Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 1270: The Words of the Twin Mirror
The praises that rang out from the depths of the holy spring now reached the sky.

Words are powerful, powerful enough to kill the sun, and ancient poetry is anointed with the oil of beauty.

It is a tool for sacrifice, an unsolidified beauty, and flowing wisdom.

"I praise the Twin Mirror, the god without eyes and without self, pure and flawless!"

Aymar Nur chanted loudly and struck the lake with the holy staff in his hand.

Even the most arrogant and arrogant lords maintained a dignified and pious posture at this moment.

Everyone was chanting in low voices the poem praising the twin mirrors. Their postures were different, but no matter which one they took, they could feel the "tranquility" in it.

More and more white smoke came out silently, it was cold smoke.

They wrap around the skin and feel as cold as jade.

The praises did not stop, but when everyone entered a state of emptiness, consciousness suddenly disappeared.

Aiwass felt like he had come to a mysterious world made up of infinite fog.

He felt like he was flying high in the sky, with strong wind blowing on his body.

Then, the feeling of imbalance suddenly became stronger. The violent wind gave me a suffocating feeling, and my brain became clear in an instant.

Aiwass felt his hair fluttering back at him, and his body instinctively spread out the six white wings of the winged being.

At this moment, a voice that Aiwas seemed to have heard from somewhere sounded softly in his ears:

"—know yourself."

The voice was as ethereal as the wind and as gentle as water. But when Aiwass heard it, he felt it was like an illusion, or even as if it had happened.

It suddenly occurred to Aiwass that he had indeed heard this sound.

That was the voice of the twin mirrors that he had heard during the promotion ceremony to become a blood slave of the Moon Child.

As the voice sounded, another person suddenly appeared in front of Aiwass.

He was extremely handsome and quite young, with his eyes full of caution and confidence.

——Who is this? Who does the twin mirror want me to see?

Such thoughts instinctively flowed through Aiwas's mind.

But then, Aiwass looked at "himself" opposite him and suddenly realized... this was the "mirror".

The man opposite was not Huan Tiansi, nor was he Ai Shiping. He was not a shepherd, and not even Aleister.

He is Aiwass himself.

It is another self reflected in the mirror.

——Yes, Aiwass is not familiar with himself at all. He rarely looks in the mirror, but often looks at others seriously. The way he distinguishes the person opposite him is not even to recognize "it's me", but to exclude "it's not them".

...Do I really not understand myself at all?
When Aiwass realized this, a gorgeous mirror outline appeared next to the "Aiwass" on the opposite side.

He was standing in front of a huge floor-to-ceiling mirror, and the outline of the floor-to-ceiling mirror was like a clock. Aiwass heard a clear clicking sound... It was as if a clock was constantly urging him, "The time is almost up," "It's almost too late."

Aiwass was feeling a little annoyed, so he wanted to turn around and leave.

But he had only turned half of his body when he suddenly hit a wall.

And at this moment, he realized... he was unable to leave the scene displayed by the floor-to-ceiling mirror!
...So, is that it or myself in the mirror?
"——Don't do anything in excess."

The voice of the twin mirrors sounded softly again.

At that moment, Aiwass felt like a gust of wind or a cloud of fog hugged him from behind.

He turned his head subconsciously, but it was so illusory that it disappeared without a trace the moment it touched him.

When Aiwas turned around again, he found that the mirror had disappeared.

It became a door.

Opposite the wide-open door was a mountain range burning with flames and filled with smoke.

The mountains are studded with weapons, and at the highest point of the mountains there is a castle.

"This is……"

Aiwass murmured.

...Dream world? But where is this...

He had no idea what this scene meant. This was difficult for Aiwass, who was proficient in the knowledge of the dream world and mastered advanced divine arts and strategies from his previous life, to understand.

However, on the other hand...

If Aiwass didn't know it at all, this might really be something new.

——Is this the realm of red disaster?
"…Are you trying to tell me that this is the enemy I should defeat?"

Aiwass looked across and said slowly: "No problem, leave it to me. I will do it."

"--No."

The twin mirror reappeared, and the voice became Isabel's.

She hugged Aiwass again from behind.

This time, Aiwass could even clearly feel Isabel's touch and temperature, smell her scent, and catch a glimpse of Isabel's hair from the corner of his eye. No matter from which angle, this was Isabel.

But he knew clearly that this couldn't possibly be Isabel...

Then Aiwass suddenly reacted: "Is this a dream?"

Mirror. Door. Dream.

This is the triple true nature of the twin mirror.

It is a channel connecting this and that, true and false, illusion and reality.

"——If you make a false oath, disaster is near."

Isabel's voice rang softly behind Aiwass: "People cannot predict the future, so there is no need to advance the present... Aiwass, you have put too much burden on yourself. Those things are not all your responsibility."

"…You mean, let me relax a little?"

Aiwass understood why the Twin Mirror came here.

What she wanted to say to herself.

It's like a mother, looking at her child who is holding on with heartache, saying - it doesn't matter if you can't hold on. If it really doesn't work, just come back.

——But how can Aiwass let it go?
Aiwass could know the good intentions of the Twin Mirror.

But at this point, he has no way back and will never allow himself to fail.

He shook his head slightly and replied, "The maxims of the prophets warn that mortals cannot predict the future... This does not mean that mortals cannot glimpse a corner of the future. In fact, such foresight is not rare. What this sentence really means is that mortals cannot see all the possibilities of the future.

“The future is constantly changing, and will continue to change as long as it is known.”

It is just like what was said on the Moon Card that Aiwas chose when he first created the Phantom Card to seal the Shadow Demon.

Now, after going around in circles, we are back to the beginning.

"—but that is also why the future belongs to those who believe in it."

Aiwass replied slowly: "Everything is easy, except the easy."

At this moment, Aiwass remembered the words of the Lord of Scales and Feathers:
[‘Transmutation’ represents the constant nature of all things changing…what goes up will eventually go down, and what goes down will eventually go up. Everything changes and flows, and nothing can change.]

This is exactly the answer given by Huantiansi.

Let everything change - let everything change constantly. Whether it is good or bad, civilized or barbaric, stable or chaotic...

As long as everything keeps changing, the system will continue to become more and more chaotic. Countless variables are constantly generated, and infinite differences are constantly increasing... This is the strategy that Huan Tiansi intends to use to fight against nothingness.

If nothingness means that everything will return to nothingness, then we only need to make the speed of increase greater than the speed of nothingness to maintain a relative balance. Huan Tiansi wants to make the whole world chaotic, let randomness fill every field, and destroy all solidification, rules, predictions, and theorems.

And this is exactly what the Twin Mirror wants to see.

She is the God of Difference. An ancient god who has survived from the old times. If it were not for her grace and kindness, the new civilization would never have been able to develop to this level.

It is because Twin Mirror has realized that the old civilization is not feasible that she wants to take a new path.

More possibilities means a higher chance of success.

——But Aiwass didn't intend to do that.

"Infinite possibilities... just for the sake of infinite infinity, isn't this just a meaningless proliferation?"

Aiwass shook his head. "In my opinion, this is just feeding food to the void. The larger the scale of meaningless proliferation, the larger the scale of 'meaninglessness' will be. If the void eventually devours the infinite, then it will achieve 'infinite nothingness'.

"It would be better to trap Xuwu here and let everyone die together."

His pupils were like the burning sun.

The twin mirrors were also helpless.

"Isabel" gently touched Aiwas' cheek and disappeared like a dream bubble.

"These are the three pieces of advice I give you. I hope you will at least not embark on the 'wrong' path."

The twin mirror's voice became vague and unreal again: "But now it seems... you have walked your own path.

“That’s good.

"I wish you the best, Aiwass. May you always be happy."

The next moment, the suffocating feeling of the strong wind that was constantly moving forward suddenly reversed.

He felt himself flying backwards rapidly, accompanied by a strong sense of weightlessness.

He returned to reality in an instant, just in time to hear Aymar Noor's final prayer, whose voice had become hoarse:

"Great Navel of the World, Mother of the World! Shelter our ship through the rift in the abyss!

"Gaia——"

The good Lords shouted out the true name of the Twin Mirror together.

At this time, it covered the stone slabs, statues, and fountains throughout the resting place.

The dark yellow runes symbolizing the abyss lit up at the same time.

——The Tail Ring Ceremony has begun.

(End of this chapter)