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Chapter 4031 Lemaître
Chapter 4031 Lemaître
The three great witches examined the retrieved ring and confirmed once again that it was indeed an ordinary item.
However, when the ring facet coincides with the center of the symbol at the bottom of the coffin, it immediately activates the mark at the bottom of the coffin as a ritual symbol, thus enveloping the entire coffin in an alchemical ritual array that radiates intense spiritual light.
Neither Xia De nor Wei Ge were alchemy masters, so when they saw a similar alchemical ritual array last time, they could only marvel at how amazing it was.
But Megan was also in the cemetery at this time. Although Miss Edwards did not specialize in alchemy, their alchemical skills were on par with those of the Great Witch of Creation, Granny Cassandra, in the guild.
"Wei Ge, is your mother really that amazing?"
The witches cast spells to conceal the aura and elemental fluctuations, and Megan exclaimed in admiration:
"To be honest, given the complexity and ingenious design of this alchemical ritual array, my current alchemy skills may not even be comparable to your mother's."
This was high praise, but Vigor was not proud of it. She was simply supported by Adele as she watched the coffin, along with the fake corpse inside, melt and reconstruct within the alchemical ritual array.
The small amount of tissue removed from the corpse did not affect the ongoing alchemical ritual. According to Megan, the person who arranged the ritual had clearly considered that the corpse and coffin themselves would decay over time, and therefore had pre-planned for potential loss.
"The person who set out this ritual probably prepared for at least two hundred years before anyone would inspect the coffin."
The alchemy ceremony lasted a full ten minutes. After the light of the ceremony disappeared, what appeared before the four witches was not the small box from last time, but a black stone tablet.
Moreover, this time, the ring that Miss Pavo mentioned was not consumed during the forging process.
The stone tablet itself is made of ordinary material; the back features a complex diagram of human anatomy, while the front contains text written in Carseliki.
The Philosopher's Stone is the final path; it cannot be synthesized in the Sixth Era, and this path is blocked.
The Philosopher's Stone is earth, and the spark is fire; this marks the beginning of the primordial creation.
The "Perfect Child" experiment has been successful; the child has split into four and now awaits its return.
[Find the "Perfect Child" to awaken him; this is the only cure for my daughter and her descendants' ailments.]
[The beginning of life is also the end.]
There were five sentences on the stone tablet, and Shad Cat only learned the contents by Miss McDonald reading them aloud in a low voice.
Of the five sentences, the first sentence states that the Philosopher's Stone could not be completed in the Sixth Era. This Ms. Lemaître, who had studied the synthesis technology of the Philosopher's Stone, obviously discovered this problem, which is why she changed her research direction.
Xia De had the shallowest understanding of the second sentence, only knowing that it probably said that the Philosopher's Stone and the Spark of Life could work together to create something very powerful.
Judging from the third sentence, it seems that the "Perfect Child" that Shad learned from Piwu has truly been born, only to be divided into four, but there seems to be a chance for him to return.
The fourth statement suggests that the return of the "Perfect Child" would cure the severe condition that Vige and her descendants suffered due to the [Jade Record]. Of course, Vige is a great witch, so she will not have any offspring.
As for the fifth sentence, others may not understand it as well as the second sentence, but Luvia with long hair said something similar in her dream (3960), and there is a similar sentence on the fragments of the vampires' poems brought by Mr. Bernhardt (3954).
Thus, Vigo's mother, the alchemist Peggy Nicolas Flamel, is now officially connected to the story of the tenth chosen one.
Whether she, who is believed to have passed away 25 years ago, clearly knew about the "Whispering Verses" and the tenth chosen one is unclear to Shad. But if the Church's understanding of the requirement to "create something" truly is the creation of life, then Vigo's mother seems to meet the requirement.
"So, is this person really dead? How could someone who split into four be resurrected? Is the search for that perfect child some kind of resurrection ritual for Vigo's mother?"
As Shadcat pondered this, the witches also carefully read through the stone tablet, but did not discuss it here.
"Let's go back."
Seeing Vige staring blankly at the stone tablet, Adele said softly that they could talk about the contents of the stone tablet later.
Wei Ge nodded gently, and then the girls who accompanied her restored the cemetery to its original state. Although Wei Ge's mother's coffin had disappeared, the body inside was not a real body, so it could be reburied when a real body was found later.
After experiencing a rollercoaster of emotions tonight, Wei Ge remained silent the entire way home.
Adele, Bella, and Megan all looked at her with concern, but none of them offered any words of comfort. The three witches shared the same thought: they all wanted Shad to comfort her later, as Shad was very good at doing such things.
However, on the way back, another accident occurred.
By then, the group had already traversed the narrow path along the cliff face and returned to the upper city of Arcadia. There were no carriages for tonight's journey; everyone was on foot. A group of young women walking together so late would be conspicuous, so Adele and Megan used illusion magic to avoid causing Viggo any trouble.
Even so, it seemed as if Vige was just having bad luck tonight. Just when they were only a few hundred meters away from returning to Fragrant Residence, and could even see the mansion under the moon in the night, a figure suddenly crashed through the gate of the "Royal Bank of Carsonrick" on the east side of Scholar's Square.
But it wasn't a bank thief; it was a "person" whose entire body gleamed with a silver metallic sheen. In the moonlight, the head, body, and limbs of this over three-meter-tall "person" were clearly square.
Upon closer inspection, the so-called "person" was assembled from bank safes of varying sizes, with black metal tubing binding the different safes together. The silver luster of the safes under the moonlight gave them an almost mithril-like texture.
But it didn't "escape"; it was simply blasted out of the bank.
At this moment, the witch and her party were less than twenty meters away from the bank entrance. Adele, who was walking in front, had been listening to Megan explain that "fire" and "earth" in alchemy symbolized the spirit and the body, respectively, but now they all stopped.
The "safe aggregate" lay on the ground at the edge of the square, its body crackling with silver arcs of electricity, which temporarily immobilized it. However, the ever-opening safe doors on its body were drawing in the arcs of electricity, and it was rapidly recovering.
From inside the bank's main gate, which had a large hole in it, the two sides engaged in combat also came into the moonlight. There were five ring mages in total, clearly divided into two groups.
The smaller group consisted of two people, Eighth Ring and Ninth Ring. Both of them were radiating a golden light that Xia De and Wei Ge were very familiar with, but that light was definitely not the aura of the Miracle Element.
"【Holy Son Alliance】?"
No one knows the exact number of members in the Holy Son Alliance, but their members are generally of a high rank.
As for the other three, one has a nine-ring ring and two have seven-ring rings. Two of them have demonic eyes in their right eyes, and the third is still using the "Demon Eye Technique."
"[Magic Eye Club]?"
Both sides were preventing the other from approaching the activated safes and were prepared to evacuate at any moment. Although they had stopped the sound of something breaking through the bank doors, no one knew whether a group of church ring mages would rush out from the street corner at any moment.
None of the five dared to use their full strength, but when they fought, the momentum was still astonishing.
The "Infant Mother" from the [Holy Son Alliance] did not appear this time. The two people wielding the strange golden light had probably taken the special potion mentioned in the letter from the [Jade Alchemy Association] to Vige.
Although they were outnumbered and lacked external tools like the Magic Eye, they were almost completely dominating the three members of the Magic Eye Club.
Shad Cat was still being held by Miss McDonald and standing in the crowd, with other maids who knew the truth helping to block his view, so he couldn't see the battle in front of him.
However, in his perception, both of the two relic eyes, which were both at the level of the Guardian, were inexplicably severely weakened in effect when faced with that strange golden light.
During his last battle with the Holy Sons Alliance, Shad only felt that the golden light enhanced their power and magical effects, without experiencing much suppression. However, it was clearly Shad's unique advantage; the power from the "Vessel of Hatred" gave the Holy Sons Alliance's ring mages an absolute advantage in battles of the same level.
With enhanced magical effects, increased self-resistance, and weakened opponent's power, the three members of the [Magic Eye Club] were clearly struggling to hold on. Shad even sensed that the two magic eyes were about to go out of control.
But at the same time that the five people on both sides were fighting, the safe assembly successfully contained all the electric arcs jumping on the surface of the body into the safe.
The square-shaped "humanoid" staggered to its feet and then tried to flee into the distance, indicating that it possessed a certain degree of intelligence. None of the five people engaged in the battle intervened, presumably thinking that they could retrieve it quickly once the fight was over.
But things happened so strangely tonight. Adele hadn't intended to get involved, but the "safe aggregate" just happened to run towards the witch and her group who had stopped in their tracks.
Although Adele dislikes causing trouble, as a thirteenth-tier Great Witch, she is absolutely not afraid of anything:
"stop!"
As she cast her spell, the veil of illusion was drawn back, and a group of more than ten people appeared at the edge of the plaza. The safe aggregate was also a monster activated by the "distorted life spark." Like the "life aberration" that Shad had encountered, it had little resistance to time and was directly frozen in place by Adele's time-stopping technique.