Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 1299 Great Sin: Aiwass of Dawn

The seventh great beast of sin was none other than Aiwas himself.

—The first of the Seven Deadly Sins, the beast of pride.

Since the fragments of the Celestial Bureau can fuse with other beasts of great sin, thereby completing their evolution and reshaping their divine bodies...

There's no reason why Aiwas himself couldn't do it.

"...This is probably what we call habitual thinking."

Aiwas closed his eyes slightly.

In another timeline, the path to advancement for the Great Sin Scholar is to become the Lord of the Great Beasts.

That is the path to completely enslave the uncontrollable beast of sin, by fusing the summoned creature with oneself, thereby temporarily granting the fragile self the power of armor.

Those were sorcerers who wielded divine power with the frail bodies of mortals.

But now, things are different.

Aiwass had abandoned that path of advancement and chosen another. Now he too was a beast of sin, and they would be companions, partners, not master and slave, command and obedience.

In this situation, Aiwass shouldn't be so vulnerable at all... After all, he is the final form that can only be unlocked by continuously summoning all the Great Sin Beasts, and should have the ability to make a decisive move.

In the past, Aiwass had never truly gathered all six Great Beasts; and after he did, he never encountered an enemy he couldn't defeat even after summoning all six Great Beasts. Therefore, it's no wonder that Aiwass had never used this ability and had forgotten about it.

On the giant's palm, the fragments of the Geometry Celestials slowly came into contact with Aiwass's own Great Sin Card.

The moment they came into contact, they both emitted a dazzling burst of light—

They reacted instantly!
The blue-purple lightning that originally shot out from the card was instantly submerged by layers of black and white flames in an ink-wash style.

Unlike other major crime cards.

When other Sin Cards come into contact with the Celestial Slayer Fragment, their previously translucent monochrome crystal cards transform into a picture resembling an ID photo. However, Aiwas's card undergoes the complete opposite process... It originally had a picture, but now it has become a black and white card instead.

If viewed from one side, it appears as pure, almost transparent white cardstock, like white jade under sunlight.

In its very center, a sun pattern is depicted in bright red. It looks like a sacred rune drawn with cinnabar.

Viewed from the other side, however, it transforms into a deep, opaque black card. The sun image, still depicted in bright red, now appears as a ritual circle drawn in blood.

Even though the sun pattern is exactly the same and the colors are identical... it gives people a completely opposite impression.

The moment the card appeared, the giant's body paused slightly and then completely lost consciousness.

It began to disintegrate from the fingertips, dissipating at an extremely rapid speed—

The giant's flesh and blood were only a thin layer!
It's like removing the skin of a machine to reveal the wires and filling underneath... After the giant's flesh and blood disintegrated, all that remained was that black thorn of sin.

This is a thorn of sin transformed from the sins of the great abyss.

But at that moment, these sinful thorns burst into white flames!

Just as a wooden giant made of wood and straw was set ablaze, the Sinister Giant was also burning fiercely.

Just like the birth of the first pillar god—

The giant's entire body was covered in white flames, which burned into a dazzling flame that illuminated the heavens and the earth.

Soon, the light engulfed the giant's form. Even its outline could no longer be discerned; all that could be seen was a pillar of light reaching to the heavens.

That's decompression!

After being "decompressed," the sin thorns transformed from the sins of the Great Abyss released the original portion of Ai Shiping's information!
Using real Aiwass as raw material, we will recreate Aiwass's body!
There is probably no body in the world that could fit Aiwass so well; not even his own body could.

Creation solely from ether—this is the highest form of alchemy, the ultimate method of harmonizing etheric science—and there, the constantly collapsing and disintegrating sinful thorns were continuously drawn into the interior of the white pillar of light. At this moment, the light on the towering pillar of light had diminished several times, but the giant that had been covered and hidden earlier was still nowhere to be seen.

Inside the ocean of light, which is composed of "infinite light," the very core area... is actually pitch black.

You can't see or perceive anything from there.

But then, as the light contracted further, a peaceful figure with his eyes closed gradually emerged!

He didn't revert to an infant state; he was born seventeen or eighteen years old.

His hair turned white, mirroring the color of the Celestial Observer, and his pupils became a merciless gold. The six white wings on Aiwas's back fully unfurled, adorned with brilliant golden runes. Even above Aiwas's head, a halo symbolizing a saint appeared.

He no longer had antlers—with the birth of his new body, the conversion rate of the Candlelight Child had also dropped by half. The extra half was the mirror image of himself that Aiwass obtained: Aiwass achieved ultimate self-completion through the remains of the Abyss!
The current Aiwass is truly more complete than the Cosmos.

From any perspective, this is undoubtedly the body of a celestial being.

According to the normal procedure, it should be that after death, Yuanhe removed all his flesh and blood and obtained the fragments of the Heavenly Bureau in order to carry out this scale of reconstruction.

And Aiwas has now obtained this half-real, half-illusory Celestial Flesh and Blood... Aiwas can now even walk directly into the Dream Realm, just like an unprecedentedly "weak" Celestial—he can freely travel between the Dream Realm and the Material Realm, only his maximum energy level is still below the sixth level.

A Celestial Master who is perhaps even weaker than the Winter Master—a Celestial Master who doesn't even have his own name yet!
But without a doubt, Aiwass's soul quality has reached the level of a Celestial; he also truly possesses the power and authority of a Celestial!
The only celestial being who can walk on the ground!
A Celestial Being who possesses physical flesh and blood, just like the Blood Celestial Being!

The only Celestial Officer unaffected by the Veil of Balance!

Now, Aiwass even wears a white robe, an alchemical creation. It's similar in style to his damaged cardinal's robe, only the color is the opposite—white.

"This is……"

As soon as Aiwas opened his eyes, he felt incredibly comfortable.

He could clearly sense that this was an incomparably perfect and harmonious body.

It has been developed to its fullest potential from every angle, to the point that it's unnecessary to add even a single point.

This is the perfect fit for my body!
Iwass had never felt so whole before!
Before Aiwas's eyes appeared his own Great Sin Card. Watching it being branded word by word from the void, Aiwas stared intently.

[The Great Sin: Dawn of Aiwass (Stars)]

【Level: 49】

[The Path of Dedication, attribute: Light / The Path of Transcendence, attribute: Dark]

Upright: Mithra

[Effect: It is the gentlest monarch, a god dead yet not reborn, symbolizing the radiance of miracles. This is the mark of the fourth sun, which shelters its many followers, for they are its shadow and its stars. Increases the priority of all summoned creatures by 1.]

Reversed: Ouroboros

[Required: None (5)]

[Immediately, Enchant, Summon, and the effect lasts]

[Effect: Transforms the user into the Beast of Pride, Dawn Aiwass, who is considered a summoned creature; this effect can only be used when all other six Great Sin Beasts are on cooldown; Dawn Aiwass can copy the effects of any other Great Sin Beast; if the copied creature has lost its combat ability or cannot be summoned again, this effect can be cast again.]

[Effect: When Dawn of Aiwass enters the field, or whenever a new enemy enters the field, automatically deals massive damage to the enemy; this damage is considered as releasing "Paradise Lost"]

[Authority: Control over the four elemental domains, compilation of etheric magic]

Ordinary people probably can't comprehend the true value of Paradise Lost, nor can they possibly know the dangers and mysteries of etheric magic. They certainly can't understand what the ability to "copy the power of the Great Sin Beasts" truly means…

If Aiwas had not summoned the six Great Sin Beasts in quick succession, but had actually summoned and defeated them one by one, Aiwas would have obtained the full power of the six Great Sin Beasts at once!
Once Helchin and Little Butterfly both obtain the fragments of the Celestials, it will be equivalent to the combined power of the seven Celestials!
And Khelchin—

When the thought crossed Aiwass's mind, the battle in the dream world had already reached its climax.

(End of this chapter)