Pastor's Tantra

At 11 o'clock in the evening, Leipzig was still brightly lit.

In the city center of Leipzig, in a manor on Bronze Avenue, guests were leaving one after another.

A middle-aged man with sparse black hair, but still combed back neatly and groomed to the point of almost glowing, was holding a glass of red wine, smiling and nodding to bid farewell to his guests.

At this time, a girl in a yellow dress who looked only 17 or 18 years old and had long curly light golden hair suddenly stepped forward and bowed: "Mr. Count!"

"Hmm?"

The middle-aged man smiled gently, but his tone was almost kind: "What's wrong, our party star? Are you having fun, Christina?"

"Very happy, Count Dawn! Thank you very much for inviting me to your party..."

The girl had a bright and innocent smile on her face: "So I thought about it... Does the one you said before still count now?"

"Which one?"

Count Dawn just smiled: "I don't remember it very clearly."

"It's just--"

Christina looked a little anxious.

She paused, lowered her voice and said, "You were very optimistic about me before and wanted to ask me to be your secretary..."

"Ah, that's really unfortunate, Miss Weber."

Earl Dawn smiled and said, "But I have found a secretary - she is from Hirsing University like you. But she is a doctor. You must have heard of her name, Miss Zoe Ravens."

"Is that so... She is also interested in this..."

Christina Weber obviously knew the name and showed some fear and unwillingness. Obviously, she didn't dare to compete with the girl named Zoe.

...Is this the last time I will attend a banquet of this level?

Christina bit her lip subconsciously.

As an alchemist, if you can't get funding, there is basically no possibility of going further.

It's ridiculous that alchemy has been a science of turning stones into gold since the beginning, and later it can easily bring wealth and status to great alchemists. But learning alchemy requires a lot of money...

Her parents are just ordinary company employees. It is difficult for them to support her to go to college. Even more than half of her tuition is loaned out. The price of extraordinary materials is not affordable for them... But if she just graduates like this, she can't find any lucrative job at all!

——The dress she is wearing to the banquet now was borrowed from her senior sister who is from aristocratic family!

Although there are scholarships in college... But it is really far away for Christina. Just to barely keep herself from failing the course and keep up with the learning process to become an extraordinary person, she is already sweating profusely.

She was almost a genius in high school and had many suitors-but at Hirsing University, the people around her were either true 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 alchemists of the third energy level, and there are extraordinary people who have been promoted to the fourth energy level in the next class. Some people have set up alchemy workshops with their skills; there is even a senior who founded his own company two years ago with many alchemy patents in college!

It is said that his current staff size is close to 100 people, and he has even joined the third alchemy team - that is one of the alchemy teams controlled by Count Leipzig himself!

Christina can't understand what these geniuses usually discuss. Just maintaining a fake smile and a look of curiosity and sudden enlightenment is enough to make her feel painful.

- And now, she is due to graduate in a month.

Hirsing University is a six-year continuous study, and a master's degree is automatically awarded after graduation.

If this continues, don't even think about becoming a big shot and making a lot of money...

She can't even pay off her student loans, and it may even be difficult for her to graduate - the minimum level of graduation from Hirsing University is the second energy level, and she has failed the first promotion ceremony six times in a row!

...She didn't want to go to the White Pigeon Opera House and wear such ridiculous clothes to sell smiles.

After all, there were several junior students who admired her and were also frequent customers of the White Pigeon. She couldn't afford to lose face.

If she couldn't pay back the money, she would probably have to sell the house and leave Leipzig in disgrace. But now Xingti has no money anywhere, and Leipzig is the most promising place... At least her parents can still find a job.

And she was already good - she had a junior from another place who had just enrolled in school not long ago, because she spent too much at the White Pigeon Opera House... It was said that she went to the VIP room on her birthday and pretended to be very skilled in playing cards with other nobles in it.

But she had never played cards before, so she was naturally no match for the old customers there. She easily lost money that she could never pay back in her lifetime. She refused to work at the White Pigeon Opera House to repay the loan. After all, Hirsing University is very close to the White Pigeon Opera House, and many students come here to play when they don’t have classes...

...So now she has gone to the Ziggurat to be a "secondary assistant" who has no official position but whose salary is several times that of a formal assistant.

Judging from the generous salary and huge gaps in the Ziggurat's recruitment of assistants, I'm afraid the speed at which their "assistants" are consumed is quite fast...

Fortunately, Christina was born with a good appearance and received a relatively good education when she was a child.

She was spotted by the Earl when she was performing a ballet at school.

Count Dawn claimed that his recent secretary had to go back to her hometown for something, and wanted to recruit her to be an intern secretary for a period of time, and offered a generous price that she could hardly refuse---

In just one month, not only could she pay off her student loan, but the remaining money could at least support her promotion to the third level!

Christina was naturally not a fool.

After all, Helsing University was the best university in Leipzig, and it was also in the top three in the entire Star Antimony. Being able to enroll on her own proved her strength.

This was obviously an invitation for her to be his lover--maybe not even a lover, at best just a fresh plaything.

This was a bit too exciting for Christina, who was conservative and proud.

She was now 24 years old, and she had never even been in love... After all, before going to college, her peers were too naive for her; and after going to college, she had been desperately pursuing her studies and had no time to participate in various social activities.

And she hesitated at the time, but still risked angering Count Dawn and refused the invitation of the Count.

But fortunately, the Earl had a good character and did not get angry even when he was rejected. Instead, he invited her to attend the banquet held at his home.

At this banquet, Christina met big figures she had never seen in her life.

There were more than a dozen nobles above the rank of Viscount. They were all crowded in this small Leipzig, complaining that the Earl of Leipzig did not give them more land, and discussing the future of Xingtan, widespread unemployment, damn goblins, increasingly inflated prices, and investments of hundreds of thousands of gold coins with merchants whose names she had never heard of.

She also saw the senior she had admired when she entered school, who was now closely following a beautiful and evil lady; several of her mentors were also invited to the banquet, and they were all surprised when they saw her, which made her quite proud. There were also several men and women with beautiful looks and decent clothes who invited her to dance and praised her beauty in different words.

However, no one invited her to play with him like the Earl did.

Christina had even thought about it. As long as someone invited her, she would definitely agree. No matter if he was a noble or a businessman, an alchemist or a demonologist... Even if he was a stinking necromancer, she was willing to play with him.

...Perhaps from that time on, she had regretted her original decision.

And now, Earl Dawn's words made her even more embarrassed.

She knew Senior Zoe.

She was almost the dream lover of many male classmates back then. Now, she has reached the fourth energy level before the age of 30 and has been invited by the Royal Alchemy Association to become a director. And such a person has become Earl Dawn's "secretary"... Then what was her original reserve? Stupid?

But when Christina wanted to salute and say goodbye to the earl, Earl Dawn changed the subject: "But-"

"-What do you say?"

Christina's eyes lit up and she couldn't wait to continue.