Mystery: Start with the Reader

v1 Chapter 16: Ritual magic

   At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Abner was sitting in the house of Detective Isinger in Hillston District, listening intently as his teacher explained the occult knowledge:

"Readers have almost no means to confront the enemy in low sequence, but our rich reading and profound knowledge make almost every reader an expert in ritual magic. Now I will teach some basic operations and attention to ritual magic. matter."

"The low-order people themselves are not strong enough. Almost all ritual magic that can be performed is to ask for power and help from the outside. Therefore, only orthodox gods can be considered. Never try to communicate with unknown and unpredictable existences, even if someone believes in them. They, even if the recorded promise is full of temptation!"

   "For you and me, the best thing is to pray to the God of Knowledge and Wisdom. If you pray to the Lord of the Storm or the eternal scorching sun, there will be no good end."

  "Well, in the occult, the blue star corresponds to the **** of knowledge and wisdom. It needs to use mercury, brass, lavender, pepper, and mint as materials...

   "The blue star corresponds to Saturday, and the blue star is from 0:00 to 1:00 on Friday, and from 11 to 12 noon on Saturday..."

"Although today is Saturday, it is a pity that the best time has passed... But for us extraordinary, especially readers who are good at ritual magic, these are not needed. Our vigorous spirituality, our powerful star The spirit body is the most critical element..."

   Observing the ritual magic that Detective Isengard personally demonstrated, Abner carefully recorded the key points in his notebook, and secretly sighed: It is a lucky thing to have a reliable teacher in the occult! If he completely relied on his own reading and exploration, even with pure white eyes to help analyze it, it would definitely take a long time to master the relevant knowledge.

After completing a basic healing ritual magic, Isengard looked at his watch and found that it was half past four, so he stopped the explanation and said to Abner, "I’ll be here today...I see you The luggage has not been taken, now go back to the Eastern District to clean up, and strive to come back before dinner. After the meal, I will arrange for you to continue to study Ancient Fosac."

   "Okay, teacher!" Abner answered politely.

   However, he did not go back to the Eastern District immediately as Detective Isinger thought. Instead, he circled the road and bought a lot of ritual-related items and a pair of copper-inlaid glasses.

   He intends to personally host a ceremony while the iron is hot, and give this pair of glasses the ability to block the vision of his pure white eyes. This not only frees him from having to worry so much when using cheats, it is also a tribute to the **** of knowledge and wisdom.

Abner’s thinking is very simple. Since the **** has probably noticed him and made a kindly'investment' in him, it is better to just chant his name and lean over to see if it can be more. A few handfuls of wool...

After returning to his residence in the Eastern District, Abner first used the things he bought to prepare symbolic objects for the ceremony, and then set up the spiritual wall. Based on what he learned in the afternoon, he proficiently depicted the "God of Knowledge and Wisdom". The holy emblem-an all-seeing eye on the spread book, the corresponding altar has been made.

   Inside the spiritual wall, he lit a candle, picked up the prepared pure dew of lavender and mint, and dropped it on the quietly burning flame.

   The fresh and pleasant scent permeated, and Abner burned several herbal powders in succession.

   Then he took the pen and drew a special symbol on a piece of parchment in front of the glasses he bought

   After doing all this, he took a step back and said in Hermes:

   "I pray for the power of knowledge;"

   "I pray for the power of reason;"

   "I pray for the favor of the **** of wisdom;"

   "I pray that you will give this pair of glasses the ability to hide visions."

   "Lavender, a herb belonging to the Blue Star, please pass the power to my spell!"

   "Peppermint, a herb belonging to the Blue Star, please pass the power to my spell!"

  ...

   woo!

  With the reverberation of the curse, the atmosphere in the altar suddenly became extremely mysterious. Except for the three candles, the remaining brass saint daggers, refined salt plates, hydrosol vials, and paper pens all quivered slightly.

   Abner waited nervously. He had already seen this in the afternoon, so he was not surprised, but he was a little bit worried about gains and losses.

   More than ten seconds later, the flames of the three candles shook together, dyed in pale green!

   Then, a series of complicated symbols flashed across the lens of that pair of copper glasses, and after a few seconds, those symbols suddenly disappeared!

   At this time, Abner felt a tingling pain in his eyebrows. This is a sequelae of excessive spiritual extraction. His strength is still too weak, even if he only uses rituals to create a temporary extraordinary item, it takes away about half of his spirituality.

When the ceremony was over, Abner set his glasses on the bridge of his nose, opened the pure white eyes to the half-length mirror in the room and scanned for a second, then nodded in satisfaction, and said to himself: "There are almost no pupils on the surface. The effect is good! Well, according to the results of the analysis, its ability to block visions is effective within three days, which is much better than I expected in one or two days. "It can save a lot of money, if every day It's too expensive to come here once.

  Of course, the most important thing is that the God of Knowledge and Wisdom responded to this prayer. This is the best news for Abner! At least it means that he really has no malice for the time being...

   After tidying up the room, Abner did not withdraw the one-bedroom rented room. After all, he would come here to preside over some ceremonies that needed to be completed with the teacher on his back.

After returning to the Hillston District, after seeing Abner with an extra pair of glasses, Detective Isinger didn't doubt anything, just smiled and teased: "With glasses, I look more knowledgeable and temperamental. , It’s just that your workman’s casual clothes don’t match it. It seems you have to buy formal clothes."

   "It costs 10 gold for a full set of formal wear in Backlund..." Abner muttered to himself, but he also had to admit that the other party made sense. His glasses are worth 1 gold pound and 8 thul, and now the whole clothes are almost at the same price, which is indeed very unmatched and easily arouses people's suspicion.

   During the next night, Abner was learning Ancient Fusac. As the ritual consumed too much of his spirituality, he did not cheat with pure white eyes this time. But his progress is still not slow, and such focused and careful study has consolidated the knowledge he has learned before.

   "Reviewing the past and knowing the new, sure enough!" Before the break, Abner sighed with emotion.

  ...

   Late at night, in the abandoned manor of the Dier family in the northern suburbs, a man with a white shirt and black vest and an unusually pale face slowly walked along the stone path in the garden. But the watchman who was supposed to watch the night seemed to sleep extremely sweetly, and he didn't notice any unexpected guests in the manor at all.

   Suddenly, this seemingly 28-year-old man seemed to have noticed something wrong, stopped, and frowned as he looked at the direction of the shooting range.

At this moment, a figure suddenly appeared on his side, wearing a complicated black court dress and a small cap of the same color. It was the light blonde hair that watched the two of Abner leave in the window glass in the morning. Beautiful lady with blue eyes.

   The man was not at all surprised by the way the female ghost appeared, and calmly said: "Sharon, someone has been here again? Is it going to be transferred right away?"

   "No, just unrelated people who secretly practice shooting." Sharon said concisely.

The man nodded, stopped asking more, and turned to another thing: "There is news about the previous matter. Gore and Rea have been resolved by the penalty agent. Only Jason took the opportunity to escape. It should be Hidden in the southern area of ​​the bridge or in the Joe Wood area to recuperate."

   "Maric, we need to find him as soon as possible, otherwise he will soon call a group of people to hunt us..." Sharon said succinctly.

   "It's true that the people who used the penalty to fight against them are ‘can’t do it again’. They are not fools, and although the punishers are irritable, they are not fools.” The man named Maric nodded.

   "You can actually quote Roselle?" Miss Sharron looked sideways.

   Maric twitched his eyes, and finally said: "I will also read..."

  ...

In the early morning of June 3rd, after training for an hour in accordance with Professor Hugh’s knight exercise method, Abner wiped the sweat from his head and went directly to the small restaurant in the Eastern District. He had an appointment with Hugh yesterday. Okay, meet here.

   Speaking of which, UU reading www. After learning about Abner’s physical fitness and gun feeling before, Uukanshu.com felt that he didn’t need to go to the suburban manor every day. It was enough to guide the exercises twice a week. Although Abner guessed that this might be an excuse that Miss Hugh could not afford to practice bullets every day, after all, she was not reimbursed like Klein.

   In short, they said that they would only go to the manor on Wednesday and Saturday mornings, and if they had anything to do with each other on the rest of the day, they would still come to this small restaurant to meet.

As soon as he opened the door of the restaurant, Abner saw Mr. Li'an, a skilled worker who he had met before, saluting Xiubi respectfully, then stuffed a paper bag into Miss Xiu’s hand, and kept talking. Poor words of praise.

   Xiu seems to have seen a lot of scenes, just letting go of his majesty a little bit, the gentleman on the opposite side had to stop his flattery, and heed Xio’s instructions, and left the restaurant in awe and gratitude.

   At this time, Xiu quietly breathed a sigh of relief. After putting the paper bag away, he walked to the seat opposite to Abner and sat down.

   "It seems that Mr. Lean's matter has been settled?" Abner smiled after taking a sip of coffee.

"Yes, I went to find the "double-faced man" Rosen last night. He was very cooperative and obeyed my persuasion. This morning, people were exempted from most of the unreasonable interest." Hugh also ordered a breakfast. While eating.

   Xiu did not go to jail because of this... Just as Abner sighed in his heart, he heard Xiu say again:

   "By the way, I have a friend who wants to see you, do you have time at noon today?"

   "Uh, why is it noon?" Can't it work now? Abner asked subconsciously.

   "Because she may only get up at noon... No, if it is not necessary, she may not be able to afford it all day..." Xio thought weakly in her heart.