Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 1248 The Broken Cake
The baker didn't even seem to resist, he just spread his hands and said calmly, "What else, Miss Knight?

"——Everything in the Ascension Ceremony is fake. The buildings are fake, the land is fake, and the people inside are fake. Everything is just a stage prop, just like the materials for the ceremony."

Facing Haina's questioning, the man just spoke calmly, took out a cigar from his arms, lit it with the flame of his index finger, and blew it out, puffing out a puff of smoke.

When he opened his eyes, his simple and reliable temperament suddenly turned into the majesty of a gang leader.

"And, are you mistaken about something, Miss Knight?"

The man's voice was low and vague, with an unquestionable firmness and undisguised fatigue: "We are enemies, aren't we?
"If I remember correctly, it was the New Moon Ritual. The main purpose of the New Moon Ritual is to kill each other... You entered the New Moon Ritual voluntarily, right? Shouldn't you be prepared to kill everyone?
"In that case, what's wrong with me lying to you? Hum... I'm a ritualist. You don't want me to duel with you, do you? Don't you think that's unfair?"

The Baker sneered and exhaled a puff of smoke. "Prepare the ritual materials silently, and use the least number of people to make the most powerful materials. To do this, you have to inspire their strong emotions. What does emotion mean? It means the impulse of the Tao... It also means power. It means the opportunity to defeat the strong with the weak, and it means victory and transcendence."

"—No, that means sin."

Haina said in a deep voice, raising the lightning sword in her hand.

"Oh?"

The baker laughed and said, "So? Miss Knight of Avalon, are you going to judge me for my fictional crimes? Judge a high priest? Oh, I have to admit... I am indeed surprised that you were able to find me directly from reality. I am even a little scared.

"If I'm not mistaken, your master should have just killed Aziz not long ago. Thank him so much for giving me the opportunity to go further... But have you ever thought about what it means to kill the left and right emcees of the same master in a few days?"

The man in childish little girl's clothes was holding a cigar in his mouth. He was not afraid of Haina's attacking posture at all. His body was completely relaxed.

The Baker laughed wildly, "Do you really trust your master so much that he won't hand you over? There is no good ending for being an enemy of Aymar Nur! Even if it's the Pope of the Theocracy, ask her if she dares to come here?
"What a naive little girl. Is this how the people of Avalon educate you? No wonder the people in that land can't achieve anything. Such a powerful transcendent has been educated by them to be so naive. So... ridiculous."

The baker sneered and looked at Haina pitifully: "How strong are you now, 'Knight'? Fourth energy level? Or... fifth energy level? My master is a true sixth energy level transcendent. And he is about to become a great existence of the sixth energy level of the dual path, the agent of Tiansi! Where is your master?"

"I'm not a dog."

Haina's eyes gradually turned cold, but her angry expression gradually calmed down: "I won't compete with other dogs for the power of my master."

The chaotic electric light dancing in her long ponytail gradually became stable, and the electric light in her pupils and on the sword blade also became dazzling.

——【Elephant Charge】!
The next moment, Haina rushed forward with the power of a giant elephant, crushing the earth!

The golden barrier on the surface of the "Paper Maker" shattered in an instant, and the sword blade with electric light easily pierced through the baker's abdomen like a hot knife piercing butter!

A sword pierces through.

Then he drew out the sword, pierced the heart again, and lifted the "Pastry Maker" slightly away from himself.

The process is clean, neat and elegant.

But there was no trace of fear or pain on the "baker's" face.

"I said..."

He just laughed, letting the blood stain the cigar in his mouth: "You don't think... I am more fragile in reality than in the ritual, right?"

Suddenly, the "cake maker" spit out the cigar mixed with blood like a bullet towards Haina, but Haina dodged it perfectly by slightly tilting her head.

But that's it.

The "baker"'s body suddenly began to twist.

With a sharp scream, his body shrank as if it was leaking air. In the blink of an eye, it turned into the dying body of a female dwarf.

This pajamas fits her perfectly.

The dwarf opened his eyes wide and stared at Haina with horror and despair.

Although she was a female dwarf...but Haina's eyes were blurry and she mistook her for a human girl.

This made Haina open her eyes suddenly and fall into a brief state of shock.

The next moment, the dwarf suddenly opened his mouth extremely wide—opening his mouth more than one hundred and eighty degrees.

A hideous, deformed, twisted crimson arm suddenly stretched out from it.

The sharp purple nails scratched towards Haina's face!
There is no doubt that it is extremely poisonous and can kill instantly if it strikes blood.

Although she was in a trance for a moment, Haina's body moved on its own - she drew out the sword, kicked the dwarf's corpse far away, and at the same time used the force to dodge backwards, raised the sword and cut off the arm of the deformed demon!
——And at this moment, the cigar behind her suddenly glowed and exploded!
That was the cigar that the "cake maker" had spit onto her back!
The explosion did not spark fire, but instead produced countless crimson spells. Haina was unable to stand still in the air, so she turned into a ball of lightning, readjusted her position, and flew high into the sky!

When the spells failed to capture Haina, they quickly penetrated into the eyes and mouths of the guards covered in blood - it turned out that they were not dead, but were put into a state of suspended animation by a ritual after suffering fatal injuries.

At this moment, they were awakened at the same time, and amidst the continuous screams, the living bodies were dissolved and devoured. The spines like cats and worms were activated, wrapped in crimson runes and black and red smoke, and attacked Haina like tentacles!
While adjusting her body in the air, Haina took out a huge shield from behind her.

The shield was surrounded by golden flames. Her speed increased again as she sprayed them. Like a strange and fast lightning, she moved at high speed among the spine tentacles.

Like a fighter jet dogfight, she flew through the tentacle forest at a faster and faster speed. The shrieking sound like millions of birds chirping at the same time became louder and louder as she dived.

As each "corpse" melted away amid shrill screams, black lightning, white fireballs, and purple poison arrows formed wave after wave of barrages, but they could not even break through the increasingly dazzling lightning shell on Haina's body.

Then, the ground began to shake, and a giant hand covered in runes emerged from it.

As the fist opened, the dim yellow eyeball in the palm also opened.

The position of frozen time spread outward, forcing even the fast-moving Haina to stop.

Countless hideous white tentacles finally caught up and submerged Haina in an instant.

But at this moment.

Lily appeared in the corner silently.

Appearing with her is the "cake maker" hiding in the shadows.

He staggered out and looked at his chest in disbelief.

A slender and white right hand - which should have been a white hand - pierced through his chest and grasped his heart.

“This is your heart.”

Lily hugged him tenderly from behind, and stabbed his left eye with the eagle feather short blade pinched between the index and middle fingers of her left hand, while whispering: "First time meeting? Okay..."

She then gouged out the baker's left eye and said, "This is your left eye."

“—Aaaaaaaaaaaah!”

The cake maker screamed in pain and fear - he never expected that there would be a crazy hunter lying in ambush in the shadow world!

He could no longer care about Haina... Being entangled by a curse of the level of "Bone-Eating Curse", it was impossible to break free, and he would only be entangled to death. What he was thinking about now was how to escape from this terrifying humanoid monster...

“Drink!”

——But at this moment, Haina came through the air!

[Guardian Will (Gold): When you fight with your teammates, you cannot be controlled by the enemy. Each time this effect is triggered, the power of the next attack is doubled, and the "Guardian Will" is temporarily extinguished; when "Guardian Will: Extinguished", you gain 7% damage reduction. After taking seven hits from evil enemies, relight the "Guardian Will"]

The moment Lily broke out of her invisibility, the power from the Silver Crown Dragon suddenly pumped from her heart - that was the might of the previous Pillar God. The silver-white cold air that burst out froze the surrounding bones, allowing her to easily escape.

And Haina descended from the sky holding a huge shield and released the "momentum" that had been accumulated for a long time!

The Royal Guard can build up power through movement and defense, and unleash it all in the next attack!

This attack was doubled by the Guardian Will, turning into an extremely terrifying attack—

Lily swiftly dodged into the shadows and disappeared like water.

The cake maker, whose heart and left eye had been dug out and who was overwhelmed by the severe pain, was unable to dodge and was instantly shattered by Haina's giant silver shield!
Just like a flattened cake, he was beaten into a pulp without even being able to survive for a moment under the violently vibrating shield.

Haina's attack continued with unabated force, and she slammed her shield heavily to the ground.

The next moment, the earth twisted and shook.

Like a thick liquid, it rolls outward layer by layer and turns into waves.

The surrounding buildings shook and collapsed, visible ripples spread in all directions, and the water in the pool was instantly shaken into atomization, along with the corpses around it that had not been completely dissolved, and were shattered into pieces.

——There was an earthquake.

(End of this chapter)