Even at eleven o'clock in the evening, the lights in Leipzig were still bright.
In the city center of Leipzig, in a manor on Bronze Avenue, guests were leaving one after another.
A middle-aged man, whose black hair is somewhat sparse but still neatly combed back and styled to a point where it almost shines, is holding a glass of red wine, smiling and nodding to say goodbye to his guests.
At this moment, a girl in a yellow dress who looked to be no more than 17 or 18 years old, with long light golden curly hair, suddenly boldly stepped forward and saluted: "Your Majesty the Earl!"
"Um?"
The middle-aged man smiled gently, but his tone was almost kind: "What's wrong, our party star? Are you having fun, Christina?"
"I'm very happy, Earl Daun! Thank you very much for inviting me to your banquet..."
The girl had a bright and innocent smile on her face: "So I thought about it...does what you said before still count now?"
"Which one is it?"
Earl Daun just smiled: "I don't remember very clearly."
"that is--"
Christina looked a little anxious.
She paused and lowered her voice and said: "You were very optimistic about me and wanted to ask me to be your secretary..."
"Ah, that's really unlucky, Miss Weber."
Earl Dawn smiled: "But I have already found the secretary - she, like you, is from the University of Helsing. But she is a doctor. You must have heard her name, which is Zoe Ravens
Miss."
"This, that's it...is she also interested in this..."
Christina Weber obviously knew this name, and showed a little fear and unwillingness. Obviously, she did not dare to compete with the girl named Zoe.
... Could this be the last time I attend a banquet of this level?
Christina bit her lip subconsciously.
As an alchemist, if you cannot get funding, there is basically no possibility of further progress.
It's funny to say that alchemy has been the knowledge of turning stone into gold since the beginning. Later, it could easily bring wealth and status to the great alchemists. But learning alchemy requires a lot of money...
Her parents are just ordinary company employees. It is already very difficult for her to go to college. Even more than half of her tuition fees are loans. The price of extraordinary materials is not something they can afford... But if they just graduate like this
If so, you won’t be able to find any profitable job at all!
——The dress she is wearing at the banquet now was borrowed from her senior sister who was born in a noble family!
Although there are scholarships in college...but that is a bit far away for Christina. She is already sweating profusely just to keep herself from failing classes and keep up with the study process to become a transcendent.
She was almost considered a genius in high school and had many suitors - but at Hircine University, the people around her were either real geniuses or extraordinary people who had been exposed to alchemy at a very young age.
Among her classmates alone, there are more than a dozen third-level alchemists. In the next class, there are extraordinary people who have been promoted to the fourth level. There are also people who have established alchemy workshops based on their craftsmanship; there is even a senior.
, he founded his own company two years ago based on the many alchemy patents he obtained during his college years!
It is said that his current staff size is close to a hundred people, and he even joined the Third Alchemy Group - one of the alchemy groups personally controlled by the Count of Leipzig!
Christina couldn't understand what these geniuses usually discussed. Just keeping a fake smile next to her and keeping an expression of curiosity and enlightenment on her face was enough to make her feel painful.
——And now, she is due to graduate in one month.
The University of Helsingborg is a six-year continuous study program, and a master's degree is automatically awarded after graduation.
If this continues, don’t talk about becoming a big shot and making big money...
She can't even pay off her student loan, and may even struggle to graduate - the minimum graduation from Hircine University is the second level, and she has failed her first promotion ceremony six times in a row!
...She doesn't want to go to the White Dove Opera House and put on those ridiculous clothes to make a fool of herself.
After all, she had several junior students who admired her and were frequent visitors to Baige. She couldn't afford to lose that face.
If the money is not paid, I am afraid that I will sell the family house and leave Leipzig in despair. But now that Xing Antimony has no money anywhere, Leipzig is already the most promising place... At least her parents can still be found.
Work.
And she is already considered good - she has a school girl from out of town who has just entered school. Because she spent too much at the White Dove Opera House... It is said that she went to the VIP room on her birthday and pretended to be very skilled.
Played cards with other nobles inside.
But she had never played cards before, so she was no match for the veteran players there. She easily lost money that she would never be able to repay in her life. She also refused to work at the Dove Opera House to repay the loan. After all, Hailsing University left Bai.
The Dove Opera House is very close, and many students come here to play when they have no classes...
...So, now she has gone to the Ziggurat to work as a "secondary teaching assistant" with no establishment and a salary several times that of a formal teaching assistant.
Judging from the generous salary and huge gap in the recruitment of teaching assistants in Ziggurat, I am afraid that their "teaching assistants" are being used up quite quickly...
Fortunately, Christina was born with a good skin and received a relatively good education when she was a child.
She was spotted by the earl during her ballet performance in school.
Earl Dawn claimed that his recent secretary had returned to his hometown for business, and wanted to recruit her as an intern secretary for a period of time, and offered her a generous price that she could hardly refuse——
In just one month, not only can she pay off her student loan, but the remaining money can at least support her promotion to the third level!
Christina is certainly not a fool.
After all, Helsingborg University is the best university in Leipzig and one of the top three in the entire planet. Being able to enroll on her own has proven her strength.
This is obviously an invitation to her to be his lover - maybe not even a lover, at best, just a new toy.
This is still a bit too exciting for Christina, who is conservative and proud.
She is now twenty-four years old, and has never even been in love... After all, before going to college, her peers were too naive for her; and after going to college, she has been pursuing her studies desperately, and has no idea at all.
Participate in various social activities.
But she hesitated at that time and still rejected the Earl's invitation at the risk of angering Earl Dawn.
But fortunately, the earl had a good personality and did not get angry even if he was rejected. Instead, he invited her to a banquet held at his home.
At this banquet, Christina met important people she had never seen in her life.
There are more than a dozen nobles above Viscount. They are all crowded in this small Leipzig, complaining that the Earl of Leipzig does not give them more land, and talking to businessmen whose names she has never heard of.
People were discussing the future of Star Antimony, widespread unemployment, damn goblins, increasingly inflated prices, and investments of hundreds of thousands of gold coins.
She also saw the senior she had admired when she was in school, who was now closely following a beautiful but evil lady; several of her mentors were also invited to the banquet, and they all ate when they saw her
She was surprised, which made her quite proud. There were also several handsome and well-dressed men and women who invited her to dance and praised her beauty in different words.
However, no one, like the Earl, invited her to come and play with him.
Christina has even thought about it. As long as someone invites her, she will definitely agree. No matter he is a noble or a businessman, an alchemist or a demonologist... even if he is a smelly necromancer,
She is also willing to play with each other.
...Perhaps from that moment on, she already regretted her original decision.
But now, Earl Dawn's words made her even more embarrassed.
Of course she knows Senior Sister Zoe.
She was almost the dream lover of many male classmates back then. Now she has reached the fourth level before she was thirty, and has been invited by the Wangli Alchemy Association to become a director. And such people have become Earl Daun's "
"Secretary"...then what was her original reserve? Was it stupid?
But just when Christina wanted to salute and say goodbye to the Earl, Earl Dawn changed her words: "But-"
"--You say?"
Christina's eyes lit up and she couldn't wait to answer.
