Chapter 121 New Moon Ceremony

Time flies, and now it is Sunday.

The attack scheduled by Lloyd's should be next week, the Noble Red Society has suddenly stopped, the death of old Professor Moriarty has not been heard, the Minister of Trade has not made any move, and Miss Assassin's superior has not come yet.

This is an unusually quiet and peaceful week.

It is even so quiet that Lily is a little restless.

But everyone is enjoying themselves, and probably the only one who feels uncomfortable is Sherlock.

His character is always restless. Usually, he relies on finding something to do to use his unstoppable brain. Now he has forced himself to take a vacation, and he can't make any noise - according to Haina, he is free to study spells at the bishop's house by the weekend.

He also asked Haina to bring back a long reply to Aiwas. It listed in detail the various problems that Aiwas might encounter at Lloyd's and how to deal with them; and proposed seven conjectures that could only be verified with the identity of Lloyd's, asking Aiwas to verify them when he had time.

From the number of words in this letter, we can see how much he cares about Aiwas and how much he is bored.

And Aiwas certainly has no time.

He had nothing to do, so he quietly attended classes for a week. He had to study mystical knowledge step by step through the school library. He didn't even use much experience, and he naturally reached level nine.

Aiwas was like a sponge, constantly absorbing knowledge. After reviewing his studies and reading the two books he had planned to borrow before, he began to learn Elvish in his spare time - because his prayer lecturer, Ms. Meiya, planned to lend him a secret book on the path of dedication, and this book was translated into Elvish.

In order to understand this secret book, Aiwas has already started to prepare in advance.

The only thing that surprised Aiwas was that Lily actually reached the peak of the first energy level in just one week.

Strictly speaking, it was even less than a week. She had already touched the second energy level wall on Thursday. Three days earlier than Aiwas expected in the best case scenario.

This means that this New Moon Ceremony can indeed be promoted together with Lily - after all, they are all in Avalon, and it is very rare to adapt to the path or transcend the path, which also means that they will almost certainly be together tonight.

And considering that Isabel has the key to the house at No. 14 Ronin Street...

Although the possibility is not great, considering the possibility that she will come to Aiwas to play on Sunday night, Aiwas still asked his mentor for a Monday holiday in advance, and took Lily home to prepare for the promotion ceremony and seal the Flame of the Rebellion Butterfly.

When they got home, Aiwas found that... the "Golden Dawn" that Master Janis had promised had been delivered and installed.

When Aiwas got home on Sunday morning, he found that the living room was so bright.

It was as if it was not a wall, but a huge window that spanned time and space.

Mixed with the crimson morning sun, the pure golden light rose from the center of the sacred building made of gold. The Nephthys guards of the Horus Empire were worshiping the sun right below. Their figures were very small and blurry, but they gave people a very real feeling. The light penetrated the many buildings made of crystal and gold around it, refracting repeatedly and shining with a hazy halo. Even though it was just a silent painting, it seemed that solemn praises could be heard vaguely.

This window gave people a wonderful visual error-it looked like looking out from the window, but at the same time it gave people the feeling of "looking from a level angle" and "looking down from the sky".

And when Aiwas came in from the door and walked forward, as the angle and distance he looked at the painting changed, the angle of the light in the painting, as well as the perspective relationship of the surrounding buildings and the angle at which they reflected light also changed.

The surrounding buildings are real and detailed, even a brick protruding from the wall and a small piece of gold paint peeling off are extremely clear. But if you look at the whole painting directly, you can seem to see a golden falcon flying in the blue sky from the brilliance repeatedly reflected by these sacred buildings and the layered sense formed by these buildings themselves.

This is the first time that Aiwas has seen "Golden Dawn" in reality. It is so sacred and glorious that Aiwas feels his mind becomes clear and peaceful just by looking at it.

Even people who don't know anything about art can understand the beauty of this painting. This is indeed the most pinnacle of the magic paintings drawn by Janice in terms of pure skills.

"When this painting was delivered, Master Edward was extremely surprised."

The old butler Oswald, with his hands behind his back, followed Aiwas like a ghost and whispered: "After he repeatedly confirmed that this was a gift from Master Janice to Master Aiwas, he kept saying things like 'incredible' and 'how could this be'. It took a long phone call in the middle of the night to figure out what happened."

His dry and wrinkled face was full of wrinkled smiles, and his wolf-like green pupils narrowed happily.

"Does Master Aiwas like it?"

"Of course I like it."

Aiwas smiled and said, "Not only this painting..."

As he said this, he looked at the portrait hanging on the other wall.

That was the painting Isabel drew for him.

In that painting, Isabel did not draw the wheelchair behind Aiwass, and naturally there was no Lily standing behind him. The background is not a classroom...but the sky filled with morning glow.

Whether it was a deliberate creation or a coincidence, the background of that painting looked like a watered-down version of "The Golden Dawn." It is as if the two paintings are in the same time and space, but Aiwass is slightly farther away from them, overlooking them from above.

Putting these two paintings together, it shows that Isabel's technique is obviously not mature enough.

Aiwass in the painting will sway and breathe slightly, blink slowly, and the hair on the temples will sway in the wind. It looks like the L2D character from the mobile game gacha. Although it is also very beautiful, it is just beautiful. Even the movements are not very natural...the outstretched hand is not so much saying hello or giving a lecture, but rather giving someone a hand.

But even so, Aiwass liked it better.

"Because the temple of Horus does not belong to me, and the bright sun does not belong to me. But it belongs completely to me."

Aiwass looked at the painting and said seriously.

After completely painting the painting, Isabel also felt that her painting was not good enough. She told Aiwass at the time that she planned to paint another painting for Aiwass after she advanced again.

But according to Aiwass' knowledge, she will never stop there. When her technique improves again, she will paint a better painting again.

Eventually Aiwass was able to line up the paintings. That will become his photo album and his memories.

Lily behind him silently flattened her mouth and said nothing.

Although she didn't think she should be painted in this painting...but she felt that Her Royal Highness the Princess even didn't include Master Aiwass's wheelchair. Isn't this unreal?

But at this moment, Lily felt an indescribable joy in her heart.

Although the relationship between Princess Isabel and Aiwass is getting closer, the identity of Aiwass's hidden demonologist is ultimately known only to her. Now only she can participate in this most dangerous new moon ceremony with Aiwass.

Aiwass even stepped out of the wheelchair and personally arranged the ceremony with her in Aiwass' room——

The rituals of the New Moon Ceremony are completely different from those of the Full Moon Ceremony.

Because there is no such thing as teammates, there is no need to give up.

Compared to the full moon ceremony, the new moon ceremony is darker and therefore requires a more cruel and dangerous ceremony.

Under the direction of Aiwass, Lily fed poison to a pair of roosters and hens. While they are still alive, they are stabbed to death, their blood is sprinkled on the ground, and the two ritual formations carved with knives are first soaked in chicken blood.

After the blood dries, use a scraper to scrape off the excess outside the ritual circle, leaving only a complete, dark red circle. The originally engraved ritual formation will turn black because of more blood.

Immediately afterwards, Aiwass smeared the silver ritual knife with essential oil, burned it repeatedly on the candle until the blade turned slightly black, and then set it aside for later use.

He then used a vanilla stick made of black sage to roast the small silver hammer. After blackening the outside, the remaining sage was burned to ashes and smeared on the rope.

He applied the poisonous blood of the cock to the thick iron nails. They were nails thicker and longer than a human finger, and he made six of them. Two sets of other ritual items were also made. He did not leave this kind of delicate work to Lily to ensure accuracy.

He taped red, light-transmitting paper to the window. Just in case, a copy was affixed to the lampshade, and the window from Aiwass's bedroom leading into the house was temporarily sealed with a piece of wood.

Aiwass also prepared two copies of the ritual materials.

Each ritual material includes a live petrel, the heart of a deer that just died today, a miniature wax figure of a philosopher, a snake, a handful of black salt, a horse's penis, a fed A mouse, an oyster, a mirror.

Among them is only the petrel, and Aiwass will not be able to find the second one for a while. So a passing pigeon was found.

Materials for a new moon ceremony are harder to find than a full moon ceremony, but the good thing is that it only requires symbolism. Therefore, many materials can be used to find similar things.

The only problem is that these materials cannot be purchased from the same place. And many of these things are time-sensitive...

Aiwass placed them in order on the nine corners of the ritual array - it was a nine-pointed star drawn with one stroke, but it was not nine equal corners. On the contrary, the nine corners are all completely different in size.

In order from smallest to largest angles, Aiwass placed seabirds, mirrors, deer hearts, wax figures, black salt, rats, riding whips, snakes, and oysters in the nine corners of the ritual circle.

The two of them waited quietly until night, and Aiwass and Lily agreed on a secret code to confirm their identity when they met. Then the two changed into clothes - Aiwass found a red and white robe at home and dyed it completely red with the remaining chicken blood; while Lily wore a very loose robe that was enough to cover her face and Fitted gray hoodie.

After the sun completely set and the new moon rose, Aiwass turned on the gas lamp with a red lampshade, watching the red light outside penetrate into the house.

Seeing the red light filling the entire room, the promotion ceremony officially began.

"——All nine."

Aiwass crooned, "I'm in it."

Lily imitated Aiwass' chants and followed his movements.

He took the rope and strangled the bird; took the hammer and smashed the mirror; took the nail and used the hammer to nail the deer's heart.

He used a candle to touch the wax figure to make it melt slightly; cut his finger and soaked the black salt with blood; stabbed the mouse to death with a black ritual knife; pierced the horse's penis from the tip with a nail; pried open the oyster and dripped his blood into it.

Aiwass did not move the snake, and Lily did not move the mouse - she nailed the frozen snake to the ground with a nail and peeled off the snake's skin with a ritual knife.

But Aiwass's snake did not move, just curled up quietly in the same place; and Lily's mouse also raised its head, with a glow of human-like liveliness in its eyes.

"Except me, all eight will die."

The two said in unison.

The next moment, eight balls of black and red flames burned. The ritual array was lit up and shone with red light.

——The ritual was successful.

I got up late by accident... This is 3,600 words. I'm taking a half-day off today to rest. I won't take a leave after the dungeon is finished!

It's amazing that I can write nearly 4,000 words even if I take a leave (arms on hips)

By the way, I'll sort out the details of tomorrow's outline!

Although the cat knows that you like to fatten it, don't let it die! Remember to open a custom order when you fatten it (sad and miserable)