Alistair remembered him because he was the combat figure used to highlight the oppressive power of the Fallen Heavenly Envoy in the new version’s data pack.
In terms of strength, social connections, political status, and misfortune, he was equivalent to Avalon’s Grand Guardian—just as the previous version’s loading CG was the Grand Guardian’s death charge, the protagonist of the next version’s loading CG would be him.
Surrounded by various high-level undead, with dense runes and magic circles flashing in the air—a bolt of black lightning effortlessly pierced through a large number of barriers, undead, and shields, then charged forward, pierced through his chest with a sword, and let out a huge thunderous roar that would immediately make people turn down their headphone volume.
The next scene was Count Bruzvik’s frail body being lifted high by the Fallen Heavenly Envoy’s sword.
Alistair was not very clear about what happened afterwards, as she had already entered at the latest by this time. If the internet speed was faster and one had an SSD, they might be able to attempt to rescue the Vice-Dean… perhaps they could enter before he was impaled.
The future native protagonist of Star Antinomy, the world’s only successor to the resurrection technique, the one who could be pursued by the Fallen Heavenly Envoy for half a day and personally killed—he was even considered a formidable enemy worthy of assassination.
With these three, Master and Apprentices, Alistair had already swept up all the high-value targets of the entire Spirit Tower!
“It still comes down to salary, brothers!”
Riding this shark dragon, Alistair exclaimed.
When the salary is too high, even the fishing bait can automatically slack off…
…Wait.
Speaking of automatic bait…
Alistair suddenly fell into thought.
…Could it be that the Lord of Scales and Feathers sees me the same way?
(End of this chapter)
