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

He only wanted to study Alchemie’s divine nature and divine power through his own divinity as the God of Games, and see if he could obtain more powers in alchemy…

On the other hand, Kinley was quite happy with her present circumstances.

Angora had set the ground rules with her, literally agreeing to three laws[1]:

Firstly, she must never betray the God of Games and His believers at any given time, or leak information about the God of Games to others. In return, believers of the God of Games would never be able to harm her in any way without a divine oracle.

Secondly, she could leave the Unnamed Town any time she wished, but she was to produce alchemy merchandise as long as she was around to facilitate the God of Game’s believers, or instruct them in basic alchemy for any willing to learn. In return, Kinley could commission the believers and have them go on farming quests for alchemy materials in her stead.

Thirdly, it was no issue for her to study any facilities and equipment found in the various base of the Church of Games, but permission must be obtained from the head of respective bases, and she must never spread any alchemy knowledge she gained through such studies to believers of other faith, although she could teach the Players. In return, Kinley would not have to spend game coins to directly teleport to other bases equipped with Lifestones.

In retrospect, the first rule was quite basic. No church would want to let others know about their secrets, just as having someone from a different faith staying in their own base was an easy way to reach the other church’s secrets. As such, no church would allow anyone from another church to stay in their own base without an agreement of secrecy.

The second rule was not too hard to accept either, since from Kinley’s perspective trading between the God of Games’ believers was much more akin to a barter system. As such, creating some alchemy items for sale if she was to live in the Unnamed Town was normal.

As a matter of fact, the Players actually traded with game coins, but since the System granted the capacity for digitalized payment or fund transfers, Kinley was no different from a boomer who still carried around a beeper in modern times. She therefore could never imagine how advanced their technology actually was, much less keep in touch with the times.

Naturally, Kinley wasn’t aware of that.

Still, being an alchemist, she needed an atelier for experiments. Hence, from what she could see, not only did the Church of Games provided her with one, she could even get the believers to work for her—what could she possibly argue against such joy?

It was true that in her mind, it was the same as working for the Church of Games be it teaching the Players alchemy or commissioning them to obtain materials. That said, she also believed that most people were not convinced that alchemy was an easy subject. Why else would alchemists be so rare on the continent?

Nonetheless, she absolutely would not reject the third rule since it was essentially the reason Kinley had come to this town.

She had a hunch that there must be some spatial magitek when Angora and his retainers suddenly disappeared from Tunaya. Even so, what she assumed to be a secret item reserved exclusively for military-use was placed right in the open at the center of town, even made available to her.

There could not have been a greater ecstasy for her! After all, one should know that aside from the portal technology preserved by lost tribes in their subterranean cities, portals that existed on the surface were either ancient relics or natural portals!

Although she couldn’t teach people of other faith what she had learned which limits her ability for full exchange of skills with other alchemists, being able to learn the wondrous alchemy tech of the Unnamed Town was worth the cost!

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[1] 约法三章—an idiom, meaning to agree to a set of three rules.