Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 649: Eat all the food and grow, and become pregnant with the moon
Aiwass pushed open the unlocked door, followed the flow of magic in the room, and found Lily kneeling in the bathtub.

There was a mist in the bathroom, and there was a billowing heat wave.

It was a ritual called "The Lightless Egg."

In order not to disturb Lily during the ceremony, he did not go out directly.

Aiwass touched the emerald green gem on his chest, and his whole breath turned into nothingness. His body became transparent in the blink of an eye - when he stepped into the bathroom, the moonlight penetrated directly through his body and fell directly on Lily's back.

The shattered glass fell to the ground beside the tub. Lily's white back has been carved with complex and simple patterns.

A little bit of blood was flowing down her back, but it stained the entire bathtub red. There seemed to be no water in the entire bathtub, only the monstrous sea of ​​blood during the new moon ceremony, and it was steaming visibly to the naked eye, and the steaming white mist made Lily's skin burn red.

The moonlight was like frost that froze everything, trying to cover the scars and stop the blood from flowing downward.

She was whimpering softly, making a small, invisible cry.

Her hands seemed to be rinsing something, trying hard to grasp it in front of her, but she couldn't seem to catch it.

However, the vitality in Lily's body was continuously being absorbed by the baby - its bloody body surface was rapidly growing skin and growing in size at a speed visible to the naked eye. The strong feeling of powerlessness made Lily weak all over, and the baby got stuck on the way.

——That is a "baby" that is about to be delivered from Lily's body. It does not look like a human baby, but a bloody piece of flesh with a vague human shape.

He doesn't dare to treat Lily yet - the blessing may interfere with the ceremony, and his healing ability is too strong, and he may also heal the ritual circle behind Lily. This may also interfere with the ceremony and bring unnecessary danger to Lily.

Aiwass felt a somewhat familiar feeling in Lily's eyes that turned into scarlet.

Maybe she had sensed Aiwass's appearance, or maybe she had known Aiwass would come.

Is this the Egg Moon Tantra?

Aiwass's sudden appearance did not scare Lily.

But Aiwass knew that Lily could not be allowed to go on like this - this kind of ritual involved a secret, no wonder she didn't want Sherlock to guard it for her.

Lily's hand didn't want to rinse it, nor did she want to strangle it. Instead, he wanted to pull the baby out of his body.

Normally, this level of dystocia would probably kill the baby.

After the new moon blooms, it withers and turns into the second new moon...

Is this... do you want to drink water?
No, that's not right——

...It's like the shadow demon's desire.

She just raised her head feebly and glanced at Aiwass, her body dripping with sweat. However, the thirsty lips were slightly opened, half of the tongue was sticking out, and the scarlet pupils showed some silent desire.

Maybe it's because Lily once signed a contract with Shadow Demon.

"...You should tell me," Aiwass slowly emerged from the void, feeling a little helpless for Lily's stubbornness and silence, "If I had known, I would have asked my sister to come. Or let Mrs. Grace You can come here and watch... Do you need my help to pull it out?"

If this continues, I'm afraid the "baby" will completely drain Lily's life force and then crawl out of the withered skin.

He was immediately startled.

Aiwass took two steps forward and saw what it was.

Today's Lily has exactly the same reaction as Shadow Demon on the way back from Eagle Point Village——

Such an evil nature... but also a strange divinity.

... Is it demonic?
Lily had mentioned before that she wanted to drink Aiwass' blood during the ceremony.

This might work...

So Aiwass thought so and picked up the blood-stained ritual knife that Lily dropped on the ground.

His right hand directly grasped the ceremonial knife - the blade pierced the skin, the bone was visible, and blood dripped.

A strange, intoxicating aroma like fruit wine filled the bathroom. Even Aiwass himself was lost for a moment. He saw Lily's pupils instantly become hollow, and her body was shaking and twitching violently.

Aiwass put his palm to Lily's mouth.

He looked at Lily with gentle motherly eyes and said softly: "Drink, drink...

"Drink your fill of my blood, but do not sing or speak."

He murmured softly: "This is our secret, the mark of sin..."

Aiwass's current vitality is too strong, and the cut wounds heal at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the blood dries up first.

So he simply turned his right hand over, palm up.

Aiwass picked up the ceremonial knife, stabbed it into his palm - and then slowly pulled it upward.

Blood splattered and flesh cracked.

The bright red traces bloomed like trees, spreading upwards with wounds and lines.

The blood flows from top to bottom, turning into dew and dripping downward. It landed on the tip of Lily's tall nose, then dripped down into her mouth.

Lily quietly licked the blood drops dripping from Aiwass's middle finger, like a young lamb.

Aiwass took a deep breath, poured mana into it, and read out the secret words passed down in the Shepherd's Tantra:

“I for Holy Communion….

"—This is kindness."

As Aiwass chanted, the already gorgeous red lines on Lily's body became even more coquettish.

The baby connected to Lily originally had his eyes open and looked at Aiwass with those weird dark golden pupils.

When Aiwass activated the shepherding method, she struggled hard and crawled out of Lily's body.

After she was completely separated from her body, she began to grow rapidly - growing skin and hair, growing in the wind.

She drank the blood in the bathtub in big gulps, and when she grew to the size of a seven or eight-year-old girl, she lay directly on Lily's body. Lily, on the other hand, still had empty eyes and remained silent without saying a word.

Like a kitten fighting for its mother's milk, she squeezed in with her eyes open, making a sharp sound like a cat's meow, and swallowed Aiwass's blood. Her pupils gradually began to grow longer and became even weirder.

Their umbilical cords were still connected, and life force was flowing back and forth through them repeatedly.

She soon grew into a little black-haired girl of thirteen or fourteen years old, and Lily's bloody eyes gradually faded and returned to their original gray color.

The little girl's eyes turned into blood-red rectangular pupils.

But what makes Aiwass a little uneasy is... those are not human pupils, nor are they vertical pupils full of animality.

——Those are the pupils of a lamb being shepherded by others.

"Master, I am..."

The little witch who belongs to the path of love murmured vaguely and used a childish voice to say the first words in her life: "I am... Selene.

"I am your lamb."

……Why?

and many more……

Is there still something wrong with the ceremony?

Or is this situation normal?
Looking at Lily who was still silent, Aiwass's uneasiness reached its highest point.

(End of this chapter)