Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 1286 The Battle of the Former Pillar Gods

In ancient times, there was a legend in various countries that if a person went to a certain place, he could enter the underworld.

There is also a saying that if you go to a high enough place... such as a tall enough tower or a high enough mountain peak, you can see the gods in the sky.

That is the evidence left over from when the material world and the dream world were connected in the past.

And at this moment, in this place.

The wondrous sights that had vanished are reappearing, and the material and dream realms are once again intertwined. A new "Twin Mirror" is briefly created, or perhaps summoned here, linking the inside and outside of the door and unlocking the lock that had been closed.

—This is a monumental undertaking that reaches to the heavens.

"hold head high--"

In a lull between his battle with the Crimson Calamity, as he brushed past the enormous mirror that cut through the sea, the Silver-Crowned Dragon suddenly exhaled a breath of white dragon breath.

It was like a spinning white cannonball, carrying a icy wind compressed to its limit, capable of freezing everything, flying from the mirror on the left to the material world on the right!
—Ice storm!

After passing through the lens, its volume was greatly reduced, but it still successfully reached the material world!

Through this briefly opened passage, the gods of the dream realm bypassed the barrier of balance and projected their power directly into the material world!
Although the power was diluted when it was transmitted through the "mirror", and although the Silver Crowned Dragon is not in a good state now and has even lost its position as a pillar god, and although the Silver Crowned Dragon was the weakest pillar god when it was in power... this is still an attack launched by the Silver Crowned Dragon!
When the power of the puck itself is diluted, it also means that the power that compresses it is diluted as well.

Therefore, the ice puck, which had shrunk in size, expanded and grew in the blink of an eye.

As it spun and flew toward the towering waves, the endless cold wind it carried froze the flooded seawater in an instant, covering it with a thick layer of white frost.

As it rotates at high speed, it continuously unleashes endless cold winds and sprays out countless ice spikes in all directions.

But instead of shrinking, it rapidly expanded and grew larger, constantly emanating an increasingly terrifying chill. As it approached, it even turned the surrounding buildings, which had been frozen by Aiwas's preservation spell and remained unscathed from Yuan Tiansi's tsunami attack, into dust.

As if crushed by some invisible pressure, it left a clear and abrupt white mark in the two-colored world of dim yellow and deep blue!
By the time it approached Yuantiansi, it had become enormous.

The ice puck slammed into the giant whale's body, instantly freezing and shattering its liquid-based form!
The giant whale let out a deafening cry of despair and slowly sank into the equally frozen sea cliffs.

Under the attack of the Silver Crown Dragon, which was not weakened too much by the Equilibrium Veil, Yuan Tiansi was finally injured for the first time!

This is a unique mechanism that even the ancient War of Punishment did not have.

In the past, the only connection to the High Heaven was the Giant King, and the only force opposing him was the Knights of the Round Table, led by Lancelot. The mirror reflected in the sky then showed the battle between the white dragon and the red bear echoing the mortal knights' challenge against the giants… If the High Heaven had had the opportunity to intervene in the material world, given its nature, it would probably have crushed the knights long ago.

After all, Arthur and the Dragon of Calamity did not completely sacrifice themselves in the past... Although the passage was opened, it was only partially opened. And only now has this ritual finally been truly completed.

This is an extension of pastoral practices—the words mentioned above are also secret words recorded in the pastoral tantras.

This is the gates and windows that are awakened by shepherding oneself to the twin mirrors.

The anchor wielding the holy sword is still Lancelot, but he has now achieved the position of Celestial Master.

And what he faced in the material world was no longer the Giant King… but the Descended Celestial. Fortunately, with the support of the Silver-Crowned Dragon, he wasn't entirely hopeless—

However, this attack was far from enough to defeat Yuan Tiansi.

The giant whale roared angrily, and its enormous body, composed of deep blue tentacles, turned into a terrifying black and red in the blink of an eye; while its head, which was originally a giant whale, turned into crystals and became a beautiful rainbow color.

During the ancient battle of punishment, Amber was a bystander; and now, Aiwass is observing this scene from inside the giant whale.

Of course he knew that this was Yuan Tiansi's true form—the berserk state he displayed after his life points dropped to less than half!
The tentacles that were originally transparent and had a texture like dark blue translucent jelly have now become solid.

What it contained was not muscle, but the blood of the former pillar god—or rather, the forbidden power in liquid form.

Its surface was no longer smooth and reflective, but instead covered with thick, rough, dragon-scale-like scales. It looked less like tentacles and more like a giant python.

In the game, after Yuan Tiansi enters this state, the attack frequency of his tentacles will also increase sharply.

And it began to change its tactics—meaning that each attack could be a real move or a feint. Nine attack range indicators would appear simultaneously each round, and eight of them would disappear after half a second... This was probably used to simulate and describe that "Yuan Tiansi's attacks became more flexible and unpredictable."

Furthermore, a new mechanic will appear in the Abyss Division—they will need to use a "counter-attack" method, utilizing the Sin Thorn Shield provided by the NPCs in the arena to collide with the tentacles. Each time a tentacle is knocked down, one less afterimage will appear next. After all eight afterimages are knocked down, the next collision will send one tentacle directly into the arena.

Instead of striking from the edges, it now attacks the nearest enemy at high frequency from the center of the arena, randomly launching attacks at two different frequencies. If it isn't defeated within the time limit, it will activate as a monster and capture the nearest player; someone else must deplete its health to save them. Otherwise, if a teammate isn't rescued within a certain timeframe, they will be mentally controlled.

In the game, players only have to fight against "one" animated tentacle, and before knocking it down, they only have to fight against nine tentacles at the same time.

However, in reality, the tentacles controlled by Yuan Tiansi number far more than a hundred or a thousand.
Yuan Tiansi then unleashed his tentacles, launching a fierce counterattack against the Silver Crowned Dragon!

This is a war between former pillar gods!
That was an attack that even the Celestial Knights and the Geometry Celestial Knights dared not take head-on.

In the suddenly spreading gray fog, they were abruptly hidden, as if they had vanished into nothingness.

The thousands of black and red tentacles transformed into sharp and ferocious spears, directly covering their location and piercing towards the Silver Crowned Dragon of the Dream Realm!

The Silver-Crowned Dragon suddenly accelerated, its flight speed becoming extremely fast.

Just like in aerial combat, he was surrounded by countless sharp, black and red spears, constantly pinpointing his location and following closely behind.

The Silver Crowned Dragon, through agile rolls and sharp-angle maneuvers, caused the space to the left of the Celestial Knight to spin at a dizzying speed. It was like watching a fighter pilot's dogfight from a first-person perspective.

As He suddenly disappeared into the gray mist, the countless tentacles that followed him instantly pierced through the red dragon that was fighting him!
—He directly redirected Yuan Tiansi's fury back at the Crimson Calamity!

For the somewhat dim-witted Yuan Tiansi, the Crimson Calamity and the Silver Crowned Dragon were one and the same, just as Aiwas and he were one and the same.

Therefore, Yuan Tiansi had no idea that "I attacked the wrong person" and launched a series of attacks on the Crimson Calamity without hesitation!

　Update complete, meow!

　　Amu has reached four million words! Congratulations! (Woz's voice)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)