Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 986 Sin Card: Blood Angels
After leaving the Ziggurat, Aiwass felt a little heavier in heart.

He didn't know why Adolf, who was not very familiar with him, could make such a sacrifice for him...

Aiwass could only remember his self-sacrifice.

——If Adolf’s hard work is used one day in the future, he only hopes that his sacrifice will not be wasted.

After that, Aiwass returned to Avalon to begin preparing for another event.

May 9th - Without anyone knowing, Aiwass went to the Star Antimony alone, returning to the place where he had the final battle with the Fallen Angels.

Now that the Fallen Angel is dead, the second Angel has not yet been summoned by the Tail Ring Ritual... This is a rare time of peace and leisure.

This day was specially chosen by Aihua.

——The sum of five and nine is exactly equal to "14". And "Number 14" is the beginning of Aiwass's true identity of "Aleister", and it is also the source of Aleister's appearance and body.

A week later, the place became more lively than Aiwass had imagined.

Some people came here to travel, some came here to kowtow, some came here to paint, some came here to take pictures, and some came here to secretly dig obsidian. Aiwass even saw his own sect preaching among the crowd - the preachers also severely criticized those who dug obsidian and intended to destroy the "miracle place", and some were being interviewed.

Compared to the deserted streets of Xingtan, there were surprisingly many people here. So much so that Aiwass used the characteristics of "Illusionary Blood" to transform into Bayard's appearance and carried many things on his back to avoid being chased and blocked by the fanatical people.

Aiwass stood here and watched for a while, sighed... and then returned to the ruins of the Arc Moon Manor.

Fortunately, this place has not been completely destroyed by the aftermath of the battle between Aiwass and the Fallen Angels.

The once glorious and extravagant manor was now as dilapidated as a haunted house. It was also nearly half broken... Aiwass walked around the bricks and thick dust on the ground and returned to Room 14 relying on his memory.

The things in the room had been emptied long ago. There was no bed, no cabinets, and even the glass and window frames on the windows were gone. It looked like a bare-bones house.

Aiwass stood in the room, looking out with some nostalgia. The deep mountains and dense forests in his memory had now been destroyed by the battle. Only sparse trees, large areas of charred charcoal and torn earth could be seen.

He first prayed and asked the Apostle of the Candlelight to help clean the room - the dusty room was then cleansed and sanctified by a holy hurricane.

At this time, Aiwass untied the travel bag on his back, took out the materials he brought with him and put them away in different categories.

First, a bottle of golden liquid soul.

He had just been resurrected, and now his soul was complete, just enough to squeeze out a bottle.

Next, there was the "Sister Sasha suit" that Aiwass had taken off. He had prayed to the misty god and had received his answer.

Then, there were fourteen full bottles of blood - the total amount was almost all the blood in an adult's body.

Aiwass did not directly scoop blood from the blood pool in Narcissus Territory where the evil blood angel was kept.

Because Aiwass was somewhat of a germaphobe, he thought the blood there was unclean. Therefore, almost all the blood here was provided by Aiwass - he provided twelve bottles, and Isabel also provided one bottle, and the last bottle was provided by Selene, the moon witch. Her blood has a strong power of creation, which is a good material for the ritual.

Then there are two tarot cards.

——Priestess.

--world.

The former represents intuition, sensitivity, insight, and inner guidance. It symbolizes "the moon, the feminine, and the self".

The latter is the last card in the Tarot, which indicates eternal achievement and continuous success. It is also the "ring".

Aiwass had made up his mind - it didn't matter what attribute it was, whether it was water or earth, Aleister would take priority. If it was water, he would find another earth-attributed beast of sin; if it was earth, he would try to make Leviathan into a beast of sin... If that didn't work, forget it.

And finally, there is the most valuable and unique “only material”.

——The complete body of Aiwass.

Aiwass took out his body, which was wrapped in a body bag and bandaged with his arms around his knees. The body and blood had been treated with preservation techniques, so they could be preserved for a long time without decaying.

He put a complete Sister Sasha suit on his own corpse, then pried open his eyelids with his hands, inserted a glass rod between his eyeballs and nose bridge, and carefully poured the liquid soul into it.

As we watched, the dry and lifeless pupils after death began to become lively.

Aiwass opened the lids of the fourteen bottles of blood and chanted in a low voice:
“I worship the God who is One in number, the God who gives birth after death, the God who sees the darkness for a long time!

"I respectfully invite the Heavenly Master of Feasts, the Heavenly Master of Eternal Feasts, the Heavenly Master of Gluttony!"

Aiwass prayed to Hengwo and Yantiansi at the same time.

"In the name of the moon and the dragon, please reshape the body before you into a sacred form—"

That is a ritual to forcibly transform the Child of the Moon.

Races other than the Children of the Moon can also use this ritual to transform the corpse of the Path of Love into a Child of the Moon.

Aiwass actually doesn't have much adaptability to the path of love...but it contains some of Sister Sasha's essence.

The body of the newly born Aleister will have the blood of Aiwass, Isabel, Selene and Sasha flowing in it!

But if that were all, it would be nothing more than a re-creation of the Son of the Moon.

However, Aiwass's prayer was not yet complete.

"In the name of the Mark of Pride, I command the power of the Fallen Angels!
Without pausing, Aiwass declared in a loud voice: "Arch of Sin, Archon of Fall—hear my call!
"I have understood my sins, and I am branded with lust!"

Now that the Fallen Angels are dead, Aiwass no longer has to worry about making cards that will attract the attention of the Fallen Angels.

With the death of the Fallen Angel, the Sin Mark has become a "force of nature". Just like the wind, earth, water and fire, anyone can use it at will, so there is no need to be too polite when praying.

However, the power of sin that emerged out of nowhere still ended the ceremony.

Three completely different auras fell into the body of Aiwas in front of them!
The prayer ended by itself due to an error, but two completely different auras had already flowed into the hands of Aiwass in the state of Son of the Moon——

Something vague came out of Aiwas' body and sank into the corpse.

The next moment, blood gushed out and the corpse melted——

Accompanied by the sound of clear laughter, in an instant the pool of blood turned into another person who was extremely familiar, yet completely different.

She looked exactly like the childish face of No. 14, except that her calm and happy smile seemed to have a drunken frenzy.

"Nice to meet you...my master..."

The pleasant voice coming from in front of him was completely different from what he heard when he made it himself.

Her eyes, as clear as rubies, shone brilliantly, and behind her were two "blood wings" twisted like spiral tentacles. Each one looked like four blood-colored vines entwined with each other, or like crystal clear rubies. There were eight blood-colored vines in total.

Aleister retracted her spiral wings into her body. She stared at Aiwass with a complex, passionate and focused look.

She knelt on one knee, stretched out her hands and held them in her hands without saying a word, as if she was longing for something.

"Long time no see, Aleister."

Without any communication, Aiwass knew what she wanted.

Aiwass cut open the palm of his hand and squeezed out the juice like squeezing a lemon... and dripped the blood into Aleister's palm.

Aleister quietly licked Aiwass's blood.

As she licked, dark red patterns began to appear on the naked white skin. "...What should I call you?"

Aiwass stared at Aleister and whispered, "My half?"

“No,” Aleister’s drunken, flushed face calmed down after he drank the blood. “I am just a servant with the same memories as you.”

That was not a betrayal.

But give in.

He abandoned his past and decided to stay with Aiwass in a new form.

Just like two rotating stars, one of them becomes the satellite of the other.

"You and I now are so much like Ah Huan and you...but we are completely different."

Aleister said softly, standing up.

She wiped the remaining blood on both sides of Aiwas's cheeks and whispered: "Because we are connected by love..."

She held Aiwass's face in her hands and looked into his eyes. Her eyes were bright and clear.

It was a proud look as if he had stared intently at the burning sun.

"Please sign a contract with me and let me accompany you. We will never become the new snake and the snake's tail... because we will never separate."

"it is good."

Aiwass did not hesitate.

There was no need to be polite to himself. He knew Aleister completely, just as Aleister knew him completely.

Even though they were heading in completely different directions, this understanding was like these two cards stuck together, back to back.

"Now I am... a Blood Angel."

Aleister said word by word, proudly: "Aleister Crowley!"

"Aleister Crowley, I now call upon your name... and brand you with lust."

Aiwass continued, raising and displaying the card in his hand, solemnly declaring.

The next verse is sung by Aleister himself: "My life is your life..."

Aiwass then sang: "My fate is your fate -

"——Obey me, Phantom of the Path of Love!"

No memories.

He didn’t even enter into a hallucination—the entire process was completed directly in the material world!

Because their thinking was synchronized from the very beginning.

A huge, horizontal black magic circle instantly appeared from the ground, enveloping Aleister and rising rapidly.

When it reached its highest point, a fox pattern appeared in the sky.

Dark red circular marks were imprinted around the fox pattern—then the magic circle began to collapse from the outermost circle, and finally only a dark red ring with a diameter of about one meter remained.

Two brand new giant tarot cards were also slowly printed out from the void, one above and one below, and appeared on the upper and lower sides of the ring. Deep red electric light connected the two cards, as if some kind of magnetic force was attracting them to gradually move closer.

There are two more snakes entwined behind the priestess's head, but the card is still basically made up of blue and gold.

And the [world] became the [universe]——the angel who stepped in front of the circular gate took on a completely different posture.

The holy girl symbolizing "Eve" is in the middle of the circle, and the circle composed of countless paradoxes is like a water drop and a womb. The four corners are mythical beasts symbolizing earth, fire, water and wind. A colorful snake is wrapped around Eve, and the snake's head is connected to the sun, which is in a huge eye.

Finally, as the two cards gradually formed and became clear, they slowly moved towards the center.

When the two cards were closely combined, they suddenly burst into light and condensed into a transparent pink card. It looked like a pink diamond, and on it was outlined the fox's head in blood-red.

Aiwass stretched out his hand and wrote his name.

Its properties also immediately became apparent.

[Sin: Blood Angels (Priestess, Universe)]

【Level: 50】

[The Path of Love, Water Attribute]

[Upright Summoning: Holy Blood Manipulator]

[Required: Water 5]

【Instant, self-effective, continuous】

[Effect: Control any amount of your own blood to leave your body and transform into Holy Blood. You can manipulate and transform it at will, condense it into ice or dissipate it into mist at will, and mix it into any fluid within ten times its size and continue to manipulate it; you can consume Holy Blood to heal yourself or others; the closest distance between Holy Blood and yourself must be within sixty meters, and the farthest distance is unlimited; but the Holy Blood must be condensed into one, and it cannot be interrupted in the middle]

[Reversed Summoning: Blood Angel]

[Required: Water 5]

【Maintenance: Water 5* daily】

【Action, Summon】

[Effect: Summons the Beast of Lust and the Blood Angel to fight for you. The Blood Angel is considered a summoned creature. When not in combat, the Beast of Lust and the Blood Angel can transform into Aleister Crowley and enter a follower state. Only one Beast of Sin can exist at a time.]

...How long will it last?

Aiwass was not sure, so he took another look.
An upright summon with an infinite duration?

So strong!
Aiwass was quite excited - did this mean that he had the ability to "normal attack"? !
and many more?

He suddenly saw the following line and was shocked:
"The follower form is... Aleister?!"

"exactly."

Aleister's voice rang in Aiwas's mind for the first time in a long time: "In this way, we can never be separated like a snake and its tail. I am you, you are me... We will always be together.

"You are Huan Tiansi's tail, the key to his home. I am also your key... the key to the future.

"Not all keys are without price. Just like you will eventually become a ghoul's key, and using me--"

Aleister drawled. Aiwass waited for her to speak.

But in the end, Aleister chuckled like a silver bell:
"...No price is required. Because I am you.

"—because I love you (myself)."

(End of this chapter)