As the ceremony progressed, the surrounding air began to become psychedelic.
The vague aroma can make people's hearts beat faster and their faces turn red.
Everything around me becomes more colorful and delicate. The colors, light and shadow, taste, and breath all become so dazzling.
It's like the real world that is usually boring has suddenly turned into a beautiful picture; it's also like that under the influence of an alchemical mixture that can produce hallucinations, the whole world has become a more fantastical dream.
Walls spread out walls, colors spread out colors.
And the intersections of countless illusions gathered in mid-air and turned into an extremely gorgeous butterfly.
He seems to be here, but also seems not to be there. It seems to be just an illusion, but everyone present can see this illusion. At the same time, it is still changing - the patterns on the butterfly wings continue to collapse and reorganize, and
Every time it is reorganized, the entire world around it changes.
【Your request——】
Die Tiansi's voice came.
It was a girl's voice that sounded beautiful and light.
"Offer the blood of Ouroboros——"
Meg said seriously: "I pray for the privilege of performing the sacred ritual of 'shedding' on my own!"
【promise--】
Die Tiansi agreed.
[I give you the right to ‘shed your skin and be reborn’——]
The next moment, the illusion of the butterfly shattered in the air. It turned into countless pink scales, which also looked like countless wings.
And the purple liquid on the ground evaporated and dissipated... The whole space turned purple at the bottom and pink at the top, and it was like a dream for a while.
When all the purple smoke evaporated and dissipated, Meg was already shrouded in the pupa shell. Two things like blood vessels were connected to the infinity symbol, one drew out the silver-white illusory liquid, and the other drew out the orange
The red liquid continued to rotate at high speed in the ritual groove, merging with each other.
The severe pain of body disintegration made Meg unable to help screaming.
The scream was so thrilling that Lily and Isabel, who were watching the ceremony, couldn't help but squeeze each other's palms.
Aiwass, on the other hand, stood in front of the ceremony circle with a serious expression, carefully watching every step of the ceremony.
He was actually not too panicked... Even though Meg screamed miserably, the hardest part was over. As long as he could hold on, the pain would not cause the ceremony to end early or be interrupted by others.
The painful wailing lasted for a full twenty minutes. The two-color liquid in the groove was completely mixed and turned into a brand new viscous liquid. It became like mercury, and also like the kind with sequins and light powder.
Silver white nail polish.
They are then injected into another pupal shell.
——It was the egg of promotion built by the power of Huan Tiansi. It slowly absorbed the silver-white liquid until the purple shell completely turned into silver-white. Then it became quiet.
"……finished?"
Isabel waited for a long time before asking in a low voice.
Aiwass breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and shook his head slightly: "Not yet...but it has basically been successful."
——Meg really managed to hold on.
The increase in willpower brought about by bathing in the dragon's blood prevented her from even crying. She just yelled loudly to complete the most painful first transformation.
This basically counts as a successful job transfer.
Shedding skin is the authority of Die Tiansi, but he does not want to "shed skin endlessly".
Rather, like an insect turning into a butterfly, it completely changes its body, race and appearance through the molting ceremony.
When the bug is in the pupa stage, most of the internal organs will melt into pupal fluid and turn into a pot of soup. Except for those "components for adults" that are present at birth but cannot be used. The molting ritual comes from this phenomenon.
But for Die Tiansi, all he does is collect rewards and then help others complete their transformation.
In other words, it is a pay-per-view fee. And it will become more and more expensive, because Die Tiansi does not like capricious people.
The Ascension Warlock uses the "Shedding Ceremony" as a tool to achieve the goal of continuous evolution - the power of this profession comes from the self-devouring, eternally recurring Ouroboros, which is Huantiansi.
In order to allow mortals to shed their skins infinitely, Huantiansi had to pay a price to Dietiansi and directly help Meg "buy out" the shedding ceremony. If he calls Dietiansi over to help with the molting in the future, he won't need to pay extra.
Because the concept of abandoning the past, devouring oneself, and infinite evolution itself fits Huantian Si. This will not only please him, but also means that there is a chance to become his apostle in the future - as long as Meg's "Ascension Warlock" level is higher than
If her profession is on the authoritative path, then her soul belongs to Huan Tiansi instead of the Silver Crowned Dragon.
And this is considered an upfront investment.
If Die Tiansi is dead, then Huan Tiansi only needs to preside over the transformation ceremony. At that time, Huan Tiansi can complete the job transfer in batches - anyway, the power of molting is not his thing, because he is dead and there is no new Tiansi.
The unsovereign authority of control.
But now he needs to pay an extra payment - Aiwass doesn't know if he likes Meg and thinks this deal is meaningful. This is the possibility of the ritual failure.
Fortunately, He finally agreed to the deal.
Of course, it may also be because this is the first order, and he also feels that this kind of transaction has some meaning... so he decided to open the business with a big reward, losing money and making a profit.
The three of them waited here until the sun completely rose above the horizon. The two eggshells in front of and behind the mirror finally made a breaking sound at the same time.
First there were cracks, then suddenly they cracked——
The eggshell in front of the mirror was broken, and only some blood-stained clothes were left inside.
Immediately afterwards, the egg shell behind the mirror shattered.
The next moment, Isabel suddenly opened her eyes wide.
The rejuvenation ritual was a success!
I saw Meg walking out of it, not even a human being——
She has two silver-white dragon horns like sheep's horns, some silver scales on her skin, and a dragon tail behind her. Her hair turns silver-white, just like the color of the Silver Crowned Dragon. And her
The pupils are a rather elegant dark green, and even the outline of the face is completely different from before.
Although she killed the green dragon in the past, she has now turned into a white dragon similar to the Silver Crowned Dragon. Only the color of her eyes can show some traces of being bathed in the blood of the green dragon.
——There is only one small problem.
That is, Meg looks about eight or nine years old at this moment. She even looks much younger than Yulia.
"It seems the ceremony was successful."
Ms. Meg was not wearing any clothes, but she acted openly and without any concealment or shame.
She lowered her head and looked at her body, then walked around to the mirror and admired it for a while. Then she raised her head and looked at the three of them, grinning: "Oh, you guys have become so tall. It seems like I have returned to my childhood.
Damn it, what the hell. I was never so cute when I was a kid."
The newborn half-dragon girl made a childish voice.
It was full of contradiction with her casual and almost overbearing tone of conversation.
Isabel rushed over, took off her coat and put it on little Meg.
She half-knelt on the ground and helped her button up. Meg just looked at her with a smile, reached out to touch her hair, and pinched her earlobe.
"Good boy, thank you."
The young girl with dragon horns said warmly.
She then turned back and looked at Aiwass: "I won't thank you enough, little fox. I will remember your great favor - you saved my life and helped me rejuvenate.
"Such a young and energetic body... Ha, if those who have taken refuge in the path of dusk know about it, they will definitely regret it for the rest of their lives."
"Don't forget... you can't be content with the status quo. Once you start to evolve, you have to continue to the next evolution."
"Ah, I will. Don't say such disappointing things——"
Little Meg waved her hand and said nonchalantly: "If I really fail then, you don't have to worry about me. You have helped me a lot, and I am very grateful to you."
She doesn't care at all about the "cannot stop evolving" requirement in the contract, and she doesn't hate change anyway.
If you can evolve, evolve; if you can't evolve, let it go.
After all, for her, being able to live for one more year is a gain. Not to mention living with such a young and energetic body.
She stood there and thought for a while, then suddenly strode towards the door.
Isabel quickly ran over and stopped: "Where are you going?"
"Let Sofia take a look."
Little Meg grinned and made a clear voice: "She must be so jealous."
"Go and change clothes first."
Isabel said stubbornly: "You can wear my childhood clothes first -"
"Tsk." Little Meg smacked her lips.
"Also, you can't drink now."
"——That won't work, but this won't work," little Meg suddenly became unhappy, "I want to rejuvenate myself just so that I can do whatever I want without worrying about my health."
"But, Ms. Meg..."
"Okay, [leave me alone]!"
Little Meg's majestic voice sounded, as shocking as the roar of a dragon.
Isabel's footsteps suddenly stopped, and her face turned pale due to the more powerful word spirit than before.
But when little Meg walked to the door, she suddenly stopped.
Aiwass walked over to comfort Isabel, then walked over with a smile: "What, Ms. Meg? Can't reach the armrest?"
Hearing this, little Meg rolled her eyes at Aiwass.
"I was just thinking... I can no longer be called 'Meg' now. Even if I continue to be called Meg, no one will think that I am the Meg of the past. From this perspective, 'Meg'
Ge' is socially dead."
Little Meg thought: "Old death and now life... What should my new name be?"
She thought for a while and then gave up: "Forget it, I haven't thought about this kind of thing for a long time.
"Little fox, you are still young - help me think of a name."
"I?"
Aiwass was a little surprised.
"The ritual you completed for me gave me this body. You can indeed give me a name. This is completely reasonable."
Little Meg crossed her arms and nodded happily.
...But when you suddenly said that, I really can't think of a good name.
However, the resurrection from the dead, the new life from the old death, the desire for survival, the strong willpower...
Aiwass was reminded of a short story by Edgar Allan Poe.
"How about your name is Ligeia?"
Aiwass asked.
"Then let's call her Ligeia Danai. Danai was my maiden name before marriage——"
The newly born little Ligeia said with a smile: "This is our first meeting, everyone.
