Pastor's Tantra

A person who is determined to die in a state of firm mind and mental stability often appears gentle and free and easy.

When Aleister first met the two of them, he could clearly feel a strange sense of alienation - that strange sense of disharmony is hard to describe, a bit like a drama actor wearing the costumes in the play, but speaking to you in a normal tone.

Because he was ready to "die", he said everything he could say without hesitation, just like he was telling his last words. There was no need for intrigue or exchange of information... As long as Aleister wanted to know, they would tell it.

...That mentality is like a player who has made up his mind to AFK (leave the game for a long time or permanently). If he encounters any trouble or help from other players, he will try his best to give everything he has to the other party to solve the problem.

That is an attitude of "not caring about these things anymore". Even if the person being helped is not very familiar with the game, he can always clearly feel that "the other party seems to be planning to quit the game."

Adolf obviously also planned to quit the game.

However, the game he was planning to quit was called "Life".

Mathias sighed slowly: "Why bother..."

Aleister read a rather complicated meaning from the tone of the first generation of Black Phase.

Obviously, Mathias did not agree with Adolf's transformation into the undead.

But he was also helpless... As the strongest person in this world, he still couldn't stop his students from continuing to embark on this wrong path. After all, he himself was walking on this path, and he couldn't give his students a new way.

Just like the demon scholar always has to be promoted to the incarnation of the devil - there is no way ahead, this is the only way.

Once the transformation into the undead is completed, you may immediately gain powerful power... But it also means that you are no longer a transcendent, but a phantom demon.

Unlike the demons who can still serve the Fallen Angels and continue to transcend through contracts and devouring souls. Becoming an undead means losing the possibility of further progress. Unless you are favored by the Pillar God or the Celestial God and are named an apostle... Otherwise, that's basically it.

Take the King of the Wild Hunt, for example. When he became the King of the Wild Hunt, he was already this strong. Even if hundreds or thousands of years have passed, he will still be this strong. The same is true for the Earthbound Spirit Alice... They will only become weaker due to various accidents, or gain a little benefit from the environment with too much yin energy, but the body will not become stronger.

Once they become undead, their emotions will inevitably become indifferent.

Even if they preserve their bodies completely and become "dead but with surviving corpses", they will at least be stripped of the adaptability of the four paths. Except for the Dusk Path, it is equivalent to only having half of the emotions and thoughts of the living.

However, Adolf just shook his head: "You also know... If we can get to this point, we will inevitably pursue the eternal tranquility.

"Whether it is to become an undead in the material world, or to be sent to the Amber Forest, or to become a memory trace imprinted by the Amber Heavenly Master... In fact, there is not much difference. The former at least means that I can protect the Spirit Tower for some days, right? "

"Could it be that the other generations of Black Phases are also..."

Hearing this, Aleister reacted: "So they all disappeared, right?"

Theoretically, the lifespan of the extraordinary people of the Dusk Path is the longest - as far as she knows, there is even a Dusk Path extraordinary person who has lived for more than 5,000 years and is still alive. But the frequency of the replacement of the Black Phase of the Spiritual Tower is several times faster than that of the Red Phase, and basically a round will be replaced every 20 to 30 years. However, the number of extraordinary people at the fifth energy level of Star Antimony has not increased much.

Aleister originally thought that these Black Phases died in accidents, or fed the Spiritual Tower with their own souls... or they actually hid themselves and became the hidden power of the Spiritual Tower. But this cannot explain why the Spiritual Tower has no movement after the arrival of the Fallen Angel.

The first generation of Black Phase can be said to have fallen into a deep sleep that cannot be awakened again - what about the previous Black Phases?

They are not liches, and there is no need for "dragon sleep".

"You guessed well. ”

Adolf nodded happily: "This is a kind of fate for us. The shackles called "Path" will drive people crazy.

"But becoming undead... It means that we will gradually forget everything in our lives, and sooner or later we will leave the Spirit Tower and go to a more peaceful and desolate place. Because by then, the Spirit Tower will seem too noisy for them... Such separations have been repeated more than once. Mine will not be the last time."

The original Aiwass may not understand what kind of power "Path Impulse" is.

But now Aleister, but they understand that they will make such a choice.

After all, the influence and control of the Path of Love that she has endured is only higher than that of the black faces of the Spirit Tower.

The upper extraordinary people in this world may not be much better than the lower extraordinary people. Although the strength has become stronger and the circle has become more advanced, they will immediately encounter difficulties and enemies of the same level. It is rare to encounter a fourth-level extraordinary being who can rely on his strength to suppress the extraordinary beings below the fourth level... After all, there are many fifth-level strong beings above him.

Only when you are strong enough to be considered the top in the fifth energy level can you be considered to have barely transcended the shackles. But even so, you will be supervised by the Church... From this perspective, although this world is full of crises, it is also orderly.

But on the other hand, once the extraordinary profession is promoted to the fourth energy level, the influence of the Tao on personality and psychology will immediately become obvious, and if you are not careful, you will be affected by the Tao and go crazy.

"... I remember that the "firstborn disaster" during the Helasar Empire came from this."

Aleister thought of this difficult disease during the Helasar Empire: "If you reach the limit of your energy level but refuse to enter the promotion ceremony and stop being promoted, the long-accumulated Tao impulse will drive you crazy. You must use the means of having children to share some of your Tao impulses in order to maintain your sanity."

In fact, he occasionally wondered if those crazy moon children went crazy because they were stuck at the corresponding Tao limit for too long and could not become stronger.

"...This statement is not accurate enough. It comes from the summary of the troubles of geniuses or the survival experience of overly conservative cowards."

Adolf sighed with some regret: "Because not everyone's talent is enough to 'reach the limit'.

"For example, I myself - although I have reached the fifth energy level of the extraordinary, I have not even completed one-third of the fifth energy level. However, I have clearly sensed that I have reached the end. The power of the path that my soul can carry has reached its limit, like a lake full of water.

"But the 'desire to become stronger' from the impulse of the path is like a heavy rain. It still keeps bringing me new rain. It can't make me stronger, but it will only make me feel more stressed. The larger the area of ​​the lake, the greater the pressure.

"I know I can't reach the end, but it doesn't matter.

"-Our destiny is just to climb, and reaching the peak is the business of the next generation."

... So that's it.

Aleister suddenly realized that he finally filled in the last piece of the puzzle.

Even if you don't reach the limit of the path, as long as you reach the limit of your talent... or in other words, as long as you can't improve for a long time, the impulse of the path will gradually accumulate to the point of driving people crazy. That's why many people have lived for a long time, but their extraordinary abilities have not reached the fifth or even fourth energy level, because their talents have been stuck at the upper limit. Unless there is a major event that causes a huge change in their mind and personality, it may be that they have almost exhausted their potential in more than 20 years of becoming a supernatural person.

From this perspective, this may also be a potential "life lock".

Although the giants of that time also had a long life, they were obviously not in a very good mental state... basically everyone was crazy.

...Wait?

Thinking of this, Aleister was stunned for a moment.

Could it be that the amber is actually the reason...?

If you want to make the impulse of the path less obvious, you can suppress and neutralize it through another path impulse. Just like Aleister himself is trying to suppress the impulse of the path of love with the impulse of transcending the path.

But if that's the case...

... Doesn't that mean that the amber itself is the guarantee of the elves' longevity?

This idea is based on the fact that all elves will become extraordinary beings. It is precisely because of the influence of the amber syndrome that those elves who become extraordinary beings can survive for so long, and they are not as easy to go crazy as the short-lived species with extended life.

After all, the leisurely life habits of the long-lived species are indeed an important factor in maintaining mental health, which makes the mind age very slowly; just like rich people who have money and leisure time and pay attention to physical and mental health always look much younger than hard-working workers - being carefree can make people look younger.

However, the Tao impulse accumulated over time will not become weaker just because the elves are immortals. The concept of time belongs to the balanced Tao, and its characteristic is equality. Therefore, in principle, the accumulated Tao impulses of all races should be the same.

Another reason, perhaps because of the blessing given by the Lingbo Tianshi, the elves always have a stronger tendency to amber as they age.

This actually reduces the nine possibilities of losing control to one, allowing the Tao impulses of other Taos to offset the Tao impulses of the dusk Tao. Unless the path impulse of the Dusk Path completely overwhelms their original path impulse, it will lead to amber condensation... So only those elves with twilight thinking will condense amber, but basically no one has heard of elves from other paths losing control.

No wonder after the Amber Celestial Master was pulled down, all kinds of strange problems appeared on the side of the Church.

This is not even as simple as the blessing is invalid...

-It turns out that the principle of "This system relies on BUGs to run, don't try to modify any BUGs" sounds so reasonable!

But in this case, what is the position of the Amber Celestial Master...?

Aleister frowned.

However, she suddenly remembered another thing: "You just said... to create a sixth-level undead? Is this really... something that can be completed in two years?"

Let alone Lily may not have two years at all-and where did this somewhat accurate time come from?

"At this point, it can actually be made public..."

Adolf glanced at the skeleton, then turned to Aleister and explained: "I accepted your words so easily... because we have already made up our minds to leave the Lingbo Tiansi route."

"-Winter Girl?"

Aleister blurted out.

She remembered that the resurrection and rebirth of the dead originally belonged to the power of Lingbo Tiansi - and then the Winter Girl took this power and went out independently. Since then, necromancy no longer belongs to Lingbo Tiansi, but has become the ability of Dongdong Si.

Old man Adolf was shocked: "You even know this?"

"I only know what I know."

Aleister shrugged and smiled: "Just think of it as astrology."

But she also knew that Dongdong Si was actually a bit lame compared to Lingbo Tiansi. The dead were a field that Lingbo Tiansi took the initiative to cut out, and her own strength was not enough. It directly led to Dongdong Si being dragged down less than a year after she was promoted to Tiansi.

In this case, she may not be able to hold up the sixth energy level in the material world...

...The psychic tower in the original world line has been silent during the Tail Ring ceremony. Could it be that it is fiddling with its "sixth energy level undead"?

However, speaking of the sixth energy level undead...

She seems to have another way.

Aleister paused and confirmed: "You want this sixth energy level undead... How do you plan to use it? Will it be harmed or destroyed?"

"To contain the soul of Gray Tiansi, a sixth energy level undead is needed as a container to prevent it from escaping," the lich replied in a steady tone, "Excuse me, Miss Aleister - the friendship between me and Cyril in the past has not reached the point where I need to consume a sixth energy level undead."

"In that case... If I can get a sixth energy level undead, can the ceremony start immediately?"

Aleister confirmed.

"Of course."

Mattias said with certainty: "And I will express my sincere gratitude to you - if I have the opportunity to contact the sixth level of the power of dusk, I may... also be able to get closer to that realm."

"Okay," Aleister nodded, "Wait for me, I'll be back soon."

"How long?"

Aleister had said this, and the knowledgeable Mattias was not surprised, just asked back.

"Two days, three days at most."

Aleister thought for a while and gave a more conservative answer:

"--In three days, I will return with the King of the Wild Hunt."