Chapter Eighty-Six: Supplication
The so-called "interrupted" ritual magic means that when the extraordinary person performs the ritual, he can interrupt it according to the situation, complete other things first, wait until he is done, and then return to continue, and still get the desired effect.
This is a technique derived from the development of ritual magic for thousands of years, after all, many high-level rituals require many steps, and it may take an hour, two hours, or even half a day to complete, and it is difficult to ensure that no one else disturbs and no accidents occur during the process.
After the blood and tears of the ancestors, and after the feedback of failures again and again, the ritual magic that can be "interrupted" has become mainstream at the high level, and indirectly affects the lower parts.
However, being able to "interrupt" does not mean that you can interrupt whenever you want, you can interrupt as much as you want, you must follow the theory of occultism and master the corresponding skills, otherwise the failure of the ritual is an inescapable ending, and it will even attract a terrifying backlash.
According to Klein's understanding, when you successfully get the gaze of a god, and while he is waiting for you to say what he is asking for, and you suddenly say, "Wait, I'll go to the bathroom first," then congratulations, you will never have to go to the bathroom again.
Call...... Crane let out a sigh of relief, keeping himself calm.
Although he has held many "transfer ceremonies" and designed corresponding processes for "justice" and "hanged man" to try, this is the first time that the real, compliant ritual magic has been practiced today.
Glancing at the silver-encrusted cane leaning against the edge of the bed, Crane picked up the third candle and placed it in the center of his desk as a symbol of himself.
Immediately afterwards, he placed Selena's ritual in a small silver bowl in front of the third candle, replacing the cauldron with the emblem, on the left was the hydrosol and essential oil containing the moon flower, the deep sleep flower and other plants, and on the right was a dish of salt, a small silver dagger, a piece of imitation parchment, and a water-dipped quill pen.
Fortunately, Selena's things are relatively complete, otherwise there is really no way to complete the arrangement, and the quick ritual of old Neil is not something that a "soothsayer" can do...... In this way, Selena is a more senior occult enthusiast......... Well, it's not senior, and it can't get into such a disaster...... She's only sixteen years old, so she's been exposed to this for at least a year...... Who led her into?Crane picked up Selena's cup from the bedside, poured it into water, and placed it next to the coarse salt.
He took out his pocket watch, snapped it open, and glanced at it, he didn't delay any longer, sketched layers of balls of light in his mind, and quickly entered meditation.
An invisible wind swirled in the room with the scent of flowers, and Crane's eyes, who had put away his pocket watch, turned from brown to black, as if he could see the soul of every watcher.
He stretched out his palm against the candle in the upper right corner, and said silently in his heart:
"O Goddess of the Night, you are the Lord of Crimson!"
In silence, Crane extended his spirituality, rubbed the wick of the candle, and after many times, the candle was lit in a moment, and the dim light had a faint quiet light blue.
"O goddess of the night, you are also the Empress of Doom and Fear!"
Following the method just now, Klein successfully lit the second candle in the upper left corner.
"I am your faithful guard, a shield against danger in the night, a spear that pierces evil in silence!"
Rise!
The third candle that symbolizes Klein begins to burn.
Without the slightest flickering candle flame, he picked up the silver knife and imitated the old Neil's manners, and sanctified it with incantations and coarse salt and water.
He then allowed his accumulated spirituality to erupt from the tip of the silver dagger, merging with nature.
With a silver knife in hand, Crane walked around the bedroom (where the bed was, and he replaced his feet with his knees), sealing the place with an invisible barrier.
The light of the street lamps outside the window disappeared in an instant, but the crimson still shone quietly.
Crane returned to his desk, picked up a quill, and used spirit and ink to draw incantations and symbols to avoid calamity.
After doing all this, he put down what he was holding and dropped a few bottles of hydrosol, flower essence, and essential oil into each of the three candles.
Multiply!
A faint mist filled the room, and the room suddenly felt a little more mysterious.
Burning several herbs in turn, Crane took a step back in the mixed scent and chanted the mantra corresponding to the "interrupted" ritual magic:
"The goddess of the night who is nobler than the starry sky, older than eternity;"
"I pray for your favors;"
"Pray that you will bless one of your faithful believers. ”
"I pray for the power of Crimson;"
"I pray for the power of calamity and fear;"
"Pray that your faithful follower, Selena Wood, will be freed from the stain of evil and from the scars of evil. ”
"I beg you, wait a moment, wait for that unfortunate girl. ”
......
"Moonflower, herbs that belong to the red moon, please pass on the power to my spell!"
"O Deep Sleep Flower, the herb that belongs to the Red Moon, please pass on the power to my spell!"
......
After chanting the incantation, Crane closed his eyes and repeated it in his mind seven times.
Seeing that there was nothing unusual about the altar, he held the silver dagger again, and retreated step by step, to the door of Selena's bedroom.
He drew a crimson moon with four clicks on his chest, then turned around and raised the silver dagger.
Once again, spirituality erupted from the tip, cutting the shape of a door into the invisible wall.
Klein knew that at this time, even if he opened the door himself, it would not affect the tranquility and holiness of the altar.
He pulled out a silver pocket watch with arabesques, checked the time, and rehearsed the rest of the process.
............
Second floor living room.
Elizabeth, trembling slightly, glanced up at the wall clock from time to time, and counted the time in the light of the two gas lamps.
Almost...... While she whispered silently, she glanced sideways at the lively girl with long burgundy hair, who had deep dimples and a bright smile, and could chat well with every friend around her.
But the more this happened, the more frightened Elizabeth felt, and the cold and terrifying "Selena" in the mirror seemed to have always existed in her mind, hard to forget.
We can't wait any longer! We must act! Elizabeth Huo Ran stood up, and stammered and laughed in the surprised eyes of everyone:
"Selena, I, I have a surprise for you, for you, you go out with me. ”
"Really, didn't you give a birthday present?" Selena picked up the mirror and got up in surprise.
"The surprise is, no, there won't be any, no signs. Elizabeth felt that she had no talent for acting.
She didn't say more, and walked to the door of the living room, Selena followed with a puzzled smile.
Melissa watched the two friends leave, and her brows furrowed unconsciously:
Elizabeth is so strange today......
After she met Klein, it was even more strange......
She suddenly ran out just now, saying that she was in a hurry to get to the bathroom, but why did her expression look so panicked......
............
Selena's bedroom doorway.
Elizabeth took a deep breath and said to the girl in front of her:
"Let's go into your room. ”
"Elizabeth, I feel that you are nervous and scared, why?" Selena looked at her friend in confusion, and found that her body was shaking uncontrollably.
"Excited, yes, excited!" Elizabeth glanced at the mirror in Selena's hand, half-turned, and knocked on the door, one long and two short.
"Why knock on the door......" Selena was even more confused.
With a squeak, her bedroom door opened, and Klein, dressed in a black tuxedo and a half-height silk top hat, appeared in front of the two girls.
"Surprise? This is a surprise?" Selena's mouth was half open, and her head was confused.
At this moment, Crane suddenly reached out, grabbed her wrist, and pulled her into the room, seeing Elizabeth stunned in place.
At the same time, Klein's silver dagger was lit out, spraying out the spirituality, and quickly making up for the door-shaped passage that had been cut.
The invisible spiritual wall sealed the room again, hiding Selena's screams inside.
Bang!
Klein slammed the door shut, and without even looking at Selena, he hurried back to his desk.
The long, burgundy-haired girl stopped screaming, raised her head, and looked around the room.
Her gaze quickly turned cold, her skin turned a little pale, and her ten fingers quickly grew sharp nails.
At this time, Klein had already returned to a meditative state, and while dropping a drop of the essential oil extracted from the moon flower into each of the three candles, he recited aloud:
"O Supreme Crimson Lord, Great Empress of Doom and Fear;"
"I pray that you will send down your favors;"
"Bless your lost lamb, Selena Wood!"
At the sound of the incantation, he picked up the imitation parchment and held it to the candle that symbolized the supplicant.
Woo!
He felt the cold wind behind him, and felt the heavy power coming.
The parchment was set on fire, and Crane tossed it into a small silver bowl, and he himself was prepared to duck down and avoid a fatal caught.
Woooooo
The wind became extremely intense, and Crane only felt that his spiritual spirit was surging out, and he couldn't contain it at all.
He saw the parchment in the small silver bowl burn into a quiet blackness, and heard the movement of a heavy object falling to the ground behind him.
Plop!
In two voices that were barely spaced apart, wisps of black-green invisible gas were thrown into the small silver bowl and disappeared into the hallucinatory darkness.
Crane half-rolled to the side, got up, and pulled out the revolver under his armpit, but when he stared, he saw Selena, a cute girl with long burgundy hair, fall to the ground, and the silver-plated mirror fell into countless pieces on the blanket.
And those fragments no longer reflect Selena, honestly presenting the ceiling, showing Crane's silhouette.
At this time, Klein, who had not turned off his vision, saw that the evil black and green in Selena's aura had all disappeared, and everything had returned to normal, but it seemed much weaker.
Call...... As soon as he was relieved, he felt a tingling pain in his eyebrows and a tingling pain in his head.
The stinging pain spread all over his body, making him want to roll on the ground.
Klein's fists clenched suddenly, and the green tendons on the back of his hands stood out one by one, all black in color, like moving worms.
At the same time, he heard a silent cry, a murmur that tore through his own spirit.
After more than ten seconds, he relented, only to feel cold sweat on his forehead and vest.
"The ritual magic just now drained my spirituality and almost threw my extraordinary power out of control?" Klein roughly judged the situation.
And this incident also made him realize that he seemed to have digested a lot of the residual spirit in the potion, because if he calculated according to the initial strength after taking the potion, he felt that he couldn't hold it at all just now, and he would directly collapse into a monster.
The "playing method" is still very useful...... Klein tapped his eyebrows and wiped his sweat.
He turned to face the altar, tapped four times on his chest, and spoke aloud:
"Praise be to the Goddess!"
Then, in turn, he extinguished the candles and quickly cleaned up the altar.
After casually putting the items back on his desk, he used a silver dagger to lift the sealed spiritual wall.
Woo!
The wind echoed, the silence receded, and Crane let out a long sigh of relief, deeply afraid of what had just happened:
"If I hadn't rehearsed the process and completed the ceremony without any problems, things would have been in trouble...... And I still don't know who the opponent is and who the enemy is...... Luckily, um, luckily, the room was carpeted and my tumbling didn't damage the clothes......"
He shook his head and reached open the wooden door to Selena's bedroom.
"How's it going?" asked Elizabeth nervously taking two steps back.
Crane looked at her frightened look, took off his half-height silk top hat, and smiled gently:
"I've corrected her magic mirror divination mistakes, and the matter is settled. ”