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Chapter 334

With the current polarization of the Academic City, the formation of malpractice was inevitable.

The scholars of the various academies held both knowledge and technology, and quite a few upper-class people were willing to send their children here to further their studies. Their benefits were guaranteed by the magic of the House of Mages.

Furthermore, as one of the few places where there was freedom of religion, the majority of the seven great churches had come here to preach their faith. This place was essentially a small battlefield for the seven great churches, where religious conflicts were constant, but also maintained a layer of checks and balances. Non-believers, heretics, and Evil God worshippers could all obtain a bit of breathing room here.

In simpler terms, as long as anyone with status remained respectful, didn't get involved in religious wars, or didn't court death, this place was a haven for scholars. Various knowledge could bring them endless wealth.

Non-believers, heretics, and Evil God worshippers could all obtain a bit of breathing room here, or even a chance to advance further. For example, the various grimoires in the Grand Library. They wouldn't try to break this balance. Of course, there were plenty of lunatics among them, but compared to other places, they still maintained a certain level of self-restraint and self-restraint.

Under these circumstances, the Sediments were born. They were the losers of their struggles, unable to stay in their native lands any longer, so they could only come to the Academic City to seek survival. However, they had already abandoned their identities in order to escape, so they didn't have the money to support their studies in the academies, nor did they have any supernatural means, so these people and their descendants were called Sediments.

The Academic City also had many industries, and the people who came here to study were the children of upper-class people. They also had many needs, such as gambling dens, jewelry shops, and even street stalls like shoeshine, or jobs like garbage collection.

The Sediments could only do the dirty work that these upper-class people didn't want to touch. They formed gangs to manage the areas of interest that the upper-class people didn't want to dirty, while at the same time handing over the majority of their earnings to the upper-class people for protection.

They were the continuation of the war between the seven Churches and Evil God worshippers, but in truth, they were the ones who died the most.

The circle of exploitation was layered on top of one another, and in truth, the ones who bullied the Sediments the most were the Sediments themselves. They also hoped to be able to escape their status as Sediments and return to upper-class society.

The young man Negri was currently living in was also a failure. He was having an affair with the wife of a priest of the Half Life Church in a certain region, which resulted in the death of someone. Due to the Half Life Church worshipping Life Bearer, their teachings stated that no actions could be taken to prevent the birth of a new life.

For that reason, even though the priest of the Halfling Church knew that the child in his wife's womb was a bastard, he could only take good care of his wife, not even kicking her out of his home. He had to wait until the birth of a new life, only then would the woman who had given him such a green hat would receive her payback. As for the adulterer, he wasn't so lucky. The Halfling Church worshipped Life Bearer, not the green hat.

It could be said that he was lucky, but it could also be said that he was unlucky. The young man had sacrificed everything he had, including the help he received from his mistresses, as well as a bit of luck, he had accidentally escaped from that area without having his brain or soul devoured by any evil creatures along the way, safely arriving at the Academic City and becoming a Sediments.

Unfortunately, that was where his luck came to an end.

The Half Life Church also existed in the Academic City. Although they wouldn't personally deal with the young man as they preached to respect life, they had still played their role. The young man had hands and feet, but no place was willing to take him in, not even a brothel. Furthermore, there were very few jobs in the Academic City, so the young man couldn't even fight for a job and could only eat moss and wait for death.

Various ideologies appeared in the young man's mind, no, he should now be called Negri. His soul had received a revelation from Negri, the side of Negri within him had begun to recover. His soul was constantly changing, at the same time, certain ideologies were accepted by him as Negri.

Negri didn't criticize the past, everyone was limited by their own background, the environment they came into contact with, education, knowledge, physical condition, resources, and so on.

Of course, the young man didn't want to become a professional lover, spending time with a few fat middle-aged aunties, using billions of children and grandchildren to obtain food to survive, but various factors had led him to become such a person.

After he became Negri, what he needed to do was very simple: resolve the various troubles of his past body, continuously improve himself, striving to become a more perfect version of himself — — by any means necessary.

Negary and his two newly recruited companions, Jimmy and Pilo, were sitting together. In front of them was a small iron cauldron with a large hole in it. They tilted the cauldron over the fire, which was filled with dirt-infused moss that they had gathered.

The dirty water was mixed with the dirt moss, giving off a foul stench.

Seeing that it was almost done cooking, Negri sprinkled a bit of black horn powder inside, a type of common stone powder.

Following the addition of the powder, the foul stench that had been lingering in the air was greatly reduced. Putting the pot aside, 'Negary' waited for a while for the contents of the pot to slowly cool down. Then, 'Negary' scooped out the dirt-infused moss from the top layer, which now appeared to be transparent, and the foul stench was also greatly reduced.

"Give it a try" Handing the cooked dirt moss to Jimmy and Pilo, Negri checked what was left at the bottom of the pot. There was a layer of black jelly-like substance, which he scraped off from the bottom of the pot and held in his hand.

On the other side, Jimmy and Pilo both held the cooked dirt-infused moss in their hands and bravely ate it, while 'Negary' took a whiff of the black gelatinous substance in his hand. It didn't smell bad, but 'Negary' knew very well that a normal person would be poisoned to death if they ate even a tiny bit of this black gelatinous substance.

The black horn powder and the dirt moss formed a chemical reaction, allowing Negri to perform over 20 different spells with this jelly-like substance in his hand.

"But the hard part is not being discovered by that old coin" Negri thought. When he was guided out of that young man's body, he didn't receive any of Negri's power, not even any special knowledge was transmitted to him, all for the sake of concealment.

Of course, calling himself Negri was also a form of insurance. Negri had modified his True Name to give it some sort of magical power. Those who called themselves Negri would receive the protection of Negri's True Name, becoming a part of Negri. At the same time, they would also form a True Name Barrier. Although others called out Negri's name, those who weren't strong enough wouldn't be able to understand it, so the name in their minds would automatically degrade.