Mystery: The Last Shepherd

Chapter 395 Backhand
Loon, offshore area outside Prydz Harbor.

In the dead of night, a giant sailing warship lay silently on the sea. The sea breeze blew, stirring up waves, yet it miraculously maintained its balance amidst the waves, without any turbulence.

The giant ship was empty except for a man and a cat on the deck, celebrating the New Year under the moonlight.

"Is this your first time seeing the sea? What do you think? Do you like it?"

Bernadette Gustave, the "mysterious queen," rested her chin on her hand and asked the black cat opposite her.

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Luna remained silent, offering no response, but instead met her gaze with her azure eyes.

"Alright, don't worry so much, your master will definitely survive." Bernadette smiled silently, picking up a piece of bright red fish from the plate on the table beside her. "Come on, would you like to try a specialty of the Sunia Sea, freshly sliced ​​flying fish?"

"Hey!"

Luna suddenly widened her eyes and opened her mouth wide, making a strange sound.

"Oh? Sorry, you don't like it?"

Bernadette was startled and quickly put the fish down, but the black cat's vomiting didn't stop. Its back arched high, its abdomen twitched, and it made strange "hiccup" sounds from time to time.

The Queen calmed down a bit and noticed Luna's appearance; it looked like she was spitting out a hairball.
"Clap."

Just then, the black cat finally spat something out of its mouth—a piece of bright red flesh.

"Zizzi."

The piece of meat, blown by the sea breeze, suddenly began to swell and stretch!
"Ok?"

Bernadette's bright eyes flashed with surprise as she watched the flesh wriggle and grow rapidly. In the blink of an eye, it had grown from a small lump of flesh into the size of a normal human, and this human body was radiating a powerful spiritual energy!
However, the mangled body struggled violently, rolling around on the ground as if it were being tortured by pain.

"Boom!"

A piece of pale white rib was forcibly squeezed out of his body and landed on the deck.

"Clang!"

A strange picture frame also fell from his back, facing upwards.

"Clap, clap."

Two tarot cards, one depicting the devil and the other the chariot!

"Ahhh."

However, after expelling several strange objects imbued with spirituality, the humanoid figure, seemingly stripped of its skin, continued to howl in agony, filled with madness. Suddenly, a deep, rust-like red color appeared on its blood-soaked surface!

The deep red color instantly covered his entire body, giving him an aura of iron and blood!
"Stop!"

The queen's expression was stern. She waved the black cat aside and summoned invisible servants to open the door to the treasure vault.

She didn't know what Lu Ze had gotten himself into, but judging from the intensity and level of its corrosive power, it was definitely no ordinary thing!

"crunch-"

The treasure vault doors suddenly opened, and she took out a pale mask with a metallic sheen and put it on. The mask had holes only for the eyes, making Beldina appear noble and aloof, yet lifeless.

The masked queen coldly gazed at the mangled body on the ground.

"Heh heh, little girl, do you intend to kill him too?"

A bloody mouth cracked open on the surface of the body, chuckling softly, "He just survived a life-or-death crisis; he can't withstand this."

Before he could finish speaking, the bloodied human body covered his mouth with its hand.

"Do it!"

He forced out a word through gritted teeth, enduring the pain.

The Queen did not hesitate; her gaze, deep within her eyes, was utterly cold and pale, and in an instant, the rusty color on the other's body was suppressed. But equally, a terrible death descended; large patches of flesh on his body lost their vitality and peeled away. "Whoosh—"

The illusory sound of ocean waves echoed within him, expelling Medici's soul, which reluctantly retreated, shrinking back into the lamb pen within his body.

"huh, huh"

The mangled body gasped for breath, slowly recovering. Skin and hair grew back; it turned out he wasn't a monster at all, but a handsome young man with black hair.

—Lu Ze transformed his flesh and blood into a red robe, covered his body, and then slowly stood up.

He looked around and saw a vast starry sky, a red moon hanging high, and a deep, tranquil sea that reflected the stars like a mirror. Huge sailing warships floated on the sea, yet appeared as small as specks of dust.
One moment he was struggling amidst the ruins of the palace and a sea of ​​blood, the next he was on a magnificent sea.

It felt like a lifetime had passed in an instant.

"No wonder you asked me to keep your cat safe. So this was your backup plan."

The Queen had removed her mask and looked him up and down, saying, "So, you've avenged those people?"

"It wasn't really revenge. I did my best, but all I managed was to bombard the palace and barely reach that damned king, splattering my blood on him."

Lu Ze paused for a moment before speaking.

"Bombard the palace, attack the king?"

A strange light flashed in the Queen's eyes. "Have you gone this far?"

Lu Ze simply shook his head.

This time, he clearly felt his own weakness.

We still need to continue to become stronger.

"Meow~"

Just then, Luna ran over, nuzzled against his leg, and meowed incessantly at him. Luze bent down and scooped her up, and she stayed obediently in his arms, just staring intently at him, as if afraid he would disappear again.

"What is that thing?"

"My cat, Luna."

"No, I mean the entity inside you."

"Oh, that one."

Lu Ze stroked the black cat's smooth head and casually replied, "They are the evil spirits that turned into after the deaths of the three hunters: Medici, Sauron, and Einhorn."

"??"

The Queen spent some time figuring out the details about the evil spirits.

"According to some hidden history I know, the Medici family was a great noble family in the Solomon Empire during the Fourth Age. Their ancestor was an angel, and their origins may be traced back to even earlier times."

She said cautiously, "One day, this ancestor of the Medici family disappeared. And after that, the Blood Emperor Tudor, at the cost of half-madness, became a true god."

The Queen's eyes shone with a light, as if she were looking across time at a distant era.

Become a god?

Luze's memory flashed back to the hallucination he had witnessed—the simultaneous death of three hunter angels; it seemed they had indeed become sacrifices for his ascension to godhood.
As for the Blood Emperor and the War of the Four Emperors, he didn't study them much.

"So, are you now able to completely control this evil spirit?"

"The Queen asked."

"Unfortunately, there are some difficulties at the moment."

Luzer replied, “As you just saw, He is not yet my lamb.”

(End of this chapter)