The moment the ceremony began, Aiwass felt as if his throat was blocked by something.
He was completely speechless and had difficulty even making a sound.
It was like having a dream, dreaming that I had lost my ability to speak.
If you use all your strength to resist the effects of the ritual circle and try to struggle to speak, you will only end up suffocating yourself.
Obviously, Aiwass was not the only one who was restrained. Except for Sherlock, who was already in a coma, the other three people who were awake also fell silent instantly.
...Group silence?
Aiwass knew that with so many teammates guarding him... General Karl, who was alone, probably didn't need to worry about himself.
So before General Karl arrived, Aiwass walked to the window, raised his head, focused on the ceremony above, and carefully studied and analyzed its effects.
The ritual arranged by the fifth-level transcendent is obviously impossible to stop if you have not transcended the path level. However, you can see if there is any part that can be used.
I saw the vermilion runes forming three concentric disks in the sky - the script of the Herasl Empire was mixed with the elven script, and a triple incantation was written.
From the outer ring to the inner ring, it rotates clockwise, counterclockwise, and clockwise at slow, extremely fast, and fast speeds.
The blood-colored runes were spinning like a millstone, making an increasingly loud buzzing sound like a machine starting up.
A rough analysis of those words can be translated as:
“We worship the Eternal One, the God of one number of saints, the God of death and resurrection, the God of long-term ignorance/We worship the God of Blood, the Heaven of eternal feasts, the God of endless thirst/We respectfully pray
Lingpo Tiansi, the Tiansi of remembrance, the Tiansi of inscription.”
"He who lives long and longs for death will be the king of kings."
"Bound: Those who have existed for more than 119 years are prohibited from leaving here; Chaos: Those whose flames are higher here than others; Inscribed: Silent."
-This is not any existing ritual.
It was General Leo Carl, the incarnation of the fifth-level demon, who had specially set a trap for Shafiya in order to catch her!
This kind of range ritual usually does not have the function of identifying friend or foe. In other words, any ritual that incorporates identification of friend or foe will be much weaker because it is not absolute enough.
The more absolute the requirements of the ceremony, the stronger the binding force. Just like the terms of a contract.
Therefore, the best way is to add a condition that can just cover the other party and try not to affect your own results.
This ritual is to pray for strength from Hengwo, Xuetiansi, and Lingbo so that people with a life span of more than 119 years cannot escape from this place.
Whether it is General Karl or the strong man on the Dusk Path, they are just ordinary humans. Even Queen Star Antimony is the same - although she is the immortal son of the moon, she is not that old.
It's too big. Even if your lifespan as a human is taken into account, it's only a little over a hundred years old.
As a mixed elf, Shafiya is just over 120 years old this year. Therefore, this restriction will only take effect on her. In other words, this number is a line specially drawn for her based on intelligence.
Once the line is reached, the ritual will have the strongest repressive force on her.
At the same time, this ritual circle also increases the half-level priority of the "fire" type ability - it cannot penetrate the higher level of protection, but it can always overwhelm the opponent at the same level. Shafiya does not have fire type spells
, what she is best at is the counter and restraint spell types.
As a result, she couldn't benefit from the ritual's benefits at all, but was silenced instead.
When everyone is silenced, the lawyer who relies on language components to launch an attack also suffers the greatest loss - at least much greater than the demon incarnation.
——No escape, flame penetration, group silence.
If there was only Shafiya here, this would be a deadly trap.
In the timeline of the game plot, this may be the cause of Shafiya's death - she could send Isabel out, but could not escort her to the Theocracy. Those gryphon knights did not dare to chase her... so it could only be her
As soon as Her Royal Highness the Princess escaped safely, she turned back and fell into the trap.
But in this world line, the situation will obviously not develop like this.
After General Karl issued the threat, he did not appear immediately.
About ten seconds passed before an abnormal heat suddenly came from the Queen's palace.
The surrounding space gradually became hot and distorted, and the plants in the room gradually emitted white smoke and withered rapidly.
Next came the papers.
They emitted green smoke one after another, turned black, curled up, and turned into ashes.
Then came the gauze, which opened black holes in the middle. Like spider webs, they were burned out by the flames that were instantly ignited.
Then came the wooden structure of the floor and bed, with scorched black spots floating on them.
The sunlight in the sky became more glaring and blazing, and the increasingly powerful heat caused the air to evaporate and twist. The water surface of the entire glass island exposed to the outdoors turned scorching yellow, with khaki vortices surging, gradually evaporating and drying up, and the green
The plants withered and turned yellow, and an increasingly strong sulfur smell began to appear in the air.
Shafiya took a deep breath and tightened her grip on the staff.
——For Her Majesty the Queen!
——For Avalon!!
She muttered silently in her heart, and a silvery white light ignited from her eyes. A silvery white ring appeared in the depths of her originally dark blue pupils, and her long pale golden curly hair moved without wind.
Those people who became confused due to the abnormal phenomenon became calm again.
Silver-white rings appeared in the depths of their pupils, and a clear instruction appeared in their minds:
Stay away from the house of silver and tin!
The silver triangles on each street lamp exude a sacred silver-white glow in the daytime, reflecting the brilliance of authority. They are like triangle irons, making crisp sounds in an orderly manner, like one string after another.
A single signal tower continuously spreads Shafiya's will.
If you look down at Avalon from above at this time, you can see a circle of khaki drought traces starting from the Hall of Silver and Tin and gradually spreading outward.
The Palace of Silver and Tin itself is on the island in the middle of the lake. The deep blue lake that is as clear and transparent as a gem has turned into an earthy yellow. The crowds of people poured out like ants before the rain, quite orderly.
Separate the thin black lines and leave outwards.
Neither Shafiya nor General Karl used any spells.
This is an abnormal phenomenon naturally induced by fifth-level extraordinary beings when they resonate with the power of the path.
The next moment, a piece of the wall reinforced by the preservation technique suddenly bulged and changed color. This wall could withstand a full blow from a fourth-level transcendent. The wall, which was stronger than steel, seemed to be burnt and roasted at this time.
Curved like steel.
Then, it finally shattered completely!
Countless flames roared in, surging like a tsunami.
——Karl was very cautious and did not try to enter through the front door. Instead, he directly surrounded the entire palace with scorching flames!
His golden pupils were burning, and the clothes on his upper body were completely ignited by the flames.
His right fist was clenched, and his arms with abnormally swollen muscles were huge and even thick to the point of being somewhat disharmonious. The raised blood vessels on his forearms and backs of his hands were shining with the purple light belonging to the transcendent path.
The old body has withered, wrinkled skin and clearly visible muscles. There are scars all over his body, and those scars are like wounds caused by being penetrated by a hot sword.
At this moment, all of Old Carl's wounds were like passages, open like doors.
Golden-red flames flowed out from it like body fluids, flowing like liquids and crawling on the walls like living creatures. From those wounds, deep red, ember-like fire could still be seen.
——That is the power of the flame demon that is continuously drawn out of his body.
If fully released, the power of his self-destruction would be enough to destroy the entire glass island.
Even if he has not awakened as a demon...he can still be regarded as an absolute strong man just by borrowing power from the demon in his body.
But when Karl broke through the wall and stepped into the room, the cruel smile on his face suddenly stopped, and his whole person was stunned for a moment.
