Chapter 3173 Live Ceremony

"So, the Holy Corpse Crystal was created by Tunita?" Angel touched his chin and asked in confusion.

Luigi shrugged: "Whether the Holy Corpse Crystal was created by Tunita is hard to say. Maybe other Crystal Eyes have made Holy Corpse Crystals before, but this is a secret of the Crystal Eyes and outsiders cannot know it."

"The only thing that can be confirmed is that Tunita must have added the Holy Corpse Crystal to the building materials of Crystal City."

"In any case, Tunita and the Holy Corpse Crystal are closely related." Angel muttered: "Holy Corpse Crystal is a sensitive topic in the Crystal Eyes; and Tunita has an indissoluble bond with the Holy Corpse Crystal. So, the secret may really be related to the Holy Corpse Crystal."

At this point, Angel suddenly thought of something Luigi mentioned before.

The Holy Corpse Crystal is suspected to be related to the ability of inheritance.

And those who obtain the inheritance are generally young people of the Crystal Eyes.

Lita should be of the right age for inheritance.

Then Lita's matter, could it be related to inheritance? Is there any fatal danger in this inheritance?

Angel hesitated for a moment and spoke out his speculation.

After hearing this, Luigi fell into a trance...or rather, Gleipnir, who was far away on the other side, fell silent. After a long while, he replied through Luigi's mouth: "Your speculation is not far from the secret I know."

"Is it really related to inheritance?"

Angel frowned and was about to continue asking, but at this moment, a new picture suddenly appeared in the live broadcast room that had been in an "unchanged" state.

Everyone's thoughts were immediately attracted by the abnormal movement in the live broadcast.

All the patrolling guards in the ring fortress stopped, walked to the railing, and made a strange gesture in a certain direction at the same time.

The middle finger and thumb touched each other, and the other three fingers were raised, a bit like a "peacock head". However, it was two hands that made the "peacock head" gesture at the same time, and the "peacock mouth" was connected left and right, like a set of middle school gestures and curses.

"The uniform gestures, is this some kind of ritual?" Angel guessed that this might be a signal for the ceremony to proceed.

However, Luigi on the side shook his head: "It should have nothing to do with the ceremony. This gesture is called 'hand salute', similar to the human chest-touching salute, and is a basic etiquette for superiors."

As he spoke, Luigi pointed to a certain place on the screen: "Look, someone is coming here."

The place Luigi pointed to was a platform on the second floor of the ring fortress. A crystal eye tribe member who turned the crystal shell into a floating chair slowly floated to the platform and also floated into the live broadcast screen.

And the "hand salute" gestured by all the guards before was facing this person.

There is no doubt that this person should be the so-called "superior" in Luigi's mouth. At least, in the eyes of the crystal eye guards, this is a superior.

His appearance... In Angel's opinion, there is not much difference from others, except that the pupil in the single eye is a bit turbid yellow, like an elderly man.

As for his clothes, it is completely different from the obvious crystal armor of the surrounding guards. It is a very exquisite robe. Although the overall color is plain, it has very complicated lace.

"Who is he?" Luigi murmured in a low voice with some doubt.

However, the next second, Luigi's confused eyes became wise: "He is Cassata, an elder of the Crystal Eyes."

You don't have to guess that Gleipnir told him Cassata's name.

As for why Gleipnir knew Cassata... this is also simple. Fada is near Gleipnir. If you don't know someone, just ask directly.

"According to Fada, Cassata was promoted to elder six hundred years ago, but he has been in the forbidden area for many years and rarely appears in front of the public." Luigi paused and added: "Fada is also very confused. Why did Gleipnir suddenly describe Cassata's appearance."

Fada's doubts don't need to be taken care of. Fada is different from them. They can leave at any time, but Fada has lived in Crystal City for a long time. Knowing too much is definitely not a good thing for her.

However, Fada's description of Cassata made Gleipnir feel... "Puzzle" is here.

Cassata is in the forbidden area all year round, and the inheritance of the Crystal Eye Clan is also in the forbidden area.

The secret behind Lita is probably related to the forbidden area.

Cassata suddenly appeared in the outside world and came to a certain "ritual", which is highly consistent with the content vaguely revealed by Fada before.

It is entirely possible to suspect that Cassata may be the core figure in the "secret", or even the mastermind!

And the next ritual is very likely to reveal a corner of the secret!

In the live broadcast, Cassata came to the second-floor platform of the ring fortress. He did not look at other people, but silently watched the crystal dust that kept pouring out of the mirror at the bottom.

The gushing crystal dust has now covered the entire bottom of the ring fortress.

From the live broadcast, nothing can be seen at all, nor can the movement of the crystal dust be seen.

Cassata looked at the fog sea condensed by the crystal dust below, a faint smile appeared on his face, his mouth slightly opened, and he seemed to mutter something.

Because the distance was too far, although Angel saw him talking, he didn't know what he was saying. As for the lip reading... Angel couldn't decipher it either. Cassata seemed to be speaking the Crystal Eye tribe's own language.

Angel could only look at Luigi, who also looked confused and obviously didn't understand what Cassata said. But Luigi is not alone. Behind him stands Graipnir, and beside Graipnir stands Fada.

Gleipnir imitated the shape of Cassata's lips and asked Farda to recognize him.

Fada wasn't very good at lip reading, so she didn't interpret all of Cassata's words, but she still guessed a few scattered words through repeated simulations——

"...We're going to meet...old friends."

Taken literally, Cassata's words can be understood as: a reunion of old friends.

But, where is my old friend? Is it in that crystal dust... Angel still remembers that the crystal dust that first spewed out tried to condense the outline of a human form. Could this humanoid silhouette be Cassata's old friend?

But if the human silhouette is Cassata's old friend, why did he meet him in this way?

Moreover, the guards said before that a certain ceremony was being held in the ring fort.

If it is indeed a ritual, and the result of the ritual is - Cassata's old friend appears.

In other words, the result of the ceremony is "great transformation into a living person."

There are only three rituals that Angel can think of that have this result: the transmission ritual, the summoning ritual and the descending ritual.

The teleportation ritual, as the name suggests, is to teleport Kasata's old friends back from a distant place. This possibility is low, because the transmission ceremony will inevitably produce spatial fluctuations, and spatial fluctuations will definitely affect the quality of the live broadcast picture transmission. Nowadays, the live broadcast picture is stable, which means there is no spatial fluctuation.

Summoning rituals are commonly used by summoning wizards to summon creatures from other worlds. The summoning ritual requires the use of special summoning objects, either blood, sacrifices, or contracts. So far, no obvious traces of summoning have been seen.

Advent ceremony, this ceremony is very partial and is forbidden in the Southern Territory. It is prohibited by the extreme sect. The major wizarding organizations did not refute it, because this ritual is often associated with "gods".

Wizards only pursue the truth and do not believe in God.

All the gods with traces of activity in the Southern Territory are either the Abyss Evil God, the Savage God, or the Outer God of the Druna Plane... In short, there are no good gods. The reason why they appear in the Southern Territory is either because they covet the world or because they covet the law of energy.

The humans or fallen wizards who are tempted by them will extend the tentacles of the gods to the southern region through the advent ceremony. For this reason, advent rituals are often associated with "evil" and "depravity."

Will Cassata use Advent rituals here? Angel thought it was unlikely. After all, now that all the races in the Southern Territory gathered in Crystal City, would the Crystal Eyes have the courage to offend all the major races?

Although the Jingmu tribe is not weak in the White Sun Mirror Domain, it is still far behind the top races like the Mirror Dragon.

There was more than one Mirror Dragon participating in the party. The Jingmu clan would never dare to do anything crazy at this time.

From this perspective, it seems more like a summoning ceremony?

While Angel was guessing silently in his mind, Cassata suddenly took out a crystal scepter. Under the watchful eyes of all the guards, he raised the scepter high.

The guards closed their eyes and muttered something.

Each guard's words were different, and now there was no chance of lip reading. After all, there were hundreds of guards at the scene. Even if Gleipnir could remember everyone's lip reading, he didn't have time for Fada to interpret them one by one.

As the guards chanted, it could be clearly seen that the surging sea of ​​crystal dust and mist at the bottom began to shrink rapidly.

It was like an inflated water balloon being forcibly pressed flat.

Angel couldn't analyze why this happened just from the live broadcast.

However, Laplace on the side suddenly said: "There is a force involved in this 'ritual'."

Angel looked in surprise: "Can you feel it?"

Although Laplace has mastered the mirror, the mirror is in the mezzanine space after all. Can she sense energy fluctuations in reality in the mezzanine space? Could it be that this energy is mixed with the nature of space?

Laplace shook his head: "I didn't sense it from the mirror, but I sensed the Crystal City under my feet. At that moment, there was a slight transfer of energy veins."

In other words, Laplace did not perceive energy fluctuations from the ring fort. Instead, he directly sensed the energy veins of the entire Crystal City!

This... Angel has nothing to say, he is indeed a boss.

Can't learn from it, can't compare.

After sighing, Angel revisited Laplace's words: "So, the energy of the ring castle ceremony comes from the Crystal City itself?"

Laplace nodded.

How does Crystal City provide the energy needed for the ritual? Angel doesn't know the answer to this question.

But he knew that Crystal City contained the Holy Corpse Crystal, and the Holy Corpse Crystal was the core clue of all secrets... This ceremony seemed to be connected to the Holy Corpse Crystal.

One link follows another, and the links are interlocking. All the clues point to one place, so it’s no wonder that Gleipnir will watch the live broadcast remotely.

The picture is still going on, and the crystal dust is still shrinking. Now, the crystal dust has condensed into a humanoid outline.

This humanoid outline is almost exactly the same as what Angel first saw, but now the outline is more solid, and his facial features can even be seen.

He has one eye, a pointed nose, thin lips, long ears like an elf, one of which has a golden earring, and a head of thick transparent crystal hair.

This is exactly what the Jingmu clan looks like.

He is Cassata's old friend?

Half a minute later, when all the crystal dust was absorbed by the newly appeared crystal-eyed person, he slowly opened his eyes.

His eyes were slightly confused, and he looked around, as if he had not yet realized where he was.

Until he raised his head and saw Cassata, his eyes gradually recovered from the dazed and scattered.

He seemed to recognize Cassata, with a trace of doubt in his eyes.

His thin lips opened slightly and said a word.

Angel still didn't understand the lip reading. He looked at Luigi, who made a "rest assured" gesture to him, which meant that Gleipnir had already started the lip reading "test" with Fada.

When Fada interpreted the lip reading, some changes appeared on the live broadcast screen.

Cassata did not chat with the newly appeared crystal-eyed person, but waved his sleeves lightly, and the other party fell into the elliptical mirror under him.

When the crystal-eyed person disappeared completely, Cassata shouted loudly.

Following his shout, the Crystal Eye guards who had been muttering with their eyes closed opened their eyes.

Cassata waved his sleeves again, probably saying something like "the ceremony is over", and then turned and left the ring fort.

The guards looked at each other at first, and then looked at the mirror on the bottom floor at the same time. When they saw that there was no crystal dust near the mirror, a trace of doubt flashed in their eyes.

From their expressions, it can be seen that they did not see the newly appeared Crystal Eye people, nor did they know what the final result of the ceremony was.

Although they were participants in the ceremony, they did not know the specific content of the ceremony, which was consistent with what the guard said before.

At this point, both Cassata and the Crystal Eye people condensed by crystal dust had disappeared, which meant that the live broadcast had come to an end.

Angel and Laplace looked at each other.

Without discussion, they acted at the same time. Laplace destroyed the mirror of the interlayer space, and Angel wiped out the illusion node.

After doing all this, not only did the live broadcast end, but it also meant that all previous traces were destroyed, and no one would find out that they had ever peeped at the Ring Castle ceremony.

Although the live broadcast was closed, the aftermath was not over yet.

Two minutes later, Luigi looked up and said, "Fada has read the meaning of that lip reading."

--How... have you become older?