Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 745 Mentor Aleister
Looking at the strange yet familiar eyes of "Christina" at this moment, the originally wild and confident smile on Aleister's face became much gentler.

"Don't call me master anymore. You are free now. I have fulfilled my promise and given you a wider world."

She reached out and touched Christina's hair, held her cheeks with both hands, and gently reminded her: "If possible, remember to take care of Weber. Don't let her be bullied. After getting my power, it would be ridiculous if she was still 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, please ask for help."

"That……"

Alice hesitated for a moment: "What should I call you...'brother'?"

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

To her, Aiwass is indeed an older brother because of his age.

"Um……"

Aleister's expression was complicated for a moment, but he still smiled gently and said, "Forget it. I already have many sisters."

——He knew that Aiwass was the "correct self" and Aleister was just a shadow whose time would run out.

Alice is right to call herself "brother". Even if Alice calls herself "sister", she will take the initiative to correct the other party.

After all, the person who rescued her was Aiwass, not Aleister.

...But at that moment, she still felt an indescribable loneliness in her heart.

"Just call me..."

Aleister pondered for a while, and his expression became more serious: "Just call me... mentor."

"tutor!"

Ellie responded without hesitation.

Then, her expression changed drastically, revealing a hint of cowardice.

Christina murmured, "Teacher...?"

"Christina."

Aleister suddenly called her name.

“…Yes, I am here, sir!”

Christina said in a panic, fearing that she would anger the big shot in front of her.

"You too, just call me mentor."

Aleister said softly, "Go back to your school and continue studying hard. Of course, if possible, I suggest you stop studying alchemy. Necromancer will be more suitable for you."

This is Aleister's advice from the heart.

Christina didn't look like a particularly rational or serious type, and she was obviously not suitable for the Way of Balance. And the Star Antimony Flow Alchemy required the compatibility of the Way of Transcendence, which was quite difficult for her.

Anyway, if she doesn't master the power of the Twilight Path at the moment, her soul will easily escape... In order to reduce Alice's workload, it would be a good choice for her to strengthen her attainments in necromancy.

"Necromancer?"

Christina murmured.

She quickly made up her mind: "I know, mentor. I will do it."

There is no doubt that she regarded this "suggestion" 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 said."

Aleister nodded.

"The dress I was wearing before... was lent to me by a senior student of mine. She was very kind to me, but the dress is broken. If I want to leave Hircine University, I hope to at least return the money for the dress to her..."

After this hellish night, Christina seemed to have gained some kind of enlightenment. Her vanity, the wealth and luxury she longed for, the house and work she worried about, all seemed so vulgar among the real superior extraordinary people and in front of the extraordinary way... and seemed meaningless.

She vowed never to fall again...if possible, she would change herself from this day forward.

【Really? 】

A cold little girl's voice echoed from the bottom of her heart.

This scared Christina, but she quickly gritted her teeth and replied in her heart: "It's true! If you don't believe it, then... I mean, if you don't believe it, you can always supervise me."

[I will always watch over you] The cold voice seemed to echo in her head.

But Aleister didn't react much to this: "Well, it's as it should be."

Seeing that the mysterious young lady showed no interest in this, Christina said in a low voice with trepidation: "So..."

"……so?"

"I, I don't have any money... I mean, I don't have any money yet! I will find a way to work and earn money later... If possible, I would like to borrow some money from my tutor - if not, I can also borrow from other friends!"

"How much?"

Aleister asked back.

"Hmm... According to the tag I saw earlier, this skirt costs 120 gold and 8 silver. But it's a popular style, so I think there should be stock on the secondary market for less than gold..."

Christina said quickly.

"That was an oversight on my part."

Aleister suddenly realized and said in distress: "But I don't have any money with me."

Christina was stunned for a moment, and the words of calculating the cost suddenly got stuck for a moment.

"Mirror Demon, are you still there?"

Aleister said 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 world of dreams."

It is too cautious.

As long as the previous owner is not dead, it will never leave, for fear that the boss will open the coffin and call it back to work overtime.

"——No need to bother. I will find someone to hold a funeral for him and send his soul away."

Aleister spoke up.

Although she doesn't have the rank of priest now...

But her true identity is now His Holiness the Pope.

With just one thought, he could immediately order the local bishop to go here to hold a funeral and directly liberate the earl's soul.

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

"Of course," the considerate Mirror Demon secretary inquired, "How much money do I need to deposit?"

"Put in 3,000 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 - after all, the count had offered her an "almost irresistible price" and asked her to stay with him for a month, which was only 800 gold coins.

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

Even if she could borrow alchemical tools from the school laboratory, she was so 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 Xingtan, where prices are rising rapidly.

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

Even if one does not refine the most expensive and difficult petrification potion, the remaining ones will still cost more than sixty gold coins.

——Even if all the refining is successful at once, one promotion ceremony will cost sixty gold coins!
Christina simply couldn't afford the materials.

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

…But it turns out that imagination is just imagination. She finally bought a set of materials, but in the first round of alchemy, she only succeeded in synthesizing two bottles of vitality potion and a can of hemostatic powder.

Naturally, she was disliked during the promotion ceremony.

In Xingti, an environment with a large number of alchemists, everyone is willing to take transcendents of the path of balance to advance, just to get medicine from them. As a result, the snake venom ointment that can be refined by the first energy level is not available, the sobering potion is not available, and the most important feather fall potion is not available either - then for these three bottles of medicine, why don't I find a transcendent of the path of dedication to form a team?

Why should I take you with me?

So Christina got angry.

——I can’t afford it anyway. Even if I make a potion, I might be taken advantage of or despised. Even if I form a team, I might be abandoned or betrayed. It’s better not to make the potion at all.

I just came to take 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 level promotion. Try a few more times, there will always be a chance to get in.

Maybe you'll be lucky enough to randomly participate in Wei Zhe's ceremony. Why don't we all use our brains instead of our extraordinary abilities to compete fairly?
(End of this chapter)