Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 849: Professor Laxmi's Early Exit

Professor Laxmi sighed again.

He never expected that he, a professor of the Spiritual Tower, would be arrested for stealing corpses one day...

——As a "walker in the underworld", his professional abilities cannot be used directly in the promotion ceremony. Because this is the dream world, he cannot gain an advantage by entering the dream.

Then he can only fight using the basic profession, that is, the extraordinary skills of the Necromancer.

As a necromancer, what should he do?

Of course, I'd go and look for some dead bodies...

...What if we can't do that? Are we just going to fight with the auxiliary abilities of preservation and petrification?

However, this technologically advanced city also has a very complete funeral tradition.

Professor Laxmi used the spirit-hunting technique to search for a long time, but he couldn't find any wild spirits or bodies that were buried without a funeral.

——He probably realized that this was not some fictitious city.

If nothing unexpected happens, this should be the "future" of Avalon. Among human countries, only Avalon has such a high density of bishops, and the people on the street basically speak with a bit of Avalon flavor.

He had no choice but to go to the hospital to find some fresh corpses.

If you want to know where in the city there are fresh corpses that have just died and have not yet had a funeral, just go directly to the hospital with the largest flow of people.

So Professor Laxmi sneaked into the largest hospital in the city.

Perhaps because the population of this city is too large - it is even larger than that of Leipzig - the hospital is also full of people. After all, with the number of bishops stationed in this city alone, the mana they recover every day is not enough to heal everyone.

Professor Raxmi was shocked when he found a large number of corpses in the morgue.

Sure enough, there is no perfect path!
He used necromancy to extract the souls from the corpses and turned them into his own spiritual guards.

But when Professor Laxmi had just finished the sixth one, he was suddenly caught.

The team that captured him was of astonishing size.

At least six fourth-level arbitrators were dispatched, and judging from their formation, at least one big shot was present, and there was even a cardinal guarding. There were also at least twenty fourth-level lawyers escorting them throughout the journey. His spellcasting ability was sealed upon meeting them, and his body was covered with silver runes.

Professor Raxmi didn't even resist at all during the whole process.

His first reaction was - is this identity I'm using a wanted criminal?

...Didn’t I just steal a few ordinary people’s bodies?

Is this a violation of some heavenly law?

Professor Laxmi dared to swear that among the corpses he transformed, there was not even a single corpse of a transcendental person!
The reason they were able to transform into spiritual guards was entirely because he endowed them with the power of dusk.

——Even if I am guilty of stealing corpses, the scale of this is a bit too outrageous!

He was not even detained in the interrogation room of the Supervisory Bureau.

Instead, he was directly imprisoned in the Inspectorate. During the multiple transfers and heavy military escort, he even missed several choices.

Although he didn't know much about Avalon, Professor Laxmi still knew... The Inspectorate was not a regular security department. It was similar to the "Secret Room" of Xingti and was an espionage and counterintelligence department.

How did I become a spy?
Professor Laxmi was quite dissatisfied.

But when he was interrogated, he suddenly understood——

"Under the watchful eyes of the Silver Crown Dragon, all your lies will be exposed. Odvar Laxmi, who ordered you to desecrate the body of the former Minister of Finance? What did you intend to do by stealing his body?"

The silver-white fire of truth has been lit, and the majestic guardian asked with a serious expression.

At that moment, Professor Laxmi could no longer hold back.

"——How come your minister is an ordinary person? Why is his body in the hospital?"

You are poisonous!
Shouldn't such a great man die in his own house or in the church? !

What a hammer the hospital can use!
"Don't answer questions with questions! Answer them honestly - why did you use necromancy to desecrate the body of the former finance minister? What did you intend to do by stealing his corpse?"

"I didn't know he was there. I just wanted to do some undead self-defense... and no one ordered me to do it..."

Professor Laxmi didn't know the true fire, but he guessed the purpose of the lamp, so he said honestly: "I didn't even touch the bodies of the extraordinary people. I just planned to find a few civilian bodies... I don't even know this finance minister... I just couldn't find the body, and thought there might be one in the hospital..."

The fire of truth showed that all his words were true.

At that moment, the harsh atmosphere suddenly relaxed a lot. Even the interrogating guardian breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help but lean back in relaxation.

Obviously, stealing a corpse is completely different from trying to manipulate a minister - even the corpse of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

"Are you from the Ziggurat?"

The Great Guardian softened his tone and looked Professor Laxmi up and down: "Teacher from the Spiritual Tower?"

...Zeichuan Tower?
Avalon also has a ziggurat?
Or has the Ziggurat moved to Avalon?
"Yes, Professor."

Laxmi was a little surprised, but still emphasized: "I didn't know... there was a minister's body in there. I am willing to apologize and compensate, so, can you let me go first? I have something else to do..."

"I'm afraid not, Professor Laxmi."

The Great Guardian shook his head regretfully: "We need to conduct further investigation. Judging from your accent, are you from the Red Castle?"

...Red Castle?
Hearing this, Laxmi was stunned for a moment and realized something.

For a moment, his expression twitched. He wanted to laugh, but also wanted to cry.

His facial features were distorted like a clown, but finally he gradually regained his composure.

Laxmi shook his head and emphasized: "I am a Xingti."

"Oh……"

The Great Guardian nodded thoughtfully, and signaled the secretary beside him to write down this sentence: "So you came to Camelot in the hope of restoring the former star antimony country?"

"……Do not."

Professor Laxmi was silent for a while: "Since Xingbi has perished... then let it be.

“I may be able to make a dead body move again, but I cannot make a dead country live again.”

The true fire in front of him was normal throughout the process. "I understand."

The Great Guardian nodded, then stood up and said, "Just in case, we will need to give you a test later. We cannot accept blood slaves staying in the territory for a long time. Please cooperate. As for the corpse, we will treat it as corpse theft. The ticket will be sent to the Spirit Tower, and Principal Lore will review it and decide whether to impose corresponding administrative penalties on you.

"By the way, I hope you can apologize to the family after this incident."

"Ok, no problem."

Professor Laxmi nodded and watched the Great Guardian leave with the Fire of Truth.

The Great Guardian was at the door and turned around: "Oh, by the way...

"I know that the ration of corpses in the Ziggurat is indeed a little less. But please understand - there are not many enthusiastic citizens who are willing to accept corpse donations after death. I can understand your behavior, but your behavior itself will make people more resistant to necromancers. Reputation is cultivated by oneself, don't you think?"

After saying that, the Great Guardian pushed the door open and left.

Then everyone else left one after another, and when the last person left, I gave him a cup of warm water and placed it on the table.

Professor Raximi stared at the glass of water in silence for a long time.

Suddenly, he felt the whole world was shaking -

——There was an earthquake?

No, that's not right...

He realized that it was his dreams that were becoming thinner.

His own ascension ritual was no longer stable—it was being awakened from the outside!

Professor Laxmi, who was well prepared, immediately raised his handcuffed hands and shouted, "I admit defeat, I give up!"

About two or three seconds later, a childish voice sounded in his ear: "Okay, I accept."

The next moment, his dream finally collapsed and fell apart.

He suddenly woke up from reality and his body tensed.

Blood Coral was sitting beside the bed, inserting a needle deep into the nail of his little finger - this was the fastest way to wake him up while causing the least harm to the body.

"how?"

Xue Shanhu frowned and put down his hand: "I hope the news from your side is not going well--"

“Indeed, indeed…”

Professor Laxmi spoke slowly, feeling a strong sense of nausea and vomiting.

Then came intense, heart-piercing pain!

It is better to surrender voluntarily in the promotion ceremony than to force yourself out of the dream. If there is no special countermeasure for the latter, you will at least be seriously injured or even die.

However, accepting the punishment for failure is not an easy thing.

Amidst the heart-wrenching screams, his skin suddenly bulged, forming small tents like pointed cones, as if an invisible cone was piercing out of it!
His skin broke and bled, and his more vulnerable eyes, nostrils, and ears began to bleed.

It seemed as if there were worms crawling in the muscles of his body, and one could see his flesh and blood wriggling visibly with the naked eye.

At this time, Blood Coral fed him a bottle of potion, then forced him to raise his head, bit his neck and forced the medicine into his body.

With the treatment of the bottle of medicine and the analgesic effect on his neck, Professor Laxmi quickly calmed down.

He looked like he had been seriously ill, and had lost at least two times more weight. His eyes were filled with visible fatigue... but at least he survived.

"I have set up a silent barrier, so it won't attract any pursuers."

Xue Shanhu comforted him, "The pursuers may arrive in an hour or two. I have to wake you up. Fortunately, we prepared the resurrection potion. It's a pity... that the precious resurrection potion was wasted."

...In fact, if I had another two hours, I might have succeeded.

This is what Professor Laxmi originally wanted to say.

But he thought about his points and decided not to brag about it.

——This promotion is very risky because the pursuers may find their traces at any time.

But there is nothing we can do.

Everyone was at the fourth energy level, so there was no way to make up the gap... Besides, the other side had a large number of people. Only when one of them was promoted could they be completely out of danger.

Fortunately, Blood Coral took a bottle of precious resurrection potion with him when he left. It can be used specifically to heal the damage to the soul caused by forcibly waking up from the promotion ceremony, or failing in promotion but not dying.

That was the private collection of the Red Prime Minister, who had originally intended to use it when sniping old Meg in Avalon, but it was not used. So he left it with her - and when running away, of course, he had to take all the valuables with him.

Although the bottle of medicine could save their lives during the five-to-six ritual, they were already too late.

The pursuers could arrive at any time, so Professor Laxmi could only try to forcefully upgrade. If he was too late to awaken her, or if he was in time but would lose, at least the medicine could save his life. Once they succeeded, they would have a fifth-level extraordinary person, and they could immediately turn around and kill those fourth-level Moon Son pursuers.

"At least it's better than being killed in my sleep and finding out I'm dead at the end of the promotion ceremony..."

Professor Laxmi sighed: "Thank you, Blood Coral. You actually knew how to use it on me..."

"...After all, if you die, I have to die too."

Xue Shanhu was somewhat helpless: "The Moon Children can't move freely on the sea... I can only rely on you to drill through their ship."

"Well, leave it to me. Just protect our ship."

Professor Laxmi nodded.

It's just a pity...

“…I want to see that future one more time.”

Professor Raxmi always felt that future was very important.

But it's too late...

He gritted his teeth and grabbed Xue Shanhu's arm: "Listen, I may forget what happened in the dream at any time. You prepare the ceremony first, and I will tell you what I remember, and you just listen..."

(End of this chapter)