Pastor's Tantra

Chapter 966 A mere meteorite...

Aiwass stared at old Moriarty, staring at his blood-stained face that seemed to be smiling but not smiling.

He suddenly understood what the old man meant.

——This is a preview of the destruction of the world.

For the residents living under this sky, an asteroid impact of this magnitude would be equivalent to "the end of the world."

Without the intervention of the "Savior", there is no point in using any ability or making any attempt - no matter what they do, their world will be destroyed.

That is the will of God that cannot be violated by human power, and it is [death] that has been determined.

And Aiwass controls their [life].

He can leave here leisurely - just like Huan Tiansi, leave before the end destroys him, thereby preserving himself. Of course he can curse Moriarty, or he can kill him directly, or he can even put all the "sins" on Moriarty in his heart, because he is the one who asked for the trolley problem... and Ava Si has no obligation to save everyone.

On the other hand, Aiwass can also use "Doomsday" as a weapon and find ways to change the trajectory of the meteorite and throw it towards the Fallen Sky Division.

This was a blow that was enough to intimidate Hui Tiansi. In other words, it was an irresistible blow to Tiansi, who had gained a physical entity in the material world.

Because this is a purely physical impact, it is only bombarded with high-density and high-weight materials. It does not count as magic damage and does not have extraordinary power. Therefore, even the resistance of a high-level phantom must be fully exhausted. Even for Fallen Sky Si, taking this blow is unacceptable - provided that he takes this blow directly.

Even if it cannot be completely destroyed, it can at least be severely damaged. It will obviously be helpful for future attacks.

...And the price is that the entire Star Antimony King's Capital will be destroyed.

The attack range is a radius of fifty kilometers - the range that is directly hit and completely destroyed by the meteorite should not be that large. At least half of the surrounding area will be affected. But the area affected alone covers ten Lion Heart Cities; if the direct attack range is only 25 kilometers, it is also an area of ​​three Lion Heart Cities.

——Is it worth sacrificing so many innocent lives to safely defeat the Fallen Sky Division?

And this idea is a "necessary evil."

If this idea comes to Aiwass' mind, or even just considers "is it worth it" - it means that he has been manipulated by the old Moriarty.

Just like the concept of "knowledge is poisonous" that old Moriarty has been interpreting. When a person knows a certain knowledge, he will inevitably be infected by it. Even if it is denied or forgotten, the impact it has had will continue to exist and even change a person's life.

——Just like old Moriarty was contaminated by the memories of the apocalypse.

"...So that's what happened."

The corners of Aiwass's mouth raised slightly.

He looked at the meteorite in the sky.

It went down slowly, slowly - or maybe very quickly. But at least from the position of Aiwass, you can only see it growing slightly. That speed is even slower than the setting sun.

Aiwass opened the book of magic and stopped at a page of cards he rarely used.

[Enchanting Card: Dryad·Moon Spirit]

[Effect: Transform a tree into Dryad Anastasia. Dryads are considered summons. When the dryad is present, it will continue to heal all friendly forces within the range, and at the same time control plants to periodically control enemies within the range]

[Effect: Use again, when Dryad Anastasia is present, summon Moon Spirit Anastasia. The moon spirit is considered a summon and can exist for ten minutes. When the Moon Spirit is present, the effect of the Dryad is changed to 'obtain a continuous protective barrier centered on the Dryad'. The barrier is regarded as a force field, ritual, and shield, and is resistant to all types of damage except "divine", "fire", and "dirty evil"]

On the card is a blind and foolish man wearing green clothes and horns on his head. A snake-like transparent rope is wrapped around the neck.

"Ignorant and fearless, respect the future, pursue dreams, and move forward freely. Even if it is meaningless, you still insist on going your own way..."

Aiwass said calmly: "I like the meaning of this."

The old Moriarty, who was cut in two, still had the power to speak.

He looked at the card Aiwass had drawn.

He did not recognize this Tarot card that had been modified by Aiwass, but as an astrologer, he obviously understood Tarot. Listening to Aiwass's description, old Moriarty guessed which card it was.

"The Fool..."

The corner of his mouth twitched slightly, and he made a low and hoarse voice: "The beginning of all Tarots, the end of all Tarots... living in a dream, unable to adapt, and acting strangely. Just like you..."

"Maybe."

Aiwass replied casually.

He now needs to find a tree.

A giant tree that is huge enough to protect people from wind and rain - the bigger the tree, the bigger the barrier it will eventually support.

Just a small tree on the roadside may be able to protect itself... but it cannot prevent disaster for all living beings.

"I already understand."

Aiwass spoke, looking down at old Moriarty: "This is the last test you left for me... and the last lesson.

"Saving the world is not easy. It requires subverting the limits of the impossible. And the most important thing is not to reverse the ends and means along the way...

"...just like you."

Hearing this, the old man said nothing.

Just the corners of his mouth raised slightly.

——If old Moriarty wants to escape, he can easily escape from Aiwass with his ability to control illusions and lies. He has much more combat experience than Aiwass. If he wants to kill Aiwass, there are many ways to kill him in a sneak attack, as evidenced by the magic of manipulating gravity with one hand.

But he didn't do that.

Because when old Moriarty witnessed the Ring of Ouronomy ceremony and saw Aiwass avoiding his astrology and appearing directly in front of him... he already knew that he had failed.

Some villains are defeated in the third episode, only to be buried in the 300th episode - but this is not the case with old Moriarty. When he realized that it was impossible for him to fulfill his long-cherished wish, he simply chose to give up.

…Of course, maybe it’s because he saw hope.

A slim hope from another possibility!

It can even be said that he was not killed by the Wild Hunt, but died voluntarily at the hands of Aiwass.

In this way, Aiwass must bear the weight of killing him.

"...This kind of expectation without saying anything is really a bit like a father."

Aiwass murmured in a low voice, activating an ordinary little oak tree.

Then, he raised his neck and transformed into a deer in the light.

Old Moriarty's pupils widened slightly.

"Deer... Si Zhu..."

He murmured in a low voice, as if he thought of something, then denied himself and slowly closed his eyes: "Well, it's not..."

Aiwass, who transformed into a deer, walked gracefully beside old Moriarty.

As he advanced, his skin cracked and blood flowed. The black sin thorns were drawn out ferociously like tentacles. From a distance, it looked like the holy white deer had black wings growing out of it.

"Ask a question, old man."

Aiwass walked up to old Moriarty and asked unceremoniously: "Did you leave anything for me? I can use whatever you leave behind."

He didn't know when he changed his name.

Upon hearing this, old Moriarty's old and mottled face showed a sincere smile.

"nature."

The old man said calmly: "Everything I left behind belongs to you. The wealth and knowledge I collected are all in the family treasury - Oswald will take you to the specific location.

"As for this remnant body and this remnant soul...if you want to use it for anything, just use it.

"I don't plan to enter the dream world. When a person dies, he is dead. There is no need to pursue eternal life after death, and there is no need to care about the afterlife. Even this world is not eternal, and a mere dead soul dares to call himself a god..."

The old man sneered, and the light in his pupils gradually dissipated.

"——Then you can't die yet."

Aiwass suddenly spoke.

Dryad Anastasia shook the branch slightly, and a ball of light suddenly bloomed on the old man.

"Uh...!"

Old Moriarty groaned, and his body quickly regained its vitality and vitality. His face showed confusion at first, then gradually turned into anger.

But at this moment.

There was only a hissing sound of piercing, but the several thorns behind Aiwass actually nailed him, nailing him under the oak tree!

"Uh uh uh ah ah ah -"

The severe pain made old Moriarty couldn't help but twitch.

His consciousness faded for a moment, and the muscles all over his body vibrated at high speed as if receiving an electric shock.

——After those sin thorns pierced into old Moriarty’s body, they suddenly began to expand crazily!

The spreading sin thorns are growing overwhelmingly in all directions, with old Moriarty being held high by the sin thorns as the core!

The surrounding stone slabs, buildings, and walls are covered with dark sin thorns. But it only avoided the golden oak in the middle.

Oswald outside was retreating in horror - that was a sinister thorn! The natural enemy of all extraordinary beings, even intelligent creatures!

"The criminal consultant of Lloyd's, the master of evil who manipulates people's hearts, the founder of the concept of 'necessary evil'... You must have accumulated a lot of 'evil', old man."

Aiwass, who didn't have horizontal pupils like a deer, but had vertical pupils like a dragon, stared at Moriarty.

"——Then give them all to me."

With that said, Aiwass chewed on the sin thorns.

As Aiwass chewed, blood continued to flow from the corners of his mouth. The flame gradually spread from the mouth——

And huge amounts of mana are continuously generated from the furnace in his body.

He invested the generated mana into an ordinary oak tree next to him.

——That is exactly the magic that the elves of the Theocracy usually use to repair giant trees!

An ordinary magic that makes trees regenerate.

At this moment, with the authority of Si Zhu's son, it continues to grow!

Ten meters, twenty meters, fifty meters...even a hundred meters, or even higher!

Those sin thorns have not been exhausted at all, they are still spreading crazily.

The speed of Aiwas' devouring could not even keep up with the speed of its rebirth. The growth speed of the golden oak tree was like a golden meteor flying backwards, growing crazily at an incredible speed!

Looking at this scene, old Moriarty's temples were trembling with severe pain, but he became more energetic because of the oak light that kept falling on him.

The old man laughed heartily, and his laughter was half sarcastic and half enlightened: "So...this is what you want...hahahaha...then take it! Take them all!"

"How can a mortal surpass the evil I have done!

“That is the sin of the Savior!

“If we don’t bear this necessary evil——”

At this point, even old Moriarty's body was completely engulfed by the growing sin thorns in his body.

His whole person has lost his shape and body, and has turned into a mass of sinful thorns in human form.

"——I will never take the same path as you, father."

Aiwass said softly.

The antlers on his head grew wildly—it gradually grew from tender antlers that were half white and half red to huge antlers like a moose. The color gradually turned into a mutton-fat white jade-like color, with a hint of dark golden glow floating in it.

Even the body of the Sin Beast itself is expanding and getting bigger because of this!

And just then.

The tangled mass of black sin thorns that had completely lost its body suddenly opened its "mouth". In other words, it was the mass of sinful thorns that was originally the mouth.

It didn't make any sound.

Instead, the mouth opens and closes to make mouth shapes. Then it completely disintegrated and turned into sinful thorns all over the sky.

Aiwass looked at the mouth shape and actually understood old Moriarty's words.

[Then remember this sentence]

"—will remember it."

Aiwass murmured, "I won't run away again."

In glorious splendor, beneath towering oak trees.

The young deer has since grown.

The sin thorns wrapped around his body were so huge that the undigested sin thorns could even lift Aiwass in deer form into the sky and let him fall directly on the top of the oak.

These sin thorns that are too late to digest will become Aiwass's nourishment. No one knows how long old Moriarty's plan will last, and no one knows how many people he has killed directly or indirectly. But these sins still lingered in his soul.

A thought suddenly popped into Aiwass' mind:

If enough souls of "Old Moriarty" enter the Source River at the same time... As the souls disintegrate and these sin thorns expand, they may not block the Source River.

And then he had another thought.

"Huh...what about my experience, system? If the soul is completely decomposed, it will be gone?"

Aiwass sneered: "It's not like they were all transformed into sin thorns."

But even so, his system panel still did not pop up a window to obtain free experience.

But whatever.

He has no use for such things now.

But at this moment, another window appeared in front of Aiwass:

[The current conversion rate is 55%: The Sin Beast is immune to physical damage, just like a spirit body; you can use the Sin Thorn to extract the opponent's mana; you can abolish the extraordinary power of the extraordinary by driving into the Sin Thorn Nail; your Sin Thorns can capture souls, thereby arresting souls in the material world or salvaging souls from the source river; your Sin Thorns are now indestructible, regarded as sacred weapons and natural weapons, and gain toughness, sharpness, and penetrating properties. 】

…55% conversion rate.

Is it only 15% away from the 70% point of no return?

At this time, as the meteorites on the horizon gradually "increased" in size, the size of the giant tree also exceeded the sky.

Aiwass felt a burning pain in his heart, and the sacred white fire began to ignite from his four feet, but it failed to burn the oak tree.

"Just in time."

He said sincerely: "It's more reliable than using the barrier to catch it as I originally thought..."

An extremely bright fire of devotion ignited in his pupils.

The oak tree beneath him seemed to be gradually gaining intelligence—or in other words, the new intelligence was gradually merging with Anastasia.

——That’s close to the size of a “giant tree”!

The power of the Sin Beast alone does not seem to be enough to achieve this miracle...

When the golden oak stands high in the sky like the morning star.

The Sin Beast, which has entered its adult state, also raised its dark wings.

Those are two pairs of wings woven from countless sin thorns.

Starting from Aiwass's body, these sin thorns ignited golden-red flames.

It's also like two flaming hands, raised high to the sky and holding the meteorite!

"A mere meteorite..."

Aiwas gritted his teeth and said, "Watch me push it back!"

The overwhelming and sun-blocking sin thorns were nailed to the meteorite, like silverfish biting through the stone shell and drilling into it. Fierce fire poured into it, burning the red meteorite that was already rubbed by the air even redder!

Those thorns of sin are like thorns one after another.

It's like punch after punch, constantly digging into the stone shell!

"Anastasia!"

Aiwass shouted loudly.

"Coming!"

Anastasia appeared next to Aiwass without hesitation, raising her right hand high.

A layer of golden barrier emerged from the huge oak shell, firmly catching the broken meteorite!

Smoke and dust were everywhere.

——The shock wave wrapped in flames formed a ring and spread loudly in the night!