Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 1259: The Brave Ismaili

It was not a statue or plaster statue in the ordinary sense, nor was it a yellow stone statue petrified by petrification. Instead, it was a bit like the style of an old black-and-white movie.

Everyone's color was completely stripped away, leaving only black, white, and varying shades of gray.

They maintained their previous movements and were sealed out of thin air.

Some people sneered at Aiwass, some were chatting with others with laughter, and some were looking at Aiwass with fiery eyes.

But at this moment, none of them could speak.

It was as if the whole world had frozen.

The people and objects protected by Aiwass's preservation technique are still dim.

The people around Ismail all turned into black, white and gray.

In the entire world, he and Aiwass were the only two people with colors. Apart from them, there was no fifth color.

Even the Good Lord - even Mahidefraun had no power to resist and was instantly swallowed up by this power!

Mahid Furlong maintained the posture of riding on the elephant and turned into a gray statue with its legs crossed.

As a good master, Mahidefraun must have enough equipment to protect himself. But they didn't work at all... They didn't even last for a moment before they all collapsed.

What kind of power is this!
This incomprehensible power made Ismail feel a great fear.

It was like when you were surfing on the sandy sea, and the wave that just passed by suddenly turned into a hideous living creature. A huge human head popped out of it, smiled at you... and then turned around and smashed the next wave of people following behind to pieces on the spot.

On the other side, Aiwass let out a breath.

The experiment was successful.

At least it's not the worst case scenario - compared to being completely ineffective, having one's mana drained instantly, or having the passage to the dream world opened the moment of summoning... Forced summoning of a phantom card that is beyond the "version" means that the amber cannot be fully revealed, but part of the divine power can be used. This already makes Aiwas very satisfied.

Aiwass stared at the cards in his hand and gently wiped the little girl who was smiling at him peacefully like a mother.

Just now, for a brief moment, Inanna was indeed summoned down, and the space even shattered because of it. But she only existed for a moment and then disappeared. But in just such a moment, her summoning effect had already taken effect.

The card has also entered CD, proving that the summoning just now was indeed successful.

The power that gives people an "old photo filter" or "portrait filter" should be the "end of civilization" state. After these people were petrified, the space cracks around Aiwass were quickly restored. This means that it would not directly poke a hole in the wall of balance that could not be repaired, allowing the power of nothingness to leak in.

They only appeared for two or three seconds in total, and those huge cracks that were longer than Aiwass's legs suddenly changed back one by one like eyes slowly closing.

But at least, it really works!
At least it can be used as a spell card.

At worst, it will just become the purest cannon-throwing creature - just pretend that Aiwass's hand speed is infinitely fast, and the cannon-throwing creature will be cancelled the moment it hits the ground.

The only pity is that Little Amber didn't even exist for half a second. Otherwise, she could have learned from Little Crow and forced herself to transform into a traveling form and stay in the material world.

It was at this time that Aiwas finally noticed the only survivor.

“It’s you…?”

He was startled.

On the contrary, it was Ismaili, who was the one who cursed the harshest at the beginning, who survived to the end.

"—are you there, Inanna?"

Aiwass tried to establish a connection with Little Amber in his mind: "What's going on?"

Logically speaking, as long as he successfully summoned Amber once, even if he took her back afterwards, he would be able to establish a connection with her before summoning a new beast of sin.

"Because he is the only one who has no hostility or murderous intentions, I don't think he is an enemy."

After a long time, a timid yet reassuring childish voice sounded from Aiwas's heart: "Also, Master...Father...Mother...Teacher...How should I call you?"

"Just call me teacher."

The voice in Aiwass's heart was pure and gentle, even a little bit ambiguous: "When we signed the contract, our fates were already connected. You can see my heart and my memory... so you should also know that I am also a snake."

It was the kind of voice you would instinctively raise when you saw a cute child or a small animal.

At this moment, a panicked and embarrassed voice was heard -

"…Sir. Your Excellency… No, Your Majesty."

Ismail became as humble as a dog, without any of the arrogance of the previous master. He even knelt on the ground and moved over on his knees - anyway, no one else around saw him: "Thank you for your mercy... Thank you for the gift of life -"

"It's all right, brave Ismail. You have earned your survival."

Thinking of Amber's words, Aiwass said in a calm and harmonious tone: "I didn't want to save anyone in particular - it's better to say that these people want to be my enemy. You have no hostility towards me, right?" Hearing this, Ismail was stunned for a moment.

He realized something.

In reality, Ismail was much smarter than he appeared. The brash and arrogant image he created for himself was only about 70% true.

The inheritance of the benevolent master's contract can only rely on the death of the previous benevolent master. This is a secret known only to the benevolent master, and ordinary people do not know it.

But in the story of Ismail, there is a clear mention of "fighting and dueling with his father". If there were no such story, the story of his fight with a lion when he was young would not be believed because it was too legendary.

His "father" defeated the lion in full view of everyone and reconciled with him.

Since someone could defeat three lions when he was old, then defeating one lion when he was young didn't seem to be a big deal. In addition, the "former leader" personally apologized in front of it and vowed to reconcile with him, so he naturally obtained the title and the identity of an innocent hero, which reduced the public dissatisfaction caused by his usurpation of the throne.

Therefore that man could not be Ismail's father—or at least not a living father.

That was a puppet he resurrected using forbidden magic and his father's corpse.

Although his father was a good ruler, he was revered by the people - not with love, but with respect and awe.

Because he was particularly good at conquest and always won, he constantly launched endless wars against other city-states and completely swallowed up their wealth and population. This allowed his people to live a relatively wealthy life and have cheap slaves to serve them.

Ismail came to power by killing his elderly father.

Ismail did not like his father's crazy foreign wars. Unlike his war-crazed father and his own image as a bad boy, as the benevolent master of Ark City, he had been reading since he was a child. There were many libraries thousands of years old in Ark City, and Ismail was actually a very knowledgeable person.

He was deeply aware that if a person walks in the desert, he will sooner or later step into quicksand.

Although they always won, they would lose sooner or later, and as my father got older, their war became more and more reluctant.

Those who have never lost are the most unable to accept failure.

So he had to find an excuse for his father to prevent the Ark City from falling apart. So he thought of such a good play - through the play of fatherly love and filial piety performed with the father played by the "father", he would let him "personally" hand over the power to himself.

After he took over, Ark City only plundered from the surrounding areas and no longer caused large-scale city-state wars. The frequency of plundering gradually decreased, and he began to control the trade routes to collect protection fees and obtain funds in a more gentle way.

This gave people a break from the continuous wars, but it also made some of the stronger men who served his father and were older than him feel dissatisfied.

Unlike the benevolent masters of small cities, Ark City is like a big country. There are many powerful people in a big country, and the power of the benevolent master is diluted - they can change jobs at any time. Just like the benevolent master of Holy Spring City, he also exiled himself to the fourth ring... If he lived in the third ring, he would have clashed with the powerful people here long ago.

Those he brought to Shengquan City this time were the old men who had served his father - Ismail planned to bury these people here with the help of Yuantiansi and other good masters.

That's why he played the role of an arrogant and domineering person, deliberately letting them touch Aiwass's barrier but never actually attacking or destroying it.

They rationalize their abnormal behavior and try to gain benefits from it. This is the same logic as when Ismaili seized power.

It doesn't matter if the trick is old, as long as it is useful.

Because of this, he had no hostility towards Aiwass from the very beginning.

Although he was looking for trouble on purpose, Ismail had actually been waiting for Aiwas to attack him.

If Aiwas had followed the normal procedure, Ismail would have directly given these people to Aiwas as slaves.

...It was precisely because of this calculation that Ismail managed to avoid being petrified by Little Amber.

Even Aiwass initially misjudged his personality - although Aiwass did vaguely feel a sense of disharmony, he did not think about it that way. After all, it was reasonable for a good leader to be domineering and arrogant.

But he didn't expect that this was actually a person who could drink a lot and was pretending to be drunk. His purpose was to end the war and make people live more safely and comfortably.

Although any normal good person would have this kind of thought in places other than Anxi, in a magical place like Anxi, especially when one is born in a good place, the moral level is already frighteningly high.

After listening to Ismail's story, Aiwas was a little surprised: "You are the most normal good man I have ever met... You are worthy of the name of 'brave man'."

"I think... maybe it's because I read more books than them. It may also be because I was teased and toyed with by my father when I was very young, which made me more sober. After all, I was not my father's most valued child. I was not educated as a good master... but as a 'slave' to protect my brothers."

Ismail smiled bitterly. The pride on his face was completely gone. He looked more like a philosopher. "But... I thought, I thought the prophecy in "Rest" was just a legend... or a hoax. It turns out that there really is a savior..."

When he first heard that Master Mahidfrau suspected that Aiwass was the savior, he categorically denied it - this part was not his acting or his character setting.

Ismail was so excited because he was truly shaken, even angry and confused. He reached the sixth energy level at a young age, which means he is definitely not a person who upholds tradition.

On the one hand, Ismaili hoped that Aiwas could indeed change the status quo in Shabbat.

But on the other hand...Ismail wished Aiwass had never appeared.

——If there is a savior in this world who can redeem everything, then what are these people who are vaguely aware of destruction and devote their heart and soul to it?
Is it a joke? Or a foil?
But now the miracle is at hand.

He had to believe it.

(End of this chapter)