The Shepherds Are Dense – Chapter 1301

Chapter 1299
Great Sin: Eivass of Dawn
The seventh Beast of Sin was Eivass himself.
—The foremost of the Seven Great Sins, the Beast of Arrogance.
Since Heavenly Envoy Fragments could be fused with other Beasts of Sin to complete evolution and reshape a divine body…
There was no reason why Eivass himself couldn’t do the same.
“…This is probably just inertia of thought.”
Eivass closed his eyes slightly.
In another timeline, the promotion path for a Sin Scholar was the Lord of Great Beasts.
That was a path of completely enslaving uncontrolled Beasts of Sin, and by fusing the summoned beings with oneself, the fragile self would also briefly gain armored power.
It was the path of a sorcerer who controlled divine power in a fragile mortal body.
However, the situation had now changed.
Eivass had abandoned that promotion path and chosen another. He was now also a Beast of Sin, and they would be fellow travelers, companions, not master and slave, or commander and subordinate.
Under these circumstances, Eivass shouldn’t have been so fragile… After all, he was the final form unlocked by consecutively summoning all the Beasts of Sin, and should possess the power to end it all with one blow.
In the past, Eivass had never truly gathered all six Great Beasts; and after he had gathered them, he had not encountered an enemy that could not be defeated even after summoning the Six Great Sins. So, it wasn’t surprising that Eivass had forgotten about this ability.
On the palm of the Giant, the Heavenly Envoy Fragments of the Geometric Heavenly and Eivass’s own Great Sin Card slowly made contact.
The moment the two made contact, they simultaneously erupted with dazzling radiance—
They reacted at once!
The blue-purple electric light that originally erupted from the card was instantly engulfed by layers of ink-style black and white flame energy.
Unlike other Great Sin Cards.
After other Great Sin Cards came into contact with Heavenly Envoy Fragments, their previously semi-transparent monochrome crystal cards would turn into a “commemorative photo” like picture. But Eivass’s process was the complete opposite… His originally had a picture, but now it actually turned into a black and white card.
If viewed from one side, it was a pure, almost transparent white card. Like white jade under the sun.
In the center, a sun pattern was drawn in bright red. It looked like a sacred rune drawn with cinnabar;
And if viewed from the other side, it became a deep, opaque black card. A sun pattern was still drawn in bright red, but it looked like a ritual ring drawn with blood.
Even though the sun pattern was identical and the color was the same… it gave a completely opposite impression.
And the moment the card appeared, the Giant’s body trembled slightly and completely lost consciousness.
It began to disintegrate from its fingertips, at an extremely fast speed, rapidly dissipating—
The Giant’s flesh and blood were only a thin layer!
It was like removing the skin of a machine to reveal the wires and filling underneath… After the Giant’s flesh and blood disintegrated, what remained were the black Sin Thorns.
These were Sin Thorns transformed from the sins of the Great Abyss.
However, at this moment, these Sin Thorns all ignited with white flames!
Just like a wooden giant made of wood and straw being set on fire, the Sin Thorn Giant was also burning fiercely.
Just like the birth of the first Pillar God—
The Giant’s entire body was covered in white flames, burning into a dazzling flame that illuminated heaven and earth.
Soon, the radiance submerged the Giant’s form. Even its outline could no longer be seen, only a pillar of light that reached the heavens could be seen here.
—This was decompression!
The Sin Thorns transformed from the sins of the Great Abyss, after being “decompressed,” released the information belonging to the original Ai Shiping!
Using the real Eivass as raw material to recreate Eivass’s body!
There was probably no body in this world that would be so compatible with Eivass; not even his own previous body.
Creating life solely through Aether was the supreme alchemy, the ultimate method of reconciliation in Aetheric studies—
The constantly collapsing and disintegrating Sin Thorns were continuously absorbed into the white pillar of light. At this time, the light on the pillar of light that reached the heavens had shrunk a few circles, but the Giant that had been covered and hidden was still nowhere to be seen.
Inside the sea of light composed of “infinite light,” at its core… was actually a pitch-black area.
Nothing could be seen or sensed from there.
But then, as the light continued to shrink, an Eivass with a peaceful, closed-eyed expression gradually appeared there!
He was not returned to infancy, but landed as a full-fledged seventeen or eighteen-year-old.
His hair had turned white, mirroring that of the Ring Heavenly Envoy, and his pupils had turned into a cold golden color. The six white wings behind Eivass were fully spread, and golden, radiant runes appeared on them. Even above Eivass’s head, a halo symbolizing a saint appeared.
He no longer had antlers on his head—with the birth of this new body, the Child of the Candlemaster’s transformation rate had dropped to half. That extra half was the mirrored self that Eivass had obtained: Eivass had achieved ultimate self-completion through the remains of the Great Abyss!
Eivass now was truly more complete than the Ring Heavenly Envoy.
From any angle, this was undoubtedly a Heavenly Envoy’s body.
According to the normal process, one would have to die, have all their flesh and blood stripped away by the Origin River, and then obtain Heavenly Envoy Fragments to undergo reconstruction on this scale.
And Eivass now possessed this semi-real, semi-illusory Heavenly Envoy flesh and blood… Eivass could now even directly walk into the Dream Realm, like an “incredibly weak” Heavenly Envoy—he could freely traverse between the Dream Realm and the Material Realm, though his maximum Energy Level was still below the Sixth Tier.
A Heavenly Envoy who might be weaker than the Winter Envoy—even a Heavenly Envoy who did not yet have his own proper name!
But undoubtedly, Eivass’s soul quality already possessed Heavenly Envoy-level scale; and he truly possessed Heavenly Envoy-level power and authority!
The only Heavenly Envoy who could walk on earth!
A Heavenly Envoy like the Blood Heavenly Envoy who possessed physical flesh and blood!
The only Heavenly Envoy unaffected by the Veil of Equilibrium!
Eivass now even wore a white robe, an attire created through alchemy. It was similar in style to Eivass’s damaged Cardinal robe, but the color was opposite, white.
“This is…”
As soon as Eivass opened his eyes, he felt an incomparable comfort.
—He could clearly feel that this was an incomparably perfect, incomparably coordinated body.
It had been developed to its extreme from every angle, even to the point where adding even a little more would be unnecessary.
This was the body most suited to himself!
Never before had Eivass felt so complete!
And before Eivass’s eyes, his own Great Sin Card appeared. Watching it being branded out of thin air, word by word, Eivass gazed intently.
【Great Sin: Eivass of Dawn (Star)】
【Level: 49】
【Path of Devotion, Attribute Light / Transcendent Path, Attribute Dark】
【Upright: Seal of Mith】
【Effect: It is the gentlest monarch, a god who has died and not yet been born, symbolizing the radiance of miracles. This is the mark of the Fourth Sun, which shelters its many followers, for they are its shadow and its stars. All allied summoned beings gain +1 priority.]
【Reversed: Ouroboros Ring】
【Requirement: None 5】
【Instant, Enchant, Summon, Continuous Effect】
【Effect: Transforms oneself into the Beast of Arrogance · Eivass of Dawn. Eivass of Dawn is considered a summoned being; this effect can only be used when all other six attribute Beasts of Sin are on cooldown. Eivass of Dawn can copy the effects of any other Beast of Sin; if the copied being has lost its combat capability or cannot currently be summoned, this effect can be used again.]
【Effect: When Eivass of Dawn enters the field, or whenever a new enemy enters the field, automatically deals heavy damage to the enemy; this damage is considered casting Paradise Lost.]
【Authority: Control · Four Elemental Domains, Compile · Aether Magic】
—Ordinary people might not understand the value of Paradise Lost, nor would they know how dangerous and mysterious Aether Magic is. Even more so, they wouldn’t know what it means to “copy the abilities of Beasts of Sin”…
If Eivass had not summoned the Six Great Sins in rapid succession, but had actually summoned them one by one and defeated them one by one, Eivass would have gained the full power of six Beasts of Sin at once!
Once Helchin and Little Butterfly obtain Heavenly Envoy Fragments, this would be equivalent to the combined power of seven Heavenly Envoys!
And Helchin—
As this thought emerged in Eivass’s mind, the battle in the Dream Realm had entered its white-hot stage.
(End of Chapter)