The stranger guessed correctly, but also not correctly.
Because the person at the door at this moment is not just one of the two people - but both of them are here.
After all, the losers don't have to choose the entry, nor do they have to accept the enhancement of the soul by the path characteristics. They will be popped out directly after watching the settlement screen, and the winner will have to be detained by the Pillar God for another session.
The gray-haired old count rushed in quickly with a cane.
He seemed to have some somatization symptoms due to the failure of the promotion ceremony. Because just yesterday, he was still walking with ease... but he used crutches directly after the promotion ceremony.
There is no doubt that this is a symptom of a severely damaged soul.
But even with the help of a cane, he walked as if he was racing a car - almost as if he would be late to catch the train and rushed towards the room.
He first angrily tore off the red lampshade that covered the light, and then endured the pain and insisted on using his immobile foot to kick the sacrifices aside. It seemed that this pain could actually make people feel better.
He feels comfortable.
Although he was not angry at the stranger, he could still feel his anger visibly.
"Count Carl..."
The stranger walked over to greet him and said hello in a low voice.
"Call me General, Lieutenant Lorre!"
The old man answered loudly and forcefully.
Along with his voice, another sound like the crackling of a campfire also sounded together with him.
His golden pupils were piercing, as if they were burning with fire all the time. This was also the case - he only needed a thought, and the newly born Balrog could stand up from this old and decaying body.
Normally, he could still try his best to suppress this impulse and maintain his social identity in the name of human beings. But at the moment when his soul was damaged, he just said a word and the temperature in the room began to rise abnormally.
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"Okay, old man."
The middle-aged man who walked in leisurely with a black cane said calmly: "Don't take it out on Albert, he didn't do anything wrong."
He looked to be in his early thirties, with a pair of scarlet pupils. His blond hair was neatly combed back into a big bun. Even so, his hair looked very voluminous.
"...Thank you, Your Highness."
Albert scratched his head and responded politely.
His naturally curly hair looked a little messy because he had just woken up. He was wearing black round glasses at the moment and looked like a young scholar who had not graduated from university, as introverted and shy.
The genius necromancer Albert Lorey, codenamed "Stranger", is only in his early twenties this year and has already reached the fourth level. However, he does not have a part-time job as a first-level consecrator like the mainstream necromancers.
path, thereby being promoted to a ghoul pastor who can easily summon many skeletons. Instead, he chose to take a two-level part-time job on the balanced path, and was promoted to a new extraordinary profession - the Disaster Splicer.
The Dusk Path has a special characteristic that is different from other paths.
If they do not supplement their desire for promotion through part-time jobs, the increasingly stronger "static" power of the Dusk Path will stop them from being promoted. Most Transcendents on the Dusk Path will stop at the third energy level, and those who can reach the third energy level will
The fourth level always has to work part-time in another path to obtain the basic power beyond dusk.
The calamity splicer needs to become a second-level alchemist in order to be promoted.
Compared to the Ghoul Shepherd, this is closer to the promotion direction of the Amber Craftsman.
If the amber craftsman is a master of playing with souls, then the calamity splicer splices and transforms corpses. When Albert was just promoted, the first spliced corpse he created was made of four corpses, an iron hook demon and a deformed limb.
He synthesized the demons and pieced together the monster - he called it an abomination.
The reason why this profession has only been discovered now is because alchemists have a very high social status in the Kingdom of Star Antimony. As long as they can be promoted to the third level, they can directly obtain the title of Lord and have their own territory. And
A generous amount of funds will be allocated every month to allow them to practice alchemy and recruit alchemy apprentices.
The Dusk Path is the opposite. Necromancers can usually only join the army, while preservers are the attendants of alchemists - used to extend the preservation time of precious alchemical mixtures or rare alchemical materials.
As long as you can become an alchemist, no one will go down the road of dusk.
But Prince Heinrich, who was also the Count of Leipzig and the owner of the City of Knowledge, realized the prospects of this profession. So he directly invested a large sum of money in Albert to sponsor his research.
This first investment is ten thousand gold coins.
For a third-level alchemist, the royal sponsorship grant he can receive in a month is two hundred gold coins - equivalent to more than three hundred white crown coins in Avalon next door. In other words, he gave it directly to Al when they first met.
Bert's huge investment of fifteen thousand white crown coins.
This investment has yielded very good returns.
Gargoyles are the classic creations of amber craftsmen. They have imitation souls and can obey complex orders like soldiers. However, gargoyles are curse-driven, which means that the simplest dispersal spell can destroy large areas of expensive gargoyles.
, and the purification barrier set up by a priest can cause them to lose power immediately after entering.
But as a "disaster splicer", Albert gave His Royal Highness a surprise.
He spliced a layer of flesh and blood shell with independent consciousness on the outside of the gargoyles, using it to absorb the curses from the outside world. He also covered the flesh and blood shell with a metal shell to protect it intact. In this way, these gargoyles were afraid of dispelling and
The problem of purification is solved.
It is precisely because of his outstanding talent that Albert began to attract the attention of the royal family as a genius necromancer. The old nobles began to contact him... even the arrogant Count Karl looked at him differently.
"According to what I know about you," the Earl of Leipzig said with a smile, "you are not someone who would be so happy just because you were promoted. Did something good happen to you?"
"Yes, Your Highness!"
Only then did the stranger have the opportunity to tell what happened to him.
He enthusiastically told his sponsors in detail what he had said about meeting Bashir Valentine during the promotion ceremony. And in the middle of the story, old Earl Karl quietly came over and listened.
his words.
——What made the stranger a little confused was that for some reason, the old man suddenly became angry while listening. He snorted hard and moved to the window at high speed on crutches, seeming a little depressed.
"...I actually met that His Majesty."
The Earl of Leipzig's expression was a little subtle: "Would he actually go to that kind of occasion..."
"I think it was just his friend who brought him here. That guy named Pomponazzi——"
Although the other party was the medium through which he met Valentine I, the stranger was obviously dissatisfied with the person who brought Valentine I to Arc Moon Manor.
Valentine I was not the kind of guy who was greedy for physical desires!
The Earl of Leipzig coughed lightly and reminded: "The 'Pomponacci' you are talking about is the 'Red Prime Minister' in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China."
Valentine I was assisted by two unknown prime ministers, the "Black Prime Minister" and the "Red Prime Minister". They were also responsible for the smooth operation of the Star Antimony in the early days of the founding of the country.
"...Is it actually him?"
Albert was a little stunned.
He opened his mouth and was silent for a while, but still said a little harshly: "Then he shouldn't take His Majesty to play in such dangerous places..."
"I was transformed into the Son of the Moon by Teacher Peng Bonazi. From this point of view, he can also be regarded as my father."
The Earl of Leipzig interrupted Albert again and reminded him softly.
"...I'm sorry, I got carried away."
Albert bowed his head and apologized without hesitation.
"It's nothing. It's a good thing if you can get inspiration."
The Earl of Leipzig smiled kindly: "Even if your promotion is not successful, it will definitely not be a loss. You are now the deputy director of the Third Research Institute, even if you cannot be promoted to the fifth level in the twilight path.
Your Majesty will never forget your achievements - compared with the cold road level, after all, results are still needed to prove strength.
"You have contributed to the kingdom, and the kingdom will remember you. Star Antimony respects the alchemists because the alchemists have brought changes and development to Star Antimony. Not because they have extraordinary power."
Although his own soul was damaged, the Count of Leipzig was not at all distressed.
Instead, he said enthusiastically: "Moreover, I have also recruited Miss Alai. If this recruitment can be successful... you may be able to meet again in the future."
The other side.
Lily and Aiwass, who had returned to their original form, exchanged the clothes they were wearing. But Haina still didn't wake up.
So Lily began to tell Aiwass about her recruitment and the secret code left by the "Count of Leipzig".
She was a little worried: "I feel this is a bit dangerous, Master. How about we not go?"
"No, of course I want to go."
Aiwass smiled and said: "It's rare that I have a way to disguise myself as 'Miss Aleister'... Of course I have to do it."
"Then when will you go? You are now a minister, and people will stare at you if you go abroad."
"Of course it's time to follow the instructor in archeology."
Aiwass said confidently: "When I was studying abroad in Theocratic Country, it was reasonable to go on a business trip with my tutor, right? I didn't leave Avalon, I just went to Star Antimony from Theocratic Country - no matter how long the hands of Star Antimony people are,
I don’t dare to bury nails in Theocratic State. Could anyone find out that I left Theocratic State?”
But Shylock suddenly asked: "Do you know the Earl of Leipzig?"
He was keenly aware of the excitement hidden in Aiwass's heart after hearing the news.
Aiwass stopped and smiled at him.
"certainly."
Aiwass replied slowly: "He has...the key to the next era."
