novelonline Chapter 2904 Doctor's Ceremony
Chapter 2904 Doctor's Ceremony
Chapter 2904 Doctor's Ceremony
Destroying other people's graves and corpses is certainly not morally right. After learning about the story of Jindel and the dragon beast, Shad didn't want to do it. But whether he wanted to or not was not related to whether he did it or not. Before Emilia finished the war of time, he had to find a way to eliminate the targets corresponding to the four chairs:
"No problem. That dragon beast is weaker than both the demon and the Watcher. If it hadn't always come from another time and therefore couldn't be completely killed in our time, it would have been eliminated long ago.
But don't do anything now, let's see what the church can find in the black dragon's lair. There must be a reason why it was chosen. After losing its wisdom in a deal with the devil, what did the ancient tree see in it? "
The arrival of the Great Witch of Fate meant that, in addition to sisters Audrey and Megan, all eight Great Witches familiar to Shade were already present. And having an extra skilled fortuneteller by his side would be very beneficial for the next action.
To welcome Bella's arrival, everyone held another party on the boat that evening, and even Miss Danister came to meet her.
The Countess originally planned to come last weekend, but because someone witnessed a giant dragon near the Moon Bay, the church intervened and needed her, as the chairman of the city council, to cooperate in cutting off the spread of the news, so they were delayed for a day. This time, in addition to herself and Matilda, she also brought a whole team of professional fortune-tellers, which greatly supplemented the current team's shortcomings.
However, Xia De could not stay at the party all the time. The doctor planned to start his ceremony at ten o'clock in the evening, so he had to set off for the woods after eight o'clock.
"I will ask everyone about you and Flora later."
The blonde countess said before Shade left, gently clinking the wine glass in her hand with Shade's, her golden eyes full of smiles:
"Or, if you have time after you come back tonight, would you like to take a walk with me? I haven't seen you for so long, and I have a lot of things I want to tell you."
As the month of Dead Leaves draws to a close, the weather is getting colder by the day, and the wind whistling in the woods at night already feels like the biting winter wind. It is now the 27th day of October, and this Saturday will be November.
As Shade walked through the woods, he was not thinking about the winter plan but the Red Butterfly Day, which was on Friday. However, Emilia would definitely be back this week, and the matter in Vista Woods was coming to an end, so the Red Butterfly Day would probably have to be postponed.
The moon looks particularly big tonight. The sky, which was gloomy during the day, clears up at night, allowing people in the forest to clearly see the brilliant sea of stars and the huge yellow moon.
When Shad saw Dr. Schneider's cabin again deep in the woods, the doctor was standing at the door of the cabin and looking up at the moon.
"Good evening, doctor. What are you thinking about? Are you worried about something that happened later?"
Xia De asked, holding the sword, and the doctor sighed slightly:
"It's been almost half a month since I left Tobesk. I miss that city a little. I admit that the air in the woods is better, but this is not a familiar place after all. Come on, I'm ready, let's start the ceremony now."
But he said to Shade in advance:
"After the ceremony, I will return to Tobesk soon. So I won't be able to help you directly until I am fully recovered."
This means that once the ceremony is held, Shade will be missing a key fighting force.
"It's okay doctor, you'll have plenty of opportunities to help me in the future."
Xia De didn't care much about this. If the doctor's problem was not solved, it would be a time bomb if he kept it around:
"Let's get started now and hope everything goes well."
The doctor had cleared a large space in front of the cabin. After he summoned the wind to sweep away the fallen leaves and dust on the ground, Shade saw a total of thirteen strange symbols forming a huge circle.
Just a glance at those thirteen symbols made him feel like his eyes were polluted. Xia De frowned slightly:
"Are these the marks of the thirteen demons?"
"Yes."
So Shad tried to find the mark representing the "Demon King". After all, that was the original demon in the legend, and maybe it was related to the demon in the fable told by his friend Mr. Sean Asmon.
But the amazing thing was that although there were only thirteen marks on the ground, and Shad was able to match twelve of them with the demons the doctor had mentioned and that they had encountered together, he was unable to identify where the thirteenth mark was.
This is a cognitive problem, not that the stranger has Alzheimer's disease. He looked at the doctor again in confusion, and the doctor explained:
"In an unknown era, that terrifying existence was divided into different parts, and its existence itself was hidden to prevent it from being revived due to too many people knowing about it. Therefore, any symbols and written records related to it will show similar unobservable phenomena."
"So if one day people find that they can know its stories and legends through reading, it means that it has awakened, right?"
Xia De confirmed, and the doctor nodded with a serious expression:
"That's the theory, but that's after it wakes up completely. Before that, you will definitely find that something is wrong with me. Let's not talk about this. Did you bring the Demon Hunter's Notes?"
"Brought it."
Xia De handed over the book with a black cover. The book would not show its power unless it was opened, and even a doctor could touch it.
"Okay, now use your Night Watcher to carve the symbol of the hunter in the center of the circle formed by those demonic symbols."
The doctor continued to instruct, and Shade continued to do so. While he was busy, the doctor summoned more wind to completely clear the nearby ground, allowing the ritual array that he had spent a whole day carving to appear completely under the moonlight.
This ritual array was more complicated than what Shade had seen on the parchment when he visited last week. Its main core was the thirteen symbols representing different demons, and the other secondary ritual cores on the ground corresponded to all the spirit runes on Dr. Schneider's current life ring.
In other words, this ritual simulates his life ring.
Complex rings were nested one by one in the form of grooves on the ground, eventually forming a dazzling pattern. The blasphemous demonic language constituted the overall framework of the ritual, and in terms of ritual symbols, the doctor took out the demonic materials he had accumulated over the years of hunting demons.
Most of these dangerous things were related to demons that had been hunted in the past. Even those that were burned as firewood by the nuns had retained part of the demon's form.
Each kind of demon has a corresponding one, and for the most critical demon, the material provided by the doctor is the "golden roasted rabbit meat" from last night, which is a part of his own soul.
Apart from the witcher symbol drawn by Shade in the center, the entire ceremony is full of various traces that are strongly related to the devil. This is because the focus of the ceremony is to obtain the "devil".
After Shad finished drawing the symbol, even if nothing happened, the hunter symbol began to glow faintly just because of the thirteen demon marks around it, and even caused the "Night Watchman" that had not reacted yet to emit silver light in the scabbard.
After everything was ready, Xia De retreated to the door of the cabin, and the doctor gave his final instructions:
"A lot of things could happen in a moment, and I can't say I've thought of all the possibilities. Anyway, the most important thing is, if I can't control myself and my body shows signs of transforming into a demon, you kill me. I'm not kidding, if I really lose control completely, it will be too late by then."
"Doctor, although you have always had bad luck, there will always be a time when your luck will improve."
Shade comforted him, and Bill Schneider smiled bitterly, holding the book in his hand and walking from the edge of the huge ritual array to the center. The glowing hunter symbol certainly made him, who had demonic power, quite uncomfortable, but after a little patience, he still stepped onto the symbol surrounded by the demonic mark.
He did not look at Shade again, but looked at the starry sky for the last time. When he lowered his head, black mud spread from his feet to the ground, and soon covered the circle surrounded by thirteen demon marks.
After covering up the witcher's mark, the gurgling black mud began to slowly infect the faintly glowing demon mark, and then spread along the complex ritual patterns to the entire ritual base.
The scene under the moon was silent, but the surrounding light gradually dimmed as the process progressed. A thick black cloud appeared in the clear night sky, and in the blink of an eye, the cloud completely covered the three moons.
After the moonlight disappeared, there were more whispers in the surrounding woods, as if there were many people hiding around the clearing, peeking and talking in low voices.
In the center of the ceremony, after all the ritual lines and symbols were activated by the black mud, the black mud flowing out of the doctor's body turned upward and wrapped him up. This step was to connect him with the ritual on the ground.
The black mud or pus eventually formed a "cocoon"-like structure, and Xia De saw clearly that before the cocoon was about to completely seal the doctor inside his chest, the doctor's right hand made a gesture of opening a book.
Then the wind stopped completely, and the only sound here was the gurgling sound of mud flowing along the grooves on the ground and the whispers. Shade tried to distinguish what those voices were saying, but all he could barely hear were timid curses, painful curses and crazy nonsense.
These sounds were not loud, but Xia De felt a little stuffy at this moment. The atmosphere seemed to be getting more and more oppressive, until even he instinctively just breathed softly, as if he was afraid of disturbing something.