Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 769 Aleister: Am I also a red-faced person?

"——Something bad has happened, Your Highness!"

Fenrir, the astrologer whom Prince Szijjártó trusted, suddenly stumbled from one end of the corridor to the other, his voice trembling with fear: "Something happened - are you asleep, Your Highness!"

It was almost dawn. Aleister had drunk some wine and was about to go to bed when he heard Fenrir's terrified shouting outside.

……What's going on here?
At this point, Fenrir should have gone to the astrology. Could it be that he had obtained some important information?

She frowned slightly, feeling a little anxious because her plan was unexpectedly interrupted...

That was the irrepressible irritability that came from the body of the Moon Child. Aleister tried hard to suppress the desire to destroy something in his heart, changed out of his pajamas, and put on clothes that were presentable.

Just in case, Aleister held the little crow in his arms as well.

When Aleister went out, the well-dressed honey badger was standing quietly at the door, and Aleister was unaware of it.

The honey badger nodded slightly to Aleister, and the two walked side by side to Prince Szijjártó's bedroom.

The bedroom door was not closed at this time, but there was no sound inside. When the two walked to the door, Aleister knocked on the door symbolically to indicate that he was here.

Prince Szijjártó had already changed his clothes and was sitting at the table pouring himself a cup of hot milk. Fenrir, who was standing beside him, was fidgeting—fidgeting in the physical sense. He sat down, then stood up and paced, as if he was waiting for someone.

Fenrir didn't breathe a sigh of relief until Aleister and the others arrived.

"You two have arrived," Fenrir said hurriedly, "Can I speak, Your Highness?"

"Go ahead, Mr. Fenrir."

Prince Szijjártó nodded slightly, turned back to look at Aleister and explained: "I think you will definitely come too, so why not explain it all at once. This way there will be less misunderstanding."

"Something really happened - I was observing the stars tonight, and suddenly I saw a bad omen that appeared out of nowhere!"

Fenrir's lips were pale and his fingertips were trembling.

He emphasized as much as possible: "This is the most ominous omen I have ever seen - the entire planet will be plunged into war!"

"What did you see?"

Prince Szijjártó asked patiently, "Tell me everything in detail."

"I saw that the Moon Children in the Red Castle have gone crazy. They murdered Earl Dawn and lifted the feast master into the air through a sacred ritual. Now they have begun to carry out a horrible reckoning against all those who tried to attack the Moon Children!"

Fenrir said with effort.

At this moment, Aleister's expression was strange for a moment.

……What's the meaning?
Did Hong Xiang take the blame on his own initiative?

No, to be honest...didn’t I do both of these things?

Aleister touched the crow awkwardly.

...I am also a popular person? When did it happen?
But this astrologer who could see part of the future did not understand Aleister's expression. Instead, he tried to describe the horrific future he saw and to create an atmosphere that would be taken seriously: "I also saw that our king will also die in this chaos!"

"what?"

Prince Szijjártó was stunned for a moment, then suddenly became serious: “What did you see?”

"It was the Red Prime Minister - he personally killed His Majesty the King, then gave a speech and mobilized the Moon Children across the country to start a civil war!"

Fenrir's pupils trembled slightly: "The Society and the Association are sending troops to resist at this time, which is actually a conspiracy to usurp power. At this critical moment, the Spirit Tower and the Black Phase are motionless!
"I also saw that the entire Star Antimony was caught in an unprecedented civil war. It was just like the former Helasar Empire collapsed.

"The civil war started by Narcissus Territory stopped instantly. The rebel organization and the entire principality joined the Red Prime Minister's camp, followed by the entire Black Eagle Territory. In fact, the controller of Black Eagle Territory had already been infiltrated by the Moon Son under the Red Prime Minister. The previous anti-rebellion war progressed slowly only because they were acting together with Narcissus Territory!
"Soon after, even the Theocracy intervened in this chaotic war.

“Those priests led the unemployed civilians and teamed up with the Black Hawk’s roving mercenaries to attack banks and strangle goblins;

"The botanists who were pushed to the limit by the alchemists also turned to the Moon Children, hoping that they would help them take revenge on the Royal Alchemy Association. With the botanists' request, the Moon Children, who controlled the security forces, directly dispatched the fortress and the Moon Children to launch a coordinated attack.

"And those alchemists were completely spineless and had no unity at all. Facing the Red Phase's superior forces, they collapsed at the first blow. They surrendered almost the moment the battle started. Many alchemists were even defeated before the battle started..."

Fenrir, wearing helmet-shaped glasses with many lenses, muttered in a dreamlike manner about the horrible future he had seen.

At the beginning, Prince Szijjártó was still frowning, actively facing the difficulties and trying hard to think of solutions.

But as he listened, he felt his scalp tingling and he gave up thinking completely - if the situation in Xingti was really going to be so chaotic, then human power alone would not be enough to turn the situation around. Even Szijjártó, as a prince, could not even guarantee his own personal safety...

There is no doubt that if the Red Prime Minister succeeds in seizing power... just in case, they will definitely consider eliminating all of Valentine VII's children.

The only person who might have survived was probably Queen Louise's third son Lucien, Szijjaldo's younger brother.

Lucien was the offspring of Queen Louise after she was resurrected by the Red Phase as the Son of the Moon. There was no doubt that he would be closer to the Red Phase... If the Red Phase wanted to establish himself as king, then even Lucien would not be able to survive.

But in fact there is another possibility, that is, the red minister will not stand in front of the stage.

After all, with the fierce character of the Moon Children, they are not suitable to be a monarch. In other words, if the Moon Children become a monarch, they will inevitably be a tyrant... That is the influence from the Pillar Gods and the Celestial Officials, and it cannot be countered by individual reason and will alone.

——After all, this is how the rule of the former Narcissus Principality collapsed.

Even though there are rational and intelligent mages as the core power, they do not like to deal with those complicated government affairs. For them, research and thinking are much more interesting than politics and power...so in the end, power fell into the hands of the Moon Children.

The result was that these willful Sons of the Moon easily brought the country to its knees - in the early days of the split of the Helasar Empire, the Narcissus Principality had formed an alliance with its neighboring Black Hawk Principality.

And because Lord Narcissus was assassinated by a killer mercenary from the Black Eagle Principality, the other party did not hurt him at all, but just cut his clothes with a sword in front of everyone.

So Prince Narcissus was so angry that he declared war on the entire Black Hawk Principality.

But the problem is that although that person is from Black Hawk, his actions have nothing to do with the Black Hawk Principality. The entire Black Hawk Principality is in the mountains, deserts and cliffs. It is poor and lacks resources. Therefore, almost the entire country is made up of mercenaries who make a living by fighting for others or serving as bodyguards in other countries. Some people go to other countries to sell their bodies, or engage in other illegal industries, such as kidnapping, trafficking, fraud, robbery, and murder.

In Black Hawk, as long as the passers-by are rich and weak, every village that is welcoming during the day may turn into a bandit's den at any time at night.

Faced with this kind of atmosphere, the Black Hawk Principality has no way to suppress the bandits. If they don't even allow people to be bandits, then they simply don't allow people to live.

Therefore, the Black Eagle Principality is the country with the most relaxed laws among the Helasar countries - so relaxed that you don't even need to understand their laws. Because killing people here will not be sentenced to death, at most you will only be sent to the army; and if you only commit minor crimes such as theft, you are likely to be sent to the army, the difference is the difference in military type and combat intensity.

If you challenge the opponent to an open duel with your life at stake in front of everyone, you will not be arrested even if you kill the opponent - because the weak are guilty.

The whole Black Hawk Principality is characterized by one theme: “Fight! It’s awesome!”

In this situation, everyone knew - even Duke Narcissus himself knew that his attack by the Black Hawks had nothing to do with the Black Hawk Principality. But he still couldn't control his anger and directly started a war with a country.

If the Red Prime Minister had taken this into consideration, Lucien Valentine would have been elected as the eighth generation Valentine.

In this case, Prince Szijjártó would most likely not be killed... but he would definitely be captured and turned into a blood slave.

At this point, no matter what Prince Szijjártó did, it would be of no avail.

After all, the Red Phase and the Black Phase are both supreme beings who transcend the world. Their power is comparable to that of Meg, the Great Arbitrator of Avalon. They are both supreme beings who stand at the top of the material world on this path.

Perhaps someone could confront Hong Xiang head-on, but it was basically impossible to protect another person from him.

This matter is also within the rules allowed by the Church.

According to the rules of the Theocracy since its founding, the Theocracy has no right and is unwilling to interfere in any internal power changes within the same nationality.

Because that would undoubtedly be a situation that leans toward the path of authoritarianism. It would deviate from the principles that the Church has followed so far.

Once the Theocracy begins to judge whether a regime is just or not based on its own will, it means that they are on the path of secretly manipulating the world.

Whether a new regime is good or bad, without the influence of brutal external interference, whether it becomes better and accepted, or becomes worse and is overthrown, it is the future of the people of this country and should be chosen by them.

In other words, Szijjártó couldn't even ask for help from the outside world.

Even if he asked for reinforcements from Avalon or Iris, those reinforcements would be driven out by the Theocracy!

"Why didn't you tell me before?"

Prince Szijjártó had to become serious and whispered a rebuke to Fenrir.

"I, what I saw before was clearly not this future..."

Fenrir raised his helmet slightly, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and quickly defended himself: "Just a few days ago, I saw the demonologists and alchemists clashing with each other, while the Moon Child was accumulating strength in the dark.

"Our main enemies at that time should be the Society and the Rosicrucian Society, because I saw that they were about to hold a very dangerous ceremony, and this ceremony might endanger the safety of the entire Star Antimony..."

"——What do you mean? Can you be more serious, Mr. Fenrir? Can the future be changed so easily?"

"No, how would I know..."

Fenrir opened his mouth, but was unable to argue.

Although the future may change occasionally, the magnitude is usually small, just like a weather forecast that says tomorrow will be sunny and the temperature will rise sharply, but at least it won't suddenly turn into a blizzard.

Fenrir was a "prophetic retainer" who helped his master avoid danger by predicting the future, but it was too late when he gave the warning.

This is like a bodyguard who, after discovering a gangster sneaking in at night, calls his boss and says, "Boss, a bad guy is coming in."

In fact, when the boss answered the phone, the gangster had been sitting next to him for a while.

——What’s the use of you then?

Only Aleister roughly knew what was going on.

If the situation develops according to the previous "script", then everything will move towards the future that Aiwas is familiar with - the power within Star Antimony is still tangled together, but until the demonologists complete the Tail Ring Ritual, their civil war will never break out.

But Aleister obviously inherited the unique characteristics of Aiwass... There are too many causes and effects entangled in her, which means that any plan directly pointing to her will inevitably encounter accidents, and all predictions pointing to her will become inaccurate.

The predetermined fate seemed like a powerless curse to her - and Aleister was immune to all curses.

"……How did that happen?"

Aleister fell into deep thought.

At first, she was just angry for no apparent reason, so she went to find out if someone was performing an evil ritual to attack her.

As a result, Aleister was like a dump truck being drawn into a mass of hatred.

Following those clues, they found Viscount Conley, who was killed; then they found Earl Dawn, who was killed even though it wasn't him; then they found Alphonse - it wasn't easy to do this, but he was killed easily anyway.

As a result, after a series of chain reactions, the host of the banquet was unexpectedly promoted!
In Aiwas's memory, the Banquet Master was not promoted to the Banquet Master until the end... Otherwise, he would definitely have a memory of such an important event. At least the Banquet Master in his memory should be the "future Banquet Master" instead of "Hengwo's Apostle".

The ritual of Earl Dawn most likely consumed the liver of the fool directly. But at least after the advent of the Fallen Angels, there was no BOSS called "Earl Dawn" in the copy of Star Antimony.

So this rare material was wasted by him. Of course, it is also possible that he realized that Hong Xiang knew that this thing was in his hands... and he didn't want to give it to Hong Xiang, and was also worried about being harmed, so he deliberately destroyed it or took action to save his life.

——From this perspective, the current favorable situation of the red phase is really related to Aleister!
When Aleister realized this, he couldn't hold it in any longer.

What's going on? Am I really a popular person?!

(End of this chapter)