When making the Magic Card, Aiwass could still sit in a wheelchair.
But when performing the advancement ceremony, this cannot be the case.
Fortunately, Aiwass had already fed the Shadow Demon early this morning. Even if he stood up and his body was completely connected to his shadow, the Shadow Demon who woke up did not lose control at all.
The shadow under Aiwass' feet squirmed slightly, floating slightly from time to time to prove that it was alive and still there.
The shadows that float from time to time are reminiscent of the "fairy air" special effect made with dry ice - but this fairy air is pure black with no variegation at all.
The devilish aura surrounds it.
In fact, the materials and procedures of the advanced ceremony are not completely consistent.
Universal rituals themselves are not so rigid. The complexity of many rituals and the difficult-to-obtain nature of materials actually come from artificial encryption. In essence, it is similar to the cryptic language of alchemical works. The purpose is to prevent people from parsing it out.
The essence of this ritual.
That's why Aiwass can easily make magic cards.
As a newborn ritual that was born only three years ago, it has not experienced repeated encryption, mistaken decryption and re-encryption, and its original meaning of the ritual has not been distorted. Therefore, it can be regarded as the "basic ritual" by Ai, who only has level 1.
Wentz easily replicated it.
The advancement ceremony is exactly the opposite.
The advancement rituals of various inheritance schools are slightly different in details.
The ritual adopted by Aiwass was a simplified version that he had seen from his adoptive father's collection of books. This is a ritual commonly circulated in the Avalon knight family circle——
The advantage is that it doesn't require too much effort, but the disadvantage is that it requires a small piece of white crystal... about the size of a thumbnail, and a thin piece as thick as a coin. But the thing itself is not expensive, so it's not bad. Aiwass used it
Drill a hole and thread it on a rope to make a disposable pendant.
He prepared six types of silver jewelry, including two bracelets, a necklace, two rings and a forehead ring.
Then they were smeared with clove essential oil, cinnamon essential oil, cypress essential oil, benzoin essential oil, helichrysum essential oil and chamomile essential oil respectively, and placed on the six vertices of the hexagram drawn by Aiwass - these six plant essential oils and silver
The six-pointed star formation carved by the sharp weapon is the most important core of this ritual, the only irreplaceable part.
Afterwards, Aiwass prepared three foods that he didn't like.
He chose radish, bitter melon and green pepper. 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 complete.
Aiwass put on the uniform of his seminary. Although it was a school uniform, it was also a formal clergy uniform.
It has a pure white priest collar, and there are two golden thorn pattern reliefs with roses on the collar - this jewelry even contains real gold. It has a tan sash on its shoulders and chest, and it still has deer antlers on it.
Decorated with golden thorns, the robe hangs down to halfway down the thigh. Below that are brown trousers and cloth shoes.
Anyone looking at this attire can tell that he is a pastor of the Church of Nine Pillars of God.
Close the door of the room tightly and wait until the full moon rises above forty degrees, then the ceremony will officially begin.
"——The nine are complete."
Aiwass chanted in a low voice.
As he spoke, he lit a bunch of dried sage mixed with mugwort leaves to make a vanilla stick.
Like burning a cigar, he repeatedly burned the tip of the vanilla stick.
In fact, it can indeed be regarded as a certain kind of cigar - just like coffee can be regarded as soy milk in a sense.
Sage is the most commonly used herb for burning and burning. Mixing different herbs will have different effects. When mixed with moxa leaves, its main significance is to block the power of other paths from advancing rituals.
Influence.
When placed on Aiwass, it is used to suppress his interference with the ritual by transcending the path.
"Except the third one..."
Aiwass whispered, pressing the vanilla stick that was constantly emitting green smoke into the center of the six-pointed star.
"——Hengwo, Lord of Scales and Feathers, 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 respectively.
This is a necessary process for the full moon ceremony.
No extraordinary person can be omniscient. Even the full moon ceremony cannot tolerate playing by chance.
Before meeting your teammates and enemies, you must declare your three least favorite paths in advance to express your determination.
In this ceremony, he cannot cooperate with teammates from these three paths. Even if those three paths are strong, he cannot secretly change sides.
These three paths were also carefully selected by Aiwass.
Although those who have adapted to the road are good at survival, they will definitely betray their teammates when necessary. Being wise to protect oneself and abandoning others are the characteristics of adapting to the road.
The Dusk Path and the Path of Love simply have too many weirdos in them.
——The so-called path of love is just a good name.
It is related to savagery, bestiality, and impulse, and pursues the path of reproduction and eating that follows the instinct of animals.
Who are the people inside?
Lao Sepi, gourmet, welfare girl, big eater... they are not serious in any way. But they are quite suitable for the modern Internet environment.
The twilight path emphasizes that "the sun will eventually set and all things will perish", which is the path to fight against death and disappearance, and to pursue eternal life and solidification.
Embalmers, taxidermists, gravekeepers, including painters and sculptors who draw portraits may all believe in the Twilight Path. Making mummies and wax figures is also a Twilight Path skill, as well as summoning the dead and reincarnation.
It is not easy for excellent teammates to appear in these three paths.
As Aiwass read the names of these three pillar gods in turn, a gust of wind suddenly blew up in the room.
Three pieces of food that Aiwass didn't like to eat suddenly lit up with flames of three colors.
They are black, emerald green and amber.
They quickly burned out in the fire and turned into a black smoke.
But the strange thing is that there is obviously a strange whirlwind in the room, constantly rotating around Aiwass. But the green smoke emitted by the bunch of vanilla sticks after igniting the three kinds of food goes straight upward, condensing into a shape only as thick as a wrist.
A stream of smoke went straight up to the white crystal pendant hanging below the chandelier.
Then, Aiwass began to circle around the ceremonial array, holding a vanilla stick outside the ceremonial array, lowering his body and spinning in circles, smoking the outer ring of the ceremonial array.
"The six protect me..."
Point the vanilla stick at the six silver ornaments, and at the same time recite the names of the remaining six pillar gods:
As he clicked on it, the six silver ornaments gradually turned black.
It's not that it was blackened, but it seemed like it had come into contact with something poisonous. It also seemed like something harmful had been extracted from the surrounding air.
The whirlwind in the room suddenly became stronger - all the lit candles in Aiwass' room were blown out by the wind, but nothing was blown down, not even a piece of fluttering paper.
"I pursue the way of Si Zhu."
The next moment, the vanilla stick in Aiwass' hand suddenly burst.
He let go and threw it in the middle of the six-pointed star. It kept making crackling sounds, and a wonderful pure white smoke rose up. It once again covered the suspended white crystal pendant that had been blackened by the previous smoke.
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——The ceremony was successful.
Seeing that his "basic ritual" suddenly increased by 20%, Aiwass breathed a sigh of relief and confirmed that the ritual had been successful.
He took off the white crystal pendant hanging from the chandelier and wore it close to his body.
Although he knew that this ritual was very simple before, it was the first time for Aiwass to advance through the ritual.
It was all in the cloud before, but this time it was really hands-on.
When Aiwass put on this pendant, he felt a vague sense of tranquility and sleepiness.
It's not strong, you can resist it with your will.
It's roughly like feeling sleepy after eating a full meal, or taking melatonin before going to bed.
But Aiwass did not resist, but sat in his wheelchair. He closed his eyes and felt the dragging feeling.
As if he was slowly sinking in the deep dark sea, he clearly felt that his consciousness was being dragged into a deeper level by some force while he was awake.
"Good evening, priest."
Just when Aiwass woke up again, a cold voice with an accent that was familiar to Aiwass sounded.
He opened his eyes and found that he was in a dark space. There was obviously no light source here, but he could see everything clearly.
He was sitting on a tall, wide-backed chair. Aiwass was over 1.8 meters tall, but even he couldn't completely fill the chair. When he put his elbow on one armrest, his other arm was enough.
There is no handrail on the other side.
And he looked up and found that there were eight more chairs like this.
Nine chairs formed a circle, and in the center was a huge stone hourglass statue. It was about five or six meters high, like a huge ornament in a shopping mall.
Aiwass found that he was the fourth to arrive.
In front of him, three other people had arrived.
The four of them were sitting next to each other. The first one was an old man with his head lowered and holding a cane. The second one was a young man wearing a tan double-breasted trench coat and a top hat.
The third one looked a bit poorly dressed - wearing a fully enclosed knight's helmet on his head, but wearing a shirt and sweater that facilitated movement.
Although Aiwass couldn't see their faces at all, just like he couldn't see the faces of passers-by in a dream. But he could immediately realize that the second one must be Sherlock!
Because his accent is so iconic, and there is no disguise at all in this look.
As if to say - yes, I am Sherlock Hermes.
Aiwass’s clothes are on the cover! It was drawn by Can Guan, the book’s operating officer!
