Chapter 399: The Courtyard of the Void
Rorschach decided to take Caroline to the "burial place of the clone". He didn't need to keep anything from his teacher, after all, in Istani, the two of them were "friends of life and death".
With the clone lying in that space as an anchor, it became easy to go up. Rorschach imitated the various altars recorded in ancient books and set up a ritual in the empty warehouse.
Draw the symbol pointing to yourself, and then put your favorite things on it. Rorschach thought about it, put soda in the southeast, and put gold coins, crispy elbows and "Principles of Alchemical Engineering (Preliminary Draft)" in other directions.
The last offering is not so much love, but hate, but Rorschach didn't finish it before the clone went to sleep, so it can be regarded as a kind of obsession.
Caroline came over and saw Rorschach's arrangement, and was a little surprised: "What god are you going to pray to?" She took a closer look at the offerings: "Without minerals and spices, how can I put food, drink and money? Will it work?"
She didn't say a word: I feel that the god you are looking for is a bit poor.
Fortunately, the teacher didn't say it, otherwise it would be a blow to Rorschach's soul. He explained to Caroline: "Actually, the sacrifice is my clone. It is now lying at the destination, a vesicle between the material world and the symbolic world."
"Oh, it's the space you mentioned in your letter. Judging from your ritual, its entry method is similar to the kingdom of God in the past?"
"It should be, but before the clone entered, it was a chaotic area with no people and no heaven and earth. You will know the specific situation when you go there."
After sprinkling the alchemical potion to stimulate it, a space-time vortex appeared, and Rorschach and Caroline were all involved. It is said that objects will be infinitely stretched when they approach a black hole, and Rorschach has this feeling now.
When the pulling feeling up and down ended, they had arrived under a "golden tree".
This "Tree of Law" is slender and has not enough branches. The gradually illusory treetops at the top support the gap that was once blown out by the clone. The whole sky is not high, and the hazy starlight through the crystal wall seems to be within reach.
The ground under his feet was paved with golden sand. They were originally transmuted dust, but after settling, they were touched and transformed by the roots of the "Tree of Law", and dyed golden.
Caroline's attention was attracted by the golden tree: "Rorschach, you said before that after it appeared, the chaotic space was divided into heaven and earth. Isn't it the world tree in the mythology of the North?"
"How can there be such a small world tree." Now the "sapling" is only as thick as a bowl, the same level as the street tree, and the teeth of the black dragon are stronger than it.
Caroline insisted on her opinion: "This world is not big."
In theory, Rorschach and Caroline stepped on Rorschach's clone, but he entered this area to try synaesthesia, but did not get any feedback. This result is also expected.
The two walked in it, which was only the size of a court. At the edge, the fine sand transformed by transmuted dust rose and fell, preventing them from approaching the edge of the space.
"Do you want to place the main body of the tower spirit here?" Caroline confirmed with Rorschach. After receiving a positive answer, she wanted to take out the equipment in her bag of materials, but found nothing.
"No need to test. First of all, it is certain that the nature of this place is more inclined to the symbolic world. If nothing unexpected happens, our bodies may still be lying in front of the altar. At least the ritual is not perfect enough, and only spirits are allowed to enter."
Rorschach was about to say that the clone came in as a whole person, but he immediately thought that the guy fell from the kingdom of Thoth and smashed in, which cannot be considered a normal entry.
This is the result that Rorschach is most worried about - this place is inclined to the symbolic world, so the main body of the tower spirit is difficult to be transported in. If you take the old path of the clone, the risk is too great. God knows how many dangers are hidden in the weird temple.
Caroline was thinking about how to meet Rorschach's needs. She searched for knowledge related to the symbolic world in her mind, what she learned from the Starry Tower, what she saw in the books of the Magic Academy, and what she heard from her peers.
"What God thinks exists." Caroline suddenly said a sentence from the scriptures, and then said: "This is the most common power of God in His Kingdom. Perhaps the embodiment of imagination is the embodiment of God's power and the inherent nature of the symbolic world.
"If you are familiar enough with the organization that carries the tower spirit, why not try to imagine and materialize it here?"
Rorschach did as he was told. He began to try "3D modeling" in his mind. The appearance of the computing core became clearer and clearer, as if there was something special in this space. When Rorschach imagined it, the memories related to it began to emerge, allowing Rorschach to smoothly outline the details clearly enough.
But nothing happened. Rorschach opened his eyes again, and only he and Caroline looked at each other in silence under the tree.
"Can't remember it?"
"No, it's going well. The details in the memory keep emerging. But as you can see, it was not imagined. "Rorschach wondered if some specific magic was needed?
Caroline thought for a while, and she thought of another path: "Have you seen the blueprints?"
"Of course. The blueprints are what I brought back." Rorschach began to try to conceive the blueprints, and memories still emerged, but this time, in front of him, fine transmutation dust and gravel began to float and deform, forming thin pages of blueprints.
This time it was successful. These blueprints retained the golden color of the gravel and shone brightly. After they were all materialized, they began to fold and deform, forming the appearance of parts and spherical shells.
"Sure enough. In the original layer of the symbolic world, the spells and divine arts registered therein are all "perfect prototypes", and what we have in front of us now should be the perfect prototype of the computing core. "
At first, Rorschach tried to make things concrete. The parts made by craftsmen always have tolerances and the materials always have defects, but only those abstracted from the drawings can be recognized by the symbolic world.
Reality means defects, and only absurdity can be perfect.
The golden tree lowered its tentacles from above and also drilled its roots from the ground to connect to the core. Seeing this, Caroline asked Rorschach to return to the material world together: "The next step is to let the tower spirit break away from the original container and enter the new body."
The consciousness fell, and the ground turned into quicksand and swallowed the two. When they opened their eyes again, they were lying on the cold cement floor of the warehouse.
Rorschach quickly got up and pulled Caroline up.
Next, the tower spirit could not be ascended immediately, because there were still many jobs in the factory that needed it to maintain.
So each factory received a notice, "System upgrade, all units suspended operations", the workers were happy to get a sudden day off, and the air knights also stopped training and patrolling.
After confirming that the last boiler was cooled and the last puppet was stored, Rorschach cut off the connection with the tower spirit core and carried it, a heavy metal ball, to the center of the altar.
The core, which was originally functioning normally under the infusion of Rorschach's magic power, lost something as the ceremony began, and the gears slowly stopped turning.
"According to the similarity rate, after the tower spirit enters the container of the 'perfect prototype', it can descend into the vessel made in the material world based on it." Rorschach and Caroline stared at the metal ball nervously. Time passed slowly, and suddenly the gears in the core began to resume operation, and a regular clicking sound was heard.
Then, something spit out from the vortex and drilled into Rorschach's body - his soul was complete again.
The next day, Hannah began to practice casting spells. At the same time, in the ethereal place, a "small tree" supporting the sky and the earth passed a ray of light as she cast the spell.