Pastor's Tantra

From the second half of the night, Aiwass kept tossing and turning until dawn.

This time, due to the atmosphere of transcendence, quite a lot of people decided to be promoted temporarily.

Many people were not prepared and chose to be promoted in a hurry. Many people were injured because of this, and Aiwass's healing ability also played a role at this time.

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But because of this, these people just "pad" a considerable number of people!

From two o'clock in the morning, the Inspectorate began to investigate how many new fourth-level and fifth-level people in Avalon had completed the promotion-Avalon provided high salaries for the fourth-level to ensure that the fifth-level in the future would only be born from them.

——Now this kind of planning for a rainy day has finally come to the time when it can play a role.

First of all, Lily and Yulia-they all successfully completed the promotion without any surprises. The power they gained from the pastoral method was overwhelmingly powerful in their energy level... not to mention that many weak and unprepared people sneaked into this promotion ceremony. Even the Night Demon and the Flame Butterfly, which only had half the power, were a dimensionality reduction attack on these fourth-level and third-level extraordinary people.

As Aiwas expected, Yulia had long been noticed by the Sand Clock because of her invention. When she participated in the promotion ceremony, the Sand Clock was paying attention to her. After completing the promotion, she also changed her job to become a pioneer.

——It was then that she learned from the Sand Clock that she had met the conditions to become a pioneer as early as when she had fully produced the difference engine.

And she also learned a somewhat sad news...

Babbage did not become the apostle of the Sand Clock.

In other words, Babbage's soul has been shattered.

The Sand Clock did appreciate his talent, but he cared more about fairness. Although Babbage had outstanding talents, he lacked balanced knowledge, had not achieved real results, and his level as an extraordinary person was not high enough. In other words, he had not yet received, or had not had time to receive, the recognition of Yuanhe.

Babbage's talent had not been fulfilled, and he had already died young.

According to the rules of Sand Clock for selecting apostles, such a soul with talent but no achievements could not become his apostle.

There are too many geniuses in this world, and there are even more talented people. If you only choose the talented, it is equivalent to choosing the wise - and the way of balance is not the way of wisdom, so Sand Clock's judgment is more inclined to "results".

After all, He is a pillar god who is half a scholar and half a businessman. Sand Clock, who has a businessman's side, cares more about those more realistic things.

According to what Sand Clock said to Julia, a genius with 100 points gave a guess, a genius with 90 points drew a blueprint and made a sample, a talented person with 80 points made it completely according to the blueprint, and an ordinary person with 70 points completed the promotion and commercialization... In His eyes, the third person's achievements are equal to the fourth person and greater than the second person, and the second person is far greater than the first person.

Sand Clock does not accept "genius named as occupying a pit".

Even if the fourth person does not actually understand academics... but perhaps the birth of this invention comes from his sponsorship and his management and coordination of the team; it can be promoted and recognized because the social relations and political status of this fourth person split the thorns - then Sand Clock believes that this person is equally important to this invention.

Sand Clock is a god who only looks at the results. There is only reality here, no dreams.

It is impossible to fool Sand Clock - this invention cannot give birth to four apostles, so although Sand Clock pays more attention to the third and fourth, according to the chronological order, perhaps the first and second people will die first.

Whoever dies first will start the process here. If they die in order, Sand Clock will exclude the first person first, and then see if the second person is qualified to become an apostle. If the second is not enough, then the third person will fall in sequence. As long as an apostle is born because of this invention, all subsequent optimizations and promotions will not give birth to new apostles.

As a pioneer, Yulia has become the earthly apostle of Sand Clock.

She received encouragement from the Sand Clock - or strict supervision.

——Now that Julia has Babbage's manuscript, she is responsible for implementing Mr. Babbage's conjectures, ideas, and drawings. Otherwise, it would be like watching this knowledge fall into the void. And if someone else completes the invention first, the Sand Clock will mercilessly attribute the credit to the person who made it.

After all, everyone is facing similar situations.

Sometimes, someone's conjecture is just a few years or even months ahead of time.

Many inventions, in fact, many people have ideas at the same time... such as bicycles, cameras, or subways.

It's just that some people stay in the conceptual stage, while others start to slowly research; some people tinker with "useless inventions" by themselves, and some people immediately sell the original patents and put them into production - the Sand Clock does not look at "who invented it first" or "who got the patent", but looks at who finally successfully promotes it.

And Selene failed to be promoted... She ran into the ceremony of Wei Zhe as expected and unexpectedly.

In fact, Selene's brain is not that bad. After all, she is a part of Lily that was cut out. Although her personality is a little chaotic, it is actually not that different.

It was precisely because she brought Leviathan into the waiting room that Selene was targeted by everyone... and was eliminated directly because she looked too powerful and aggressive.

As the price of the failed ritual, Selene's soul was damaged. Fortunately, Aiwass and Saint John were there, and the injury was controlled by them together, leaving no permanent damage. But even so, she would be weak for a month - which meant that she could not participate in the promotion ceremony for a whole month.

Lily and Selene's progress was completely separated.

In addition, another person who failed to be promoted was Zhu Tang.

According to Zhu Tang, the promotion ceremony he participated in was the ceremony of the Lord of Scales and Feathers.

The Lord of Scales and Feathers gave them a battle royale map with a poison circle - everyone's power was compressed back to the first energy level, and they needed to hunt other promoted people or complete tasks to gradually restore their power. The deadly curse black fog gradually compressed from the outside to the inside, and they needed to avoid the black fog while collecting power until only one person was left.

Yes, his promotion ceremony was not won by three people, but by one person.

Zhu Tang could have passed the test. He had even killed two people, and he would win if he killed the last one.

But the enemy he finally met was a little girl who was only eight or nine years old.

—— She didn't look eight or nine years old, but she was really eight or nine years old.

... This description sounded familiar to Aiwas.

In the end, Zhu Tang softened his heart and still couldn't make up his mind to kill the other party. Because if he killed the other party, it would directly cause fatal injuries; but if he was eliminated by the environment, he would be seriously injured at most.

He didn't want to do it, and the other party didn't want to kill him. So the two of them simply sat and waited for the poison circle to spread and gamble their lives - whoever was luckier would be promoted.

So Zhu Tang failed to be promoted, and the girl was sent to the fifth energy level by him.

In addition, David, the son of the Great Guardian, also failed to be promoted - he was seriously injured and had an arm broken. Because of his incomplete soul, this arm would probably remain missing. Even if he was promoted to an apostle, he would carry this injury.

The good news is that the damaged part of his body is his left arm - another good news is that the psychic tower is very proficient in the technology of making prosthetic limbs.

After being treated by Aiwass, the injuries of these losers were basically under control. And Saint John hurried to the west at three o'clock in the morning after hearing that there were still a large number of promoted people on the west coast of Avalon - with her, the safety of those promoted people should be guaranteed.

However, in this war, the raid must be completed before May 5th to prevent the sudden upgrade of the demon legions.

There are only five days left, which is not enough for these survivors to recover.

So this means that they really have to leave the front line - it also means that the number of legions will be streamlined, and at least one-third will be streamlined.

Although not all soldiers participated in the promotion ceremony, almost half of them have participated. According to the probability, they will lose about one-third of the troops - the advantage is that they have more higher-level extraordinary people, and the front line may become more stable.

It's just that some people came all the way here, but they have to go back without doing anything. This is probably a pity.

This promotion ceremony was considered to have some kind of world trend - because a large number of war preparation personnel entered Avalon and poured into the promotion ceremony; plus the refugees from Xingti, they could basically gather a stable table for the promotion ceremony.

The conversation in the waiting room was particularly important. Everyone basically knew that each other's purpose was to participate in the war, protect themselves or take revenge. The common enemy was the Fallen Angels who descended on the material world.

Without anyone to organize in a unified way, people began to spontaneously make a gentleman's agreement: if they were defeated, they would not backstab and try to kill, but voluntarily surrender or give up points; if there was a chance to defeat the opponent but not kill him, they would not forcefully kill him and keep his life.

Although about one-fifth of them were infected by the power of transcendence and would do whatever it took to get promoted... but most people would choose to give the opponent a chance to admit defeat or be killed by the environment when they defeated the opponent.

Because of this, this promotion ceremony with the largest number of participants since the founding of Avalon... unexpectedly became the one with the largest number of survivors in the high-level promotion ceremony.

——The vast majority of the eliminated did not die!

This touched Aiwas quite a bit.

If you want to, you can still do it!

Facts have proved that even the very dangerous four-to-five promotion ceremony does not mean that the loser will definitely die - people often die because of each other's evil thoughts or murderous intentions, not because of the requirements of the ceremony itself.

It's normal to think about it... The highest difficulty of the promotion ceremony is "real".

The so-called "real" is the same as reality. It is actually no different from participating in the ceremony with the flesh.

And the ceremony is not meant to kill each other. On the one hand, the ceremony is to test "qualifications" and select "talents" - to find talents who are suitable to become their apostles in the future, or to expand the path in the material world. And the other part... is for experiments.

Today, Aiwas understands that sentence more and more - the existence of the promotion ceremony is for the Nine Pillars to find the possibility of history and the future, and the promoted are "variables".

- This world does need variables.

It is extremely difficult and dangerous for mortals to contact the power of the path. The Nine Pillars filtered the wild and crazy power of the source river into the power of the path that mortals can easily accept and digest... As a reward for accepting the power, they have to use their souls as "variables" to participate in the "calculation".

In the past, Aiwass did not understand why "the past can also be changed" and why "we should seek the possibility of the future".

But now, Aiwass understands.

The past can be changed-because of the existence of the power of reincarnation, this world will return to the "past of the past" before the end of the world. At that time, the Nine Pillars can move the world to another direction according to the "possibilities" they have collected.

And seeking the possibility of the future is to fight against the unknown doomsday!

The Nine Pillars do not want to kill people at all-they set difficult and difficult tasks and give unacceptable punishments for failures, probably just to prevent people from colluding with each other, reaching off-site transactions and recommending someone for promotion, thereby destroying the ceremony itself!

The horrific death rate is only because people have selfish thoughts and interests and hatreds because of their respective positions. The ritual itself has the possibility of "not killing"... For example, Mu has never killed anyone in the promotion ceremony. Even Aiwass has to admire him.

The amazing survival rate of this ceremony made Aiwass think of a "possibility" - the possibility that people will no longer kill each other.

If the future really reaches the "peaceful era" that Aiwass saw in the promotion ceremony, people may also reduce the death rate of the promotion ceremony through various "rules", "rituals" and "contracts"!

At that time, extraordinary abilities can truly merge with this world!

It is not a "mysterious skill" or "secret knowledge" that only a few people can master, but a popular ability - a truly mysterious, vibrant and full of possibilities in the future!

...But we have to solve the doomsday first.

As long as the promotion ceremony is no longer for "calculation", we can naturally relax a little...

And Isabel, who made Aiwas most worried, did not wake up until five in the morning.

Because the "fetus" is also considered a "creature" of the Path of Love - the principle is the same as Selene and Leviathan - so Isabel took the child in with her.

But she didn't let Aiwas worry about her.

Not only did she pass the level smoothly, but under her charm and leadership, she also achieved a miraculous perfect ending:

- Three people were promoted, nine people survived, and no one died.

"... How did you do this?"

Aiwas couldn't believe it.

It was obviously a cruel "Except me, all eight will die" new moon ceremony, but Isabel forcibly opened up another way!

"That was really a very long, very long dream..."

Isabel sighed, leaned back on the bed, stroking her belly, and her tone became more stable: "It was a dream of five years... not the future, but the past.

"That was the history of the Helaser Empire... the early days of the founding of the country. At that time, humans struggled to survive in an environment surrounded by alien races. I gave birth to 'Aleister' alone... and brought her up to the age of four. It was really hard... It was also the first time that I realized how much the identity of "royal family" helped me.

"Although I have always said that the surname Du Lac has brought me only rainy curses and pressure, which is a burden that I have never gotten rid of... But once I get rid of this identity, if there is no stable social environment, it turns out that even the fourth-level extraordinary people, without stealing, robbing, and doing anything wrong, it is so difficult to live uprightly."

Isabelle's voice became stronger, like a mother who protects her daughter alone - a mother is strong.

The script of the promotion ceremony brought her a "life" outside of herself.

It is almost impossible for people to experience the pain of others, because people cannot become others; and the promotion ceremony breaks this "impossibility" and truly allows people to experience the lives of others.

"Do you need to record it?"

Aiwass said, handing over the paper and pen: "It can be regarded as a precious lesson."

"... Indeed."

Isabelle originally wanted to refuse, but still took it: "Just think of it as accumulating materials for the novel...

"Nothing is more suitable to be the fuel of art than suffering. People can't learn any lessons from suffering, but artists can chew it and turn it into burning fire. Let people who have never been hurt experience the burning and pain for a short time, so as to respect the fire. "

"You are a bit like a real artist, Isa."

Evans smiled and said, "Even this chant is the same."

Isabel just shook her head, a gentle smile appeared on her face, and stretched out her hands: "I'm so tired. I want a hug, okay?"

"Of course, dear."

Evans, who saved many people that night, finally breathed a sigh of relief, got on the bed sideways, and gently hugged Isabel.

Feeling the warmth in the quilt, Aiwas closed his eyes a little tiredly.

And Isabel whispered in Aiwas's ear about her gains.

This time, Isabel even got the characteristics of the Tao promoted by the Twin Mirror and the Silver Crown Dragon himself.

Although Twin Mirror is a god of fun and often interferes, the path characteristics He gave Isabel this time are really real!

[Twin Mirror Image (Gold): Your camouflage, mirror image, phantom, and transformation abilities gain +1 priority; illusion authenticity +50%]

-Combined with Isabel's original characteristic of [Tough Illusion], Isabel's illusion authenticity has now reached 70%!

This means that even if the other party sees through the illusion, they still have to bear 70% of the effect!

According to Isabel's development path, I'm afraid she is beginning to move towards the path of refining the false into the real...

In this case... the power of the fairy... maybe there is also the Butterfly Celestial Master...

Evans thought about Isabel's future and fell asleep without knowing when.

And Isabel gently patted Aiwas on the back, looking at Aiwas with more sadness and pity in her eyes.

She finally understood thoroughly what a sacred and difficult career Aiwas was doing.

She was exhausted just by wanting to save so few people, just wanting to save the people around her.

Isabel didn't dare to think about how much pressure Aiwass was under.

—— She had long realized that the reason why Aiwass was so eager and worked so hard was to deal with some kind of doomsday in the future. And from this promotion ceremony, Isabel vaguely touched a trace of reality.

"Wall of Dusk... Clock of Doomsday..."

Isabel whispered: "But... You shouldn't be under this kind of pressure..."

She gently patted Aiwass's back, as if she was coaxing a baby to sleep.

"—— If you can rest a little longer, rest a little longer."