Chapter 199: Ritual: Your heart is ringing without touching it
"I know this ritual!"
Salvatore ran down the street at great speed, shouting: "This is 'Thy heart rings without touching'!"
"It belongs to the realm of blood, and is held by the god of blood and desire, the 'Cup Bearer'—"
Glass-bearer –
Annan rarely heard this name in the kingdom of Noah.
Although He is also one of the Twelve Righteous Gods, He is generally referred to as the "One of Desires." Philosophers often believe that those who go crazy for no reason, or who are overwhelmed by desire and do something stupid, hear the whispers of the glass-bearer.
And those who are more literate and have committed impulsive sins will also euphemistically explain their sins with "I have listened to the prayer of the glass-bearer".
In Noah's Kingdom, almost only those informal entertainment industry operators who "do not dress modestly" believe in cup bearers. It's hard to imagine that she could be a righteous god.
Running until he reached the vicinity of No. 44 Clear Water Street, Salvatore stopped, gasped for breath, and continued: "This is a high-level ritual......
“…… Now this ritual is not yet complete! ”
"A brief summary of what it's about."
Annan easily followed behind Salvatore and immediately asked.
He may look a little weird in his current outfit.
He wore long, fair, elven leather gloves on both hands, carried a wooden bucket for gloves and a satchel for a blood-dripping kitchen knife around his waist, and carried two flat brass kettles on his shoulders.
The kettle contains the liquid Philosopher's Stone.
With the exception of brass, the Philosopher's Stone can only be stabilized in containers of white crystal and pure gold.
Otherwise, it will always consume itself, turning gemstones into white crystals, or metals other than copper into pure gold. Copper containers in daylight, on the other hand, can greatly suppress this process and maximize its transformation time.
Obviously, even Kaizisa, who is a transformation wizard, can't easily make three golden kettles......
Besides.
Annan's right hand holds the eyebrow-level hammer "Barrier-Breaking Right Arm" (excluding the hammer head), and in his left hand he holds a kitchen knife that is constantly dripping blood.
That's called a menacing one.
In order to spread his curse to the knife as soon as possible, Annan also specially transferred his curse bearer, a bronze bracelet encrusted with sapphires, to his left wrist.
If you add another mask to Annan, and then ignore his height and figure, he is simply a monster coming out of a horror movie.
On the other hand, Salvatore's dress is much more normal.
He wore a heavy white robe that looked like a researcher and a doctor, and cotton armor underneath—partly to ward off the cold. Visually, it makes the originally thin Salvatore appear to be very thick and tall.
He also carried the copper bottle behind him, so that it could be illuminated.
In addition to that, he put the "Bone Male's Bone Blood Trigger", which had already been loaded with bullets, in the satchel on his waist.
And in the left hand he carried a heavy suitcase. The suitcase could reach from one side to the other, and the different types of potions had been strapped to the sides as he had planned, and marked with metal pieces of different textures to allow Salvatore to take out the potions he wanted with his eyes closed.
He also had a black arm guard tied to his left arm, similar to the one used to measure blood pressure, and a bottle of pre-converter like a perfume sample strapped to the outside. The right hand is completely empty, so that the left side can be used to access the pre-converter or other mixture at any time.
I saw Salvatore quickly take out a bottle of blue potion from the suitcase, skillfully pick the cork with his right hand with a thumb "wave", raise his head and drink it all.
Subsequently, his mental state was noticeably better.
He took out two sticky, brownish-black ointments from them, one of which he handed to Annan.
"Start with this, 'Emergency Nutritional Supplements'. Feed for people who have just been rescued from the wild, forcibly stop hunger while supplementing the necessary nutrients, long-term use will cause habitual indigestion, but the emergency is good. Beware, it might taste a little weird......"
Salvatore said, tilting his head and pushing the air canister all the way down. Squeeze the sticky ointment directly into the depths of the throat, revealing a bitter and somewhat distorted expression.
Annan followed his example, pushed the potion out, and ate it in one bite.
Then there was a slight disappointment......
…… It doesn't look too unpalatable.
Its taste is probably similar to the very strong red date ginseng water, mixed with unboiled black sesame paste mixed with sour lemon juice.
It's weird......
But it worked well.
Not long after Annan ate it, he felt that he had just woken up, and his body that had not eaten anything was gradually rejuvenated.
Then Salvatore took out a red potion, a purple potion, and a strange air mass that flowed like smoke from his suitcase: "Blood impulse potion, keen mixture, extremely cold breath. Ate them all before the war...... I'll only make one bottle of the extremely cold breath. ”
As he spoke, he pulled out a long, silver-gray dropper with a stopper from his suitcase.
He handed the dropper to Annan and instructed, "I can't move the box with me." You put it around the house and drip it, and remember not to break the line...... If a spirit tries to enter, it will light up as a warning. ”
“…… Got it. ”
Annan looked at Salvatore with some surprise.
His previous experience with Gérald had led him to habitually think of Salvatore as a bulky turret.
Now he suddenly realized......
This Kaizisa seems to be a medicine tank flow warrior?
As Annan dealt with the cordon, Salvatore explained: "The ritual of 'Ringing without Touching Your Heart' will not have any effect on itself, nor will it summon anything. It is usually forced to carry out the ritual when the ritual conditions are not met, and it is used to clear the site by the way.
"It collects the 'heartbeats' of the ritual arena. Every nine seconds, the hearts of everyone in the ritual arena buzzed - making those who had woken up stronger and those who hadn't woken up to continue to sleep.
"Ordinary people who have slept during this ritual will never wake up before the ritual is over. Even if you use a knife to pierce them into a colander, they won't wake up...... And the awake person will never fall asleep, and therefore will never fall into nightmares. ”
Salvatore said in a low voice, "Many powerful spell materials are themselves the 'keys' of high-level nightmares. Touching them can lead to nightmares...... To use the power of these keys is either to purify a nightmare yourself and place it in a ritual when it enters the 'Three Days of Lockdown', or to seal the power of the key with another ritual, or to bless the ritual performer with some kind of power that will not fall into a nightmare, such as now.
"Since we are able to break free from this ritual, it means that the performers of the 'Thou Shalt Mind Rings' rituals this time are lower than our soul ranks. And we're all the lowest level transcendentals, so ......"
“…… So, this ceremony was performed by an ordinary person? ”
Annan asked incredulously.
Such a big momentum......
The whole city was asleep, and the sun was replaced.
Is this really something that ordinary people can do?
"That's how the ritual ......"
Salvatore had no reaction: "Knowledge is power." It's not easy to do this ceremony...... At least not blindfolded.
"It takes nine people and nine hours to complete. A man gives a mutilated eye, a man a mutilated ear, a man gives half a tongue, a man gives a piece of skin, a man gives half a cup of blood, a man gives half a bone, a man gives half a foot, one gives half a hand, and one gives half a heart—this creates a reflection that summons the 'mouth of the cup' of the woman with the cup.
"Because this is an illegal summoning, they must bypass the cup bearer, so the sacrifice must be made of a mutilated one, in order to call out the power of the mutilated 'blood cup'. But the woman with the cup is a god...... Even if it was only an illusion that summoned part of her power, it was enough to trigger a vision of heaven and earth. ”
As he spoke, Salvatore pointed to the "dark red sun" in the sky.
"—that's not the sun. That is the shadow of the 'mouth of the cup'. ”