Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 790 This system relies on BUG to operate
A person who is determined and mentally stable and is determined to die often appears gentle and free and easy.

When Aleister first met the two of them, he could clearly sense a strange sense of alienation - that weird feeling of disharmony was hard to describe, a bit like the strange feeling of a drama actor wearing the costumes from the play but speaking to you in a normal tone.

Because he was ready to die, he said everything he could say without hesitation, just like he was leaving his last words. There was no need for intrigue or exchange of information... As long as Aleister wanted to know, they would tell him.

...That mentality is like a player who has made up his mind to AFK (leave the game for a long time or permanently). If he encounters any trouble or help from other players, he will try his best to give the other party everything he has to solve the problem.

That is an attitude of "I don't care about these things anymore". Even if the person being helped is not very familiar with the game, he can always clearly feel that "the other party seems to be planning to quit."

Adolf obviously also planned to quit.

However, the game he plans to quit is called "Life".

Matthias sighed slowly: "Why bother..."

Aleister read a rather complicated meaning from the tone of the First Black Phase.

It was obvious that Matthias did not approve of Adolf's transformation into an undead.

But he was helpless... As the strongest person in the world, he still couldn't stop his students from continuing to walk down this wrong path. After all, he himself was walking on this path, and he couldn't give his students a new path.

Just like a demonologist will always be promoted to the devil incarnate - there is no way ahead, this is the only way.

Once the transformation into an undead is complete, one may immediately gain powerful strength... but it also means that one is no longer a transcendent being, but a phantom demon.

Unlike the demons who can still serve the Fallen Angels and continue to transcend through contracts and devouring souls, becoming an undead means losing the possibility of further advancement. Unless you are favored by the Pillar God or the Heavenly God and are named an apostle... that's basically it.

Take the King of the Wild Hunt, for example. When he became the King of the Wild Hunt, he was already this strong. Even if hundreds or thousands of years have passed, he will still be this strong. The same is true for the Earthbound Spirit Alice... They will only become weaker due to various accidents, or gain a little benefit due to the heavy yin environment, but their bodies will not become stronger.

Once you become a ghost, your emotions will inevitably become indifferent.

Even if one preserves his body completely and becomes a "dead person with surviving corpse", he will at least lose the adaptability of the four paths. Except for the twilight path, he will only have half of the emotions and thoughts of a living person.

However, Adolf just shook his head and said, “You also know that… since we have come this far, we will definitely pursue eternal tranquility.

"Whether I become a spirit in the material world, or am sent to the Amber Forest, or become a memory imprinted by the Amber Master... In fact, there is not much difference. The former at least means that I can protect the Spirit Tower for a few days, right?"

"Could it be that the other generations of Black Phase are also..."

Hearing this, Aleister reacted: "So they all disappeared, right?"

Theoretically, the lifespan of the extraordinary people of the Twilight Path is the longest. As far as she knows, there is even a Twilight Path extraordinary person who has lived for more than 5,000 years and is still alive. However, the frequency of the black phase of the Spiritual Tower is several times faster than the red phase, and it will basically be replaced every 20 to 30 years. However, the number of extraordinary people at the fifth energy level of Star Antimony has not increased much.

Aleister originally thought that these black faces had died in an accident, or had fed the psychic tower with their souls... or that they had actually gone into hiding and became the hidden power of the psychic tower. But this couldn't explain why the psychic tower hadn't made any movement after the arrival of the Fallen Angel.

The first Black Phase can be said to have fallen into a deep slumber from which it cannot be awakened - what about the previous Black Phases?
They are not liches and have no need for "dragon sleep".

"You guessed it right."

Adolf nodded happily: "This is a kind of fate for us. The shackles called 'Tao' will drive people crazy.

"But becoming the undead... means that we will eventually forget everything in our lives, and eventually leave the Ziggurat and go to a more peaceful and desolate place. Because by then, the Ziggurat will seem too noisy to them... This kind of separation has been repeated more than once. Mine will not be the last time either."

The original Aiwass might not be able to understand what kind of power "Path Impulse" is.

But now Aleister understands very well why they would make such a choice.

After all, the influence and control she endured from the Path of Love was no less than that of the Dark Ones in the Spiritual Tower.

The upper-level extraordinary people in this world may not live much better than the lower-level extraordinary people. Although their strength has become stronger and their circles have become more advanced, they will immediately encounter difficulties and enemies of the same level. It is rare to encounter an extraordinary person of the fourth energy level who can rely on his strength to suppress the extraordinary people below the fourth energy level from being arrogant... After all, there are many powerful people of the fifth energy level above them.

Only when one is strong enough to be considered the top of the fifth energy level can one be considered to have barely escaped the shackles. But even so, one will still be supervised by the Church... From this perspective, although this world is full of crises, it is also orderly.

But on the other hand, once the extraordinary profession is promoted to the fourth level, the influence of the Tao on the character and psychology will immediately become obvious, and if one is not careful, one will be affected by the Tao and lose control and go crazy.

"...I remember that the 'Firstborn Disaster' during the Herasil Empire was caused by the same thing."

Aleister thought of this difficult disease during the Helasar Empire: "If one reaches the limit of one's energy level but refuses to enter the promotion ceremony and no longer continues to advance, the long-accumulated Tao impulse will drive one crazy. One must give birth to children to share some of one's Tao impulse in order to maintain one's sanity."

In fact, he occasionally wondered if those crazy Sons of the Moon had gone crazy because they had been stuck at the limits of their corresponding paths for too long and were unable to become stronger.

"…This statement is not accurate enough. It comes from the troubled summary of geniuses or the survival experience of overly conservative cowards."

Adolf sighed with some regret: "Because, not everyone's talent is enough to 'reach the limit'.

"For example, I myself - although I have reached the fifth level of transcendence, I have not even completed one-third of the journey to the fifth level. However, I have clearly sensed that I have reached the end. The power of the path that my soul can carry has reached its limit, just like a lake filled with water.

"But the 'desire to become stronger' that comes from the Tao is like a heavy rain. It continues to bring me new rain. It can't make me stronger, but it only makes me feel more stressed. The larger the area of ​​the lake, the greater the pressure.

“I knew I wasn’t going to make it to the finish line, but that didn’t really matter.

"——Our destiny is only to climb, and reaching the top is the business of the next generation."

...So that's it.

Aleister suddenly realized that he had finally filled in the last puzzle piece of his puzzle. Even if he didn't reach the limit of his path, as long as he reached the limit of his talent... or in other words, as long as he couldn't improve for a long time, the impulse of the path would gradually accumulate to a level that would drive people crazy. That's why many people have lived for a long time, but their extraordinary abilities have not reached the fifth or even fourth level, because their talents have been stuck at the upper limit. Unless there is a major event that causes a huge change in their mind and personality, they may have almost exhausted their potential after becoming extraordinary for more than 20 years.

From this perspective, this may also be a potential "life lock".

Although the giants back then had a long lifespan, they were obviously not in a very good mental state... basically everyone was crazy.

……etc?
Thinking of this, Aleister was stunned for a moment.

Could it be that this is actually the reason why Ningpo… ?
If you want to make the Path impulse less obvious, you can suppress and neutralize it with another Path impulse, just as Aleister himself is trying to suppress the Path of Love impulse with the impulse of transcendence.

But if you put it that way...

...Doesn't that mean that amber itself is the guarantee of the elves' immortality?
This idea is based on the premise that all elves will become extraordinary beings - it is precisely because of the influence of amber syndrome that the elves who become extraordinary beings can survive for so long and not go crazy as easily as the short-lived species with extended lifespan.

After all, a slow-paced lifestyle is indeed an important factor in maintaining mental health, which slows down the aging of the mind. Just like rich people who have money and free time and pay attention to physical and mental health always look much younger than hard-working workers - being carefree can make people look younger.

However, the impulse accumulated over time will not become weaker just because the elves are immortal. The concept of time belongs to the balanced path, and its characteristic is equality, so in principle, the accumulated impulse of all races should be the same.

Another reason, perhaps because of the blessing bestowed by the Amber God, is that the elves always develop a stronger tendency to condense amber as they grow older.

This actually reduces the nine possibilities of losing control to one, allowing the impulses of other paths to offset the impulses of the twilight path. Unless the impulses of the twilight path completely overwhelm their original impulses, it will lead to amber condensation...so only those elves with twilight-like thoughts will condense into amber, and it is basically unheard of that elves from other paths lose control.

No wonder after Lingbo Tiansi was pulled down, all kinds of strange problems appeared on the side of the Church.

It's not even as simple as the blessing being invalidated...

——It turns out that the principle is "This system relies on BUGs to run, don't try to modify any BUGs", which sounds so reasonable!

But in this case, what is Lingbo Tiansi’s position...?
Aleister frowned.

However, she suddenly remembered another thing: "You just said... you want to create a sixth-level undead? Is this really... something that can be accomplished in two years?"

Not to mention that it was very likely that Lily didn't have two years at all - and where did this somewhat precise time come from?
"At this point, it can actually be made public..."

Adolf glanced at the skeleton, then turned to Aleister and explained, "I accepted your words so easily... because we have already made up our minds to leave Lingbo Tiansi's route."

"——Winter Girl?"

Aleister blurted out.

She remembered that the resurrection and rebirth of the dead was originally the power of Lingbo Tiansi - and then the Winter Girl took this power and went out on her own. From then on, necromancy no longer belonged to Lingbo Tiansi, but became the ability of Dongdong Si.

Old man Adolf was shocked: "You even know this?"

"I only know what I know."

Aleister shrugged and said with a smile: "Just think of it as astrology."

But she also knew that Dong Tian Si was actually a bit inferior to Lingbo Tian Si. The undead was a domain that Lingbo Tian Si had taken the initiative to cut out, and her own strength was not enough. This directly led to Dong Tian Si being dragged down less than a year after being promoted to Tian Si.

In this case, she might not be able to sustain the sixth energy level of the material world...

...The psychic tower in the original world line was silent during the Tail Ring ceremony. Could it be that it was fiddling with its "sixth-level undead"?

However, speaking of the sixth level of undead...

It seemed like she had another solution.

Aleister paused and confirmed: "You want this sixth-level undead...how do you plan to use it? Will you hurt or destroy it?"

"To contain Gray Sky's soul, a sixth-level undead spirit is needed to prevent it from escaping," the lich replied in a steady tone. "Excuse me, Miss Aleister - the friendship between Cyril and I in the past has not reached the point where I need to consume a sixth-level undead spirit."

"In that case...if I can find a way to get a sixth-level undead, can the ceremony begin immediately?"

Aleister confirmed.

"That's natural."

Matthias said with certainty: "And I will express my sincere gratitude to you - if I have the opportunity to access the sixth level of dusk power, I may... be able to get closer to that realm."

"Okay then," Alest nodded, "Please wait for me, I'll be back soon."

"how long?"

Aleister had said this, and the knowledgeable Mathias was not surprised, he just asked in return.

"Two days, three at most."

Aleister thought for a while and gave a more conservative answer:

"—In three days, I will return with the King of the Wild Hunt."

(End of this chapter)