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In the boundless gray mist, Crane first responded to the prayer of the "Hanging Man" and brought the "Word of the Sea" cane to his side.

Crane then discovers that the cane has a hobby of singing every six hours and stumbling on its bearer. After using normal means to have a friendly exchange with the magical item on the gray mist, he agreed with the "Words of the Sea" for three chapters, and successfully stipulated the time and number of times the magical item sang every day.

He brought the cane to reality, gave it to the secret puppet, and used the good fortune of the "winner" to neutralize the bad hobby of the "words of the sea". He still holds the hardwood-inlaid cane in his hand, which is of great value to show his status, and which has no other use.

He then began to prepare for the ritual, summoning the "Red Light".

Lighting three candles, placing the prepared essential oils and various spiritual items, and leaving a paper figure to sé the "red light", Crane has become a master of practice and quickly completes the first part of the ceremony.

He took a step back, opened his mouth, and chanted in the ancient Hermetic language:

"Me!"

"I pray in my name:"

"I pray to communicate with 'the eternal spiritual light, the embodiment of infinite knowledge, the red of authority and will'......"

From an occult point of view, the Seven Lights of the Spirit World do not belong to or serve any of the gods. Therefore, the honorific name of any deity should not appear, otherwise the ritual will fail.

As words that could communicate with the spirit of nature were spat out, Crane saw the three candles swell at the same time, joining together with a slight crackling sound, as if a door of light had been opened.

The area around the altar suddenly became silent and dark, and a pair of inexplicable eyes looked at each other from different places.

The cold wind blew along, and all the items on the altar floated into the air except for the three candles, and among them, the paper figure staggered upright, and the surface of the brush was dyed a rich, clear and bloodless red.

"Hello." Crane recalls the Seven Lights of the Spirit Realm as described in some occult books, and speaks according to the correct pattern of interaction that has been summarized.

He acted like he was facing a teacher.

The bright red paper figure moved its head lightly and uttered an illusory but majestic voice: "Hello."

Pretty polite, huh...... Thoughts flashed through Crane's mind, and he said sincerely and respectfully:

"Lord El Moria, I have something to ask you."

"You can just call me El Moria, please." The paper figure floating in the air seemed to be more polite than Crane.

Crane didn't change his attitude because of this: "I want to know the information about Calderon City. ”

The bright red, almost transparent paper figure pondered for two seconds and said, "Can I know your purpose?"

Crane didn't hide it, and said calmly:

"Hunt the Spirit Marauders."

The paper man's head moved slightly: "This is indeed only easy to find in Calderon City, in other places, the spirit marauder is like a drop of water entering the sea, it is very difficult to distinguish. Even I can only find it occasionally, and I can't lock it for long. Normally, they are partially active in the core of Calderón City, with a small amount scattered in the outer layers. In the past, as long as you didn't try to go deeper, it wasn't really too dangerous. ”

"In the past?" Crane asked.

"Yes. With the return of the Grim Reaper of Byron, Calderon was transformed from a ruin back into a city-state of spirit creatures and necromantic creatures, and spirit creatures instinctively approached it to worship their 'Hades'. The spirit creatures were affected, developed a hierarchical nature, and began to arrange themselves from the outside to the inside according to their own strength. If you're hunting Spirit Marauders, just get a little closer to the core. ”

"It looks less risky without having to enter the core area, but you have to pass through a large number of low-level and mid-level spirit creatures." The paper man said eloquently, "It's a pity that there are some special things there that prevent us from entering the Seven Lights, otherwise we can still provide some substantial help." ”

"I see...... Because that's the kingdom of the old god Gregarry?" Crane was sure in his heart and asked a confirmatory question.

Minghong paper humane:

"Yes, the Ancient Reaper wanted to be resurrected through this 'City of the Dead', but she failed completely, and the power was taken over by Byron, the Grim Reaper. Now, now that the latter has taken over again, the arrangements left behind by the ancient Grim Reaper should no longer exist. Byron's 'Hades Emperor' does not often appear in the spirit world, and every time he comes, he makes a great noise. ”

That's right...... Crane nodded invisibly and asked a number of questions from different aspects, all of which were answered with relative satisfaction.

After politely ending the summoning ceremony and saying goodbye to the "red light", Crane first temporarily left Behrens with the secret couple, opened the door and left, finding a safe place not to be disturbed. He then returned to Fort Source and began to think about exploring Calderón.

In the blasphemous cards "Black Emperor" and "Tyrant", Crane pondered for a while before finally choosing the latter.

"With the 'Poseidon Scepter' and the 'Tyrant', my strength is infinitely close to a Sequence 4. The Poseidon Scepter's 'weird negative effect' causes the spirit and flesh of the person it comes into contact to collapse quickly, and with the right use of it, combined with the 'Lightning Storm', it can quickly clear a clean area in Calderon City. Extraordinary aggregation doesn't have to worry either, if there is really a high sequence of storm pathways that is attracted to it, it can just be used. ”

As thoughts fluctuated, Crane reached out and let the "Tyrant" card on the bronze table fly, fall into the palm of his hand, and merge into the soul.

Huo Ran, an extremely majestic and terrifying aura emanated from the location where the "Fool" was, and Crane silently added a deep triple crown on his head, and his clothes turned into religious robes.

The whining wind sounded, the papal robe unfurled, and Crane raised his right hand, and the scepter of white bones that flew by itself hung in the air.

The "Poseidon Scepter" was held up by the swirling wind, and did not come into contact with Crane. At the beginning, he couldn't even get close to himself in Sequence 6, and now even in the Source Castle, there is still a layer of "tyrants", and Crane doesn't dare to taste how long his current self can last under that strange effect.

Then again, this strange negative effect always felt a little familiar to Crane, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it.

At the top of the scepter, the gems suddenly glowed blue or silver-white, and lightning surrounded the seated "tyrant".

The "Word of the Sea" cane crept to the ground with a snap, and crawled next to Crane, who was holding a scepter and dressed as a pope.

584

"First of all, we need to make a premise clear, that is, until the 'Pale Plague' of the Quaternary Age, the Church did not have the concept of 'the dead must be buried first', and the criteria for going to the kingdom of God were only piety and non-suicide. The restrictions of economic conditions and social systems have led to many people being hastily buried after death. Then, the 'Pale Plague' brought the unrequiemed dead out of their graves, and the wandering spirits obeyed the orders of the Hades, bringing great disasters to the Northern Continent. ”

"Hmm."

"Therefore, this incident alerted the gods, and it was logical to implement the steps of 'requiem-cremation-burial'."

Edward put down the small blackboard in his hand, looked at the real creator, and asked with curiosity and curiosity:

"Can I understand 'requiem' as a sacrificial ritual?"

"I think the essence of the Requiem ritual is a special ritual magic that goes both ways. Through the requiem ritual, the Church 'sacrifices' the souls of the deceased to the kingdom of God, and borrows power from the gods to pollute the bodies of the deceased so that the deceased will no longer be affected by other extraordinary powers. ”

"If I explain it this way, I can understand why the church prohibits suicide, because the suicide person is in a sense giving his life and soul to something else, and the sacrifice of the time has been completed, so naturally no spirit body will be sacrificed to the kingdom of God through the requiem ceremony."

In the same way, untainted, or 'baptized' bodies and spirits remain unprotected. It will also be affected by necromantic forces and crawl out of the grave. Edward put a pencil behind his ear and thought for a moment before saying, "Oh, they are now promoting cremation, but this is also free to choose according to the wishes of the family and the deceased. ”

"So far, your guess is logical."

The real creator is noncommittal, she hasn't finished reading the latest report of the Aurora Society's sacrifice. I only saw Medici say that she was not needed in the Southern Continent now, and she went to the corner to find trouble with the Witch Sect.

Although the original witch is just as tricky, the real creator is less worried about the Medici than the lively outer god in front of her.

"Are there no spirits in your own kingdom of God that you have chosen?"

"Yes. But like you said, I will only take the souls that have been chosen by me and have passed my test. ”

Edward said: "They were chosen by me and greeted by me personally. I don't need, and I don't need, so many useless souls for others, even if their souls are a very good resource. Your kingdom of heaven – I would say it's called the kingdom of heaven, and God has been saying since ancient times that the souls of believers enter the kingdom of heaven. Your five paths can also be balanced against each other, without bias, to construct a world that may indeed allow spirits to live. So is this actually not the case? ”

"Yes."

"I see. Can you tell us about the principle? ”

"Faith and prayer are means of establishing a connection between man and God, and prayers that can be received by the gods are themselves a form of ritual magic, the simplest form of ritual magic." The True Creator replied, "Prayer is the easiest way to make connections, and piety is used to strengthen connections." But there is a limit to mortal piety after all, and it is difficult for their voices to really reach my ears, and the anchor of a thousand mortals is not as good as a saint, let alone an angel. ”

"Therefore, such a requiem ritual is needed to ensure that the soul can travel to the kingdom of God through occult connections."

Edward covered his mouth with his hand and frowned in thought for a moment.

"So, I think 'becoming one with God' is the most accurate description of this situation than 'ascending to the kingdom of God'?"

"Tell me what you think."

"To be honest, it's hard for me to imagine what the kingdom of the Eternal Sun and the Lord of the Storm looks like, though I've occasionally heard their followers describe the former as a temple with flowers blooming, and the latter as a vast sea with eternal thunder and waves. But their pathways themselves seem to be ......"

Edward pondered for a second:

"Not so friendly to the necromancy."

"For example, if the forsaken land of God is your kingdom and your authority is fallen, then we can see clearly what the people who live on it are like. Obviously, their calamity is not entirely caused by the remnants of your fighting forces, and the main responsibility lies with you. ”

True Creator: "Hmm. ”

"Then if you want me to imagine a group of dead spirits living normally in a place illuminated by the power of the sun, I can't imagine it. The closest I came to a requiem ceremony was watching a funeral with a telescope one hundred and fifty kilometers outside the Cathedral of Light in Intis. ”

Edward smiled: "So, after the sacrifice, the spirit was reduced to basic spirituality, contributing to the kingdom of the gods, right?" ”

Before the real creator could speak, Edward made up his mind: "That's the speculation at the moment, if I can, I will try to be a guest in the kingdom of other gods." ”

She stood up, paced around the couch and coffee table, walked past the papers and chessboards piled up on the floor, walked to the wall, and tore a page of the calendar.

"It's already the night of the 28th, and no one has informed me to go to the southeast coast? When did your divine side become so tactful? ”

"There are only 30 days in June, and now it's not enough time to take a boat to the southeast coast, what are you gathering ......?"

She suddenly stopped talking.

The True Creator sensed something, frowned, looked at the demon that suddenly stood still, and asked, "The reason has appeared?" ”

A stick figure eye swam from the shadows to Edward's side, and when he saw that the other party ignored it, it naturally blended into the other person's shadow.

“……”

Edward's expression became very exciting, her eyes widened at first, then her eyebrows furrowed, and finally she scratched her head in some confusion.

“…… I know why your divine face is so sure I'm going to go. Edward smiled as if he understood something, "She's wearing a 'blasphemy card' on the bait. Maybe there are others, but I'm hearing a lot of jarrry of prayers right now, from demonic families reporting to me about seeing the card, from people who have given me information, and people who are even praying for me to give me the strength to help them find it. It seems that there are a lot of people who are attracted to it. ”

The True Creator asked, "Then why did you go?" ”

"Because it's important to me."

Edward jokingly said, "Maybe Russell is deliberately disgusting with me, this card's opening spell is my name, so naturally there is an extremely strong occult connection with me, you see, now I'm going to be led over." - I can't let something that could have an aggregate effect on me at any time remain in the hands of someone else. ”

"It's just a matter of grabbing a card, it's not going to be a big deal." Edward picked up the blazer on the back of the couch and calmly walked into the spirit world, waving goodbye to the true Creator, "Then I'm leaving." ”

Scold. Recalling that the other party had sworn to tell him that all the people on the southeast coast were dead, it was impossible for the true creator to believe her words. Following the opening of the other party's eye, the True Creator decided to watch what was about to happen on the southeast coast at any time to decide whether to stop it in time or stop it after keeping the believers away.

tbc

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The end of the double watch!