Shepherd's Secret Covenant
Chapter 325

The Child of the Moon Is Full of Treasure (Third Update)

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Sister Sasha was not a dancer of the Constant Self, but a nun of the "Banquetor".

The Banquetor are a very small number of Constant Self apostles, dancers, lovers, and followers.

He was neither human nor elf, but a dragon.

All the blood of the Child of the Moon originates from the Banquetor, which is why the Child of the Moon are also known as the Child of the Dragon. They possess the characteristics of immortality and the ability to devour phantoms to grow stronger.

Sister Sasha was the mother of the first Child of the Moon.

She was both the servant of the Banquetor host and the Banquetor's lover.

She received the blessing of the Constant Self and gave birth to the first Child of the Moon Child of the Moon, who possessed both dragon and divine blood—not through a transformation after death, but from birth.

However, although Sister Sasha was the mother of the progenitor of the Child of the Moon, she was ultimately just a follower of the Apostles.

This is why, even though her sons later became "Blood Angel," she was still worshipped as a "nun" and did not receive a separate title or prayer.

After all, since Blood Angel chose to become a Celestial instead of an Apostle, it means that He still has a rebellious desire—after all, a Celestial can compete for the position of Pillar God, while an Apostle cannot.

—Of course, it's also possible that it's simply because Constant Self didn't want to accept him.

Generally, special beings like this are not allowed to be publicly worshipped.

The church typically only allows the worship of the Nine Pillar Gods and their direct apostles. Although the priests of various paths, their apostles, and their followers also exist in the Dream Realm, they are almost never on the church's list of priests. Only a few exceptions receive a more favorable attitude.

However, unless absolutely necessary, the church will not publicly ban these churches—provided that they worship a real god in the Dream Realm, rather than a money-making organization with a fabricated name.

The main reason is the fear of offending God. The reason for not worshipping them is the uncertainty of which apostle or Pillar God has a bad relationship with them; while the reason for not banning it is the worry that some apostle or Pillar God might have a very good relationship with them.

This is like speaking ill of someone, but that person's friend's friend might be your boss; and another of their friends might be your boss's enemy. In this situation, helping isn't an option, and not helping isn't an option either... The church can only try its best to maintain a neutral stance.

Therefore, these small churches that do not send pastors to the Nine Pillars God Church, but are not prohibited or banned, are called "Secret Society" and exist in a gray area of canon law.

The gist is that you can just keep to your own little world and enjoy yourselves. As long as you don't cause any major trouble, we won't interfere.

After her death, Sister Sasha became a phantom of the two paths of "love" and "dedication".

The level 50 endgame set for the priest's advanced class "Torchbearer" is "Sister Sasha's Holy Banquet".

This set of equipment can also be used by the Radiant Ones—and Iver, who possesses the Shepherding Method, is even more suited to this set of equipment than ordinary Torchbearers.

The core effect of the Sasha Set is a series of effects that are triggered when the wearer loses their own life to buff or heal others.

Iver wanted to follow his teacher to dig up graves because he wanted to get his key equipment from those ruins that regularly produced set pieces.

Because this set of equipment is unlike Lily's set... it has already been made and just buried.

The Sasha Set is actually the sanctified remains of Sister Sasha. These remains can be directly attached to clothing, sanctifying it into a Deep Purple cloth armor set.

The hand accessory for this set is called "Offering of Pure Wrist".

Sister Sasha's hands were placed on a plate and offered at the Theresa Abbey.

Those were a pair of hands that had been cut off from the wrists. They were the last things Sister Sasha had taken from her body, after her eyes, feet, and skin.

Even more than three hundred years later, it remained fair, slender, and elastic, and even had warmth.

Sasha was of a very low level as a transcendent being; she ascended to the Dream Realm through Self-Sacrifice. Her remains left behind on Human World were also sanctified through her act of sacrifice.

The effect of [Offering of Pure Wrist] is that when the wearer loses their own life to buff or heal others, their next touch action becomes "Saint's Touch," with the amount of healing increasing the more life lost. If this free healing is not released within a certain period of time, the buff will be corrupted into "Vampire's Touch," which allows the wearer to draw life force from others to replenish their own through contact.

The vitality it replenishes is directly proportional to the vitality consumed during this cycle.

With the complete Sasha Set, the Torchbearer can form a cycle, instead of healing himself to near death and then suddenly dying from an area-of-effect attack.

... Beyard had already led him to find something good before he even left the Promotion Ritual.

This can be considered an unexpected surprise.

But thinking about this, Iver suddenly realized something else—

He truly didn't know that Theresa Abbey was connected to the Crescent Moon Manor, but now he knew how to open this Secret Door...

Does that mean that if he had already opened the wind and Earth Attribute mana pools when he came here, he could also open the Secret Door and enter the Crescent Moon Manor in his time and space?

Although Iver didn't know where Crescent Moon Manor was, he did know the location of Theresa Abbey!

As a gathering place for the Child of the Moon, Crescent Moon Manor must contain some good stuff... Maybe even vampires hiding from the war and their treasures. If there are any sleeping vampires, you can wake them up one by one and kill them to gain experience.

The ashes of the resurrected Child of the Moon can then be used by Iver to Card Making. If a Child of the Moon of Fourth Level or higher can be captured alive, their blood can be extracted to create valuable potion ingredients—witches of Fourth Level or higher can mix the Child of the Moon's blood with unicorn blood to create a New Life Ointment that can restore vitality to the weakened bodies of the elderly or sick. If mixed with the blood of a werewolf of the opposite sex, it can simultaneously create an aphrodisiac and aphrodisiac potion.

Although Iver is not short of money, these are things that money can't buy. They would also make a good gift.

In the chaos, Theresa Abbey had long since been reduced to ruins, where various undead still roamed. And the final boss of this instance was a Fifth Level, out-of-control Child of the Moon.

Although these vampires are considered strong among those of the same energy level, this guy is quite anemic. Therefore, he can't use many of his abilities, and even Fifth Level priest could easily purify him in a one-on-one fight.

... Wait a minute? Iver suddenly realized something, looked up, and for the first time seriously examined Supervisor Cornelius.

The boss was cursed and lost his sanity because he hadn't drunk blood for hundreds of years. He became as ferocious as a beast and could only roar like a beast.

But Iver remembered that its hair was red.

Good heavens, it was you!

So you're still alive after more than 300 years, old man! — On the other side, for some reason... Supervisor Cornelius felt a chill.

He shuddered and politely bid farewell to his distinguished guest. "Then I shall take my leave, Miss Bayard."

"Goodbye."

Bayard looked at him with a smile.

After Supervisor Cornelius left, she turned back to Iver and asked, "Is there anything you'd like to do now?"

I want to eat something.

A light suddenly shone in Iver's eyes. "Meat! I want to eat some meat...!"

—It's only 8 p. m. now, the ceremony won't end until tomorrow morning.

She had just slept for a day, and when she woke up, she ate some fruit and drank alcohol on an empty stomach. Afterwards, she was drained of blood by Bayard until she was on the verge of death.

Although her vitality has been restored, she is almost starving to death.

And she was indeed a little curious about what people in this era liked to eat.

Let's eat something first and then go back the way we came—maybe we can catch one or two people then.

That's fine, then we won't have to let them suffer the pain of killing each other after they've reached the end.

"I'm such a good person," Iver thought to himself.

"... You've been starving for so long, is it okay for you to suddenly eat meat?"

Bayard was both skeptical and worried.

She was still thinking about what Iver had said earlier, such as "be my master," and was therefore somewhat unsettled.

She thought for a moment, then took Iver's hand. "There's still plenty of time, let me take you to get some soup."

"That was a shop I really liked when I was still human. She might like it too."

"Good..."

As soon as Iver responded, he suddenly realized something else.

—Wait, did I just leave Crescent Moon Manor?! Twin Mirrors, how big of a space did you create with Amber?! As expected of the Pillar God of the Path of Beauty, your creations are all about perfection...

Today's update is over 7,000 words! It's the third update, meow~ Also, I'd like to recommend a friend's new book, which is supposedly a cat romance novel. It makes me, a Little Cat, feel really conflicted about recommending it...

Honey Princess's new book, "Why Talk About Love When You're Raising Cats?"—Ai Qing, who had no intention of dating, is faced with the sudden transformation of her cat, which she had raised for a year, into an adorable cat-eared girl. What should she do? (Single female lead, sweet romance novel)

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