Pastor's Tantra

As night falls, the city of knowledge, Leipzig, is lit up with stars.

They are white illusory spheres suspended above the streets, flashing bright but not dazzling light one after another.

"It's quite beautiful."

Aleister held up a black umbrella and strolled through the streets on a rainless night.

She admired the scenery in front of her: "Is this the alchemical product of star antimony?"

"Strictly speaking, it should be considered a by-product."

The honey badger obviously knows more about this.

There were no outsiders here, so she didn't have to pretend to be a follower, so she spoke directly: "The Royal Alchemy Association of Xingti developed a technology a few years ago that can crush the failed products and turn them into a pure energy source.

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"This energy source itself is quite unstable and extremely mixed, but under the separation and purification of the alchemy array, they can be mixed in different proportions to support the energy supply of the entire city... just like the blood of the giant tree in the Church. There are also goblin merchants who have offered a sky-high price to buy this technology, but Count Leipzig refused to sell it to the outside world.

"Even compared to the electricity that has been widely used in Xingti for decades, its energy efficiency is higher-but Hawkeye thinks that there may be something wrong with the experimental data. After all, alchemists really need to popularize this recycling device to digest the large amount of alchemical waste they have accumulated, so the possibility of data falsification cannot be ruled out."

The honey badger made a relatively objective evaluation.

But from her reaction, she obviously didn't believe that the Star Antimony people could invent this technology.

"This is the miracle of mortal wisdom."

However, Aleister exclaimed: "What the elves can do with the blood of the apostles, the Star Antimony people can achieve with just waste. Maybe the lighting efficiency is not high, but the efficiency and safety of heating are much better than the past technology."

"Not necessarily."

The honey badger shook his head: "As far as I know, this energy can also be mixed with dangerous explosives. From this perspective, isn't it equivalent to building the city on a bomb to build this kind of 'golden circuit' in the city?"

"If I guess correctly, you are so determined to believe that there is a problem with this technology..."

Aleister glanced at her slightly, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly: "In fact, it's because you don't want it to exist... Am I right?"

As an iris person, the honey badger has a natural hostility and vigilance towards the Star Antimony. If there is no problem with this technology, it will be a big deal-this means that the energy problem of the Star Antimony, which is already more dependent on energy imports, has been completely solved. Therefore, it must have a problem.

The popularization of alchemy has not only changed the lives of Leipzig residents.

There are large rune devices at the port, which are loading and unloading goods with considerable efficiency. Compared with the old fuel cranes in Avalon, their accuracy and efficiency are much higher, and there is no black smoke rising during the whole process. You can only see the clay giants with glowing runes all over their bodies and several arms that have been precisely modified to spontaneously pick up and transfer the goods.

In the streets and alleys, there are "large TV screens" similar to the crystal screens in the elves.

Yes, although the picture quality does not look very good - it looks like an early color movie with not many colors and a low refresh rate. With Aleister's current extraordinary vision, she can clearly see the refresh tape scanning down line by line with her naked eyes... This makes her eyes hurt if she looks at it for a while longer.

But it is indeed the "TV" in Aleister's impression, and it is even in color.

The walls of the high-rise buildings at least 20 to 30 meters high are made of this kind of "screen". You can also see the GG signboards flashing in different colors gradually lighting up.

Obviously, after this convenient energy source became popular, the Star Antimony people did not give up electricity directly.

"Wow!"

Suddenly, Aleister heard the surprised laughter of a group of children.

Under the black umbrella, she quietly tilted her blushing eyes.

There was a juggler on the corner.

He looked like a young man in his twenties or thirties, and he looked quite optimistic and cheerful.

As he waved his hands and feet, flames were constantly constrained and formed, gathered into balls, and were slapped like basketballs, and thrown and returned like boomerangs.

From time to time, a large number of golden flames with golden stars, like fireworks, were sprayed out of his hands, and his hands kept bursting and extinguishing in the air, causing the children to jump, applaud and scream enthusiastically.

In addition to the children, there was also a group of adults around. There were couples, old people, and passers-by who stopped to stop. They admired this wonderful magic show, and from time to time someone threw a coin into the hat at his feet.

"What is that?"

Selene, who was holding Aleister's arm, couldn't help but ask curiously: "A superhuman performing on the street?"

- She found it a little hard to understand, how could there be such a strange existence?

After all, Selene's personality and knowledge were taken from Lily, and in Lily's cognition, superhumans were either particularly dangerous criminals or official thugs. But no matter which one it was, they were special beings far beyond ordinary people... How could they perform on the street with people?

"That's not a superhuman."

The honey badger took a look and said uninterestedly: "That's called a 'magician'."

"Magic?"

Selene murmured.

She certainly knew magicians - even in Avalon, there were street magicians. But they usually performed some insignificant tricks to pretend to be extraordinary people. Basically, this profession is equivalent to a liar... and it only works on ordinary people who know nothing.

But... the fire that this magician sprayed out of his hand was real scorching flames!

The fireball that he manipulated freely like a flying disc was not a problem even against one or two second-level extraordinary people.

"Because magic is also an extension of alchemy."

Aleister chuckled and said: "It is also based on the technology of 'demystification'... but it is the 'enchantment' technique used in reverse.

"Magicians use various products and technologies developed by alchemy to achieve the purpose of 'using some of the abilities of extraordinary people'. In a sense, 'firearms' are also a copy of hunter shooting. However, normal alchemists are very resistant to and even hate this behavior... They believe that this is contrary to the essence of alchemy and is returning the mystery they have analyzed. "

"Normal...alchemists?"

"Yes, the principles of Star Antimony alchemists are different from those of alchemists in other countries. They emphasize pragmatism and ignore philosophical pursuits, and because of insufficient funds, they need to accept capital sponsorship... This makes their inventions often have a certain distinct "practical purpose".

"Among them, 'magic supplies' are the unique products of Star Antimony Alchemy."

Aleister looked at the cheerfully smiling magician, and her mouth corners slightly raised: "But generally speaking... these magicians rarely perform on the streets. That's why those children are so happy."

"He should be practicing."

The honey badger whispered on the side: "The man's face is fake, he used another magic technique to disguise himself. The face under the disguise is called 'Harry the Hand'. He is a very famous magician... He is the Iris Man."

"He is not a transcendent?"

Selene was a little surprised: "Such an outstanding and smart person should be able to become a transcendent?"

"He can become a transcendent at any time, because this is also the way of beauty."

The honey badger replied: "But he chose to 'first exhaust the possibilities as a mortal, and then let himself witness the truth', in order to preserve his 'naive imagination'."

"——This man will become a great man in the future."

Aleister said in a very affirmative tone.

It was as if he had seen through the future and witnessed the other party's end.

It was as if he had heard Aleister's voice, and as if he had felt something.

"Handy Harry" suddenly turned around, smiled, and drew an arc in the air with his right hand burning with fire, and turned his palm horizontally to the left, and gracefully performed a unique etiquette of the Iris people to the three of them.

Then he turned around and saluted his audience again with his left hand. Then he put his hands together, bursting out a ball of scorching fire, and once again aroused the audience's amazement.

When the fire dissipated, he and his big hat had disappeared from the spot.

And Aleister and the others could clearly see that after he burst out the fire, he immediately lowered his head and bent over, pulled out a cloak from behind and covered himself, and kept squatting and used three limbs to quickly crawl to the corner of the wall. And his left hand held the hat full of change, looking like a strange species.

After he stood up, he smiled at Aleister a little embarrassedly. Then he poured the money out of the hat and put it in his pocket. After swapping his coat with the inside and outside of the hat, he changed into a gentleman's outfit and walked away slowly with a walking stick.

"Interesting."

Aleister smiled and gave him a gentle smile.

What attracted her attention more was actually a parent behind the children.

One of them was watching the magic and suddenly turned back to see the red eyes under Aleister's black umbrella. The woman was startled and immediately took her child away quietly.

The direction she left was the building at the end of the street. It was also the destination of Aleister's trip.

——White Pigeon Opera House.

Compared with the opera house, its decoration style looks more like an amusement park. The colorful lamp posts like spotlights in the dance floor went straight to the sky, intersecting and separating from time to time. The melodious singing coming from the open-air opera house could be heard faintly through the open-air opera house.

From a long distance, you can see a huge and glowing mark floating in the air. It is a Q version of the white pigeon LOGO holding a microphone and singing with eyes closed.

At the same time, there is a long, flashing moving light strip that reads "White Dove Opera House, your best friend in your leisure time! Leipzig's special guests in May: Alanis Pulgar, Lutetia Norton and the Horror Theater. Perhaps there is only one wonderful performance, so don't miss it!" It surrounds the opera house like a roller coaster, emitting sparks and running fast.

You can only see it when you get closer, it is actually a roller coaster - a driver is driving a row of dark trains with luminous letters tied to them, running on the same dark track. The closest place is less than half a meter above the ground, and the highest place surrounds the "singing white dove".

It is so eye-catching that if someone accidentally sees part of the words, they have to stop and read it all. Two of the letters seem to be damaged and no longer glow, but in the context of the context, one can understand what they want to express.

When Aleister walked into the White Pigeon Opera House, two bunny girls wearing high heels and fishnet black stockings and hot bodies immediately greeted him with smiles.

"...Why are there bunny girls in the opera house?"

Selene made a puzzled sound.

What puzzled her even more was that those bunny girls did not care about their gender at all and just stuck to her as usual.

"Sister, you are so beautiful!"

One of the little girls, who looked only fifteen or sixteen years old and dressed as a bunny girl, hugged Aleister's other hand, with a yearning light in her eyes. Only Selene was alone.

She looked at the girl with some jealousy, and bared her teeth like a dog protecting its food. Then she was quickly patted on the head by Aleister, and she became quiet again with grievance.

"I'm looking for your manager."

Aleister gently touched the girl's head: "Take me there, okay?"