Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 767 Prince Heinrich
Three days have passed since two major cases occurred in Leipzig, the city of knowledge.

When Ferdinand Heinrich von Leipzig finally returned by car to Leipzig, the city of knowledge to which he was most loyal, the first thing he went to was his residence.

When he just arrived at the door, the butler who had been notified in advance was already waiting there.

Seeing the old butler's hesitant expression, Count Leipzig guessed most of what was going on.

——If nothing unexpected happens, someone should be waiting for him at home.

"Who?"

Count Leipzig did not stop, but took off his thin coat and handed it to the old butler, while asking.

"It's General Karl..."

The old butler chased after Leipzig, holding his taken-off coat in his arms, and added: "In your study."

"You didn't let him look through the things, did you?"

Count Leipzig asked subconsciously, but then waved his hand and said, "Forget it, it doesn't matter... It's none of your business."

——Anyway, if that old guy Karl wanted to look through his letters, these people couldn’t stop him.

Count Leipzig thought.

When he opened the door, he saw that familiar figure——

An old man with white hair, wearing a double-breasted military-style trench coat, stood quietly in front of his collection shelf with his back straight and his crutches inserted in front of him like a sword.

Seeing this scene, Count Leipzig subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

His scarlet eyes narrowed slightly, he smoothed his golden hair back, and put on a familiar friendly smile on his face. That smile made him look more like a middle school teacher with a mild temper who would not get anxious when making jokes, rather than an earl or a prince.

"Long time no see, General...how are you?"

Count Leipzig smiled and asked tentatively.

General Leo Karl did not respond directly to his question. Instead, he said in a deep voice, "I thought you would be different from other Moon Children. The result... is still the same. Becoming a Moon Child means the degeneration of human nature."

When the old man spoke, Count Leipzig immediately realized that the crackling sound of a bonfire that accompanied General Karl's speech in the past had completely disappeared. Although the voice was steady and stern, it no longer had that incomparable overwhelming power, making General Karl sound more like an ordinary old man.

...He really did lose his demonic incarnation.

Only then did Count Leipzig fully confirm the information he had obtained.

When the "Starry Night" came, Leo Karl lost his power of transcendence - his power was completely transformed into the power of a warrior adapted to the Tao.

This kind of cross-path power conversion is quite rare. Usually only the power of the Pillar God level can add a high-level path power that the other party has never mastered to a soul out of thin air.

Moreover, even for the Pillar Gods, there are still some constraints in accomplishing this. They still have to obey the underlying rules they set.

At this time, Count Leipzig replied casually: "I can't resist my instinct, just like you can't resist your mission...

"At least, the items I have here are all collected voluntarily. The same may not be true for the soldiers you killed."

The huge wall that General Karl was looking at had blank spaces one after another.

Inside the grids are works of art carefully crafted by Count Leipzig——

A woman with long white curly hair was placed in a white and thin porcelain vase, with her head on the mouth of the vase. Her peaceful expression was like a blooming lily, shining from above, and she looked extremely holy. And there was no doubt that this narrow and thin vase could not hold a complete person at all - not even a complete body, at most it could only hold her internal organs.

In another grid, a pair of triplets' heads were sewn together, looking like a majestic statue. They had three different expressions: "joy", "anger", and "sorrow", and their four extra arms were posing and making spells. At this moment, their eyes were open, staring at General Karl.

A terrified boy, with a thin naked body, ran on all fours in a panic on the snow. The bulging muscles on his thighs and forearms reflected the texture of life. Behind him, there was a bullet floating in the air. Around the bullet were pink petals that solidified in the air. A pair of stag antlers were embedded in the boy's forehead, making him look as helpless as a fawn.

And in the middle of the entire wall, there is a twisted cherry tree——

A mature woman raised her hands, as if embracing the sun, showing her fair and plump body. This body merged with the cherry tree, with branches emerging from the flesh and the cracks in the twisted trunk showing her intact fair skin. Her pupils were filled with holy compassion, and under the white light above her head, her body glowed like a saint.

——The most amazing thing is that everyone here is "alive". The vase girl's eyelids are still trembling slightly, and the tree man's chest is still rising and falling steadily.

Count Leipzig raised his lips elegantly, stroked his hair, and asked ostentatiously, "What do you think? I think the masters of the path of beauty are at this level."

"Weren't you once a 'Master'?"

General Karl said sarcastically: "Have you forgotten? How did you become a prince back then?"

Count of Leipzig, Prince Henry, did not inherit the title.

Valentinus VI was a queen. And Finn Heinrich, a commoner, became her third husband and got the title of prince due to his handsomeness and artistic attainments. But he was not a true transcendent of beauty, but a demonologist... although he asked others to call him "Master".

In terms of seniority, Count Leipzig could be considered the stepfather of the contemporary monarch.

Although he was considered a gigolo, at least he had a good relationship with Valentine VI...if you don't mention that he was only 25 years old when Valentine VI was 50 years old.

Until the death of Valentine VI, he had not yet advanced to the fourth level. But due to his special identity, Finn Heinrich was invited to join the Rosicrucian Society.

The former Prince Heinrich wanted his child with Valentinus VI to inherit the throne, even though the girl was only two years old. Because of this, the unreasonable Prince Heinrich became a thorn in the eyes and flesh of the ministers.

Ultimately, he was easily assassinated... but thanks to his adaptability in the Path of Love, he was resurrected by Hong Xiang himself.

The resurrected "Prince Heinrich" inherited his previous political legacy and changed his attitude... and instead supported Alfonso Valentin to take the throne.

This young monarch, who was only sixteen years old, was the favored successor of the Prime Minister.

It was thanks to the reward from Valentine VII that we now have the "City of Knowledge Leipzig" and the Count of Leipzig.

And General Karl had known the Count of Leipzig since he was a righteous young man.

He once regarded Count Leipzig as his mentor, idol, and godfather... until Leo Carl gradually grew old, came into contact with the highest level circle of Star Antimony, and learned about the darkness that he was not qualified to be exposed to in the past, and then he gradually realized how naive he was in the past.

Facing the irony of General Karl, whom he had raised, Count Leipzig just smiled gently: "It's not that I don't have the opportunity to become a true artist... But as a child of the moon, the only correct way is to embark on the path of transcendence and pursue the realm of 'perfect man'.

"I obeyed my father's request and embarked on the road to transcendence. However, I am not very good at this path... Even if I had the opportunity to start over and change my career, I would still be stuck at the third energy level and could not embark on the fourth energy level and become a great wizard.

"After that, you also know that I embarked on the path of authority. That was also my father's request. Of course, if it hadn't happened, I think I would have had the opportunity to embark on the path of beauty."

"hehe."

General Karl turned around and said sarcastically, "You always listen to your 'father'. Even a teenager wouldn't be so obedient. I'm not surprised that your ability to transcend the Tao can't be improved."

"You don't look very happy..."

Count Leipzig just glanced at his collection wall and smiled gently: "It seems that you still feel pity. It's not necessary to do so - I said that these people are all volunteers.

"It's not that I paid for them, but that they fell in love with me. I live by absorbing their 'love'."

"So you performed a harm transfer ritual? You thought I couldn't see that?"

The old general said sarcastically: "You, one of the three giants of the Rose Cross, are only a third-level spell caster. And I am a fifth-level transcendent...

"What I don't know is what devilish tricks of the path of love you used? The witch's potion? Or the enchanted kiss of the child of the moon?"

"neither."

Count Leipzig put his hands behind his back and admired his work happily: "I will not do such a foolish thing... Love born out of deception is fragile and thin. It is too dangerous to use this thing as a 'bed' for resurrection.

“—The answer is, I shared myself with them.”

(End of this chapter)