Pastor's Tantra

"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 is considered 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 were Martians, so 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 more. His neck made a snapping 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 this how he described me?"

Mathias did not answer, but asked in an echoing, airy voice.

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..."

"He was not yet a cardinal and I had not yet entered the ziggurat. But when I decided to go down this path, we fell apart.

"Because at that time he couldn't accept a friend who was on the twilight path, and I had to take this path."

Matthias's voice was ethereal 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 think back then, we were friends.

——He might give me a face. perhaps.

Cardinal Cyril's past words and complex expression flashed through Aleister's mind.

...I see, 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 will just think that the other person doesn't understand Tiansi's ability at all. But when it came to Mathias, Aleister felt that this might be true.

Even though Aleister had overestimated the strength of the first-generation Dark Prime to a great extent, Mathias was still above 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 be promoted to 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 actually stunned the two fifth-level necromancers. But they are well-informed after all. Adolf explained naturally: "The principal is at the fifth level in the path of beauty - he was 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 Mathias 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.

Like "Ghoul Shepherd", this is the easiest profession to promote. You only need a part-time level 1 dedication path, nothing else is needed.

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 a 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 the first generation Black Phase for his opinion.

"Tell me about it, I'm also curious... How did I get this profession? According to my observation, there are also many extraordinary people who are adapted to the path and have embarked on the path of dusk, but none of them have obtained the power of the 'lich'."

Mathias bit the bones with a click, and a hollow echo came out of his skull: "In fact, I am still not sure what the complete demand for this profession is...

"I only know that before I entered the Spiritual Tower, I was a 'Withered Scholar' - that is the advanced profession of 'Doctor'. In the pre-Avalon era, the Nine Pillars of God was not so popular among humans. At that time, pharmacists were not called pharmacists... They had not fallen to the point of only being able to prescribe medicine, but were the most mainstream healers among humans. I have also treated many people, and killed many people, and I have let go of life and death.

"In addition, I am also a 'mystic painter' - I originally just wanted to work part-time in a few levels of the Dusk Path profession, so as to upgrade from a painter to a mystic painter, but I ended up being obsessed with studying necromancy and preservation..."

The old lich's voice was hollow and unpredictable, and it was hard to tell whether he was sarcastic, grateful, or regretful: "Who would have thought that my third path would be the one I've gone the furthest on?"

"Mystic Painter" is the upper-level profession corresponding to "Art Master". The former requires working part-time in the Dusk Path, while the latter requires working part-time in the Balance Path.

In other words, Matthias is the strongest person at the fifth level of the Dusk, Beauty, and Adaptation Paths!

But even such a strong person still took the wrong path. After most of his life, he finally found the most correct direction for his talent.

This is also the reason why the extraordinary knowledge in this world is vague and often wrong.

Although compared to the "inheritance" path full of metaphysics, the systematic "professional" path is already quite friendly.

But even so, people don't have attribute panels, and can't even see the specific effects of the characteristics of the path, let alone the degree of 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, so that most extraordinary people will pay less and less attention to leaving inheritance.

Only the "naturalist", the predecessor of the "dream monk", will take the initiative to collect this information. Because naturalists have a certain degree of knowledge sharing ability with each other, every time they enter a new extraordinary knowledge, they can get the power of wisdom path feedback.

But naturalists and dream monks will not easily publish the knowledge they record - after all, wisdom comes from mystery.

And if others want to inherit a niche profession, they can basically only rely on guessing. Before people really embark on this path, they don't know whether their talents on this path are good or bad, and they can't easily get the most suitable profession for themselves. They can only imitate the "idols" who have been determined to become the corresponding profession, and then repeatedly eliminate the "unnecessary" parts and gradually streamline.

For example, the demonologist has been simplified to only mastering "demon contract" and "demonology", while the spellcaster emphasizes that "demonology" cannot be mastered; the core of the priest is to learn "illumination" and "prayer".

The same is true for promotion professions - for example, many Avalon transcendents now know that arbitrators need to have a deeper grasp of legal provisions compared to supervisors, and have a mutually dependent and trusting relationship with at least one big man, and personally execute criminals who have been arrested by themselves; priests need to establish a complete connection with the pillar god, alchemists need to have a well-known invention, and air cavalry need to wait for their griffin partners to enter the transformation period...

In the past, these requirements had to be tested one by one. This is also the advantage of popular professions. The more popular the profession, the more unnecessary rituals can be eliminated; and the more niche the profession, the more complicated and difficult the job transfer ceremony is.

Aleister recalled it for a moment, then he remembered it easily and answered in detail: "The 'Lich' requires the promoted to master the fifth energy level adaptation path first, and also to abandon their own body in the promotion ceremony and transform it into an undead. Then complete the advancement of the twilight path from three to four, 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 promoted only have one chance. Once failed, it means permanent failure. "

That was before the emergence of "warriors". Adaptors meant cowards who feared death.

It was actually quite unrealistic to let a fifth-level adaptor risk death for the twilight path that yearns for stillness and complete a promotion that only has one chance.

Therefore, the difficulty of getting a job in this profession is also the most difficult one in Aiwass's memory... Although for players, this is a requirement that is quite easy to achieve.

This profession appeared later than the Great Sin Scholar, and it is worthy of the strength of the later profession - after all, if the new profession is not strong enough or not cool enough, it is difficult for players to abandon their own comfortable profession to re-level up.

"...Is that so. "

Adolf was a little regretful and a little relieved: "I was planning to imitate the principal and transform myself into an undead. Fortunately, I learned this secret in time... I originally wanted to pass this position to little Fernando. But now no one else has grown up. So it seems that I have to stay for a few more years."

Aleister opened her eyes slightly wide.

She understood.

The implication of the dark Adolf's words was that even if he knew that he could not become a lich and that the transformation of the undead was the wrong path, he still planned to transform himself into an undead.

Now he just planned to postpone it a little, at least to give the new generation of students some time to develop.

This is probably the source of the "leisure" of Adolf and Mathias.