Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 942 Lifting the Seal
The incomplete holy sword needs another holy sword as material—

The first person that Aiwass thought of was actually Aaron Date.

After all, the Avalondite Dagger kept by the Avalon royal family is no longer needed as the key to the Avalon Shadow Ceremony. Apart from the need for ritual and collection, it no longer has practical value - the royal family can't just go up and chop people with a dagger.

But he soon gave up.

After all, the other Arondate's Dagger is now with Haina.

Even though it was placed on her by Vivian, it had indeed accompanied Haina since she was a child. It was her precious personal property, her childhood memory, and possibly even a part of her soul. If Aiwass just wanted to borrow it for use, it would be fine, but he needed to break it into pieces and melt it...

And there is actually only one holy sword that legally belongs to Aiwass.

That is Mordred's holy sword, Clarent.

Previously, when Aiwas was still Aleister, he used his mirror ability to disguise himself as Bayard and meet the first Red Prime Minister Pomponazzi.

At that time, Pomponazzi talked about the nature of the Bayard family.

The Bayard Group was indeed self-made, and they were not aristocrats. However, they did not rely on business means to gain wealth, but through more violent and radical means.

Specifically, it is "business war".

The Bayard family is a family of incantation mage who practices both the Path of Transcendence and the Path of Love. They may even be the inventors of the profession of incantation mage.

The ritualists of Xingti were originally pure ritualists, just like the cursers were originally pure cursers. Although some prayers and curses were mixed into the rituals and witchcraft, it did not mean that they had mastered the art of prayer and curse.

However, the Bayard family thought the ritual was too mild, so they collected more powerful powers from all over the world. This was also one of the few families that Aiwas had heard of, doing their best to obtain more powerful extraordinary powers.

Throughout the subordinate cultural circles of the Helasar Empire, people were extremely cautious and worshipped the supernatural powers. On the one hand, they were all very aware of the consequences of deviations from the path, and that high-level supernaturals would lose their nature and human heart; on the other hand, they regarded supernatural powers as a kind of "noble power" that only superiors could master, as if obtaining supernatural powers could change their own destiny... or, in other words, if they did not obtain supernatural powers, they could not change their own destiny.

But the Bayard family had a different philosophy.

They believe that supernatural powers are pure tools and weapons. Therefore, if the tools don't work, they need to collect more tools.

No matter the path. No matter the risk. No matter the cost.

They collected knowledge of curses, deceptions, and potions from all over the world, and spent many years integrating it into the root skills of the spellcasters. When they really decided to take action, they relied on the forbidden knowledge of curses, deceptions, and potions to successfully reach the top of the Herasil Empire in just twenty years.

If someone blocks the way, kill him. If a flaw is discovered, use fraud to expand it.

Add to that those weird potions... some that can make people fall in love with someone instantly, some that can make people lose control of their emotions and behave ugly, some that can make people fall into a coma, some that can make people have cold, mechanical rationality, some that can make people work day and night, and some that can prevent people from being cursed or poisoned.

It can be said that... none of the Bayard Group's money is clean.

It is precisely because too much wealth was seized through this means that too many people were offended.

Therefore, when Vignes was young, her parents were killed one after another by their enemies - it was also because they were not all members of the Bayard family, and there were many people with the surname Bayard, who were able to successfully protect Vignes and let her grow up safely.

In the initial stage of primitive accumulation, they even sold curses around the world.

The Bayard family was the group of people in the world who conducted the most in-depth research on curses.

There are always people in other countries who want to curse someone, or who have the need to retaliate or punish someone. Hiring a curse master is the safest option compared to hiring a killer who might be killed or even caught, thus exposing himself.

The deaths of the Avalon royal family have proven how terrible a curse that cannot be stopped or even discovered is. Their curse ability is much stronger than that of the Noble Red. There are several witches in the Bayard family alone... This is an advanced profession for witches who specialize in curses and potions at the fourth level.

Because Mordred's biological son defected to the giants, his adopted son, the first Moriarty, inherited the title of founder of the country.

When he was old, he didn't know why... maybe to prove that he had no intention of taking away his adoptive father's honor, or to prevent his descendants from repeating the evil deeds of their ancestors. Or maybe he thought that the surname Moriarty itself represented atonement and forgetfulness... In short, he contacted the Bayard family and cast a forgetfulness curse on the "Moriarty family".

The content of the curse is: when they bear the surname of Moriarty, the "Moriarty" born will be forgotten by all the current Moriartys as long as they achieve a certain level of success. Because of this curse, the Moriarty family cannot let their own children inherit the family business, and must adopt promising adopted children.

According to the Red Prime Minister Pomponazzi, the curse does not last forever, but "until the seventh generation."

Seven is the number of authority and strength. In the past, the ancestor committed treason and betrayed the country and the family, which brought disaster to the family. Therefore, he had to atone for seven generations...

Perhaps it was a medium for inflicting a curse, or perhaps it was a pledge - although Aiwass didn't know why it was pledged - but in any case, Clarent was handed over to the Bayard family at that time.

As a result, before the arrival of the seventh generation, the Bayard Group had already collapsed...

Although there are still many people with the surname "Bayard", there is not even a fourth-level extraordinary person among them.

After all, they made their fortune by cursing.

Now that all the powerful curse masters in the family are dead, the good days are over.

——Go ask the Night Demon later.

Aiwass thought.

She would probably know where her treasure house is...

At Aiwass's request, Merlin finally lifted the seal on the red-handled sword.

Its wood burned and its waxy shell melted. Soon, it was no longer a thick key, but a beautiful ruby.

It looked like a short stick, slightly shorter than a rolling pin, just enough for Aiwass to hold it with both hands, one above and one below.

And looking through the light into it, a strange golden color can be seen.

There is some golden dust at each end, forming two hourglass-like vortices. The tops of the vortices are connected into a line and meet in the middle.

Only a very short piece of metal remained at the front end - the handle was about thirty centimeters long, while the "metal blade" in front was only about ten centimeters long, and it was a prismatic spike.

It was now more like a short spear than a sword or a dagger.

Its properties have also changed subtly:

[Handle of the Curse]

[Extraordinary Weapon (Dark Purple)]

[Short spear, extremely light, sharp, tough, light, cursed]

[Extraordinary Characteristics: The holder gains Curse Vulnerability Level 5. Anyone attacked by this weapon will suffer the same effect for ten minutes.]

[Extraordinary Module - Flame Holy Sword: Pay 33 Ignition Mana to activate the Flame Blade]

[Extraordinary Module - Holy Sword of Light: Pay 33 points of light attribute mana to activate the Holy Blade]

[Extraordinary Module - Holy Sword of Swift Wind: Pay 33 points of wind attribute mana to activate the invisible blade]

[Spell: Holy Sword (once per day)]

【必要：光11+火11+风11，或光33，或火33，或风33】

【Instant, contact, effective immediately】

[Effect: Sanctify this weapon, transforming it into a Holy Sword - Red Handle Sword (holy weapon - two-handed sword, heavy, evil-proof, sharp, tough, light, the holder temporarily gains Curse Vulnerability LV7) before the next sunset, and continue to retain the activated module effect]

[“——The handle of Galahad’s broken sword ‘Curse’ has been initially sealed. When holding the sword at sunset, I seem to be able to hear some sound.”]

(End of this chapter)