After killing all the monsters that appeared on Ursula's path to vent her anger, Ling's mood improved a little.
Unknowingly, she walked to the outskirts of the huge Hoshimi Tower. Looking up at this building, which was the masterpiece of ancient alchemists' construction techniques, Ling recalled her failed infiltration in the past.
Before the destruction of the d∴g Order, Ling once visited this place, but her invisibility failed due to the activation of her superior attribute. She was eventually discovered by the magisters of the d∴g Order who were guarding here, and she managed to escape with great difficulty. Time passed, and finally
But two years have passed, and like the Moon Monastery, another religious sect stronghold northwest of the Crossbell area, there is no sign of human activity.
Pushing open the door, Ling walked into the Tower of Star View. The magic power gathered into small light groups, lighting up all the aisles like countless fireflies. The entire tower presented a quiet and mysterious atmosphere. Above
Once she was obstructed, and she was forced to leave just after reaching the second floor. But this time, she can carry out unfinished exploration in the past.
The living armor is a giant armored doll born from ancient alchemy. The living ax is a battle ax created from an armored doll born from ancient alchemy. The heights are respectively three kilometres and two kilometres, serving as intellectual guards and patrols.
The various floors of Hoshimi Tower.
Multiple living armors and living axes have exactly the same slashing marks on their bodies. This shows that these are not genuine items, but fake monsters that have been affected by superior attributes, just like the magic soldiers in the elven caves everywhere. Even if they are
They will not leave any "corpses" when they are exploded, but will only drop some Flare Chips.
On the third floor of the Tower of Star View, there is a huge bookshelf with a height of more than six moments. The books in the bookshelf are filled to the brim. Ling took out one of the books and started reading it carefully. Soon after starting to browse
, confirmed that these were ancient documents left by alchemists hundreds of years ago. So, she was not in a hurry to explore higher floors, but stayed here. The knowledge she inherited from the memory fragments of the leader in the past
Let her also know something about ancient Chinese. She sat on the steps of the stairs and read quietly.
"who are you?"
After reading for an unknown number of hours, a young girl's voice came from above Ling.
Ling closed the book and stood up and looked up. From the stairs, a girl with golden double diamond hair walked down the steps step by step.
"I'm just a traveler passing by." Ling said as she carefully stuffed the ancient book that recorded the metal formulas of weapons in alchemy back into the bookshelf.
"My collection of books is great!" Gold Diamond put his hands on his hips and raised his chin high, making a very impressive gesture.
"Well, the wisdom of the sages is awe-inspiring." When the other party used the words "my family", Ling quickly guessed the girl's true identity.
"As expected, you are very discerning. I won't argue with you about peeking... Well, wait. I seem to have seen you somewhere."
The blond girl quickly walked down the stairs and came to Ling, looking at her appearance carefully.
"Could it be that you are the legendary Dr. Astray?"
"Ah poof."
Ling couldn't control her expression that someone would actually call her this way. Her photo had only appeared once in the Empire Times in the past six months, but luckily the other person had seen it.
"Ling Astley is just a doctoral trainee, not a doctor yet."
"This is Maria Belcorois. We met for the first time. Since we got to know each other, we have become friends. I have read your book. You are as old as me, but your knowledge is very extraordinary." Ling said.
The falsely reported age is fourteen, and Maria Bell seems to be fourteen now. She can be considered "the same age" as her.
Is the eldest lady of Kurois actually an acquaintance? That shouldn't be the case. Only people she likes will put down their posture and talk to them.
"The third floor is filled with entry-level reading materials. The seventh floor is the real secret treasure of our Kurois family."
"Please let me visit." Ling made the request wisely, which made Maria Bell feel good.
"Of course, no problem. I often feel out of place because I can't find anyone to communicate with. If it's Ling, I will definitely be able to become friends with common interests and hobbies. Come with me."
Under the leadership of Maria Bell, Ling followed her to the upper level of the Star View Tower. Maria Bell's fingers gently drew runes in the air, and the alchemy puppets around them all retreated automatically as if they had received instructions.
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"Alchemy is what it was called in ancient times. Now I call it Magical Engineering. Welcome to my library, Ling!"
The golden diamond-twin ponytails opened their hands, and the planetarium placed next to the huge bookshelf slowly started to rotate. It formed an illusory staircase, and you could reach the high bookshelf above six sub-moments by stepping on it.
"It's incredible. The secret of the alchemist is open to an outsider like me? Bell, you are such a strange guy." Bell is Maria Bell's nickname, which came from the other party's request. Originally, Ling wanted to call her Mary, but
I don't seem to like being called by the pronunciation of the first half of my name.
"For some reasons, I don't know anything about you. Although in reality this is the first time we have met. I first heard about Ling's name from Master Yorugu of Rozenberk Workshop.
.By the way, the interests are related, I bought almost all the works of Mrs. Imelda’s puppeteer Koneko.”
After hearing this, Ling nodded as if she had a sudden realization. No wonder the value of the figures increased so quickly. It turned out that someone was buying goods in the market! In addition, the Kurois family, as the lords of the inner side inherited from the ancient Crossbell area, and
It is quite normal for doll workshops that have been here for more than a hundred years to communicate with each other.
She didn't know how much Maria Bell knew about her situation. This girl had extremely powerful mental protection that completely disabled her powers.
"Did you just do something to me?" Maria Bell tilted her neck, as if she had just been bitten by a mosquito.
"I'm sorry, Bell. This is the power I have to detect lies. But it doesn't seem to be of any use to Bell."
"Ling, you guy! You are so rude. Now that I have apologized, forget it. I am only one step away from becoming the highest level magic alchemist. Mental attack spells are useless to me." Sir, there are a lot of them.
After Maria Bell hit Ling on the head with a knife, she generously forgave Ling for her behavior.
Ling learned from Maria Bell that the Tower of Star View was reclaimed by the Kurois family after the destruction of the d∴g Order, and a repellent barrier was opened around it. Most people would subconsciously avoid it.
Opening here, even if there are occasional unexpected intruders, they will be thrown out by the alchemy puppets set up with orders to patrol. Ling is the first visitor to enter the upper level of the Star View Tower in two years.
Maria Bell's breadth of knowledge is astonishing, and this is the first time that Ling has seen a polymath who can be picked from various schools from ancient times to the present.
In turn, Maria Bell was quite satisfied with Ling. This was the first person she had met in her life who could keep up with her pace during the conversation.
Ling was invited by Maria Bell to stay overnight on the top floor of the IBC building in the Crossbell Harbor area. Maria Bell set up a transfer array on the top floor of the Hoshimi Tower, which can conveniently move between the Hoshimi Tower and the IBC building.
Move. In addition to the flame transfer array of Joker and Jieyan, and the Elf Way teleportation method used by Witch and Riding God, the technology used by Bell is the third space transfer technology with completely different principles that Reishi has seen. Could it be this world?
Yes, teleportation is quite worthless?
Maria Bell's room was like a small doll kingdom, filled with different dolls made by various puppet masters. Ling was not surprised to find that her own works accounted for a large proportion of them.
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A few days later, Ling was invited to attend the Lolita Tea Party hosted by Maria Bell. Using the book as a threat, Ling was semi-forced to take off her faded suit and put on a black Gothic dress before appearing in front of others.
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Almost all the girls invited by Maria Bell were girls from Crossbell's upper-class families. Regarding this new partner with beautiful purple hair, everyone was curious about the relationship between her and Maria Bell.
If the Leinforte family is the richest man in the Erebonian Empire, then the Kurois family is the richest man in the entire continent of Semuria. Alchemists were originally the richest sect among various mysterious groups in ancient times.
, the wealth accumulated over more than a thousand years has expanded nearly a hundred times in recent decades through the development of the banking industry. As the world's largest commercial bank with astonishing wealth, ibc has a good reputation among countries. Almost all large enterprises are established in ibc
account for Mira transactions.
"Sure enough, this kind of occasion is not suitable for me."
Ling made a sad face and was poured down another glass of fruit wine by Maria Bell. It was clearly agreed that minors were not allowed to drink alcohol, but the little girls present didn't seem to care at all. Shouldn't they have tea at the tea party that was promised?
Well? Maria Bell told Ling that she thought too much, and just letting her drink fruit wine was already a very preferential treatment.
"Ling, let me introduce to you. This is my good friend Ellie. She is the granddaughter of Mayor Crossbell McDowell. She is also my playmate who grew up with me."
The golden double-head Maria Bell dragged a little loli with pearly gray hair who also had a helpless face to Ling's side, and the three of them sat down at the small tea seat at the front of the venue.
"Ellie, this is Ling. Even though she is about the same age as us, she is a national treasure scholar of Erebonia."
"Well, I think I heard Grandpa talk about it." Ellie generously extended her hand in front of Ling, and Ling also shook Ellie's hand politely.
During the tea party, Maria Bell, as the organizer, held a variety of activities, such as new fashion try-on catwalks, dance drama performances, product demonstrations... Anyway, it seemed fashionable. Although Ling did not participate, she watched it with gusto.
Yes, it gave her a lot of knowledge.
Like her, Ellie next to her was not very adaptable to the atmosphere of this upper-class social gathering. She wanted to escape several times. Unfortunately, no matter how many times, she could not escape from the clutches of Bell, a veritable great mage, and finally gave up.
After struggling, Maria Bell dressed her up exquisitely and dragged her to the exhibition stand, causing the ladies to scream.
"She is obviously the granddaughter of Mayor McDowell and the second-generation official with the deepest background in the Crossbell Autonomous Prefecture. I thought you would adapt to this atmosphere very well, Allie-chan."
"You have to be a ghost if you can adapt. If I had known better, I shouldn't have agreed to Bell's coming."
"Well, Ellie is the main course of the tea party after all. There's no way you can escape."
Maria Bell seemed to enjoy teasing Ellie. Thanks to such a lively and noisy fight, Ling forgot the sudden unhappiness a few days ago and finally adjusted her mood.
This tea party is actually Maria Bell's practical farewell party for Ellie. Because it won't be long before Ellie will travel around the world to start studying abroad and leave her hometown of Crossbell Autonomous Prefecture. Ling's arrival in Crossbell Autonomous Prefecture can be said to be a rush
It was a coincidence. Ling wanted to let Ellie go to Luray University of Technology as an exchange student, but she seemed to have already obtained the admission permit from St. Astraea Women's College in the imperial capital. She was obviously a nobleman that even Alyssa couldn't get into.
Ellie can attend the school as an international student, which shows that the old mayor McDowell has a wide network of contacts. I heard that he was originally born into the aristocracy of Lamar State? But in terms of status alone, Ellie, a Crossbell
The status of "Her Royal Highness the Princess" is no less than that of the children of dukes in the empire.
With the help of Maria Bell, Ling opened her own private account at IBC. It is said that Ellie had also done the same before. Although they were not old enough to open an account according to the regulations, they had the permission of Miss Bell.
, the counter managers had to do as she said.
Ling ran away to relax for more than half a month. Luray University of Technology urged her to go back quickly several times, but Maria Bell tried to smoothen the relationship and suppressed her.
After the tea party, Ling, who had recovered her mood, decided to leave. Although she made new friends like Maria Bell and Ellie, Crossbell was still a sad place for her.
She still wanted to avoid that couple as much as possible.