Chapter 446: Brand 1
The Celestial Beings themselves are phantom demons that live in the dream world. They can enter dreams directly, just like birds can fly and fish can swim.
Even ordinary phantom demons basically have this ability, as long as they can reach the material world through their own means.
As long as he could enter a dream, he could easily destroy mortals from within the dream.
Curses, hallucinations, implanted suggestions, memory modification, or even direct destruction of the soul.
After all, mortals are beings living in the material world, and only when they are dreaming will the afterimages of their thoughts be projected into the dream world.
Except for professions such as Dream Monks who possess the "Dream Walker" trait, mortals have no resistance in the dream world and do not even have a clear self-awareness.
This is also the essence of some "revelations", "precognitive dreams" or "demon possession".
——Of course, the dreaming monk who is conscious has no ability to resist.
If you are attacked by a phantom demon in the dream world, you will only die more soberly. In fact, you will be more vulnerable to attack because of your clear consciousness... just like the extraordinary people in the promotion ceremony.
When transcendents enter dreams with conscious will, their souls enter the dream world directly.
Before the "host" system became popular, the first thing that the ascenders in the dream world had to do was to survive from the mouths of the phantom demons that preyed on souls - but in areas outside the promotion ceremony, the dream monks did not have the protection of the "host".
Those creatures who have lucid dreams and unconsciously wander into the dream world are easily exposed to the phantom demons of the dream world.
It may be a good thing, bringing some adventures, such as meeting a knight, a sage or an angel, and learning swordsmanship, spells or divine arts in a dream; it may also be meeting a goblin, the god of death or the heroic spirit of the Kingdom of Shadows, and being led into the fairy kingdom, the underworld or the Kingdom of Shadows, and unpredictable things may happen; it may also be directly encountering amber and having the soul frozen directly, or encountering a demon and being possessed.
It is like playing pigeon with your life.
Curse casters on the Path of Transcendence and Love also lack the ability to walk awake in the dream world, but can attack others from the dream world through mediums. Writers on the Path of Beauty also have the ability to weave and modify dreams.
However, this kind of dream entry obviously has limitations.
They are ineffective against devout followers of the Pillar God or those who are directly blessed.
The protection from a higher being can protect the mortal soul. Like a firewall, it isolates these fragments of thought from forming too deep a connection with the original body, thus intercepting those influences.
The blessing of the Pillar God can protect against attacks from the Celestial Officials and Apostles, and the protection of the Celestial Officials and Apostles can also protect against attacks from the Cursers.
Just the slight blessing gained through routine prayers can greatly increase the difficulty of being cursed - complete immunity is impossible, just like Aiwass at this moment will be forcibly marked.
But at least there is no need to worry about Xiong Tiansi hitting people directly through the Internet cable.
But Aiwass was a little confused.
He actually wasn't quite sure whether he was being protected by the Silver Crown Dragon or by Sizhu...
...Or perhaps the Snake Father, the Twin Mirrors? Or even the Heavenly Ring Master?
In short, the effect of this shelter is still good.
"Xiong Tiansi has murderous intentions towards me," Aiwass looked at the confused Lily and explained to her, "It's probably because of the Giant Prince.
"Let's not talk about whether Xiong Tiansi wants him to be promoted to an apostle...but He has obviously set his sights on me because of this incident. Or maybe He had already set his sights on me before that, when I was being watched by the Silver Crown Dragon."
Or, perhaps it was due to a "divine entity," Aiwass added in his mind.
"But even Xiong Tiansi, who clearly intended to kill me, couldn't directly enter my dream."
Aiwass chuckled and said, "He has found me, but he cannot understand the shape of my dream. This actually exposes His weakness even more."
Even though he was being hunted by Tiansi, Aiwass didn't care.
Because Aiwas knew that if Xiong Tiansi wanted to kill him, there were only two ways.
Either he would destroy Aiwass from the material world, or he would find various ways to leave more and more marks on him and constantly strengthen his connection with Aiwass's body. After collecting seven marks, Xiong Tiansi would be able to bypass the protection of the Pillar God and fall directly into Aiwass's dream in the dream world, attacking and killing Aiwass.
If other celestial officials wanted to kill him, he would definitely choose the latter.
But given Xiong Tiansi's personality, he would definitely choose the former. At least in the first few rounds, he would definitely play it safe.
Although He is a bad God, He does not care for schemes and plots.
And the material world... that is a realm restricted by the "Sand Clock", the Pillar of Balance.
No matter how powerful the Celestial Master or the Apostle is, once they reach the material world, they will have to be “balanced”.
All enemies in the material world can be defeated.
Those undefeatable enemies will be "balanced" to the point where they can theoretically be defeated after falling into the material world.
In other words, even if Xiong Tiansi wanted to send an apostle to hunt down Aiwas, he had to abide by the "fair" rules of the Sand Clock and defeat Aiwas's Night Demon in the material world first.
You know, when Aiwass and Night Demon easily defeated the succubus a month ago, it was as easy as Zhao Yun going in and out of Changbanpo seven times - Aiwass was even one body length ahead of Night Demon the whole time!
...I can only say that Adou is very strong, he didn't even cry.
There was no way around it; summoners were like that. Even though Aiwass later became a Sin Scholar, he was still a "Scholar" after all, and he still relied on the power of the Celestial Master and the Pillar God to suppress the Sin Beasts.
Only when Aiwas truly becomes the master of the Beast of Sin and can merge with the Beast of Sin at any time, his ability to survive will have a fundamental leap... from a summoning profession to a transformation profession.
——Lord of the Great Beast, Lord of the Great Sinful Beast, Great Beast Master… whatever you want to call him. In essence, he is the Lord of the Great Sinful Beast.
That was a brand new profession developed by "Evans", and the person who named it was the original Aiwass Moriarty.
That was to transform oneself into the seventh deadly sin—to imprint the mark of "pride" upon one's own flesh. Truly commanding the six deadly sins with one's own strength and body.
…It’s like the Clow Cards were rewritten as the Sakura Cards.
Before this world's Aiwass reached that position, there could never be another "Beast Master" in this world. Just like the profession "Great Sin Scholar" was named by Aiwass.
If one wants to confront Huan Tiansi head-on, fight against one's own destiny... or even touch the position of Pillar God, one must at least reach that level.
Demonologists advance to Scholars of Sin at the fourth level, and advance to the second level at the seventh level.
The job change task of becoming the Lord of the Great Beasts requires Aiwass to collect the six attributes of the Great Sin Beasts and upgrade them all to the seventh energy level. At the same time, he must prepare six attributes of the Heavenly Master fragments, as well as sacred weapons or extraordinary materials of the same level to "crown" them.
Xiong Tiansi is the Tiansi of fire and earth attributes. He can be used as a fire attribute or an earth attribute.
And Aiwass also remembered... there were many flame butterflies in the dense forest of Xiong Tiansi.
According to the mystical knowledge that Aiwass obtained from the school library, the dense forest should be the area designated by Xiong Tiansi in the dream world, "Eternal Burning Valley".
The Silver Crown Dragon always stares at and guards the Everburning Valley, preventing Xiong Tiansi from leaving here and going to other areas of the dream world.
Xiong Tiansi will ignite the souls of cowards, the lazy, and those who shirk, and transform them into flame butterflies, letting them burn and dedicate all their strength. That strength will turn into flames, forging the weak and healing the strong.
After the Silver Crown Dragon has finished selecting the souls that belong to him, it will be the turn of Xiong Tiansi, who ranks first in the Path of Authority, to choose.
He will prioritize the souls of cowards and the strong—the former will transform into fragile butterflies, constantly burning themselves until they turn into ash.
The latter will transform into beasts and hunters, fighting each other endlessly in the burning forest valley.
The hunter kills the beast, and the beast devours the hunter.
Once the hunter and the beast complete a hunt, the hunter will become the beast and the beast will become the hunter.
This cycle repeats itself, and the dead are reborn again and again, but become weaker and weaker.
When the courage is completely burned out, it will lose its beast form and turn into an unconscious flame butterfly.
This is the way of power - the strong will continue to take everything from the weak.
There is no fairness in the way of "power".
The greatest unfairness is that every new soul will challenge the strongest person who has survived here for hundreds of years before it develops, that is, Xiong Tiansi himself, and eventually become his nourishment.
Only a few of His apostles roam the Everburning Valley, hunting down newly promoted souls... There are also very few who can defeat the apostles with their strength, and they will be mercifully promoted by Xiong Tiansi to become new apostles.
He gave his apostles the power to challenge him, and would also attack and kill his apostles when he was bored.
That's the way of power. There's no logic to it. As long as you win, everything is right.
The strong become stronger and the weak become weaker.
Aiwass raised his hand slightly, and the butterfly flew onto his fingertips.
"...But no matter how you look at it, bears and butterflies don't go well together."
He stared intently at his flame butterfly and whispered.
Aiwass's mouth curled up slightly, and his fingertips touched the fire on the back of the flame butterfly, whispering like coaxing a child: "I'll get it for you, okay?"
The scar on his chest was indeed the mark of Xiong Tiansi's hunting of Aiwass—
But isn't this also the mark of Aiwass hunting down Xiong Tiansi in turn?
Just like the infinite hunting cycle in the Everburning Valley - the hunter can be the prey, and the prey can also be the hunter.
"You'd better be a little stupid, otherwise..."
Aiwass murmured.
——He can also perform the Tail Ring Ceremony now.
If possible, he would certainly hope to follow the normal development order, wait for Xingbi to complete the Ring of Tail, pull down the Fallen Angel, and then go over to take him down.
But if Xiong Tiansi realized that his apostles posed no threat to Aiwass and began to understand Aiwass's soul... then Aiwass would have to begin the Tail Ring Ritual.
It can be said that the more the brand is stacked, the closer the duel between Aiwass and Xiong Tiansi is.
But it would be bad if Xiong Tiansi was pulled down first, causing the Fallen Angels to be alert.
——But it seems that the problem should not be serious at the moment.
Because the situation on Xingti's side is even worse.
Immediately after Avalon declared war on Xingti, the great wizards of the Narcissus Duchy immediately arrested the Duke of Cavendish and declared that the Narcissus Duchy had regained its independence.
Even if Xing Ti doesn't care about Avalon, he must give priority to dealing with the independence of the Narcissus Principality.
Otherwise, if they have no reaction to this, I am afraid that even the Black Hawk Principality, which is still relatively loyal now, will have some evil thoughts.
But the independence of the Narcissus Principality was achieved with the support or suggestion of Avalon.
Under the continuous and high-intensity harassment of the Griffin Legion, the supplies from the rear could not reach the front line at all - these Griffins stayed in the territory of Iris, and Xingti could not directly cross the sea to attack Avalon headquarters, nor did he want to open a third front to attack Iris.
So they could do nothing more than launch a strong condemnation of Iris.
Aiwass thinks...
If nothing unexpected happens, the Tail Ring Ceremony, which was originally scheduled to be held in version 3.0...that is, in June 1900, will most likely be moved forward.
The war had been going on for a month now. It was early February, and spring was in full bloom.
As for Xingti, it is obvious that it will not survive until next summer.
Putting aside the fact that Iris is still eyeing them covetously, even the Black Hawk Principality is starting to have objections.
When they saw that the independence of the Narcissus Principality was almost unstoppable, they became dissatisfied with their fate as cannon fodder.
In Xingti, whether it is an alchemist, a necromancer, a demonologist or a witch, they all have one thing in common... that is, they are all fragile wizards with high status.
If you want a physical profession with strong skin and flesh, you have to look for it in the Black Hawk Principality.
Either they had to use the expensive Colossus or the armed Gargoyles that were still in the development stage...so in the end they had to rely on the Hunters on the Black Hawk side. Armed with Star Antimony's advanced automatic weapons, they became the largest army in Star Antimony.
Furthermore, the former Black Eagle Principality's territory was adjacent to the Narcissus Principality. With Star Antimony's supplies and reinforcements constantly being harassed by the Griffins, they could only recruit troops from the Black Eagle Territory and send them north to fight against the mages.
——They are both principalities ruled by Xingti. Why should we send troops to fight them if they are seeking independence?
Now, even these Black Hawk soldiers have vaguely expressed their dissatisfaction.
The goblin merchants took the opportunity to bleed the market and raised the prices of war supplies several times.
So Aiwass knew...the Ring of the Tail would probably appear this year. He couldn't delay his further studies in the Church any longer.
Because the Xingti people will never accept defeat.
It can even be said... there are only three months left at most.
——In three months at the latest, Xingti will be defeated.
The cat is back!
Dear readers, I miss you so much! (Feng Gong voice)
(End of this chapter)
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