Mystery: But the Witch's Path

Chapter 28 The Instigator

After Altair returned home, he did not immediately go to the 'Treasure Vault' to retrieve materials and prepare potions to advance his level.

Instead, he went back to his room to sleep as usual. It was too late now, and even though he was extremely excited after digesting the potion, he couldn't change his physical fatigue. He could prepare the potion tomorrow anyway, so there was no need to make trouble for himself over such a short time.

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After getting up early the next day and having breakfast, Altair can take a bath, burn incense, go to the treasury to retrieve materials, and then go to his laboratory to prepare a potion in preparation for advancing to the next level.

The potion of the Instigator is made using readily available Extraordinary Properties combined with auxiliary materials. The appearance of the Extraordinary Properties is a sculpture composed of two beautiful, glossy, pink lips.

The concoction looks like a glass of extremely shiny black water, glistening with tiny bubbles, as if each person harbors desires and malice deep within their heart.

The "Mind Reader" has no readily available extraordinary abilities; therefore, it can only use collected materials to create a complete pituitary gland of an adult Rainbow Lizard Dragon: 10 ml of spinal fluid from a Farsman rabbit, 100 ml of pure water...

The potion's appearance, with its ever-changing luster, seemed to reflect the liquid deep within everyone's heart.

The 'Beast Tamer' has a ready-made extraordinary ability, and its appearance is that of a bamboo-like object radiating a dangerous red color.

The potion has a rose-red appearance, resembles wine, and tastes sour. Once made, it attracts all the mosquitoes in the surrounding area.

The "Archaeologist" figure is made using materials, primarily the jawbone of a worm unearthed and crystallized finger bones from an ancient corpse. Secondary materials include 50 ml of spring water from deep underground, 10 grams of dust accumulated over time, and faded fragments of ancient textiles...

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Altair immediately chose the "Instigator" potion and drank it down in one gulp. His tongue immediately felt a needle-like pain, then lost all sensation, and finally his desires began to spiral out of control, with all sorts of emotions such as greed, jealousy, and so on inoculating him.

To prevent himself from losing control, Altair immediately entered a meditative state, beginning to restrain his spirituality and reduce the potion's effects on him.

Only after the effects of the potion had completely subsided did Altair slowly emerge from his meditative state.

He reached out to check himself and, finding nothing had changed, felt relieved. That bottle of Instigator Potion had an effect upon ingestion, almost causing him to lose control on the spot.

Turning to look at the remaining three bottles of potion, he had no choice but to grit his teeth and drink them.

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After drinking all four potions, Altair felt the changes within himself and felt gratified for the suffering he had just endured.

All abilities were greatly enhanced when the original Sequence was nine.

Now, thanks to the four Sequence 8 potions, not only has my speech become more convincing, but I can also understand others' thoughts by observing them. I have also gained a lot of knowledge, such as the instinct to judge the completion date of a building by the debris falling from the wall, and how to better control animals.

These abilities were simply added to Altair's being as if they were instincts, without requiring any special learning.

Based on his newly acquired abilities, Altair thought, "It seems my family will need to add new members: 'Assassin Cat, Divination Black Cat, Spectator Dog... or maybe a bunch of Warrior Dogs, starting with one person and ending with a bunch of dogs, and when it's time to fight, just close the door and let the dogs out.'"

As for the role of the "instigator," Altair had already devised a plan based on the actions of "Triss" in the original work. The essence of "instigation" is to induce and persuade, intensify contradictions, provoke conflict, and create disaster.

He could take advantage of this factory project to persuade the elders through incentives, enticement, and inducement, and get them to join him in reforming or rebuilding his family's factory in Backlund.

They understand that to make money, you need to spend money first.

If you don't reform according to my standards, I won't play with you. I believe that after seeing the chips they have put up, they will be very willing to cooperate with me.

The new factory will be integrated and upgraded with the existing factory to form a brand-new industrial park. At that time, under the pretext of secrecy, each company will be required to provide personnel for semi-military management.

This will not only be a huge blow to existing industrial zones, but also a massive disaster for those parasites.

As for whether anyone will use this as a reason to incite unrest, that's not something Altair cares about; they'll handle it as they need to gain benefits.

Whether ordinary people will be affected or not, as long as they don't listen to others' instigation, they will be fine.

For them, it was just a change of living environment and a change of lifestyle.

Ordinary people may lose their jobs during the reform period, thus cutting off their family income, and so on. These are all possible problems. All we can do is complete the reform as soon as possible.

For workers in your own factory, you can provide them with appropriate monetary compensation, and they can come back to work after they settle down.

During this period, Altair had Hahn investigate the minimum living requirements for the workers in his factory. Ordinary workers only needed to be compensated a maximum of 3 pounds a month, while management only needed a maximum of 5 pounds.

In the early stages of the reform, they were told that if they did not want to change jobs, they would receive compensation, which would be enough for them to survive for three months and find new jobs.

As for other factories, we will try our best to persuade them.

Now everything is ready except for the final push. Once Uncle Rafe returns, I will immediately put the plan into action. The telegram from two days ago indicated that he is on his way back, so there's no need to rush for a few more days.

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At this moment, Altair didn't want to think about these things anymore; he just wanted to get these trivial matters over with as quickly as possible.

Although he himself was not directly affected by "Chik" because of the "Library", "He" was like someone who had taken a bath with a magic potion, and the magic potion itself had become problematic.

What exactly happened to you that caused this sequence to become so distorted?

Now Altair has started to have different ideas. He wants to reform the system and keep all the compensation money for himself, thinking that it all belongs to him and why should he compensate them?

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After leaving the laboratory, Altair went to the training ground next door and began testing his body. His strength, speed, and other physical attributes all increased by about 30%.

But I'm still within the realm of ordinary people. However, compared to ordinary people, I'm more like a special athlete who has received specialized training, and I'm better than ordinary people in certain aspects.

However, this is quite normal, as the qualitative change occurs in sequence seven regardless of the pathway.

All you need to do is wait for the plan to begin; you don't need to do anything. You can simply wait for the potion to be digested on its own before you can advance to Sequence Seven.

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