Chapter 33: Advanced Ceremony

When making Magic Cards, Aiwass was still in a wheelchair.

But when performing the advancement ceremony, this cannot be the case.

Fortunately, Aiwass had already fed the Shadow Demon early this morning. Even if he stood up and his body was completely connected to his shadow, the awakened Shadow Demon was not out of control at all.

The shadow under Aiwass' feet squirmed slightly, floating slightly from time to time to prove that it was alive and still there.

The shadows that float from time to time are reminiscent of the "fairy air" special effect made with dry ice - but this fairy air is pure black with no variegation at all.

The devilish aura surrounds it.

In fact, the materials and procedures of the advancement ceremony are not completely consistent.

Universal rituals themselves are not that rigid. The complexity of many rituals and the difficult-to-obtain nature of materials actually come from artificial encryption. It is essentially similar to the argot of alchemical writings. The purpose is to prevent people from analyzing the essence of this ritual.

That's why Aiwass can easily make magic cards.

As a new ritual that was born only three years ago, it has not gone through the process of repeated encryption, mistaken decryption, and re-encryption, and its original meaning of the ritual has not been distorted. Therefore, it can be easily reproduced by Aiwass, whose "Basic Ritual" level is only level 1.

The advancement ceremony is just the opposite.

The advancement rituals of various inheritance schools are slightly different in details.

The ritual Aiwass used was a simplified version of one he had seen before in his adoptive father's collection of books. This is a ritual widely circulated in the Avalon knight family circle——

The advantage is that it doesn't require too much effort, but the disadvantage is that it requires a small piece of white crystal... about the size of a thumbnail and a thin piece as thick as a coin. But the thing itself is not expensive, so it’s not bad. Aiwass punched a hole in it and threaded it on a rope to create a disposable pendant.

He prepared six types of silver jewelry, including two bracelets, a necklace, two rings and a forehead ring.

Then they were smeared with clove essential oil, cinnamon essential oil, cypress essential oil, benzoin essential oil, helichrysum essential oil and chamomile essential oil respectively, and placed on the six vertices of the hexagram drawn by Aiwass - these six plant essential oils and silver The six-pointed star formation carved by the sharp weapon is the most important core of this ritual, the only irreplaceable part.

Afterwards, Aiwass prepared three foods that he didn't like.

He chose radish, bitter melon and green pepper. He only symbolically cut a thin slice and placed it in the center of the six-pointed star.

In this way, the preparations for the ceremony are complete.

Aiwass put on his seminary uniform. Although it is a school uniform, it is also a formal clergy uniform.

It has a pure white clergy collar with two rose gold thorns embossed on the collar - it even contains real gold. It has a tan sash on its shoulders and chest, still decorated with golden thorns like antlers. The robe hung down to halfway down her thighs. Further down are brown trousers and cloth shoes.

Anyone looking at this attire can tell that he is a pastor of the Church of Nine Pillars of God.

After closing the room door tightly and waiting until the full moon rises above forty degrees, the ceremony will officially begin.

"——The nine are complete."

Aiwass chanted softly.

As he spoke, he lit a bunch of dried sage mixed with mugwort leaves to make a herb stick.

He repeatedly burned the tip of the vanilla stick like a cigar.

In fact, it can indeed be regarded as a kind of cigar - just like coffee can be regarded as soy milk in a sense.

Sage is the most commonly used herb for burning and burning. Mixing different herbs will have different effects. When mixed with moxa leaves, its main significance is to block the influence of the power of other paths on advanced rituals.

Putting it on Aiwass is used to suppress the interference of his transcendence path to the ritual.

"Except the third one..."

Aiwass whispered, pressing the vanilla stick that was constantly emitting green smoke into the center of the six-pointed star.

"——Hengwo, Lord of Scales and Feathers, Amber."

These three names are the names of the Pillar Gods of the Path of Love, the Path of Adaptation and the Path of Twilight respectively.

This is a necessary process for the full moon ceremony.

No extraordinary person can be versatile. Even full-moon rituals do not allow for playing by chance.

Before meeting your teammates and enemies, you must declare in advance your three least favorite paths. This shows your determination.

During this ritual, he cannot cooperate with teammates from these three paths. Even if those three paths are strong, they cannot secretly change their stance.

These three paths were also carefully selected by Aiwass.

Although those who adapt to the road are good at survival, they will definitely betray their teammates when necessary. Preserving oneself wisely and betraying others are the characteristics of adapting to the road.

The Dusk Path and the Path of Love simply have too many weirdos in them.

——The so-called path of love is just a good name.

It is related to savagery, bestiality, and impulse, and pursues the path of reproduction and eating that follows the instinct of animals.

Who are the people inside?

Lao Sepi, gourmet, welfare girl, big eater... no matter how you look at it, they are not serious. It is quite suitable for the modern Internet environment.

The twilight path emphasizes that "the sun will eventually set and all things will perish". It is a path to fight against death and disappearance, and to pursue eternal life and solidification.

Embarkers, specimen makers, grave keepers, including painters and sculptors who draw portraits of the deceased, may all believe in the Twilight Path. Making mummies and wax figures also belongs to the skills of the Twilight Path, as well as summoning the dead and reincarnation.

It is not easy for these three paths to have excellent teammates.

As Aiwass read the names of the three pillars in turn, a gust of wind suddenly blew up in the room.

Three pieces of food that Aiwass didn't like to eat suddenly ignited three colors of flames.

They were black, emerald and amber.

They quickly burned out in the fire and turned into a black smoke.

But the strange thing is that there was a strange whirlwind in the room, constantly rotating around Aiwass. But the green smoke emitted by the bunch of vanilla sticks after igniting the three kinds of food went straight up, and gathered into a smoke as thick as a wrist, directly to the white crystal pendant hanging under the chandelier above.

Then, Aiwas began to circle around the ritual formation, holding a vanilla stick outside the ritual formation, lowering his body and turning in circles, smoking the outer ring of the ritual formation.

"Six protect me..."

He pointed the vanilla stick at the six silver ornaments in turn, and chanted the names of the remaining six pillar gods:

"Sand Clock. Candle Master. Great Philosophy. Silver Crown Dragon. Twin Mirror. Snake Father."

As he clicked in this way, the six silver ornaments gradually turned black.

It was not blackened, but it seemed to have touched something poisonous. It was also like something unfavorable was extracted from the surrounding air.

The whirlwind in the room suddenly became stronger - all the lit candles in Aiwas' room were blown out by the wind, but nothing was blown off, not even a piece of light paper.

"I follow the way of the candle master."

The next moment, the vanilla stick in Aiwas's hand suddenly exploded.

He let go and threw it in the middle of the hexagram. It kept making crackling sounds and rising a beautiful pure white smoke. Covered again on the suspended white crystal pendant that had been blackened by the previous smoke.

——The ritual was successful.

Seeing that his "basic ritual" suddenly increased by 20%, Aiwass breathed a sigh of relief and confirmed that the ritual had been successful.

He took down the white crystal pendant hanging on the chandelier and wore it close to his body.

Although he knew that this ritual was very simple before. But Aiwas was also using the ritual to advance for the first time.

It was all in the air before, only this time he really got started.

When Aiwas put on the pendant, he felt a sense of tranquility and sleepiness.

It was not strong, and he could resist it with his will.

It was roughly like the sleepiness after eating a full meal, or the degree of taking melatonin before going to bed.

But Aiwas did not resist, but sat in his wheelchair. Close your eyes to feel the dragging feeling.

Just like slowly sinking in the dark deep sea, he clearly felt that his consciousness was dragged into a deeper level by some force while he was awake.

"Good evening, priest."

Just when Aiwass woke up again, a cold voice with a familiar tone sounded.

He opened his eyes and found himself in a dark space. There was no light source here, but he could see everything clearly.

He sat on a tall and wide chair with a backrest. Aiwass was more than 1.8 meters tall, but even he could not fill the chair completely. When he put his elbow on one armrest, his other arm could not reach the armrest on the other side.

He looked up and found that there were eight more chairs like this.

Nine chairs were arranged in a circle, and in the center was a huge stone hourglass statue. It was about five or six meters high, like a huge ornament in a shopping mall.

Aiwass found that he was the fourth to arrive.

In front of him, three people had already arrived.

The four of them sat next to each other. The first was an old man with his head bowed and a cane in his hand. The second was a young man wearing a tan double-breasted trench coat and a top hat.

The third one looked a bit awkward—he wore a fully enclosed knight's helmet on his head, but wore a shirt and sweater that was easy to move in.

Although Aiwass couldn't see their faces clearly, just like he couldn't see the faces of passers-by in a dream. But he could immediately realize that the second one must be Sherlock!

Because his accent was so iconic, and this look was not disguised at all.

It was as if he was saying—Yes, I am Sherlock Hermes.

Aiwass's clothes are the cover! It was drawn by the book's operation officer, Can Can!