Pastor's Tantra

When the Pure White Saint went to the twenty-second circle, she had no idea what she would see.

Of course Gray also knew that this was the day when Aiwass held a promotion ceremony.

Rather, Gray was relieved when he received the news.

——At least our Pope made it out alive, right?

While the promotion ceremony of five to six is ​​just a legend, four to five is basically the top promotion ceremony in the world. New Moon rituals make it more difficult and detrimental to the path of devotion.

Gray was even mentally prepared to take over the Holy Crown in an emergency.

After all, she is a candidate for the eternal pope, and she has the ability to wear the Holy Crown.

The reason why the Pope was not elected was only for political reasons.

A gleaming elf succeeded the Eternal Pope - this is still too sensitive for the current Theocracy.

——This is equivalent to the Prince of Avalon re-establishing Lloyd's Association; Star Antimony denies the declaration of "the ablest shall prevail" when the country was founded; the mages who guarded and imprisoned the Children of the Moon in the Narcissus Territory became the Children of the Moon themselves; symbolizing freedom The Iris began to rebuild the aristocratic system and the secret police; Black Hawk's mercenary legion openly betrayed its employer; the slaves of the ancient Parthian country broke out a large-scale uprising for the fourth time...

What, all these things happened?

Ah, that's okay.

Sure enough, the Theocracy is still too traditional and is not as brave as other countries to accept challenges to tradition...

But in short... Gray, who was clearly qualified to take office as pope, handed over the Holy Crown to Aiwass. In fact, it was just to prevent the Theocracy from infighting or even splitting.

If anything happens to Aiwass, she will definitely wear the Holy Crown directly to maintain the existence of the Theocracy, even if she risks the split of the Theocracy.

——Even if she is criticized by others, it will not affect her determination. This is also one aspect of the principle of dedication.

But it's always good for Aiwass to survive. Therefore, after Gray received the communication from Aiwass, his first reaction was to strongly ask Aiwass to first tell other cardinals to report that he was safe.

but……

"...To solve the Ningpa problem? Is there really such a thing?"

Gray was very worried about Aiwass.

Couldn't this child have chosen the path characteristics that help solve the disease during the promotion ceremony?

If that's the case, it's a huge favor that can't be repaid...

And these thoughts had all dissipated when Gray actually saw Aiwass.

She looked at Aiwass now, her eyes suddenly widened.

As one of the most outstanding candidates for the Eternal Saint, Gray has certainly learned a lot of historical knowledge.

Of course she also knew that the first pope of the Eternal Theocracy was not a woman, but a man... Not only that, he was a little different from all the subsequent Eternal Popes.

——The first pope "An Eternal" himself is the son of Si Zhu!

The relationship with the Pillar God is closer than that of any pope!

Although he is an elf, he has antlers on his head; after entering the dream world, he first became the apostle of Si Zhu... and soon after that, he became independent and became Tian Si. At that time, he had become half-man and half-deer, making anyone think that he was quite similar to Si Zhu. Even in some remote areas that were beyond the reach of the Nine Pillars Church, Si Zhu would be confused with Zhu Tiansi. , believes that Zhu Tiansi is an incarnation of Si Zhu.

This is undoubtedly a crime of transgression.

As "Zhu Tiansi", all of his abilities basically come from Si Zhu.

But Si Zhu did not have any hostility towards him... You must know that Si Zhu was never a gentle and kind person. Si Zhu's apostle "Eternal Vanguard" Carstenning has always led Si Zhu's army of apostles to fight in various places.

——When you have to have the strength, voluntary dedication can be called dedication. Otherwise it is just an excuse for a robbed loser to comfort himself.

But as for Zhu Tiansi, Si Zhu has never attacked him.

Not only that, Si Zhu's other apostles were also very polite and friendly to Zhu Tiansi.

Even in the secret knowledge of advanced magic, the truth of this situation has not been mentioned. That can only be understood as the fact that Zhu Tiansi became independent from Si Zhu's subordinates was out of Si Zhu's wishes.

Then who can say that Zhu Tiansi and Si Zhu are not related?

But...according to the basic rules of the Source River of "Creation", gods and mortals cannot have offspring. Otherwise, you will commit the "unforgivable sin".

How could Si Zhu, who has existed since ancient times and opened up the nine source rivers, have mortal descendants? Who can give birth to Zhu Tiansi with Si Zhu? Or is Zhu Tiansi's mother another god or apostle?

So far, this is still an unsolved mystery even in the Theocracy.

And now...

Gray could clearly see a small bump appearing on Aiwass' head.

That looked like only two or three centimeters. It has a texture similar to jade or emerald...the lower end is more jade-white, while the upper end is a crystal clear red. Because Aiwass's skin is very fair, if he had poor eyesight, he might have thought that two bumps had been knocked out of his head from a distance.

But Gray immediately realized...

That's antlers!

——It’s the kind of antlers on An’s head!

"His Majesty the Pope!"

In an instant, the smart Saint Gray realized the truth: "Have you...become the son of Sizhu?"

It turns out that the son of the candlestick is not a bloodline, but a special identity that can be granted!

"Yes."

Evans nodded happily and admitted: "I got the power given by the candlestick... With this power, I can heal almost all injuries. This naturally includes the amber disease."

"... But haven't we verified that the amber is not a disease, but a blessing that is out of control?"

"Then make it controllable again."

Evans said firmly without hesitation: "There is no "out of control" in this world that must exist."

Gray closed her mouth and did not continue to speak.

But she felt a strange sense of familiarity in her heart-

Compared with Pope Aiwas, who was like a saint with no desires, Aiwas now made her feel as if she saw the human boy she first knew.

Optimistic, enthusiastic, cheerful, indomitable... as dazzling as the sun.

Since he came to the Eternal Church, this quiet and boring land has become lively.

"How is the research on the fruit of sinthorn?"

Evans asked.

Gray calmed down and raised her head and said, "There is good news... but in a sense, it is also bad news."

"Oh?"

Evans was interested: "Tell me more about it?"

"According to Freya's analysis, the power contained in the Sinthorn Fruit is similar to that of the Sinthorn. The Sinthorn has a power that can almost ignore any obstacle and cause damage, similar to the power of balance, but completely different from it. The power of the Sinthorn Fruit is closer to a kind of 'Sinthorn power after being digested'.

"It is gentler, but the aggressiveness will be much weaker, and it can weaken the uncontrolled blessings in the body. For elves that have already produced amber, the Sinthorn Fruit can only reduce their amber symptoms at most. But it is impossible to make them disappear completely... In other words, it can only suppress, but not cure. "

At this point, Gray glanced at Aiwas: "But we have begun to let more priests advance to Enlighteners, and the output of Sinthorn Fruit we get for research has also increased significantly. So there is no need to trouble you.

"But it still cannot be mass-produced and widely used. There are currently two main research directions. One is to analyze more sinthorn fruits and find a way to get the alchemical formula to transform sinthorns into sinthorn fruits, thereby greatly reducing costs; the other is what I proposed.

"Since the sinthorn fruit can weaken the blessings in the body, can it be used as a relatively weak preventive mixture?"

"...Use the sinthorn fruit extract to synthesize the vaccine for 'amber disease'?"

Evans thought about it seriously and felt that Gray was simply a genius: "It feels like it might be possible."

Compared to taking an overdose of medicine, simply and crudely eliminating the power of the Lingbo Tiansi... Turning the amber elves into short-lived humans, these two ideas are much milder. Whether it is suppressing the pain of the late stage of amber disease or preventing the occurrence of amber disease in advance, its significance is obviously greater than "completely curing amber disease and dispelling the blessing of longevity together."

"So..."

Grey said here, looking at Aiwas, a little hesitant: "Your Majesty... Do you still want to cure my amber disease in advance?

"But if you have become the Son of Candlestick... then what position do I have to become the Eternal Pope?"

She did not forget that the Eternal Pope was originally the successor of "Zhu Tiansi"; and Zhu Tiansi himself was the spokesperson for Candlestick.

Now that a new "Son of Candlestick" has appeared again, how could her legitimacy be higher than Aiwas?

"So there is no need to make it public."

Aiwas nodded: "After I heal you, I will give you the Holy Crown first.

"And at this time... you are the acting Pope. How about keeping the Holy Crown for me? "

Evans said gently.

He took off the Holy Crown on his head and gently put it on Gray's head.

Then, he took off his clothes as the Eternal Pope and put them on Gray.

Under Gray's gaze, a lot of blood suddenly seeped out of Aiwas' body-

His body seemed to be cracked, and blood dripped out.

Then, light condensed on the two young horns on Aiwas' head. They extended to form a pair of glittering white antlers, and Aiwas's body gradually transformed into a half-man and half-deer posture.

Only his upper body was human, and a pair of glowing antlers appeared on his head that were much smaller than Sizhu and Zhu Tiansi. They looked to be less than 20 centimeters, and were much more obvious than the two small bumps he had before. And the tips of the antlers were also burning with a cluster of Pure white flames.

Below the waist, Aiwass's body became a sturdy and streamlined white deer.

His abdomen, that is, the chest of half deer and half man, had black lines like a sun disk. The places on his body that had been cracked and bleeding before also condensed into mysterious but ominous black lines. These lines connected the human body and the deer body, looking like some kind of suture line, or like a totem painted on the body.

Aiwass's pupils turned into a strange sacred light.

It looked like a cluster of golden red flames burning in a nearly transparent light purple crystal.

The flames formed a vertical pupil shape, so beautiful that it was hard to take your eyes off.

Aiwass, who was originally shorter than Gray, is now almost as tall as Gray. If the antlers are counted, he is even taller than her.

This is...

"Like Zhu Tiansi..."

Gray murmured: "Is this...the legendary mythical posture?"

Indeed...it is as sacred and inviolable as if it came out of an ancient myth.