Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 5 Enchanting Card: Shadow Blade

Aiwass didn't even wait for the authorization from the Supervisory Bureau, knowing that he would definitely be able to participate in the investigation.

If there is no accident, he can also conduct an independent investigation—without the need to be closely monitored by Haina, and directly participate in the investigation as a "Supervisor Bureau Assistant".

On the one hand, it is the face of the adoptive father, and on the other hand, the Supervision Bureau, which is bound by the rules of the superiors, has always welcomed the help of outsiders. Since Mr. Sherlock, he now runs his own office and is hired and consulted by the Supervision Bureau The "detective" has even become a profession.

If the investigation is unfavorable, it is because the hired detectives are not strong enough, at least they can avoid strict internal accountability; benefits.

Although Haina is a genuine supervisor.But Aiwass knows more about the Supervision Bureau than she does.

Aiwass had his reasons for being so active in the investigation of this matter.

——That is revenge and extermination.

The two versions of the story that Aiwass told the Supervision Bureau before were actually false.Or rather, not entirely true.

He was indeed a participant in the ceremony, and he did know the two demonologists.

But he was also a ritual sacrifice.

Because those two demon scholars are actually Aiwass' "pen pals".

Aiwass has been interested in knowledge related to taboo since he was a child.The more mysterious skills were banned by the Kingdom of Avalon, the more excited he was to study them.

For example, the ritual magic from the path of [Transcendence], and the preservation technique from the path of [Twilight].

The former is the basic ability of the demon scholar, and one of the professions extended from the latter is the necromancer.From the name, it is not a good thing.

This kind of forbidden knowledge was only outlined in a small part in the adoptive father's study.Possessing banned books is a felony that can be jailed even in the knight family.But after reading the overview, little Aiwass back then became even more itchy.

He frantically bought some ritual materials, and without mastering any extraordinary knowledge and mysterious skills, he tried to hold the ritual by relying on speculation and imagination.

This will of course fail.

The core secret of this world is "knowledge".

The nine mystical skills corresponding to the Nine Great Ways all require corresponding knowledge to master—on the other hand, as long as you master the corresponding knowledge, even if your personal strength is low, you can also obtain extraordinary power that is far above the real ability.Every taboo knowledge is almost the foundation of a genre.In this case, it is impossible to buy a reliable "skill book" from the market.

And on the day of Aiwass' 16th birthday, a secret society of demon scholars "Noble Red" suddenly contacted him.

Aiwass was wary at first.But the other party sent him several manuscripts of forbidden books along with the letter, which were all about demon knowledge and demon rituals.

Although they are all small rituals that are no different from tricks - such as making people grow sores, treating tiny wounds, making people drowsy, or making people unlucky.It seems useless, but those are all true and unmistakable extraordinary rituals!
After Aiwass tried them one by one, he became very excited.So he and the other party became pen pals, and often exchanged some demonology knowledge, and the other party also claimed to be Aiwass' friend.On weekdays, I often chat with him about some emotional life and trivial matters in daily life.

At the very beginning, Aiwass was still a little wary.

However, two years passed quietly like this.

Aiwass thought that if the other party wanted to deceive him, he might have already deceived him.The value of the secret knowledge they bestowed on themselves is already quite high—although Aiwass, who has never been to the black market, does not know how much such knowledge can be sold for, but even if the quality is not enough, it is already a lot in terms of quantity.

——How can a liar operate for so long and invest so much in order to deceive a person?

It doesn't make sense or make sense.It is not in the best interest.

So Aiwass gradually relaxed his vigilance, and really regarded this pen pal as a friend who had never met but hit it off.

A few days ago, the other party claimed that they had something to come to the capital and wanted to meet Aiwass.

Aiwass believed the other party without hesitation and without any precautions.

——This is the lie he told the inspector.Because "Aiwass" was not taken away by someone, but took the initiative to go over.

It was a man and a woman in red clothes with shaved heads.The man looks about 50 to 20 years old, and the woman is about [-] years old.In addition to mentors and apprentices, they are also lovers.

He enthusiastically invited his "two friends" to have a meal, and then the middle-aged man said that he could let Aiwass see and even participate in the real demon summoning ceremony—Aiwass excitedly agreed.

But after he had been busy for more than an hour arranging the ceremony, he looked at the ceremony table and suddenly realized something.

Summoning demons, don't you need any expensive materials?
And at this time, he suddenly realized belatedly that he himself who had arranged the ceremony table himself happened to be a "sacrifice of voluntary sacrifice".At the same time, as a student of the Royal Law University Divinity School, Aiwass can become a priest before graduation.

Although he has not really embarked on the path of the extraordinary, he has already taken the first step on the path of [devotion].

It is reflected in the data card that he already has a level 1 priest profession.After the experience of the basic skill "Basic Prayer" is fully accumulated, Aiwass can upgrade the priest profession to level 2 and master the characteristics of his first path of dedication.

Of course, he happily told his pen pals about this matter—even though "priest" is not as interesting as "demon scholar", it is still an extraordinary profession after all.Being able to embark on the path of extraordinaryness and possess extraordinary abilities is better than nothing.

More importantly, priests are also respected professions in Avalon.

The symbol of the path of "devotion" is the light, the guardian, the candle.This is the way of dedicating oneself to others and ideals, and only by practicing this concept from the heart can we become stronger.Therefore, all the professions extended on the path of dedication are extraordinary professions with bright futures and recognized by people.

Therefore, as a "consecrated believer who voluntarily sacrificed", Aiwass became a sacrifice with extremely high specifications.

It was also until then that Aiwass recalled the memory of his previous life before the crisis of death.He was the first to recognize the devil's species and successfully signed a contract with him.

He controlled the Shadow Demon to catch off guard and kill the stunned middle-aged man, that is, the demon scholar as the "mentor".But the woman who was the apprentice was still alive.

If she ran a little slower, Aiwass would kill her; but if she dared to turn around and look back, she could kill Aiwass in turn.

Just a little.

Aiwass sighed.

——Just a little bit, he was about to be sacrificed and silenced by that man; and almost, he was about to be killed by that woman.

Betrayed, lied to, murdered.

The real anger in Aiwass's heart was echoing.Without hesitation, he decided to take revenge.

Not to mention, it was very likely that this woman had seen Aiwass' letter.

This meant that if she was caught, she might give Aiwass - no, she would give herself.

The adoptive father's position is unclear now, but even if it's just for himself, he must silence her before the Supervision Bureau catches her.

However, Aiwass also did not intend to expose his identity as a demon scholar in order to kill the other party.

He has a way.

After waking up yesterday, Aiwass' first reaction was to try a simple ritual that the original "Aiwass" didn't know about and only appeared in the late game.After using that ritual to replenish his life force that was emptied as a sacrifice, Aiwass basically confirmed that the secret knowledge he knew was also useful in this world.

Aiwass' occupation in the game is not a demon scholar who "transcends" the path... but an enlightener who "dedicates" the path.

It was a pure support job that could greatly strengthen the strength of teammates, and had a small amount of healing and control abilities.

But now, when he had to challenge those world-ending crises alone, such a weak profession was not feasible.

Because the Enlightened One cannot eat his own enhancements.In other words, most professions in the path of "devotion" cannot get their own enhancement, protection or healing skills.

However, Enlightener can be used as a part-time job.After all, Aiwass' apparent identity is that of a priest dedicated to the way.It is also possible to prepare in advance to become an enlightened person, and he is also very familiar with the necessary path characteristics that need to be mastered to advance to this profession.

And in order to solve those crises, his main job must have a strong enough single-player combat power.

Considering that he can also work as an enlightener, the answer is very simple.

That is the 5.0 version of "Aiwass", who advanced to "Lord of the Great Beast" after mastering the power of illusion.

That is the later career after re-advanced from the Sin Scholar.

After defeating the immortal phantoms, they can extract their essence and turn them into their own summoned beasts, that is, "big beasts" with six attributes.

Although there can only be one "big beast" summoned at the same time, it can be switched to the most suitable big beast to deal with the current situation, and then use the support cards, equipment cards, and field cards made by drawing the power of other "big beasts" to Strengthen the current one.

And most importantly, this summoned beast is counted as a "teammate".

Not only the output is much larger than the main body, but also can eat all types of BUFF given by teammates.

In game terms, this profession has the highest abduction rate.

Because the enhancements given by the cards are all noble mechanical buffs-such as three-speed, armor-piercing, poison, burning, dodge, and magic penetration, but they don't give damage-increasing buffs.It happens that it will not be diluted by the various damage-increasing BUFFs of the most mainstream support, the Enlightener.

Although after the "big beast" is summoned, the main body will not be able to get attack buffs, so the output of the main body will be a little weak.

However, during the outbreak cycle, the Lord of the Great Beast can briefly combine the summoned and strengthened "Big Beast" with himself, thus bursting out with extremely strong strength.

When the Enlightener cooperates with the Lord of Beasts, Aiwass can strengthen his summoned beasts as "teammates".And it will not lose the social gain brought by the cleric status on the surface. At the same time, it can be switched to restrain the opponent's summoned beast when dealing with different enemies. The upper limit is still high.

In the worst case scenario, only one person can fight against the BOSS——then this professional combination may not be the highest explosive in the ideal state, but it must be the most comprehensive and adaptable.

The ability to extract the power of phantoms and use tarot cards as materials to make phantom cards comes from the pre-professional Sin Scholar.

Sin Scholars can obtain the corresponding ritual knowledge after completely researching and analyzing a phantom—what cards, materials, and rituals this phantom can be used to print.Once this knowledge is known, even a demon scholar can make advance crafting.

The most important prerequisite for becoming the Master of the Great Beast is to use the ability of the Sin Scholar to make six blank cards with different attributes, and seal six phantoms with corresponding attributes.

Then repeatedly defeat phantoms of the same attribute as experience materials, and feed the level of these six phantoms to full.

According to Aiwass' memory, there is a phantom with fire attribute in Yulia.

It was to support that phantom that her body was so weak.

That phantom will kill Yulia after it grows.If you want to save her, you must face the phantom in its infancy; and the phantom is immortal... This means that conventional means cannot save Yulia.At most, it can only delay the time for the Phantom to wake up and lose control.

"Lord of the Beast" is different.

If Aiwass can successfully create a "blank card" with enough capacity to accommodate the phantom in Yulia's body, he can directly take away the consciousness of the phantom in Yulia's body.

In this way, not only can Yulia survive, but also the advanced materials of the Lord of Beasts can be prepared in advance!

And Yulia can also get the remaining energy of the phantom by the way—to make this unstable and dangerous force stable and growable, so that she can also embark on the path of a superhuman!

The basis of all this is that the ritual of making cards in Aiwass' memory is reliable and feasible.

He has tried other rituals before, and the ritual knowledge in the game can indeed be used!
However, the production of the phantom card requires an additional verification.Because the Sin Scholar is a profession that only appeared after the Fallen Division came.

Now that it is two full versions ahead of schedule, Aiwass is not sure whether this ritual can work.

So he needs to experiment.

As long as Aiwass can successfully produce any phantom card as a demon scholar, it can be directly confirmed that this system is still available now!

In this way, he can gain another power that has nothing to do with the demon scholar.

His own revenge and extermination operations will go smoothly.

Yulia will be saved!

Even the destruction of Avalon is not irreversible—

——As long as he can successfully make his first card.

Aiwass is too weak now.The only transcendent existence he has mastered that is close to phantoms is Shadow Demons.

And the only card that can be made by drawing Shadow Demon is "Moon".

And to make the "Moon Card", no matter how high the strength of the card's sealed power is, it needs a nail on the forehead of a sinner who was tortured by a car, and three ancient ropes on the gallows as materials.

Aiwass sat solemnly in front of his desk, and took out a slightly blackened tarot card from the jade box.

These tarot cards are one of a large number of unusable mystical items that Aiwass bought when he fanatically worshiped various rituals.But now it happens to be used to make the Phantom Card of the Lord of Beasts.

The Tarot card shows a moon with two towers on either side.And under the moon there is a wolf and a dog, both barking at the moon frantically.In the middle and bottom of the picture is a lobster crawling out of the river, looking up at the sky in bewilderment.

This is 【Moon】.In Tarot divination, the moon card symbolizes confusion, confusion and restlessness.

The creators of the Tarot cards come from the prophets who "adapted" to the path.The prophets despise astrologers who are also on the "adaptive" path, comparing them to dogs barking at the moon - because all prophets agree that the future can never be accurately predicted, and astrologers strive to create a sufficiently complex , Accurate, and able to predict the "Great Unified Star Map" of all futures.

This behavior was considered ridiculous by the prophets.It was like a dog barking at the moon trying to figure out what it meant.But this is exposing their ignorance and fearlessness.

Aiwass held his breath and became extremely cautious.

Because he smeared mercury on the "moon" of the Tarot card.He used this as a medium to inject three points of his dark attribute mana yesterday.

Now Aiwass' dark attribute mana pool has a maximum capacity of only three points.

And making the most basic and weakest card requires at least five points.No matter how strong the card is made, the other materials used are the same, the only difference is the amount of gem powder.

...Although such a weak card is a waste of materials to manufacture.But it succeeds at least once first, and it is more important to verify whether it is feasible.

And it is also a magic scroll that can be reused most of the time.Once the card is made, it only needs to spend one-tenth of the mana to induce it, and if it is less than one point, it will be regarded as zero.The only limitation is that only one card made of the same tarot card can be used in a day.In other words, if Aiwass uses this moon card, he cannot use other moon cards within the same day.

But that doesn't matter.

Sell ​​it when you don't need it anymore, or give it away to someone-it can be induced without mana, and the portable spell scroll that automatically recharges every day will definitely sell for a good price.From this perspective, these ritual materials cannot be considered a waste.

Aiwass had injected his three points of dark attribute mana into the card yesterday.Because of this, this card is slightly black. This is not an illusion, but it is indeed weakly absorbing the surrounding light.If it is placed under the sun and compared with the surrounding objects, it may be more obvious.

Now, Aiwass' mana pool is back to full.

He gently touched the moon that had been smeared with mercury again, and slowly injected all three points of dark attribute mana in his body.A card made with six points of mana will be slightly stronger than one with five points of mana.

"Pity……"

Aiwass sighed in a low voice: "Let's make one first. For the remaining three materials, we should wait until the mana increases."

After the cards were injected into the bottom five points, the ritual was immediately activated.If not crafted right away, it will be scrapped in an hour.Otherwise, Aiwass could even hoard mana day by day for ten days.The "Venue Card: Shadow Vault" can only be made with [-] points of mana.

He could actually infuse a little more today and start crafting at seven mana tomorrow.

But with five to ten points of mana, the weakest "Enchanting Card: Blade of Shadow" was produced.There will be no qualitative change if you stock up a little more... Then it's better to grab one more day.

Thinking of this, he used a hammer to drive the rusty nail to the tarot card.

There was only a squeak, but the card made a strange sour sound.It's like Aiwass is not nailed into a card, but nailed into someone's skull.

Immediately afterwards, he looped the three ropes.Set the nail from three angles.As for the other three ends of the rope, they were nailed to the three "sword" cards with ordinary nails.

The next moment, the rope suddenly inflated and expanded.Obviously, it was just a nail, but it seemed to be around someone's neck. The three ropes suddenly turned into a ring instead of a "V".

Immediately afterwards, Aiwass evenly sprinkled the pre-ground black pearl powder on the Tarot cards. The "Moon" card belongs to the realm of the Path of Love.The black pearl is the guardian gemstone of the path of "love", which can be used to attract the attention of the pillar god "eternal self" of the path of love.

Just looking at it, even a glance - is enough to imbue a card with spirituality.

After finishing what he had to do, Aiwass stayed where he was, motionless.

The shadows under him are like wisps of smoke, floating up and blending into the card.The painting on that tarot card kept changing, as if another painter had altered it.

When the picture change ended, the nail also slowly melted away.It became a new "moon", and two of the three ropes were integrated into the two new "black towers", turning into two kobolds holding scepters.The remaining one took the place of the original lobster and became a black scarab.

The card floated up automatically and flew into Aiwass' hands.

The attributes of the card have automatically appeared in his eyes:
[Enchanting: Blade of Shadow (Moon)]

[Required: Dark 0]

[immediate, contact, effective immediately]

[Effect: The target "weapon" temporarily acquires shadow, cutting, and erosion attributes, and is regarded as an extraordinary weapon.Lasts for 1 minute (+20%)]

It became.

Aiwass thought.

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