Lumian didn't rush to find the three outsiders, Ryan, Leah, and Valentine, and went straight to the old tavern to try his luck.

If that mysterious lady shows up, he has a lot of questions to ask!

Anyway, they have already accepted the free gifts, and they will inevitably pay the price in the future, so it is better to take the opportunity to gather more wool as Aureel said.

As soon as he entered the old tavern, Lumian's eyes lit up.

The mysterious lady was sitting in her old corner with two glasses of emerald vermouth in front of her.

Two cups? Did she know I was coming? Lumian walked over and greeted him with a smile:

"Good morning."

The lady was wearing a white blouse with an arabesque neckline, a beige ankle-length loose skirt, and a pale red women's beret at her hand.

Lumian was influenced by his sister's magazines and knew that this was Trier's recent trend.

The lady glanced up at him:

"It's not early, it's almost noon."

Isn't this to accommodate your routine? Lumian sneered.

Seeing this mysterious lady instantly calmed his heart.

He sat down and said very directly:

"I've been going through a lot of things lately."

The lady pushed a glass of absinthe to Lumien, the swaying green liquid like the goddess of joy in everyone's heart.

She didn't say she could talk about it, and she didn't say she couldn't talk about it.

Lumian picked up the glass of absinthe and took a sip lightly, only to feel that the wine was rich in aroma, refreshing with a faint bitter taste, which was different from the absinthe he had drunk before.

"What is this?" He asked, confused.

"Another type of absinthe, which has recently become popular in Trier, is preferred to be called absinthe in order to distinguish it from the past, and is especially admired by writers, painters and poets." The lady took a small sip as well.

Inside the transparent glass, the green liquid seems to have a bit of psychedelic color.

The three main ingredients of absinthe are absinthe, fennel and fennel, and the recipes for absinthe from different distilleries vary slightly, and some even add lemon essential oil and other things.

I went to Trier a few days before and came back with some vermouth? Lumian couldn't understand the behavior of the lady opposite.

He didn't ask, and talked about what he had experienced during this time, including reality and dreams.

The lady sipped the small glass of vermouth ouzo and listened quietly to Lumian.

"That's pretty much it, is there any way I can master that mysterious dance in the shortest amount of time?" Lumian gets straight to the point.

As for the key to breaking the cycle and the secret of the dream realm, he believed that he would not get the answer if he asked.

The lady shook the emerald liquid from the cup and smiled:

"You'll never learn without a supernatural boost in flexibility.

"Of course, you can force a jump, but you will definitely get injuries in terms of broken ligaments and torn muscles, so how can you hunt monsters?"

Lumian is sensitive to the hidden meaning of other people's words:

"Is there a way to make a big deal more flexible for me?"

The lady chuckled:

"You have to ask yourself."

"......" Lumien was once again defeated by this vague hint.

If the person opposite is more familiar and not so mysterious, he will definitely come to two sentences:

"Tell me clearly!

"Don't make me get down on my knees and beg you!"

As if hearing his inner voice, the lady added with a smile:

"The way to make your flexibility transcendentally better is up to you."

"Huh?" Lumien looked confused.

The lady took a sip of vermouth ouzo, sighed and said:

"Didn't your sister teach you ritual magic?"

Lumian noticed that strange emotion in her eyes reappeared.

"Taught." Lumi moved in reassurance, "Pray to yourself? ”

The lady looked him up and down, laughed, and said:

"Who do you think you are, and what is the use of praying to you?

"You can only choose the weakest kind even to summon spirit creatures, and the inspiration is all related to the physical body."

Like, danger intuition? Lumian probably understood what the mysterious lady said:

The spirituality of the "hunters" has actually been enhanced, but it is mainly focused on inspiration, and cannot meet the needs of occult matters such as ritual magic.

"So what to do?" Lumien asked.

The lady sighed:

"Is the dualistic ritual law learned?"

"Learned." Lumian nodded.

The lady sighed:

"It's good that you have a sister, otherwise I'll have to tell you about these occult knowledge, I'm too tired, too tired."

It turns out that you don't talk about ritual magic, meditation and vision, contract creatures, and supernatural language, is it too troublesome? By the time Oroel finishes speaking, you'll show up? Lumian instantly felt like blood was surging up and clogging up his throat.

He took two deep breaths and said:

"The dualistic ritual method requires gods or hidden existence of closely related items, but I don't have ......."

As he spoke, Lumian fell silent.

The lady laughed:

"You have it.

"How's that, remember?"

Lumian pointed to his chest:

"The thorn symbol and the blue-black symbol?"

The lady nodded first, then reminded:

"Don't consider the blue and black symbols, the essence of using the dualistic ritual method to get a response is to extract the divine power contained in the target item, if its power becomes less, the balance that your body has managed to achieve will fall to the bad side, and the time will be ......."

She didn't finish her sentence, but her expression made it easy for Lumian to understand what the subtext was.

To paraphrase Aurel's idiomatic expression:

"It's hopeless, wait for death!"

"Is it the blue-black symbol that protects me from being completely polluted?" Lumian already had some occult knowledge and understood that the current situation was called pollution.

"It was the great being I mentioned who protected you." The lady corrected solemnly, "When you have unlocked the secret of the ruins of the dream, I will tell you His honorable name, and you can ask Him directly." ”

Was it the Great Being who descended the power to seal the pollution represented by the Thorn symbol in my heart, and did not let it completely pollute me? Lumian didn't know if the Great Being was good or bad, if he had evil intentions, but at least he felt close to him in this matter.

He thought for a moment and guessed:

"Using the dualistic ritual method to steal the power represented by the Thorn Symbol?

"With less power, the pollution will be less and the seal will be stronger?"

"How can it be called stealing?" The lady retorted, "It's a gift from someone, but he happens to have some power next to him, and he responds in the principle of proximity, and the seal of the great being and the weakening of a certain barrier make a certain subject unnoticed." ”

Or will you people who only speak half of the story...... What's the difference between this and stealing? Lumian muttered inwardly.

Combined with the lady's account of the divine gifts and abnormal pathways, he asked thoughtfully:

"Through the dualistic ritual method, pray to the power corresponding to the thorn symbol and ask it to give me a gift that will greatly strengthen my flexibility?"

"That's pretty much it." The lady nodded, "To be precise, please give you the power of a 'dancer'." ”

"'Dancer'?" Lumien thought of the performance of "Noodle Man".

The lady took a sip of absinthe and said:

"For the transcendent paths outside of the twenty-two paths, we still divide them into sequences 9 to 0 for easy understanding, correspondence and reference.

"Hmm...... In a sense, the division of sequences is in line with the rules of the world. ”

"'The Dancer' corresponds to sequence 9 of the thorn symbol, just as 'Man in the Ring' corresponds to its sequence 4?" Lumian asked several questions in one breath, "Does it increase my flexibility, enhance my spirituality, and allow me to master that mysterious dance with ease?" ”

The lady smiled with relief:

"Sure enough, with a foundation in the occult, communication will be much easier, and I won't need to explain anything else."

Lumian asked a little excitedly:

"What are the corresponding sequences 8, 7, 6, and 5 called?"

"Sequence 8 is 'The Dervishes' and Sequence 7 is 'The Deeded', and hey, you know so much about what to do? Master the ritual well first, and strive to become a 'dancer' as soon as possible. "The lady wasn't too impatient.

"Dervishes" ...... "Contracted Ones"...... Hearing these two names, Lumian instantly had a lot of associations.

"Dervishes" is a profession that exists in real life, mainly referring to certain members of the major churches.

Like the "Eternal Sun" church, it is divided into several groups due to certain differences in concepts, among which there are two main ones, one is the "Evangelistic Brotherhood" and the other is the "Little Brotherhood", also known as the "Dervishes Monks' Society".

The former is dominated by many clergy in the church and the "purifiers" of the Inquisition, emphasizing the brutal crackdown and clean-up of heretics, cults, and wild extraordinaries in order to preach the orthodox doctrine of the "eternal sun".

The latter members were mainly concentrated in the monasteries, but some church members also joined in, advocating abstinence from desires, begging for food and asceticism, and preaching to various poor places, so that more people could believe in the "eternal sun".

So, when it comes to "dervishes", Lumian feels associated with missionary, ascetic, and special ritual magic.

As for the "person who received the contract", the first thing that came to his mind was the black mark on the priest of the main parish and the monster with mouthparts.

Aurore said it might be a mark from a special contract.

"The monster I killed was originally the 'Contracted One?' Lumian asked in amazement.

I actually killed a monster equivalent to Sequence 7?

The lady bowed her head slightly:

"Yes, the 'belattered' is to obtain different powers from different creatures with the help of special contracts and divine testimonies provided by that being, and one contract corresponds to one ability.

"Whether they are powerful or not depends on what abilities they have obtained, how many abilities they have, and it is not impossible for ordinary people to be killed by ordinary people who have gone astray.

"Actually, there is a similar situation in the Transcendent Realm, where it is not uncommon for some Extraordinary who are not good at fighting to be killed by lower sequences.

"Ability is important, brains are also important, and preparation in advance is equally important."

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