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Chapter 27 Sisters
A pair of sisters who came from an ordinary industrial world, with the idea of ​​giving their family a good life, became apprentices of the Mechanicus through their hard work, thus changing the fate of themselves and their family.

This sounds like a very inspiring story.

If you only look at the first half of the story, this is certainly true.

When young Olivia and her best sister left their hometown with their dreams in their hearts, they never imagined that they would stand on opposite sides of each other in the future.

At that time, they were just two new apprentices who had just passed the examination of the Mechanical Temple in their hometown and were selected to study in the Forge World in the star zone.

Through hard work and study, these children from ordinary working-class families successfully achieved class transition and became apprentices of the Mechanicus.

Although they were only the lowest-ranking apprentices, their status changed dramatically once they passed the exam.

Their parents suddenly jumped from ordinary workers to small aristocrats in the industrial world, and their lives, income... everything became unimaginable.

Olivia's parents not only became small supervisors in the factory, but also got the opportunity to undergo life-extending surgery.

Even though it was only the most basic life-extending surgery, and it was obtained by Olivia using the reward for passing the apprenticeship exam, it was still a life-extending surgery, a life-extending surgery that could allow ordinary people to live ten more years.

Originally, Olivia just hoped that her parents could live a few more years so that they could enjoy the good life brought by her hard work.

However, it was this seemingly insignificant choice that earned her the favor of Belisarius Cawl and made her the apprentice of this famous sage.

At first glance, it seemed a little strange. Why would the great sage Kaul value such a little girl? Was it just because she was filial to her parents?

From a certain perspective, it is true.

The Archmagos Belisarius Cawl is very different from ordinary Mechanicus clergy.

The most notable point is that he is already ten thousand years old.

This is a very outrageous number, because so far, no other Mechanical Sage except Cawl himself has lived beyond a thousand years.

Either dead or crazy.

Therefore, Kaul's existence itself is an incredible miracle.

This great sage, who came from the era of the Great Crusade and even experienced the Great Heresy firsthand, had made many changes to himself in order to prolong his life, even to the point of becoming inhuman. However, the former Great Sage Cawl was a believer in the sanctity of the human body who rejected the more obvious mechanical neural enhancers preferred by most technical priests.

Even though Kaul had already tampered with his brain to make himself smarter.

Belisarius Caul has been a technological heretic who never follows the rules since ten thousand years ago.

His eccentricity is so great that if his deeds were exposed, both Chaos and the Empire would hunt him down like crazy.

Because of this, he actually despised his colleagues in the Mechanicus, believing that they were just slaves of the God of Machines, who only knew how to kowtow and burn incense according to established procedures and had no ability to innovate technology.

He preferred those who could break the rules. Thus, a new apprentice who seemed to be unconventional became the apprentice of the great sage by accident.

Although Olivia may not have studied under Cawl himself, but his clone, even if it is just a clone of Cawl, its knowledge is still enough to teach a new sage.

But Olivia's sisters were not so lucky.

While Olivia had completed her sage thesis and only needed to pass the assessment of the forging world to become a true sage, her sister was still struggling in the position of craftsman.

At one point, he even fell into such a state that he might be sent to the Star Army to serve as a military chaplain.

In the end, it was Olivia who secretly lent a helping hand and transferred one of her academic projects to the other party with the tacit consent of her tutor, which gave the other party the opportunity to be promoted to a sage.

Although Olivia helped her friend and the other party was grateful for the help, from another perspective, Olivia's help could be regarded as a kind of... humiliation.

A humiliation to the other party's ability.

It is also because of this that the relationship between the two sides broke down, and they eventually became enemies and competitors.

After Cawl's departure from the Mariupol Sector, Ovelia was subjected to political persecution by certain factions of the Forge World, who sought to seize Cawl's remaining forge and steal the great sage's knowledge.

Olivia lost everything because of this and was almost stripped of all her implants and stuffed into a stasis field to become a living statue.

And the one who presided over all this was Olivia's former sister and her competitor.

However, although on the surface it seemed that it was Olivia's sisters who were persecuting her and taking away everything from her, Olivia knew clearly that this was a form of protection from the other party.

Because if Olivia's sisters had not taken the initiative and completed the liquidation of Olivia in advance after joining the casting director of this casting world, Olivia would definitely not have survived.

Olivia knew this very well, and she also knew that she must not go back to her sisters to tell them about this.

But now, she has a chance to take back everything that belongs to her, which makes Olivia decide to take a gamble.

"As long as you bring my token to her, she will provide you with help. Of course, you must not reveal that I asked you to go to her." After explaining the situation to Chen Xi, Olivia also revealed her plan: "As long as you can establish contact with her and then 'sell' these alien creations to her, you can exchange them for enough resources for me to make a comeback."

"Are you willing to 'sell' all these alien creations to her?" Chen Xi looked at Olivia, seeming a little surprised by her generosity.

"Of course not all of them, just a part of them, to make her interested in you and then invest in you." Of course, Olivia couldn't give up all the alien creations. She only planned to use part of them to 'sell' to her sisters.

"Okay, it sounds feasible. But how much do you plan to give out? What do you want to exchange these things for? How much benefit can I get from it?" Chen Xi looked at Olivia and asked the most crucial question.

"A Cryptid Spider, a Grave Wraith, a few scarabs, and the remains of a few Necromancers... well, at most two Gauss Rippers." Olivia listed the items with a pained look on her face. "These should be enough for you to exchange for a small forge and a standard biological research laboratory, plus some Astra Militarum equipment.

What you can get depends on your ability and whether you can attract the attention of the casting director and make him invest in you."

(End of this chapter)