Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 1169: Adil is...the savior?

Unlike the Blood Sky Master - before his death, the Blood Sky Master took the initiative to transform all the Moon Sons.

But the Fallen Angels did not destroy all the demons.

In the original timeline, this is what Huan Tianshi, who got the fragments of Tianshi of the Fallen Angels, did - he decomposed and reconstructed the demons and transformed them into elemental spirits. And now, these demons are still alive in the dream world, just because the demonologist lost his power and was forced to disperse back to the dream world. Even the contract itself has not been cut off.

But now that the demons have lost the domain of the Fallen Angels, and have no home of their own, they can only survive in the domains of other angels or in the wasteland of dreams where there is no protection from any angel.

And after losing the power of the great sin, the power of almost all the higher-level demons has been greatly reduced.

The specific manifestation is that those great demons who were originally upper-level phantom demons have lost the "divinity" that can unconditionally increase the priority, and they can no longer become stronger because they have lost the mark of sin.

However, even though this is the case, demons still exist objectively. Moreover, Venis, who inherited the authority of the Fallen Angel, can also control demons to a certain extent.

Regardless of whether the three ritualists were bound by rituals or curses in their lifetime that prevented them from betraying Adil... as long as they were transformed into demons, this restriction would be bypassed.

Looking at the iron plate embedded in his chest that contained the power of ritual and curse, and thus the troll ritualist who had lost his mind and became the center of the living ritual, Aiwas frowned slightly and read the name on the iron plate:

"Adil's mercy... Adil..."

After thinking for a while, Aiwass finally remembered... where he had heard this name.

Before he became the Pope, he came into contact with some trolls from the Theocracy. There was an old troll who was a great ritualist of considerable ability... He was kidnapped by the giant baby version of the perfect human embryo and was going to be sold to the ancient kingdom of Parthia.

At that time, he accidentally heard a cardinal mention this matter casually - the buyer was a kind ruler of the ancient Parthia Empire, and his name was Adil.

"I remember now—"

Once I remembered this, other memories also emerged one after another - the good master was said to need some particularly trustworthy wizards, so he planned to buy troll wizards from the southern continent. Because they had no one to rely on, they could definitely not be spies of other good masters.

——But there is actually something strange about this matter.

In order to prevent his own curser from easily collecting his personal belongings and cursing him, when the curser surrenders, the good master will unilaterally bind his life to the curser and the wizards - if you die, I will not die, and if I die, you will all die.

In this situation, the troll wizard, who is not of the same race as himself and was captured, is unstable.

Because they are not wizards who surrendered, but kidnapped slaves. They are unfamiliar with the place, what if they get upset and explode with me one day? To put it another way, we are not of the same race, and there will be obstacles in aesthetics, communication and culture - humans think trolls are ugly, but trolls also think humans are ugly!
Human ritualists can give beautiful female slaves as rewards, but they don't know what to give to troll ritualists. Humans can't understand the aesthetics of trolls, so naturally they can't specifically capture "female trolls that the trolls think are beautiful" - but they can't give delicious female slaves, right?
If that's the case, then why do we need high-level troll wizards?
It is neither safe nor convenient, and the opponent's strength may not be stronger than the local wizards. Just look at these three loyal human ritualists... This large-scale petrification ritual must be harmful to the body.

And they were obviously not there to supervise and protect the troll wizard as he completed the ritual... otherwise they would not have been unprepared and had no traps set at all.

They are more likely to come for testing and data collection.

It was just like collecting data in a place where a nuclear bomb had just exploded. They could have collected data and left immediately. But they didn't deal with it at all, and continued to wait in this empty city. So Adil definitely has the ability to win people's hearts. This level of loyalty cannot be achieved by a slave contract.

And now, Aiwas finally understood why Adil spent a lot of money to buy a fourth-level troll wizard.

——Precisely because it is impossible for humans to sympathize with the man-eating trolls, he can send the troll wizards with inscribed spells to anywhere without having to worry about them escaping or being taken in!

Preventing the ritualist who initiates the grand ceremony from escaping is obviously part of the deal - just like when a seed company sells high-quality seeds, it also prevents farmers from producing the next crop of usable seeds themselves.

If he sells one round, he won't have to buy it again and can even produce seeds infinitely by himself. Then who will he sell it to?

Adil had the same idea - he wanted these troll wizards to burn themselves out irreversibly after starting the ceremony, so that the grand ceremony he developed would not be leaked out and other people would not be able to grasp the secret!
Thinking of this, Aiwass couldn't help but feel uncomfortable... This was actually Adil's protection of his intellectual property rights.

In other words, since this kind of thing can be taken into consideration naturally...it means that the ritual plagiarism of the ancient Parthian Empire has obviously become a trend. But this is normal. After all, everyone uses the same language, the same culture, and the same materials. It is not difficult to copy the rituals invented by others. Even if it is impossible to reverse crack, it is possible to steal information by buying slaves.

Aiwass could never have imagined that as the birthplace of mysterious skills related to rituals and curses, and the place where related technologies are most prosperous and developed, the first thing the ritualists of the ancient country of Parthia did after advancing to the sixth level was to develop their own ritual encryption technology...

Judging from the time he recruited the troll wizards, Adil must have been preparing for this for a long time.

Before obtaining accurate information, Aiwass did not dare to force the troll wizard to stop the ceremony - he was also worried that some problems might arise, which would cause the residents to be permanently petrified or unable to be unpetrified.

Although he could also turn into a sin beast to pray for a miracle, Aiwass's synchronization rate was already too high. If he continued to use the power of the sin beast recklessly, his soul would soon be completely corrupted.

Although it was the first time for Venezia to create a demon, her skills were still quite solid. After the ritualists were unable to even scream, she tortured them for a while and then turned their souls into demons.

Of the three ritualists, two turned into beholders, demons of the sin of jealousy, and the other turned into a gaping demon representing the sin of gluttony.

After becoming a rift demon, his head was completely split open and he lost the ability to think. But fortunately, the eye demon can still communicate normally.

The two eye demons offered their absolute loyalty to the Night Demon who inherited the power of the Fallen Angel Bureau without any hesitation.

But they gave an answer that was completely beyond Aiwass's expectations -

"Adil is...the savior?"

Ligeia on the side repeated in disbelief, cursing bluntly: "Are you idiots? Do you know what savior means?"

These ritualists of Paradise City, who are extremely loyal to their benevolent master, have found the answer.

——They actually regarded Adil as the savior and worshipped him madly!
(End of this chapter)