Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 152 Isabel's Meeting Ceremony
After the class on Tuesday morning, Isabel came to see Aiwass for dinner as a routine.

Isabelle has a lot to share with Aiwass.From last Friday to today, when the two of them haven't met, the topic has been backlogged for four days.

If it was put before, Isabel would have no concept of time.For her, everyday life is an endless cycle of repetition, with no anticipation for the next day.

But things are different now.She is looking forward to being promoted together with Aiwass, looking forward to their adventures in the dream world and experiencing another life together; she is also looking forward to chatting with Aiwass and sharing interesting things in each other's recent lives.

Even though this kind of sharing happens every day, the content of it is very different.

Isabelle used to love weekends.Because every weekend, she can stay quietly in the Temple of Silver and Tin without talking to anyone.Just singing, drawing, and playing musical instruments by myself, time passed in the blink of an eye.

The tranquility of being alone always healed her tired mind.

But now as the weekend approaches, Isabelle becomes anxious.Because I won't see Aiwass for the next few days, and she has gradually gotten used to talking to other people, and once she gets used to that kind of life, she will understand what it means to be lonely.

Therefore, Isabel will carefully prepare a notebook, which is the topic plan she prepared.She and Aiwass are not in the same department, and they can only see each other steadily for more than three hours at noon every day, and they may not even be free in the afternoon-there is often a sudden incident between the two of them.

As a result, sometimes she misses the topics she wants to talk about.Obviously I met something interesting last night or in the morning, but I forgot to mention it after we met, and I didn’t remember it until after we separated, and the next chat was already a day later... After a few times like this, Isabel started Take notes, make some plans and preparations for the chat session, and record the questions you have thought about or the interesting things you want to say.

She had heard last night that Aiwass brought his sister to school.At that time, Isabel was very curious, because she knew that Aiwass's sister was weak and sick, and she rarely went out to see the wind.

Now that she suddenly went out, it must be because she finally recovered from her illness, right?
Isabel is quite curious about Aiwass's sister, because Aiwass often uses "Yulie" as a topic.Although she had never met Julia Moriarty, Isabel already knew her to a considerable extent.

Her character... seems to be somewhat similar to her?
It occurred to me that both of them had no friends, and both had a good relationship with Aiwass.Maybe we can have common topics and become friends?
So Isabel offered to meet Yulia.And Aiwass readily agreed.

After asking Aiwass what his sister likes, Isabel went back to prepare.

It was only at this time that she realized that she was indeed the princess of Avalon—it should be quite troublesome, but she just mentioned it, and it was ready before the end of the afternoon class.

Although she had the key to No. 14 Ronin Street, in order not to make a bad impression on Yulia, Isabel nervously rang the doorbell at the door.

The so-called heart-to-heart comparison——Isabel thought about it, if it was herself, the door of the room she was staying in was suddenly opened by a stranger, and she would definitely feel uneasy.No matter who that person is, it will only make Isabel feel subconscious discomfort and resistance.

Fortunately, she lived in the Temple of Silver and Tin, so she didn't have that chance.

To Isabel's surprise, it was not Lily who opened the door.It was a cute girl she had never seen before——

Isabel was not too tall, but Yulia was half a head shorter than her.

The long white hair hangs down to the waist, and the bangs covering the forehead and temples make the girl's already small face look more delicate.

Her eyes were a rare, warm ruby-like color.Isabel subconsciously thought of the candy she usually likes to eat.

...surprisingly very energetic.

"elder sister……"

Yulia made a soft voice: "Who are you looking for?"

Hearing this, a gentle smile appeared on Isabel's face unconsciously.

She is not the youngest in the family.In addition to the two-year-old brother she still has today, Isabelle originally had younger brothers and sisters.Only they are all dead now.

"I'm looking for Aiwass... At the same time, I'm also looking for you."

Isabel closed the door casually, subconsciously wanting to reach out and touch Yulia's hair - the girl's white hair is not as dry and white as the old man's bones, nor is it pale that makes people feel cold.Instead, it has a slightly warmer feeling, which allows people to see vitality and vitality at a glance.

The satin-smooth feeling gave Isabel a hallucinatory tactile sensation from the tips of her fingers without even touching it.

She even wanted to touch Yulia's cheek.She looks so cute, just like my grandmother's cat.

But she thought that would be rude—Aiwass had said that Yulia was a very shy, timid girl.This will scare her.

"You are Yulia, right?" Isabel said softly, "I prepared a gift for you..."

Saying that, she handed over the satchel she was carrying to Yulia.

Yulia tilted her head slightly while holding the bag, looking a little confused.

"open to take a look."

Isabel encouraged softly.

She was actually a little apprehensive, too, because she wasn't sure about the gift she'd chosen—even though Aiwass had sworn it was something Yulia liked.

But Isabel still felt that this was too strange.Why would a 15 year old girl like these?
Yulia opened the satchel and found three thick books inside.

"The Triumph of Antimony", "Metal Transmutation Theory: Special Agents and Modified Metals", "Nether Astronomy".

"This is--"

Yulia's eyes lit up immediately, and her whole body became excited.

Because these three books are very famous works of alchemy, and they are all books that cannot be bought through normal channels in Avalon.

"The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony" is the sacred book written by Valentine I, the founder of the Star Antimony Kingdom, and "Astronomy of the Underworld" is a summary of alchemy by an ancient alchemist—it regards alchemy as " "Lower Boundary Astronomy" corresponds to the real astronomy "Upper Boundary Astronomy".

And transmutation is an alchemical term.It refers to the transformation of one substance into another substance, one element into another element...such as transmutation into silver or gold with a certain base metal.

In this process, a transformation agent with mysterious properties is needed.It is a "special agent", which can carry out a large amount of metal modification by consuming only a small part.Different alchemy processes require different types of special agents, synthesis methods, and usage amounts.

The essence of the legendary "Philosophy's Stone" is the ultimate special potion—it only needs a small amount to convert hundreds of thousands of times its weight of base metal into gold.This is also one of the three ultimate goals pursued by alchemists.

It is as famous as "creation of life" and "universal solvent".The latter refers to a universal solvent that can dissolve all substances in the universe, returning them to their most basic properties, so that any substance can participate in alchemy.

These three books explain the three general directions of alchemy, namely "spiritual sublimation", "material modification" and "conceptual projection", which can be said to contain the foundation of the entire modern alchemy.

These are not popular science books that laymen can read, but something that extraordinary people who are serious about alchemy research should start reading.

Although this is not a tantra book, if you can fully understand these three books, you can also obtain at least three mysterious skills from them, and thus become a real alchemist.

Yulia has a copy of "The Triumphant Chariot" in Xinghua, which is in the professor's collection.She has already read it to pieces... She has read it at least ten times, and she can memorize many chapters directly.

But after all, she doesn't understand Xingyu language very well.

Even if I consulted the dictionary repeatedly, I couldn't understand some uncommon words, alchemy terms, and coinages in the book.She often pulled Professor Moriarty, just to ask him to help interpret words and paragraphs that she could not understand.

The remaining two books are not even in the professor's collection - the former is too introductory for the professor, but it records the mysterious skill "substance transformation" necessary for a professional alchemist.

The latter is another field that the professor has not studied... It is similar to prayers and rituals, using the names and concepts of gods to carry out mysterious alchemy.

There is simply no way these books can be bought in Avalon, it is completely forbidden.

There are books in the library of Wangli University of Law, but the books in the library must be returned after reading... This makes Yulia feel a little bit reluctant.Moreover, Aiwass also had books he wanted to read, and Yulia didn't want to use her brother's quota to borrow the books she wanted to read.

Yulia flipped through it a little bit, and was surprised to find that they were not typed out by a typewriter, but written by hand in full!
These books are written in Avalonian, and the handwriting is vigorous and powerful.Note down some notes, corrections and conjectures in the content——

Apparently, this is the "first draft translation" of the books in Avalon today.

"...You should be Her Royal Highness Princess Isabel, right?"

Yulia didn't dare to pretend not to know each other anymore, she even felt hesitant: "Can I accept such a precious thing?"

She likes them very much.But it was also because of this that she could feel the preciousness of these books - she even dared not accept them.

There is always a feeling that if you accept these books, you will sell your brother...

"it does not matter."

Isabel said with a smile: "This set of books was a gift from the principal of Milton University to my grandmother...because of her education reforms, alchemy is no longer taboo. In order to support this policy, he will Eleven books on alchemy translated by myself were sent to my grandmother, making them the basis for the compilation of textbooks at the Law University of Avalon.

"After the textbooks were written, they became my grandmother's private collection. Later, my grandmother gave them to me because I was not gifted for the authoritarian path.

"I also thought about learning alchemy back then. But it was still too complicated for me. Aiwass said that you like alchemy... It's great that you like it, so that knowledge will not be wasted. It is a real misfortune that such a good book is left unread.

"You can keep them at ease, Yulia."

Isabel said softly: "You must become a great alchemist."

"Thank you sister!!"

Yulia was overjoyed, and carefully put them back in her bag.

Seeing that Yulia really liked the gift she gave, Isabel was also relieved.

Aiwass was actually right.

Yulia does like alchemy books...

How could a fourteen-year-old girl like this kind of thing?

The Moriarty family is not short of money. It is meaningless to send things that can be bought in the market, and it will only appear vulgar and tasteless; it is useless to simply send books, because the library of the Royal Law University belongs to the royal family. Collecting books, she is tantamount to borrowing flowers to present to Buddha; but Aiwass doesn't know what Yulia likes - the preferences he gave can be said to be terribly strange.

Mechanics, electronics, chemistry, paleontology, my favorite should be products related to alchemy, such as alchemy books.

...Look, is this like something a 15-year-old girl should like?

Isabel even thought about it, or she might as well give Yulia a set of butterfly specimens.This should be regarded as an ancient creature, and it looks more in line with girls' aesthetics-at least it looks beautiful.

But after thinking about it for a long time, she decided to respect Yulia's personal preference.

So she finally thought of a suitable gift:
——The unique alchemy translation manuscript!

Even though Isabel was not very interested in alchemy back then, she also felt that these were very precious gifts and treasured them well.But Isabel almost forgot about it as a collection, and finally remembered that she still had such a set of books.

Now they can find a suitable owner, someone who really understands their value.

Even if the factor of pleasing her to Yulia is excluded... Isabel is really happy now.

This girl is quite cute.

Looking at Yulia who was happily holding the book and smiling happily like a little girl, Isabel showed a gentle smile.

Sure enough, she guessed right, and getting along with Yulia would indeed be very pleasant!
"Where's Aiwass?"

Isabel asked again.

"Brother is reading." Yulia carried a satchel and followed closely beside Isabel. "He said... he was preparing for the next promotion."

Yulia's affection for Isabel has increased a lot.

Not only did she give Yulia the gift she liked, but her attitude towards knowledge also made Yulia quite fond of it—she originally thought that Isabel, as an extraordinary person on the path of beauty, should not know much about alchemy It's important... I didn't expect her to have some research on alchemy.

While waiting for Aiwass, she chatted with Isabel.It turns out that Isabel actually read these books seriously... Although she has almost forgotten all about it now, she can still recall part of it under Yulia's reminder.

Your Royal Highness!

Julia was in awe.

Even for herself, she has never read many books in the professor's study.Either it is a field that I am not interested in, or it is too obscure to understand, or an entire book is devoted to a small topic in a professional field...

This kind of book doesn't seem to be that interesting.Yulia's original motivation for reading books was to feel the world...but the extremely professional knowledge seemed too abstract, and she couldn't understand it at all.

Therefore, although her adoptive father also gave her some books, many of them were bought from abroad.But Yulia didn't finish reading it... Even so, she brought those books with her when she moved.

As for Princess Isabel, although she was not interested in alchemy, she honestly read these books carefully when she was presented with them.Because it is too serious, it seems that it will make people feel a little pity.

Her Royal Highness is quite cute...

Julia thought.

In the relaxed atmosphere where they both thought each other was so cute, Lily walked over pushing Aiwass' wheelchair.

After asking what Yulia was holding, Aiwass thanked Isabel instead of Yulia - he didn't expect Isabel's gift to be so expensive, he thought Isabel would give a few hardcovers After reading the book, it turned out that the first time I met Isabel was so serious.

Just be prepared to return the gift, Aiwass thought.

But he also fell into the dilemma of giving gifts - as the aloof princess, what is there that Isabel can't get?
After keeping this matter in mind, Aiwass and Isabel brought up the issue of Yulia's enrollment intentionally or unintentionally.

"no problem."

Isabel responded straightforwardly: "Leave this matter to me too...but maybe Yulia will have to take the test alone.

"After all, if she really can't keep up with the courses, it's not good for her studies. It will bring a lot of pressure to her. According to her course results, decide which department she will be assigned to... If she uses alchemy The level is not too high, so it is better to be assigned to the second school to study the basic subjects for half a year, and then transfer to the secret school next year."

Her Royal Highness reminded kindly.

When she was chatting with Aiwass now, she was not so timid.And under the guidance of Aiwass, Isabel has gradually understood how to use the power she has reasonably.

The biggest change is... she no longer rushes to do it immediately after hearing Aiwass' request.Instead, try to think about the problem from the other party's standpoint, use your own common sense and cognition to judge what problems the other party will encounter, and then try to solve them in advance.

Isabel unexpectedly discovered that she was quite good at this.

Although she doesn't have the ability to control the will of others, guide others to think, and strengthen the loyalty of others like the authoritarian path...but she has the talent to feel the hearts of others.It is easy to perceive the real purpose hidden by the other party from just a few words.

Not everyone will express their true thoughts in the dialogue.Some people can't do it, and some people don't want to do it.

And as an "all-rounder", Isabel's understanding of everyone is rising simultaneously——

Perhaps it is because the interpretation of the heart and longing itself belongs to the field of beauty.

As her conversation with Yulia deepened, Isabel gradually felt some of Yulia's essence.

She was vaguely aware of it.

... Yulia doesn't seem to be the fragile and soft girl that Aiwass said.On the contrary, she has a very calm... even cold to ruthless heart.

Yulia has a strong and competitive nature, she is stronger than Isabel on every level.

The kind of softness and attachment she showed was not because her heart was fragile...but because she had a good impression of herself, especially for Aiwass.So in front of the two of them, Yulia was unwilling to reveal her aggressiveness——

But what would Yulia do if she faced someone she hated?
Aiwass told Yulia that she should pretend to be indifferent when facing her classmates after entering school to protect herself... He always felt that Yulia was weak and needed protection from others.And Yulia is indeed such an image in front of Aiwass.

But in Isabel's view, this is not the case.

Yulia probably didn't need to pretend at all.She just needs to express her true feelings.

Isabel suddenly became a little interested.

—she wanted to see Yulia go to school.Watch how she reveals her icy nature.

　An update of [-] words, two in one meow today!
　　Originally, I wanted to take half a day off for the first chapter, but in the end, I wrote five thousand and five for the first chapter, and it directly became two in one...

　　I'm going to play Bode today, so take a break for half a day!
　　I didn't write about Little Butterfly, sorry meow!Kowtow bang bang bang!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)