My Weekly Refreshing Mentor Spirit

Chapter 583 - 373: Twelfth Apostle?_2

"It’s my honor, Apostle Sir." Faust seemed to regain his elegance once more, seamlessly switching from a madman to an elegant gentleman with such speed that even Xue Dili was taken aback.

A butler formed from a tree root poured tea for Faust, and he sipped it with grace, showing a look of intoxication: "Just as I said before, I am an Apostle’s Follower, also a professor at the Esoteric Academy, a small figure yearning for a peaceful life."

"Once, I was just a professor, not an Apostle’s Follower, living my own life, nine-to-five, a simple routine. My pursuit was to conduct rituals around the world and leave my name upon it."

"So at that time, I encountered a student who changed my life," he said.

"Oh?" Xue Dili responded on cue.

"That was a genius, no, not just a genius but a child whose talent could make even a God jealous. I never imagined there could be someone with such talent in the world, so I took him as my student and taught him all the rituals I knew, envisioning the birth of a mysticism prodigy that would astound the world."

"Things went as I expected. In an incredibly short time, he mastered everything I had learned throughout my life and could even innovate upon my existing rituals. At that time, I truly believed he would be a student who could inherit everything from me and simultaneously elevate my academic theories to the pinnacle."

"I still remember that child’s talent to this day, so brilliant that it made even me feel envious." He smiled and took another sip of tea.

"So, did that child become an Apostle?" Xue Dili asked in retort.

"Yes, he became an Apostle, the Twelfth Apostle—the Jester!" The gentlemanly man grinned, showing his white teeth, his mouth stretching as if to reach his ears.

"Someone who sold the entire world to another Apostle." The man laughed.

Xue Dili furrowed his brow, realizing things weren’t simple.

He really didn’t have much interaction with the Twelfth Apostle.

Even though this guy was seated right across from him, Xue Dili barely exchanged words with him, not even knowing what exactly he was.

Xue Dili didn’t know much about the current members of the Mist Council either.

The Fourth Apostle, a woman who likes to stay behind the scenes and manipulate other races.

The Sixth Apostle, the Insect Race Queen, someone who adheres to the most primitive ways of reproduction and devouring.

The Ninth Apostle, a nonsensical Squid Person.

The Tenth Apostle, a woman whose authority is revealed as "Love".

The Eleventh Apostle, someone with a bad temper, likely a battle-crazed type.

These were the Apostles whom Xue Dili had some understanding of, but now he learned about an Apostle with whom he virtually had no interaction from someone else.

Xue Dili began to recall the Twelfth Apostle’s characteristics only to find the striking feature was the lack of features.

All he knew was that he was a male human, nothing more. Even if Xue Dili didn’t know much about the other Apostles, he could infer a lot based on their clearly demonstrated external traits.

But he couldn’t recall any meaningful feature of the Apostle who joined the Mist Council just before him.

He was like the student in class who always maintained average grades, ordinary in studies, appearance, identity, and as a person...

At this moment, Xue Dili frowned: "What does he mean by selling his world?"

Faust took a sip of tea, looked at Xue Dili, and said, "He is not truly an Apostle, but someone who succeeded in ’becoming a God’ by packaging his world to another Apostle and intercepting a fruit along the way."

Xue Dili also nodded.

In most worlds, the realms aren’t divided as intricately as they are for Xue Dili.

Unlike Xue Dili’s realm division created by the Great Sage’s previous classification, leading to the familiar Tier Zero to Tier Five sequence he knows.

In most worlds, things are simply divided into ordinary people, Extraordinary, Demigod, and True God.

The ordinary people are Tier Zero, Extraordinary includes everything from Elite Level to Mythic Level, Demigod is Quasi-Tier Five, and True God is Tier Five.

There are actually many that further categorize the great classification of Extraordinary, the simplest being low, medium, and high, up to Demigod.

There are also unique names like in the Giant Beast World where anyone Tier Three and above is called a "Monarch," the same principle applies.

However, the Great Sage automatically parses their words and can translate into the grading system Xue Dili is most familiar with.

At this moment, Xue Dili also understood the situation in their world.

It was a comprador world, this was the only term Xue Dili could think of.

A world sold by its own "True God" to another Apostle, struggling for survival.

The True God sold everything of the planet to another Apostle, then became a comprador God of this planet, ignoring internal affairs, letting the world unfold on its own, and externally, he seemed to always be a follower of the other Apostle.

This operation really puzzled Xue Dili.

Through Faust’s perspective on the Twelfth Apostle, a hazy image began to form in Xue Dili’s mind.

He began to model the Twelfth Apostle, and as he outlined that figure, Xue Dili frowned more and more deeply.

...

"After completing the Divine Descent Ceremony, he signed a contract with an Outer God, who was the source of all calamities," Faust continued.

"Hmm." Xue Dili continued constructing the twelfth Apostle’s persona.

A smart, sacrificial young man with a strong curiosity about the world.

But what he did was actively lure the Outer God, that is, the Apostle, to notice his world, then through the Apostle’s connections obtained the Divine Tree and secretly cultivated it, using its power to build an organization of his own.

Through the power of the Divine Tree, he attracted a large number of Angel Investors to his world and expanded his organization.

Then, when the Divine Tree absorbed enough energy, he intercepted a fruit for himself, thus breaking through the Tier Five barrier, no longer just a pawn on the chessboard but having the qualifications to sit at the table and converse with Outer Gods.

If the story ended here, Xue Dili would have considered him a resilient hero, not necessarily a man of justice, but at least someone who through his own scheming became an Apostle, obtaining the right to converse equally with other Apostles.

Transforming himself from helpless prey before Apostles to an indomitable, infuriating flying double-pigtail cockroach.

Up to this point, he could still understand.

"My student, Mephisto, he finally chose the ’indirect salvation of the world,’ which was to completely open his world’s authority to another Apostle, allowing freedom in our world."

"And the reason he gave was the ’indirect salvation plan.’

"He believed that he couldn’t defeat the Outer God with his own strength, so simply sacrifice some to let others survive, and we, who initially helped him establish the organization, naturally became his followers..."

"However, I rebelled!" Faust grinned, revealing a very healthy and sunny smile.

"I secretly collected the technique of summoning the Apostle and initiated the Apostle Summoning Technique." The man named Faust uttered a technique name that made Xue Dili’s right eyelid twitch continuously.

"But I was discovered just as I cast the ritual and initiated it, facing a remaining life released into the eternal prison, but I don’t care."

"Because now, I have succeeded!" He looked at Xue Dili, revealing his white teeth.

"I, like my student Mephisto, successfully contacted the ’Outer God’!" This is Faust