Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 184 You are the only one left
Lars Graham was wearing a complicated and fine silk robe, slowly stroking his bone-carved walking stick.

It was a bone rod he carved and processed from the living body of his student's spine.

The cane is engraved with the twelve love letters she wrote to Lars, full of words of admiration, and the sonnet he gave back to him.

It is exactly filled from top to bottom, with no more words and no less words.

The old man didn't think it was some kind of cruelty—it was art, no doubt.Her soul still loves her, and that's the proof.

"Elodie, what do you think?"

the old man asked.

Standing behind him was a young girl who was only seventeen or eighteen years old in a white priest's robe.

She was wearing a white priest's robe, and her body was translucent, with only her spine showing a brighter pure white color.It looks like a white jellyfish.

She lowered her head slightly, her lips moved slightly, as if she was saying something.

She didn't make a sound—the dead who returned from the realm of the dead are silent.

But Lars nodded slightly as if he heard something.

"you are right."

Old Lars said to himself: "That is to say, there are four possibilities...

"The first one is that Aleister is Chloe. Her irrepressible inclination towards the path of love ultimately made her choose to defect..."

After all, Avalon is not an iris.

The Avalonians know next to nothing about the power of shadow.

The most common shadow powers come from the path of love.For example, those children of the moon, such as witches, and those who were cursed by the witch's "wolf transformation" to become werewolves.

Whether it is a shadow demon that transcends the path, or a bionic that adapts to the path, they are actually relatively rare types.

The Supervision Bureau believes that there is a shadow demon invasion, and it is very likely that they have preconceived it.If only the traces of shadow power were found, it is entirely possible that it was Chloe who also mastered shadow power.

She didn't like being an assassin.Now she is in the Hawkeye organization simply because she has no choice.

Once she also studied sculpture with Lars.But under the guidance of a fifth energy level, she failed to get started after studying for half a year... Lars could only think that she didn't have the talent in this area.

And Chloe was proud.She couldn't bear the fact that she was a good-for-nothing, so she taught herself to adapt—after all, her father and grandfather were excellent assassins.Sure enough, it only took her a few years to reach the fourth energy level, and now she is almost touching the fifth energy level.

But Lars had also warned her—because although she was gifted in the way of adaptation, her character was not suitable to be an assassin at all.

But Chloe was stubborn, and she ignored Lars' warning.So Lars didn't bother to talk to her.

According to his experience and judgment, the path that Chloe really fits with is the path of love.

Sensuality, brutality, impulsiveness, love, narcissism, instinct...these are the key words of the way of love.

However, they couldn't let Chloe switch to the path of love - the reason is very simple, because the Hawkeye organization mainly fights against the moon children of the path of love.As for the Transcendents of the Path of Love, their corpses will be transformed into newborn Moon Sons after death.

This is like the great guardian of Avalon or the great justice, and they cannot let their descendants become demon scholars.

Lars felt that Chloe had probably done something unnecessary.

Letting Chloe assassinate Aiwass Moriarty was indeed the task he gave.But he thinks his judgment is correct.Aiwass, who returned from the award that day, must have been very tired. At this time, all he needed to do was to apply the poison to his lips and leave.

But according to Chloe's character, she might have put lipstick on her lips.Tried to send him away with a kiss.

That's exactly what she is.

As an extraordinary person who adapts to the path, she will not be killed by the poison she has prepared.

Since she has such a characteristic, she must use it—even if this process is completely redundant.

Perhaps it was at that time that the two knew each other after Chloe's assassination failed.

Then, under Aiwass' persuasion, she broke away from the Hawkeye organization and unilaterally cut off contact with herself... This is entirely possible.That wayward young lady can indeed do such a thing.

This is also the most likely possibility.

After all, judging from the reviews he investigated, Aiwass was indeed such a romantic person.

Chloe, who is proud and narcissistic, has the adaptability of the path of love, but has never really been in love, may be able to handle it easily.

"But besides that, there is another possibility... that is, she was indeed killed by someone after the assassination failed. But Aiwass should have no ability to resist at that time, so she was killed before the assassination —For example, she was killed by a demon scholar who manipulated the shadow demon, and then took her appearance. Then the other party chose to help Aiwass, and he mistook her identity."

Old Lars muttered in a low voice: "But this possibility is unlikely..."

As a member of the Hawkeye organization, they have conducted research on Shadow Demon.Shadow Fiends can indeed gain the appearance of each other by devouring animals or humans, but only for free-moving Shadow Fiends.

It is said that Aleister is a demon possessed by a shadow demon... But the shadow demon in the demon's body does not have this function, because the shadow demon cannot leave the body at all.

But those who can contract Shadow Demon are only those few people.Old Lars knows everyone.

And Avalon will not allow them to enter at will - unless one person has worked hard to sneak in and swallowed Chloe at the risk of being discovered by the Eye of Avalon.

"There is another possibility... that is, Aiwass is the real Aleister. Or, he is the demon possessed by the shadow demon."

Because in the final analysis of this matter, there are only two witnesses—Aiwass and his little maid Lily.

If both of them choose to perjure, then the truth will be out of the question.If there was Shadow Fiend inside him, then that would also explain why Chloe was discovered.

"Shadow stealth" is an ability that is theoretically almost impossible for humans to obtain, and even the secret of the Hawkeye organization.

Because just needing level three shadow affinity is very difficult.And even if it is obtained, it has only just reached the threshold.The Hawkeye organization was able to obtain this skill because of their generations of research and duplication of the Shadow Fiend's stealth ability through simulation means, and then they need to study hard to master it.

Even in Iris, shadow stealth is the trump card of the Hawkeye organization.In the entire Hawkeye organization, there are less than five people who have mastered the shadow stealth ability.

Even if he gets close to other fourth-level powerhouses, the other party will definitely think she is hiding in the air at the first time-unless he has been exposed to this ability, how can he immediately think of her hiding in the shadows?

Even if they guessed this possibility, if they want to hit her out, they usually have to deal with damage of the light or shadow type.Ordinary spells can't affect Chloe in the shadow at all, and even locking can't lock her.

Old Lars thought it was just a coincidence before.

After all, if it is guessed that there is something in the shadow, it is indeed possible to be directly typed out.Avalon's priests have light and fire mana, and law mage's mana pool attributes are light and wind-so it is more difficult to sneak safely here than in iris.

However, since Aiwass can accurately report Chloe's appearance and identity... then if Chloe did not betray, it means that Aiwass could see her from the very beginning.And after that it was just him using Chloe's name to blame her.

If Aiwass had a Shadow Fiend inside him, everything would make sense.

Hawkeye's Shadow Assassin was only imitating Shadow Fiend's innate ability after all.In the eyes of the real Shadow Fiend, it was as stupid and ridiculous as a dog learning to walk upright.

"Of course, there is another possibility... that is, that demon is not Aiwass. It is his maid Lily."

Among the four possibilities, there are three that Chloe is dead and one is that he defected.

But these four possibilities have one thing in common.

——That is the person who has mastered the shadow power, and he will definitely live with Aiwass at ordinary times.Otherwise, "she" would not be able to detect and stop the Noble Red's assassination plan against Aiwass.

Is she really Chloe?

Does Aiwass have a shadow demon in his body?

"Then let me try it myself..."

The bone sculpture murmured in a low voice.

He didn't feel much emotion about Chloe's death.As an assassin, it is very normal to die during the mission; especially Chloe has a tendency to be unwilling to follow orders and opinions, so she is the danger of the Hawkeye organization itself.

Even if Chloe is not dead, he will report to the higher authorities after returning to China and ask the higher authorities to put Chloe under house arrest and not allow her to go out to perform tasks.

But on the other hand, after all, Chloe is a strong person carefully cultivated by the organization.He is an elite assassin capable of assassinating the fourth-level transcendent.

Her death will bring no small loss to the organization.

——But if that demon is Aiwass or Lily, then this loss can be made up for several times.

The Hawkeye organization has been studying Shadow Fiend for a long time, but they have never obtained the real Shadow Fiend.If a Shadow Demon can be captured alive, the strength of the organization will definitely be improved enough.

And if those old bastards really came over in person, they wouldn't be able to kill themselves.

Even though he was afflicted by bone cancer, he was a veteran transcendent after all.

If you make trouble yourself, the other party will not be able to hide... In that case, it may trigger a war between Avalon and the stars.At least it can make them hostile again.

Moreover, if Chloe really betrayed the organization, he must also arrest his former student and bring him back for execution.

No matter what, he had to go there.

And no matter what the situation is, he can at least survive safely.

...Taking a step back, it doesn't matter if his body, which has been repeatedly tortured by terminal illnesses, dies.

"Let's squat under Aiwass' dormitory first, he will come back eventually."

The old man spoke in a low voice, supported his body with a cane, and stood up unsteadily.

His back was hunched, his shoulders were hunched, his head was lowered, and his legs were bent.His legs were even thinner than the girl's arms, and he looked like a skeleton wearing a robe.But one can see protruding hard lumps one after another on his body.

The figure of the girl ghost "Elodie" dissipated like a hallucination, and old Lars slowly moved to the corner of his workshop with a turtle-like slow speed.

It was a small statue, only half the height of a person.Above is a young man with blond hair who looks to be in his 30s.

That's Prince Andrew.

He is the elder brother of Princess Isabel and is currently the first heir designated by the Queen.

If he died, the only adults left who could inherit the throne would be Isabelle and her father, Prince Albert.

"Just in case, just in case..."

The old man whispered: "If you can't come back this time...at least finish the last task first."

After all, it has been prepared for so long.From poisoning to curse, then to poisoning and then to curse... Two countries, three organizations, and a ten-year plan are finally coming to an end today.

He reached out and stroked the statue, reciting the cipher text given by the leader in a low voice.Many scarlet cracks slowly appeared on the statue.Blood slowly oozes from it.

"Die, boy."

The old man sighed: "You are the only one left. If you are liberated, I will be liberated too."

Hearing this, two lines of blood and tears slowly flowed from the statue's emerald green eyes.

　This chapter has a lot of words, 2 words...Chapter [-] is not finished yet, update before two o'clock!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)