Chapter 651: Chapter 54: The Path of Inscription_2 Chapter 651: Chapter 54: The Path of Inscription_2 They even have a small number of local Transcendents from both the Path of Authority and the Path of Beauty…
As long as you’re talented, Star Antimony will definitely want you.
It doesn’t matter if your heart is here or not, as long as you are here physically.
As long as the money, resources, identity, and respect are given properly, you have to work, right?
To take a step back, even if you really don’t cooperate—couldn’t they just kill you and extract your soul to make into a ghost scholar?
At least that’s better than staying in other countries and inventing things for them.
Because Star Antimony has always considered itself the inheritor of the Helasal Empire, and the empire was renowned for flourishing in every way and for its inclusiveness that accommodated all paths.
Based on this tradition, Star Antimony could not openly express antipathy towards Transcendents of any path.
If they wanted to recruit, they might as well recruit the good ones.
With the same resources, it’s better to invest in talents rather than wastes.
——Stranger felt proud of Star Antimony’s strong inclusivity and “talent supremacy” policy when he was in his teens.
No matter the path, as long as you could become powerful, or a well-known scholar, you would gain people’s respect and trust.
You would obtain wealth and status, social recognition.
For Stranger in his youth, his talent was precisely what made him proud.
He didn’t see anything wrong with necromancy.
In this world, when people die, their souls return to the Dream Realm…
Leaving corpses unattended, they naturally become Undead.
It could be argued that corpses laid to rest in a funeral performed by a Priest are “unnatural.”
If so, studying corpses is no different from studying Magical Beasts.
People become Undead after death just as flies lay eggs in rotting flesh—it’s the same thing as studying these insects.
He became a powerful Transcendent and a smart scholar at a young age.
In his teens, he was already dining and chatting with Transcendents of the Fourth or even Fifth Power Level…
He always appeared very humble and gentle, which was because he was always in contact with the top powerhouses of the country, any of whom were much stronger than him.
In such an environment, he had no grounds for pride.
At the same time, he was extremely eager…
eager to reach such a position himself.
He wanted to be acknowledged as an equal by them, based on his inventions and talents—not because of his background or natural gifts.
One’s background is not a matter of choice; and natural talents are not fully realized.
So, what truly belongs to oneself?
Under such circumstances, Stranger craved recognition.
If he had an advantage, it was that he was young enough.
He was exposed to many new things, different from the perspectives of those veteran powerhouses and scholars—based on this cognitive difference, he could come up with some “ideas.”
But merely providing ideas for others to research would only earn him a word of thanks.
——One must complete an entire independent research project.
Therefore, when he heard that “the Army Department was troubled by the inability of the Gargoyle Troops to move when entering the Holy Field of a bishop,” he immediately became interested.
In one of his earlier experiments, due to an accidental error, he created flesh without consciousness.
This flesh could only be used as the skin for a Patchwork Corpse, without much value…
but what about using it as a skin for Gargoyles?
——Thus, before Stranger even graduated from university, the paper he published was featured in a top-tier academic journal, and it even caught the attention of several generals.
This immediately piqued his interest.
Although the initial demand was met, allowing gargoyle scouts in the air to infiltrate Holy Fields without immediately being paralyzed…
Could he do even better?
The flesh skin was fragile and might come off during high-speed flight.
So, he fitted metal armor for reinforcement and protection.
However, this made the agile Gargoyles become clumsy.
Losing the significance of being silent scouts, but as close-combat units, they lacked offensive power.
——So why not throw explosives?
Gargoyles couldn’t do this before because the explosives would shift their center of gravity, making their flight unstable and the explosives difficult to toss to a targeted area.
Now that the weight of the Gargoyles had significantly increased, they could be effectively used for throwing.
Thus, Stranger received commendation from the Minister of the Army, and even though he had never been on a battlefield nor had a day of training, he was awarded the rank of Lieutenant.
It was “a commendation for his current inventions and for the future wartime achievements.”
Having received praise and become a celebrity, Stranger could even converse leisurely at the banquets of the great and powerful.
He was no longer “the much-anticipated star of the future,” “the future Fifth Power Level,” but the genuine “genius Necromancer.”
He was no longer someone’s son or student, but “Albert Lorey,” the strongest genius of the younger generation!
He then wholly dedicated himself to researching and optimizing the “Armed Gargoyle.”
Gargoyles were nothing more than a useless type of soldier, previously used for silently landing on buildings at night to provide Ritualists with distant vision.
And the type of senseless flesh he had researched was of no significance.
Even the most ordinary dagger could cut through it, and the Patchwork Corpses made from it would be incredibly weak.