"Mr. Straitor, even if you are my teacher, I cannot allow you to get away with this."
Straitor sighed and said,
"Byrne, you have not yet seen a perfect Philosopher's Stone; you do not understand its allure. Human life is truly aningless. Their ability to bring about the Stone's creation is already the most wonderful conclusion."
Straitor's eyes, as they looked at Byrne, held madness, and he suddenly started screaming!
"Let go, I cannot die like this! If I can't produce a perfect Philosopher's Stone, then those people will have died in vain! It absolutely cannot end like this!"
Byrne shook his head solemnly and then instructed two Purgers to take his teacher away, while the old man still stared at the sky, yelling and shouting.
"The Philosopher's Stone, it is the whole aning of alchemy!"
Byrne couldn't help but subconsciously wonder.
The Philosopher's Stone.
That alleged perfect alchemical tool, is it really that miraculous?
Christine continued, "There are definitely many other threats to the family or the East Coast. Sadly, we are very short on manpower, and what we have discovered is certainly only a fraction."
In her wheelchair, Christine looked seriously at her family mbers.
"That's why I hope to increase the number of Purgers."
"In fact, aside from that, I have a whole set of reform plans, which I'd like to put to a vote. I very much hope it will be approved."
Everyone finally understood what the real issue was at that mont.
The smart ones in the family could see that Christine's actions that day had Byrne's silent consent. The old man who had supported the family for many years was well aware of the cris of the three and was absolutely clear about Christine's reforms, so the reform plans would almost certainly pass.
Christine presented a complete set of reform plans, mainly targeting two aspects where the Fischer family, having beco a major clan, was lacking.
The first aspect was organizational structure. Currently, the structures of both the Fischer family and the Dawn Church were not clear enough, leading occasionally to confusion over authority and responsibility, with family mbers even being able to directly withdraw money from the family.
Christine thought this was a very bad situation. She believed that family mbers should receive dividends at regular intervals annually and not take money at will.
Moreover, if family mbers wanted to invest the family's money, it needed to go through an investnt review at a family conference. Profits from investnts should not be monopolized; they should be distributed back to the family according to certain ratios.
She wrote down many detailed items in her recomndations, such as the rights and responsibilities that should belong to both the patriarch and family mbers.
Another issue was that she wanted to implent a strict ranking system for Daybreakers and Proselytes. In her designed structure, all Blood Receivers are divided into ten levels, from Level One to Level Ten, with Level One being the lowest and Level Ten the highest.
The treatnt and rights that mbers of the Dawn Church at each level enjoyed were also different.
The determination of the levels mainly relied on "rit", "seniority", and the "number of steps they have taken on the God Pantheon stairway". Any misstep would permanently affect the rating, and of course, the greatest fault was irreverence towards the gods.
According to Christine's design, currently, all Daybreakers and Proselytes do not et the standards of Level Ten, and the only one who satisfies the standards of Level Nine is her mother, Vanessa.
Once soone becos a mber of Level Nine within the Dawn Church, the Fischer family patriarch can grant that person the right to vote in family council etings, though he can also choose not to do so.
With both experience and rit, the outstanding Mayor of Fein City, Yeager, Butler Theo, and the leader of the Dagger Brotherhood, Moore, are three Level Eight Blood Receiver mbers.
Yeager and Moore have both helped the church to establish its external forces, while Theo has followed the family through life and death since Lucius's era.
People like Archibald, Old Dog, Colin, and Ian all have a uniform assessnt of Level Seven mbers, as is the captain among the three Purger.
Without a doubt, mbers of Levels Seven, Eight, and Nine are the backbone of the Dawn Church.
Inna's qualifications are quite old, but as a Daybreaker, she has always been sowhat indifferent and neglectful, and so far, her mastery of the Power of Consecution is minimal; her final assessnt, therefore, is Level Six.
The money and dividends from Extraordinary materials she receives each year amount to only half of what Yeager, another Daybreaker from the sa period, gets.
Most Daybreakers and Proselytes are now rated between Levels Three to Six, and according to the structure designed by Christine, the first three levels are quite easy to advance through, typically requiring the completion of one, two, or three ordinary missions to successfully move up, to motivate newcors.
And as long as one can beco a Purger responsible for internal investigation, they will be promoted to a Level Six mber imdiately, for they are a "special group" of mbers after all.
The second aspect is the reward and punishnt system.
The reward and punishnt system was divided by Christine into three parts: the first consisted of the primary mbers of the Fischer family, that is, the favored clan with the brand on the back of their hand, for whom she drafted the "Fischer Family Behaviour Norms Suggestion Draft."
The second part involved the many Blood Receiver mbers of the Dawn Church, which include Daybreakers and Proselytes. Christine borrowed many contents from the doctrines set by Irene to write a "Detailed Suggestion Draft of the Blood Receiver's Commandnts, Rewards, and Punishnts."
The third part consisted of those who were not mbers of the Dawn Church but served the family as followers and minor clans, to whom she provided the "East Coast Code Suggestion Draft."
All three parts were vast in content and scope, so Christine had not finished them completely; she had just set a tone and frawork, with the details left to be completed and passed by the entire Fischer family.
As everyone began to peruse the docunts Christine had spent years writing, they finally understood deep down that her reputation for being "calculating" was indeed very fitting.
Suddenly, while looking at the docunt in his hand, Darren asked a question.
"Christine, based on your 'East Coast Code Suggestion Draft'... from now on, we are to put an end to the trafficking of natives on the East Coast as well?"
Christine did not respond, but instead turned to look at Byrne.
Darren then also turned to look at his father.
"Yes, I hope so. From now on, not even the natives from the White Sea should be freely trafficked in the East Coast Province, after all, the White Sea natives are now part of our external forces," Byrne said.
Byrne took a deep breath, his gaze firm as he looked at all mbers of the Fischer family, understanding deep within that he could finally eradicate the remnants of that cancerous institution from the East Coast.
"The existence of slaves will no longer be present on the East Coast from this day forward!"
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