Pastor's Tantra

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 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'?"

Alice was a little girl less than ten years old when she was buried in the foundation.

To her, Aiwass was 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."

——Clearly knowing that Aiwass is the "correct self", Aleister is just an afterimage whose days are numbered.

Alice directly calls herself "brother", which is undoubtedly correct. 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 anger 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 was Aleister's advice from the heart.

Christina does not seem to be the type who is particularly rational and serious. She is obviously not suitable for balance. And Star Antimony Flow Alchemy requires the phase of transcendence, which is also quite difficult for her.

Anyway, if she does not 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..."

Cristina murmured.

She quickly made up her mind: "I know, mentor. I'll 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 nice to me, but the dress was broken. If I were to leave Hirsing University, I hope I could 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 yearned for, the house and job she worried about, all seemed so vulgar among the truly superior extraordinary people and in front of the extraordinary way... and seemed 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.

"Hmm... 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.

"That was 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 the cost were suddenly stuck for a moment.

"Mirror Demon, are you still there?"

Aleister spoke as if nothing had happened.

Black smoke rose from the mirror beside her: "I am still here, watching over the soul of my former master. Until his soul returns to the dream world."

It is really too cautious.

As long as the former master is not dead, it will never leave. It is afraid that the boss will open the coffin and call it back to continue working overtime.

"——Don't bother so much, I will find someone to help him hold a funeral and send his soul away."

Aleister said.

Although she is not a priest now...

But her body is now His Holiness the Pope.

With just one thought, she can immediately order the local bishop to go here to hold a funeral and directly save the earl's soul.

"Similarly, please help me. Find me some change first and give it to Christina - no, this is a bit troublesome. Just put it in her house. You should know where she lives, right?"

"Of course," the thoughtful mirror demon secretary asked, "How much money do I need to put in?"

"Put three thousand gold coins first, it should be enough for a while."

"Three thousand--"

Christina blurted out.

The fear in her heart was dispelled in an instant - you know, the earl offered her an "almost irresistible price" and asked her to accompany him for a month, and he only took out 800 gold coins.

As a first-level alchemist, 800 gold coins of alchemy materials are enough for her to advance to the second level or even the third level.

Even if she could borrow the 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 70 or 80 steaks in the current rapidly rising star antimony.

The first-level alchemist has no direct damage ability at all. According to the instructor's advice, if you want to make the potion needed for the promotion ceremony, you must at least prepare a complete set of novice potion sets worth 140 gold coins. In this way, she can be considered a valuable teammate in the promotion ceremony and will be protected by others.

Even if the most expensive and difficult petrification potion is not refined, the remaining cost more than 60 gold coins.

——Even if all the refining is successful at once, a promotion ceremony will cost sixty gold coins!

Christina can't afford the materials at all.

She can only watch others refine, and then imagine that it is she who is refining in her mind - she calls this meditation alchemy. As long as the self-hypnosis is deep enough, she is equivalent to having practiced it.

...But the fact proves that imagination is just imagination. She finally bought a set of materials, but in the first round of alchemy, she only successfully synthesized two bottles of vitality potion and a can of hemostatic powder.

Naturally, she was despised in the promotion ceremony.

In Xingti, an environment where alchemists overflow in large numbers, everyone is willing to take the extraordinary people of the balanced path to the promotion just to get medicine from them. As a result, there is no snake venom ointment that can be refined by the first energy level, no sobering potion, and the most critical feather fall potion - then for these three bottles of medicine, why don't I find a team of extraordinary people of the dedication path?

Why should I take you?

So Christina got ruthless.

——I can’t afford it anyway. Even if I combine the potion, I may be exploited or despised. Even if I form a team, I may be abandoned or betrayed. It’s better not to combine the potion.

I will just come to the exam with nothing in my hands!

Anyway, the materials for the promotion ceremony are much cheaper than potions, and there is no danger of failing the first energy level promotion. Try a few more times, there will always be a chance to get in.

Maybe I’ll be lucky enough to get the Wei Zhe ceremony randomly. Don’t use your extraordinary abilities, but use your brain to compete fairly?