"I have read the letter of introduction you brought..."
Matthias's voice was hollow and slow. If it weren't for the friendly tone, it would sound extremely eerie at this moment: "Do you know Cyril?"
"He can be regarded as my elder."
Aleister said calmly: "He allowed me... a very important person of mine to master high-level magic, so he is kind to me."
"Pope Aiwass?"
Mathias immediately guessed who Aleister was referring to.
"...You don't seem to be that late in getting news."
Aleister was a little helpless.
I heard that all the people on the Twilight Path are Martians. How come the first generation of the Dark Phase knew about her and Aiwass right after he came out of seclusion?
"It's just that I'm more concerned about Cyril's affairs."
The skeleton in a simple black robe shook his head slightly and said nothing. His neck made a clicking sound.
Aleister became somewhat interested: "Speaking of which... I remember Cyril mentioned that you are friends... Mr. Principal, have you known each other since the empire?"
"...Is that how he described me?"
Matthias did not answer, but instead asked lightly with an echo.
But Aleister was a little confused: "What's wrong?"
"Before I set out on this road, I was indeed friends with Cyril."
used to be.
Aleister responded: "That means..."
"At that time he was not a cardinal, and I had not entered the ziggurat. But when I decided to take this path, we broke up.
"Because at that time he could not accept a friend who was on the road at dusk, and I had to take this road."
Matthias's voice was empty and long, like a reed pipe on the grassland: "Since then, we have never contacted each other. The fact that he can write you a letter of introduction... shows that he is very concerned about you. So I
Will help."
——I remember back then, we were friends.
——Maybe he will give me a face. Maybe.
Cardinal Cyril's past words and complex expression flashed through Aleister's mind.
...That's it, that's what he meant at the beginning.
It was only now that Aleister fully understood the subtext hidden in Cardinal Cyril's words.
"Sealing the remaining consciousness of Hui Tiansi... I should be able to do it, but it will take some time to prepare."
Matthias said slowly: "If you are not in a hurry, you can wait for two years. I am cultivating a sixth-level undead... When I make him, whether it is the current chaos of Star Antimony or the
It's Hui Tiansi's problem, so it can be solved."
Even though he was only at the fifth level, "Principal" Mathias didn't take Gray Tiansi to heart at all.
For him, Tiansi is not an unreachable existence.
——When it comes to other people, Aleister would just think that they don't understand Tiansi's ability at all. But when it comes to Mathias, Aleister feels that this may be true.
Even though Aleister had overestimated the strength of the first generation Dark Prime to a great extent, Mathias still exceeded Aleister's expectations.
"...Is this the 'lich'?"
Aleister murmured softly.
"You actually know this profession?"
Now it was Matthias's turn to make a sound of surprise.
The skeleton was silent for a long time, then slowly floated over and made a hollow voice: "I thought I was the first lich in the world... I kept this secret for so long. Now it seems that I am indeed a human being.
Still can’t be too complacent.”
——That’s not true, you are indeed the first lich in the world.
Even the need to have a fifth level to adapt to the path to become a Lich should have been imprinted from you.
Aleister added in his mind.
"...Lich?"
Even the contemporary dark figure Adolf does not know this knowledge: "This is the first time I know about your extraordinary profession, mentor. I always thought you were an amber craftsman... After all, everyone knows that your artistic level is quite high."
"Artistic level?"
Leviathan made a sharp but childish voice in confusion.
This sea monster can actually speak - this made the two fifth-level necromancers stunned for a moment. But after all, they were well-informed. Adolf explained naturally: "The principal can learn the path of beauty.
It’s also the fifth level—he was still a very famous painter back then.”
"I will get this profession entirely based on a coincidence. Because this profession is too dangerous and almost impossible to learn..."
Lich Matthias sighed softly and made a hollow and reverberated voice: "I originally wanted to change my job to an amber craftsman."
Among the eight advancement professions in the Dusk Path, Lich is the most difficult advancement profession.
For example, "Ghoul Shepherd" is the simplest promotion profession. It only requires a part-time job at the first level of the devotional path, and nothing else is required.
The "Disaster Splicer" and the "Amber Craftsman" require two levels of balance and beauty respectively. The former requires that the age cannot be too old, and the latter requires that the age cannot be too young; the "Walker of the Underworld" requires the third level of transcendence.
The path and the experience of resurrection from the dead can achieve the balance between the two realms of transcendence and dusk...
Although the requirements for the other seven promotion routes are different... they all require at least a part-time job in a lower-level occupation.
Only the "lich" is different——
"Can I say something, Lord Mathias?"
Aleister politely asked for the opinion of the first-generation black prime minister.
"Tell me about it, I'm also very curious... how did I get this profession. According to my observations, there are many extraordinary people who have adapted to the path and embarked on the road of dusk, but they have not obtained the 'Witch'
The power of the demon."
Matthias bit his bones, and there was a hollow echo in his skull: "Actually, I'm still not sure what the complete needs of this profession are...
"I only know that before I entered the Ziggurat, I was a 'Kurong Scholar' - that is the advanced profession of a 'physician'. In the pre-Avalon era, the Church of the Nine Pillars was not that important to humans.
Popularity. At that time, pharmacists were not called pharmacists... they were not reduced to the level of prescribing medicines. They were the most mainstream healers among human beings. I have treated many people and killed many.
People who have seen life and death.
"In addition, I am also a 'occult painter' - I originally wanted to work part-time in a few levels of the Dusk Path profession to promote the painter to an occult painter. However, after studying necromancy and preservation, I became involved
fan……"
The old lich's voice was hollow and impermanent, and you couldn't tell whether his words were sarcastic, thankful or regretful: "Who would have thought that my third path would be the farthest path for me?"
"Mysterious Painter" is a high-level profession corresponding to "Art Master". The former requires a part-time job on the Dusk Path, while the latter requires a part-time job on the Balanced Path.
In other words, Matthias is Dusk, Beauty, and the strongest person who can adapt to the fifth energy level of the Three Paths!
But even such a strong person still took the wrong path. After more than half his life, he finally found the most correct direction of his talents.
This is also the reason why the extraordinary knowledge of this world is vague and often wrong.
Although compared with the "inheritance" way that is full of metaphysics, the systematic "career" way is already quite friendly.
But even so, people don't have an attribute panel, and they can't even see the specific effects of the path characteristics, let alone the mastery of skills, attributes and other rituals.
And everyone's experience is different. Even if you try to summarize your experience, you will often subconsciously ignore many details, and the summarized experience may not be useful... and the power of the path will inevitably affect the mind, thus making most extraordinary people
People pay less and less attention to leaving a legacy.
Only the "Naturalist", the prerequisite profession of "Dream Monk", will actively collect this information. Because naturalists have the ability to share knowledge with each other to a certain extent, each time they input a new kind of extraordinary knowledge, they can gain wisdom.
The power of feedback on the road.
But naturalists and somnambulists will not easily publish the knowledge they have recorded - after all, wisdom comes from mystery.
If other people want to inherit a niche profession, they basically have to rely on ignorance. Before people actually embark on this path, they have no idea whether their talents on this path are good or bad, and they cannot easily obtain the best talent.
The profession that suits you can only be achieved by imitating the "idol" of the person who has become the corresponding profession, and then repeatedly eliminating the "unnecessary" parts, gradually completing the streamlining.
For example, demonologists are simplified to the point where they only need to master "demon contract" and "demon knowledge", while spellcasters emphasize that they cannot master "demon knowledge"; the most important thing for priests is to learn "illumination" and "prayer"
”.
The same goes for career advancement - for example, many Avalon transcendents now know that arbiters need to have a deeper grasp of legal provisions than supervisors, and have a mutually dependent and trusting relationship with at least one big shot.
He has personally executed criminals who have been arrested by him; the priest needs to establish a complete connection with the Pillar God, the alchemist needs to have a well-known invention, and the air cavalry needs to wait for his gryphon partner to enter the transformation period...
In the past, these needs had to be tried out one by one. This is also the advantage of mass occupations. The more popular the occupation, the more unnecessary rituals can be eliminated; and the more niche the occupation, the more unnecessary rituals can be eliminated.
The ordination ceremony becomes more complex and difficult.
Aleister recalled it for a moment, then remembered it easily, and answered in detail: "'The Lich' requires those who are promoted to master the adaptation path of the fifth energy level first, and they must also give up their physical body during the promotion ceremony.
Transform them into undead. Then complete the three to four advancements of the Dusk Path and regain the ability to dream.
"If this promotion ceremony fails, then when you exit the promotion ceremony, you will become an ordinary undead and permanently lose the ability to dream. This means that the person who is promoted has only one chance. Once it fails, it means permanent failure."
That was the era before "warriors" appeared. Adapters meant cowards who were afraid of death.
It is actually quite unrealistic for a fifth-level adaptor to risk death in order to achieve a promotion with only one chance on the twilight path that longs for stillness.
Therefore, the job difficulty of this profession is also the most difficult in Aiwass's memory... although for players, this is a very easy requirement to meet.
This profession appeared later than Scholar of Sins, and it is worthy of the strength of later professions - after all, if the new profession is not strong enough or handsome enough, it will be difficult for players to give up their comfortable profession and level up again.
"...That's it."
Adolf was a little regretful, but also a little lucky: "I was originally planning to imitate the principal and transform myself into an undead. Fortunately, I learned the secret in time... I originally wanted to pass this position to little Fernando. But now no one else has grown up.
Get up. It looks like I have to stay for a few more years."
Aleister opened his eyes slightly.
She understood.
The implication of Adolf the Dark One is that even if he knows that he cannot become a lich, and even if he knows that the transformation of the undead is the wrong path, he still plans to transform into the undead.
Now I just plan to postpone it a little, at least to give the new generation of students some development time.
This is probably the source of Adolf and Matthias's "sense of leisure".
