Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 1279 Haina's Enlightenment
"...Become a pillar god?"

Haena repeated in disbelief.

She subconsciously clenched her fists and placed them in front of her chest.

——No matter when or where, she never had such a ridiculous idea!

No, that's not right.

...Really not?
At that moment, Haina thought of the thought that came to her mind when Aiwass told her the story of the Silver Crown Dragon: He can replace it.

Now that the opportunity has really come, will she choose to back down?

Haina was silent for a long time, but her expression became firm.

She asked, "Why me?"

Gray Tiansi just smiled and pointed to the shattered sky: "How many Tiansi do you think there are there?"

"...One?"

Haina turned around and looked at the floating giant whale again, and said uncertainly.

Could it be two?

Or does it mean that Gray Tiansi, who is not sure whether he is still alive or has been resurrected and can walk freely in the material world, also needs to be counted among them?
“It could be one person or many people.”

Gray Sky replied: "The Curtain of Balance that was broken during the Tail Ring Ceremony is not something that can be passed only once."

Hearing this, almost everyone present was shocked.

They all understood what Hui Tiansi meant.

"Autolycus, you mean to say..."

Hassan, who plays Arthur, turned around in astonishment and looked at his best friend whom he had known for many years but seemed to have never really met: "Are you going to use the rituals of the good masters to summon other celestial beings down?"

As an orthodox mage, Hassan is not very proficient in rituals, but as the saying goes, one can master one thing and one can master many things. Walking on the path of wisdom, it is inevitable that one will pay attention to the mysterious skills of other paths. Curiosity and thirst for knowledge are the essence of the source of truth.

"Is this kind of thing possible?"

Haina was stunned: "Who are you going to call down? The Heavenly Knight? But I am no longer a transcendent of the Path of Authority... I mean a transcendent of the Path of War..."

She glanced at Hassan subconsciously.

If it wasn't me, then it could only be Hassan, the actor who played "Arthur".

The mage Hassan at the side heard this and his expression gradually became serious: "If necessary... for the truth, I am willing to sacrifice myself for it."

Becoming a celestial being, in most cases, means losing one's physical body.

Therefore, if one wants to complete the ritual of the Ring of the Tail and summon the Celestial Being to the material world, the first thing to do is to provide a body that can accommodate the power of the Celestial Being.

Normally, only top-level transcendents of the same path can become sacrifices. Otherwise, they will inevitably be incompatible and unable to fully accommodate the entire soul of the Heavenly Master.

The god that Hassan can accommodate is, of course, the god of geometry on the path of wisdom.

But he was still a little worried: "It's just... my energy level is still a little lower."

Considering the identity of the carrier of the Celestial Master, his power is still a little weak.

"it does not matter."

Gray Sky Master Autolycus said with a smile.

His understated support and approval also meant pushing Hassan onto a dead end from which there was no turning back: "As the master recognized by the Fire Tetrahedron, you can make up for the lack of compatibility here. After all, Geometry Master had already set up a backup plan for the lower world... If someone can gather the four polyhedrons he left behind, then he will automatically become the carrier of Geometry Master."

Autolycus' words were not difficult to understand. In an extreme case, it was like using the sacred entity "Aivas" as a carrier to summon Huan Tiansi, so whether he was a transcendent or not, the ritual could be completed. It was impossible that because Aiwas had not embarked on the path of transcendence, his affinity with Huan Tiansi would be worse than that of the giant prince who had transcended the fifth energy level of the path.

Haina also understood the hidden meaning of his words.

——It is for this reason that Haina can become the carrier of the Knight Lancelot.

"……I see."

She exhaled, and her whole body relaxed: "I was saying, I feel like I forgot something..."

——Do you want to become a pillar god?

There is another sentence hidden in this sentence.

That is, Haena must die in the material world first.

As a human, her path was very complicated. She was not a pure life form like the Son of the Moon or the Griffin, so she could not directly become a Pillar God.

There is no possibility at all.

She must first enter the River of Dreams and use the power of the source river to reshape the body of Tiansi before she can obtain a relatively pure phantom demon body.

This means that she needs to die once first.

Therefore, there is actually another way to understand what Gray Tiansi said:
——Are you ready to die?
"Let alone making me a pillar god or a celestial minister... even if I were to become the king of the material world like Lancelot I... I would be a little hesitant to tell you the truth."

Haina said softly: "Even if I am already at the fifth level... the so-called 'strong man' has reached the same level as Lancelot I was back then, the answer is the same. This has nothing to do with maturity, vision, or courage - I think I am afraid that I will not make any progress in another ten or twenty years.

"Even when I reach the sixth level, die in the future and become an apostle or a celestial minister, I will still hesitate if you ask me this question again. Yes, I have such an understanding of myself. After all, I am a person who may fail in everything I do, a cursed person who can't even remember time."

She laughed at herself, and a faint green flame gradually ignited in the bottom of her pupils, with the outer edge of the flame having a faint yellowish color.

This is a deep reflection of her personality - compared to the confusion and drifting when she just graduated, Haina now feels that everything in front of her is happy enough. She hopes that the world will continue to run like this, just like her hometown Eagle Point Village, which has remained unchanged since ancient times.

However, at this moment, a deep and tiny purple gradually ignited in the deepest part.

"——But it's not that I feel I can't shoulder this responsibility, or that I don't deserve this power. I just think from the bottom of my heart... maybe there is a better choice than me."

Haina said seriously: "I don't think I have all the necessary abilities to be a monarch or a god. I can't be a god who brings happiness - I don't have the ability to make everyone happy. This world is like a troublesome paperwork processing position: every time one thing is completed, three things will appear again. Therefore, I can never be fully prepared, and there will always be better choices than me in any field.

"…However, this does not mean that I will shirk the responsibility that has fallen on me."

As Haina spoke, the deep purple in her pupils flickered and grew a little bigger.

She raised her head, staring at the giant whale swimming in the sky, and whispered, "No matter who gives me the task, I will do my best to complete it. No matter if I have the confidence or not - even if I feel desperate and think it is an absolutely impossible task, I will not give up until the moment I am sure of complete failure... and I will not stop."

This is Haena's decision.

"I don't have the confidence to do anything well, because I know I'm not good enough. But I have the seriousness and responsibility to never give up on anything. I'm not prepared to be a good monarch or a good god... But if I'm prepared to die, then I've already done it."

At this point, the purple in Haina's pupils jumped again, and now accounted for more than half of the pupils. This made her pupils completely turn into a strange mixture of purple and dim yellow.

Just like the sky at dusk.

Haina smiled brightly and touched her head: "I don't know what my colleagues think... But at the beginning, when I first became an inspector... I had already made up my mind before I graduated."

At this point, she paused.

The purple at the bottom of her pupils expanded again for a moment, even turning slightly red. Then the purple was completely swallowed up by the green again, and then by the purple again the next moment. The resonance of the two powers of the path intertwined back and forth, but Haina did not react at all, and did not feel any discomfort.

"——I wrote my suicide note the day I started my job as an inspector."

Haina answered word by word.

(End of this chapter)