Pastor's Tantra

Aiwass' expression in his soul state became serious.

He looked at "Aiwass" in front of him.

Her short golden hair stood up messily like flames, and her eyes had a purple-red glow that flowed like smoke. His upper body was bare, with clearly visible muscle groups, and his skin was almost brown and wheat-colored.

There are a large number of silver runes on his skin, which overlap and outline a magic circle and strange rune secrets that give people a strong sense of mystery. They swallow the elemental power that is overflowing in the air, constantly inhaling or spitting out the four-color glow of green, red, white, and yellow. These radiances formed a huge light wheel composed of flowing four-color radiance behind the "Aiwass".

Just standing there gives people a strong sense of oppression.

——If you want to describe it, it would be "brilliant power".

It's completely different from Aiwass's jade-white skin, and although you can see some undulations of muscles, you need to touch them with your hands to feel the outline of the muscles.

The "Aiwass" in front of me gives people the feeling that "you can kill someone with just a few punches with your bare hands."

...Compared with the "aged Aiwass" in this painting, Aiwass is more willing to believe that this is another person he has been waiting for for a long time.

"Huan Tiansi..."

Aiwass murmured in a low voice: "I finally see you."

Throwing Aiwass into a confusing situation and making him the fulcrum of many conspiracies and conspiracies, the development and planning of the Ring of Endings ritual led to the culprit of many world-destroying crises. At the same time, he is also the god who intends to devour the existence of Aiwas... the real time traveler, Ai Shiping.

Even Aiwass's precious past life memories and name were taken away...or rather, they were not left to him.

And in a sense, He is even the entity and creator of Aiwass.

So far, Huan Tiansi has only appeared as a riddler who speaks only a few words.

Aiwass was caught off guard when he suddenly came into contact with the personified Huan Tiansi.

Originally, Aiwass thought that he would meet this guy after defeating Fallen Sky Division, defeating the Disaster Dragon... and even defeating his adoptive father. He should be standing in the dark palace, waiting for his challenge, as an opponent who must face fate, deciding each other's life and death...

But now, He appears so early.

Arrive at Aiwass early and unprepared, not even emotionally prepared...

"Actually, you should call me Endless Knot now," Ai Shiping smiled, seeming very friendly, "But Huan Tiansi is fine too, it's up to you..."

He took a half step back and looked at Aiwass, as if he was admiring his most perfect work.

"This is a very difficult time to find."

Huan Tiansi sighed: "Only when your transcendent soul is separated, will you listen to me with peace of mind. But it's hard for me to come to the country, so I can only wait for you in the dream world... "

"...In other words," Aiwass frowned slightly, "because I am dead, is that why you came to me?"

"If one of you or Aleister dies, I will come. You have to separate... If you see Aleister attacking me, you will come with him, right? That wouldn't be good. "

Huan Tiansi said with a smile: "This Hakimi, if he goes crazy and bites people, it's the keycap."

Aiwass couldn't understand what he said, but he could also keenly feel that it was not a good thing.

He frowned, but he had to admit one thing - without meeting Aleister, he did have the patience to listen to Huan Tiansi's words, and he was indeed full of curiosity.

"...What exactly do you want to do? Take away my body and then upgrade it to the Ring of Endings?"

Aiwass asked: "Isn't Endless Knot okay?"

"Are you kidding? You don't think you're special, do you?"

Huan Tiansi smiled helplessly. Although he was gentle and patient, there was an unconcealable arrogance and indifference in his words: "If I want to achieve the ring of coherence, I don't need you at all. You don't even have the ability to "Ai Hua" I don't even know what the name Si' means.

"Listen, Aiwass - I am your shepherd. Both you and Aleister have been a separate part of me from the beginning. You just forgot too many things, so you created yourself. Consciousness... So if one day I need to complete myself, it will not be to 'take away your body', but to take back what is mine."

"Then what if," Aiwass said solemnly, "the final outcome is...that I eat you?"

"……Oh."

Huan Tiansi smiled and didn't care at all: "If you can really do it, you can do whatever you want. The shepherding method is just a bridge, it is not the goal. Only mortals who are still mortal can struggle with whose consciousness should be the main body. Something. As long as you die once, you will know that it is not important at all. This kind of thing is like the introduction of a novel... Although it is also important, it may not be impossible to read if you don't have it. The most important thing is the content.

"When you become me, you will eventually choose the same approach as me. I know you, just like I know myself. I know what I cut out, and I know how you will choose. That's why I just said Ask that question…”

"...Let more people survive?"

Aiwass murmured softly.

He asked rhetorically: "Is this the reason why you held the Ring of Endings?"

"oh?"

Huan Tiansi's face still had an unchanged, compassionate smile like a god, and he opened his arms as if stretching: "Then take a look at this world.

"This is a world where I didn't perform the Ring of Ouronomy ceremony - what do you think?"

"...I think it's good."

Aiwass told the truth: "The fusion of extraordinary power and technology is like..."

"——Just like our previous lives, right? Even more interesting. Yes, if you think about it in terms of the degree of fun, or the development of civilization, this is indeed true."

Huan Tiansi lowered his eyes slightly, and the smile on his face gradually faded.

"Speaking here, you may not have the intuition."

He said, putting his hand on Aiwass's shoulder.

The next moment——

The world around him was suddenly rewritten.

In the light purple sky, the silver-white stars turned into shooting stars walking with him.

The deep purple river surged like waves, and Huan Tiansi stepped on a small piece of ice and walked along the current. He left all the stars behind, and in front of him there was only endless darkness that seemed to swallow up everything - where the river had not yet flowed, everything was turbid and uncertain darkness. Only after the source flow passed, did it finally manifest into a beautiful purple color.

"This is……"

"The eighth source river is the river of change."

Huan Tiansi raised his head and said calmly: "You or I will get the power of this river one day."

"...Are you so thirsty for power?" Aiwass murmured.

"Thirst? Power?"

Huan Tiansi laughed as if he heard some joke: "No, you don't understand what it means to be a pillar god at all. As long as you step into this source river one day, you will become a pillar god who is invincible from reincarnation. Will come back here again one day.”

As he spoke, He pointed to the nothingness in front of him: "Do you know what that is?"

"..."

Aiwass didn't answer.

His lips were pursed and his brows were furrowed.

Is this really... yourself?

They are obviously cut off parts, so why is the gap between them so big?

"That is the non-existent tenth source river, [The Void]. And I prefer to call it the 'Whisper of the Void'."

Huan Tiansi looked back at Aiwass: "You must have heard of it, right? In another world line... In the world line of 'New Avalon' called 'London', on December 31, 1999 For a moment, the world was frozen into the color of dusk.

“I’m going to tell you this story from another angle.

"——This world has restarted eight times. On that day, the world was not destroyed... but was 'frozen'.

"These eight thousand years have been circulating over and over again. Amber saved the world, and she was promoted to Pillar God for this achievement. From then on... the whole world has always been circulating in Amber's body.

"The authority of my reincarnation was not torn apart before that... but was handed over to Amber by me."

Huan Tiansi looked at Aiwass calmly: "Have you ever used the second effect of the shepherding method?

“Give the power of phantom demons to others—and as we all know, Tiansi and Zhushen are also phantom demons.

"I gave all my pillar power to that girl. She is the living pillar of this world."

"...Isn't the girl in Kohaku's body the 'wrong' Pillar God?"

Aiwass realized that he had guessed something wrong before.

Huan Tiansi asked back: "Why do you think that all the source rivers must be assigned pillar gods?

"You don't understand what it means to be a pillar god. It is a living pillar in this world.

"If there is no cost to becoming a Pillar God...

"——Then how did you get here?"