Chapter 86

The so-called "interruption-style" ritual magic means that when a Beyonder is holding a ritual, it can be interrupted according to the situation, complete other things first, wait until it is finished, then return to continue, and still get the desired effect.

This is a skill derived from the thousands of years of development of ritual magic. After all, many high-level rituals require many steps, which may take an hour, two hours, or even half a day to complete. It is difficult to ensure that no one disturbs the process. , no accident happened.

After the blood and tears of the ancestors, and after repeated failures, ritual magic that can be "interrupted" has become the mainstream at the high level, and indirectly affects the low-level part.

But being able to "interrupt" does not mean that you can interrupt whenever you want, and you can interrupt how you want. You must follow the theory of esotericism and master the corresponding skills. A terrifying backlash.

According to Klein's understanding, when you successfully gain the attention of a certain god, while he is waiting for you to say the content of your prayer, you suddenly say "Wait, I'll go to the bathroom first", then congratulations, you Never need to go to the bathroom again.

Phew... Klein sighed and kept himself calm.

Although he has held many "transportation ceremonies" and designed corresponding procedures for Justice and The Hanged Man to try, the real ritual magic that meets the regulations is the first time he has practiced it today.

Looking at the silver cane leaning against the edge of the bed, Klein picked up the third candle and placed it in the center of the desk to symbolize himself.

Immediately afterwards, he put the small silver bowl for Selena's ceremony in front of the third candle, instead of the cauldron with the holy emblem. It was a dish of salt, a small silver dagger, a piece of parchment paper, and a quill dipped in water.

Fortunately, Selena's things are relatively complete, otherwise there is really no way to complete the arrangement, and the fast ritual of Old Neil is not something that a "diver" can do... In this way, Selena is a more senior mysticism A lover... um, not a senior, so I can't get into such a disaster... She is only sixteen years old, she has been in contact with this for at least a year... Who led her to get started? Klein's thoughts flickered, and he picked up Selena's cup from the bedside, poured in clean water, and placed it next to the coarse salt.

He took out his pocket watch, snapped it open, and glanced at it. He didn't delay any longer. He sketched layers of light balls in his mind and quickly entered into meditation.

Suddenly, an invisible wind swirls in the room swaying with the fragrance of flowers. Klein, who had put away his pocket watch, suddenly turned dark, from brown to black, as if he could see the soul of everyone watching.

He stretched out his palm, touched the candle in the upper right corner, and said in his heart:

"Goddess of the night, you are the Lord of Crimson!"

In silent meditation, Klein extended his spirituality and rubbed the candle wick. After several times, the candle was lit abruptly, and the dim yellow light was filled with a slightly tranquil light blue.

"Goddess of the night, you are also the queen of adversity and fear!"

According to the method just now, Klein successfully lit the second candle in the upper left corner.

"I am your faithful guardian, a shield against danger in the dark, and a spear piercing evil in silence!"

Teng!

The third candle that symbolizes Klein begins to burn.

In the candlelight without the slightest flickering, he picked up a silver knife, imitated Old Neil's behavior, and completed the sanctification with incantations, coarse salt, and clean water.

Then, he let his accumulated spirituality spurt out from the tip of the silver dagger and merge with nature.

With a silver knife in hand, Klein walked around the bedroom (where the bed was, he used his knees instead of his feet), allowing an invisible barrier to seal the place.

The light of the street lamps outside the window disappeared instantly, but the crimson still shone quietly.

Klein returned to the desk, picked up the quill, and used spirituality and ink to draw incantations and symbols to avoid disaster.

After doing all this, he put down the things in his hand, and dropped a few bottles of hydrosol, flower essence and essential oil into the three candles.

Noisy!

A faint mist filled the air, and the room suddenly felt a little more mysterious.

After burning several herbs in turn, Klein took a step back in the mixed fragrance and recited the incantation corresponding to the "interrupted" ritual magic:

"The goddess of the night, higher than the starry sky, longer than eternity;"

"I pray for your favor;"

"I pray that you will favor one of your faithful followers."

"I pray for the power of crimson;"

"I pray for the strength of adversity and fear;"

"I pray that you will free your faithful believer Selena Wood from the contamination of evil and the entanglement of calamity."

"I beg you, wait a moment, for the unfortunate girl."

...

"Moon flower, the herb belonging to the red moon, please pass the power to my mantra!"

"Deep Sleeping Flower, the herb belonging to the red moon, please pass on the power to my spell!"

...

After reciting the mantra, Klein closed his eyes and repeated it seven times in his mind.

Seeing that there was nothing abnormal on the altar, he held the silver dagger again, and stepped back step by step to the door of Selena's bedroom.

He tapped four times on his chest to draw a crimson moon, then turned around and raised the silver dagger.

Spirituality spewed out from the tip again, cutting the shape of a door on the invisible wall.

Klein knew that at this time, even if he opened the door himself, it would not affect the tranquility and holiness of the altar.

He took out a silver pocket watch with arabesques, checked the time, and rehearsed the next steps.

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In the living room on the second floor.

From time to time, Elizabeth, whose body was trembling slightly, looked up at the wall clock and counted the time silently in the light of the two gas lamps.

Almost there... While she whispered silently, she turned her head to look at the lively girl with long wine red hair, who had deep dimples and a bright smile, and could chat well with everyone around her.

But the more this happened, the more terrified Elizabeth felt. The cold and terrifying "Selena" in the mirror seemed to have always existed in her mind and was hard to forget.

Can't wait any longer! Must act! Elizabeth suddenly stood up, and in the surprised eyes of everyone, she stammered and said:

"Selena, me, I have a surprise for you, for you, go out with me."

"Really? Didn't you give a birthday present?" Selena held the mirror upside down and stood up in surprise.

"The surprise is, no, there won't be any, any signs." Elizabeth felt that she had no talent for acting.

She didn't say any more and walked to the door of the living room first, with Selena following behind with a puzzled smile.

Melissa watched the two friends leave, her brows furrowed unconsciously:

Elizabeth is so weird today...

After she met Klein, it became even more strange...

She suddenly ran out just now, saying that she was in a hurry to go to the bathroom, but why did she look so flustered...

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Selena's bedroom door.

Elizabeth took a deep breath and said to the girl in front of her:

"Let's go into your room."

"Elizabeth, I feel you are very nervous and scared, why?" Selena looked at her friend puzzled and found that her body was shaking uncontrollably.

"Excited, yes, excited!" Elizabeth glanced at the mirror in Selina's hand, turned her body halfway, and knocked on the door, one long and two short.

"Why are you knocking on the door..." Selena was even more at a loss.

Squeak, her bedroom door was opened, and Klein, wearing a black tuxedo and a half-high silk top hat, appeared in front of the two girls.

"Surprise? This is a surprise?" Selena's mouth was half open, her head was confused.

At this moment, Klein suddenly reached out, grabbed her wrist, and pulled her into the room, seeing Elizabeth froze in place.

At the same time, Klein pointed out the silver dagger, sprayed his spirituality, and quickly filled the door-shaped passage that was cut out.

The invisible spiritual wall sealed the room again, hiding Selena's scream inside.

boom!

Klein slammed the door shut, and hurried back to the desk without even looking at Selena.

The burgundy long-haired girl stopped screaming, raised her head, and looked around the room.

Her eyes quickly turned cold, her skin was a little pale, and her fingers quickly grew sharp white nails.

At this time, Klein had already returned to the state of meditation. He dropped a drop of the essential oil extracted from the moon flower to each of the three candles, and recited aloud:

"O Supreme Crimson Lord, great Queen of Doom and Fear;"

"I beseech thee to descend upon you;"

"Bless your lost lamb Selena Wood!"

In the sound of the incantation, he picked up the imitation parchment and brought it to the candle symbolizing the supplicant.

Woo!

He felt the gloomy wind behind him, and felt the heavy force coming.

The parchment was ignited, and Klein threw it into a small silver bowl.

Woohoo!

The sound of the wind became extremely intense, and Klein felt that his spirituality surged out like a tide, and he couldn't contain it at all.

He saw the parchment in the small silver bowl burn into a quiet deep black, and heard the movement of a heavy object falling to the ground behind him.

thump! Pong Dang!

In the two voices with almost no gap, strands of black and green invisible gas were thrown into the silver bowl and disappeared into the hallucinatory darkness.

Klein half rolled to the side, got up and pulled out the revolver under his arm, but he stared and saw Selena, a cute girl with long wine red hair, fell to the ground, and the silver-plated mirror fell on the blanket into countless pieces.

And those fragments no longer reflected Selena, and they honestly presented the ceiling and Klein's silhouette.

At this time, Klein, who did not turn off his spiritual vision, saw that the evil black and green in Selina's aura had all disappeared, and everything had returned to normal, but it seemed much weaker.

Phew... As soon as he was relieved, he felt a tingling between his eyebrows and a tingling in his head.

The stinging pain spread all over his body, making him want to roll all over the floor.

Klein's fist clenched suddenly, and the blue veins on the back of his hand stood out one by one, all black in color, like a moving worm.

At the same time, he heard a silent cry, a murmur that tore his own spirit.

After a full ten seconds, he slowed down, only to feel cold sweat on his forehead and vest.

"The ritual magic just took time out of my spirituality and almost made my extraordinary power out of control?" Klein roughly judged the situation.

And this incident also made him realize that he seemed to have digested a lot of residual spirit in the potion, because if he calculated according to the initial strength after taking the potion, he felt that he couldn't hold on just now, and he would collapse directly into a monster.

The "acting method" is still very useful... Klein tapped his eyebrows and wiped his sweat.

He turned to face the altar, tapped four times on his chest, and said aloud:

"Praise the goddess!"

Then, he extinguished the candles one by one and quickly cleaned up the altar.

After putting the items back on the desk at will, he used the silver dagger to lift the sealed spiritual wall.

Woo!

The wind reverberated and the silence faded. Klein breathed a long sigh of relief, feeling deeply afraid of what had just happened:

"If I hadn't rehearsed the process and successfully completed the ceremony, things would have been troublesome... and I still don't know who the opponent is, who the enemy is... Fortunately, um, luckily, the room is carpeted , my tumbling didn't damage the clothes..."

He shook his head and probed open the wooden door of Selena's bedroom.

"How is it?" Elizabeth asked nervously, taking two steps back.

Klein looked at her scared look, took off the half-height silk top hat, and said with a gentle smile:

"I've corrected her mirror divination mistakes, and the matter is resolved."