Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 359 Cause, Consequence

Merlin nudged his monocle.

A blue ring appeared in front of the glasses, and then unfolded the auxiliary array disk emitting light and the shining runes, making it look like a virtual panel.

He stared at the grimoire in Aiwass's hand attentively. After looking at it for a while, he suddenly frowned slightly, showing a somewhat doubtful expression.

...What is the Grimoire of Deadly Sins?
As an apostle of the path of wisdom, Merlin certainly has the ability to identify extraordinary items.In fact, during the Round Table period, Merlin was Avalon's best appraiser.

He could see the effect of this thing.

However, he didn't know what "Phantom Card" and "Sin Card" were.

——Is this the inheritance brought by the sacred entity?

"Aiwass," Merlin asked very cautiously, "did you just...see anything special?"

"...something special?"

"It's the 'sacred entity' I mentioned before. It might be a snake, it might be a ring, or it might be a cloud of smoke, or a demon. It's the will residing in the remains of the dream demon."

Merlin offered a slightly more precise answer: "Do you have any impression?"

Although in front of Aiwass, Merlin maintained a mysterious attitude, as if he knew everything.But he actually didn't know much, and even Merlin himself was surprised by this call of fate.

His original motivation for coming to "Beheading Valley" was just to inspect the Shadow of Avalon ritual.And this was the information he got after seeing Aiwass in his dream.

As a result, after inspection, he discovered that Jacob not only changed the ritual he left behind, but also left something else behind.

Merlin even saw the woman Vivian nearby... She was not an apostle who ran out to play like him, but she directly gave up the power of the path of love and reincarnated as a mortal.

Merlin was taken aback by this unusual move - because that woman was not the type to let herself fall into passivity anyway. Although her actions seemed crazy and extreme, she always remained rational.

Vivian is the type who is very clear about her own goals and is ruthless to others as well as herself.Although she has done many crazy things, those things are not emotion-oriented, but profit-oriented... Her madness is mainly reflected in the speed of her "abandonment".

Most people will always be attached to what they already have.If you encounter any problem, you will generally try to solve it within the scope of your ability.Even if something is not needed for the time being, it will not be discarded directly, but will be kept to see if it can be used later.

But not Vivian.

She fell in love with Merlin sincerely and fell into a passionate relationship.After she accomplished her goal from Merlin, she directly and coldly severed the connection and sealed Merlin into the tree;

She also took care of Lancelot like a mother, and was promoted to an apostle through such great achievements.After accomplishing her goal, she decisively severed the relationship between mother and son and never saw Lancelot again.

She is always looking for more, exchanging less for more.And she always finds more.

But now she abandoned her identity and power as an apostle without hesitation and fled directly into the material world - that gesture could only be called an escape, because her reincarnation must not have been approved by Ying Tiansi.In other words, she even gave up everything she had until now and became a mortal again.

This made Merlin feel extremely uneasy.

Following this clue, he found the remains of the incubus left by Aiwass in the promotion ceremony, and found the Book of Law and the seal left by Jacob, and found the secret of the Ring of Ending Ceremony. Knowledge.

In the end, relying on the information provided by Yeats's unfaithful werewolf, Merlin finally learned the whole story one step ahead of Aiwass - to be precise, he was actually only 10 years earlier than Aiwass. minute.

But that's all he knew.

Facing Merlin's inquiry, Aiwass felt a move in his heart.

He suddenly realized that this seemed to be a good opportunity...?
The secrets Aiwass knew before, whether it was the method of changing classes of the Sin Scholar or other things, Aiwass could not tell others.

Because he did not have a reasonable information channel - he had never known any extraordinary people before, and the only knowledge he could get about the extraordinary world came from the study of his adoptive father James.

But Aiwass took out the ritual to reincarnate Meg and gave Sherlock a new profession that he had never heard of.

Both Meg and Sherlock must have doubts about Aiwass.But Meg prefers pragmatism and doesn't think about it if she can't figure it out; and Sherlock has already decided not to be serious with Aiwass...but it can't always be like this later.

And now is a wonderful opportunity! "I did see something."

Aiwass thought of this with a serious expression: "I saw the past and saw my grandfather talking to a mysterious being. And that being granted my grandfather some special knowledge - including some rituals that I had never seen before... except In addition, he also showed some future intelligence."

"future?"

Merlin was not interested in the ceremony, but after hearing about the future, he repeated it, but he tilted his head and thought about it and nodded: "Oh, that makes sense - do you remember what He said?"

"He didn't say much, and they were all riddles. It was like a prophet's prophecy... But since then, a lot of knowledge suddenly flowed into my mind. They passed by, and then almost all disappeared. , only some vague impressions remain.”

Aiwass said seriously: "But I feel that as long as I meet a certain condition, I can remember it!"

Everything he said was true.

Even if Merlin is doing a lie detector test, he can only get the answer "the truth".

But Aiwass cleverly changed the word order, as if what he saw was not ritual knowledge, but fragments of the future.

He said: "For example, that holy being said...'The ones chosen as the apostles and sacrifices of the pillars are the sacrifices of the great beasts'. I think the meaning of this sentence is..."

When Aiwass said this, he suddenly paused.

Merlin looked over curiously, but Aiwass' expression suddenly changed and he looked towards the sky.

——Originally, he just picked up a familiar sentence and wanted to fool Merlin.

But Aiwass himself was only halfway through speaking when he suddenly understood the meaning of this sentence!

Because at that moment, Aiwass wanted to understand something.

In the game, the original "Aiwass" is the discoverer of the profession of Sin Scholar.Likewise, he is also the first master of beasts...

When Jacob left these words with the "holy entity", Aiwass was not yet born.In other words, even if Aiwass had traveled through time since he was born, but had no awakening memory for the time being... then he would not have changed the world more than ten years ago before he traveled over.

In other words, even according to the original world line, Jacob must have left this book here!

So when did Aiwass get the promotion career of Scholar of Sins?
Because Aiwass didn't know that plot, he could only deduce what happened at that time from the subsequent settings.

At that time, Avalon was gone, and his adoptive father James had also disappeared.Until the arrival of the Fallen Division, "Aiwass" was just a rookie demon scholar who had just reached level [-] because he was unwilling to use humans as ritual materials.You can't get anything at all by following the player around.

And Fallen Sky Si was still alive at that time.In other words, "Aiwass" will be able to switch to this profession at least after the player and Isabel defeat the Fallen Division.

At that time, Avalon had become a kingdom of shadows.Judging from the fact that Haina had turned into a "hyena" at that time, Eagle Point Village probably no longer exists.

In other words, the "Aiwass" of the original plot ended with the Theocracy and Star Antimony plot, and after returning to Avalon with the player again, he suddenly changed his profession and became the Scholar of Sin.

It was most likely that Aiwass obtained the "Book of Law" at that time and was able to pull out the promotion route from the Sin Scholar to the Lord of the Beast out of thin air!
[You must know that those chosen as the apostles and sacrifices of the pillars are the sacrifices of the great beasts]

【Words that restrain great sins! 】

The words of that divine being rang in Aiwass's heart.

——Big beast, big sin.

...No wonder, the grimoire I got is actually the special weapon of the scholar of mortal sin that does not exist in the current version.

Aiwass didn’t think much about it when he got it, but now he finally realized it——

The causal relationship is reversed!
Antecedent, consequence——

The original Aiwass got this book, and then he had these two careers!
(End of this chapter)