Pastor's Tantra

Chapter 17 "Shepherd's Tantra"

Kingdom of Avalon, Glass Island, White Queen District Inspectorate.

The Supervision Bureau was still very busy this morning.

Heroic men and women wearing light armor or leather armor hurried past. The majestic silver dragon head still hangs on the wall of Director Kent's office - the silver-crowned dragon is watching them all the time.

Director Kent, now in his forties but still in good health, sat in his leather chair.

His back was straight, and his round shoulders and big arms held up his loose clothes. His bronze skin and slender face give him the look of a fierce and tough guy. A deep scar spreads from above his left eye to his lip. He wears a black eyepatch and looks like a one-eyed pirate.

As a matter of ceremony and etiquette, even though Director Kent has not participated in front-line combat for more than ten years, he still has to wear armor when working, his sitting posture must be standard, and his demeanor must not waver in the slightest. His upper arms, abdomen, and lower legs, which are not high-burden areas, are all covered in metallic silver-white armor. Elsewhere there were shiny armor plates.

If he hadn't been a transcendent of a high level, he would have been exhausted just sitting here all day long.

As early as 420 years ago, Lancelot I, the founding monarch of the Kingdom of Avalon, established three major legal agencies.

The Supervisory Bureau is responsible for "supervising and protecting the people", the Supervisory Council is responsible for "supervising knight officials", and the Arbitration Hall is responsible for "adjudicating right and wrong". At the beginning of their establishment, the status of these three legal agencies was equal to each other. Important responsibilities are held by Knights of the Round Table who can enter the Senate.

The national emblem of the Kingdom of Avalon is a green eye nested in a silver triangle symbolizing power.

The eyes represent the royal family, symbolizing their current old Queen Sofia I who is still healthy at nearly eighty years old.

The silver triangle that protects the royal family refers to the Supervisory Bureau, the Supervisory Council and the Arbitration Hall.

However, with the development of the times, the Supervisory Bureau has become responsible for more and more matters. Taxation, safety, sanitation, fire protection, public security, censorship, imprisonment... As a result, the Supervision Bureau gradually divided into many sub-departments. Branch offices were established in various places and a large number of trainee supervisors, supervisors and chief inspectors were recruited to take charge. Local affairs and power were thus divided.

The Inspectorate and the Arbitration Office have not expanded in size because they have to deal with more difficult and specific matters. The former has become an organization similar to a secret service - responsible for examining whether officials of all sizes are loyal, whether hereditary knight families are morally deficient, whether grassroots supervision has violated disciplines and regulations, and monitoring spies from other countries or wandering alone abroad. gathering intelligence; the latter became today's courts.

What they have in common is that they are now one level above the Inspectorate.

So much so that in the Supervisory Bureau, all talents who can reach the fourth level will be promoted to the Supervisory Court and Arbitration Hall. The euphemistic name is "you won't need this kind of talent anyway." Even in the core area of ​​​​the White Queen District, which is adjacent to the glass steps, its director Kent only has a third level.

The recently transferred young girl named Haina is only in her early twenties, and her strength is already comparable to that of Director Kent, who has now reached the fifty mark.

Without even thinking about it, Kent knew that the Inspectorate would definitely come to ask for someone.

This is an era rich in genius. Be it Haina or Sherlock...these new generation of geniuses are much stronger than the old people who grew up in the peaceful era.

This is unlucky. Kent thought.

This may be a sign of coming troubled times...

He picked up the phone on the table and spun the wheel. 0——1——2, the call is connected.

"Ask Haina to come to my office."

Director Kent ordered: "Also, find someone to call our consultant."

After hanging up the phone, he threw the "Glass Steps Newspaper" on the table. He stood up and walked to the bookshelf.

The front page of this newspaper was a photo of Haina and the young master of the Moriarty family.

The handsome young man with a gentle smile was sitting calmly in a wheelchair in the elf art style. His knees were covered with a blanket, his hands were folded in front of his belly, and he was speaking in a gentle and natural manner. Haina, who was standing behind him, stood upright, holding on to the hilt of the sword at her waist, her whole body muscles tense.

It seemed like he had noticed the photographer, or he was greeting some acquaintances around the photographer.

Halfway through the sentence, the young man's gaze suddenly shifted from the reporter to the direction of the camera.

He showed a gentle smile as bright as the sun, raised his hand slightly and waved in this direction. But it gives people the feeling that they are smiling and waving to the readers who are reading the newspaper.

The next moment, the scene jumps back to the beginning. Aiwass continued to sit in his wheelchair and spoke seriously to reporters.

——This is the "magic painting" ability that comes from the path of "beauty".

Logically speaking, the path of beauty is a path prohibited by legislation in Avalon, but Master Yanis is an exception. The "Glass Daily" founded by this world-renowned elf painter is the largest and the only official newspaper in Avalon.

Glass Daily is responsible for sorting out the most important information about the Kingdom of Avalon every day and summarizing it for the royal family and the ministers of the Round Table Hall. The three major legal agencies will also provide free copies of the "Glass Steps Newspaper" to their employees.

Maybe it's to follow the trend, maybe it's to keep up with the policies of the upper class, or maybe it's just to show that you care about the political situation of the kingdom. Some wealthy people who neither participate in politics nor work hard will also join in the fun and buy the "Glass Steps Newspaper". Immediately afterwards, some college students will also buy it as a conversation piece among young students.

Although each issue has a "magic painting" that lasts for fifteen seconds, and the material cost of each newspaper is as high as one red coin, its price is not high. Because Master Yanis does not need to make profits from it. The retail price of each issue of "Glass Steps Newspaper" is only two red coins and five copper coins - these five copper coins are still profit for distributors, and sometimes they are discounted. Anyone with a bit of respectability can afford it.

This kind of newspaper that can read animation is a very novel experience. Although it has no sound and is in black and white. But at least the paintings can move - this is basically the cheapest way for ordinary people to feel the supernatural power.

As for this issue of "The Glass Steps", Aiwass Moriarty on the front page alone occupied twelve seconds. There are only three seconds left for a bicycle commercial.

Director Kent highly suspected that it was because Aiwass was too handsome and his smile was full of charm that Master Yannis gave him twelve seconds.

"Smiling so pretty...at first glance, it's not a good thing."

Director Kent, who had a beast-like intuition, curled his lips and muttered in a low voice: "I don't know whose girl I am planning to harm..."

...However, he saw it clearly.

If you can solve such a big case alone at this age, you will definitely become a big shot far higher than yourself in the future.

This time they got a big credit for no reason, so they must be given adequate rewards - originally such a big job should be given to the Inspectorate, and it would not be their turn anyway.

Moreover, this is an opportunity to connect with Professor Moriarty.

Therefore, the rewards chosen must be good enough, otherwise they will be trash to the Moriarty family. If you give something that others don't like, it will bring disgrace to the Supervision Bureau.

...It’s really troublesome.

"A priest dedicated to the path...a seminarian student..."

Director Kent murmured under his breath, rummaging through the bookshelves.

Suddenly, his movements stopped. He looked towards a corner.

There was a book with a dark cover and no name on the spine.

The director picked it up with one hand and flicked the cover lightly with the other hand. Sparks burst out from the pages, like a hammer striking an anvil.

"This one might work."

He murmured in a low voice and read the title of the book: ""Pastor's Tantra"... Judging from the name, it should be related to 'Pastor'."

This entire bookshelf is full of good stuff collected by the people below when they confiscated banned books.

The Kingdom of Avalon strictly prohibits accepting bribes in any form, because that is behavior that can shake "authority". But on the other hand, appropriate profit-making within the scope of authority is tacitly accepted. This is also to prevent officials and ministers from being bribed by foreign spies, especially spies from the Star Antimony Kingdom, when they are short of money, or from selling important intelligence and internal resources to the private sector. This will also undermine "authority".

One of the default methods of profit-making involves selling confiscated banned books to the Knight family - from this perspective, this bookshelf can also be regarded as Director Kent's personal property.

Kent is not a pioneer on the path of devotion, so he will definitely not be able to open this book.

But judging from the name and the sparks that burst out, this is a mysterious book that belongs to the path of devotion.

After the death of extraordinary people, their souls will fall into the "Nine Forks of the River" in the dream world and flow to the farthest path they have traveled. The power in it becomes the "path characteristics" acquired by those who come after the advanced ceremony, and their memories and knowledge will be scattered everywhere, falling into the natural existence of flowers, fruits, clouds and waves in the dream world. , becoming part of the material for building the dream world.

Those dream-walking monks who follow the path of wisdom can capture and collect these headless and scattered esoteric knowledge from the dream world.

They will collect it and organize it into a book. This mysterious book containing magical knowledge is called the "original book".

The text of the "Original Canon" is written in Gupta script. It is a kind of writing that has died out for a long time and cannot be read by ordinary people. This often requires translators of the local wisdom path to use mysterious techniques to forcibly translate it before it can be read.

According to the conventions of the translation community, the original scriptures recording the knowledge of the dream world in Gupta language were uniformly translated as a certain tantra. What the prefix is ​​depends mainly on the translator's understanding of the content of the original text.

In a tantra, a complete mysterious skill can usually be obtained - although it may be reproduced by people in later generations, there is also a high probability that it will be a lost skill.

Although it may not be useful, it is lost after all.

In other words, it is something that cannot be obtained through normal means...

"Then as a prize and a 'gift', it's good enough."

Director Kent said to himself.

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