Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 741: Move a matchstick to make the account right

In the transparent air, there were lines like the breaking of ice.

When Aleister took the new Phantom Card out of it.

In an instant, the extremely cold frost spread everywhere - the mirrors, beds, and furniture in the room were instantly covered with a layer of white frost. The honey badger also subconsciously covered her face with her hands... Even so, her clothes were also covered with frost marks.

And the phantom magic card made of pure ice was also gradually shedding its frost at this moment.

[Equipment Card: Death of Desolation (Death)]

[Required: Water 4 or Dark 4]

[Action, summoning, repeat singing]

[Effect: Summon "Death of Withering and Loneliness" (supernatural weapon - long-handled sickle, extremely light, sharp, cold, possessing the supernatural module "Death of Withering and Loneliness")]

[Effect: Use and swing the sickle again, launching nine invisible flying blades. The flying blades automatically lock onto all targets that have been damaged by the holder.]

[Alien Characteristics: Reverse Blade (It only has a blade on the side facing you)]

[Extraordinary Module - Death of Desolation: Whenever its damage causes bleeding or severed limbs, the attack will reduce the opponent's maximum health instead. This effect is also regarded as the same effect of "Aging Curse"; any creature killed or severed limbs by its damage will turn into shattered ice sculptures.]

--no doubt.

Compared to the Thunderbolt Halberd made by the demon "Demon of Punishment" of the same level as the Winter Demon, this weapon is relatively more suitable for Aleister.

It can cause considerable suppression to races such as the Children of the Moon who have tenacious vitality - and this kind of suppression is not a particularly specialized type, but rather a more general type.

As long as damage is caused, the opponent's health bar limit can be directly reduced!
...The only problem was that it was a long-handled sickle. A sickle, a farm tool for cutting wheat, was not a very useful weapon, not to mention that it only had a blade on one side. It was too difficult to cause damage with this weapon alone.

But fortunately, it also has a repeat effect - or rather, equipment cards should also have a repeat effect.

Otherwise, why would you abandon your usual weapons and sacrifice a valuable card slot to summon new equipment?
Its repetition effect can directly throw out invisible flying blades to track and attack hostile targets that have already caused damage. Although it is unknown how much damage it can cause, it can at least be regarded as "damage caused by the death of withering and solitude", and it can still trigger the effect of reducing the upper limit of life.

Although this effect itself is an aging curse, it can be dispelled as a curse.

But it also has a very important effect - being killed or having limbs severed by this effect will cause the opponent to turn into a broken ice sculpture.

...Although this looks like some kind of kill effect, it actually means preventing resurrection.

The reason why it is not easy to completely kill the Moon Children is that they will turn into ashes after death. As long as a large amount of hot blood is poured on enough ashes, it can still be reborn... You can even mix the ashes of multiple Moon Children to revive them into one. Of course, whether this is considered a resurrection or a rebirth is still debated even among the Moon Children.

If they are killed by this sickle, they will be directly transformed into shattered ice sculptures - thus completely changing the opponent's form of death!
Naturally, there is no possibility for a shattered ice sculpture to be revived again.

Compared with the Thunder Halberd, one of the reasons why Aleister prefers this weapon is because it is more inclined to magic. The lock of the Invisible Flying Blade does not require the opponent to be "damaged by the Death of Desolation", but "has been damaged by the holder".

In other words, Aleister could use other spells - such as Light of Elysium - to cause a round of group damage first, and then switch to "Death of Withering" to kill the group.

Although it is still rather crude at present, Aleister finally has his own system in terms of spells!
Aleister summoned the "Book of Aiwass's Law", took out the "Death God" card that he had originally saved in it, that is, the "Minion Card: Earthbound Spirit", and logged the "Equipment Card: Death of Desolation" into it. In addition to "Shadow Blade", "Earthbound Spirit" became the second Phantom Demon Card eliminated by Aleister.

As a result, there are a total of ten empty spaces left in Aleister's Book of Law.

Magician, Priestess, Queen, Pope, Chariot, Hermit, Justice, Tower, Judgment, World.

If the remaining four card slots are selected from the empty slots, then Aleister can have at most two free slots; if he replaces other slots like he replaced the Earthbound Spirit now, he can squeeze out a little more. The reason Aiwas brought out the Earthbound Spirit was because the Earthbound Spirit Alice asked him for help.

She was a good kid. She was used as a human pillar and was smashed into the foundation. She was so angry that she became a ghost, but she never devoured the souls of passing travelers - she only ate the fugitives who fled here in a panic. Because of this, she became quite weak.

She didn't want to disappear quietly, but she also didn't want to be driven away by the priest.

So Aiwass sealed her up and helped her escape the fate of the earthbound spirit that bound her. In this respect, the earthbound spirits are very similar to the tree demons - Aiwass does not rely on their power, but only helps them escape their own fate through this sealing technique that transcends fate.

As a reward and gratitude, Alice also helped Aiwass several times. But as Aiwass's level increased, the influence of Alice, who was still at level 40, was gradually reduced; the most important thing was that Star Ice was also an illusion ability, and its positioning overlapped with that of the Earthbound Spirit.

For the Earthbound Spirit, it should be a relief that Aiwass no longer uses it.

After all, as long as it is inside Aiwass, it can still perceive the world and it doesn't have to work -

But at this moment, this card is buzzing restlessly.

Aleister placed the card against his forehead and quietly communicated with the earthbound spirit.

Soon, she understood what Alice meant.

——Because right here, lies a soulless body that has lost its soul but still has life.

She wanted this body if Aiwass no longer needed her.

"…Then I have to communicate with the original owner of this body first."

Aleister hesitated for a moment and explained to Alice: "Although she is definitely going to die... after all, she is still here watching."

——For extraordinary people who do not have the Twilight Path, or special path abilities and tantric books, the soul leaving the body once means that they are suffering from a terminal illness. Just as dislocation may become a habit after getting used to it, the same is true for the soul leaving the body.

As long as the soul leaves the body once, the inseparable relationship between the body and the soul is torn apart, and the situation of "the soul stands up from its position by itself, but the body is still sitting on the chair" may occur at any time afterwards, and the frequency will become higher and higher with age increase and soul ability improvement.

Even if Aleister used the ritual to stuff the female college student's soul back, as the difference between the soul and the body became more and more obvious, her soul would leave the body sooner or later.

Unless she can embark on the Path of Dusk and reach a high enough level, or obtain abilities such as "Path Characteristics: Soul Walker" and "Soul Separation Tantra".

In folk tales from all over the world, there are legends about the bodies of those whose souls have left their bodies being occupied by lonely ghosts and wild monsters.

A blank soulless body is the most suitable for possession. And ordinary people without extraordinary powers will definitely not be able to take back their own bodies.

The Mirror Demon had already told Aleister what happened inside before they came in.

Obviously, the Earl wanted the girl to be a middleman for him and kidnap her classmates as ritual materials. Although he promised a lot of benefits, in Aleister's view, these were just lies - when she was almost blamed, the Earl would kill her and take out her soul and hang her up.

And that soulless body can allow disembodied demons to drill in.

For example, Shadow Fiend or Mirror Fiend would work. When Aiwass was promoted, Shadow Fiend had controlled his body... and it would be easier for Mirror Fiend, who was better at fine manipulation, to control a soulless body. Mirror Fiend could completely control this female college student, let her take the blame and accept the trial, and the accounts would be aligned.

It's a classic financial conundrum: How do you move a matchstick to make the accounts right?
——The answer is to move the lit match to the account.

She is the account book.

(End of this chapter)