Pastor's Tantra

Aiwass was silent and looked up at Lucifer.

He was so tall that it even reminded Aiwass of his past experience when he faced the giant prince.

Now that I think about it, the giant became so tall... probably because of the trace of blood left by the Supreme Heaven.

When the Supreme Heaven was still the King of Winged Ones, he must have been so tall...

"...He and I are different."

Aiwass took a deep breath and wanted to use a stronger posture and speak more powerful words, but in the end he just spit out a pale whisper: "Don't confuse us."

It was different from the righteous and sonorous words used by Cardinal Galatea when he said, "I am not a snake."

For some reason, Aiwass felt inexplicably guilty when facing Lucifer. It was as if he had really made some mistake, and as if his conscience was just hurt by those innocent eyes like a child.

Aiwass's words were closer to a weak defense than an angry warning: "I don't remember anything... I'm just an abandoned remnant."

It was a kind of hesitation that seemed to truly owe him something.

It was as if I had done something sorry for him in the past, and the shame and remorse were deep in my heart. But now that time has passed by, he has long forgotten the stories and people of the past, but he still vaguely remembers the feeling of indebtedness.

But I really don’t know him!

"I usually tell the truth."

Aiwass said seriously: "I never have any ill intentions towards others."

"The same goes for snakes," Lucifer replied without hesitation, "Snakes always tell the truth when they lie.

"Every word he said is true when taken individually - aren't you the same person?"

Lucifer's words pointed directly at Aiwass's heart: "You say 'I tell the truth', but in your heart you are saying 'Occasionally I tell the truth when I lie', 'Foxes are very good at it. "Liarous" words.

"...Don't read my mind!" Aiwass frowned.

"I don't read minds, because the doors of the hearts of all living beings are open in front of me. Just like you can see colors and smell flavors, those with wings can also feel the 'hearts' of others."

Lucifer just smiled gently and knelt down on one knee again: "However, you and the snake are indeed different. When the snake deceives people with the truth, he always believes it in his heart. And But you will say words in your heart to convince yourself...because you still can't regard falsehood as truth."

Aiwass felt an inexplicable anxiety - after merging with Aleister again and achieving spiritual peace and perfection, he rarely felt anything that touched his heart.

But now, in front of the remnant soul of Tiansi in the old world, Aiwass feels as if he is still an ignorant child.

"Why do you always have to kneel down in front of me?"

Aiwass frowned and said sarcastically to Lucifer: "I am not your king, and there is no need for you to be loyal to me."

"Because you are too small, much smaller than a snake."

Lucifer was not angry at all, but patiently explained: "I need to be at eye level with you to show that our status is equal; and I kneel down to you to express a kind of goodwill - this is what the snake teaches Mine. He told me that kneeling is a ritual to distinguish the superior from the inferior.

"I have no intention of conquering your existence and soul, nor do I want to use the authority of the 'King of Winged Ones', so I will rest my wings here. Retrograde the ritual to show friendship. Just like swallowing teeth and shrinking claws, sheathing the sword and returning home sheath."

As he said himself - as the love and glory abandoned by the original body, Lucifer's words are indeed full of good intentions.

Aiwass also realized his gaffe.

He pursed his lips and faced his mistake calmly: "I'm sorry, I don't know why... I lost control of my mood just now."

"That's a good thing."

Lucifer said gently: "This just shows that even 'Snake' is guilty of this matter - he has to cut off his guilt to avoid affecting his actions. This proves that he has a deep love for us." Friendship, isn’t it?”

"...Is that what you think?"

Aiwass was speechless for a moment.

He didn't know how to explain it - even though Lucifer had acquired human language, he couldn't quite understand the thinking mode of ancient people like Lucifer.

"That's right," Lucifer nodded slightly. The golden giant was as brilliant and flawless as he looked. "His feelings for us are sincere, but for a higher purpose, he had to abandon us. Just like In order to reach the highest level, the tribesmen will also give up their lives as living sacrifices.

"He failed to win my consent and used me as a sacrifice. I am not satisfied with this. But he felt guilty and painful for this, so I forgive him. He cut off his kindness, that is You. Your pain for this is exactly what he suffered in the past. When people sin, they must repent, and when they repent, they must atone for their sins.

"So I ask you - will you still cheat on me, like the snake you used to do."

After explaining, Lucifer said the words he just said again and stretched out his hand to Aiwass.

However, at this time, Aiwass's mentality and understanding had become completely different.

He was gradually able to understand Lucifer's thoughts——

The handshake just now was a reunion with former friends; but the handshake now is the real "first meeting" with Aiwass.

"I won't."

He said in a sonorous voice, tightly holding Lucifer's huge right hand: "But I won't make promises like 'I will never betray' or 'I will never lie'...

"I can only say that everything I do is worthy of my heart.

"I will never do anything that will make me regret. I will not cut out my regretful heart."

Hearing this, Lucifer smiled happily.

He said gently: "Then you and him are not the same person.

"Nice to meet you, my friend. You look a lot like a friend of mine... What's your name?"

"...Evans. "

Evans did not say his last name, but after a long silence, he only said his first name.

Compared to the family represented by the last name "Moriarty", the name "Evans" is the name that Aiwas truly recognizes - that is, his real name.

He believes that Lucifer can sense it.

Although it is just a remnant soul, a consciousness, a pile of embers, a yellowed photo that has solidified... It is completely different from the guy who became the Fallen Angel.

But at least Aiwas hopes that the other party can sense this sincerity.

"I sense it, my friend."

Lucifer smiled lightly and relaxedly: "Sure enough, it is valuable to guard here all the time..."

"... Guard? Value?"

"People should stick to it to the end when doing things. This is also the truth that the snake taught me."

Lucifer almost talked about the snake every three sentences, but Aiwas felt that there was nothing wrong with this: "The snake said that if you stick to things until the end and then give up, it is almost the same as giving up from the beginning. Therefore, if you make up your mind, you must go to the end and never look back.

"I have been guarding here since the day my old self ascended to heaven. I watched the sun shine forever on the earth, and everything in the world remained unchanged. I can feel that the time outside is passing and constantly wearing out my preservation technique, and the time I can hold on is getting shorter and shorter. The power of the path penetrated in, and the souls of those children who were preserved by me here gradually turned into demons, and finally no one could talk to me.

"But I think I have to wait until the first group of people arrive here. I want to tell them how the sun died and how the stars were born; I want to tell them the truth of the matter, let them know why the Fallen Angels were born... I want them to be careful of the lies of the 'snake' that are always true. "

At this point, Lucifer smiled and looked at Aiwas: "But I didn't expect... the first person to come here was still a 'snake', just like in the past. Oh, sorry... I forgot that you are not a snake. Just a friend who looks like him.

"In this way, my mission is also completed..."

"Wait!"

Seeing that Lucifer's body gradually became transparent as if he was about to tell his last words, Aiwass quickly stopped him and said, "Tell me the story of 'Snake'! And how I should be careful of him... Now he and I are already enemies in conflict! But I know nothing about him..."

"...You are actually the shed skin of 'Snake', right?"

Lucifer's words were shocking.

Seeing Aiwass' pupils shrink slightly, Lucifer smiled and said, "Because 'Snake' mentioned it to us.

"He is not a god, but he knows a lot about gods. I also asked him, and he always told the truth - he said that he was reborn from the future, and the distant future ushered in the end of the world. He has been in the cycle several times, but he has never been able to break the cycle. His familiarity with me is also from this. "

Lucifer said gently, "He said that he can become friends with me every time. He seemed a little sad when he said this. At that time, I didn't understand why... but now I know. Because every time, he needs my help to ascend to heaven again.

"But I think... if it is for this reason, there is no need to apologize to me. The world is destroyed, time turns, and thousands of disasters change again. The most painful ones must be those who are still struggling. On the contrary, we who are muddle-headed live happily and die peacefully.

"He came to be my friend with the determination to kill me in the end. All I enjoy is the happiness of having one more friend, while he has to endure the torture of his conscience.

"He told me that he would leave many skins. He would constantly cut off his tail and cut out a large amount of self and the most important part of memory in every era, let them experience life, expand, and then take them back to himself, using this method to maintain his humanity. Although I don't know why he lacks humanity if he is not a pillar god...

"The snake said that people can only have one pair of eyes and one life in the world. People can only see what they see and experience what they experience. But if you cut yourself open, you can have many lives... If you can't solve the problem with your own knowledge, maybe someone else can solve it.

"Looking at you, you should have a way to solve the doomsday, right?"

The golden giant's voice was gentle and calm, giving people warmth and strength: "Come on.

"Since you are right, you can eat him."

"I will...eat him? Eat Huan Tiansi?"

Ewass' pupils widened.

Is this really possible?

"Of course."

Lucifer affirmed: "As the snake said, snakes never tell lies. In the past reincarnations, there are always victorious snakes shed. He himself was also a snake shed in a certain period of history, and has long since ceased. It’s your original self again. If he can win, then you can win too.”

Hearing this, Aiwass suddenly became enlightened!

This is extremely important information.

Many unsolvable problems became clear in an instant——

Aiwass understands almost everything!

Why does Huan Tiansi's behavior seem so separate from the behavior of Huan Tiansi in ancient times, and why is he so persistent in leaving this world? Why do the pillar gods place bets on Aiwass, but no one tries to kill Huan Tian in advance? Si; why the shepherd finally forgave and spared Fallen Sky Si, and used his own life to destroy Huantian Si's plan; and...

Aiwass's system!

——Subtlely different from what I had speculated before entering the Tower of Babel.

Now, he can basically deny the speculation that "the system comes from Huantiansi's memory" - because Huantiansi is closely related to the birth and destruction of this tower, and it can be said that there is no part that is not related to him. Under such circumstances, how could something be missing from Huan Tiansi's memory?

If you think about it carefully, there is one more thing -

When Aiwass briefly became a cardinal, he saw a sentence from the [Cardinal Certificate] robe that he had just made:

["——Hey, hey, hey? Can you see this line?"]

At that time, he had denied that this line of writing came from the Lord of Scale Feathers, but now it seems... it is so cheerful, and it does not seem to be a legacy of Huan Tiansi. It's more like Aiwass himself...but a more cheerful Aiwass.

Aiwass has no objection to the fact that he has a system, because he has the memory of the game "Ring of the End" when he was on Earth. In other words, it's because everything is within his knowledge.

But here comes the problem.

There is a "James Moriarty" in the game.

But James has returned from the end of the world!

He obviously only experienced one life, and it was the life in which Huan Tiansi chose to become the "Endless Knot", and the life in which the Ring of Endless Ceremony was not launched!

——If my experience is exactly the same as in the game, then what about the previous seven lives that have the same memories as myself?

James obviously doesn't have any deep memories of Aiwass, otherwise his attitude towards himself wouldn't be that way. But if Aiwass has apocalyptic memories and a system that can learn quickly, there is no reason why he won't become a big shot.

In other words, there is a high probability that Aiwass in the past few lives did not have a system or the memory of "The Linking Ring"!

The "memory of past lives" that was originally taken for granted seems to have turned into countless broken glass shards at this moment.

From this perspective...there are only two possibilities.

One possibility is that those "Aiwass" who have no system and no memory of "The Ring of Ending" were regarded as "victims" from the very beginning. They are not special, just like other snake sloughs.

And a mere ninth life is certainly not enough for Aiwass to dabble in so many professions and items, master them in advance, and build an almost perfect system. Therefore, what constitutes the system are all the "snake sloughs" split by Huantiansi, and it will definitely not be like this life...only the Shepherd and Aiwass were split, and there are no extra snake sloughs.

Another possibility is that the plot of "The Ring" in Aiwass's memory did not exist from the beginning.

This is obviously impossible - because Lian Lian Tiansi's own behavior was predicted by the "game plot".

And if this possibility is ruled out...

Huan Tiansi clearly has a strong hostility towards Aiwass, and has tried to occupy his body many times, but has not really taken action; he clearly knows that Aiwass has already prepared a countermeasure against the Ring of Endings, and has many pillar gods. support, but still planned to implement the plan step by step, as if he didn't know anything...

All kinds of weird behaviors have explanations at this moment.

——He is trying to "restore" the plot of the game!

Those "snake sloughs", Lucifer said, "have the most important part of memory", and for Huantiansi, what is the most important memory?

That is proof that as a time traveler, he comes from another world!

He constantly divides his memories as a time traveler into the material world, cultivates an ignorant "traveler", and then fights with the other party and then devours the other party. Through this method, we constantly emphasize "who I am" to avoid forgetting ourselves in the long cycle of reincarnation.

Although Huan Tiansi lived for nine lives, in a sense he may have only lived for three...

In the original era, there was no savior James who came back from the future, and there was no Aiwass who fell in love with and killed Huan Tiansi. He became a Tiansi from ancient times and became the "Ring of the Couple" of the Pillar God, but he was completely unable to save the world...

At that time, Huan Tiansi might have realized something.

Then he prepared for a long time... He led the "Falling Heaven Division" to the "right path", brought James back from the day of the end of the world, gave the sacred entity to Jacob for him to cut... and brought Ai Wentz and his system awakened and cultivated the most important chess piece.

——The most important thing about the "key" is that it fits perfectly.

If the lock is changed, the key may no longer work.

But this key cannot be replaced in any way...it is Huan Tiansi's "self"!

Therefore, Huan Tiansi designed a lock in reverse for this key!

Prepare the stage, prepare the script, prepare the actors, restore everything to what you see in the game, until the actors appear on stage - smash it all to pieces.

He didn't dare to kill Aiwass directly, nor did he dare to take away his body directly... because he was worried that his excessive interference would cause bugs in the "script"!

At that moment, Aiwass thought of what he once said to Professor Moriarty:

"——If I were a key, I would eventually be the key to the Lord."

At that time, Professor Moriarty smiled happily.

Aiwass didn't know what he was laughing about at the time...but now, he seems to understand.

The professor may not know the "history" that he has not experienced, but he is the one who can best feel the traces of being involved and changed in his destiny!

He realized that the fate of this world was being manipulated, and finally realized that "the key to everything" lay in Aiwass.

That's why Aiwass smiled so happily when he said those words!

"My friend."

At this time, Lucifer said gently: "If you lack courage or strength...then accept my gift.

"When you stand in front of the snake, please say hello to him for me. Tell him that I have never hated him."

As he spoke, his whole person gradually faded and disappeared.

The three pairs of solid white wings inlaid with gold behind him fell to the ground one after another with a clanging sound.

The remaining voice of Lucifer still echoed in the air:

"I'm just a little sad - we could have faced the end together, and he wouldn't have had to be so lonely... Lonely to the point of madness..."