When crafting the Illusion Card, Ivas was still able to sit in a wheelchair.

But when performing advanced rituals, this cannot be the case.

Luckily, Ivus had fed the Shadow Fiend early this morning. Even if he stood up and his body was completely connected to his shadow, the sober Shadow Demon was not out of control at all.

The shadow under Ivus's feet squirmed slightly, and from time to time it floated slightly, to prove that it was still alive and alive.

At that time, the shadows that floated from time to time were reminiscent of the special effect of "fairy energy" made of dry ice - only this fairy energy was pure black with no variegation at all.

The demonic aura is enveloped and belongs to yes.

In fact, the materials of the advanced rites are not exactly the same as the rituals.

Universal rituals are not so rigid in their own right, and the complexity of many rituals, as well as the nature of the materials that are difficult to obtain, actually come from artificial encryption. It is similar in nature to the metaphors of alchemical writings. The purpose is to prevent people from deciphering the essence of this ritual.

That's why Ivas can easily make magic cards.

As a nascent ritual that was born three years later, it has not undergone the process of repeated encryption, false decryption, and re-encryption, and its original ritual meaning has not been distorted. Therefore, it can be easily copied by Avas, who has only a level 1 of "Basic Ritual".

The Advanced Ritual is the opposite.

The subtleties of the advanced rituals of the various inheritance schools are slightly different.

The ritual adopted by Ivas was a simplified version of what he had seen in his adoptive father's collection. This is a ritual that is commonly circulated in the circle of the Knight of Avalon -

The advantage is that you don't have to toss too much, and the disadvantage is that you have to consume a small piece of white crystal...... It's about the size of a thumb's fingernail and a thin slice the thickness of a coin. But it's not expensive in itself, so it's easy to say. Ivas punched a hole in it, threaded it through a rope, and made a disposable pendant.

He prepared six types of silver ornaments, two bracelets, necklaces, two rings, and forehead rings.

They were then coated with clove, cinnamon, cypress, benzoin, perennial flower, and chamomile oil, and placed on the six vertices of the six-pointed star depicted by Ehuas—the six essential oils of plants and the six-pointed star circle depicted by silver sharps were the most important and irreplaceable part of the ritual.

After that, Ivas prepared three foods that he didn't like.

He chose turnips, bitter gourd and green peppers. He only symbolically cut a thin slice and placed it in the middle of the six-pointed star.

In this way, the preparations for the ceremony are ready.

Ivas put on his seminary uniform. Although it is a school uniform, it is also a formal clerical uniform.

It has a pure white clergy collar and two gold bramp reliefs with roses on the neckline – this ornament even contains real gold. It has tan sashes on its shoulders and chest, and is still adorned with golden thorns like antlers. The robe hung down to more than half of her thighs. Further down are brown trousers and cloth shoes.

Anyone who looks at this dress can also know that this is a pastor of the Nine Pillars God Church.

Close the door of the room and wait until the full moon rises above 40 degrees, and the ceremony will officially begin.

"—Nine are complete."

Ivus muttered.

As he spoke, he lit a vanilla stick made by bunching dried sage mixed with mugwort leaves.

Like a cigar, he repeatedly seared the tip of the vanilla stick.

In fact, it's a cigar of sorts – just like coffee is soy milk in a sense.

Sage is the most commonly used smoked and burned herb, and it can be mixed with different herbs to have different effects. When mixed with mugwort leaves, its main meaning is to block the influence of the forces of other paths on advanced rituals.

It was put on Aihuas to suppress the interference of his own transcendent path to the ritual.

"Drop the third ......"

Ivus whispered, pressing the smoking-emitting vanilla stick to the center of the six-pointed star.

"—Constant Me, Lord of Scales, Amber."

These three names are the names of the pillar gods of the path of love, the path of adaptation, and the path of twilight.

This is a necessary process for the Full Moon ceremony.

No transcendent can be exquisite. Even the full moon ceremony does not allow for opportunistic acts.

Before you meet your teammates and enemies, you must declare your three least favorite paths. Show your determination as a way to do so.

During this ceremony, he was not able to cooperate with his teammates on the three paths. Even if those three paths are all strong, they can't secretly change their positions.

These three paths were also carefully selected by Eivas.

Although he is good at surviving in adapting to the path, he will definitely sell his teammates when necessary.

And the path of dusk and the path of love are purely because there are too many weirdos in them.

- The so-called path of love is nothing but a good name.

It is related to savagery, bestiality, impulsiveness, and the path of reproduction and diet that pursues the natural desires of animals.

Who are the people inside?

Old color pie, gourmet, welfare Ji, big stomach king...... No matter how you look at it, it's not serious. It's quite suitable for the modern Internet environment.

The twilight path emphasizes a "the sun will eventually set, and all things will eventually perish", which is the path to fight against death and disappearance, and to pursue eternal life and solidification.

Undertakers, taximen, grave keepers, and painters and sculptors who painted the remains are likely to believe in the twilight path. Mummification and wax figures are also part of the art of the Twilight Path, which also includes summoning the undead and reincarnating.

In these three paths, it is not easy to have excellent teammates.

As Evas recited the names of the three pillar gods in turn, a gust of wind suddenly swept through the room.

Three pieces of food that Ivus didn't like to eat suddenly burst into flames of three colors.

They are black, emerald and amber.

They quickly burned out in the fire, turning into a black plume of smoke.

But the strange thing is that there is a strange whirlwind in the room, constantly rotating around Ivus. But the green smoke emitted by the bunch of vanilla sticks that ignited the three foods went straight upwards, constricting into a plume of smoke only the thickness of a wrist, and reaching straight above the white crystal pendant that hung under the chandelier.

Then, Ivus began to circle around the ritual array, holding a vanilla stick outside the ritual array, and turning in a low circle, smoking the outer ring of the ritual array.

"The Six Bless Me ......"

The vanilla stick pointed to the six silver ornaments while reciting the names of the remaining six pillar gods:

"Sand timepiece. Candles. Wei Zhe. The Silver Crowned Dragon. Twin mirrors. Constant me. ”

As he clicked, the six silver ornaments gradually turned black.

It's not blackened, it's like it's touched by some poison. It's like pulling something unfavorable from the air around it.

The whirlwind in the room grew louder and louder—all the candles in Ivus's room were blown out by the wind, but nothing was blown off, not even a fluttering piece of paper.

"I follow the way of the candle."

The next moment, the vanilla stick in Ivus's hand suddenly burst.

He let go and threw it in the middle of the six-pointed star. It made a crackling sound and a wonderful pure white smoke rose. Once again, it was covered with a white crystal pendant that had been lifted and had been blackened by the smoke of the previous era.

- The ceremony was successful.

Seeing that his "basic ritual" had suddenly increased by 20%, Eivas exhaled lightly and confirmed that the ritual had been successful.

He removed the white crystal pendant from the chandelier and wore it close to his body.

Although he knew before that the ritual was simple. But after all, Ivus was also the first time to use rituals to advance.

It was all cloud before, but this time it's really hands-on.

When Ivas put on the pendant, he felt a sense of tranquility and sleepiness.

It's not strong, and you can resist it with your will.

It's roughly like being sleepy after you've eaten enough, or having eaten melatonin before bed.

But Ivas did not resist and sat in his wheelchair. Close your eyes and feel the dragging.

It was as if he was slowly sinking in the dark depths of the ocean, and he clearly felt that his consciousness was being dragged into a deeper level by some force in a lucid state.

"Good evening, priest."

Just as Ivas woke up again, a cold voice sounded that was somewhat familiar to Ivus.

He opened his eyes and found himself in a pitch-black space. There was no light source here, but he could see everything.

He sat in a tall, wide-backed chair. Ivas is over 1.8 meters tall, but even he can't fit the chair completely. When you place your elbow on one armrest, the other arm can't reach the armrest on the other side.

And when he looked up, he saw that there were eight more such chairs.

Nine chairs form a circle, and in the center is a large stone hourglass statue. It's about five or six meters tall, and it looks like a huge ornament in a shopping mall.

Ivus found himself the fourth to arrive.

In front of him, three more people had already arrived.

The four of them sat next to each other. The first is an old man with his head bowed and holding a cane. The second person was a young man in a tan trench coat and a top hat.

The third is a somewhat lame look - wearing a fully enclosed knight's helmet on his head, but a shirt and sweater that makes it easy to move around.

Although Eivas couldn't see their faces at all, it was like he couldn't see the faces of passers-by in a dream. But he knew right away that it must be Sherlock!

Because his tone is so iconic, and the look is completely undisguised.

It's as if to say – yes, I'm Sherlock Hermes.