Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 962: Crazy Director Cornelius

Now that I think about it, after leaving the Fairy Kingdom, Old James probably went to the Theocracy.

Because at that time the loyal old butler Oswald was always with old James.

Even before and after the Loki incident, Aiwas's sister Freya also had contact with Oswald. At that time, Oswald gave Freya some hints from James, indicating that Oswald had been able to contact James at that time. So after James left the Fairy Kingdom, he should have reunited with Oswald first.

Originally, Aiwass always felt that his adoptive father was unfathomable and he was always in awe of him. One of the reasons was that Aiwass knew that he would become a world-class boss in the future and he lacked understanding of him.

Fear is born from the unknown.

But now Aiwas already knows why his adoptive father chose to be a boss in the first place - he originally thought that he could foresee the future, but when the Tail Ring Ceremony was completed, he suddenly realized... the direction of development of this world is completely different from what he knew!

It was probably from that time that James lost the calmness and composure that seemed to have everything under control. It was also from that time that James realized that he had to seek change - so he began to frantically arrange conspiracies and seize power by any means.

Old James's initial understanding of the world did not include possibilities above the sixth energy level!
Therefore, he must not be strong enough during this period! Because in his cognition, there has never been the possibility of "fighting against Tiansi"!
This also made Aiwass admire his adoptive father even more:
Aiwass has now fully realized what "knowledge is poisonous" means... Once some wrong and outdated information is known, the harm is even greater than knowing nothing. It is not only about finding the right path, but also about keenly identifying the unreliable ones from the countless information, common sense, intelligence, and secrets that you know.

For Aiwass, who knew fewer secrets, this was already extremely difficult.

Not to mention old James, who has memories of his past life and has mastered the secrets of stargazing.

——James, despite being distracted by a lot of false information, relied on his own abilities to find the power to overtake others, and as a result, his strength increased by leaps and bounds when the version was updated, and he became the world boss!

...But even such a powerful old James is still under the control of Huantiansi.

Unlike his grandfather Jacob, who was an apostle of the Huantian Division, Old James was not a subordinate or believer of the Huantian Division, but an important pawn of the Huantian Division like Aiwass. From this perspective, he could also be considered one of the victims of the Huantian Division.

After James, a young man, mastered the secret of stargazing as a human, Anna, a loyal apostle of the Heaven Ring Division, approached him. For a pure boy, Anna's charm was irresistible to him... so it was natural for him to have Freya.

The soul of the "survivor of the doomsday" was also summoned by Anna and implanted into James' body. But as a night demon, she should not have such ability... This power involving reincarnation must be related to Huan Tiansi. Therefore, James' birth was planned by Huan Tiansi at least a week ago, and his soul should have been brought back by the power of reincarnation!

Aiwass didn't know what exactly Huantiansi had planned for Old James, but he was aware of one thing:

——Now is the time to break the impasse!

As Tiansi has just landed and the world level cap has not yet been opened, old James has not yet started to become stronger by leaps and bounds... At most, he is just a fifth-level astrologer.

And Aiwass has become so powerful that ordinary fifth energy level can only last a few rounds in front of him.

Their relationship of strength and weakness, at least at this moment, has quietly changed.

Who would have thought that Aiwass would suddenly run to old James on the eve of the match against the Fallen Angels?

——At least Huan Tiansi would never guess it! Because even Aiwass himself didn't have this idea two days ago!

Now Anna is dead and her soul has not been sent to Huantiansi's kingdom of God, but no one knows when Huantiansi will react. The window of opportunity left for Aiwas is very short - so this attack must yield results no matter what!

But when Aiwass prayed to the Lord of Scales and Feathers for higher divine arts, he received good news.

Aiwass no longer needs to go to the Theocracy to look for someone... because old James is now in Xingtan, and not far from him.

He had heard before that Old James seemed to be going to the Star to attend a party or some other event. But Aiwass had not expected that after the Fallen Angels had controlled the Star for half a month, Old James would still stay on the Star.

Aiwas asked the Lord of Scales and Feathers for a spell to conceal the stars, put on a cloak and moved forward at high speed in an invisible state, moving silently and at high speed along the locked position in his consciousness!

But the further Aiwas walked, the more he felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

——This is not a residential area, but a blocked relic area.

Because of Xingti's special archaeological system, they will circle out ancient relics of archaeological value and do not allow anyone to develop them under normal circumstances, waiting for archaeologists from other countries to enter at their own expense and help them retrieve the things - if the army is allowed to go in directly for "archaeology", the things inside will be too easy to be damaged or embezzled, so it is better to leave them here to attract talent.

Once all the valuable things have been dug up, the site can be converted into a tourist attraction.

Now the Xingti Army has been paralyzed, so the cordon here has become dilapidated. You can still see the roadblocks and iron walls, as well as the wires wrapped around the iron walls, and the barbed wires coated with poison paste above the iron walls. Not only are you not allowed to enter, you are not even allowed to look at it from a distance - even looking at it costs money.

But because of this, the ruins area can still preserve the appearance of the Herasil Empire era as much as possible.

This gradually gave Aiwas a sense of familiarity.

——He seems to have been here.

Thinking of this, Aiwass's pace gradually slowed down.

He looked around and felt more and more familiar.

As Aiwas continued to move forward according to the positioning, he suddenly froze.

Everything before her eyes overlapped with the scenes in Selene's past memories.

"Therese's Monastery..."

Aiwass murmured softly, his brows slightly furrowed.

Why... would my adoptive father come here?

It seems that the only thing here that has some value is Sister Sasha's... that is, Wu Tiansi's hands now.

Does he want to use this to get the fragments of Tiansi?
Thinking of this, Aiwass called upon the power of the Lord of Scales and Feathers to make himself invisible.

Because the sound of fighting could be heard faintly from the front.

Aiwass remained invisible and approached the monastery.

Suddenly, an almost insane roar was heard from the courtyard inside the monastery.

“Ooooooooooooooooooo… blood… flesh… oooooooooooooo, flesh…”

It was a wild beast as crazy as a werewolf.

His messy, dry blood-colored hair reached his thighs, and he had a dark red beard that extended to his temples and connected with the hair on his temples, while the beard on his chin fell to his chest.

The guy's body was so dry that he looked like a patient who had been ill for a long time, but some muscles could be seen - those dark brown muscles were directly covered on the bones and wrapped in skin, which looked like dehydrated beef jerky.

His expression was extremely ferocious, with drool dripping from his eyes, and the whites of his eyes made up a large proportion of his eyes. The whites of his eyes had turned dark brown, and only the slender, bright red vertical pupils like those of a cat could be seen.

——Evans knew it.

This crazy beast is the boss of this instance, a fifth-level Moon Child "Blood Mane Beast" who lost his mind due to not sucking blood for a long time.

Hundreds of years ago, he had another respectable name.

Director Cornelius, the person in charge of the external affairs of the Moon Manor, was very rude to Aiwass when Aiwass played "No. 14" in a promotion ceremony. Now seeing that he has completely lost his rationality as the Son of the Moon, Aiwass feels gloating, but also a little disappointed.

He and some other Moon Children of the Huyue Manor were fixed near Theresa Monastery because of the blood contract, so they could not leave here. And because of the restrictions on archaeology by Xingti, the ghosts and the Lost Moon Children here would occasionally let out crazy howls, so people were scared and dared not enter.

Except for some "adventurers" who thought they were strong enough to secretly bypass the Xingtan cordon by digging tunnels and jumping, no one dared to enter it for hundreds of years. The Lost Heart Moon Son, who had been hungry for too long, had already gone crazy. When he saw a person, he would tear him into pieces and eat him.

As long as they drink enough blood, they can recover from this state of mindlessness.

However, there were too many hungry Moon Children, and the unlucky ones were not enough to share. This caused them to wander more and more frantically, their aggression gradually increased, but no one could regain their sanity.

——But what good would it do even if I gained sanity?

Even when they were still rational in the past, they were unable to escape the constraints of the blood pact.

Even though the Huyue Manor had been destroyed, the Moon Children who had served the Huyue Manor but escaped in advance instead of being destroyed with it could not escape their fate - they were all locked here by the blood contract signed by the founder of the Huyue Manor. They were like watchdogs chained to the door of an empty house when no one was there.

But these dogs won’t die of starvation, they will just go crazy from hunger.

The one fighting against this mad dog now is another person that Aiwass feels familiar with—

——Oswald, the guardian spirit of the Moriarty family.

Around him were the Sons of the Moon who had transformed into white stone statues.

That was in the absence of purification ability, and the only way was to kill the Moon Child again and again until the blood in the Moon Child's body was completely drained and the vitality was completely exhausted, causing it to become "pale".

Without his companions, and without the armor of the Papal Guard, Oswald had a hard time standing up to Director Cornelius, now known as the "Blood-Maned Beast".

Oswald swung the sword with his right hand and pulled the transparent string with his left hand.

The aftermath of the dagger swung in the right hand was enough to shatter the stone wall dozens of meters away, but when the sword hit Director Cornelius, it only made a crisp sound of metal collision.

——Evans had seen the power of that thin line.

When it is swung, it can instantly cut through the palace walls of the Palace of Silver and Tin that were reinforced by preservation magic!

Even the war machine that Xingti was proud of, the war fortress that was heavier than a tank, could be cut in pieces with just a slight raise of the hand.

But they could only cut bloody scars on Director Cornelius' body - they didn't even touch the bones.

After the thin thread was pulled out and blood splattered like willow leaves, the hideous wound entangled with each other and healed itself like a living thing. However, due to the lack of vitality, Director Cornelius could only heal it into a scar hastily, and could not completely smooth it out.

The more hurt he was, the crazier he became.

It can easily crush stone slabs with one step, and can jump up to more than 20 meters. It can even walk freely on the surrounding buildings and jump back and forth as if it were walking on flat ground.

He was like a bright red shadow, running back and forth at an extremely fast speed. Just by jumping back and forth, you could see the surrounding buildings constantly bursting with dust and making unpleasant creaking sounds.

——Those buildings couldn’t even withstand the reaction force of his jump!

“Ooooooooooo… Meat! Or… kill me…!”

Director Cornelius yelled incoherently.

Although I didn't understand it at all, the meaning was clear enough to understand.

——Either give me flesh and blood, or kill me.

When Aiwass heard its roar and rushed over, Oswald had already suffered some external injuries. The blood that flowed out made Director Cornelius even more crazy...

...to the point where he didn't notice the other person at all.

Old James stood about fifty or sixty meters away with a solemn expression.

He pointed to the center of the battlefield and recited in a low voice.

Star maps flowed around him - these star images surrounded him like a shield, and with each circle new stars appeared, gradually forming new constellations.

His left eye burned with azure flames, while his right eye was turquoise.

He held his cane in his left hand and pointed forward with his right hand.

As he chanted, an inexplicable gravity suddenly pressed down on Director Cornelius.

——Space-time constraints·five times gravity!
He stumbled and his hands stuck into the ground. The solid stone slab was like tofu in front of his hands that were dry like claws, and he easily flipped over two stone flowers.

Oswald took the opportunity to launch a surprise attack.

As high-level divine arts descended upon his body, his speed suddenly increased three times.

The long sword in his hand chopped down the neck of the red-haired beast like a guillotine—

——Boom!

There was only a crisp sound of breaking, and the scarred sword in his hand shattered out of thin air!
At this moment, old James raised the cane in his left hand.

A ray of light as hot as the sun suddenly shot out!
This attack was something Aiwass was extremely familiar with.

This is the fourth-level divine spell of the scorching ray, the same one fired by the Cruel Preacher!
——Simulation·Scorching ray!
If you want to use the magician's ability to simulate the spells of other paths, the difficulty will be one level higher. Therefore, the real level of Old James should be at least the fifth energy level of the wisdom path and the adaptation path!

Suddenly, he was pressed down by five times the gravity, and before he had time to adapt, he was engulfed by the scorching light - this attack was sure to hit.

This is a fairly advanced spellcasting technique, a double spell!

Chant two spells of different energy levels, different professions, or even different paths at the same time, and synchronize them to be activated "at the same time".

This attack immediately caused a nearly fatal attack to the red-haired beast - it was only a fourth-level spell, but its effect was greater than the sum of all the previous spells. Director Cornelius screamed, as if in pain and relief, and gradually turned into a pale stone statue, and the facial features of the stone statue were gradually becoming blurred...

but……

This should have been something that Oswald could have easily done with divine magic, and there was no need for a wizard to simulate it...

"…Mr. Oswald."

Suddenly, Aiwass's voice rang out from the void. He did not launch a sneak attack, but rather lifted his invisibility in broad daylight and appeared in front of the two.

He looked at Oswald, who was panting, and asked softly:
"What's your... level of dedication?"

(End of this chapter)