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Chapter 737: Chapter 122: If you don’t understand, just flip to the answer.

Chapter 737: Chapter 122: If you don’t understand, just flip to the answer.

After the Pure White Saintess left, Aiwass immediately went to the Eleventh Ring to apologize for the reckless actions of the Night Fiend and tried his best to mitigate the impact.

But even though Aiwass arrived as quickly as he could, he was still completely too late.

“Still…

a step too late, huh.”

Aiwass murmured to himself.

It wasn’t that anyone had an accident.

—Everyone had already recovered.

Everyone looked normal, and it was impossible to tell who had been injured.

But it seemed that because the Pure White Saintess had mentioned this matter before, the Elf Priests immediately understood Aiwass’s intention and gathered around of their own accord.

Everyone was indeed very kind—no one made things difficult for Aiwass, and many elves even smiled and comforted Aiwass, showing off their skin, now as clean and pure as before.

Although there were quite a few elves among them who belonged to the Controlled Flame, their attitudes were also very good.

In the face of Loki’s death, at least for the elves of the Eleventh Ring affected by Aiwass, no one tried to hold him accountable.

Instead, some members of the Controlled Flame felt very guilty and wanted to apologize for Loki’s attack on Aiwass…

even though it had absolutely nothing to do with them.

Their aim was to clear the name of the Controlled Flame—or to be more precise, to distance themselves from Loki.

As a result, the consolatory gifts Aiwass had prepared were not given out at all; instead, he received a batch of gifts in return.

Mostly, they were expensive snacks and candies, as well as some specialties from various countries…

Aiwass wondered who had taught the elves this custom.

By now, it seemed the elves had grown accustomed to using gifts to express both friendliness and apology, probably because they had received many gifts from Short-Lived Species and thought it was their custom.

Aiwass went out with one bag and came back holding more than a dozen.

Lily looked on in great surprise.

Those who knew thought Aiwass had gone to apologize, those who didn’t would think Aiwass had gone shopping.

“…I have to say, compared to Avalonians, the quality of the elves from the Holy Nation is really much higher.”

Aiwass expressed to Lily, “I’m almost not used to it.”

However, after thinking about it, he added, “But that’s not necessarily the case.

It might also be because the Pure One had already spread the word about Loki’s crimes beforehand.”

This was also a way to prevent Loki from coming back from the dead—once it’s officially recognized that Loki was dead, he was socially dead as well.

Even if “another Loki” appeared again, “Cardinal Loki” as a social identity and the influence it carried could no longer be exploited.

Of course, it was possible that there were still fanatical individual followers of Loki who still harbored hatred towards Aiwass.

It was just that, under the circumstances where the elves actively sought out Aiwass, those unfriendly elves simply didn’t come forward.

Aiwass felt the room was a bit too quiet, so he started unwrapping the gifts and asked, “Where is Sister Freya?”

“The young mistress has already left.”

Lily spoke, her voice soft, “She took with her the ‘dates’ you gave to the Pure White Saintess, saying that Her Highness had entrusted them all to her.

She is planning to store them first when she gets back.”

“All of them…?

Does Her Highness the Pure White not plan to continue using them?”

Upon hearing this, Aiwass, somewhat puzzled, put down the gift he was holding, “Or has she found a new solution?”

Or perhaps, with the death of Cardinal Loki, the Pure White Saintess believed the other Cardinals would no longer cause her trouble?

That made sense.

The main demand for the Saintess to step down came from the Controlled Flame.

The other Cardinals obviously knew about it but had no intention of troubling the Pure White.

After the Saintess becomes the Pope, she could let Freya slowly develop medicine to treat Amberficate.

That was also a possibility.

After all, it was the Saintess herself who arranged with Freya to prioritize the development of a more cost-effective healing medicine within the next three months.

Since this period had already exceeded the time of the papal election, it indicated that the Saintess did not count on Freya’s Amberficate medicine to solve her problem.

—Of course, there was another possibility that the Saintess no longer intended to succeed the papacy.

Although Cardinal Loki was gone, if the Saintess voluntarily gave up the succession…

then it meant that Aiwass had prematurely triggered the hidden troubles and issues of the Holy Nation.

With the Saintess still regarded as sacred, and under her supervision, initiating a general election across the Holy Nation would certainly be much stronger than the Cardinal Archbishops carving out their own territories.

Regardless of which situation it was, Aiwass had already handed over all his ‘dates’.

How the Saintess chose was her freedom, and he had no need to interfere.@@novelbin@@

While waiting for the materials, Aiwass continued to open the gifts, planning to sort them for storage.

The most expensive gift was a set of medicine boxes covering all sorts of healing and daily enhancement drugs.

Upon opening, inside were a total of eighteen medicines, ten alchemical elixirs, and eight witch’s magic potions.

A glance told Aiwass this was merchandise from Star Antimony, even bearing a joint trademark from the Living Silver Workshop and another organization called “Witch’s Cauldron”.

After briefly scanning the Star Antimony script, Aiwass realized what this elaborately packaged set of medicines was for.

Specifically, it was for use.

Not only did it cover various fields that might be needed, but its packaging was also exceptionally exquisite.

They were basically made of crystal, gemstone, and gold into delicate little bottles, and each bottle had a unique shape.

Even if any one of them was taken out separately, it could be considered an extremely expensive perfume bottle.

This thing must be very popular among the Star Antimony nobles, but those who gave it as a gift to the Elves clearly didn’t realize that the customs of the Elves from the Holy Nation were completely different from those of the Star Antimony nobles.

This box of medicine, judging from the production date, was already four years old, yet even the seal on the outer packaging had not been torn.

Hopefully, it’s not expired.

Thinking this, Aiwass also placed it into the cabinet.

——Take it with me when I return, it’s not suitable to be sent back through the means of a sacrifice.

It wouldn’t bode well if it were seen.

As dusk approached, a pair of Papal Guards knocked on the door and delivered the promised materials.

The box they brought shocked Aiwass.

Aiwass had long known that Advanced Divine Arts were a separate system from Divine Arts.

But he had originally thought the teaching materials referred to a Codex Book, or some ancient mystical equipment like a crystal ball, a magic mirror, bark, slate, or jade.

Unexpectedly, it really was a set of teaching materials.

What the Papal Guards brought over was a set of hardcover wooden bookshelves over half a meter tall, sealed with gold, silver, and red triple runic rings.

The Papal Guards personally opened it and taught Aiwass the password to unlock the seals.

If the wrong password is entered, it would immediately destroy the books inside and trigger an alarm.

The cabinet itself was very sturdy, so much so that when Aiwass touched it, he even discovered that it was a purple-level mystical item.

Its category is body——that is to say, the system determined that this bookshelf was a piece of armor!

——And there are a total of eleven books inside!

Each book was as thick as a dictionary, all of them brand new, and they even seemed to retain the warmth of just being printed when touched.

Only after the previous book was put back could the next one be taken out.

If one book is outside, the others can’t be removed.

Once Aiwass finished reading, the box would have to be returned to the Holy Nation.

After the two Papal Guards left, Aiwass immediately returned to his study, intending to take them all out for a look.

But as soon as he took out the first book, “Advanced Divine Arts Overview,” and flipped through just a dozen pages, he started feeling a headache——

…It turns out that it’s not a form of racial discrimination that human bishops can’t learn Divine Arts.

It’s that they really can’t learn them.

Or rather, the person who compiled the textbooks made no simplifications.

From “Advanced Divine Arts Overview,” Aiwass generally understood its origins.

Back when Elves were still fragmented in their warring states, the Nine Pillars Divine Church emerged and united the “Great Tree’s Many Nations.” And they did so thanks to the Advanced Divine Arts developed by the First Pope.

The First Pope, through Advanced Divine Arts, respectfully invited the Nine Pillar Gods to possess him, becoming the collective messenger of the Nine Pillar Gods and the only spokesperson for the Nine Pillar Gods on earth.

It was for this reason that he was able to establish the Nine Pillars Divine Church in the name of the Nine Pillar Gods himself.

Advanced Divine Arts are so called because their logic is built upon Divine Arts, but the foundation is not entirely the same.

Therefore, the First Pope simply decided to call it Advanced Divine Arts——this seemingly casual name was chosen by him.

Yes, the First Pope was a man.

It is said that he had the Blood of Candle Master, but it’s uncertain whether it’s true.

Specifically, as an Elf, he had a pair of huge antlers on his head.

His antlers could also burn like those of the Candle Master.

And after his death, he ascended to become the Candle Celestial Marshal.

At the beginning, this technology was completely open.

Descend God, Welcome God, Leap God, Request God, Connect God…

These arts, still being passed down in the world of mankind today or that have become secret Codex Books, actually all originated from those Short-Lived Species or Elves who had studied Advanced Divine Arts in the past but failed to learn them.

Integrating all of them together constitutes the complete lineage of Advanced Divine Arts.

Subsequently, people degraded the difficult-to-master Advanced Divine Arts and used them in collaboration with Celestial Marshals, Angel Envoys, or even Phantom Demons from the Dream Realm to draw them to the Lower Realm, bypassing the Hourglass restrictions.

This caused great trouble for the Balancers, so after that, this technology was controlled and forbidden.

However, by the time Aiwass reached page forty, his head felt severely swollen.

The forbidden power was seeping through the text into his consciousness, and the world’s barriers were resisting Aiwass’s mastery of this art——it was a feeling similar to motion sickness, and it was even a bit nauseating.

“Forget it, if I don’t understand it, I won’t read it,”

Aiwass decisively closed the book.

He had originally wanted to see if he could master it…

Given the current progress, he could read at most fifty pages a day.

It’s unknown how long it would just take to finish reading these eleven books once.

Indeed, this truly was knowledge that only Longevity Species could master.

I’ll go directly to the Pure White Saintess with them tomorrow.

As long as the Pure White Saintess explains them to Aiwass while holding the books, Aiwass would be able to directly consume experience to grasp them!