Chapter 325
Child of the Moon is a walking treasure (Third update)
Sister Sasha was not Hengwo’s co-dancer, but a nun of the “Feaster.”
The Feaster was one of Hengwo’s very few Apostles, co-dancers, lovers, and followers.
He was not human, nor an elf, but a dragon.
All Moon Children’s blood, traced back to its origin, came from the Feaster. For this reason, Moon Children were also called Dragon Children, possessing immortality and the ability to grow by consuming phantom demons.
Sister Sasha was the mother of the first Moon Child.
She was both a servant and a lover to the Feaster.
She received Hengwo’s blessing and gave birth to the first Moon Child possessing dragon blood and divine blood—not transformed after death, but born as a Moon Child.
However, although Sister Sasha was the mother of the progenitor of the Moon Children, she was ultimately just a follower of an Apostle.
Because of this, even though her son later became a “Blood Heavenly Envoy,” she could only be venerated as a “Nun” and did not receive a unique title or prayer.
After all, the Blood Heavenly Envoy’s choice to become a Heavenly Envoy rather than an Apostle indicated his rebellious desire—for Heavenly Envoys could contend for Pillar God positions, but Apostles could not.
—Of course, it was also possible that Hengwo simply didn’t want him.
Generally, such special existences were not allowed to be publicly venerated.
The Church typically only permitted the veneration of the Nine Pillar Gods and their direct Apostles, as well as the Heavenly Envoys of each Path, the Apostles of Heavenly Envoys, and the followers of Apostles. Though they also existed in the Dream Realm, they were almost never on the Church’s list of sacrifices. Only a select few received a more amicable attitude.
However, unless necessary, the Church would not publicly crack down on these churches—provided that they were truly worshipping gods in the Dream Realm, and not simply creating a money-making organization under a fabricated name.
It was mainly to avoid offending gods. Not venerating them meant not knowing which Apostle or Pillar God had a bad relationship with them; not cracking down meant worrying that some Apostle or Pillar God might have too good a relationship with them.
This was akin to badmouthing someone, but a friend of that person might be your boss, and another friend might be your boss’s enemy. In such a situation, you couldn’t help, but you also couldn’t not help… The Church could only try its best to maintain a neutral stance.
Therefore, these small Churches, without priests dispatched by the Church of the Nine Pillar Gods but also not banned or shut down, were known as “Secret Cults,” existing in a legal gray area of the Church.
The gist was: you can play amongst yourselves. Just don’t cause any major trouble, and we won’t interfere.
After her death, Sister Sasha became a phantom demon of the two Paths of “Love” and “Devotion.”
The level fifty graduation set for the Priest’s advanced profession, “Torchbearer,” was “Sister Sasha’s Holy Feast.”
This set of equipment could also be used by Illuminators—and Eivass, who possessed the Shepherd’s Method, was even more suited for this set than an ordinary Torchbearer.
The core effect of the Sasha set was a series of effects triggered “when the wearer loses their own life force for the purpose of buffing or healing others.”
The reason Eivass wanted to follow his teacher to dig up graves was to obtain the key pieces of his equipment from those ruins that consistently produced set components.
This was because this set of equipment, unlike Lily’s set… had already been made by someone, just buried.
The Sasha set was, in reality, the sainted remains of Sister Sasha. These remains could be directly attached to clothes, thus sanctifying them into dark purple cloth armor equipment.
The hand piece of this set was called [Consecrated Purity Gauntlets].
—Sister Sasha’s hands were placed in plates and venerated at Teresa Monastery.
They were a pair of hands cut from the wrist. It was the last thing Sister Sasha took from her own body, after her eyes, feet, and skin.
Even after more than three hundred years, they remained fair, slender, and supple, even retaining warmth.
Sister Sasha’s level as an Extraordinary was very low; she ascended to the Dream Realm through self-sacrifice. Her remains left in the human world were also sainted through her act of sacrifice.
The effect of [Consecrated Purity Gauntlets] was—when the wearer loses their own life force for the purpose of buffing or healing others, their next touch action would become “Saint’s Touch.” The more life force lost, the greater the healing amount; if this free self-heal was not released within a certain period, it would be corrupted into “Vampire’s Touch,” allowing the user to absorb others’ life force through touch to replenish themselves.
The life force replenished was also directly proportional to the life force consumed within that cycle.
With the complete Sasha set, a Torchbearer could form a cycle, rather than healing themselves into a weakened state and then being instantly obliterated by an area-of-effect skill.
…I hadn’t even fully exited the Ascension Ritual, and “Beyad” had already found something good with me.
This could be considered an unexpected joy.
But thinking about this, Eivass suddenly realized something else—
He really didn’t know that Teresa Monastery was connected to Crescent Moon Manor, and now he knew how to open that secret passage…
Did this mean that if he came here when… he had already opened the Wind and Earth Mana Pools, he could also open the secret passage in his own space-time and enter Crescent Moon Manor?
Although Eivass didn’t know where Crescent Moon Manor was, he knew the location of Teresa Monastery!
As a gathering place for Moon Children, Crescent Moon Manor must contain good things… perhaps hidden vampires seeking refuge from war, along with their buried treasures. If there were sleeping vampires, they could be awakened one by one and killed for experience.
Afterwards, the resurrected Moon Child bone ash could be used by Eivass to make cards. If he could capture a Moon Child of Fourth Tier or above alive, their blood could be extracted to create precious potion ingredients—a Fourth Tier or higher Witch could mix the blood of a Moon Child with the blood of a Unicorn to create a rejuvenation serum, capable of revitalizing the weakened bodies of the elderly or sick. If mixed with the blood of a werewolf of the opposite sex, it could also produce an aphrodisiac and an arousal potion simultaneously.
Although Eivass was not short of money, these were things that money couldn’t buy. They would also make excellent gifts.
Amidst the chaos, Teresa Monastery had long since become ruined ruins, with various undead wandering inside. And the final BOSS of this dungeon was a Fifth Tier out-of-control Moon Child.
Although these vampires’ combat strength was high for their tier, this particular one was rather anemic. Therefore, many of its abilities could not be used, and even a Fifth Tier Priest could purify him in a one-on-one fight.
…Wait?
Eivass suddenly thought of something, looked up, and for the first time, seriously examined Supervisor Cornelius.
That BOSS, having not fed on blood for hundreds of years, had been cursed and lost its sanity, its appearance becoming as ferocious as a beast, and it only roared like a beast.
But Eivass remembered that its hair was red.
Good heavens, so it was you!
So you old thing are still alive after more than three hundred years!
—On the other side, for some reason… Supervisor Cornelius felt a chill.
He shivered and politely bid farewell to the distinguished guest: “Then I shall take my leave, Miss Beyad.”
“Goodbye.”
Beyad smiled at him.
After Supervisor Cornelius left, she turned back to Eivass: “What do you want to do now?”
“I want to eat something.”
Eivass’s eyes suddenly lit up: “Meat! I want to eat some meat…!”
—It was only eight o’clock in the evening, and the ritual wouldn’t end until tomorrow morning.
She had just slept for a whole day, eaten some fruit afterwards, and drunk alcohol on an empty stomach. She had also been drained to near death by Beyad’s blood-sucking.
Although her life force had been replenished now, she was also starving.
And she was genuinely curious about what kind of food people in this era usually ate.
Let’s grab something to eat before heading back the way we came—perhaps we’ll catch one or two people then.
That way, they wouldn’t have to reach the end and tragically kill each other.
I’m such a good person, Eivass thought.
“…You’ve been hungry for so long, is eating meat suddenly okay?”
Beyad seemed doubtful, and also worried.
She recalled Eivass’s previous words about “being my master,” which had unsettled her.
After thinking for a moment, she took Eivass’s hand: “We have plenty of time. Let me take you for some soup.
“That was… a shop I really liked when I was still human. She might like it too.”
“Okay…”
As Eivass agreed, he suddenly realized something else.
—Wait, am I leaving Crescent Moon Manor directly now?
Twin Mirror, just how large a space did you create with Amber?!
As expected of a Pillar God of the Path of Beauty, creation is all about perfection…
Today’s update is over seven thousand characters! Third update, meow~
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