Seeing the strange yet familiar look in "Christina's" eyes at this moment, the originally wild and confident smile on Aleister's face became much gentler.
"Don't call me master again. You are free. I have fulfilled my promise in the past and given you a broader world."
She reached out and touched "Christina's" hair, held her cheeks with both hands, and whispered: "If you can, remember to take more care of classmate Weber. Don't let her be bullied - with my power, if
It's ridiculous to be as cowardly as before.
"...But remember, don't let yourself be wronged. If you encounter danger or trouble that you can't solve by yourself, remember to come to me - we are still friends.
"If you need me, just ask [me] for help."
"That……"
Alice hesitated for a moment: "What should I call you...'brother'?"
When Alice was buried in the foundation, she was still a little girl less than ten years old.
To her, Aiwass is indeed considered an older brother at his age.
"Um……"
Aleister's expression was complicated for a moment, but he still smiled gently and said: "Let's forget it. I already have a lot of sisters."
——Knowing clearly that Aiwass is the "correct me", Aleister is just an afterimage whose days are numbered.
It is undoubtedly correct for Alice to directly call herself "brother". Even if Alice calls herself "sister", she will take the initiative to correct the other person's name.
After all, the person who rescued her in the first place was Aiwass, not Aleister.
...But at that moment, she still felt an inexplicable loneliness in her heart.
"Just call me..."
Aleister pondered for a while and his expression became more serious: "Just call me... mentor."
"tutor!"
Alice responded without hesitation.
Immediately afterwards, her expression changed drastically, and she clearly showed a hint of cowardice.
Christina murmured: "Mentor...?"
"Christina."
Aleister suddenly called her name.
"...Yes, I am here, sir!"
Christina said in a panic, fearing to offend the big shot in front of her.
"The same goes for you, just call me mentor."
Aleister said softly: "Go back to your school and continue to study hard - of course, if possible, I suggest you stop learning alchemy. Necromancy will be more suitable for you."
This is Aleister's advice from the heart.
Christina doesn't seem to be the type who is particularly rational and serious. She is obviously not suitable for the way of balance. And the star antimony flow alchemy requires the compatibility of the way of transcendence, which is also quite difficult for her.
.
Anyway, if she doesn't master the power of the Dusk Path, her soul will easily escape... In order to reduce the workload for Alice, it would be a good choice for her to strengthen her necromancy skills.
"Necromancy..."
Christina murmured.
She quickly made up her mind: "I know, mentor. I will do it."
There is no doubt that she regarded this "advice" as the first task given to her by her mentor: she needed to find a way to join the ziggurat.
"...but, mentor."
Christina looked a little confused: "I have a question..."
"you say."
Aleister nodded.
"The dress I was wearing... was lent to me by one of my seniors. She was very kind to me, but the dress was broken. If I want to leave Hirsin University, I hope that I can at least use the money for the dress.
Give it back to her..."
After experiencing this hellish night, Christina seemed to have gained some kind of enlightenment. In the past, her vanity, the wealth and luxuries she longed for, the house and job she worried about, among the real transcendent beings,
In the face of the extraordinary way, it seems so vulgar...it seems meaningless.
She vowed that she would never fall again...if she could, she would change herself from this day forward.
【Really?】
A cold little girl's voice sounded from the bottom of her heart with an echo.
This startled Christina, but she quickly gritted her teeth and replied in her heart: "It's true! If you don't believe it, just... I mean, if you don't believe it, you can supervise me at any time."
【I will always look at you】
The cold voice seemed to echo in her head.
But Aleister didn't have much reaction to this: "Well, this is what it should be."
Seeing the mysterious eldest lady's lack of interest in this, Christina whispered nervously: "So..."
"……so?"
"I, I have no money... I mean, I don't have any money yet! I will find a way to work and make money later... If possible, I would like to borrow some money from my mentor - if not, I can also borrow some money from other friends
I borrowed it from there!”
"How much?"
Aleister asked rhetorically.
"Well... on the tag I saw before, this skirt costs 120 gold and 8 silver. But it is a relatively popular style. I think there should be something available in the secondary market for less than 100 gold..."
Christina said quickly.
"This is an oversight on my part."
Aleister suddenly understood and said with some distress: "But I don't have any money with me."
Christina was stunned for a moment, and her words about calculating costs were suddenly stuck for a moment.
"Mirror Demon, are you still there?"
Aleister said calmly.
Black smoke rose from the mirror beside her: "I am still here, keeping watch over the soul of my former master until he returns to the dream world."
It's just too cautious.
As long as the previous owner is not dead, he will never leave. He is afraid that the boss will raise his head and call him back to continue working overtime.
"——Don't go to such trouble. I'll find someone to help him hold a funeral soon and send his soul away."
Aleister spoke.
Although she does not have a priest level now...
But her true form is now His Majesty the Pope.
One thought can immediately order the local bishop to go to this place to hold a funeral and directly save the count's soul.
"Similarly, please do me some favors. First find me some change and bring it to Christina - no, this is a bit troublesome. Just put it at her house. You should know where she lives, right?"
"Of course," the considerate Mirror Demon secretary asked, "how much money do I need to put down?"
"Let's put three thousand gold coins first. It should be enough for a while."
"Three thousand——"
Christina blurted out.
The panic in her heart was instantly dispelled - you know, when the count offered her an "almost irresistible price" to stay with him for a month, he only paid 800 gold coins.
As a first-level alchemist, eight hundred gold coins of alchemical materials are enough for her to advance to the second or even third level.
Even if she could borrow alchemy tools from the school laboratory, she was really short of materials.
The cost of a standard alchemy is close to two gold coins. This money can buy about seventy or eighty steaks in Star Antimony, where prices are rising rapidly nowadays.
The first-level alchemist has no direct damage ability at all. According to the instructor's advice, if you want to create the potions needed for the promotion ceremony, you must prepare at least a complete set of novice potions worth one hundred and forty gold coins.
In this way, she can be regarded as a valuable teammate in the promotion ceremony and will be protected by others.
Even if the most expensive and difficult petrifying agent is not refined, the rest will still cost more than sixty gold coins.
——Even if all the refining is successful, a promotion ceremony will still cost sixty gold coins!
Christina simply couldn't afford the materials.
She could only watch others refining, and then imagine in her mind that she was refining - she called this meditation alchemy. As long as the self-hypnosis was deep enough, she had already practiced it.
...But it turned out that what she imagined was just imagination. She finally bought a set of materials, but in the first round of alchemy, she only succeeded in synthesizing two bottles of vitality potions and a can of styptic powder.
Of course, she was disliked during the promotion ceremony.
In an environment where there is a large overflow of alchemists like Xing Antimony, everyone is willing to promote extraordinary people on the path of balance just to get medicine from them. As a result, there is no snake venom ointment that can be refined at the first level, and there is no sobering potion.
The most critical Featherfall potion is not available either - so just for these three bottles of potion, why don't I find a team of extraordinary people who have dedicated their lives to the path?
Why should I take you?
So Christina got angry.
——You can’t afford to buy it anyway. Even if you combine the potion, you may be taken advantage of or disliked. Even if you form a team, you may be abandoned or betrayed. So it’s better not to combine the potion at all.
I just took the exam naked with nothing!
Anyway, the materials for the promotion ceremony are much cheaper than potions, and there is no danger in failing to advance to the first level. If you try a few more times, there is always a chance that you can get in.
Maybe you're lucky enough to randomly attend Weizhe's ceremony. Why don't everyone use their extraordinary abilities and use their brains to compete fairly?
