Chapter 157: Kinleys New Life I (1/2)

Players with sharp eyes would notice a new shop in town. Its sign which read ‘Golden Rose’ made it clear that it was an alchemist’s atelier.

Naturally, the owner was Lady Kinley Ainsworth, who had come to the Unnamed Town chasing Angora.

Angora had been prepared to chase off this uninvited guest at first, only to be stopped by Xi Wei throwing down an oracle from his Divine Kingdom.

In the first place, Xi Wei was curious about alchemy—as the God of Games, his power with alchemy was basically nothing more than conjuring Coca-Cola.

It was only perfect timing that Kinley would appear in the Unnamed Town now.

As mentioned before, divine grace from the gods was not distributed equally amongst all believers, and was instead bestowed upon high-ranked leaders of their faith and a few selected believers.

Although all alchemists worshipped Alchemie, the God of Alchemy, their faith was based on the teaching that ‘the essence of alchemy is only seen through unrestrained thinking’. It was not a religion in the orthodox sense, but instead a loosely established organization called the Tower of Wisdom.

In turn, that group basically had no rules and did not implement any major movements, and was basically a platform that provided opportunities for exchange.

Kinley’s mentor was one such member of the Tower, and one of the three remaining Wise Lords of the Tower. Although he did not embody actual authority like the leaders of other faith, to hold that position alone was no different being the pope of a church.

And Kinley was the apprentice of that pope, and Xi Wei would never believe that the kid wasn’t special.

If his hunch was right, she was a Chosen One even if she wasn’t an equivalent to a Saintess of another religion! There was certainly no other explanation for how the top alchemist of the continent would take her in as an apprentice all those years ago.

And that certainly proved true: Xi Wei hadn’t noticed it back in Tunaya, but he could clearly detect the power of another god when Kinley arrived in his domain.

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It was only natural that the presence of other gods was virtually undetectable for ordinary believers, nor would there be useful information.

In that respect, things were different for special believers.

That was the same thing as how Rotten Bones had schemed to kidnap Princess Leah and reverse-trace the location of Xi Wei’s Divine Kingdom—only she would work, and capturing guardsmen was useless.

Hence, with Kinley settling down at the Unnamed Town, Xi Wei would have the time to slowly study Alchemie’s power that enveloped her.

Xi Wei certainly had no intention on trying to stir trouble with the God of Alchemy. Indeed, Alchemie was far inferior in combat compared to the Ocean Goddess, and on the same level as Aslan the Great Lion—with Aslan dominating in the case of direct confrontation, but Xi Wei was a ball with tentacles and definitely not a worthy opponent…