Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 395 Blood of Heracross
  Dang bang~
  Accompanied by the crisp sound of metal collision, the handleless blood-stained blade was discarded by Lily.

Minister Griffith, who was bound by a gray spider web, had his head lowered and had completely lost consciousness.

"I really like causing trouble for others..."

Lily whispered in disgust.

Under Lily's interrogation, he had become a bloody mess.

Lily also received very detailed information.

Minister Griffith also has third level power in the Authoritarian Path. Before becoming a minister, he was a lawyer who graduated from the Royal Law University. Being able to reach the third level when he is less than thirty years old is already a very outstanding talent.

At the same time, Lily could also sense that he had the first level of adaptability to the path of love.

But that's all it is.

After getting used to playing high-end games, Lily didn't even leave him any chance to resist when he used a sneak attack to deal with a true third-level transcendent.

During the whole process, Shadow Demon didn't even have a chance to take action. Lily alone defeated Griffith.

Relying on the cobweb made of lies and the control of the [Medicine Applicator in the Shadow], he was completely controlled by Lily before Minister Griffith could cause an effective counterattack.

Afterwards, Lily alternately used the eagle feather dagger for violent interrogation, and then used the "love elixir" attached to the "Applicator in the Shadow" as a control, and quickly squeezed out the intelligence of Minister Griffith.

Part of the reason for this is that Griffith has lost his vigilance for too long; and part of the reason is that Lily's equipment is really good.

But in fact, the most critical reason is his own laziness.

He stayed at Xing Antimony for a full ten years, but his authoritarian path remained at the same level as ten years ago. Although it has more adaptability to the path of love, the level is still too low. Without the synergy between the two paths, the excess "desire" actually dragged down the progress of the main path.

As a higher-level "witch" on the same path, Lily used the "love elixir" left in the previous bone carving relics, which can affect the third level as a control method, and she was able to control Griffith. The witch's magic potion is extremely suppressive to Griffith, who is on the same path, and is almost impossible to escape.

If the paths are different, there may be opportunities to attack the shortcomings with long attacks; but the suppression from the top of the same path is almost impossible to resolve.

Just like the giant prince of Noble Red - his [Three Deadly Sins] curse has no solution for suppressing demonologists of lower rank in the same path. Aiwass was able to escape entirely due to intelligence suppression.

The reason why Lily was so cruel was because she knew Aiwass well enough.

Her master Aiwass is a very protective person. To a certain extent, he can be said to be a person who helps his relatives but not others. In Aiwass's current "Intimacy Ranking", Miss Yulia, who grew up with Aiwass and depended on each other, is undoubtedly the number one.

——Aiwass didn’t even dare to let her know what he usually did.

When he did something bad or dangerous, he would tell Lily many times not to tell Yulia about these things.

When Miss Yulia first wanted to become a transcendent, she had the talents of balance, wisdom, dedication, and transcendence.

But among several options, Aiwass directly ruled out the latter two - he hoped that Yulia could become an alchemist or a mage, because these are the two relatively safest professions. There is no need to go out at all, no need to come into contact with other people, and no need to face danger directly. The threat of extraordinary knowledge is not that great. Once it is formed, it can have a certain degree of self-protection ability, and it will not be too weak during the promotion ceremony.

Although Aiwass did not force Yulia to choose these two professions, Yulia was so smart - she easily sensed Aiwass' expectations for her and became an alchemist.

...Of course, in Lily's view, Yulia was not the kind of girl who was "too weak" or "in need of protection" in any way.

A girl who has been in a high fever for several years, but can endure the pain and remain quiet and rational, focusing on reading and studying, without losing her temper or crying, what kind of strong mind she has is unimaginable to ordinary people. of.

Although she always seemed weak to Aiwass... But in fact, when Aiwass was not at home, Yulia, who was three years younger than Aiwass, was the one in charge of the family. All the servants in the house respected her, including Lily.

And Yulia has a strange, completely unexplainable power. Although her body is weak and lacks physical strength, she occasionally cheers up and bursts out with more strength than an adult man.

This is a secret that exists only among servants. The old head of the family, James, also knew it, but neither Edward nor Aiwass knew it.

Although she rarely showed it in front of others, especially in front of Aiwass, she would not deliberately exert her strength... But on the night when Aiwass encountered the Shadow Demon and fell into a coma, Yulia hugged him directly. stand up.

Aiwass thought that it was Lily who helped him bathe and Oswald who carried him - but in fact this was only half right. Because when Aiwass entered the house, Yulia took him away. Lily helped during the cleaning, and it was Yulia who took Aiwass away after the cleaning.

At that time, she was walking like flying and looked extremely healthy... But after that, she seemed to be "back-bitten", and the phantom eggs in her body broke out again.

But now, Lily finally knew the reason for all this.

"…Heracross."

Lily murmured softly.

According to the key information provided by Minister Griffith, Yulia has the blood of the Heracross family.

——That was the royal family during the Herasl Empire.

White hair, red eyes, and great strength are the characteristics of the Heracross family.

But this is unlikely...

Because this family had already died out before the Earth Splitting War.

If there were no heirs, the inducement of the Earth-Splitting War would not exist at all - because the reason why the Herasl Empire split into the four countries of Star Antimony, Iris, Narcissus, and Black Eagle was because the royal family was completely wiped out and no one in the country was legal. heir. Therefore, each country claimed to be the true successor to the old empire, while the other three countries were rebels.

Even if a Heracross was still alive at that time, the Earth-Splitting War should not have happened.

unless……

"...Swampman?"

Lily murmured, vaguely realizing something.

She also followed Aiwass through the entire Eagle Point Village.

Although she usually says nothing, it doesn't mean that she doesn't have ears and doesn't listen to anything.

Rather the opposite.

She was always listening to other people's conversations, always gathering information.

If Yulia is a swampman created with the "blood of Heracross", then it can explain why her biological parents have never been found.

It is said that when the old head of the family, James, was about to take Yulia away from the orphanage, she burst out with extremely powerful strength—several grown men could not take her away at all.

When Lily heard this story for the first time, she thought it was because "they were afraid of hurting Yulia, so they didn't dare to use force" to highlight Yulia's determination not to leave.

But now that I think about it...

That may be a realistic and literal sense of "cannot be torn away." Minister Griffith himself didn't even know the purpose of his "quasi-master", but Lily, who had more information, understood the whole story.

——Xing Antimony got the information about Yulia from somewhere.

They asked Minister Griffith to find a way on his own, but in any case, he had to get Yulia's blood.

The solution that Minister Griffith came up with was to claim that Yulia was the egg of a phantom demon and ask for testing - they did not really know that Yulia was the egg of a phantom demon. This was a complete slander. The purpose is to get Yulia's blood.

Although Yulia was indeed the egg of the phantom, and it is indeed a felony to harbor the egg of the phantom privately... But Aiwass has a special secret technique that can safely remove the egg of the phantom from the body. Now that there is no phantom egg in Yulia's body, they will certainly not be afraid of testing it.

Thus, Minister Griffith can obtain Yulia's blood.

But when Griffith proposed this idea, the beholder made a new request. He is required to attack Aiwass - at least clearly show that he is hostile to Aiwass and cannot stand with him.

Minister Griffith didn't know why, so he was confused.

But Lily knew.

In fact, Griffith is just a fish bait.

He is used for fishing.

If he is hostile to Aiwass, and he has expressed hostility towards Yulia... then according to Aiwass's style, he will most likely send someone to kill him directly.

But the Star Antimony people don't know the existence of "Lily".

In their expectation, the person who takes action should be "Aleister". Therefore, there is a high probability that the beholder will jump away and leave immediately after seeing traces of the shadow demon's existence through "future vision" or "real vision".

Because it has already been prepared to run away at any time.

If everything goes well, then "Miss Aleister" can learn information about Yulia's bloodline from Griffith.

but……

……And after that?

Lily frowned slightly.

After all, she is still not as smart as Aiwass. She could only analyze it so far, and her thoughts seemed to hit a transparent wall.

If it were Aiwass or Sherlock, he would definitely be able to guess what the Star Antimony Man wanted to do.

But there was one thing she clearly realized.

——In this case, "Miss Aleister" cannot be allowed to appear here.

Others don't know it, but Lily knows it. There was no such thing as "Aleister Crowley", that was simply another identity of her young master.

And Aiwass was treating reporters to dinner not far away at the moment.

His purpose is to use this method to put pressure on the knights of the Round Table Hall - meaning to tell them, "I'm watching you." Moreover, it is possible to use violent means outside of meetings to achieve the goal at any time, and you do have such power in your hands, and you are still unable to counterattack.

Because in name only, Aiwass and Miss Aleister had fallen out. Even if Aleister assassinated the minister at this time, it cannot be said to be Aiwass's fault. It can even be said that Aleister deliberately caused trouble for Aiwass. Then it is certainly impossible for Isabel to "condemn Aiwass for the faults of foreign spies and killers who wanted to cause trouble for Aiwass."

…But, things are different now.

This matter may involve Miss Yulia. And there seems to be a bigger conspiracy behind it.

Aiwass had taught Lily some handling methods in advance.

Lily didn't understand many things, but she clearly wrote down and understood one sentence——

"If you can know what your enemy wants you to do... then you'd better not do it. From this perspective, the essence of the game lies in discerning the other party's true intentions through heavy cover-ups and misdirections. "

Aiwass said: "You are not my tool, you also have to have your own thoughts, Lily."

Lily thought quickly.

This was the first time she encountered a situation in which "if she followed Aiwass' plan, Aiwass would fall into a trap." She had to think of the best solution independently in a short period of time.

Shadow Demon has been very silent recently, not saying a word.

If it were in the past, she could still refer to Shadow Demon's opinion. But now she had to think for herself.

——Since the fish the Star Antimony people want to catch is Aleister, they cannot let "Aleister" bite the hook.

Fortunately, Lily prepared a second method...

Fortunately, she has not used any power belonging to the shadow demon so far, so there is no shadow trace contaminated with the aura of transcending the path. The shadow she uses comes entirely from herself, from the gift of Aiwass, which is the breath of the path of love and the path of adaptation.

She pushed up her glasses and gently rotated the wristband of the glove on her left hand.

The "love elixir" attached to the gloves and used during torture was switched to "moon mist" that can quickly melt a person's internal organs in a few seconds.

Then, Lily stretched out her left hand wearing a black silk glove, and slowly but firmly pinched Minister Griffith's neck.

Pink tree-like lines spread rapidly downward from the neck. Black blood slowly overflowed from between his mouth and nose.

This young talent, who was no more than forty years old this year, lost his breath in the blink of an eye.

Miss Chloe, I have to trouble you to take the blame again...

Lily sighed silently and slowly took off her gloves.

So far, Miss Chloe has taken a lot of blame.

And this one right now may be the biggest one.

Lily's body gradually mutated, turning into a standing gray werewolf with scarlet pupils.

She did not hesitate to tear up the body of Minister Griffith, destroying the traces of her interrogation - but in fact, she only destroyed part of it. If she investigates carefully, she can also find the person who used "Eagle Feather" to Ling Chi while he was alive. Traces of flesh and blood.

But this is just right.

Things you find out yourself will be more convincing.

(End of this chapter)