Chapter 758
Corrupted Blood Angel
The Offering the Wings of Freedom that Eivass obtained earlier was the most crucial part of Sister Sasha’s Nun Set.
The most important “breathe to heal” function was located there… and this piece’s effect was a bit weaker.
Although it could also increase healing amount, its buff would only trigger “when this skill would cause self-harm.”
Rather than being used by a Priest, it would be more suitable for a Blood Mage. After all, not all of a Priest’s healing abilities required burning their own blood… but Blood Mages did simulate spells by burning blood.
As graduation equipment for a dual divine path, Alistair, who was now a Child of the Moon and possessed the power of the Path of Love, could naturally use it too!
…However, this Extraordinary Equipment seemed to have encountered some problem.
It was contaminated by some power, rendering its sealing effect nullified—that was the effect Eivass had unsealed in front of Hengwo for the Banquet Master while naked. This equipment should also have a similar sealing effect, which would merge with it once unsealed.
If Alistair remembered correctly, that effect should be “When I receive healing by any means, I will heal/damage a target ally/enemy I am currently focusing on.”
And after being contaminated by Alphonse’s ritual, this effect was essentially reversed, turning into a purely negative effect… It was unknown if it could be repaired.
If it could be repaired normally, it would no longer be two eyeballs hovering around Alistair, but would completely merge with Alistair’s eyes.
Just like Offering the Wings of Freedom, which was merged with Alistair’s lower back…
“…Huh?”
Suddenly, Alistair froze.
Merged with her lower back?
At that very moment, she suddenly thought of something:
When Loki split off his “son”… that is, during the battle where Eivass killed Loki… the embryo of the Perfect Being had launched a sneak attack on Eivass.
At that time, its attack was initially aimed at Eivass’s vital points.
But for some reason, its attack then inexplicably veered towards Eivass’s lower back…
If it had directly targeted Eivass’s heart at that time, its threat level might have been higher. But it was precisely this strange obsession with a kidney strike that caused Cardinal Loki to completely lose the initiative.
Because this equipment fit Eivass so perfectly, Eivass usually forgot he was wearing it, thus not realizing why that guy had attacked him then.
…And now, as a Child of the Moon, Alistair seemed to understand.
It wasn’t that the Perfect Being embryo had missed its target, nor was it that Cardinal Loki had deliberately aimed for Eivass’s lower back… but rather, Sister Sasha’s residual body held an irresistible allure for Children of the Moon. It couldn’t control its actions at all and simply fell towards it with infatuation.
That allure… was similar to the feeling Alistair had when she first saw Eivass and desperately wanted to suck his blood, feeling drawn to him.
—Like a demon charmed by the Shepherd’s Method, coveting to the point of obsession.
Alistair could finally understand those demons controlled by the Shepherd’s Method…
And perhaps because Sister Sasha’s eyes had been contaminated by the ritual, its influence on Alistair had decreased significantly. At least, it was far less of an obsessive infatuation than Alistair’s towards Eivass back then… After Alistair “obtained” it, the trepidation and excitement in her heart had subsided quite a bit.
She also seemed to understand what was going on with the broken crystal ball.
Presumably, Alphonse couldn’t control his recent inner impulses and couldn’t help but break a small hole, drinking some of the blood wine inside.
“…But why is it here?”
Alistair frowned deeply.
She knew where this equipment “should” have appeared—by accepting a questline from a Bishop of the Church, then running a Dungeon in the Daffodil Territory, after which this Dungeon would be permanently open.
She had even already come into contact with the key to that Dungeon—it was the young girl codenamed “Cheese” during Eivass’s first Ascension Ritual with Isabel.
She was a descendant of the last Monarch of the Daffodil Duchy, the Daffodil Duke, and a direct granddaughter of Dracula, the Moon Princess of Iris Flower… Lucia Tsepash.
As one of the very few Children of the Moon who still believed in Hengwo, she followed the purest principle—only drinking the “blood of the devoted,” meaning the blood voluntarily provided by humans who fell in love with her. Because of this, she had a status similar to the flesh of Tang Monk, considered a high-grade ritual sacrifice.
Or, in the words of a Child of the Moon… a high-level “fusion material.”
By fusing herself with her, one could obtain purer, more powerful strength.
After clearing the Dungeon where she was once kidnapped, and taking the “completion proof” back to the Church, the Bishop would give this equipment to the player—now that she thought about it, it should have been by purifying the “completion proof.”
“So his equipment was obtained from Leipzig, that makes sense…”
Alistair sighed, and instantly understood more things: “The ruin Dungeon with the Corrupted Blood Angel in the Daffodil Territory, which had no Child of the Moon appearing from beginning to end, would drop the last piece of the Sasha Set… It should be for the same reason.”
Of course, perhaps the Dungeon had plot hints, but Eivass’s Dungeon runs at the time prioritized efficiency—or perhaps it was because he was too considerate of others’ feelings, wanting to save their time, and dared not stop to watch any cutscenes.
During the very first Dungeon run, he skipped all the cutscenes. When the screen was black, he kept pressing ESC, fearing he would be the last to skip and be nagged by his teammates.
Alistair closed her eyes, feeling the fiery wrath, like strong liquor, gradually seeping in through her skin, and gradually understood everything: “So that’s what the Corrupted Blood Angel is… No wonder, no wonder it’s ‘Corrupted,’ no wonder it’s a Blood Angel…”
The birth of a “Corrupted Blood Angel” had only one possible origin from the very beginning.
Or rather, all the BOSSes that created “Corrupted Blood Angels” actually used the same recipe, the same material!
That was the corpse of Sister Sasha, the mother of the world’s first Child of the Moon, who had now been elevated to an Apostle of the Banquet Master, left in the Material Realm.
“Angel” was another term for Apostle, and Blood Angel meant an Apostle of the Blood Heavenly Envoy. And undoubtedly, these Apostles should appear in the Dream Realm, sharing power with the Blood Heavenly Envoy and ascending.
And these individuals clearly did not intend to seek power from the violent and irascible Blood Heavenly Envoy.
They fused the sanctified corpse of the Apostle of the divine Path of Love—the biological mother of the Blood Heavenly Envoy—with themselves, giving birth to a new self. And this “gestation and birth” itself could be considered an incredibly sacred ritual, equivalent to being reborn.
In other words, in terms of seniority, they could be considered the younger siblings of the Blood Heavenly Envoy.
Through this “blood relation”—which itself belonged to the power of the Path of Love—they could directly obtain His power from the Material Realm without the Blood Heavenly Envoy’s consent!
And Eivass was extremely familiar with this situation…
Without permission, and even without the other party knowing, deceiving the Heavenly Envoy to obtain the power originally intended for his own Apostles through a ritual, thereby gaining power that surpassed the common sense of the Material Realm.
—Wasn’t this the same principle as the Great Sin Cards!
However, compared to the Great Sin Ritual which openly sought money from the Fallen Heavenly Envoy, this “corrupting” ritual was slightly more conservative—because they dared not directly contact Sister Sasha, the Blood Heavenly Envoy, or the Banquet Master, they had to use the Mark of Sin to overwrite the traces of Sister Sasha’s sacred remains.
Simply put, it was to destroy the equipment’s attributes and turn it into a “material” that symbolized nothing but the “cost”!
These Extraordinary Equipments generally became purple-grade equipment due to their special connection with Apostles or higher divine beings. Destroying the attributes meant severing this connection.
Because this act was blasphemous, it was called a “Corrupted Blood Angel.”
…But according to Eivass’s information, all “Corrupted Blood Angels” had gone mad.
Perhaps it was because they lacked the level of Transcendent Path and could not bear the pressure of the Mark of Sin; or perhaps the Blood Heavenly Envoy discovered their trick and punished them; or perhaps they hadn’t fused with the complete “Sister Sasha” at all, or perhaps it wasn’t Sister Sasha, or not a part of Sister Sasha that possessed power.
—For example, that liver!
Because the sealing mode was identical, Alistair guessed it might also belong to Sister Sasha!
However, Sister Sasha disassembled herself into hands, feet, eyes, and skin, possessing a special divine meaning. But the liver did not have such symbolism. Yet, it could be sealed together in the same way… whose liver could it be?
Even after being sealed for so long, it still had vitality.
—To break its seal and come into direct contact with it?
This thought emerged in Alistair’s mind.
Then do it!
She decisively made up her mind without hesitation.
If it were Eivass, he might hesitate. But Alistair did not.
Moreover, Alistair realized something else—
“If I collect the entire Sasha Set, does that mean…”
“I can use the bone ash of a Child of the Moon to create a true ‘Pure Blood Angel’?”
She was different from these Children of the Moon… because she didn’t need to pollute these corpse fragments through blasphemous rituals. Instead, she could directly ask Sister Sasha for permission in person from Eivass, who was the Pope.
If she could accomplish this, it would undoubtedly become the most powerful Beast of Sin Alistair could obtain!
“…No, that’s not right.”
Alistair closed her eyes.
—That wouldn’t be “Alistair’s,” but “Eivass’s.”
Because…
At that moment, Little Crow suddenly looked at Alistair: “Hmm…?”
She inexplicably sensed… a fleeting trace of the “Jealousy” mark emanating from Alistair.
“…If I must use the bone ash of a Child of the Moon to complete all of this.”
Alistair’s pupils turned a hint of madness, red: “Then is there any Child of the Moon more suitable to be raw material than me?”
Who wants to steal my position?
—No one can.
(End of Chapter)
