Chapter 60: Tears and the setting sun fall side by side
Birds of a feather flock together.
This group of members of the "School of History Research" include Norman and Moran, two leaders who are full of their minds who pursue knowledge and historical truth. Naturally, they don't know what kind of people they will be.
Everyone was excited to hear that they had the opportunity to see the invisible art rituals in the far east and see the scenery completely different from what they knew in the past.
They were as if they had a powerful bff added and quickly arranged the ceremony.
Then Miss Moran and Mr. Norman tried to stress the attention in the ceremony.
"The sunset ritual is relatively safe among all kinds of invisible rituals." Miss Moran said, "'Set Sun' is the main heir of the 'Sharp Sun'. It symbolizes a sad ending, the lamp and the god of winter, silent and bright. Because of its silence, it generally does not cause accidents in the ritual; because of its rays, it generally does not bring bad results. We just need to strictly follow the content of the ritual... at least as far as I know, unless they are those cultists with abnormal mental disorders, I have never heard of anyone having an accident at the sunset ritual."
Pan Long nodded slightly to show his understanding.
In fact, he also had a lot of impression of this ceremony - as Mr. Norman said just now, the biggest advantage of this ceremony is its low cost. The only consumable is the "influence" that can be obtained through staying and exploring.
The influence card cannot be stored for a long time and is not used. Can you wait for it to transform into all kinds of bad things?
So when he played this game, he also liked to cast spells through the sunset ritual.
He was very familiar with this ceremony!
A spell, a helper and an influence, three can complete the spell by compiling the required characteristics.
Of course, this is the design in the game. If the game becomes a reality, it will naturally change.
Not to mention anything else, there are more hosts and guardians in the ritual - this is what is not in the game.
As the sun sets, the time for the ceremony is almost here.
Miss Moran and Mr. Norman stood in the two places symbolizing "light" and "stone" in the drawn ritual array, Stone and Ellow stood in the two places symbolizing "blood" and "meat", Mrs. Violet stood in the one that symbolized "set sun", and Leo stood in the one that symbolized mortals. Pan Long stood outside the ritual array, ready to respond at any time.
Si Chen, that is, the gods, has four different origins.
The heaven and earth are opened up to produce glow and virtual worlds. The projection of glow in the world is the sun. The god born from the glow is called the "Light Source God".
In the long development and changes of the world, the god that evolved itself was called "Shiyuan God".
The god born through a sacrificial ritual of intelligent creatures is called the "Divine Blood Source".
The god who ascended through practice is called the "Heart God of Meat".
As for the virtual world, it is a big taboo for all living beings in the world, and even the gods are very afraid of it. The virtual world is a world of death and nothingness. All the fallen Si Chen belongs to it. There are also gods in the world who originate from this, but their names themselves are taboos, and even the gods are often unwilling to mention them.
Of course, there will not be any lunatic who specifically involves them during the ceremony.
Moran, Norman, Stone and Ellow are the four of them, symbolizing Si Chen's witness ceremony, and they are also the host and executor of the ceremony. Mrs. Violet is responsible for touching the setting sun with sincere tears. As a fulfiller of "hospice care", she has witnessed too many tragedies. If she were not strong-willed, she might have shed tears all day long.
As long as she relaxed her heart a little, she could easily shed tears.
And Leo, he actually doesn't have to do anything, just try to keep his mood calm and mental stability...
With Miss Moran's voice "Start", Mrs. Violet lowered her head and fell into those sad memories.
Tears quickly flowed out of her eyes and flowed down the wrinkles on her face. She choked silently, crying for the tragedy she had seen and for the helplessness she could not do anything about.
At this moment, the sunset is falling from the edge of the horizon.
I don’t know how long it took, maybe one second, or maybe half a minute, suddenly, Pan Long clearly felt a powerful force appearing beside Mrs. Violet.
The power carries a little warmth, and can feel the kindness in it, but it is more sad and silent. It is like a good man who has experienced too much pain and betrayal and has been disappointed in the world.
Si Chen's will to "set Yang" comes here at this moment!
The moment the will emerged, the tears on Madame Violet's face disappeared without a trace, as if someone had wiped her tears away, and even the sadness on her face disappeared, turning into a faint confusion.
The setting sun absorbed her tears and sadness.
Then, a soft sigh seemed to be heard from the magic circle.
The sigh turned into an invisible wind that blew towards Leo.
The next moment, Leo seemed to have split open. His body and soul became completely transparent, as if everything was displayed in front of people.
Pan Long saw the sincere and pure spirit, and also saw the vigorous vitality.
Perhaps because of the reason why it was free from the constraints of flesh and blood, the spirit grew rapidly and its vitality burned like a flame.
If this continues, perhaps in a short time, he will burn himself to pieces.
But at this moment, the wind stopped.
The wind stopped, Leo's flesh and blood reappeared, like a carapace, wrapping up spirit and vitality.
So he returned to his original state, but Pan Long could clearly feel that he had grown up.
His spirit became stronger and his vitality became stronger. Although he was still a mortal, he was completely different from what he had just now!
He took a big step on the road to extraordinaryness and immortality!
As the wind stopped, the will of the setting sun disappeared.
At the same time, the sunset fell completely to the horizon, and except for some residual red light from the west sky, the night had already covered the earth.
At this time, the ceremony should end. But at this moment, a sudden change occurred!
A ball of black gas suddenly emerged.
It has a structure that seems to be somewhat like a human - the head, trunk and limbs. But the parts of the limbs are blurred, maybe five limbs, maybe more, or maybe not at all. The only thing that can be confirmed is that you can see three eyes at the position of the head.
Three flashed with a terrifying cold light, but they clearly revealed their cunning and gloomy eyes!
Pan Long frowned—whether Miss Moran, Mr. Norman said just now, or his impression of the game, he didn't remember that such things would be attracted by the promotion of the invisible art practitioner.
And Mr. Norman had opened his eyes and whispered: "In the border, the four corners of the casting furnace, the glow fire burned the more primitive substance. There was a cunning steam that could invade your enemy's dreams."
With his chanting sound, the smoke trembled, as if it was bound by something.
Then Miss Moran still closed her eyes, but her hands were posing in a strange position on her chest, as if a rune appeared in front of her. The rune was shining brightly and it was hard to look directly at.
The smoke trembled violently, and seemed to be attacked, feeling pain.
Stone and Ellow obviously had never seen this scene. They were just silent - the practitioners of invisible arts knew that if you don’t know what to do, then you might as well choose between running away and silence.
They will not give up their companions and run away, so they can only remain silent.
Mrs. Violet was still confused, and Leo was still energetic and full of vitality, but in the magic circle, the struggle between Miss Moran, Mr. Norman and the strange smoke gradually became white-hot.
Mr. Norman's body trembled slightly, but he kept chanting poems, which analyzed and explained the origin of the smoke. He used knowledge to turn it into shackles and bound the uninvited monster.
Miss Moran was sweating profusely, her hands were burned red, but she was still maintaining the runes, sending a steady stream of burning heat, burning the monster and forcing it to tame it.
It is said that if the monster is in such a two-pronged approach, it should bow its head and surrender. But its body is trembling, and what appears in its eyes is not the intention of surrender, but a clear and clear madness!
Pan Long sighed.
The next moment, his figure appeared in the magic circle and the like, and his left hand stretched out like a sharp claw, piercing the monster's torso.
The power of light bloomed in his hands, and in an instant it destroyed at least three-quarters of the torso of the smoke monster.
After receiving such a heavy blow, the madness in the monster's eyes suddenly faded away, leaving only extreme fear.
Even monsters will die.
But Pan Long did not attack again. He took back his left hand and stared at the monster coldly.
The smoke shook, condensed again, and turned into a complete monster, but its body was less than half the size of the previous one.
This time, it lowered its head, and its humility was fully revealed.
Mr. Norman and Miss Moran breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. Miss Moran put down his hands, and Mr. Norman took out a piece of white crystal and whispered: "Use the crystal to hide the smoke and surround the border of the steam spirit, I order you to stay here! Obey my orders during this period of time of the world!"
The smoke monster nodded and turned into a stream of water, pouring into the crystal. The white crystal was immediately dyed black and turned into pure black.
Mr. Norman took out another box carved with runes, put the black crystal boarding the monster in it, and locked it up tightly.
After doing all this, he smiled.
"It's OK, the ceremony is over."
With his words, Mrs. Violet and Leo, who were confused in the ritual magic circle, woke up. The magic circle that originally looked ordinary, emitted a faint white light and then disappeared without a trace.
"Miss Moran, are you okay?" Stone hurriedly approached Miss Moran and asked with concern.
He was powerless just now and could only act as a spectator. He clearly saw that Miss Moran burned his hands because of casting spells and summoning the power of glow.
Miss Moran raised her hands and saw two obvious red burns on her hands, and she didn't know how long it would take to recover.
But her expression seemed very relaxed: "Don't worry, it's just an ordinary injury. Nothing will remain after recovery and will not affect my body."
"Will it not cause any impact?" Pan Long asked, "What if he recovered now?"
"Of course it's better." Miss Moran replied casually.
So Pan Long raised his hand, and the light of the healing technique fell on her hand. The bright red burn quickly faded, and his skin quickly returned to a normal color, looking no different from before.
Miss Moran exclaimed in surprise and touched the part on her original hand. Sure enough, it didn't hurt at all, as if she was not injured.
"Is this the invisible art of the East? It's so wonderful!" she couldn't help but say, "No rituals, no ointments or sacrifices, and even no spells..."
Pan Long smiled, no explanation.
He can't say, "This is the magic of the brave in another world"... "The other world" may be fine, but "brave" and other things are not like this in Eastern culture!
Mr. Norman smiled and said, "Although there was something unexpected at this ceremony, the result was very good. Leo's promotion went smoothly, and we also captured a 'Steam Spirit' - this thing is a good summoning object. Generally speaking, if you want to summon it, you have to consume a powerful casting influence. The casting influence is not easy to obtain. It is necessary to talk to Gribby at the Gate of the Stag, hold up his burning tears with the hands of the soul, and endure the pain of being scalded."
"Although the scald only exists in dreams, the pain of the soul is even more unbearable by the body." Miss Moran said, "I did it for the ceremony and cultivated for two weeks afterwards, and then recovered from the uncomfortable burning heat. If it were not forbidden, I would never want to experience that feeling again!"
Leo then understood what had just happened and couldn't help asking: "Isn't the sunset ceremony very safe?"
"In theory, this is the case," said Mr. Norman. "But this time, it may be that we attended the ceremony too many people and emitted too much spiritual power, which attracted the greedy steam spirit... In fact, even if the steam spirit was out of control just now, the risk was not great. The attack power of this thing is limited, so it can only temporarily put the victims into madness. That kind of madness can be cured, and it will be enough to cultivate for up to ten days and half a month."
"Is this safe?" Pan Long asked.
"Yes, everything that will not leave any sequelae is safe," Mr. Norman said for granted.
Pan Long sighed, feeling that he and those of them, who are invisible art, seem to be very different from their views on "safety".
But no matter what, the result is good.
In addition to completing the promotion, he also captured a monster from the edge of the world. Although this monster is so weak to Pan Long's view,... As the saying goes, there are no useless cards, only players who can't play cards. If placed in the hands of people who know how to do things, this monster should also play a big role.
Probably that's the case...
Chapter completed!