Chapter 742 Survivor Syndrome
Obviously.
The girl's struggles evidently irritated the Count.
Or perhaps the Count eliminated her because he thought her moral bottom line was not low enough and her corruption was not deep enough.
Or perhaps it was because the Earl was already annoyed by Viscount Conley's quarrel, so he chose to vent his anger on the poor girl... It was even possible that he simply wanted to give Viscount Conley a warning.
But Viscount Conley still refused to give in.
After all, Earl Dawn has never had a record of killing the Son of the Moon, which is the basis for his cooperation with the Son of the Moon.
Viscount Conlai knew that the other party would never break his promise with him - because he was not worthy.
That's why Viscount Conley is so fearless.
But what Viscount Conley didn't know was that Earl Dawn had already found out through some means that he had fallen into one of the Red Prime Minister's plans - the hypocritical peace was about to end, so Earl Dawn directly locked him up.
...Who told him that?
Thinking of this, Aleister's eyes rolled and he seemed to be thinking about something.
"—You should be free now, right, Mirror Demon?"
Aleister chose to ask Earl Dawn's "steward" directly: "Who told Earl Dawn that he was being targeted by Earl Leipzig and his men?"
"It is Lady Anna Kingsford, your Excellency."
The mirror next to her suddenly turned dark and began to emit black mist.
The Mirror Demon immediately gave a very precise answer.
Aleister was very familiar with this name - because she was her adoptive father's wife.
Or ex-wife? She wasn't sure if they were divorced or not...but in any case, she was Freya's biological mother.
If we look at it from this perspective, I'm afraid Viscount Conlai's coming here to offer his life was actually Count Leipzig's intention...
... Never mind. Leipzig, Red Premier, Kingsford——
I will kill everyone who dares to mess with me.
Aleister quickly skipped over the unnecessary thoughts.
Now, she really has the confidence to make everyone give way to her when she is going against traffic.
Aleister walked to the big bed that imprisoned numerous souls. After thinking for a long time, he found the one with a relatively clear appearance among the female souls with different degrees of blurriness.
"Mirror Demon, don't leave yet—"
Aleister ordered again: "Find me some corrupted wine and the blood of the female snake."
A deep voice echoed from the mirror: "My former master isn't completely dead yet, so I'll have to wait a while. You're talking about the Harmony Elixir, right? Master, I have the finished Harmony Elixir ointment here, a top-quality product from the alchemy workshop."
As he spoke, a small round silver box that looked like some kind of skin care product appeared in front of Aleister.
Aleister unscrewed it and found the prepared Harmony Ointment inside. It looked like a yellowish-brown oil with a faint earthy smell.
After all, she lacked the means to directly contact souls. Although Aleister's power beyond the Dao allowed her to directly touch souls, her power was too strong for these mortal souls and could easily kill them, just like the warmth and bacteria of the human body can be fatal to some fragile plants and animals.
Only after weakening himself with a soul-harmonizing ointment capable of insulating against power and nurturing wandering spirits could Aleister dare touch the other's soul. A simple "harmony potion" made of corrupted, rat-colored wine mixed with female snake blood served as a potent "harmony potion." If an ordinary person drank it, they would easily be possessed by an evil spirit.
Aleister reached out and took out some, rubbing it between his hands.
She looked at the soul wailing silently and sighed silently: "You should really be grateful for your good luck...
"...If it were yesterday, there would be no way you could return to your body. After all, this ritual requires your own body as material..."
——One of the characteristics of the transcendental path is disobedience.
No transcendent will honestly abide by the contract, just as the devil will always try to break the contract and kill his contractors; just as these contractors will turn into demons that are violently controlled by slave owners after they grow up.
Aleister is no exception.
The original Aiwass, when faced with a thought that was too far-fetched, would subconsciously be wary of straying from her path and curb her inner impulse. But when it came to Aleister, she couldn't curb this instinct at all. It felt like a smoker's addiction to cigarettes, an alcoholic's addiction to alcohol, or a sugar addict's addiction to sugar.
For a transcendent on a single path, the characteristics of the path are too clear - so much so that Aleister strongly wants to disobey the "contract signed between Aiwas and the Silver Crown Dragon."
Because Aleister was now a Great Sin Scholar. In other words, the Sin of Heavenly Wrath no longer had any effect on her. The Fallen Angels could no longer stop her advancement... She herself had already been branded with the Sin of Pride upon her advancement.
In this situation, Aleister thought of the contract signed between Aiwass and the Silver Crown Dragon in the past.
"—I swear that I will not use the lives and corpses of my own kind as materials and sacrifices for my rituals."
"—I will never embark on that path of depravity from which there is no turning back."
When he sucked blood for the first time, Aleister felt a strong sense of unease.
Because of Aiwas's pure desire for dedication now, it is really possible that he will choose to sacrifice himself during the merger, allowing Aleister to become the main body, and it is very likely.
——But Aleister could never accept that kind of thing.
Without Aiwass, what would happen to Isabel? What would happen to Avalon? They knew Aiwass, not Aleister... The so-called "Aleister" was just a shadow built on lies. Without Aiwass, many of their careers would have to start from scratch... That was a completely unprofitable option.
Moreover, that is also equivalent to a kind of "charity" and a kind of "restraint" -
There is no way I could accept that fate.
Aleister was really afraid that Aiwas would have a seizure.
The main reason was that she knew herself very well - it was really possible that Aiwass would have a seizure.
"Survivor syndrome," or "survivor syndrome," is a psychological condition that plagues Aiwass. When faced with the choice of sacrificing himself to save others, he does it without hesitation. It's not based on morality, but on a sense of relief.
So she wanted to break the Silver Crown Dragon's contract to rupture her half of the contract, corrupting this part of her identity and forcing Aiwass to use him as the main body and return to death.
Aleister is not a priest now, so her prayers should be ineffective... In fact, Aleister never intended for her prayers to be effective.
The corpses she prepared were the batteries that provided the power of dusk.
The combination of a raven and a skull is called the "head of the dead substance" in alchemy. This word, which means both skull and residue, also refers to the residue left after distillation or sublimation. This process corresponds to the alchemical concept of "blackening." By breaking up a mixture and obtaining the original substance, the substance dies and becomes the basis for regeneration.
This process is enough to gain strength.
——As a result, its power was not even drawn out, and Amber responded to her call.
This meant that Aleister and Aiwass were most likely the same person in terms of mysticism, at least in the eyes of the Pillar God.
So Aleister summoned the Silver Crown Dragon once again, asking Him to personally judge whether she had violated her oath. To prevent the seal from going awry, she also specially prepared the true seal words: "All things are born from water and return to water."
This is the sacred word of Thales, the apostle of the Great Master, revealing the secret of the "Water Origin Theory." It is a denial of the Winter Demon's fundamental belief that "all things will end in winter," a true demonological knowledge.
But in the same way—without even using the power contained in these words, the Silver Crown Dragon took the initiative to help Aleister defeat the remaining consciousness of the Winter Devil and seal it into a card.
Afterwards, Aleister discovered with mixed feelings that his oath with the Silver Crown Dragon had not been broken.
In other words, he still had not committed any heinous crime.
...Then the problem is even bigger!
That means Aleister's self-perception is not that of a human being at all!
But she also doesn't consider herself a child of the moon.
Then there is only one answer.
She believed that she was just a puppet, a tool, a clone of Aiwass - or rather, she was an afterimage destined to be abandoned.
“…So we’re the same.”
Aleister smiled in relief.
——She is indeed Aiwass.
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