Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 1200 Aiwass: So you are also...

Unexpectedly, this city gave Aiwas a good feeling.

If you were to use one word to describe this city...then the keyword would unexpectedly be "civilized".

In this barbaric and sinful desert, there is such a quiet and peaceful city, which really changed Aiwas's opinion of Adil.

He did not have a preconceived notion that Adil was his enemy and hated everything about him. The relaxed, peaceful and natural state of life of people can explain their comfort.

That is definitely not the kind of happiness that an ambitious "feudal monarch" can bring to people. It is also definitely not something that a pure lunatic who tries to brainwash people and make them worship him like a god can do.

Both Aiwas and Shark were extremely beautiful, and they were not wearing the clothes of the people of Anxi, but the priest robes of the Nine-Pillar Church and the long skirts of Avalon style. At first glance, they were foreigners who had just arrived in Anxi.

But even so, the local residents here were quite friendly to them - they neither tried to commit various forms of crimes against them, nor crowded around to sell them anything, nor simply avoided them.

Aiwass and Shark did not kneel down or pray to Adil's statue... but there were no nosy people in the city who rushed out to ask them to obey the city's rules.

They are neither timid nor malicious; neither flattering nor xenophobic, they just glance curiously when passing by... This just shows that they have a strong sense of self-confidence.

They walked slowly through the city, passing through a street, and met many people, the density of which was definitely far more than "three hundred free people".

Obviously, there were quite a few slaves among them. They were all slaves with owners, not "ownerless slaves" living underground... But from the appearance, Aiwass couldn't accurately judge who was the master and who was the slave.

On the streets, there were many huge copper plates, about three or four meters in diameter and only half the height of an adult human.

There were some delicious food in it - baked naan, stewed chickpeas, stewed lamb, each copper plate was filled with a kind of food, and some small copper plates were filled with honey and salt. Many people gathered around, putting food into bags or eating directly with their hands.

In addition to humans, Aiwass also saw other races here.

The dwarves stood on the stone benches, eating big mouthfuls of mutton with toasted naan; the harpies concentrated on eating the meat, their mouths full of oil; the lizardmen and snakemen did not like to eat together with others, but mixed a small amount of meat with chickpeas and packed it up to take away.

Aiwass even saw an elf - an elf woman dressed in a white veil was slowly holding a spoon and eating stewed chickpeas one spoonful at a time.

People kept bringing in bucket after bucket of food, and it took two people working together to pour the food from the huge buckets into the copper plates - what surprised Aiwas the most was that those buckets were actually some kind of thin stainless steel!

He felt as if he had returned to his previous life, back to the cafeteria of his workplace or school.

...The iron smelting technology of Paradise City is probably much better than that of Avalon and Iris.

Although Star Antimony's technological level is much higher than this, its civilian popularity is even lower - because the alchemists' investors are eager to see them bring them income, so these civilian technologies with poor profit margins are not very popular.

They prefer the luxury goods that nobles are willing to spend a lot of money on - such as the cars running around on the streets of Xingti, the mechanical dolls that are very similar to humans and can act autonomously, the lifelike flying jewel birds, the anti-theft and monitoring systems that can defend the manor... or high-quality building and clothing materials. As for innovation at the metal level, the Royal Alchemy Association is more inclined to the military industry, and all the high-quality metals developed are kept as confidential technology.

For the nobles, because gold and silver tableware can replace stainless steel tableware and show wealth, this "cheap metal" is not popular among investors.

Aiwas has seen similar technology in many places in Xingti, but perhaps due to cost issues, it has never been popularized among the public.

The first time I saw ordinary people using this level of civilian technology on a large scale was in the ancient slave-owning Parthia...

Ai Hua suddenly felt a little overwhelmed.

The food tasted really good, so much so that Aiwas went up to take some and symbolically fed Shark Sha - Shark Sha had a big appetite, so this level of nutrition was definitely not enough.

She can now eat at least one cow every day... and compared to her fighter-like supersonic flight capability, this energy conversion efficiency is already incredibly high.

However, after she turned into a human, she entered an energy-saving state...her food intake would be much lower. Normally, she would maintain this state in the carriage to save food consumption.

The transformation from Aleister gave Leviathan a new ability - the ability to draw strength from blood, just like the Son of the Moon. Before flying to Paradise City, Aiwass used his own blood to simply shepherd the shark.

The power of the path drawn from Aiwas's blood is much higher than these foods. It is the purest and most efficient energy.

The only thing that made Aiwas a little uncomfortable was that the colors of these foods were too bright.

Without exception, all the mutton was bright red - that's fine, just think of it as being fried with sugar color, it looked pretty good.

But the beans are green.

It was a stew of chickpeas and lentils cooked to a soft paste with dill, mint and honey. The taste made Aiwass's expression quite subtle, and the color was a fluorescent green that reminded Aiwass of apple-flavored Mirinda. This strange colored paste reminded people of Indian food.

The color of the baked naan is quite strange. It is not brown, gold or white... it is purple, and looks like it is made of purple sweet potato. It can also be said to be grape-flavored Miranda.

The cheese is blue like blueberry jam, the salt is pink, and the honey is an unusually brilliant golden orange - so this returns to the classic orange flavor.

This was Adil's method of detecting whether any slaves were secretly eating the free food. He added a special, indigestible dye to the food, which would clearly mark up in the feces.

These foods are all glowing!

It wasn't the kind of glow that Little Chef had, but a strong fluorescent light. It was so bright that Aiwass even suspected that there was some radioactive substance in it. After Shark Shark ate it, she opened her mouth and even her tongue turned bright red.

Aiwass suddenly remembered that he had eaten a kind of candy when he was a child. After eating it, his tongue would change color just like this.

Thinking about it this way, I still miss it a little bit...

At this moment, the crowd in the distance suddenly became noisy.

Aiwass could hear the excited Parthian language mixed with various dialects from a distance. Aiwass didn't understand Parthian language very well, so he didn't quite understand what they were saying. He just vaguely understood words like "Adil", "Good Lord", and "Praise" from the words he could understand.

Adil is here?

Aiwass frowned slightly, but he was not surprised. After all, the good master must have spies all over the city, and there were ritualists and astrologers responsible for surveillance.

But Aiwass himself had no intention of hiding. He did not even ask Isabel to use magic to change his appearance, he just hid the overly conspicuous antlers on his head.

At this moment, Aiwass suddenly noticed something——

Shark suddenly tightened her grip on Aiwass, which meant that she felt a flash of hostility. The instinctive sense of the Path of Love was much stronger than that of the Path of Devotion and Transcendence. Just like the Moon Children could sense in advance the enemies who intended to harm them.

Aiwas looked in the direction of Shark, but unexpectedly found that it was not Shanzhu's man.

He was a boy who looked to be about 17 or 18 years old. He wore a straw hat that covered most of his face, and held a clay pot filled with water in his hands.

His eyes passed by Aiwas and looked in the direction where Adil was coming from.

The crowd surrounding Adil slowly moved towards this side. Some people stood and trotted after the crowd. Some people immediately knelt on the ground, bowing and kowtowing devoutly.

Eight tall, solemn-looking trolls were carrying a huge sedan chair. It was made of pure gold and lapis lazuli, and decorated with a large amount of rubies and amber. The sedan chair was carved with some rather abstract murals, and the door of the sedan chair was written with protective runes.

In front of them were two elves, a man and a woman, dressed in priestly attire, solemnly waving long staffs in their hands. There were copper bells at the tops of the staffs, which emitted mysterious sounds. Behind them were four snake-man priests, who clapped or stamped their feet in unison every three steps, uttering a unison, ballad-like praise.

Adil sat on the cushioned throne - his appearance was exactly the same as the statue, and even had a hint of divinity. That was the "smell of incense" he had acquired from being worshipped and sacrificed to for a long time when he was alive.

Everyone retreated and knelt down in unison. Aiwass and Leviathan, who stood still, were immediately exposed and stood out.

And Aiwas had no intention of hiding his identity. He just raised his head and looked at Adil carefully.

At this moment, Aiwass' pupils condensed slightly.

He suddenly noticed the decoration behind Adil's throne.

It was a huge pure gold ring that looked like a halo suspended behind a god, emitting a dazzling glow under the shining sun.

But Aiwass clearly realized that it was not as simple as a circle.

——He saw the carvings on the ring clearly.

That's the Ouroboros.

That is the symbol of Huantiansi, its "tail-holding ring"!
And a more familiar feeling came along with the hymns sung by the snake-men priests—

"You will celebrate my death, you will sing my holiness. You will hold a celebration, you will hold a scepter high..."

Aiwass remembers it clearly.

——That is the hymn in the Shepherd’s Tantra.

(End of this chapter)