"No one wants the straights from 5 to 10? That pair of 2s is gone."
Royale Reideen, who had black hair, blue eyes, and slender eyebrows, played his cards one after another, looked at the frustrated Seeka and Frye with a smile, and then gathered the coins on the table in front of him.
"... It's your turn to treat me to lunch today."
Frye said coldly.
"No problem, the money you won today is enough to feed you for a week."
Royale agreed without a care.
"A treat? Then I can't be absent."
Angel pushed open Recreation Room's door and walked in. Leonard, wearing a coat and sleeves fluttering, followed closely behind.
"Hey, everyone!"
Before Angel could speak, Leonard knocked on the door with his knuckles, attracting the attention of the three Nighthawks who were "Fight Evil", and then spoke in a recital-like tone:
"Please allow me to introduce the lady next to me. It took less than two months to completely master Angel Granger of Sequence 9 Potion!"
This is too exaggerated... The creativity of third-rate poets is only so outstanding at this time.
Angel took a deep breath and could hardly hold back the indifferent smile on his face.
The three Nighthawks looked at each other with confusion evident. Seeka Tron put down the cards in his hands and asked:
"Is this true? I do remember that you took Potion shortly before joining Nighthawks and became Beyonder."
"That's right, when you fully master Potion, you will have a clear feeling and it will not be confused with other situations, such as loss of control or contamination."
These are various cases recorded within the church of "mistakenly thinking that they have mastered Potion", so whenever Beyonder applies for early promotion, he will face strict examinations, in order to avoid overconfident Nighthawks from mistaking the excessive confidence that is a sign of loss of control as progress in Potion's control.
After receiving Angel's affirmative answer, several people were a little excited, especially Royale. She joined Nighthawks earlier than Leonard, but at this time she was still Sequence 9's "Sleepless". Although there was no involution within the church, she still felt a little anxious.
When she heard that Angel had mastered Potion in just two months, she couldn't wait to ask the question that everyone was concerned about:
"How was it done?"
Surrounded by everyone's scorching gazes, Angel could only sit down on Recreation Room's sofa and tell several Nighthawkss the carefully compiled "experience" that he had already drafted.
She originally wanted to slowly lay the groundwork and then reveal Acting Method subtly and without leaving a trace, but when Leonard made such a fuss, she immediately lost the opportunity.
During the conversation, she looked at Leonard who was standing by the door. The latter crossed his arms and pretended to listen carefully, but his eyes were wandering and his mind had gone somewhere.
This guy must have done it on purpose... Could he also want to take advantage of me and tell other teammates "Acting Method"? But why didn't he tell it himself?
Angel reluctantly withdrew his gaze and continued to answer questions to the excited Royale.
"That's it. Through these things, I summarized my own 'Assassin Rule'. After thinking about this, I felt as if some objects were quickly dissolving and spreading in the body, filling the whole body. I knew that this was a sign of completely mastering Potion."
Angel euphemistically revealed "Acting Method" to several teammates, using Daly, Klein and himself as examples.
She could not do something more direct, such as directly saying words such as "play" and "digest". This would be discovered during the examination, making the examiners think that she deliberately leaked "Acting Method" before swearing to keep it secret, which would be detrimental to Ms. Daly who reminded her in advance.
But using successful people as examples seems to have a good effect...
After listening to Angel's statement, both Frye and Royale fell into deep thought, while Seeka, who had promotion experience, also frowned and recalled his experience.
Leonard stood aside and pretended to think.
Angel secretly laughed at this pretentious guy, stood up, said goodbye to his teammates who had already had an epiphany, and left Recreation Room.
The next step is to leave it to time. With goals and methods, she believes that these smart teammates will not let her down.
As soon as she returned to the corridor, she met Klein who was returning from the basement to the second floor. The latter was smiling and seemed to have successfully achieved his goal.
"Is everything going well there?"
Klein asked, but quickly got the answer from Angel's expression.
"Great, I also chatted with Kenley on duty at Chanis Gate. He just transferred from a civilian member this year and served Potion to become Beyonder. He understood the importance of 'Acting Method' without me saying a few words. Maybe he will be promoted to Sequence 8 the fastest."
he sighed.
"Seeka, Royale and Frye also know it. They may need some time to think and summarize their own Acting Rule, but judging from their expressions, they should all have gained something. As for Leonard, I think he already knows it."
Angel also reported his results.
"It's not unexpected. He looks like he's hiding a lot of secrets. It's not that simple to look at..." Klein smiled and looked at the door of Recreation Room, "This way, all the official members have been informed. Oh, by the way, there is also Old Neil..."
Speaking of Beyonder, who is old but still at Sequence 9, Klein's eyes were filled with a hint of gloom.
"He was a little excited and a little depressed. He kept muttering that he wished he had known about it twenty years earlier... Alas, with his current physical condition, he will definitely not be able to be promoted and will not be allowed."
The two were walking and talking, and walked through the corridor to the reception hall. They saw Rozanne busy outside the partition, so they stopped next to the partition and avoided her sight.
"Perhaps Old Neil has some unfulfilled wishes that have become regrettable because he was not promoted?"
Angel guessed at the thoughts of Nighthawks, who was almost retired.
Klein sighed again. He looked back towards the offices of Recreation Room and Dunn. When he saw that no one else came to the corridor, he whispered:
"Since the church knows that there is a method like 'Acting Method' that can speed up Potion's mastery and reduce the risk of losing control, why does it hide it from the Beyonders below? Even those like Ms. Daly who realize it on their own are required to take an oath to keep it secret from others?"
Realizing that the following conversation was somewhat dangerous, Angel moved a little further away from the partition to avoid being heard by Rozanne, and then lowered his voice and answered:
"I have been thinking about this issue. If we only focus on strengthening the power of Nighthawks and maintaining the stability of Beyonder, disclosing 'Acting Method' is undoubtedly the best choice. But combined with another message I heard from a member of 'Machinery Hivemind'..."
She told Klein about the "Law of Conservation of Extraordinary Characteristics" she received from Kavi at the time of Enmat Harbor, and how Beyonder Characteristic derived from it was promoted as Potion material through the death of Beyonder.
"Can the 'Beyonder Characteristic' precipitated from the dead Beyonder be directly used as the same Sequence Potion?"
Klein took a deep breath and repeated with an expression of disbelief.
"That's right, this method doesn't even require knowing the formula of Potion, because even if Auxiliary Materials is not used, the promotion success rate of directly swallowing the characteristics is not low."
... Of course, I made an exception that time.
Angel added in his heart.
"So, the church's senior leaders are worried that leaking Acting Method will cause Potion to be digested too quickly and more Beyonder to be promoted urgently, resulting in insufficient supply of Potion materials, causing some personnel to kill each other and seize Beyonder Characteristic for promotion?"
Klein quickly combined the two laws "Acting Method" and "Beyonder Characteristic Immortality" and came to a conclusion that made his scalp numb.
"This is the only possibility for the church to conceal 'Acting Method'. They always send people to recover the Beyonder Characteristic of the sacrificed Nighthawks, and require the handover of the characteristics of Beyonder killed in extraordinary events. It should be for this purpose... Well, maybe Captain Dunn also knows these secrets."
Angel Speaking at the end, I remembered the Madam Sharon that Dunn took away and the Beyonder Characteristic that precipitated.
That's Sequence 6's Potion Main Materials!