【Winter Chill (Ritual)】

[Related Fields: Frost, Light, Death]

[Ritual environment: daytime, outdoors, and the outdoor temperature can make the water freeze naturally]

[Ritual Materials: Influence: Any Effect in the Frost Realm (Required), Ingredients: 12 Intact Corpses that Have Lost Their Temperature (Required), Spells: Ice Blocks Sealed with Light (Required), Blizzard Weather (Additional), Hail Weather (Additional), Rainstorm Weather (Additional), Corpse of the Transcendent (Additional), "Old Grandmother" True Name (Additional), "Mr. Yao" True Name (Additional)]

[Description of the ceremony: In this ceremony, the influencer must be the host of the ceremony; The host places all the corpses at the twelve points of the clock, so that their faces are upward and inward, and their mouths are open, and the posture of the corpse itself is not required, but it must be as consistent as possible with other corpse postures. Light ice cubes are placed in each person's mouth, and the host stands in the middle of all corpses, holding a natural breath and waiting for the ice to melt, at which point additional materials can be added. If all the ice melts before sunset, the ritual is complete. 】

[Ritual Effect: The host's ritual spell "Winter Chill" will be transformed into a heterogeneous ability "Winter's Chill". This effect lasts for twelve winters. 】

[Winter Breath (Heterogeneous): Breath can be freely converted into "Winter Breath", and this process will continue to consume the mana of Order. 】

…… And then what?

That's gone?

Although Annan knew that this requires a very difficult chain of tasks...... Or the skills unlocked by achievements must be very powerful in themselves. But the specific ability to not know the words......

…… No, I may ask?

Annan suddenly remembered that he was no longer alone!

He also has a mirror!

Thinking of this, Annan turned out the [Newborn Mirror of the Man in the Mirror].

Because the sight of this mirror would cost him his life, Annan covered it with a cloth. As a result, because he couldn't see it, Annan almost forgot about it......

Annan lifted the curtain that covered the mirror and cast his gaze in the mirror.

Maybe it's because of the increase in perception attributes...... Annan clearly felt that something in his body was permanently lost this time.

That's a day's life.

Michelangelo Buonaro...... Are you there? ”

Annan hesitated, but still chose the name of the "past" of the person in the mirror.

Although knowing the two forms of the person in the mirror, what you know should be the same. But his instinctive feeling, if he was older, might know better......

After a short delay, the mirror was seen rippling like water waves.

An old man with white hair and white beard, whom Annan had never formally met, appeared in the mirror.

His face was solemn, but his tone was gentle: "What's the matter, Annan?" ”

"I'd like to ask ......"

Annan quickly asked his doubts.

Michelangelo nodded.

He did know the answer.

"You actually know what winter cold is."

Michelangelo replied with a chuckle.

…… Are you prophets so talkative?

Annan suddenly sneered.

No, if I knew......

Annan was suddenly stunned and realized something.

"Yes...... Old grandmother's? ”

"Yes, you guessed that. Michelangelo replied slowly: "It's the old grandmother who was sleeping in the dragon, exhaling a blizzard...... The blizzard that envelops the entire realm of winter, can be used as an enchantment to isolate and freeze the curse.

"It's a kind of 'dragon's breath' ability with the trait of an old grandmother. Among all the heterogeneous abilities, it is considered a relatively rare type...... You have the blood of an old grandmother, so that you will be a little higher than the others. Of course, it will definitely not be as strong as the grandmother's self-release......"

“…… I know that. ”

Annan nodded.

He had a compel in his heart - the ritual itself was quite difficult, but it was not so difficult.

And Annan has a vague impression of this ability......

In Nightmare: The White Tower, Merlin realizes that Maria is in danger and stands in her way. He seems to have used a similar spell ability.

He inhaled deeply and let the air slowly exhale from his lungs as if he were smoking, and white smoke slowly poured out of his mouth and nose. There was also a white chill that was visible to the naked eye in his eyes and ears, and the temperature in the air was rapidly decreasing at a speed that could be felt.

It was Merlin's nightmare, after all.

The spell he got should be Merlin's "Winter Chill" in his state of preparation.

Although Annan didn't know what would happen if Merlin really blew that breath out......

But if you can have this property just by charging......

Annan's heart moved.

…… Seems to smell good, too?

"As an old grandmother has its own characteristics, so it is a heterogeneous ability...... The long-term abilities acquired through rituals can be broadly divided into two types: 'heterogeneous' and 'trait'.

"Heterogeneity is one in which one's body has some kind of mutation that is close to God. For example, the Shadow Demon of Noah's family, the ability she was able to grant herself shadow life, was a heterogeneous ability. As far as I know, if your Winter's Heart spell is fully awakened, it will also hatch from the spell to a heterogeneous ability.

"The trait ability, on the other hand, is to call on some otherworldly creature to fit with him and bless himself with some special blessing. It does not alter the organs, nor does it alter the soul. Normally, heterogeneous abilities are measured in years, while trait abilities cannot be stored for more than a day after the Principle Ritual Arena or ritual has ended.

"The more common trait abilities are the 'Flame Breath' of the Fire and Creation God of Fire and Creation, and the 'Purifying Touch' of Mr. Yao, the God of Light and Purification. The former allows the celebrant to have the ability to spit fire...... Although it sounds similar to Winter's Breath, it is a special ability from the Apostle of the Flint Father, 'Casting Spirits...... You can understand that when he makes a 'spit' action, the 'forge' attached to him also spits fire at the enemy or the cast. In the latter, the 'Lake Elf' was summoned to the ritual ground, and as long as it was not far away, it could borrow the Lake Elf's 'Purifying Touch' ability. ”

Michelangelo in the mirror patiently explained to Annan.

That's right......

Annan immediately reacted - the first ritual ability he saw, "Tongue in the Mirror", should be a trait ability.

But......

"That of Kaphne's abilities comes from rituals?"

Annan asked, "Do you know whose ritual it is?" ”

"It's the Silent Lady's ritual, Shadow Activation. Lady Silence's trait abilities. He himself was free to shape the shadows he came into contact with...... Whether it's flames, cobwebs, chariots, castles, or even beasts, monsters, or people. ”

Michelangelo replied, "Based on what I saw that day, what Caphne got should be [Shadow Activation-Tentacle Form]. She was clever and chose a form that was not difficult to shape but had a lot of potential...... These tentacles are spiritually connected to her, so they can expand her range of perception and be blessed as if they were part of her body. ”

…… Lady Silence's?

Annan was stunned.

He even thought it was a gift from some false god.

I didn't expect it to be a righteous god......

Did Kaphne actually have contact with Lady Silence?

"So, one last question."

Thinking of this, Annan asked, "Do you know the nightmare of the trait of 'memory'?" What is a memoir collection? ”

“…… It was the simplest of twisted nightmares, but at the same time the hardest. ”

Michelangelo paused before replying, "If this nightmare is distorted, and the 'possessed' is yourself in the past, the memory trait may be triggered. With the memory feature, nightmares don't have some kind of distortion or abstraction of the past like normal nightmares, but are completely consistent with history - unless you play as yourself and fail and be recognized, in which case an enemy called 'Memory Fragments' will appear. A Memory Fragment may be any of your former enemies, and when it appears in a memory, the 'memory' attribute will gradually collapse......

"When a nightmare has a memory trait, you don't have to think about anything, you just do what you did in history, and you can complete it. This is where it comes to simplicity.

"But the hard part is that you have to reverse your thinking, do things you don't dare to do, think about possibilities that you don't dare to think, in order to completely crack the core of this nightmare. It means that you have to overcome your past self and reverse your thinking...... You have to change what happened in the past.

"And if you have successfully played yourself on the basis of perfectly solving the nightmare, you will complete the 'memorial collection'. It means that you are looking at your own heart – and the 'memories' themselves are also advanced materials for some special professions. I also know of a ritual that deepens the extraction element by burning a large number of memories when advancing gold. All in all, it's a valuable thing......"

Michelangelo paused and replied in a low voice, "Besides...... Benjamin has been waiting for a 'memory' of his own. ”