Pastor's Tantra

In the morning, the genius just shone brightly.

Yanis went to Circle 21 with some anxiety.

The further up the Theocracy goes, the smaller the ground becomes and the fewer people flow there. The twenty-first circle is like a huge palace... and this is the nurturing place for the candidate saints.

After verifying her identity, showing her token, and registering the fluctuations of her blood and soul, Yanis put on a specially made gem brooch that could record the entire process, and under the guidance of the two papal guards, she followed the prescribed route to the agreed destination. Good location.

Every candidate saint will undergo various closed studies from here until they acquire the ability to communicate with the Nine Pillars and develop all abilities to perfection, or if any of the data does not meet the standards and is eliminated. Only when they are eliminated will they be released.

The training of a saint is extremely strict. Failure in any assessment is not allowed.

With this high elimination rate, any qualified girls will be recruited here after reaching the age - the saints recruited may be eliminated at any time.

The reason why there are only women is because the top inheritance of the "Eternal Saint" requires the inheritor to be a pure, indifferent and quiet young woman. Although the saint "Pure White" is active outside, there are at least twenty or thirty candidates for the saint inside.

Those who are not eliminated will be considered as alternates. As long as something happens to the current saint, she will be replaced immediately.

The most cruel thing here is that even if you meet all the standards, even if you don't make any mistakes, even if you are the best in all assessments...if you wait until you are overage, you will be eliminated on schedule.

In order to ensure that the thoughts are pure and will not be contaminated by other thoughts, causing the path to deviate... the people who can be contacted by the candidate saints at different stages of study are restricted and investigated, and any visitor's Conversations are closely monitored. Spreading abnormal ideas to a candidate saint is the highest level of crime in the Church.

As a temporary visitor, Yanis was naturally not allowed to talk to any candidate saint. So she won't meet anyone along the way.

It was all planned.

As Yanis walked in the solemn and silent corridor of the church, what sounded in her ears was the uniform footsteps of the two papal guards. The sound of footsteps echoed in the deserted church - a corridor of several hundred meters that could accommodate twenty people walking side by side, but now there were only three of them inside.

In the extremely quiet environment, even the footsteps of the two people echoed in the pure white corridor, sounding like thousands of troops.

A thought suddenly came to Yanis' mind:

Perhaps it was the right thing for Gray to find Ms. Blue Rose as a mentor for Gloria.

Because if Gloria was still studying in Circle 21, it would be impossible for Yanis to see her. The atmosphere here would probably make Gloria freeze for a long time. Fortunately, she was sent down below to recuperate...that's why she could live so long.

Mercedes lived here for a long time because he refused to admit defeat. Although he did not have Ningpa, he also joined the Controlled Fire.

The Controlled Fire is a faction that opposes the Inheritors, and the only Inheritor Mercedes has ever come into contact with is the Eternal Saint.

She must have become deeply disgusted with the inheritance system of candidate saints during her years of hard training.

The surrounding pure white corridors have almost no decoration... no sculptures, no hanging paintings, only identical, protruding flame reliefs and lighting.

Pure white candles, pure white flames, endless cycle. It seems endless and apocalyptic - and the slight upward slope brings a sense of exhaustion. The cloisters here have such a structure and are called "infinite cloisters".

Circle 21 has no signposts or any device to mark time.

There is no clock or watch, and the sun, moon and stars cannot be seen.

In this situation, the saints must remember and judge the current time through a very regular life, their own state, and even their heartbeat and breathing rhythm. If the biological clock is disrupted because of this, it will also be eliminated.

This in itself was one of the penances that gradually dissipated the anxiety of the candidate saints, but it made Yanis unable to help but become anxious.

The road never ends, and she feels anxious and uncomfortable.

When she turned the corner and finally saw Gray, Yannis shouted and rushed towards her:

"——Gray!"

It looks like a huge chapel, but there are no seats for spectators.

The red wooden floor looked like dried blood. The ceiling is dark red, and the room is filled with white candles of different heights - thousands of candles are burning quietly, and the room is filled with light, sacred incense.

I saw the pure white saint wearing her wedding dress-like white robe, kneeling peacefully in front of nine statues.

She clasped her fingers on her chest and covered her eyes with a ribbon. From a distance, it looks like a blooming lily.

The two papal guards stopped far away from the door and allowed Yanis to walk over.

Yanis was still very anxious at first, but after smelling the incense, her mood gradually calmed down. Her hurried footsteps also slowed down a bit.

"Gray, why are you..."

...Choose the place to meet here?

Yanis originally wanted to ask this.

But Saint Chunbai just didn't look back and said calmly: "This is how I wait for you every day, Yanis.

"Every day in an infinite loop, I don't know if things will change tomorrow. But I can only go on... I can't be anxious, regret it, or give up.

"You only walked like this for an hour, and I walked for a hundred and ninety-five years."

Yannis suddenly fell silent, speechless.

She stood three or four meters away from the saint, but for a moment she didn't dare to step forward.

She was silent for a long time and then said softly: "I didn't know... you would always wait for me."

"Because I believe you."

Gray replied: "Yannis will not lie to me, she will definitely come back.

"So I waited here...this is my practice.

"You are my infinite corridor."

The saint replied calmly.

Her voice was cold and calm. No anger, no anxiety.

It seems that all the feelings have been worn away by the endless cycle, leaving only obsession.

"……sorry."

"There's no point in apologizing, Yanis. I want to hear your explanation."

"——Anything like that is good!"

Yanis couldn't help the emotions swirling in her heart—guilt, remorse, anxiety, and fear mixed together. The extremely complicated emotions made her feel tormented, and she wanted to take her heart out of her chest and carve acrostics with a paintbrush.

When she was promoted to the fifth level, became a famous and powerful person in the world, and was respected as a master by people, she had never been so vulnerable.

She even thought that she had grown up and would no longer be afraid.

But now, Yanis discovered that it was just that she hadn't encountered something she cared about yet. That's just because she is strong enough and no longer loses what she cherishes so easily.

She tightened her grip on the gem brooch on her chest, and then made up her mind to speak. She told Gray the secrets of the Wine of Eternal Life and the Tears of Time, and told her the secret of the theft of the Tears of Time.

- If this results in Freya being held accountable, then she will take responsibility - and get her to a safe place at all costs. Yanis has made up her mind.

She was already very sorry for Gray, and now she had to tell Gray about this.

After hearing this, Gray just remained silent for a long time.

"So you care about me so much."

She ignored the anxious Yannis and just said softly: "Then why don't you come back?"

"...Because of my cowardice."

This time, Yanis finally gave her answer: "I couldn't face the first mistake... so I made more mistakes."

Finally, Gray got up from the ground.

She turned around and said calmly: "Kneel down."

Yanis knelt down in front of Gray without hesitation.

Gray stretched out his hands and caressed Yanis's cheek. Lifting Yanis's face, let her look into his eyes.

Yanis didn't understand why at first, but after maintaining this posture for a while, she suddenly seemed to realize something - her pupils suddenly dilated.

The corners of Gray's mouth raised slightly.

"Then I forgive you, Yanis."

Gray's cold and calm voice echoed: "In the name of purity, I forgive your sins."

At that moment, Yanis felt that something heavy in her heart suddenly disappeared.

But she couldn't wait to breathe a sigh of relief that she had passed the test. Instead, she looked directly at Gray, fear flowing in her eyes: "Could it be..."

"——I'm not afraid of that kind of thing."

The pure white saint said, untying the white cloth tied above her eyes: "Because I can no longer succeed as pope. Once exposed, the impact on the church will be too bad.

"All the cardinals know this. In this case, it is unlikely that I will be attacked... because that will cover up the fact that I spontaneously freeze and have a worse impact on the attacker."

She slowly opened her eyes.

Her left eye was a beautiful sky blue, while her right eye was as gorgeous and dark as the stars in the universe.

Her eyelids were partially damaged, and her right eye could no longer be fully closed or opened. A prosthetic eye that looks like a glass bead.

"...You are already frozen."

Yanis' face turned ugly: "Is it because of...me?"

Although there is no detailed study, the color of Ningpa is basically related to the road.

And black is the color of the path of love.

"Stop being so sentimental. It's not like I can't live without you, Yanis."

Pure White closed her eyes again and tied the silk satin layer by layer. Yanis immediately stood up and walked behind her to help her tie the straps.

"I was just thinking...that's all. A deserter like you won't understand."

The saint was about to say something, but after looking at it, Yanis finally gave up.

She stretched out her hand and casually crushed the gem brooch on Yanis's chest: "These conversations may cause trouble for you and Master Freya. Then don't hand it over... If asked, you will Said we had a fight and I broke it for you."

"……no problem?"

"As a saint, I still have this power."

Junbai replied.

"Oh, right."

Hearing Freya, Yanis thought of another thing: "Do you still have the dates from Aiwass?"

"Yes. I only took it twice, and then I didn't take it again."

The saint nodded: "If I eat them, it may be possible to cure coagulation syndrome. But after taking them twice, I feel that the amount is not enough.

"I don't know how long they can be preserved, and I don't know if they can continue to be born. In this case, it is better to save them and leave them for future generations... It may be useful to the elves in the future. So I prayed for the Amber I have used my strength to preserve them. There is no problem in preserving them for at least a few hundred years."

"It's a good thing you didn't continue taking it..."

Yanis was a little scared, and then explained Freya's theory.

Chunbai was silent for a while, and finally shook his head: "Don't worry too much, that's just a theory.

"However, since Master Freya is here... let's leave them to professionals."

As she spoke, she took out a blue gemstone ring: "They are inside."

"What about... what about Cardinal Loki?"

"The investigation is ongoing and the results are relatively optimistic."

The corners of Pure White's mouth rose slightly: "The side of the Eighteen Circles has been able to confirm that Bram's giant power comes from Cardinal Loki. The evidence has been fixed. Regardless of whether I can eventually succeed the Pope, he will definitely die. "

"……What?"

Hearing this, Yanis was stunned: "Cardinal Loki is the wildfire giant?"

She thought of Aiwass who went to see Cardinal Loki alone, and became nervous: "Wait a minute, then you go with me first -

"Aiwass went to find Cardinal Loki!"