Sure enough, he already knew that I became "Instigator"!
Angel's chest tightened at first, and then she felt relieved. From Daly's reaction, she guessed that the examiner Crestet Cesimir might know that she was promoted to Sequence 8. She had been worried. Now that the other boot fell to the ground, her hanging heart was relieved.
Anyway, we have come to this point...
"While Enmat Harbor was supporting the Nighthawks team over there, I took Potion and became Instigator. Earlier, by summarizing the 'Assassin' code, I felt that I completely mastered Potion."
Angel answered truthfully, but was careful not to reveal that he was already familiar with "Acting Method".
"Enmat Harbor... It's the time when we tracked the human trafficking cases of 'Demoness Sect' and 'Aurora Order'... I understand."
Crestet nodded, paused for a moment, and asked the second question:
"Where do your 'Instigator', Potion formula and Main Materials come from?"
Coming!
Ever since Dunn Smith broke into 6 Daffodil Street at night and interrogated Angel in her dream, she once again faced the situation of "having to tell the truth".
She didn't answer immediately. She was drafting something in her mind. Crestet didn't urge her. Instead, she put her hand on the silver-white metal box on her lap and tapped the lid of the box rhythmically with her index finger, making a crisp tapping sound.
"The formula of Potion comes from Cole Granger, and he got it from Madam Sharon... Well, you know Cole, right?" Angel said slowly, and then continued to answer after receiving a positive reply from Crestet, "Main Materials was acquired by Underground Market from Enmat Harbor."
She explained the acquisition of "Beyonder Characteristic" as the purchase of Potion Main Materials. This was not a lie or a concealment of the facts.
"The acquisition... As far as I know, Sequence 8's Potion Main Materials usually costs more than 600 pounds. How did you... wait, this is not the third question."
Crestet said as if talking to himself. At the end, he suddenly became alert and did not waste the third opportunity to ask questions. His shoulders were slightly raised, making the collar of the erected trench coat higher, almost covering half of his face.
If you ask, I will answer immediately. Anyway, I don't steal or rob...
Angel A smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he immediately tightened his facial muscles, lowered the corners of his mouth, and made a serious expression.
"Ahem... then, the next question is the last question." The senior deacon, who covered the lower half of his face with his collar, said seriously, "Did you hurt any innocent people when you were mastering the assassin Potion?"
"No."
Before Crestet finished speaking, Angel answered directly without any hesitation.
Dark green eyes stared at Angel, and Crestet was silent for a long time. It was not until the former blinked nervously that he relaxed and said as if he was relieved:
"It seems you are telling the truth."
"What if I lied?" Angel asked curiously, "What kind of punishment will I receive if I violate the oath I just made?"
"You don't want to know."
Crestet said pretending to be mysterious.
I really want to know! But you didn't say it, and Ms. Daly didn't say it either...
Angel opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't blurt it out.
Perhaps seeing the changing expression on her face, Crestet's facial muscles twitched again, showing an incomplete smile under the cover of his collar. Then he stood up with the silver metal box, walked to the long table that was dragged to the corner, turned his back to Angel and opened the lid of the box.
From his side, you can see the pure white light emitted by Bone Sword.
After a while, Crestet closed the metal box and took down the iron pot, Pure Water's utensils, and various Auxiliary Materials from the alchemy equipment table.
Angel stared at the senior deacon blankly. Without Potion Main Materials, he picked up several kinds of Plant Juice and flower and plant powders and put them into the iron pot together with Pure Water.
Finally, with a "crash", the result of mixing these together into an unknown liquid was poured into the sewer.
"Congratulations, Nighthawks Angel Granger, you successfully passed the test of Holy Cathedral. Now please take Potion and become Beyonder of Sequence 8."
Putting down the iron pot, Crestet turned around and solemnly announced to Angel.
"Thank... thank you?"
Angel looked at the senior deacon and then at "King's Potion" in the iron pot.
Could he... endorse me and prove to other Tingen Nighthawks that I have become "Instigator" under his gaze?
Just like what Daly said?
After thinking about this, Angel stood up from the high-backed chair, faced "Goddess's Sword", solemnly drew Crimson Moon on his chest, and said:
"Praise Goddess, and thank you, Lord Cesimir, I have been successfully promoted."
"Praise Goddess!" The latter nodded slightly, "There is still a little time, if you have any questions, you can ask them now."
Why should "Acting Method" be concealed, what is the punishment for breaking the oath, how did the church know that she had been promoted to "Instigator"... Countless questions appeared in Angel's mind, but she knew that most of them could not be answered from here. In the end, she chose one of them carefully.
"Are the three questions that I was sworn to answer just now that every Nighthawks must answer when they pass the exam?"
"Of course not, that only belongs to you," Crestet sat back on the high-backed chair with the silver metal box, put the box at his feet, and continued, "I have heard of you when I was at Holy Cathedral, joining Nighthawks's 'Assassin', when you submitted the special application, there was considerable opposition within the church. Some people thought that the role of 'Demoness' Pathway would cause great harm to the church and the entire society, and they thought that it would be enough for you to stay at Sequence 9."
Angel opened her eyes wide. She didn't expect that there was such a complicated situation behind her promotion.
"But for some reason, and also out of my own wishes, Holy Cathedral finally asked me to examine you. In addition to the regular procedures, I added those three questions."
"Congratulations, you passed the test."
The entire Alchemy Room fell into a long silence.
After an unknown amount of time, Angel realized that the other party was waiting for him to continue asking questions.
"Then, the 'acting' you just mentioned, and the 'Acting Method' in the oath... do you mean the experience of quickly mastering Potion that we have summarized?"
As if he didn't expect the second question to be so simple, Crestet was stunned for a moment before answering. "Yes, it is a method that has been explored and summed up by generations of geniuses in the church. It can avoid losing control and quickly master Potion's method."
"By deconstructing the name of Potion, you can learn its key rules. By 'playing' like that, you can minimize the risk of losing control. With 'Acting Method', your control over Potion is like 'digesting' food. When it is completely digested and your stomach is empty, you will get a wonderful and unique feeling, but I think you already know it."
It seems that there is no difference between the "Acting Method" within the church and the wild Beyonders that are passed down in private... Then why hide it from ordinary Nighthawkss? Is it really just as Klein and I suspected, in order to prevent promotions from being promoted too quickly and from robbing limited Potion resources?
Even Daly doesn't know. If I ask here, I probably won't get the result...
Angel thought for a moment, as if digesting the new knowledge he heard, and then nodded:
"Thank you, Lord Cesimir, I have no more questions."
"Very good, then you can go up and tell the other teammates the good news of the successful promotion. By the way, ask Mr. Klein Moretti to come down."
Crestet raised his head slightly and said, which exposed his pointed chin and thin, hard lips from behind the stand-up collar.
"Okay, Your Excellency."
Angel resigned peacefully and closed the door of Alchemy Room.
She breathed a sigh of relief in the corridor, surrounded by gas lights and dark holy symbols.
It seems that I passed the test safely.
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