Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 805: Wild Hunt Chaser (asking for monthly ticket)
Looking at the Count of Leipzig who had suddenly become quiet, Adolf paused with his staff and repaired the window again.

"…Is it a bit too much to use Dong Dong Si's spell with earth attribute mana?"

Adolf frowned slightly.

It took so long to freeze him... If it was petrification, Count Leipzig would have turned into stone in an instant.

The old man gave the order: "Move it away, move it upstairs."

Following his command, many undead spirits appeared behind him. They responded with laughter and played around carefree in a place where the old man could not see.

At this moment, the old man in black robe suddenly looked towards a corner.

There, Aleister, riding a ghost Pegasus and with noticeably pale skin, gradually emerged.

She was currently using Bayard's body - she was paying for the vitality of Lily and Selene. Compared to Aleister's own body, Bayard's body was that of an adult, and the blood in his body was much more vigorous.

Aleister suddenly exhaled a breath of white air, looked at the ice sculpture surrounded by the undead, and asked curiously: "Who is that?"

"The Count of Leipzig should be quite famous. But don't worry about it."

Adolf answered casually, frowning as he looked at Aleister, who looked like Bayard.

He pushed his glasses up, stared at him for a long time, and then half-guessedly recognized him: "Aleister?"

"it's me."

Aleister laughed and said, "How come you can't recognize me after I changed my appearance?"

"…They are somewhat similar, but they are all flesh and blood of the soul."

Adolf relaxed and said stubbornly, "At least they all have black hair and green eyes. And they are all children of the moon..."

"It sounds like you have some face blindness."

"Oh, how is that possible? I also have a professional rank in the Path of Beauty. My sketches were highly praised in the Xingtan art world back then..."

Old Adolf seemed quite proud when he mentioned this.

"There is an art world on Starlink?" Aleister was a little surprised.

This wasn't meant to be sarcastic, but she really hadn't heard of many artists in Xingti - the artists in the neighboring Iris Kingdom were indeed very famous.

"Actually, there are quite a few. But the artists of Star Antimony are usually in the Ziggurat."

Adolf chuckled, "It's either a mentor or a student... It's either a corpse or a ghost."

The two looked at each other quietly for a while, and then Aleister realized that Vice Principal Adolf seemed to want to tell a joke.

Adolf coughed lightly and looked at Lily and Selene: "These two... must be the ones you are talking about..."

"——Gray Tiansi's rebirth container."

Aleister turned serious and said, "Please lead the way."

"Don't worry," Adolf nodded, holding up his staff and leading Aleister on horseback to the elevator, "The teacher has already prepared the ceremony. When you left, the teacher believed that you would definitely be able to bring back the King of the Wild Hunt. And when you came here just now, the ceremony had already been preheated and started."

As he spoke, he glanced at the ghost Pegasus under Aleister, hesitant and curious: "Is this... the King of the Wild Hunt?"

"Yes, my name is Heleqin."

The ghost Pegasus under Aleister suddenly spoke in human language: "But this is just a gesture I use to hide my power."

"...Herchin!"

Adolf's tone rose a little: "I have heard of your name, an elf hero!"

"Ah... Yeah."

Heleqin seemed to have something to say, but he swallowed it back in the end, nodded his horse's head and responded silently: "But now, I am just... the master's servant."

"……Owner?"

Adolf looked at Aleister in astonishment.

Let a sixth-level Wild Hunt King recognize you as your master?
The Kings of the Wild Hunt are all heroic souls who have made a contract with Wei Zhe. There is no contract in this world that can force mortals to restrain the King of the Wild Hunt!

In other words, this can only be a master-servant relationship that Heleqin voluntarily reached...

"It's amazing. Miss Aleister actually has such great power... and I haven't seen what the King of the Wild Hunt looks like."

Adolf said with a mixture of regret and anticipation: "I hope I'll have a chance to see it later."

Aleister finally realized that the old man was in a good mood: "This is the first time I've seen a transcendent from the Twilight Path showing such clear excitement and curiosity... Is it because Heleqin is a sixth-level undead? I heard that you are cultivating sixth-level undead."

"No, that's two different things. My side is about the Wild Hunt - I'm very interested in the Wild Hunt."

Adolf's voice rose slightly again: "That was the night that changed my life. It can even be said that it was the starting point for me to embark on the path of the dead..."

As he spoke, the old man fell into memories of the past.

The extraordinary people of the Dusk Path always like to recall the past. For them, the past is much clearer than the present:

"There are relatively few priests in our Xingti, so there are more undead in the wild. My father died early, and when I was a teenager, I managed the family factory and ran business outside.

"Once, in order to rush an order... I chose to force the departure at dusk. At a normal speed, it should be enough for me to reach the edge of the next city when it was completely dark. But who would have thought that we would be attacked by monsters in the wild... Although there were no casualties, the car broke down.

"The coachman and the guard warned me that if I stayed at night, I would be attacked by the undead, and asked me to abandon the carriage and escape with them. But for me, that carriage of printing slates was already overdue... I bought them with a loan from the Goblin Bank. If they were lost or damaged, I would have to pay a large sum of liquidated damages. By that time... my brothers and sisters and I would not be able to go to school.

"On Xingti, going to school is almost the only way for ordinary people to change their fate. I was hot-headed at the time... Although it seems impulsive and stupid now, I didn't consider how my mother and brothers and sisters at home would live if they left me. But I still resolutely chose to live and die with this truckload of goods.

"As a second-level 'painter', I had a paintbrush and a plate for rubbing, so I was confident that I could deal with the weaker undead. But in the end..."

"...and ended up encountering the Sea of ​​the Dead?"

Aleister guessed how this was going to turn out.

Many city dwellers don't know that the undead in the wild often come out in groups at night. There are not many undead wandering into the fields near the city, in fact, it is because the candlelight of the church can drive away the undead. Even in a blank church without a bishop, their existence itself will sanctify the land, thus driving away the undead to a certain extent. - On the other hand, since the undead are unwilling to approach cities with churches before they form a certain size, then where are they?

Naturally, they were all driven out to the wilderness where the lights of the city could not reach.

"...I originally thought that there would be no more than three or four undead that would attack me. But it turned out that there were more than ten times as many as I thought...The chill they gave me when they appeared alone made me tremble and my fingers couldn't even paint steadily."

Adolf sighed, "I really thought I was going to die here. Before I died, I suddenly realized that if I died here... how would my mother, my brothers and sisters live? They are not extraordinary people, and they don't have the connections that my father inherited...

"—That's when I saw the Wild Hunt. Led by the King of the Wild Hunt, they broke through the clouds, killed those undead, and saved me.

"I was shivering from the cold and even had hallucinations. Because of fear or cold, I didn't open the door of the carriage...so I didn't see the King of the Wild Hunt. After that, I didn't have time to chase the Wild Hunt anymore. It was also from then on that I realized that the undead are not scary."

"The Wild Hunting King of Star Antimony..."

Aleister recalled: "I remember he was carrying the plague aura. He seemed to be a knight who died from the poisoning of an alchemist during the Rift War... He should be a noble of the Herasser Empire."

"…So it was the plague spirit? I was wondering why I got a serious illness when I returned. I thought it was because of the dead…"

"You never looked for it again?"

"Busy. And hard to find."

Adolf sighed, "The King of the Wild Hunt decides who to save and who to kill based on his mood and luck. Even if I reach the fifth energy level, I don't have the confidence to survive the killing intent of the King of the Wild Hunt. Now I'm almost... I originally planned to find the King of the Wild Hunt who saved me after I handed over everything. It doesn't matter even if I die in his hands.

"That may be my last chance to see the King of the Wild Hunt."

"No wonder you are so interested in the King of the Wild Hunt."

Aleister smiled and said, "You will see him soon."

As they talked and laughed, the elevator had already risen to the top floor.

But there was still no one here. The lich was still preparing for the ceremony and did not come to greet them.

"Oh, yes. One more thing..."

Adolf suddenly remembered: "Count Leipzig seems to be looking for you. He said you are the lover of Hong Xiang... Is this true?"

He is like every adapter of the dusk road, who remembers things that happened long ago clearly but easily forgets things that happened recently.

"what?"

Aleister was stunned for a moment, and then a surge of anger of being violated suddenly surged in his heart: "I have never seen them, father and son!"

Who are you? Are you worthy?

She felt her aggression rising immediately - Aleister felt the disgust of being targeted by a pervert as a woman, and the disgust of being targeted by a perverted gay man as a man. The most terrifying thing was that the red-faced Pomponazzi was very likely both of them.

"I think so, so I turned it down for you."

Adolf casually regarded the matter of "freezing Count Leipzig" as "helping you to reject it", but he also added cautiously: "But the Count mentioned that... Red Prime Minister Pomponazzi might come to the Ziggurat later. Unlike Count Leipzig, he is a real big shot. He is not much weaker than the principal."

"...Under this heavy snow?"

Although Aleister would frown at the snowstorm caused by Winter Master, she knew that the snowstorm would weaken the Son of the Moon far more than the impact on ordinary people.

To ordinary people, this was just a heavy snowfall that blocked out the sound. But to the Son of the Moon, this was an extremely unfavorable venue—its essence was not much different from that of the Winter Demon.

"Do you want me to help you stop it?"

Adolf said thoughtfully.

"…No need. When he comes, I will talk to him in person."

Aleister narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice.

Adolf was definitely not a match for Red Phase Pomponazzi - the first generation of Red and Black Phases were at least at the sixth energy level, which allowed them to fight against the descending Heavenly Master. It was just that they lacked a crucial level, which made them suppressed by the Heavenly Master.

But even so, the Fallen Angels never bothered them. If Adolf tried to stop this level of power, the old man might get into trouble... Even in this heavy snow, Pomponazzi's power was still unfathomable.

At that time, Aleister's King of the Wild Hunt would be used as a container to carry the consciousness of the Gray Sky Master. In other words, Aleister would not be able to switch to the Sin Beast he was fighting...

When the operation is over... they will have a sixth-level Wild Hunt King out of nowhere.

Rather than a head-on confrontation, it would be better to let Aleister go and talk to buy time. If Aleister guessed correctly, the "acquaintance" that Pomponazzi was talking about should be the shadow demon Bayard - he recognized the wrong person.

It just so happens that he is an old man from before the collapse of the empire.

Aleister just happened to have a question about Bayard.

During the promotion ceremony, Aiwas had consulted the guardian spirit Diomedes.

He said that before the empire collapsed, the first Moriarty made a deal with the Bayard family of the empire.

The exact contents of that deal are unknown...but the curse of the Moriarty family was signed by the Bayard family.

Shadow Fiend himself does not know about this, but Red Phase Pomponazzi may know more details.

At this time, the lich Grunewald finally emerged.

"The ceremony is ready."

His hollow, disembodied voice echoed, "Please follow me."

“Ah, teacher…”

When Adolf saw the first generation of Black Form emerging from the void, he walked over and told him how he had frozen Count Leipzig and that Pomponazzi might be coming soon.

"It doesn't matter."

Grunewald said calmly, "Let him come. Don't be afraid, child.

"——This is my territory."

(End of this chapter)