Pastor's Tantra

That's not even the current 1.0 plot anymore!

The name of the 3.0 expansion pack is called [Shadows of Avalon], and this is also the version in which the Ring of Endings ritual appears for the first time.

The arrival of Fallen Sky Division takes place outside the main plot. To be more precise, this is the story that takes place in the trailer of version 3.0. But Avalon's Shadow Sky Division only came after the main line BOSS of version 3.0, the Fallen Sky Division that came to Star Antimony, was defeated.

The "someone" who was once a puppet of Star Antimony but is now independent and summoned Shadow Sky is Isabel (puppet).

——This is the core of the Star Antimony Kingdom's conspiracy, and it is also the reason why they dare to attack Avalon directly.

They used the most advanced technology crystallization - using the techniques of golem, alchemy, ritual and necromancy to create a replica of Princess Isabel as a doll loyal to Star Antimony. It even has an independent consciousness and can act independently without accepting orders.

She looks exactly like Isabelle except for the joints that are hidden under her clothes.

Of course, there is a huge personality gap between her and Isabel. And because of her low intelligence in autonomous action mode, as long as the ministers are clear in their thinking, they can easily see that she is just a doll.

——But having a puppet as a cover is enough.

On the surface, it is still the royal blood that controls Avalon - even if she is not on the authoritarian path, it is better than nothing. Those ministers who betrayed Avalon and went to Star Antimony will not be blamed. The hatred of the Avalonians will not be completely concentrated on the Star Antimony people.

People will only feel that Avalon has been defeated once and therefore signed a contract to sell out their interests. But they would never have thought that their new queen was just a puppet of the Star Antimony Man.

It is precisely because in version 3.0, Isabel became famous for defeating the Fallen Division with the support and help of the Theocracy. People began to wonder - if it was Isabel who defeated the Fallen Division, then who is their queen?

Until the plot of version 3.2, the puppet lost the control of the Star Antimony Man and was forced to start learning Isabel's past. In the end, the doll gradually awakened her heart - or in other words, she gradually lost control. She really grew to think that she was Isabel.

Aiwass forgot the plot in the middle. But in short, in version 3.4, Miss Doll and Queen Doll learned about the existence of the "Shadow of Avalon", and finally chose to sacrifice her brother John as Isabel in an attempt to summon the ancestor Lancelot I to protect Avalon.

However, the summoning failed.

The summons must fail.

Because the ritual arranged by Merlin before he became an apostle had long been modified by Lancelot's adoptive mother and Merlin's ex-girlfriend, the Lake Fairy Vivian from the Path of Love.

After completing her great achievements as a mother, Vivian also successfully became an apostle.

But she was not the apostle of Henga, but became the apostle of Ying Tiansi.

According to the rules of the path of love, both superiors and subordinates are loved. So she can be counted as Ying Tiansi's daughter or lover, then Lancelot is Ying Tiansi's grandson - this is why he went to the Kingdom of Shadows to experience instead of becoming the Silver Crown Dragon Apostle.

Vivian's original purpose was probably to prevent Lancelot's rebirth.

Because everyone knows that as long as Lancelot dies again after rebirth, he will leave the Kingdom of Shadows forever and become the apostle of the Silver Crown Dragon. But as long as his resurrection fails, he will stay here forever as a warrior of the Kingdom of Shadows.

Despite Lancelot's bad attitude towards her, Vivian still loves him one-sidedly.

As a foster mother, and as a mentor, but also as a lover.

Extraordinary people on the path of love always find it difficult to control their desires. Moreover, various desires will be mixed together and misidentified.

The reason why Lancelot had a bad attitude towards her as an adult is also very simple - because Vivian did not raise Lancelot as an orphan, but fell in love with him after seeing Lancelot as a baby. She fell in love with him and then stole him directly from his parents as an infant.

But maybe it’s because Huan Tiansi has tampered with it, or maybe it’s just a coincidence, or maybe it’s the inspiration for the “Ring of the End” ritual… In short, after being modified by Vivian, this ritual just happened to be The "ring of the connection".

When she changed this ritual, Huantiansi had not yet taught this ritual to humans.

Lancelot's still-living body became the "living sacrifice" needed for the Ring of Ouronomy ceremony. The close kinship between him and Yingtiansi became the foundation of the ceremony.

What serves as the ritual fire is the ignorant and pure desire in the puppet queen's heart.

Want to live as a human being, as "Isabelle du Lac"——

As a result, the ritual absorbed John's blood, the puppet queen's heart, and Lancelot's body, and turned into a top-notch "Ring of the End" ritual, directly dragging Shadow Tiansi down.

——Having said this, Ying Tiansi must also be at a loss.

Because it is impossible for Tiansi to want to be dragged down by the Ring of Ending - even if they can be reborn in the dream world after being killed, if they die in the material world, they will no longer be Tiansi after rebirth.

Although the phantom will regenerate after death, its "equipment" will be dropped.

Ordinary phantoms don't have much equipment, but Tiansi has authority...that is, their Tiansi fragments.

If you die in the dream world, as long as the person who kills you is not a colleague who happens to be able to absorb your fragments, you can be resurrected with full health. But if you die in the material world, it is equivalent to these fragments falling directly into the void.

It is the disintegration of this part of authority and the re-vacancy of the occupied power nodes that allows the extraordinary person on this path to break through the limit and go further. It was only after Shadow Tiansi died once in the material world that the rare shadow power was finally unlocked.

Now that there is no puppet queen, Aiwass can't say whether Yingtiansi will succeed in coming.

But he was certain that Vivian had definitely changed the ritual. In other words, no matter what happens, it cannot be Lancelot. Maybe it will be Vivian who comes, or it may still be Yingtiansi. The best may be his former brothers and other knights who became the apostles of the Silver Crown Dragon, but it cannot be Lancelot. .

But another troublesome thing came.

That is, Aiwass could not stop the Queen from performing this ritual.

——Now that twenty members of the royal family have died, only the last one is left to complete the ceremony. Then you, an outsider who has never heard of this ritual before, suddenly jumped out and said, "There is something wrong with this ritual, stop it immediately"?

Don't even think about it, he can't persuade her.

Even if she knew there was a problem, the old lady would definitely give it a try.

Because without the protection of Lancelot, it would be difficult for Avalon to survive the labor pain period - and this is indeed the case. Without Lancelot, Avalon was directly pushed flat by a wave of F2A from Star Antimony.

However, the current world level is too low. There are very few people who can even touch the upper limit.

If you want to change all this, you still have to wait for the big event of version 2.0... Only then will the upgrade speed suddenly increase.

Now if they really pull Yingtiansi out, it will be the end of the world - at this time, the whole world cannot gather a sixth-level team, and the demon incarnations of the Rosicrucian Society are also stuck at the fifth level. Energy level is the upper limit of this level.

If you are not at the sixth level, how can you beat the coming Tiansi... If you don't have enough priority, you can't even break through the defense.

That would be Avalon dragging the whole world along with him.

...Then, it’s better to think back. Is it possible to fix this ritual?

It's not impossible.

If Merlin is summoned and told that one of his rituals has been changed by Vivian... can he find a way to change it back?

——This is like a one-time program written when I left my job more than 400 years ago. Because it was a one-time use, no comments were written. Now the program is ready to run, but a bug appears. I hope he can come back to the company to fix it now.

...Aiwass thought about it and felt that there was not much hope.

The best possibility is to destroy the ceremony directly. This is not difficult, after all, the foundation of the ceremony is Lancelot's body.

Although Aiwass couldn't understand this complex apostle-level ritual... But if the problem could be fundamentally solved, all he had to do was kill Lancelot. Lancelot's body is the foundation of the ritual, and the ritual will automatically close once he dies.

After all, it is just a body without a soul. It is equivalent to a sixth-level strongman falling into a deep sleep that cannot be awakened. It is very simple to kill him.

But in that case, there is no turning back. He had to prepare other means to fight against Star Antimony.

However, Her Majesty the Queen has basically not thought about that.

After all, this is not a plan arranged by Avalon, but a flexible countermeasure taken against the conspiracy of Star Antimony and Iris. It is already remarkable to be able to think of counterattacks while being completely passive, surrounded by enemies, and facing internal and external troubles. But now that there is less than a year left, if Aiwass demands that everything be scrapped and redone...

Gee, I have a bit of a toothache.

Aiwass suddenly felt that knowing too much was not a good thing.

As a result, no matter how he moves, it seems to lead to unexpected situations.

... Logically speaking, just let the story develop. Just let Avalon perish and let them escape. The problem should be solved in the end... Just let Avalon stand up again and be reborn in the fire.

But, can he do this?

Aiwass rejected it without thinking.

There is no complicated reason.

——Because I don’t want to.

Chapter 2 will be written when I get back after lunch!