Chapter 649: Grow with Light, Get Pregnant with the Moon

Evans pushed open the unlocked door and followed the flow of magic in the room to find Lily kneeling in the bathtub.

The bathroom was filled with white mist and rolling heat waves.

That was the ritual called "Lightless Egg".

In order not to disturb Lily's ritual, he did not go out directly.

Aiwass touched the emerald green gem on his chest, and the whole person's breath turned into nothingness. His body became transparent in the blink of an eye - when he stepped into the bathroom, the moonlight directly passed through his body and sprinkled directly on Lily's back.

The broken glass fell on the ground next to the bathtub. Lily's white back was carved with complex and simple patterns.

A little bit of blood was flowing down her back, but it dyed the whole bathtub red. There seemed to be no water in the whole bathtub, only the surging blood sea during the new moon ritual, and it was emitting visible heat, and the steaming white mist made Lily's skin red.

The moonlight was like frost that froze everything, trying to cover the wound and stop the blood from flowing down.

She was sobbing softly, making a tiny, barely audible cry.

Her hands seemed to be washing something, trying to grasp it in front of her, but she seemed unable to catch it.

Aiwass took two steps forward and saw what it was.

He was immediately shocked.

——It was a "baby" that was about to be born from Lily's body. It did not look like a human baby, but a bloody piece of meat with a vague human shape.

Lily's hand did not want to wash anything or strangle it. Instead, it wanted to pull the baby out of her body.

If it were normal, this level of dystocia would probably kill the baby.

However, the vitality in Lily's body was constantly being absorbed by the baby - its bloody body surface was growing skin quickly, and it was growing at a speed visible to the naked eye. The strong sense of powerlessness made Lily weak all over, and the baby was stuck directly on the way.

If this continues, the "baby" will probably completely suck Lily's vitality and then crawl out of the withered skin.

Such evil nature... but there is also a strange divinity.

Is this the secret of the egg moon?

After the new moon blooms fully, it withers and turns into a second new moon...

But Aiwass knew that he couldn't let Lily go on like this - this kind of ritual involves secrets, no wonder she didn't want Sherlock to guard her for her.

"... You should tell me," Aiwass slowly emerged from the void, feeling a little helpless for Lily's stubbornness and silence, "If I had known earlier, I would have asked my sister to come. Or let Mrs. Grace come to watch... Do you need my help to pull it out?"

He didn't dare to treat Lily yet - the blessing might interfere with the ritual, and his healing ability was too strong, and he might heal the ritual array behind Lily. This might also interfere with the ritual and bring unnecessary danger to Lily.

Aiwass's sudden appearance did not scare Lily.

Perhaps she had sensed the appearance of Aiwas long ago, or perhaps she had known Aiwas would come long ago.

She just raised her head weakly and looked at Aiwas, her body sweating profusely. However, her thirsty lips slightly opened, half of her tongue stuck out, and her scarlet pupils revealed some silent desire.

Is this... to drink water?

No, that's not right——

Aiwas felt a familiar feeling from Lily to the scarlet pupils.

...It was like the desire of the shadow demon.

Perhaps it was because Lily had signed a contract with the shadow demon.

Lily now had the same reaction as the shadow demon on the way back from Eagle Point Village——

...Is it a phantom demon?

Lily had mentioned before that she wanted to drink Aiwas' blood during the ceremony.

This might work...

So Aiwas thought so, and picked up the bloody ritual knife that Lily had dropped on the ground.

His right hand directly grasped the ritual knife——the blade pierced the skin, deep into the bone, and blood dripped.

A strange, intoxicating aroma like fruit wine filled the bathroom. Even Aiwass himself was stunned for a moment.

He saw Lily's pupils become empty in an instant, and her body trembled and twitched violently.

Aiwass put his palm to Lily's mouth.

He looked at Lily with a motherly and gentle gaze, and whispered: "Drink, drink...

"Drink my blood, and do not sing or speak."

He whispered softly: "This is our secret, the mark of sin..."

Aiwass's vitality is too strong now, and the cut wound heals at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the blood dries up first.

So he simply turned his right hand over, palm facing up.

Aiwass picked up the ritual knife and stabbed it into his palm - then slowly pulled it upwards.

Blood splattered, and the flesh cracked.

The bright red marks bloomed like a tree, spreading out wounds and lines diagonally upward.

The blood turned into dewdrops and dripped down from top to bottom. It landed on the tip of Lily's nose and then dripped down into her mouth.

Lily quietly licked the blood dripping from Aiwass's middle finger, like a tender lamb.

Aiwass took a deep breath, injected his magic power into it, and recited the secret words passed down in the shepherd's secret sutra:

"I am the Holy Communion..."

"--This is mercy."

As Aiwass chanted, the already bright red lines on Lily's body became even more charming.

The baby connected to Lily was originally looking at Aiwas with its eyes open, using its strange dark golden pupils.

When Aiwas started the pastoral care method, she struggled hard and crawled out of Lily's body.

After she was completely out of the body, she began to grow rapidly - growing skin and hair, growing against the wind.

She drank the blood in the bathtub in big gulps, and when she grew to be like a little girl of seven or eight years old, she lay directly on Lily. Lily still had a hollow look in her eyes and was silent.

Like a kitten fighting for its mother's milk, she squeezed over with her eyes open, making a sharp cry like a cat, swallowing Aiwas's blood. Her pupils gradually began to lengthen and become more strange.

Their umbilical cord was still connected, and the vitality was flowing back and forth repeatedly.

She soon grew into a black-haired girl of thirteen or fourteen years old, and Lily's blood pupils gradually faded and returned to their original gray color.

The little girl's eyes turned into blood-red rectangular pupils.

But what made Aiwas a little uneasy was... those were not human pupils, nor were they animal-like vertical pupils.

—— They were the pupils of a lamb being shepherded.

"Master, I am..."

The little witch on the path of love murmured indistinctly, and uttered the first words of her life in a childish voice: "I am... Selene.

"I am your lamb."

... Hey?

Wait...

Was there something wrong with the ritual?

Or, is this normal?

Looking at Lily who was still silent, Aiwas's anxiety reached its peak.