Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 742 Survivor Syndrome
obviously.

The girl's struggles evidently irritated the Count.

Or maybe the Count eliminated her because he thought her moral bottom line was not low enough and her depravity was not deep enough.

Or perhaps the Earl was already annoyed by Viscount Conlai making a fuss here, so he chose to vent his anger on the poor girl... It was even possible that he simply wanted to give Viscount Conlai a warning.

But Viscount Conley still refused to give in.

After all, Earl Dawn has never had a record of killing the Son of the Moon, which is the basis for his cooperation with the Son of the Moon.

Viscount Conlai knew that the other party would never break his promise with him - because he was not worth it.

That's why Viscount Conlai is so fearless.

But what Viscount Conley didn't know was that Earl Dawn had somehow figured out that he had fallen into the Red Prime Minister's plan - the false peace was about to end, so Earl Dawn simply locked him up.

...Who told him that?

Thinking of this, Aleister's eyes rolled and he seemed to be thinking about something.

"—You should be free now, right, Mirror Demon?"

Aleister chose to ask Count Dawn's "steward" directly: "Who told Count Dawn that he was being targeted by Count Leipzig and his men?"

"It is Lady Anna Kingsford, your Excellency."

The mirror next to her suddenly turned dark and emitted black mist.

The Mirror Demon immediately gave a very precise answer.

Aleister was very familiar with this name - because she was her adoptive father's wife.

Or ex-wife? She wasn't sure whether they were divorced or not... But anyway, she was Freya's biological mother.

If we look at it from this perspective, I'm afraid that Viscount Conlai's coming here to throw his head was the intention of Count Leipzig...

... Never mind. Leipzig, Reds, Kingsford——

I will kill everyone who dares to mess with me.

Aleister quickly skipped over the unnecessary thinking for the time being.

Now, she does have the confidence to make everyone give way to her when she is going against the flow.

Aleister walked to the big bed that imprisoned the densely packed souls, and thought for a long time before he found the one with a relatively clear face among the female souls with different degrees of blurriness.

"Mirror Demon, don't leave yet—"

Aleister ordered again: "Bring me some corrupt wine and the blood of the female snake."

A deep voice sounded from the mirror: "My former master is not dead yet, I have to wait a while - you are talking about the Harmony Spirit Medicine, right? Master, here is the finished Harmony Spirit Ointment, a top-quality product from the Alchemy Workshop."

As he spoke, a small round silver box that looked like some kind of skin care product appeared in front of Aleister.

Aleister unscrewed it and found that inside was the prepared Harmony Spirit Ointment. It looked like a yellow-brown oil with a faint smell of earth.

After all, she had no means to directly contact souls - although the power of transcendence allowed Aleister to directly touch souls, her power was too strong for these mortal souls and could kill them if she wasn't careful, just like the temperature and bacteria of the human body were fatal to some fragile plants and animals.

Aleister dared to touch the other party's soul only after he had weakened himself with the soul-harmonizing ointment that could isolate power and warm the wandering soul. The wine that had corrupted to the color of rats mixed with the blood of female snakes was a simple "soul-harmonizing medicine". If an ordinary person drank this medicine, it would be easy for the evil soul to enter their body.

Aleister reached out and took out some, rubbing it between his hands.

She looked at the soul howling silently and sighed silently: "You should really thank your good luck...

"...If it was yesterday, you would have absolutely no chance of returning to your body. After all, this ritual requires your own body as material..."

——One of the characteristics of the transcendental path is breach of contract.

No one who transcends will honestly abide by the contract, just as the devil will always try to break the contract and kill its contractors; just as these contractors will turn into devils that are violently controlled by slave owners after they grow up.

Aleister was no exception. The original Aiwass would subconsciously be alert to the deviation of the path when she had a thought that was too transcendent, so as to curb her inner impulse. But if it was just Aleister, she couldn't curb this instinct at all. That feeling was like a smoker's addiction to cigarettes, a drunkard's addiction to alcohol, or a sugar addict's addiction to sugar.

For a single-path transcendent, the characteristics of the path are too clear - so much so that Aleister strongly wants to disobey the "contract signed between Aiwas and the Silver Crown Dragon."

Because now Aleister is already a great sin scholar. In other words, the sin of the heavenly evil has no effect on her. The Fallen Angels can no longer stop her promotion... She herself was already branded with the sin of arrogance when she was promoted.

In this situation, Aleister thought of the contract signed between Aiwas and the Silver Crown Dragon in the past.

"——I swear that I will not use the lives and corpses of my own people as materials and sacrifices for my rituals."

"——I will never embark on the path of depravity from which there is no turning back."

When he sucked blood for the first time, Aleister felt a strong sense of uneasiness.

Because of Aiwas's pure desire for dedication now, it is really possible that he will choose to sacrifice himself during the merger and let Aleister become the main body, and it is very likely.

——But Aleister could never accept that kind of thing.

Without Aiwass, what would happen to Isabel? What would happen to Avalon? They knew Aiwass, not Aleister... The so-called "Aleister" was just an afterimage built on a lie. Without Aiwass, many of their careers would have to start from scratch... That was a completely unprofitable choice.

Moreover, that is also equivalent to a kind of "charity" and a kind of "restraint" -

There is no way I could accept that fate.

Aleister was really afraid that Aiwas would have a seizure.

The main reason was that she knew herself very well - it was really possible that Aiwass would have a seizure.

"Survivor syndrome" or survivor syndrome. This is a psychological disorder of Aiwass. When he is faced with the choice of sacrificing himself to save others, he will do so without hesitation. It is not based on morality, but on "relaxation".

So she wanted to break the contract with the Silver Crown Dragon to break her half of the contract, to corrupt her identity, and to make Aiwass choose to use him as the main body and let herself die and return.

Aleister is not a priest now, so her prayers should be ineffective... In fact, Aleister never intended for her prayers to be effective.

The corpses she prepared are the batteries that provide the power of dusk.

The crow plus the skull is called "the head of dead matter" in alchemy. This word means skull and residue, and also refers to the residue after distillation or sublimation. This process corresponds to the "blackening" in alchemy. By breaking up the mixture and obtaining the original substance, the substance dies and obtains the basis for regeneration.

This process is enough to gain strength.

——As a result, its power was not even drawn out, and Amber responded to her call.

This means that Aleister and Aiwass are most likely the same person in terms of mysticism. At least that's what the Pillar God thinks.

So Aleister summoned the Silver Crown Dragon again to let Him personally judge whether she had violated her oath. In order to prevent the seal from going wrong, she also specially prepared the real seal words - "All things are born from water and return to water."

This is the holy word of Thales, the apostle of the Great Master, telling the secret of the "water origin theory". It is a denial of the essence of the winter demon that "all things will come to an end in winter", which is real demonology knowledge.

But in the same way - without using the power contained in this sentence at all, the Silver Crown Dragon took the initiative to help Aleister defeat the remaining consciousness of the Winter Devil and sealed it into a card.

Afterwards, Aleister discovered with mixed feelings that the oath between him and the Silver Crown Dragon had not been broken.

In other words, he still hadn't committed any heinous crime.

...Then the problem is even bigger!

That means that Aleister’s self-perception is not that of a human being at all!
But she also doesn't consider herself a child of the moon.

Then there is only one answer.

She thought she was just a puppet, a tool, an incarnation of Aiwass - or rather, she was an afterimage destined to be abandoned.

"…So we are the same."

Aleister smiled in relief.

——She is indeed Aiwass.

(End of this chapter)