Shepherd's Secret Covenant
Chapter 723

Knowledge City Leipzig

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Knowledge City Leipzig

As night fell, the City of Knowledge, Leipzig, lit up with scattered starlight.

They were white, illusory spheres floating above the streets, each flickering with a bright yet gentle glow.

"Quite beautiful."

Aleister opened a black umbrella on the rainless night and strolled down the street.

She praised the sight before her. "Are these alchemical products of Stibium?"

"Strictly speaking, they should be considered by-products."

Honey Badger clearly knew more about this.

There was no one else around, so she did not need to pretend to be a servant. She simply spoke, "A few years ago, Stibium's Royal Alchemy Association developed a technology that could pulverize failed products and turn them into a pure source of energy.

"This energy was extremely unstable and highly impure on its own. However, after being separated and purified by alchemical arrays, it could be mixed in different proportions to supply power to the entire city... much like the Theocracy's Giant Tree Blood. Some goblin merchants even offered astronomical sums to purchase the technology, but the Earl Leipzig refused to sell it abroad.

"Its energy efficiency is even somewhat higher than electricity, which has already been widely used throughout Stibium for decades—but Hawk-Eye believes there may be something wrong with the experimental data. After all, alchemists desperately need to popularize this recycling device to process the vast amounts of alchemical waste they have stockpiled, so fabricated data cannot be ruled out."

Honey Badger offered a relatively objective assessment.

Yet from her reaction, it was obvious she did not believe the Stibnite People could have invented such a technology.

"This is a miracle of mortal wisdom."

Aleister, however, praised it. "Elves need apostle blood to accomplish what the Stibnite People can achieve with nothing but waste. The lighting efficiency may not be very

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