Chapter 656: Ritual
It was the height of summer, but the nights in the northern suburbs were still very cool, and a group of people gathered in the open space behind the house, lit candles, drew a circle and placed sacrifices. It's like a church. Hao Ren couldn't help but sigh when he saw Lily busy working there: "This makes outsiders see that we are tossing these things, do you think that the mental hospital and the police. Uncle Cha, who will come early? ”
"Mental hospital," Nangong May stood on tiptoe and shook her upper body gently, as if she couldn't avoid the habit of being a snake when she turned into a human form, "Anyway, if I'm an ordinary person, if I see a group of adults doing vampire summoning with a stern face, I will definitely call the mental hospital first......"
Nangong Invincible suddenly sighed: "I didn't expect a contemptible demon hunter to come over and participate in this kind of thing, in the past, this was a demon and evil." ”
"What are you talking about," Lily said unceremoniously, "You're married to a demon, so don't continue to be high." ”
Lily continued to toss the summoning circle as she spoke, she got some quicklime out of nowhere, and drew a crooked pentagram on the ground, the more Hao Ren looked at it, the more unreliable he felt: "Do you think this thing can work?" Four of the five corners you draw are crooked...... Is there one left or rounded corners? ”
"It's okay," Lily said, "The sacrifice has been put up, and then just find two people to bleed!" ”
Hao Renhu looked suspiciously at the sacrifice that Lily placed at the sharp corner of the pentagram: "Where did you get these things?" Is it reliable? ”
"Of course it's reliable, I collected it myself," Lily pointed to the things around the summoning array. "The mistletoe leaves are specimens made when I used to travel abroad, and the bat teeth I caught in the field. Limestone is good to say, the ashes of a woman's hair are my own—but it hurts. ”
Hao Ren listened in a daze. Suddenly remembered that the summoning item still needed the fur of the black goat, but he looked for it on the circle and saw only a small leather boot: "...... What about the said good black mountain wool? Where did these shoes come from? ”
Lily: "This is my shoe, anyway, the shoe seller told me that it was a goatskin...... I thought to myself that goatskin should be no different from black goatskin. ”
Elizabeth, who rushed over to join in the fun, was stunned when she heard this, and the little girl covered her face: "If she can summon something, it will be hell." ”
Nangong Invincible continued to sigh: "If all the wizards in the world are like her, how much effort do demon hunters have to save......"
Hao Ren was also a little worried about this magic book experiment, he was afraid that this god-like witch book would really summon some mess - although it was not a threat, it was always a trouble. However, after seeing Lily's rigor, he immediately put his heart in his stomach, and with this husky's experimental attitude, even if she went to the city center to set up this place, she could at most summon the sanitation over......
"Let me see." Lily grabbed Hao Ren's arm and glanced at the illustration on the magic book again, "Well, it's okay to place it, magic array...... It feels like that, and the moon is full...... Oh, the conditions have been met, landlord, let's try the ceremony? ”
Hao Ren was just about to step forward, but Nangong Sanba next to him couldn't help but mention: "Are you sure you really want to make this kind of summoning ritual of unknown origin?" ”
That magic book may seem more like a farce to others, but it is no joke in the eyes of the witcher. This heretical canon, handed down from the dark ages of the Middle Ages, records the true forbidden knowledge, and almost every demon and deity on them has a name corresponding to a living alien or their remnants of earthly power, and the seemingly absurd rituals often have a troublesome effect. Hundreds of years ago, there were many kingdoms and castles in Europe that were destroyed due to the misuse of magic books, and even several large-scale "natural disasters" related to such magic books. There are also nobles or heretics who are obsessed with secret knowledge and have their souls taken over by the evil spirits that lodge in the magic books because they open them. This kind of thing can't be guarded against.
Hao Ren shrugged: "What do you think Lily's nonsense summoning ritual can summon?" Not to mention that this thing was originally supposed to summon Vivien......"
Nangong Sanba was right to think about it, so he didn't say anything.
Hao Ren and Lily stood on either side of the magic circle as the book said. Lily bared her teeth and looked at her fingers, "It's really going to drip blood...... Suddenly I feel like a loss. ”
"I don't care anyway," Hao Ren had already turned off part of the shield and reduced the tissue strength of some limbs, ready to be bled out. "It will take three drops of blood."
Lily let out a sigh and bit down on her finger. At the same time, Hao Ren also bit his fingertips.
Blood dripped to the ground, Hao Ren turned his head to look at the summoning circle beside him, and the crooked five-pointed star did not move: "It seems that it really didn't work." I'll just say that all this stuff you've prepared is nonsense. ”
Lily held up her fingers and shouted, "That's because my blood has grown before it has even dripped down!" ”
The surrounding circle of people who were watching the excitement were suddenly stunned, and the corners of Hao Ren's mouth twitched: The werewolf's body recovery ability was actually powerful at this time!
"Try again?" Lily wagged her tail excitedly, "I'm going to bite hard this time!" ”
Hao Ren tried it with her again, and it turned out that this husky couldn't control his regenerative power at all, and she bit a hole, and she had already grown her teeth before she got up, which made people laugh and cry, Nangong May couldn't help but mutter: "It's still a problem for you to make an alliance with people." ”
Lily looked at her hand in a daze, suddenly gritted her teeth, turned her head and ran back to the house to get a straw out: "Landlord try again!" This time, I put a straw in it after biting, and I don't believe it can stay long! ”
Hao Ren suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and quickly pushed this crazy husky aside and turned his head to greet the others: "Which of you will try it for her?" Otherwise, this husky would have really put a tube on himself. ”
Nangong Sanba looked around and stood forward quite consciously: "It seems that it can only be me." ”
The half-hung demon hunter's regeneration ability is finally not as demonic as the "werewolf", and the final step of the summoning ritual is finally completed. However, after the third drop of blood landed, there was still silence in the summoning circle, no magic appeared, no other supernatural phenomena that were visible to the naked eye, and of course Vivien was still in the house.
"Doesn't work?" Lily looked at the magic book over and over again, "There's magic on it, it can't be fake." I've heard bats say that wizards were unreliable in their own days, except that they would never write down ineffective spells in their magic books, because they relied on them to maintain their reputation. ”
Itzax hugged his arms and shook his head: "If you draw the four corners of the circle, it is estimated that it will be more effective...... It's all crooked, and you think you can play freely by drawing a circle? ”
"Could it be because the ritual requires that it must be summoned with human blood?" Lily was still holding the magic book and meditating there, resolutely unwilling to admit that the magic circle she drew was too abstract and invalid, "Let's try it on the other two humans?" ”
Hao Ren looked around and was stunned: he found that he couldn't even find a human around him!
There is only a monster zoo left in my house......
"This ......," Hao Ren broke out in a cold sweat on his forehead, "we have all kinds of weird guys here, but there are no humans." ”
"Forget it," Lily bowed her head regretfully and handed the magic book to Hao Ren, "Let's go to the hospital and get two bags of plasma when we go." ”
Hao Ren felt that none of the huskies' ideas tonight were not bad, but considering that it was the night of the full moon, he didn't force Lily to maintain her intelligence and logic. He reached out and took the magic book, and flipped it twice casually: "Tsk...... The book is true. ”
He didn't notice that he was standing right in the center of the summoning circle, and when the magic book was opened, the brightest moonlight of the full moon night shone right on the illustration depicting the "summoning of the Blood King".
A thin burst of cold air suddenly rose from the page, and then a strange red appeared in the gap between the pages, and quickly spread outward.
The summoning ritual didn't fail, it just lacked a necessary condition: put the book on the energy focus!
Now, it's launched.
(Still an early update...... I've been busy these days. (To be continued......)