Chapter 839 Death of Aiwass
"That thing called self-esteem..."
Noelle subconsciously wanted to refute.
But she was silent for a while, then took a deep breath, bit her lip and nodded: "Maybe you are right..."
At this point, there is no point in deceiving yourself.
She was just avoiding the problem, or rather... she was simply seeking death.
After realizing his mistake, Noelle did not continue to choose to escape.
"...Maybe courage isn't all I have left."
Her voice was low, and her words cut like a sharp scalpel, "Rather... on the contrary, I'm finding courage through this method. If I can even survive this life-threatening crisis, perhaps I can also persevere through despair and see the dawn. After all, a blunt knife always hurts more than a sharp blade."
"Hmph, I understand."
Aiwass looked at Noelle, who was once again excited, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly. "But this is the New Moon Ritual. Let me make it clear in advance that I will not let you - when the time comes, I will kill you."
"That's fine, that's how it should be. But I'll make it clear in advance that I will never submit to being killed."
Princess Noelle raised her head, looked at Aiwass with a serious face and said: "When you say 'I no longer need to cooperate with you', we will go to war.
"But I can swear that I will never attack you... and I also hope that you won't do this to me."
"I swear on the name of the candle."
Aiwass nodded and answered seriously.
After he said that, he turned around and looked at the guests.
After Andrea was petrified by him, the guests calmed down again, but their expressions changed from "happy" to "unhappy" and they no longer danced on the dance floor.
Obviously, the portrait has shifted towards "Friends Who No Longer Laugh", and the music has returned to its original sadness and soothing tone.
This level of abnormality itself is a hint—
If the banquet continues as usual and the [Celebration and Carnival] mission is completed, it corresponds to "Laughing Friends" or "Endless Feast", which means that the story is determined as "Everyone revels together to celebrate the host's promotion to an apostle." If everyone is killed, the [Madness and Killing] mission is completed, which corresponds to "Friends Who No Longer Laugh", that is, "After Zagreus's death, the guests who killed him or came to celebrate are attracted and killed"...
——Then what do [funerals and sacrifices] correspond to?
"Wait, sacrifice..."
Aiwass suddenly looked at the pure white bust of the candlelight, and his pupils contracted slightly.
He realized what that choice was—
If Cain is fake and Sasha is fake, but they appear at the banquet at the same time... besides this being a "scam to lure everyone in and kill them", there is another opposite explanation.
Sasha's appearance is also different from Sister Sasha... It can be understood that she is indeed not Sasha, but "the actor who plays Sister Sasha"!
Following this line of thought, it can also explain why Cain was so weak.
Because this is a grand ceremony in itself.
The essence of the mysterious art of ritual that transcends the Tao is to replace the strong with the weak.
Through the low-level "symbols", the information of the two is confused in a specific field, thereby replacing the high-level objects in the dream world that only looks at information!
Imitate what others do until they act like you, and others cannot tell the difference.
Aiwass also remembered that this was the basic principle recorded on the title page of "Common Ritual".
Although he had long been able to perform Grand Rites, and the Great Sin Scholar himself had the ability to amplify rituals, Aiwass rarely had the opportunity to use them. The rituals he performed were generally either promotion rituals or auxiliary rituals to seal phantom demons.
Because he didn't have the need to "defeat the strong with the weak." If he really did, the phantom demons he sealed would be enough to fight them, making him the "stronger party."
Now, Aiwas recalled a lot of knowledge about rituals in his mind.
A funeral is a sacred ceremony in itself.
In this way, extremely powerful souls can be laid to rest. Even those who have died at the fifth or even sixth energy level can be buried by completing the funeral ceremony.
So the question is... what is this ritual that can affect the sixth energy level in the material world imitating and what is it confusing?
Where did the sleeping ritual used to prevent the birth of the dead originate?
Who was the first dead to be buried? Why does its soul rest in peace? Why can the earth seal its soul?
"……amber."
Aiwass murmured.
——The first thing to be buried in the earth was "taboo".
The so-called land where the soul can rest is [Amber]!
If that's the case... the little winged girl sleeping curled up in the amber crystal is most likely not amber.
It's [taboo]!!
The shell that wraps around her is amber!
Even when taboos are buried, they remain silent, and the souls in the mortal world naturally cannot resist this natural law.
Since the sacredness of the "funeral" is enough to involve the realm of the Pillar God... and even itself is a re-enactment of the Pillar God's affairs. In other words, the funeral ritual itself can involve the Pillar God...
Thinking of this, Aiwass looked again at the pure white bust of the candlelight with a strange smile.
"I see……"
Aiwass took a deep breath and felt a little nervous about the promotion ceremony.
He suddenly took a few steps forward, stood under the candlelight statue, and spoke to the silent guests:
"The host is dead... Now I will preside over the funeral."
The young Pope said this in a deep voice.
Hearing this, the guests' faces were filled with smiles again.
Aiwass looked at the eldest princess Noelle and said, "Please give me a silver knife."
"Ritual knife? Okay..."
Although Noelle didn't quite understand what Mr. Sun was going to do, she still reached for the silver plate on the table.
Her pupils glowed bright yellow, and the silver plate melted into a sharp silver ceremonial knife in her hands.
Aiwass looked around and then used it to cut his wrists.
The guests became excited when they saw this.
They gathered around Aiwass, while Noelle had no idea what was going on.
But the next moment, she suddenly screamed in panic—
——I saw Aiwas suddenly insert the ritual knife into his eye sockets and dig out his eyes!
"I offer my eyes of mercy to the host of the feast..."
Aiwass's voice became compassionate and ethereal.
A branch suddenly emerged from his right eye and a white flower bloomed.
"And we will offer our flesh and blood to the feast master."
The people all said in unison: "Let's go to the endless feast!"
Someone knelt in front of Aiwass, guiding the blind Aiwass and placing his hand on his neck.
The next moment, Aiwass cut off his neck with a knife.
His blood did not fall to the ground, but instead a trace of golden divine blood flew up upstream - it was drawn out and sprinkled on the white bust of Sizhu!
The candlelight statue was stained with a little blood, but it emitted a radiant light.
This is definitely not something that mortal blood can do.
Noelle's pupils trembled: "Why...?"
"Because they ate the flesh and blood of the feaster."
Aiwass mechanically continued to draw his sword and behead people, taking a moment to whisper, "Now is the time to pay back."
This is the candlelight ceremony.
"The host, wishing to journey to the dream world, mercifully convened one last banquet of his life—distributing his own flesh and blood to the guests."
Aiwass answered, also explaining his understanding of the painting: "He convened a dragon-slaying ceremony and died in battle. His flesh and blood were eaten by the dragon-slaying heroes in accordance with his last wishes. This is the dragon clan's... 'Heroes' Feast.'
"They held no hatred towards the feast host; instead, they admired his generosity. Therefore, after Sister Sasha completed her self-sacrifice and ascended to the Dream Realm, these friends who had once tasted dragon blood and dragon flesh gathered together.
"In order to ascend to the dream world together and participate in the 'Endless Banquet' held by the feast master, they prepared a ceremony - imitating and recreating Sister Sasha's ceremony.
“A holy funeral… a sacrifice of self.
“And since it’s imitating Sister Sasha’s ceremony, someone has to be the blind host.
"She is not here to preside over the ball, but to bring the souls of the guests into the banquet..."
In this way, the host will become whole again.
All the flesh and blood that was once sacrificed has been returned, and He will become more holy than before.
There is only one difference.
A piece of the host's liver was secretly hidden by one of the guests, so He was never fulfilled.
——That is not the “liver of a fool”, but the “liver of the host”!
"This isn't a painting with any wrong details; it's a true 'history' that actually happened... I was too arrogant."
When all the guests were killed, Sizhu was still not covered in blood.
The guests Andrea killed did have an impact on Aiwass - if it weren't for that blow, it would have been just right.
Aiwass sighed.
He handed the blood-stained ceremonial knife to the already somewhat frightened eldest princess and said calmly, "Have you ever skinned someone? Do me a favor."
“…No, no…”
"It's okay, it's not difficult. Chop off my hands, chop off my feet, peel off a piece of skin from my back, and then kill me—the remaining blood should be enough. My holiness should be enough for this ritual."
Aiwass said gently, "Don't worry, this isn't your backstab... This was my own request."
"...Are you ready to revive?"
The eldest princess gripped the ritual knife tightly, her hands trembling uncontrollably. "Kill me and then... resurrect?"
The little bit of rationality she had left made it impossible for her to understand Aiwass's crazy behavior: "Do you really want to win so badly?"
"Without the determination to win, how can you face all the difficulties in this world?"
Aiwass asked back.
He gave me an encouraging smile: "If you don't want me to crawl out of your corpse, then just try your best to survive.
"--If I can't wake up, I will bless you in the dream world, ma'am."
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