Dorothy will hold a ceremony in Shade's attic tonight, from the fourth ring of the lower ring to the fifth ring of the middle ring, so Shad does not plan to go to Midhill Castle this Sunday.
But after breakfast, Xia De went to Old John's **** shop first. Because he arrived too early, Papa John even just opened the door, and he didn't even take out the small sign outside:
"Come here so early, do you want to buy something?"
After the gray-haired old man greeted his neighbors, he yawned and stood at the door of the store asking Xia De who was walking along the street. Early morning Tobesk is so peaceful, especially for those who don't have to work hard to make ends meet:
"Detective, help me get the padlock on the door to the counter."
"Okay, but John, is there a leak in the steam pipe at your door? Why did you put a basin here to catch water?"
Xia De asked curiously.
"The pipeline company has been notified to repair it. We can't delay this, otherwise it will freeze and crack when winter comes. Speaking of which, what exactly are you here for?"
The two walked into the store together. The light was not very good in the morning, and the gas lamp was turned on in the store. .
"Is there any moonstone?"
"Of course, today's first business is so small? Detective, how much do you want?"
As he spoke, the old man rummaged through the list of goods under the counter to check how much he still had.
"A small piece is fine. One of my thaumaturgy requires spell-casting materials, but it only consumes a very small amount each time. Therefore, a small piece of moonstone can last me for a long time."
"It must be inconvenient to always have stones in your pocket, right? And it's easy to lose them."
Old John looked up at Shad.
"Then you mean..."
"I happen to have a ring made of moonstone here, and it uses the lunar characters of the ancestors of the Fourth Epoch to write runes that can enhance the effect of thaumaturgy. Not only that, it..."
"You can make an offer directly."
Xia De smiled and said:
"It's so early, you really want to make money from me."
"Because you introduced Louisa to me and placed a big deal with me, this time I plan to sell it to you at cost price!"
Old John raised his neck and said, finally took Shade 1 pound 8 shillings, and handed him the ring that seemed to be made of gray stone.
The surface of the ring is relatively smooth, with a circle of small and elongated inscriptions engraved on it. Those letters look like a missing moon.
After translation, the meaning is quite normal:
【May the moon be with you. 】
After returning home, Xia De didn't wait for the blond female writer, but a strange carriage stopped at the door of the house.
Then the middle-aged woman who claimed to be "the owner of Aikedi's clothing store" called the shop assistants to carefully remove the twenty sets of clothes from the carriage, and sent them to the second floor for Xia De.
"Miss Princes ordered it for you and she gave us the measurements."
When Xia De, who was puzzled, took the invoice from the female shopkeeper and was about to sign for it, he realized that it was the clothes sent by Leiziya:
"How much gold did these clothes cost?"
There is only information about these handmade clothes on the manifest, and there is no price.
"Miss Prince's servant saved us from having to tell you the price, that lady asked for it."
Xia De nodded and signed his name on the receipt. In this way, he will not be short of clothes this autumn.
Shard was at home all day, and Dorothy did not come until ten o'clock in the morning. She looked a little nervous, and kept checking the documents she got from the academy to see if there were any omissions in her ceremony.
Shade proposed to invite Luvia and Dr. Schneider to help at night, but Dorothy refused. Her ceremony requires as few people as possible to be here, otherwise it may affect the success rate of the ceremony.
In order to make Dorothy feel more relaxed, after dinner in the evening, Xia Dela took Dorothy to the university area to walk cats together. They didn't go home after that, but sat and watched the stars together on the lawn on the embankment of the Terraria River across the University District.
The two chatted about a lot of things, and this kind of conversation under the stars could make Dorothy relax. Anyway, when they got home at nine o'clock in the evening, Goldilocks looked perfectly fine.
At nine fifty in the evening, Shad and Dorothy came into the attic together. Shad looked up at the star map drawn in chalk on the sloping ceiling of the attic:
"If everything goes well, the ceremony will be over in 20 minutes. But I'm curious, when you are promoted, will it make Rezia who is a few streets away have any reaction?"
"When Leiziya was promoted to the fifth ring, I just felt a little hot in my body, and there was no other abnormal phenomenon. But once I am promoted this time, we will be on the same level again, and the relationship will be strengthened. So, an hour ago, Leiziya, Just hide in her room in advance to prevent accidents."
Dorothy stood in the center of the floor full of ritual items, looking at the floor-to-ceiling mirror in the center of the ritual array. The mirror was an antique, said to have been used by the Cavendish princesses three hundred years ago, and Dorothy had borrowed it from Old John.
Although Papa John was a bit stingy, the products in his hands were absolutely authentic.
Dorothy's core spirit rune is [Writer] [Play] [Another Princess]. When she was in the low level, she used [Writer] as the core of the system, and used fairy tales as a means of power to draw power from enlightenment until Characters in fairy tales can be summoned to assist in combat as summoned objects.
Rezia's low ring also uses the same means, while the middle ring of the two ladies intends to use [acting]. In addition to continuing to connect the sublimated language of fairy tales and calling out the characters in the stories, try to "play" the characters in those stories by yourself, so that you can have the power in fairy tales.
Therefore, in this promotion, in addition to thoroughly linking the sublimation language of the lower fourth ring——[Besides the dream of matches, the writer is sympathetic to those who freeze to death], she also needs to activate the power of the core spirit runes as much as possible, and do a good job in the future of the middle ring. hehe.
This led to the fact that at this time Dorothy had already dressed up as a "match girl". That is to say, barefoot, wearing patched coarse cloth clothes, a turban on the head, pot bottom ash on the face, and a small basket in the hand with matches in it.
Probably to show the feeling of "scarce clothing", the clothes on Dorothy's body are...not suitable for autumn nights, but four-ring warlocks don't catch cold easily, so don't worry She is in good health.
Now on the ground, besides the traces of rituals painted with special chalk, the spells made of precious metals bought from the academy, the potion bottles on the cabinet by the wall, and the ritual symbols made of antiques, there are also vertical matches. . The matches are glued to the clay and fixed to the floor so they don't tip over. Fixing these matches is the most troublesome step in setting up the whole ceremony.
"Attention, there are still ten seconds!"
Shad, who can accurately sense the time, said, and quickly walked to the window of the attic to open the window. Tonight's night sky is still shrouded in mist, but the moon is still visible.
The light of the moon shone on Xia De, he stood at the window and turned around:
"Five seconds! Call out the life ring!"
Stretching out their hands, a huge brass ring appeared behind the two of them at the same time, and the four-color aura immediately overflowed the attic.
"Three seconds! Silent moonlight!"
The moonlight slanted in from the window and shrouded Xia De's body directly, helping him to speed up the recovery of his spirit. Of course, only he can see this light beam.
"Two seconds! Misuo, the little match girl!"
Xia De, who only has the third ring, of course cannot fully use this thaumaturgy.
But he with the first ring can call out snowflakes, and he with the second ring can even vaguely call out the moon above his head. In the state of the third ring, while his spirit is rapidly consumed, his body and life ring resonate with the moonlight outside the window , and then the starry sky and the star map on the ceiling of the attic vaguely overlapped, and it seemed that the ceiling became transparent, allowing the bright galaxy to hang upside down directly above the heads of the two of them.
Large-scale ceremonies can also use mythos. Dorothy spent some time ago betting on big city players' bonuses to set up fanlock rituals in order to allow Xia De to use [The Little Match Girl] as much as possible at this moment.
"One! Dorothy, it's time!"
Dorothy stood in the middle of the garret, her eyes closed, facing the huge bronze-framed floor-to-ceiling mirror. The moonlight outside the window and the starlight above her head shone on her body at the same time, while snowflakes fell on her head and shoulders, and then slowly melted away.
She holds a basket on her left arm, and holds up the story of "The Little Match Girl" written by herself in her right hand. This is the original version of the story provided by the creator of the story Shade, which symbolizes the source of the sublimation language.
The parchment roll automatically flew up into the sky, and the curled roll unfolded little by little under the illumination of Dorothy's aura, and then the flame ignited from the tail of the parchment, and then spread upward.
The ritual matrix on the ground lit up, and the 365 matches that had not been lit before~www.mtlnovel.com~ lit up together under the falling snow ceiling.
As the flame flickered, the surface of the floor-to-ceiling mirror that originally reflected the strange scene in the attic gradually became blurred. A strange white mist covered the mirror after the parchment scroll was completely burned. And Dorothy still kept her eyes closed, her right hand swayed gracefully in front of her, and then a match appeared between her fingers.
Shake the match slightly, and the flame appears on the match head. She opened her eyes, and lightly threw the burning match towards the mirror.
Surrounded by hundreds of matches, surrounded by a lit ceremony matrix on the ground, surrounded by moonlight, starlight and aura, the fire
Chai ignited the white mist of the mirror. After the flames passed, the street scene of falling snow appeared in the mirror.
Xia De, who was struggling to maintain the starlight and snowfall, breathed a sigh of relief, which meant that the ceremony went very smoothly.
Dorothy was holding a basket and staring at herself on the street of Luoxue Town in the mirror. In the mirror, she was curled up on the side of the street, with obvious frostbite marks on her fair skin, looking pale at the town of Luoxue.
"Outside the Dream of Match..."
She said softly, and the reflection of Dorothy in the mirror stood up tremblingly, as if she was staring at "another Dorothy" in the mirror.
Dorothy drank the potion prepared in advance bottle by bottle, and then evenly sprinkled the dust made of [forged Philosopher's Stone] on her feet.
The spiritual light on the ring of life behind it shone brighter and brighter. The matches burning on the ground did not shrink, let alone gradually extinguished. The fire became brighter and brighter until it illuminated the entire attic like daytime.