novelonline Chapter 2902 Demon Summoning
Chapter 2902 Demon Summoning
Chapter 2902 Demon Summoning
"Rejuvenation without cost? This is much better than the time curse. Vanessa, you actually encountered such a good thing?"
This is what the little witch said when she went to visit the bedridden Duchess. She was not teasing, but was really envious. After handing the teacup to Tifa beside the bed, she touched her face while speaking:
"How come I haven't encountered such a thing? Look at you, Vanessa. Not only is you the first witch among us to be promoted from the twelfth level, but now you have even become the youngest witch of our generation. And you are still unhappy about this?"
So the Witch of the Earth herself didn't know what emotion she should maintain.
As it happened that today was Monday, Shad planned to visit the forest elves to get gifts and complete the ceremony in the woods.
Normally, demon summoning rituals need to be completed late at night, and many even have strict requirements that they must be completed at midnight. However, after Dr. Schneider's modification of the safe version of the ritual, it must be completed within two hours around noon, and that's why Shade dared to really try it.
The riots of the high-ring warlocks did not affect the life of the elf lady who was taking care of the unicorns and chocobos in the woods. No matter how special she was, she was still far away from the thirteenth ring, and Shade doubted that she had enough time to resist and become immune to this effect.
"I wonder how Emilia is doing now."
When Shade saw the elf lady teasing the unicorn from afar in the woods, he sighed again.
Behind him, in addition to the four "pure girls" who were to help with the ceremony, there were more than a dozen girls from the middle ring and three girls from the high ring.
Vanessa followed closely behind Shade, with her long braids almost reaching the back of her knees. She changed into a fitted skirt, but it was not provided by Ajelina. Although Ajelina's height could not be compared with Leisia's, she was at least 1.6 meters tall.
The skirt she was wearing was made by Flora using transfiguration to shrink normal women's clothes. Flora must have had a hard time holding back her laughter at the time.
Although the pointy-eared elf seemed to be far away from any force, she also knew about the riots this morning and even knew that Aunt Qisala was not affected.
When Shad invited the younger Vanessa to get this week's gift, the elf asked Shad with a smile:
"Everyone has experienced their childhood, and many people miss that carefree time, but why do people become unhappy and troubled once they really turn from adults into children?"
"Because the happiness of childhood comes from ignorance of the difficulties of life. Once you grow up and understand more about life, what people miss is not that age, but the mentality of not worrying about the present and the future."
Shade tried to explain, and the blonde girl, who was sitting on a wooden chair on the platform outside the tree house with her feet unable to even fully touch the ground, stuffed something in her hand to Shade with an unhappy look on her face;
"You should give this to Ajelina Cavendish."
The "gift" she received was a palm-sized doll with changeable clothes. The doll was made with exceptionally fine workmanship, with pivots on its head, waist and limb joints so it could move. Its golden hair seemed to be made of real human hair, and the clothes it wore were genuine silk products. This was a toy that only girls from aristocratic families could own.
As for the price of this "gift", Vanessa needs to give this gift or other treasured toys to other people within this week, so she gave the doll to Shad.
And she felt that this toy would make her feel even more uncomfortable when she recalled this incident many years later.
After the joke, the elf girl recommended a place to Shade where the ceremony could be held. So after leaving the tree house, the group continued walking in this "inaccessible forest area" under the leadership of Shade. After passing the tree hole where the statue of the ancient god was hidden, they saw the open space mentioned by the elf.
This piece of clearing was not formed in the dense forest due to human factors, but even the elf girl couldn't explain why it was the only bare place.
"You don't have to know everything about this forest."
That's what she said at the time.
It was 9:30 in the morning, very close to the two hours before or after noon, so everyone hurried to prepare for the ceremony.
As for why Shade brought so many people, it was to arrange divine rituals to "purify evil" and "confine negative energy" outside the demon summoning ceremony to prevent the demon summoning ceremony from ending up in a mess.
Therefore, the peripheral ritual arrangement is much more complicated than the ritual given by Dr. Schneider.
"In fact, there is nothing wrong with directly using human blood. There are even legal ways for the government to obtain human blood."
When Shade was thawing the frozen sheep's blood, the 1.5-meter-tall blonde witch was still talking on the side. She was the only one who didn't have to do anything, just cooperate with Shade for a while.
"We need to try to reduce the impact of this ritual. I'll find the sacrifice."
The "wish demon" itself is not a demon that particularly requires flesh and blood, so the sacrifice to summon it should be something related to the soul, or at least a "treasured item", such as jewelry worn since childhood or the hair of a favorite person.
But the doctor did not ask Shad to provide real human hair or cat hair. He knew that there was a Moon 9 card [Demon Soul Stealer Bishop] in Shad's deck. This card was perfect as a ritual offering, and the doctor guaranteed that the offering could be taken back after use.
In short, human blood was replaced with sheep's blood, Rhodes cards were used as sacrifices, and although the ritual base was still in the shape of an inverted pentagram, a circle was drawn with the Night Watchman outside the pentagram to encircle it as a whole, and then the circular marks on the ground were filled with sheep's blood, but about 5% of No. 3 holy water was added according to the doctor's instructions.
After everything was ready, especially after other peripheral rituals were confirmed to be okay, Vanessa, Miss Bell, Miss Swift and little Miss Aurora each put on a black robe and hood, and then stood barefoot at the four tips of the pentagram, holding candlesticks of the same style in their hands.
"Darkness!"
"Darkness!"
"Darkness!"
The dozen or so girls who came with them cast a spell together towards the location where the four people were, and the bright light in the forest gradually dimmed until only four ever-burning candles were left to illuminate the deep darkness around them.
In the deep darkness, Shade stood at the bottom tip of the inverted pentagram holding his Rhodes card. After bending down and placing it in the center of the pentagram, he recited a passage in demon language that all the girls present could not understand but made them feel particularly uncomfortable after hearing.
The demon language of ancient times is itself a kind of "blasphemous whisper", and Shad added the "real name" of the demon in the doctor's hands. If this was not noon but real midnight, what would follow would probably be the plot of a traditional horror story.
The blasphemous words successfully activated the ritual, and the candle light on the candlestick held by the pure girl quickly turned black. The red sheep's blood on the ground was originally in a semi-solidified state, but after the summoning spell was recited, it all turned black and then dried up.
A colorful smoke suddenly surged up from the ground below the Rhodes card. The colorful smoke floated high into the sky, and the shadow of the blue giant appeared in the smoke without any warning above the ritual array:
"Who wants to make the wish come true? It's you."
After not seeing him for more than half a year, the demon still looked the same. It floated high in the dark sky, with its arms folded in front of its chest, not looking at anyone else, but just looking down at Shade. The skin on its upper body was all blue, with gold and jade jewelry on its fingers, arms, ears and even nose, and the lower body was an amorphous colorful smoke:
"It seems that not only can I not get the souls of these girls, but I can't even get this sacrifice."
Although it looks quite arrogant, its tone of voice is quite normal:
"Before you say the first word, I want to know if it's you who's looking for me, or your friend?"
"I was looking for you through my friend."
Seeing that the other party had no intention of taking action, Shade did not signal everyone to activate the counter-ritual. He looked up at the giant spirit. The other party's projection state did not trigger too many whispering elements, and the "Visual Demon" could only see faint black traces:
"I still want to ask you some questions this time. Do you know where I am now? I want to know what's going on here."
"The ritual you set up disrupted the time and space of my clone. Of course I can't track you. You don't need to test me."
It waved at Shade:
"What exactly do you want to know?"
"If you want to know about Vestal Glade, you know the Ancient One here, right? And you know how it 'distributes' tree holes to the mortals here. You got Kingsley's wisdom, don't say you forgot about it."
"Who is Kingsley?"
The giant asked curiously, and after thinking for a while, he suddenly realized:
“It’s that interesting dragon beast from hundreds of years ago.
I really can't remember the name right away, but that transaction can be considered the best transaction I have made in the past thousand years. However, you want to know about the respected ancient one."
It smiled:
"Of course you can, but this time it can't be a free inquiry. This is you making a wish to me."
"I won't make a wish to the devil, no matter what you say."
Xia De shook his head decisively and brought out the doctor's words:
"Tell me the answer, and I'll give you 4 ticks of the rare-level [Gluttony] sin."
Last autumn in the Mansion of Sins, Shade obtained the [Sloth] Spirit Rune by using the 4-tick rare-level Sin of Laziness. His total Sin of Gluttony was only 10-odd ticks—as of last autumn, so this was a big deal:
"It's not you and I who are trading, it's me and you. I will draw up the terms of the transaction, and if necessary, my friend can come and act as a notary."
PS: The ages 15 and 16 frequently appear in the previous chapter in order to avoid certain risks. Let’s just treat it as around or years old. This topic cannot be discussed in detail. Safety first.