Chapter 1298 The Seventh Sinful Beast
"—my lord."
Just as Aiwass was thinking, Don Quixote suddenly said: "This is a gift left to you by Plato."
The Governor of Light, dressed in the costume of the White Moon Knight, knelt on one knee, inserted the holy sword into the ground, carried the holy shield on his back, and raised a beautiful glow to the deer-headed giant as if offering a treasure.
This scene was witnessed by many Parthians in the city.
They didn't know the whole story, and because they were too far away, they couldn't hear the conversation or see Hui Tiansi's true face.
However, this scene is so visually impactful——
The glorious knight, stripped of his armor, revealed his handsome features. He held a holy sword and shield, a saintly halo of thorns adorning the back of his head, as he half-knelt in tribute to the deer-headed giant.
The giant deer-headed man wore a black crown formed from the same halo of thorns, and behind him were six enormous white wings bound by black thorns. He lowered his head to look down at the knight, then slowly half-knelt and extended his hand to the knight below.
The light shield and the black wings were mirror-symmetrical, as were the halo and black crown on the head.
“This, this—!”
The pupils of many great miniature painters trembled.
They spend their entire lives trying to achieve "sacredness on paper" with color and brushstrokes. If they can't achieve this, they won't be able to advance to the fifth level... Just like Janice in the past, they must transcend their past and encounter true beauty before they can take this step.
But people cannot describe specifically anything other than their own imagination.
At their level, what constrains them is not technique, but knowledge and imagination.
Not all painters can be like Janice, who can abandon everything and travel around the world on foot to collect materials.
From this point of view, what restrains them from pursuing the ultimate beauty is precisely their past life, emotions and overly normal values.
——But this scene now made them all feel unusually touched.
The intuition of the Path of Beauty made them feel that this scene seemed to be a wonder that could touch the level of a Pillar God.
Regardless of the danger they were in, they each materialized their own drawing boards and began to depict the beauty they saw.
Some focused on depicting the unusual holiness and strangeness of the Deer-Headed Giant; others recorded the scene where the knight presented a gift while the Giant gazed down in astonishment; others focused on depicting the tiny knight's magnificent tribute to the divine Giant, depicting every detail of his moon-white robe; and still others emphasized the mirror image between Giant and Knight...
Not just a painter.
Composers, screenwriters, sculptors—other professions within the Path of Beauty—also felt a strong sense of inspiration from this scene, as if it had touched upon some underlying logic within the Path of Beauty.
There is no doubt that after today... many "masters" of the fifth level will be born here.
The paintings they depict will also prove what happened here from multiple angles.
Aiwass naturally didn't know that he had activated the inspiration of so many extraordinary people on the path of beauty just by bending down to pick up an object.
He just took the fragment of the geometric celestial being from Don Quixote.
The fragment now seemed so small in Aiwass's hand.
It is not a regular gemstone. It is neither a regular tetrahedron of fire, nor a regular hexahedron of earth, nor a regular octahedron of air, nor a regular icosahedron of water.
It's a special kind of regular dodecahedron—it's made only of curves.
[Tiansi Fragments - Fragments of Numbers and Geometry]
[——The laws of numbers and space, the remnants of the power of the Geometry Celestial Master. Used appropriately, one has the opportunity to become either the Geometry Celestial Master or the Number Celestial Master.]
"finally……"
Aiwass exhaled, revealed the card of the Flame-Butterfly Leah, and attached it to the fragment of the Tiansi left by the Geometric Tiansi.
—but it didn't respond at all.
Elements don't match and concepts conflict.
It is obvious that the fragments of fire can match Yulia...but the fragments of the complete Geometry Celestial Master cannot be used.
“…Huh?”
Aiwass was stunned for a moment.
But he soon realized that the fragments of Tiansi left by Geometry Tiansi were different from the version in the game.
He tried to sense it and felt the enormous magical power of light and darkness in a strangely stable state from the fragments of Tiansi.
In the game, what he left behind were fragments that were universal to all four elements.
Whether it is the Lord of the Great Beasts promoting his own Sinful Beast, or other professions using the Celestial Fragments to strengthen a certain skill of theirs, this is a very good and top-grade universal material - its effect is to increase the damage of the four elements.
Elemental damage is a relatively rare multiplier. It's rare to see amplified elemental damage on purple-tier gear, so the boost is quite significant.
It can be said that when in doubt, focusing on farming Geometry Celestial Master is a very stable way to improve. As long as your damage is primarily composed of one of the four elements, you can get a very good increase. Therefore, Geometry Celestial Master fragments are also the ones that maintain the most stable price during the group auction.
However, the fragment that Geometry left for Aiwass was not the same as in the game.
In the game's "Ether Dodecahedron", the lines are straight.
But it is bent at this moment.
...The difference is probably that the geometric celestial beings in the game did not successfully aggregate.
The Geometry Celestial in the game had no ability to use the Analytical Cannon. It was nothing more than a giant, constantly reorganizing crystal geometry, constantly switching its structure and then being sliced into different properties.
This is a very simple, yet somewhat complex Tiansi. It's simple because it doesn't have any particularly complex mechanics. Basically, it's "dodge whatever comes out, attack whatever comes out."
The trouble is, it's immune to most damage.
Geometry Tiansi changes color randomly every four moves, and can only withstand 44% of physical damage and damage from light and dark attributes. It can only cause double damage to Geometry Tiansi whose attributes are restrained according to the restraint relationship of wind → earth → water → fire → wind. In addition to the restrained spells, Geometry Tiansi will be immune to other types of elemental damage, and damage of the same color and type will be absorbed four times by it to recover blood.
Its rage mechanic, however, is that if it absorbs enough of its own element, it triggers a devastating full-scale damage attack—the trigger levels are 1/64, 1/32, 1/16, and 1/8 of its total health. The first three times, you must use a large damage reduction spell to survive, and the fourth time results in a forced team wipe.
Therefore, the safest way to play is for the entire team to slowly grind down the enemy using only physical attacks and light and dark attribute spell damage, without casting any elemental spells. That basically means there is no difficulty.
If we really follow the mechanism, then if someone gets distracted and makes a mistake, they will really get high blood pressure.
——Although Aiwass didn’t remember the plot very well, judging from its inability to absorb elements of light and dark attributes, the Geometry Celestial Being should not be complete.
At least He doesn't have an etheric form. Otherwise, He should be able to switch to a regular dodecahedron that absorbs light and dark attributes.
"...Could this be the true regular dodecahedron?"
Aiwass pondered.
The dodecahedron... in Plato's theory, it represents the ether.
"Ether element" is actually a semi-new theory, and the magic based on this theory is ether magic.
This world is made up of six elements: wind, earth, water, fire, light and darkness.
However, whether it was Geometry Tiansi or the "Endless Knot Ai Shiping" that Aiwas had seen in the promotion ceremony, all they could control were the four elements of wind, earth, water and fire.
The two elements of light and darkness cannot be explained by the theory of the four elements. This is because the four elements can transform into each other and circulate and restrain each other, but light and darkness transform into each other and restrain each other, and cannot participate in the system of the four elements at all.
Because from the perspective of alchemy, light is just a part of fire. Therefore, the new era elemental magic system has created a theory that both light and darkness belong to "ether".
Ether is a special spiritual particle capable of switching between polarities, randomly shifting between light and darkness, much like a diode. Upon contact with other ether particles, it exchanges its energy, instantly shifting into its other state. In nature, the two elements of light and darkness constantly exchange, achieving a macroscopic equilibrium.
Therefore, "defiled" damage can pollute and demonize originally pure and sacred entities, while "holy" damage can also purify things like the undead and curses. This is because these two elements inherently cancel each other out and transform each other.
This is a legacy left by Plato's "Nameless Tower." Therefore, the elves are particularly adept at using etheric magic. The ancient techniques used by the elves are partly rune magic, and partly etheric magic.
When Aiwas first learned the higher arts, he thought the elves were going to teach him this. Taichu called it "Tai Chi," but the principle was the same.
The ancient machines of the elves are basically driven by ether magic - the ether element, which can change its state instantly, is an excellent logic switch.
This is also why Geometry God dispersed the four elements into the material world, while he himself wanted to possess the "Ether Dodecahedron"...
It is essentially a large-scale computer, and its core driving logic comes from ether magic.
——If the Flame-Butterfly cannot use this Celestial Fragment, then why did Plato specifically leave this Celestial Fragment for Aiwass?
At this moment, Aiwass suddenly realized one thing——
At this moment, the Sky Rider and the Silver Crown Dragon in the Dream World are still fighting against the Red of Disaster.
In other words, the Celestial Master of the Path of War has not fallen yet.
So, there are the Geometry Celestial Master and the Gray Celestial Master, plus the Fallen Celestial Master, the Blood Celestial Master, and the Flame Celestial Master—that’s only five. Why does the Sand Clock claim that six Celestial Masters are already dead?
Is there a great abyss in it?
But Aiwas did not hear the announcement of Yuan Tiansi's death... He was sure that he did not miss the announcement of Sha Shiji and did not lose consciousness in the process.
——Then there is only one answer.
Yuan Tiansi's power has been released to the material world, causing an impact on the Veil of Balance... but it has not yet completely died!
Although Aiwas had transformed the remaining soul of Yuan Tiansi into Sinthorn, replenishing his own soul as nourishment; although the power of Tiansi occupied by Yuan Tiansi had been released to the material world, raising the power level of the Dusk Path; although Yuan Tiansi's whale head and tentacles had been completely shattered...
...but it still has a breath left!
The giant body that he was using still had life in it!
In other words, this is to allow Aiwass to survive.
Aiwass's sacrifice was too complete, and Yuan Tiansi was unable to successfully resurrect Aiwass. This giant body, this headless forbidden body, was merely a container for Aiwass's soul.
Aiwass still needs to rely on the power of "taboo" to build a new body for himself again!
What material should be used?
Geometry Tiansi gave the answer.
"How could I have forgotten..."
Aiwass sighed and figured out the most crucial point.
——This fragment of the Celestial Master was used by Geometry Celestial Master to help Aiwas reconstruct his body.
[Yin and Yang Harmony (Gold): When your path is in balance, all your mana pools become colorless mana pools. Colorless mana pools are the sum of all your paired colored mana with opposite attributes. When your mana pool is colorless, any action you take that consumes mana will gain different benefits by consuming 1/2/3/4/5 times the mana.]
This is the path characteristic that Aiwass once obtained.
It allows Aiwass to break free from the constraints of the mana pool attribute, while also constraining Aiwass to maintain the balance of the path, and providing Aiwass with the simplest means of increasing priority... This is one of Aiwass' most commonly used path characteristics.
However, it has another key point, which is its name.
It indicates that Aiwass's soul has achieved a balanced state of yin and yang harmony.
Therefore, if you want to rebuild Aiwas's body, it is impossible to do it by relying solely on the power of the forbidden path!
——Then how can Aiwass be reborn from the state of being without a body?
Think of this.
In the giant's hand, a Sin Card appeared that Aiwass had never used before:
The card depicts Aiwass in a white robe, holding an open Book of Law in his hand, and a blue and quiet magic circle floating behind him.
When the card was activated, floating in the air and spinning, its properties also appeared in Aiwass's eyes. The azure tranquility circle in the picture also turned scarlet, and scarlet electric light began to flow, and even the hood of the white robe was blown up by the wind.
【Criminal Sin: Moriarty (Star)】
Level 49
[Transcend the Path, no attributes]
【Upright: Aiwass】
[Effect: Seal the weakened phantom demon into the Tarot card and issue a command]
Reversed: Lord of Sins
[Necessary: None 5]
【Chant, Enchant, Summon, Continuous Effect】
[Effect: Transforms itself into the Beast of Pride, Moriarty. Moriarty is considered a summoned creature. This effect can only be used when all six other Sin Beasts are on cooldown.]
This is a fact that even Aiwass himself has long forgotten.
——There are actually seven beasts of sin.
(End of this chapter)
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