Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 1329: The Great Sin: Leah of the Great Sun
That's enough firepower to flatten a large town.

It's not about "relieving resistance," but rather about flattening the ground in a physical sense.

It does not rely on explosions or shockwaves.

The sheer kinetic energy from the pure metal jet was enough to reduce all buildings to ruins.

Each bullet is incredibly long; if fired with a specialized firearm, it could penetrate a stone wall from two kilometers away and blow someone hiding inside a building to the head. The bullet core is hand-carved with a vow to ward off evil, and the bullet itself is made of soft, flexible lead—undoubtedly ancient dwarven technology.

The dwarves used this weapon to kill elves. Over time, they refined and improved this weapon.

It's one of those giant cannons—

The giant cannon came in two types. One type, the "Destruction Type," fired a projectile that exploded upon impact, filling it with extremely hot and toxic liquid metal. This type was primarily used to destroy the elves' warships or to penetrate protective barriers. Considering that Aiwass should be able to withstand this level of heat, the goblins switched to the other type of giant cannon—the "Annihilation Type."

After firing, the shells from this giant cannon would split in the air and turn into a rain of iron.

Each of the "blades" has runic arrays that amplify the effects of gravity. This makes them ten times heavier than their actual weight when activated, allowing them to generate impact force out of thin air after accelerating to a sufficiently high speed.

These giant cannons were originally intended to fire into the sky—a tactic the dwarves used to utterly destroy elven towns, as elven warriors were adept at urban warfare. They would explode at their highest point, causing these blades, capable of withstanding ten times the force of gravity, to scatter from the sky and plummet at incredible speed, creating a devastating attack.

When the goblins countered Aiwass, they adjusted the parameters of the "annihilation-type dwarven cannon" so that it would not explode and activate at its highest point... but rather just before hitting Aiwass!
In this way, it can transform into a physical bombardment with extremely strong penetration capabilities at a position very close to Aiwass!

Just like a shotgun firing at point-blank range!
If this attack fails to kill Aiwass, then they are out of options.

The goblins knew that these colossi were only intimidating in appearance. They were far too cumbersome to actually restrain Aiwass… and ordinary bullets could only deplete his mana. The chance to decisively change the course of the battle might only come once—

Therefore, the giant cannon will only roar the moment Aiwass's barrier breaks!

The moment the Aiwas Barrier shattered, the more than one hundred dwarven cannons, distributed across three square formations, opened fire in succession!
The relentless bombardment completely enveloped Aiwass.

In an instant, smoke rose up.

Each cannon achieved its objective perfectly—disintegrating and activating upon approaching Aiwass.

When they first saw them detonate correctly and hit Aiwass, the goblins cheered and shouted in celebration.
But after ten seconds, as they continued to correctly detonate and hit Aiwass, the cheers gradually subsided.
—And when three minutes had passed, they were still detonating and hitting Aiwass completely.

The goblins were already feeling their hands and feet getting cold.

Some goblins began to wail, while others scrambled to escape. Still others slumped into their chairs.

why?
Why can't even pure physical attacks hurt that monster?

Unfortunately, that is indeed the case.

These goblins could never harm Aiwass; they could only serve as nourishment for him to grow stronger...

Their plan actually had no problems.

A purely physical attack could indeed penetrate Aiwass's priority defenses and thus harm him. If a sufficiently strong physical attack is launched at the moment when the protective ritual, spell, or barrier is interrupted or nullified, even an Avatar could suffer severe damage.

Just like Professor James before, who wanted to destroy Tian Si with a meteorite.

Theoretically, it is indeed possible... If the Celestials do not use their own laws to change reality, nor do they take any defensive or offensive actions, but instead allow the meteorite to hit them, then they will indeed be killed instantly.

But precisely because of this, these goblins have become quite valuable.

Because what they offer is the purest form of physical attack!

【Upright Summoning - Twelve Trials (0/12)】

[Required: Light 5]

[Immediate, Self-expression, Repeat, Continuously Effective]

[Effect: Summons the spirit of Paladin Don Quixote. While Don Quixote is present, he absorbs all damage for all teammates. If this damage destroys Don Quixote, Don Quixote will be permanently destroyed, and Don Quixote will become permanently immune to this type of damage.]

[Effect: Re-use resets Don Quixote from his permanently destroyed state. This effect can be used up to twelve times.]

The goblins were so focused on Aiwass that they hadn't realized for a long time that Don Quixote had been gone for quite some time.

It must be said that the goblins' "god-killing" attack was indeed very effective!
In the eleventh second after Aiwass took the damage, Don Quixote, having transferred all the damage, was completely annihilated.

He gave his first life.

In other words, the goblins' trump card only takes eleven seconds to kill Aiwass!

but……

Eleven seconds is still too long.

After that, Aiwass summoned Don Quixote again.

Having completed one of the twelve trials, Don Quixote became completely immune to pure physical damage.

This means that when Don Quixote is present, all damage suffered by Aiwass and all of Aiwass's allies will be transferred to Don Quixote... and all physical damage will be reduced to zero!
The instant the physical damage he was debunked by the transfer, Aiwass summoned Don Quixote back behind him.

When Don Quixote leaves the stage, he will leave behind a lingering image that cannot withstand much damage.

However, no matter how many times it suffers physical damage, the afterimage will not break.

Therefore, these injuries no longer mean anything to Aiwass.

"It's really... a real shame."

Aiwas's calm and leisurely voice resounded through the sky amidst the booming explosions.

It was as if he wasn't being bombarded by these giant cannons, but rather receiving a massage—

"You did have the potential to kill me, but you missed your chance."

In the brief moment when Aiwass resummoned Don Quixote—in that short half-second—Aivass was indeed in a state of absolute vulnerability.

At least, in that brief moment of vulnerability, Aiwass could have genuinely been killed. If the goblins had prepared a backup plan, a miracle might have actually occurred.

Unfortunately, a miracle was on Aiwass's side.

When Aiwass reawakened Don Quixote, who had gained physical immunity, it meant that the goblins had completely lost any means to kill Aiwass.

Aiwas methodically used his spell-casting immunity ability to begin setting up layers of barriers with ritual magic—

[Elemental Damage Immunity Barrier], [High-Level Dispel Resistance], [Mirror Image], [Insightful Insight]...

None of them are designed to resist physical attacks.

Because he no longer needs to focus on physical attacks. The purpose of setting up these barriers now is simply to completely immunize against damage from sources other than physical attacks.

And after Aiwass finished preparing—

Death was coming.

"Come out, Leah."

Aiwas murmured to himself, opened the Book of Law, and turned to the page about the Butterfly of the Reversed Flame.

At the summoning of the Flaming Butterfly, Don Quixote transformed into a transparent afterimage, hovering behind Aiwass... becoming Aiwass's protective totem, immune to all physical attacks.

And the reborn Flame Butterfly will then reveal its true power—

【The Great Sin: Leah the Sun (The Sun, The Hanged Man)】

【Level: 51】

[The Path of Dedication, Attribute: Fire]

【Upright Summoning - Furnace of Fusion】

[Required: Fire 5]

[Immediate, Self]

[Effect: Strengthens oneself with the power of overloaded conflict, sacrificing 33% of maximum health, increasing all damage dealt by the user by 333% for 30 seconds; when this effect ends, health and mana are restored to maximum, and all negative status effects are removed.]

[Upright Invocation - Light Illuminates All Beings]

[Required: Fire 50]

[Action, non-contact]

[Effect: Can only be used when Leah is in her manifested state and Aiwass is in the "Furnace" state; immediately removes the "Furnace" state and creates a "Light of Paradise" over a very large area; this spell's damage effect only applies to hostile targets.]

【Reversed Summon - Leah】

[Required: Fire 5]

[Maintain: Fire 5* Daily]

[Action, Summon]

[Effect: Summons the Sloth Beast, Lia, to fight for you. Lia is considered a summoned creature. When not in combat, the Sloth Beast, Lia, can slumber within you, granting you all of Lia's spellcasting abilities, with power and damage equal to one-third of Lia's. Only one Sloth Beast can exist at a time.]

[Effect: When Leah enters the field, 'Upright Summoning: Furnace of Fusion' will be used automatically once every three minutes.]

[Authority: Nuclear Power of the Sun]

What appeared before Aiwass was a completely different form from the Flame Butterfly of the past.

It was not the widow in the black dress, but the majestic, queen-like Leah.

She looked like Yulia in her twenties or thirties—long white hair cascading down her back, wearing an incomparably luxurious gold and red robe, a crown on her head resembling the sun, and red eyeshadow like the morning glow.

When the beast of sloth awakens, it signifies the end of all conflict.

Aiwas paid out mana—a full fifty points of mana.

This single strike drained one-fifth of Aiwas's mana pool. This was without even being amplified by the Yin-Yang Harmony buff.

However, its efficiency is absolutely worth the enormous cost—

She raised her right hand high, and a dazzling white light condensed in her palm.

—The next moment, an incomparably warm white light shone throughout the entire southern continent.

Whether human or elf, troll or goblin...

Wherever they were on the southern continent, everyone was enveloped in an endless white light. Whether they were indoors or outdoors, with their eyes open or closed—it was no use trying to block it.

The white light irradiation lasted for a full three seconds.

When the white light dissipated, it caused no damage to any buildings, rivers, mountains, or the earth. It was as if it had all been a mere illusion.

However, those goblins...

Wherever they hid, whether underground, in the mountains, in a fortress, or on a ship... they have all vanished without a trace.

It was as if they had never existed.

—This is indeed a divine punishment, like a miracle.

This is the divine punishment that Don Quixote spoke of earlier!

(End of this chapter)