During the time that Rhodes came to the top floor, the death energy in Rowling's body became more and more intense, and an aura belonging to the lich began to permeate the tower.

Combined with the anomalies he had observed, as well as the things used in the ritual, Rhodes had recognized what kind of ritual Rowling was directing.

If Rhodes was not mistaken, the ritual being held at the top of the Conjuring Tower at this time was the most mysterious of all the necromancy rituals, and it was also necessary for the promotion of the lich, the Endless Night Ritual.

When the ritual is successfully completed, the Mother of the Dead, the core of the ritual, disintegrates, and all the pure death energy contained in it will be absorbed by Rowling, and Rowling herself will be freed from the limitations of the human body and become an immortal lich.

Rod didn't know what Rowling had experienced during this time, and her strength had risen to the point where she could perform the Endless Night Ritual and take the initiative to hold it at the top of the Conjuring Tower, but Rod didn't want her to be promoted to a lich just like that.

In the later stages of the game, due to the fact that the attribute points and skill points obtained by leveling up are roughly the same, the only thing that can really open the gap is the difference in the quality of equipment and treasures, only the difference in professional specialties.

Once promoted to the Lich, Rowling's spell-casting ability will be limited by the Lich itself, and the overall strength will drop a lot, and the Lich's immortal ability will not bring any improvement to the strength for a while, which is Rhodes's judgment made a long time ago.

Rather than promoting Rowling to the rank of Lich, Rhodes wanted her to be able to use her spellcasting abilities to the fullest and choose other caster-related professions.

Even with the limitations of spiritualism, Rowling could not become a proper legendary mage, and Rhodes did not want her to be promoted to the rank of Lich and thus waste her powerful spell-casting ability.

Rhodes noticed that Rowling was still in the first stage of the Endless Night Ritual, so there was still a possibility of remediation.

The epic spiritualism has been recorded in great detail for the Endless Long Night Ritual, after all, before being promoted to the Lich, there are few other ways to allow the necromancer to obtain epic spiritualism, and the god-level spiritualism possessed by Rhodes has an extremely detailed analysis of this ritual.

According to the information fed back from the spiritualism, the Endless Night Ritual of transforming the Lich is divided into three stages according to the depth of progress.

In the first stage, the necromancer will use the effect of death energy to cause serious erosion of his own body, and even reach the level of death, so as to complete the initial transformation of death energy.

The crimson lines on the surrounding walls contained extremely rich death energy, and as the ritual progressed, they were gradually approaching Rowling, completing the erosion of the flesh.

For regular necromancers, when they are in the final rank before being promoted to the lich, that is, the fifth order corresponding to the senior necromancer, the erosion of death energy on their bodies is to make them adapt to the environment in the Endless Night Ritual in advance, so as to meet the needs of the promotion of the lich.

Under the erosion of death energy, the body of the senior necromancer will fall into a state of decay, and at the same time, the appearance will become terrifying, and it will also fit the physical death required for the first stage of the Endless Night Ritual.

This is precisely the reason why the senior necromancer in Diya pursues the appearance eroded by the energy of death, and compared to it, the terrifying appearance will not be cared about at all.

Due to the erosion of death energy during the Ritual of the Endless Night, most lichs are unable to retain their intact human bodies after completing the ritual.

In Rod's sight, Rowling, who was sitting cross-legged in front of her, had obvious traces of erosion on the backlit side of her face, with flesh and blood falling off in some places, and even through the side of her face, she could see the teeth inside the half of the side, and her short hair was extremely messy and fell out from time to time.

At this time, Rowling's face, which was not covered by a wide black robe, showed traces of death energy erosion of this level, not to mention other parts of the body.

Looking at this state of Rowling, Rod was able to perceive more states in her body through blood perception. During the time of Rod's exile, Rowling's mood was always very low, even to the point of emaciation.

Rhodes noticed that the secret method of energy regeneration that she had sought for Rowling had not been used by her for a long time, and it was clear that she had planned to hold the Endless Night Ritual before that, and had been preparing for it for a long time.

The top of the Soul Tower is the center of the convergence of death energy in the entire Soul City, as long as the ritual lines outside the tower are not damaged, if necessary, it can even gather the death energy of the entire Soul City, which also makes many powerful necromancers like to conduct their own research at the top of the Soul Tower.

Rowling chose the location of the endless night at the top of the Spiritualist Tower, apparently to take advantage of the effect of the Spiritualist Tower itself, and even the entire Spiritualist Tower was built for this ceremony.

The first stage of the ritual for the erosion of the physical body can be completed in advance through the preparation made during the senior necromancer's period, and this stage mainly depends on the necromancer's daily accumulation, as well as the degree of compatibility with the death energy, and there will not be much danger, at this time, Rowling is in the first half of this stage.

In the second stage of the Endless Night Ritual, the rare materials in it will be combined with the energy of death to fully stimulate the potential of the soul of the ritual guide, making it reach an unprecedented level of strength, even if it is spiritualism, it cannot limit the soul in this state.

At this stage, the necromancer performing the ritual will endure unimaginable pain, the kind of pain that directly tears the soul apart, far beyond the limit of physical pain, which is not something that ordinary people can bear.

During the ritual, the necromancer must remain awake at all times, as soon as he faints due to the pain, or loses consciousness, the entire Endless Night Ritual will immediately fail, and the necromancer's own soul will dissipate, and his consciousness will fall into eternal silence.

The dissipation of the soul will have extremely serious consequences, even if the necromancer's body is preserved at the last moment, there is no way to awaken the necromancer in this state.

The second phase of the Endless Night Ritual follows the end of the first phase, and once the second stage is reached, there is no way to terminate the Endless Night Ritual.

Some senior necromancers have completed the erosion of death energy on the body long before the ritual begins, while the more powerful senior necromancers can even cross the physical erosion of the first stage of the ritual and directly open the second stage.