Pastor's Tantra

When the stranger finally escaped from the Palace of Silver and Tin, he subconsciously looked back.

I saw that the entire palace was already burning... The rolling flames distorted the surrounding air, and the distorted heat waves visible to the naked eye were mixed with the hot air of sulfur and rushed towards my face. The steaming black smoke almost covered the sky, mixing with the dark clouds in the sky.

Like a dark passage, descending from the sky to the palace of silver and tin...bringing doom and destruction.

Finally, it started to rain.

The earth is brimstone and fire, and the sky is clouds and rain.

Fortunately, people had already begun to evacuate and flee, so there was no crowding and a tragic stampede.

The end is near.

The stranger couldn't help but raise his mind.

He couldn't tell whether his mentor "Bruzwick" had escaped... let alone whether he was sure of controlling the Balrog.

And more importantly -

——Teammates! Why are you missing again?

The mentor from his own world line, the real Mr. Bruzwick who is now accompanying him to the promotion ceremony as a "consultant"... and his school girl, Aurora, codenamed "Grape", where are they now? ah!

The stranger felt confused.

He was still seriously investigating his identity just now and working hard to play this role. The original plan was to rest for the night and start looking for companions the next day... But now, only a few hours had passed, and the situation had taken a turn for the worse, completely falling into uncontrollable and unknown territory.

"What on earth is that, Master Nobel!"

A trembling voice came from under Stranger.

The young man also felt confused and frightened by the terrifying monster: "When the Queen died, everything became so weird... Is this the Crown Lord's punishment for us!"

"——Don't stop, run!"

Feeling that the running knight kept slowing down and repeatedly looking back at the Palace of Silver and Tin, the Stranger loudly ordered the knight who was carrying him to escape: "That's the Balrog! The Balrog can continuously divide itself by devouring souls...

"And the most important thing is that the Balrog will emit violent explosions when it is defeated! The Glass Island is about to be destroyed, we must leave here!"

Stranger is now very pessimistic about the outcome of this promotion ceremony.

The necessary task of this ceremony requires him to safely evacuate the princess "Isabelle du Lac" to the Eternal Theocracy.

And now, he couldn't even find the princess anywhere.

He couldn't find his teammates, he couldn't find the princess, and he didn't know how to get to the Theocracy at all - he had never been to Avalon, let alone the Theocracy, and he didn't know the way at all.

Except that the capital of Avalon is called Glass Island, he doesn't even know the names of other cities, nor does he know where Glass Island is located in Avalon, let alone where the Theocracy is relative to Avalon.

Just very confused.

So Stranger planned to at least let himself survive first——

If Princess Isabel fails to arrive safely in the Theocracy within four days, the promotion ceremony will fail. But there is no penalty for failure itself, only death - so as long as you survive to the end safely, you have achieved your goal.

If possible, it would be best to find the "grapes" as well. The two of them will find a place to survive together.

But at this moment, Stranger suddenly heard a shout of surprise. He couldn't help but shiver.

"Master Nobel! You escaped?!"

What greeted him was a handsome male bishop wearing a red robe.

The stranger didn't know whether he was familiar with the other party, so he could only pat the knight under him painfully and signal him to put him down first.

Regardless of whether he is the priest named "Fox"...in any case, it is good to be accompanied by a bishop. At least if he is injured, the other party can save his life.

"...Yes, I escaped," the stranger tried his best to show a sad expression, "but the other knights and ministers seemed to..."

"What happened in the palace," the bishop frowned, "Did the Star Antimony people directly attack the royal family?"

...It was obviously your own people who assassinated the Queen!

The stranger felt aggrieved and confused for a moment.

Because he really didn't know why the Star Antimony people dared to do such a thing to Avalon.

——Now in the real world, Star Antimony is in the middle of a war started by the Avalonians.

The gryphon legion from Avalon has become a nightmare for many Starbuck civilians - when the gryphons fly close to the ground, the sharp sound of breaking through the air, the rolling thunder and the roaring hurricane are heralded. A certain building or area will be destroyed by the thunder storm.

And they have absolutely no countermeasures to this. The colossi could only fire symbolically, but they never succeeded in shooting down any griffon. Their speed is so fast that they cannot be locked.

In addition, the rebel mages in Narcissus Territory also caused huge losses.

The army must expend life and exert all its strength in order to barely stop the advance of the mage phalanx.

Coupled with the Theocracy's bias, the beheading tactic could not be effective. They haven't been able to counterattack Avalon itself.

As a result, Xing Antimony was dragged into the quagmire of war without being ready for war at all.

"It's all Minister Drost's fault!!"

The Stranger lashed out at Minister Drost for daring to assassinate the Queen—his disgust was undoubtedly genuine.

——Now that Avalon will attack Star Antimony, tracing back to the origin, it seems that it is also because of the trouble caused by this fat pig named Drost!

...However, Stranger is now vaguely aware of the difference between this world line deduced by the Lord of Scale Feather and his own world line.

At present, there are three main differences -

The first is that after Meg's death, there was no new great arbiter "Ligeia" - Ligeia was suspected by Star Antimony's intelligence department to be a silver dragon that turned into a human. It was suspected that Meg had a relationship with someone when she was young. A child born to a giant dragon.

More importantly, Aiwass in this world did not become famous and became a minister, but became a bishop. Neither did Miss Aleister, whose true identity was said to be "Lady Bayard" during the empire. Appear.

Furthermore, Queen Sophia did not die in the winter of 1898, but lived until the autumn of 1899. Queen Isabel, who was more forceful, never succeeded to the throne.

It was the differences in these three points that led the world to another possibility that was extremely unfamiliar and completely different to him——

Star Antimony actually declared war on Avalon! And there seems to be a real chance...

At this time, the Theocracy did not have time to send guards, and Isabel did not have the help of Aiwass. Now that the Palace of Silver and Tin has been destroyed, there is chaos in the rear...

According to Stranger's understanding of Xing Antimony, the next step is probably a surprise attack by the front troops.

After listening to the stranger's detailed attacks, narrations and deductions mixed with sincere feelings, the unknown bishop frowned: "This is actually like this... Are you sure that Her Royal Highness is okay?"

"Anyway, I saw Ms. Shafiya running away with Her Highness the Princess."

The stranger replied simply: "I won't know after that."

He didn't say how he saw it - anyway, he did see it.

But just saying that Isabel escaped doesn't seem to explain the whole story clearly.

"But where can Her Royal Highness go..."

The bishop fell into deep thought.

"I have an idea, but I'm not sure if it's right," the bishop said suddenly. "She may have gone to Moriarty Manor."

Hearing this, Stranger's heart moved.

——How do you know that Princess Isabel is related to Aiwass?

"Are you a fox?"

he asked tentatively.

"What?"

Mr. Bishop was a little puzzled by this nonsense. He just shook his head and explained: "My name is not Fox. I am Samuel Mathers, and the young Bishop Moriarty is my student. .

"He has a little friendship with Princess Isabel. If the princess would go anywhere, I think it would be there."

...They do have a "kind of friendship."

Stranger thought.

He had never heard of Samuel Mathers.

But he knew that in another history, this "Queen Isabel" and "Miss Aleister" fought for men very fiercely, and their methods were quite vicious - they drove Lady Bayard out of Ava. Takashi never came back after that.

"You come with me."

Bishop Mathers grabbed Nobel, and then looked at the young knight: "You too, come with me - we need to gather the little strength we have at the moment. Send Her Royal Highness to a safe place first.

"Whether it is the destruction of the Palace of Silver and Tin or the fall of the Glass Island. As long as the princess is still alive, there is still hope for everything... With such a big fire, I estimate that Prince John has died. So as long as the princess dies, Du Lac The blood was completely cut off.

"What's your name, young man?"

Having said this, Bishop Mathers asked the young man: "I haven't seen you in the Round Table Hall... You are not an arbitrator, right?"

What?

The stranger was shocked.

He thought the other party was a fourth-level arbitrator, but it turned out not to be the case at all?

No wonder the other party looked so timid and couldn't run fast even with only himself carrying no armor. Moreover, he did not appear in the middle of the Palace of Silver and Tin and was killed immediately like those knights. Instead, he was on the edge of the palace like himself... so he was able to escape the first wave of impact...

"...That's right."

The young man nodded sadly: "My name is Allen Carter. This time I was invited by my father to attend the engagement party... but my father..."

When he said this, he clenched his fists tightly: "After the accident, I have been hiding nearby. I wanted to escape, but I couldn't find a chance..."

Hearing this, the Stranger understood - obviously, his father was one of the knights who was killed.

He had no idea what was going to happen. Otherwise, he would not be able to bring his son to this dangerous bloody banquet.

"Aaron Carter...I've heard of you, Aaron."

Bishop Mathers patted him on the shoulder: "Come with us."

On the other side, "Sherlock" slowly opened his eyes. There was a flash of dark blue fire in his pupils.

He was currently being held in Aiwass's arms, waking up from the shock of running fast.

Seeing the light rising into the sky from a distance through the gap in Aiwass's shoulder, he immediately knew what had happened.

Carl exploded.

That good-for-nothing Drost...how long did you delay me...

"Advisor" thought coldly in his heart.

Injury and torture are not torture to him. To a seeker on the twilight path, pain is just an illusion. What really annoyed him was that he was locked up there and couldn't get out. He also had to play Shylock and Minister Drost, which made him lose his initiative and waste a lot of time.

If he hadn't been rescued by Aiwass, he would have been burned alive by the Balrog that jumped out after Karl's death.

...I hope the "other self" can deal with the troubles left by Karl.

The reason why the two of them always travel together is because the consultant has a way to deal with the out-of-control Balrog.

But he has no time to care about things over there now.

Today, the necessary task of the consultant is also to "help Princess Isabel reach the Theocracy safely."

But the consultant doesn't plan to work with anyone else.

——Because his knowledge is deeper than others... He knows the plot style of each pillar god.

This is a promotion ceremony created by the Lord of Scale Feathers.

The theme of Lord of Scales and Feathers is adaptation and survival, so as long as you survive, you will have a chance to be promoted.

In other words, it is not decisive at all who will complete the necessary tasks - unlike other rituals, the necessary tasks of the Lord of Scale Feathers do not even have to be completed!

[When someone completes the necessary tasks or the ceremony time ends, the ceremony will be settled immediately; the three people with the lowest points during the settlement will be eliminated]

This is the rule told by Akpolis.

...I hope those two idiots can react and stop going in one ear and out the other. It's best to realize that this promotion ceremony is different from the past... Otherwise, you will have to give them an extra five hundred lines of essays and a three hundred lines of repentance when you go back.

the advisor thought.

The consultant's goal this time is to help his two students pass the promotion ceremony. Even if he successfully escorts the princess to the Theocracy with his two children, it is possible that someone may have fewer points than someone who did not escort the princess because he did not complete enough tasks.

On the other hand...the person who chooses to escort the princess has the advantage of "being able to decide at any time when to end the promotion ceremony." But since they don't know anyone else's points at this point, it's still risky. And even if you send the princess away quickly, you will not have enough points to obtain excellent path characteristics because you have completed too few tasks.

So the consultant planned to take another route.

——Kill Isabel secretly.

As long as Isabel dies, everyone is destined to be unable to complete necessary tasks. They can only wait until the ritual time is over to force settlement... People who don't know about Isabel's death will definitely try to search for Isabel.

If this thing wastes time and distracts energy, other people will definitely have much less time to complete tasks and earn points than the three of them.

If we can eliminate at least three people based on this matter... we can ensure that no one is eliminated and the three of them occupy the top spot. There are still advantages to killing people, at least there will be no point deductions for unintentionally helping others complete their tasks.

"Are you awake, Sherlock?"

Aiwass's voice sounded.

The consultant paused and asked in a weak voice: "Where am I...Moriarty?"

"On the way to my house."

Aiwass replied helplessly: "Ms. Shafia's teleportation distance was a bit short... and she fell out in the middle."

"Because the time I was given to prepare was too short! He was about to explode suddenly, and I couldn't lock it in accurately..."

Shafiya said angrily behind Aiwas: "It's not far anyway, just these few steps. Go back and see if Her Highness Isabel is safe... I'm a little worried that the man in black will attack Her Highness the Princess. After all, just now He never showed up when we were fighting.”

——Is Isabel originally at Aiwass’s place?

The consultant's heart moved.

"You rest first, Sherlock. Stop thinking."

Aiwass whispered: "I will treat you first when we get back."

So the consultant nodded slightly and closed his eyes silently.