Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 801: The Evolution of the Book of Law
[Upright Summoning: Wild Hunt]

[Required: Wind 5]

【Instant, Self, Echo】

[Effect: Summon the power of the King of the Wild Hunt to transform yourself into the Wild Hunt, stir up a strong wind and activate "Ghost Walk" to transform into a virtual body and sneak into the spirit world. In the spirit world, you cannot cause damage to the material world, and you cannot be targeted or damaged by most attacks in the material world. After entering the spirit world, you will continue to lose vitality; when riding a ghost horse, after this effect ends, you will launch an additional "Dead Charge". This attack is regarded as initiated by the King of the Wild Hunt. If it successfully hits and causes damage, the vitality is absorbed based on the total vitality lost in the spirit world.]

[Reversed Summoning: King of the Wild Hunt]

[Required: Wind 5]

[Maintenance: Wind 5*Daily]

【Action, Summon】

[Effect: Summon the Furious Beast·King of the Wild Hunt to fight for you. The King of the Wild Hunt is considered a summoned creature. When not in combat, the Furious Beast·King of the Wild Hunt can transform into a ghost Pegasus and enter a follower state. Only one Sin Beast can exist at a time.]

Like other Sin cards, its mana cost is also an unchangeable five points.

Compared to the Night Stalker card, which has quite complex and difficult to understand abilities, the Wild Hunt Lord's Sin card has many words, but its effects are much easier to understand.

Being able to actively sneak into the interlayer of the world - this in itself is a very good effect. Even for the celestial beings who descended into the world, cross-world attacks are a very rare ability.

"Ghost Walk" itself is a high-level Twilight Path ability, and it is exclusive to the undead. If a living person wants to use it, they must at least transform their own race into an undead before they can use it... just like the Black Phase.

Except for extraordinary skills like rituals that can lock and cause damage across worlds, or abilities like curses or poisons that have delayed activation, this is basically invincible for other Taoist skills.

——After all, the ritual can even pull down the Heavenly Master from the Dream Realm, so it is normal for it to give the mezzanine a shot.

Although as a living person you will continue to lose blood if you forcibly enter the spirit world, the lost blood can be sucked back!
As long as he rides the Ghost Pegasus, he can end this state at any time and summon the King of the Wild Hunt to shoot the opponent! Summoning the King of the Wild Hunt directly will make a lot of noise... but he can use the "Bulk King of the Wild Hunt" attack at any time!

"Not bad……"

Looking at the azure Pegasus card in his hand, Aleister was very satisfied.

This is Aleister's second sixth-level upper-level phantom demon.

The King of the Wild Hunt, whose grievances were purified by the Lord of Scales and Feathers and who obtained the Warrior class, is undoubtedly one of the ceilings of the current world. Although his weapon was broken by Aleister... but this is a minor problem.

Anyway, Cardinal Valrhona said that she would use the materials from her own body to make a powerful weapon for her son Rhine. The reason was because of her husband Helechin's last words.

——Why don’t I bring Heleqin back and you give the weapon to Heleqin?
As for now...

Before this new weapon was created, the most he could do was use the Thunder Halberd again and manually equip Heleqin with it.

After all, Aleister had tried it himself during the promotion ceremony. Compared to the "wife's rib gun", the Thunderbolt Halberd was definitely much stronger in terms of numerical value. It was so strong that there was no comparison.

Because even if "Favrna's Dragon Skeleton" was not damaged, there were basically few entries about it that were useful to Heleqin.

Its two strongest abilities are "Blood Drain" and "Dragon Flame Infusion".

The former's absorption of vitality was completely useless to the King of the Wild Hunt who had already turned into an undead.

As for the latter, it was indeed powerful - but Aleister had used Heleqin's body himself. When he logged in to control it, he knew that Heleqin had very little fire mana left.

When Heleqin was alive, he had three mana pools: light, wind, and fire. After his death, the mana pools of wind and fire were halved, and this part of the mana became earth, while the light attribute was transformed into dark.

This was shortly after his death. After the Wild Hunt contract was signed, part of his mana would gradually transform into wind attribute. As time passed, the remaining fire attribute mana in his body would definitely become less and less, and now it is probably completely unable to drive this effect.

Today, the mana pool of the Wild Hunt King is wind, earth, and dark, and its attributes are exactly the same as the mana pool of the Son of the Moon!
For Heleqin, the only two useful attributes of this spear are [Heavy Weapon] and [Dragon Bone Guard], which allow Heleqin to slightly increase attack power and defense power, but that's all. Over a long period of time, as the weight of the dragon spear gradually decreases, the effect of [Heavy Weapon] will gradually disappear.

The third-level lightning affinity of the "Thunderbolt Halberd" can only give Aiwas, who does not have lightning affinity, a little lightning resistance. But for Heleqin, who already has lightning affinity, this will be a huge improvement - the higher the level of the affinity, the greater the improvement.

In other words, as long as Aleister gives Helechin the additional equipment "Thunder Halberd", it will be much stronger than the ideal state of Helechin, the King of the Wild Hunt!
This is undoubtedly Aleister's true trump card.

In future battles against the Fallen Angels, and even other Angels pulled down by the Tail Ring, the King of the Wild Hunt will be his trusted main output!

Aleister summoned Aiwas's Book of Law and logged it in.

With the [Sin Card: Lord of the Wild Hunt] logged into the Book of Law, the collection progress bar of the Book of Law finally reached two-thirds.

And at this time.

The Book of Law suddenly shook violently!
The little crow, which was originally in a traveling state, suddenly broke into pieces, transformed into a ball of extremely pure dark attribute magic power, and flowed back into the Book of Magic.

The Book of Law was flipping through the pages by itself, from the first page to the last page.

In Aleister's mind, the cards in those grids were lit up one after another, and the Book of Law glowed more and more brightly.

When the light faded, its properties had completely changed -

"really……"

Aleister murmured in a low voice: "The Book of Law is a sacred weapon."

【The Book of the Law of Aiwass (14/21)】

[Sacred Equipment (Gold)]

[Weapon-Grimoire]

[Holy Module - Sin Codex: Each time you log in a different Phantom Card, you gain 2 colorless mana points]

[Extraordinary Module - Book of Law: Your spellcasting reach increases by 30 meters; the Phantom Cards you log into the Grimoire gain an additional 30 meters of spellcasting reach]

[Extraordinary Feature: At the cost of putting a registered Phantom Card that has not entered cooldown into cooldown, another Phantom Card that has entered cooldown will become effective again, 3 times per day (based on the registered Sin Cards)]

[Extraordinary Feature: At the cost of putting a registered Phantom Card that is not on cooldown into cooldown, the effect of the Sin Card with the same attribute is strengthened.]

[Divine Characteristics: When you use a reversed summon on a Sin Card, you gain an additional effect]

[Sacred Characteristics: (Unlocked after logging in to the 21st Phantom Card)]

Looking at the characteristics of the Book of Law, the guess in Aiwas' mind became clearer.

The highest level of equipment that the material world can create with its own power is only dark purple. If it can reach gold, it proves that it must have relied on the power of a Pillar God Apostle or above.

Sacred equipment means it has divinity, which is the so-called "artifact". The apostles can only afford one at most, and they must use it first. When the celestial officials have the authority, they can make multiple artifacts to give to the loyal believers in the material world.

The profession required by this book does not exist in the current world at all!
It's not even a question of being rare, it's just that they haven't been created at all.

Making sacred equipment is not an easy task even for Tiansi. Who would be so idle and have nothing to do?

Aleister thought for a long time, but he snorted coldly and suddenly closed the Book of Law.

"……snort."

never mind.

No matter what Huan Tiansi's conspiracy is - since "He" has already taken the initiative, there is no need to care about him. Can you avoid the trap by guessing everything? There are things that need to be done, and there is no way to avoid them, and Aiwas will not do things that he shouldn't do...

So Aleister collected his thoughts and focused on reading the Book of Law.

Its biggest benefit is that the original one point of colorless mana for each login card slot has been directly increased to two points. This allows Aleister to immediately obtain 14 points of colorless mana... For her, who is already short of mana after the split, it is a very good reinforcement.

"…But what is the 'extra effect'?"

She was a little confused and placed her hand on the Book of Law.

The properties of those cards reappeared in Aleister's mind.

"what!"

Aleister was shocked: "This is——"

She saw that the effects of the three Sin Cards she had registered had changed slightly during the Reversed Summoning, that is, the Main Summoning. Either one of their attributes had changed, or a new effect had been added:

Originally, the Butterfly of Perverse Flame had a repeat effect, which was to use it again to allow the Butterfly of Perverse Flame to be reborn or self-destruct.

And the only effect left is [Effect: Use again to command the Flame-Rebellious Butterfly to self-destruct].

There is a new effect below:
[Effect: Use again to summon the Unburnable Butterfly from the ashes of the Flame-Butterfly; when the Unburnable Butterfly enters the field, it causes a huge amount of damage to all burning enemies.]

...What is the non-flammable butterfly?
But since "huge" damage can be directly written on it, the effect must be good... and the effect of the Night Stalker also changed at the same time.

There is a new attribute below her:
[Effect: When the Night Demon enters the field, all enemies will be inflicted with Curse Vulnerability LV4 (based on the energy level of the Transcendent Path)]

Although Aiwass had used Night Demon as a shield by relying on her strong resistance before, Night Demon was actually a spellcaster. Her melee ability was not strong, and she was able to suppress Succubus only by relying on her numerical value and priority. Her real strengths were mainly group attack and control.

Simply put, Night Stalker's team positioning should be a weakener...she can only be a sub-C at best.

The saying goes “enemy weakness equals my strength”, “enemy slowdown equals my speedup”, “enemy armor penetration equals my damage increase”... From this point of view, Night Stalker can also be regarded as an auxiliary!
For a character who relies on stacking negative states to create limitations, Night Stalker fears the most that the negative states cannot be applied.

Once the opponent is able to become immune to or resist the Night Demon's curse, the Night Demon will only be left with shadow abilities that are not much stronger than those of the Shadow Fiend.

Curse Vulnerability can break through the opponent's resistance to a certain extent. Even if the opponent has priority, hanging Vulnerability can still have some effect.

Just like the undead and demons are usually vulnerable to purification, even if the priest's level is low, dispelling will still have some effect - being able to anger the opponent often means that the attack hurts. Once the priority is high enough and the full amount of damage can be dealt, then a very obvious restraining effect can be immediately exerted!
For example, there was a purification barrier that the gargoyles could not break through no matter what... or a giant tree that could be ignited by ordinary flames.

The fourth-level curse is vulnerable, just like the negative effect of the red-handled sword. This value is about the strength that a fourth-level curse master can curse a fifth-level extraordinary person, but a fifth-level curse master cannot curse a sixth-level extraordinary person.

"Could it be that……"

Seeing the new effects of the Flame Butterfly and the Night Devil, Aleister guessed something.

As expected, the "Reversed Summoning" entry of the newly obtained Wild Hunt King card, which had not been used once, also had this attribute added:
[Effect: When the King of the Wild Hunt enters the battlefield, he summons the Wild Hunt Legion "Herchin's Followers" to launch a charge]

——The Wild Hunt!
This is too cool!

The levels of those wild hunters were not low. After all, they were all masters who started at the fourth level when they were alive. To put it bluntly, those who were too weak were not qualified to follow Heleqin around.

Eagle Point Village is a real advanced map.

Even if this round of ghost army charge cannot cause any effective damage to the Tianshi-level enemies, it at least has a pretty good ability to clear the mess! You know, the King of the Wild Hunt itself has two legion-level buff auras, which have a strong enhancement for melee professions. It is quite deadly to most enemies.

——The King of the Wild Hunt is indeed a real output-type phantom.

All of its attributes are outputs!

I just don’t know how long this “round of charge” can last…

Seeing this, Aleister also understood.

The effects of these three Sin Cards all have one thing in common.

That is...these effects are triggered "when summoning".

It can be called a battle cry, an entrance song, or "when summoning or special summoning"... In short, it is an effect that can only take effect when summoned in battle.

In other words, the tactics that Aiwass relied on before, "burning cards and summoning the Beast of Sin one day in advance, strengthening the basic panel, and leaving card cooling and mana consumption on the previous day", can no longer trigger these very attractive buff effects!
But on the other hand, they also strengthened the beast of sin that Aleister temporarily summoned to a considerable extent.

At least the temporarily summoned sin beast will not be weaker than the one prepared in advance.

This also greatly increases the explosive power of the wheel-cutting summon!
"I am really looking forward to the effect of the fourth entry of the Book of Law..."

Aleister muttered.

But...if that's the case, the best choice for her normal summoned beast should be the little butterfly.

Because only the little butterfly's entry effect is triggered when it enters the game for the second time after death and rebirth!

"Start with a small butterfly burst, then self-destruct and regenerate and burst again, then cut off the Night Stalker and then the King of the Wild Hunt?"

Aleister subconsciously thought about the burst cycle.

I always feel like something is missing... The transition from Night Stalker to King of the Wild Hunt isn't very smooth.

"Anyway, let me take a look at you first..."

Aleister placed his hand on the Book of Law.

In an instant, a storm arose.

As the azure lightning flashed, the silver-shining King of the Wild Hunt gradually emerged in the storm!

Unlike the scene magic that comes with the higher demons, the Wild Hunt King did not change the weather to a storm when summoned.

Therefore, the sky outside is still the quiet night sky.

Immediately following the emergence of the King of the Wild Hunt came the neatly lined-up followers behind Helechin.

——The Wild Hunts were originally in the distance, ready to watch the King of the Wild Hunt leave.

Although it is hard to let go and lonely, being able to break away from the constraints of mission is also a kind of freedom...

But when Aleister summoned the King of the Wild Hunt, they were suddenly pulled over from more than a hundred meters away - they turned into black smoke and disappeared from their original places, and reappeared behind Helechin.

Wild Hunt:?

“…It’s actually the real body?”

Aleister was also a little surprised.

She counted them and found that there were about seventy or eighty followers in total.

This means that signing Helechin is like buying one and getting eighty free!
Hlechin was clearly aware of this.

"Thank you... Master."

Heleqin was not wearing a helmet and had not turned into dusk. He was still a translucent knight in silver armor. His voice was clear and full of reason: "We can take them away with us. I was wondering if they would be driven away if I was not here... Now I feel relieved."

"Herchin," Aleister said impatiently, "Let me see the horse you have transformed into."

The next moment, the Wild Hunters disappeared from the black fog at the same time, and Heleqin on the Ghost Pegasus also vanished.

However, the ghost Pegasus under him suddenly turned around.

"Come up, Master."

It suddenly spoke in the voice of Heleqin: "Ghosts don't get tired... I can take you anywhere."

Man, horse and human become one?!
——Is this the mechanism? !

Aleister was stunned for a moment.

She originally thought it would be a cute "little horse" like a little butterfly or a little crow. But it turned out to be Heleqin's majestic and sacred ghost horse...

The undead will not get tired, which means that Aleister can use it to fly back to Star Antimony across the sea! It also means that from now on the sea will no longer be any obstacle to Aleister and Aiwass...

...But in this case, Leviathan will be useless!

Leviathan, you are a baby who will retire soon...

"Can you... take two people?"

Aleister touched the cool and soft skin of the ghost horse, which was like an air-conditioned blanket, and hesitated: "Can I take Leviathan with me?"

It felt a little ridiculous when she said this - it was like tying a bicycle to the back of a motorcycle.

"It should be possible. Let's try it first."

Helechin replied.

So Aleister carried the somewhat reluctant Leviathan onto the Ghost Pegasus.

I found that it really works.

Although the speed is a bit slow...it is almost the same as the speed of a ship.

It will probably take less than a day to get back to Xingti!

——Then there’s no need to take a boat, just fly back directly!

(End of this chapter)