Chapter 58: The Ritual
After sending Curt and Oscar away, Lizzie doesn't immediately go back to the bedroom to rest, as she claims, but begins to clean up the living room, which has left too much clutter.
In fact, she didn't feel tired, the previous inspection and potion blending didn't make her lose much of her body, and the consumption of this layer could be replenished with magic power. For her now, sleep is not as effective as eating food.
She simply collected the alchemy tools and materials, and piled all the qiē she had used to treat Oscar on the storage shelf in the corner of the room. After a few back and forth, there was a space in the hall that could accommodate several people to lie side by side, and even the dust that stayed in it was cleared by her spell.
Lizzie doesn't have a habit of cleanliness, and strictly speaking, a slightly cluttered environment calms her mind more than a clean and spotless room. The reason why she needed to clear such a space now was just to prepare for the spell she needed to cast for the next step of her investigation.
Tonight is the new moon, and the light of the white moon that cares over the earth is obscured for a while.
Moonlight has magical properties and is able to supply a qiē of magic power on the ground. The phases of the moon change, and the mana provided will also increase or decrease due to the effects of these changes. If the Full Moon is the peak of the Moon's influence, then the New Moon is the day when the Moon has little to no influence on magic.
Legend has it that thousands of years ago, in what is now known as the "Age of Mythology", the world was guarded by the three moons. The blue moon known as the "blue sky", the red moon known as the "red night", and the white moon known as the "white sea" maintain the flow of the world's magic steadily.
It was a time of gods and heroes, and the world was filled with many things that are unimaginable today. Under the influence of some powerful non-human individuals, mankind once created a prosperous civilization.
But the good times didn't last long, and for some reason, the blue moon hanging in the air collided with the red moon. Some of the debris from the collision was scattered on the ground, destroying almost all of the products of civilization at the time, and the rest barely remained in the sky, forming a ring of dichroic moons that can still be observed today.
After such a large-scale destruction, the original civilization collapsed, and even many of the creatures that existed in the legend became legends. Although the White Moon is still left, and the remaining fragments of the Double Moon are still swaying, the world that was once full of magic is no longer what it used to be.
But this is just a mythological story, when the facts become legends, and when legends become stories, no one knows what the ancient truth is. The only thing that can be sure of the truth is that today when the white moon is the new moon, everything that flows in the outside world will be in a state of instability.
Taking advantage of this period of unstable magic, Lizzie prepares to perform a spell that has not been used in a long time - to be exact, this spell can only be used tonight.
After clearing enough space, she pulled out a chalky piece of chalk from her pocket and drew two regular concentric circles on the ground, one large and one small. Then, in the space between the two circles, a thin font was filled with a dense magic style written in ancient characters.
After listing the complete magic formula in the border of the concentric circles, Lizzie did not stop the chalk in her hand. She uses a simple and powerful technique to draw complex geometric shapes in the inner circle, which are combined with each other to form an asymmetrical "gate" image.
Lizzie's Rubik's cube was much larger than the one used by Danfoss at the time, with lines of varying thicknesses outlining geometric figures of varying sizes. All of these figures depict several symbolic patterns with abstract brushstrokes, and then connect them with simple straight lines.
"The moon, the North Star, the broken white rock, the closed silver door......" Looking at the large Rubik's cube she had drawn on the ground, Lizzie muttered to herself calculating the concepts necessary to complete the spell, adding to it, "There should be the outline of the dead branches of the evergreen tree here......"
"This completes the first part. ”
Decorating the last element in the center of the Rubik's Cube, Lizzie nodded in satisfaction.
The pattern she drew on the ground was not far from the Rubik's cube in the usual sense. Abstract patterns replace ancient scripting algorithms, and the line structure used to provide space for magic to flow through the Rubik's Cube is not quite similar to the spell weaving structure that is popular today.
This is a fairly old form of Rubik's Cube, and even ancient spells in the ordinary sense have given up on the organization of using such complex means to perform spells. It's not that the old stuff can be any better, it's just that Lizzie didn't find a way to improve the spell, so she chose to use the old one.
It doesn't require much mana, and it's actually more suitable for driving complex mana structures. All the caster needs to do is combine the highly discrete unstable dìng mana, and channel them in one place with a certain amount of mana, which is enough to use them effectively.
If the Rubik's Cubes are compared to a waterwheel, then in order to make this "waterwheel" rotate at a certain degree and provide enough energy for the work, it needs the necessary amount of water as the source of its power. And for the Rubik's Cube, this "water" is undoubtedly magic.
If you want the "waterwheel" to spin faster, you need to provide a larger amount of "water" - but there is a limit to what can be done in the end.
Let a large amount of mana pass the Rubik's Cube, and the degree of its driving spells will also increase accordingly, and if the magic power that the Rubik's Cube's ability to carry above the peak of mana is imposed on this basis, no matter how stable it is, the Rubik's Cube's Array will eventually collapse due to excessive load.
It is only necessary to cast a spell that creates a short-term phenomenon, so it is not necessary for the caster to increase the magic power to catalyze its operation at a certain time. However, if you need to keep a Rubik's cube for a long time and maintain its effect, you must choose a mode with less mana.
The lighting in the room had been completely removed, and only the outermost two concentric circles of the Rubik's Cube were faintly scattered. The magic that had been channeled by Liki did have an effect, and as they flowed, the words written on the inside of the concentric circles began to flicker, illuminating the dark room completely.
Whew――
The magic in the air flowed regularly under the influence of the Rubik's Cube, and the closed room seemed to be accompanied by gusts of breeze. The unstable dìng magic under the influence of the crescent moon is more susceptible to the influence of the Rubik's Cube, and they are like thin streams of water, flowing slowly under the traction of the pipes.
But that wasn't enough to drive the spell that Lizzie was about to use, and depicting the complex and massive Rubik's cube was only the first step in casting the spell. In addition to the basic Rubik's Cube, it is also necessary to put the corresponding key materials in each symbolic pattern as the catalyst for the spell.
Lizzie placed a small, smooth white stone on the Moon Crest depicted directly above the "gate" in the center of the Rubik's Circle. In an instant, the stone turned into dust and scattered on the moon phase depicting the full moon, as if absorbing the real magic of the moon, and the coat of arms immediately burst into a silver glow.
With this as a starting point, Lizzie placed each material in turn in the corresponding position. Once the core material is placed, the geometric shapes of different sizes are changed accordingly. The light of the moon and the stars, the shadows of the rocks and the leaves, the sound of the waves and the wind...... These things that should not be stored in the room are revealed one by one in a magical framework, making the room seem to be in a different time and space.
The environment of magic power was ready, and Liqi walked to the "gate" in the center of the Rubik's Cube and stood up, and transmitted the magic power in her body into the Rubik's Cube through her feet, making the magic structure coherent. The Rubik's Cube is used as the base, the symbols and materials are used as the carriers of magical power, and the body is used to carry the effects of spells.
"Echo, echo, the bell that heralds the coming of night, echo here. In the center of the Rubik's Circle, Lizzie began to whisper a short sentence, "From the towers of the Garden of Splendour, the sound of the abyss resounds, echoing under the Night Tabernacle. ”
Her lips opened slightly, and a series of syllables flowed from her throat, sounding like a song. These sentences are more like narrative poems with unclear meanings, if they are mantras. From Lizzie's mouth, the words infused with magic filled the room, pounding the air regularly.
Words of power flowed out of Liki's mouth, and as she continued to chant, the Rubik's Cubes built on the ground also changed.
The geometric figures depicting the various coats of arms shine brightly, casting the image on the ceiling, which is instantly obscured by various colors of light, and the overlapping light and shadow outline a more complex figure. The surrounding words shimmer with changing brilliance, and the light circulates in circles, forming a barrier of light.
In the space where the Rubik's Cube Array shone brightly, more than a dozen fluorescent-shaped points of light emerged from the void and hovered around Liqi's body. Her fingers moved slightly, as if plucking an invisible harp, and the fireflies hovering around her danced with her chanting, leaving trails of light in the air.
The tracer light is not haphazard, but rather in a special order outlines the gate depicted on the ground in the air directly opposite Lizzie. Naturally, a dozen streamers were much faster than Lizzie's chalk sketches, but in a few seconds, a door made of silver streamers stood in front of Liqi.
"Crossing the thorny wall of shadows, the path of moonlight has reached its end. Lizzie's chanting had entered its final stage, and her tone gradually became elevated, "Leave aside the container of this world on the shore of the silent lake, and follow the ancient path of barren grass to the often dark earth......
"The door of silver is open here—"
The moment the last sentence of words blurted out, the gate made of the streamer suddenly collapsed, and the light overflowing from the door engulfed her thin body.
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