Chapter 658 Ceremony

It was midsummer, but the nights in the northern suburbs were still very cool. A group of people gathered in the open space behind the house, lighting candles, drawing magic circles and placing sacrifices - the scene looked like a cult gathering. Seeing Lily busy there, Hao Ren couldn't help but sigh: "This allows outsiders to see us tossing around with these things. Who do you think will come earlier, the mental hospital or the police?"

"It's a mental hospital." Nangong Wuyue stood on one foot and shook his upper body gently, as if he couldn't avoid the habit of being a snake even if he turned into a human form. "Anyway, if I were an ordinary person, if I saw a group of adults with serious faces, If you want to summon a vampire, I will definitely call the mental hospital first..."

Nangong Wudi suddenly sighed: "I didn't expect that a demon hunter would come here to participate in such a thing. In the past, this was the evil spirit of a demon."

"Why are you talking about this?" Lily turned around and complained rudely, "You've already married a monster, so don't continue to be aloof."

Lily continued to fiddle with the summoning circle as she spoke. She got some quicklime from somewhere and drew a crooked five-pointed star array on the ground. The more Hao Ren looked at it, the more unreliable it became: "Do you think this thing can work? Four of the five corners you drew are crooked...is the remaining one rounded?"

"As long as it's what you want," Lily said with a happy face, "The sacrifice has been placed, and then we just need two people to bleed it!"

Hao Ren looked at the sacrifice Lily placed on the tip of the five-pointed star suspiciously: "Where did you get these things? Are they reliable?"

"Of course it's reliable. I collected them all myself," Lily pointed to the things around the summoning array. "The leaves of the mistletoe are specimens made when I traveled outside. I grabbed the bat teeth in the wild. The limestone is good. , the ashes of the woman’s hair are my own—it’s so distressing.”

Hao Ren listened in a daze, and suddenly remembered that the summoning items also required the fur of a black goat, but he looked for it on the magic circle and only saw a small leather boot: "...the black goat agreed upon Where’s the fur? Where did these shoes come from?”

Lily: "These are my shoes. Anyway, the shoe seller told me that they are made of goatskin... I thought there should be no difference between goatskin and black goatskin."

Elizabeth, who came over to join in the fun, was stunned for a moment. The little girl covered her face: "It would be damned if she could summon things."

Nangong Wudi continued to sigh: "If all the wizards in the world are like her, how much effort will the demon hunters have to save..."

Hao Ren was also a little worried about this magic book experiment. He was afraid that this magical book would really summon some messy things - although it was not a threat, it was still a trouble. But after seeing Lily's rigor, he immediately felt relieved. With this husky's experimental attitude, even if she went to the city center to lay out such things, she would only be able to summon the sanitation department...

"Let me take a look," Lily took Hao Ren's arm and glanced at the illustrations in the magic book again, "Well, the placement is fine, the magic circle... it feels like that, and so does the moon. The full moon...oh, the conditions have been met, landlord, let's try the ceremony?"

Just as Hao Ren was about to step forward, Nangong Sanba beside him couldn't help but ask: "Are you sure you really want to do this kind of summoning ritual with unknown origin?"

That magic book may seem more like a farce to others, but in the eyes of the witcher, it is no joke. This kind of heresy handed down from the dark ages of the Middle Ages records truly forbidden knowledge. The names of devils and gods almost always correspond to a living alien or their remaining power in the world, and those seemingly absurd rituals often produce very troublesome effects. Hundreds of years ago in Europe, there were many kingdoms and castles that were destroyed due to the misuse of magic books. There were even several large-scale "natural disasters" related to such magic books. There are also some nobles or heretical scholars who are obsessed with hidden knowledge, and their souls are invaded by the evil spirits resident in the magic book when they open it. This kind of thing is difficult to prevent.

Hao Ren shrugged: "What do you think Lily can summon with this ridiculous summoning ritual? Not to mention that this thing was originally used to summon Vivian..."

Nangong Sanba thought it was right, so he remained silent.

Hao Ren and Lily stood on both sides of the magic circle as the book said. Lily bared her teeth and looked at her finger: "It's really bleeding... I suddenly feel so bad."

"It doesn't matter to me anyway," Hao Ren had already closed part of the shield and reduced the tissue strength of some limbs in preparation for bleeding. "It only takes three drops of blood."

Lily groaned and bit her finger. At the same time, Hao Ren also bit the tip of his finger.

Blood dripped on the ground. Hao Ren turned to look at the summoning circle beside him. The crooked five-pointed star showed no movement: "It looks like it didn't succeed. I'll tell you that all the things you prepared are nonsense."

Lily raised her finger and shouted, "That's because it's grown before my blood even drips!"

A circle of people watching the excitement were suddenly stunned. Hao Ren twitched the corner of his mouth: The werewolf's physical recovery ability actually showed its power at this time!

"Try again?" Lily swung her tail excitedly, "I'll bite harder this time!"

Hao Ren tried her again, and it turned out that the husky couldn't control her regenerative power at all. She bit a hole and her teeth had already grown before they even came up. This situation was so dumbfounding that Nangong Wuyue couldn't help it. I couldn't help but mutter: "It's a problem for you to make a blood alliance with someone."

Lily looked at her hand blankly, suddenly gritted her teeth, turned around and ran back to the house to get a straw: "The landlord will try again! This time I put a straw in after biting it, I don't believe I can live here longer!" "

Hao Ren suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and quickly pushed the crazy husky aside and turned to greet the others: "Would one of you try for her? Otherwise, this husky will really have a tube inserted into her body."

Nangong Sanba looked around and stood forward consciously: "Then it seems it can only be me."

The regenerative ability of the half-baked demon hunter is finally not as evil as that of the "werewolf", and the last step of the summoning ritual is finally completed successfully. However, after the third drop of blood fell to the ground, the summoning circle was still quiet, no magic appeared, and no other supernatural phenomena visible to the naked eye occurred. Of course - Vivian was still in the room.

"It doesn't work?" Lily looked at the magic book over and over, "There is magic in it, it can't be fake. I heard from Bat that those wizards were unreliable in other things, except magic. The books contain ineffective spells because they rely on this to maintain their reputation."

Yzaks crossed his arms and shook his head: "It would probably be more effective if you drew the four corners of the magic circle exactly... They all become wavy lines. Do you think you can draw the magic circle freely?"

"Could it be because the ritual requires human blood to be used for summoning?" Lily was still holding the magic book and thinking hard. She was determined not to admit that the magic circle she drew was too abstract and caused the failure. "Let's try it with two humans. ?”

Hao Ren looked around and was shocked: He found that he couldn't find even a human around him!

There is only a zoo of monsters and monsters left in my house...

"This..." Cold sweat broke out on Hao Ren's forehead, "We have all kinds of weird things here, but there are no humans."

"Forget it," Lily lowered her head regretfully and handed the magic book to Hao Ren. "Let's wait until we go to the hospital to get two bags of plasma."

Hao Ren felt that none of the Husky's ideas tonight were bad, but considering it was the night of the full moon, he didn't force Lily to maintain her intelligence and logic. He reached out to take the magic book and flipped it through twice casually: "Tsk tsk... the book is real."

He didn't notice that he was currently standing in the center of the summoning circle, and when the magic book was opened, the brightest moonlight on the full moon night happened to shine on the illustration depicting the scene of "Summoning the Blood King" .

A thin cold air suddenly rose on the page, and then a strange red color appeared in the gaps between the pages and quickly spread outward.

The summoning ritual did not fail, it just lacked one necessary condition: placing the book in the focus of energy!

Now, it's launched.

(Still updating in advance...I've been extremely busy these days.)