Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 839 Death of Aiwass

"That thing called self-esteem..."

Noelle subconsciously wanted to refute.

But she was silent for a while, took a deep breath, bit her lip and nodded: "Maybe, you are right..."

At this point, there is no point in deceiving yourself.

She was just avoiding the problem, or rather...she was simply seeking death.

After realizing his mistake, Noelle did not continue to choose to escape.

“…Maybe courage isn’t all I have left.”

She spoke in a low voice, her words cutting into her vital points like a sharp scalpel: "Rather... on the contrary, I am trying to find courage through this method - if I can even survive this life-threatening crisis, I may be able to persevere through despair and see the dawn. After all, a blunt knife will always hurt more than a sharp blade."

"Huh, just understand."

Aiwass looked at Noelle who was getting excited again, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly. "But this is the New Moon Ceremony. Let me make it clear in advance that I will not let you - when the time comes, I will kill you."

"That's fine. That's how it should be. But I'd like to make it clear that I will never allow myself to be killed."

Princess Noelle raised her head, looked at Aiwass and said seriously: "When you say 'I don't need to cooperate with you anymore', we will go to war.

"But I can swear that I will never sneak attack you... and I also hope that you won't do this to me."

"I swear on the name of the candle."

Aiwass nodded and answered seriously.

After he said that, he turned around and looked at the guests.

After Andrea was petrified by him, the guests regained their composure, but the expressions on their faces changed from "happy" to "unhappy", and they no longer danced on the dance floor.

Obviously, the portrait has shifted towards "Friends Who No Longer Laugh", and the music has returned to its original sadness and soothing tone.

This level of abnormality is itself a hint.

If the banquet goes on as usual and the task of [Celebration and Carnival] is completed, it corresponds to "Laughing Friends" or "Endless Banquet", that is, the story is determined as "Everyone revels together to celebrate the host's promotion to an apostle"; and if everyone is killed, the task of [Madness and Killing] is completed, which corresponds to "Friends Who No Longer Laugh", that is, "After Zagreus' death, all the guests who killed him or came to celebrate were attracted and killed"...

——Then what do [funerals and sacrifices] correspond to?

"Wait, sacrifice..."

Aiwass suddenly looked at the pure white bust of the candlestick, and his pupils contracted slightly.

He realized what that choice was.

If Cain is fake and Sasha is fake, but they appear at the banquet at the same time... besides the fact that this is a "scam to lure everyone in and kill them", there is another opposite explanation.

Sasha also looks different from Sister Sasha... It can be understood that she is indeed not Sasha, but "the actor who plays Sister Sasha"!
Following this line of thought, it can also explain why Cain was so weak.

Because this is a grand ceremony in itself.

The essence of the mysterious art of transcending the Tao - the art of ritual - is to replace the strong with the weak.

Through the low-level "symbols", the information of the two is confused in a specific field, thereby replacing the high-level objects in the dream world that only looks at information!

[——Imitate what others do until they do what you do and others cannot tell the difference]

Aiwass remembered that this was the basic principle recorded on the title page of "Common Ritual".

Although he had been able to use the Great Ritual a long time ago, and the Great Sin Scholar himself had the ability to amplify the ritual, Aiwass actually had few opportunities to use the ritual. Basically, the rituals he performed were either promotion rituals or auxiliary rituals to seal phantom demons.

Because he didn't have the need to "defeat the strong with the weak". If he really did, the phantom demon he sealed would be enough to fight against them, making him the "stronger one".

Now, Aiwas recalled a lot of knowledge about rituals in his mind.

A funeral is a sacred ceremony in itself.

In this way, extremely powerful souls can be laid to rest. Even a fifth or sixth energy level deceased can be buried by completing the funeral.

So the question is... what is the ritual that can affect the sixth energy level in the material world imitating and what is it confusing?
Where did the sleeping ritual used to prevent the birth of the dead originate?

Who was the first dead person to be buried? Why did its soul rest in peace? Why can the earth seal its soul?

"……amber."

Aiwass murmured.

——The first thing to be buried in the earth was "taboo".

The so-called land that can give rest to the soul is [Amber]!
If that's the case... the little winged girl curled up and sleeping in the amber crystal is most likely not amber.

It's [taboo]!!

The shell that wraps around her is amber!

Even when taboos were buried, they remained silent, and the souls on earth naturally could not resist this natural law.

Since the sacredness of the "funeral" is enough to involve the realm of the Pillar God... and even it is a re-enactment of the Pillar God's affairs. That is to say, the funeral ceremony itself can involve the Pillar God...

Thinking of this, Aiwass once again looked at the pure white bust of the candlestick with a strange smile.

"I understand……"

Aiwass took a deep breath and felt a little nervous about the promotion ceremony.

He suddenly took a few steps forward, stood under the candlelight statue, and spoke to the silent guests:

"The host is dead... Now I will host the funeral in his place."

The young pope said this in a deep voice. Upon hearing this, the guests smiled again.

Aiwass looked at the eldest princess Noelle and said, "Please give me a silver knife."

"Ritual knife? Okay..."

Although Noelle didn't quite understand what Mr. "Sun" was going to do, she still reached for the silver plate on the table.

Her pupils glowed bright yellow, and the silver plate melted into a sharp silver ceremonial knife in her hands.

Aiwass looked around and then used it to cut his wrists.

The guests became excited upon seeing this.

They gathered around Aiwass, while Noelle had no idea what was going on.

But the next moment, she suddenly screamed in panic -

——I saw Aiwas suddenly insert the ritual knife into his eye sockets and dig out his eyes!

"I offer my eyes of mercy to the host of the feast..."

Aiwass's voice became compassionate and ethereal.

A branch suddenly sprouted out of his right eye and a white flower bloomed.

"And we will offer our flesh and blood to the feast master."

People said in unison: "Let's go to the endless feast!"

Someone knelt in front of Aiwass, guided the blind Aiwass, and put his hand on his neck.

The next moment, Aiwas cut off his neck with a knife.

His blood did not fall to the ground. Instead, a trace of golden divine blood flew up upstream - it was drawn out and sprinkled on the white bust of Sizhu!
The candlestick statue was stained with a little blood, but it was emitting a bright light.

This is definitely not something that mortal blood can do.

Noelle's pupils trembled: "Why...?"

"Because they ate the flesh and blood of the Master of the Feast."

While Aiwass mechanically continued to draw his sword and behead people, he took the time to whisper, "Now is the time to pay back."

This is the candle lighting ceremony.

"The host wanted to go to the dream world, so he held the last banquet of his life out of mercy, distributing his own flesh and blood to the guests."

Aiwass answered, while also describing his understanding of the painting: "He convened a dragon-slaying ceremony and died in battle. His flesh and blood were eaten by the dragon-slaying heroes according to his last wishes. That was the dragon clan's... 'Heroes' Banquet'.

"They had no hatred towards the feast host. Instead, they admired his generosity. Therefore, after Sister Sasha completed her self-sacrifice and ascended to the dream world, these friends who had tasted dragon blood and dragon meat in the past gathered together.

"In order to be able to ascend to the dream world together and participate in the 'Endless Banquet' held by the host, they prepared a ceremony - imitating and recreating Sister Sasha's ceremony.

“A holy funeral… a sacrifice of self.

“And since it’s a ceremony modeled after Sister Sasha’s, someone has to be the blind host.

"She is not here to host the ball, but to bring the souls of the guests into the party..."

In this way, the host will become whole again.

All the flesh and blood that was given in the past has been returned, and He will become more holy than before.

There is only one difference.

A piece of the host's liver was secretly hidden by one of the guests, so He was never consummated.

——That is not the “liver of a fool”, but the “liver of the host”!
"This is not a painting with wrong details, but a true 'history' that actually happened... I was too arrogant."

When all the guests were killed, Sizhu was still not covered in blood.

The guests killed by Andrea did have an impact on Aiwass - if it weren't for that blow, it would have been just right.

Aiwass sighed.

He handed the blood-stained ceremonial knife to the already somewhat terrified eldest princess, and said calmly: "Have you ever skinned someone? Do me a favor."

“…No, no…”

"It's okay. It's not difficult. Chop off my hands, chop off my feet, peel off a piece of skin from my back, and then kill me - the remaining blood should be enough. My holiness should be enough to satisfy this ritual."

Aiwass said gently: "Don't worry, this is not your backstab... This is my own request."

"…Are you going to revive?"

The eldest princess clenched the ritual knife, her hands shaking: "Kill me and... revive me?"

The little bit of rationality she had left made it impossible for her to understand Aiwass's crazy behavior: "Do you... want to win so badly?"

"Without the determination to win, how can you face all the difficulties in this world?"

Aiwass asked rhetorically.

He gave me an encouraging smile: "If you don't want me to crawl out of your dead body, then just try your best to live.

"--If I can't wake up, I will bless you in the dream world, ma'am."

(End of this chapter)