Their world doesn't need gods.

Unlike Alfred, Noah's fundamental purpose is to find something to hold against Loren and impeach the Askar clan behind Loren.

On the premise of achieving this goal, Noah will of course try his best to protect the people around Alfred.

But if this major premise cannot be achieved, Noah is also likely to deliberately lure Alfred into a fate where he would have to sacrifice some people in exchange for victory.

Once the balance between Alfred's importance and the leverage over Loren in Noah's mind tips towards the latter, Noah will most likely easily abandon the girls around Alfred without any hesitation.

Alfred was neither confident that he had a high status in Noah's heart nor intended to accept Noah's approach.

However, he couldn't blame Noah.

From Noah's perspective, he might have made a similar choice.

After all, Noah doesn't have much of a relationship with most of the people around Alfred.

As a goddess, the reason why she takes care of these people is simply because they are close to Alfred.

Once Alfred is lost, or if this factor is no longer so important to Noah...those girls are just like the millions of insignificant people in this world to Noah, and it doesn't matter even if they are sacrificed.

People don't care about the ants dying on the roadside.

But to the gods, humans may be no more valuable than ants.

In order to avoid this situation, Alfred has to be careful of the perfunctory person around him who usually likes to act crazy and stupid, but is actually a meticulous and scheming black-bellied goddess.

Today, Alfred was in his dormitory, organizing the various knowledge in his memory and providing it to the three artificial intelligences on the Noaka.

Alfred planned to let them analyze and apply this knowledge afterwards.

Alfred hopes that these three artificial intelligences can use the miscellaneous knowledge from various worlds to create some powerful weapons and equipment.

The ideal situation is that Alfred can have a strong enough army like he did when he was the Demon King in the past, and can hold back a certain number of sub-god-level apostles to buy a certain amount of time.

At least, when Loren or other main gods come to this world in the future, there will be a chance to create a situation where Emilia and Christina fight each other alone.

If they can't even do this, Alfred and his team will have no chance of winning.

Dong, Dong, two light knocks on the door were heard.

"Al, are you free now?"

Rose's voice came from outside the door.

Alfred stood up, opened the door, and invited Rose into the room.

"Did I bother you?"

Noticing the large amount of scratch paper piled on Alfred's desk, Rose inquired guiltily.

"It's nothing, I'm just researching something to kill time. Didn't you go out to the student union this morning? What's the important thing you want to talk to me about?"

Alfred inquired.

Rose is quite busy as a member of the student council.

Especially during this period, events and activities continue one after another, and various problems among students also need to be handled by the Student Union.

Normally, Rose would go out in the morning on weekends and wouldn't come back until the afternoon after finishing her student union work.

She came back a little early today, and Alfred guessed that she had something urgent to tell him.

"It's not something that I have to worry about. Senior Cecilia wants to talk to you about something. If possible, Al, can you come with me now?"

Rose said.

"Is there anything you want to talk to me about, Senior?"

Alfred was a little confused and couldn't guess what urgent matter Cecilia wanted to talk to him about.

The only thing he could think of now was that Cecilia's hometown, the Marquis of Rosk, had arranged something for Cecilia and planned to use his relationship with Cecilia as a channel to get in touch with Erica.

The Marquis Rosk family must first contact Erica, but of course there are many other options.

But the other party may have considered the relationship between Alfred and Erica, and thought that by negotiating certain matters with Alfred and Erica, he could obtain more favorable conditions for himself. This possibility also exists.

But considering Cecilia's upright character, Alfred didn't think she would bother Rose to come and call him for such a thing.

If it were Cecilia, she would probably choose to visit me in person for this matter.

"This has nothing to do with Senior Cecilia's hometown."

Rose guessed what Alfred was thinking and said so.

But her expression was a little strange, as if she was dissatisfied and guilty about something.

"I'd better let the senior tell you the specific situation herself, Al."

Alfred didn't ask any further questions and followed Rose to the Student Union's office in the main castle.

"Brother Al, you are here."

When Cecilia saw Alfred and Rose enter the office, she immediately put down the work at hand and looked at them.

"Actually, I asked you to come here this time because I have a few things to ask of you. We don't plan to let you, Al, compete in this Puppet Master Academy Competition."

Cecilia said, looking quite guilty.

The Puppet Master Academy Competition is an annual competition held in the imperial capital for students of the Puppet Master Academy. It is said that the original purpose was to inspire students to grow with each other and cultivate talents for the future of the empire.

But the actual situation is that this kind of competition is just a continuation of the bloody puppeteer fights in the history of the empire.

The vast majority of the nobles and common people in the imperial capital only regarded this competition as an important entertainment activity.

On the contrary, not many people care about whether we can cultivate talents who will shoulder the future.

Of course Alfred had no intention of participating in such a competition. After all, he didn't even have a real puppet.

And even without the puppet, he is capable of easily defeating all opponents he encounters in the game.

To be serious, Alfred is not actually a puppeteer yet. Going to a puppeteer academy competition like this to fry fish and bully other students must be a sign of him having nothing to do.

He doesn't have so much time to waste now.

If Alberta asked him to appear in the show so that Illya and Alia Puppet Master Academy could win the Grand Slam, Alfred would use Illya as a shield to shirk responsibility.

Cecilia and the others didn't want Alfred to appear, which was exactly what he wanted.

"That's it, I understand."

Alfred smiled and thanked Cecilia in his heart.

Rose and Cecilia saw his expression and probably guessed what he was thinking.

The two sighed in tacit understanding, and Cecilia moved on to the next topic.

"We don't plan to let you, Junior Brother Al, participate in the competition, but we hope that you can assist us in some preparations for the Puppet Master Academy Competition."

Cecilia explained.

The Student Union has now prepared the list of candidates for the Puppet Master Academy Competition in the first half of summer.

The five girls in the same Noren class as Alfred, Liliana, Adelaide, Ella, Rosalie and Stephanie all meet the criteria.

However, Stephanie is the first princess of the Kingdom of Leicester. Considering the current tense situation in the imperial capital and Stephanie's special status, she was banned from participating in the competition just like Alfred.

As for the remaining Leonard in the Noren class, his overall score this semester was a little bit off...

By the way, the second-year top student Sophia, the third-year Aeril, and the fourth-year top student Cecilia and second-year student Louise have all confirmed that they will participate in the competition.

Although Rose was the top student in the third grade, she hated fighting and had no intention of participating.

In addition to the candidates selected by the Student Union based on their comprehensive performance this semester, special competitions will be held for the remaining places, and students who were not selected for the Student Union's candidate list will compete for them themselves.

The thing Cecilia asked Alfred to do was to ask him to hide his identity and serve as a special judge for the competition.

If Alfred is really unwilling, he can also find some outstanding non-puppet masters to serve as judges.

It was Alberta's idea to require that the judges could not be puppeteers.

The so-called puppets and the profession of puppeteer were actually created by Illya and her twin sister Alia.

In the past, in order to deal with the soul-fused creatures that the gods had placed in Huanamir, as well as the monsters created by these soul-fused creatures, the people at that time were in urgent need of a large amount of combat power of a certain level.

Although both sisters are able to use powerful spiritual equipment, cultivating this ability is extremely time-consuming and is almost impossible to achieve with a human lifespan.

The most important thing is that Illya and Alia don’t know why they awakened this special power of spiritual equipment.

In order to mass-produce 'users of spiritual equipment', the last solution the two came up with was to create a life-like existence, the Alchemical Golem.

A portion of the soul of the person concerned is taken out for in vitro cultivation, and then when needed, it is transformed into a weapon like a spiritual suit. The purpose of the puppet was originally just to be a container for cultivating the soul of the person concerned.

Although the combat power of the spiritual suit transformed from the puppet is much weaker than the authentic spiritual suit, it is enough to deal with most monsters at that time.

Moreover, training users of puppet spirit equipment is low-cost and highly efficient.

At that time, for Illya and others, this was an extremely effective means of enhancing their combat power.

The practicality of puppets is very high, and the construction technology of the pseudo-gate of life used to create puppets has also spread widely on the mainland as puppets have become increasingly popular.

Finally, people who used puppet spirit equipment to fight were also divided into a separate profession, which is now called a puppeteer.

In other words, a genuine puppeteer should be able to use the puppet's spiritual equipment freely like Alberta or Michelle.

It seems that they rely on powerful puppets to fight, but they themselves are weak puppeteers. In fact, they are all small fry deliberately raised in secret by Loren and the Annu Cult after the birth of the puppeteer.

Alberta decided to put Illya and Arya's original idea into practice, and gradually correct the prevailing atmosphere among the imperial nobility, so as to accumulate as much reliable combat power as possible for this world.