Chapter 21 Sacred Art: Fire Worship

At least in this matter, Aiwass can be sure that Bishop Mathers's intelligence is really not as much as his own.

Although Aiwass has completely forgotten the plot, the letter [someone sent to the Noble Red Society] obtained in the Pelican Bar mentioned some key information.

The letter roughly mentioned that the demonologists sent by the Noble Red Society this time should be "a group of people", not just two. "That lord" will cooperate with their actions and continue to create cases in various parts of Glass Island in advance to distract the attention and manpower of the Supervisory Bureau.

Similarly, the mysterious man who wrote the letter also issued a warning to the Noble Red Society in an attitude of almost equal partners - the general idea is that he can allow the society to have a limited amount of credit. If the society still does not give him what he wants this time, then he will "with a heavy heart and firmly carry out some unkind behaviors that neither of us wants to see."

The two "pen pals" who came to meet Aiwas actually left the main force and arrived in advance.

Their motives are also easy to understand.

They have been operating the "Evans" line for a long time. Perhaps they thought that Aiwas would die in this ongoing turmoil; perhaps they felt that their superiors would come to snatch Aiwas as a resource; or perhaps they were uneasy about this operation, so they activated Aiwas as a reserve food in advance to replenish important resources.

Perhaps at the beginning, they came for the name of the "Moriarty" family, but when Aiwas became a priest and still trusted them, he became a special value in himself.

Noble blood, pure heart, soul seeking transcendence, voluntary sacrifice - perhaps there are some other factors. But Aiwas's specifications as a sacrifice are very high.

Because the sacrifice ceremony is not a ceremony to summon the shadow demon, but any superior demon can come. As a result, the shadow demon came over just after the ceremony began.

Aiwas used half of his life force as a sacrifice and signed a contract with the shadow demon - this is actually the correct price.

The correct sacrifice price is "half". No matter how much you offer, the demon only takes half, and usually the renewable half. Because the essence of this ritual is "equal division".

Equal division of property, power, income, and risk - such two parties can be called collaborators. If the quality of the summoner can satisfy the demon, the summoner can symbolically take 1% more to inform the difference between "master and servant"; if it is very reluctant to just summon, it is usually divided in half.

But in fact, this has no binding force on the behavior of the demon. It is just the difference between "master" and "partner" in verbal address.

Demonologists are legal professions in countries other than Avalon and the Eternal Church. If the sacrifice technique must kill its own sacrifice, then the demonologist must be a murderer, and this profession cannot be legal. And if the demonologist performs self-sacrifice, it is directly equivalent to suicide.

The sacrifice of demonologists in the Kingdom of Avalon is accompanied by slaughter, which is actually not the demand of the demon, but the need to silence, rob or prepare ritual materials.

With the limited scope of the spread of mysterious knowledge, most ordinary people don't even know what extraordinary professions there are in the Transcendental Path, and don't even know the official name of "Demon Scholar". Instead, they use the established impression of "Warlock" as a folk nickname, which is "Anyway, he is a master who can cast spells".

But in fact, the magic ability of demon scholars is not strong, and the types of spells they can use are quite few.

Compared with the wizards of the Path of Wisdom, the necromancers of the Path of Dusk, the sages of the Path of Adaptation, and even the law mages of the Path of Authority, the main power of demon scholars comes from "rituals" and "demons". Many spells need to rely on rituals, need to be prepared in advance, and are far more powerful than normal spells.

For example, Veronica's "Cursed Infant" requires babies cursed to death by the caster as ritual materials. The ritual spells guided by the second-level demon scholars are destructive enough to threaten or even kill the front-line professions of the third-level.

If there are no suitable materials on hand and no contract with a powerful enough demon, the demon scholar will become very weak.

But on the other hand, if the demonologists secretly planned and prepared in advance, they could fully exert destructive power far beyond their level.

Now I am in the open, and they are in the dark.

If Aiwas only uses his demonologist ability to fight, it will be a double disadvantage - not only is it easy to reveal his identity, but he can't cooperate with his teammates at all.

He can't even get in. He can't even lie down.

Originally, Aiwas planned to obtain the priest professional level as soon as possible, but he didn't expect it to be so soon. He didn't tell his adoptive father about this, and Bishop Mathers thought of it in advance.

In the morning, the Supervisory Bureau called to make an appointment - saying that they planned to come to Moriarty Manor in the evening. The adoptive father was very happy and said that he would give Aiwas something like a commendation order... But Aiwas was not very interested in this.

What good things can the Supervisory Bureau give? Players in the game are busy and finally get nothing. They divide the benefits among themselves.

And Aiwas was worried that it was Haina, the fool, who came several hours in advance. So he didn't dare to go out today.

I originally planned to stay at home and read books with my sister.

As a result, he was invited to the Candlelight Cathedral by Bishop Mathers at nine o'clock in the morning.

But now Aiwas has no dissatisfaction in his heart, he is very pious and serious.

——Just kidding, this is a professional skill instructor!

And strictly speaking, he took the back door. He did not pass the exam, nor did he do the long and boring "approval tasks", but he directly obtained the qualification to learn the sacred skills!

The old bishop preached slowly: "The so-called "sacred skills" are the most practical, safest and easiest to master mysterious skills of the dedication path selected by the church after careful selection based on the principles of "safety", "health", "easy to learn" and "benefiting people". After passing the corresponding qualification exam, the bishop will teach the corresponding skills for free until you learn it."

I know, it's the three starters. Charmander, Squirtle, Bulbasaur... highlight the one that is easy to use and easy to raise.

Aiwas muttered in his heart, feeling very anxious and impatient.

Bishop Mathers continued to speak slowly and calmly: "There are four sacred skills that can be mastered by those below the bishop.

"Prayer", "Fire Worship", "Illumination", "Blessing". It is especially important to note that the essence of mysterious skills cannot be understood literally. "

The old bishop explained: "The so-called 'fire worship' refers to a technique to strengthen the body and restore oneself.

"Human life is like a candle, and the soul is fire. We, the fellow travelers of the Way of Devotion, will share our light and fire. And this also means that we will gradually become deficient.

"I specially created this unhealthy state for myself to demonstrate to you."

As he spoke, the old bishop nodded to the unnatural white hair on his temples.

Ewas knew what he was going to say, but still nodded obediently.

In short, the spells of the Way of Devotion all require burning one's own blood.

Even if it is treatment, it is to burn one's own blood to restore blood for others-in this case, then the Way of Devotion must have a stable means of blood recovery.

This is the art of "fire worship".

"First, light a new candle. Any color is fine, there is no difference - when you are proficient enough, you can carry a pack of matches with you. "

The old bishop said, stretching out his left hand: "I don't know how much you understand about the mysterious knowledge, so I will start from the beginning.

"Among the five fingers of both hands, the thumb symbolizes fire, the index finger symbolizes air, the middle finger symbolizes ether, the ring finger is earth, and the little finger is water. The four basic elements have two corresponding fingers, and light and darkness are on the left and right hands respectively. Therefore, we usually use the left hand to worship fire - and the elements of the dedication path are light and fire, so our most important fingers are the thumb and middle finger of the left hand.

"Before you can use it proficiently and engrave it into your instinct, I don't recommend you to use your right hand for any operation."

As he said, a cluster of white flames ignited on the thumb of the old bishop's left hand, lighting the candlestick in front of him.

There was a thick and long white candle that had been placed in advance. The light after lighting instantly illuminated the entire space.

"In order to facilitate your first visualization, I specially selected the brightest model. "

Bishop Mathers explained, motioning Oswald to push Aiwas' wheelchair over.

"Come on, raise your left hand. Do it with me..."

He moved slowly: "Imagine that what is in front of you is not a candle flame within reach, but a golden sun that is out of reach.

"No matter how bright the fire in front of you is, you must imagine that it shines with extremely bright light - that light fills all corners of your perspective and fills your entire perspective, without a trace of shadow. Imagine that it can penetrate your palm, even if you open your hand, your hand must be as transparent as glass."

Aiwas did as he was told.

And just when he stretched out his hand.

A pop-up window suddenly popped up in front of him:

[Samuel Mathers is teaching you "Sacrifice Fire", do you want to pay 1 public experience to master this mysterious skill? 】

When he saw this pop-up window, Aiwas was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously looked at Bishop Mathers.

In the game, if a player's mysterious skill is obtained through a task - that is, not through reading, but through a one-on-one teaching after the personal favor of a certain NPC is fully filled. The experience consumed to learn this mysterious skill is proportional to the skill level and inversely proportional to the level of the teacher.

In other words, the easier it is to learn this mysterious skill and the higher the level of the teacher, the lower the experience consumed by the learner.

This setting does not have much meaning in the game, but is just to show how strong this person is. Because players actually do not lack this experience - this broken game has no physical limit, and the experience spent on learning mysterious skills is not much.

However, when online beast fighters discuss "who is stronger than who" and "who can kill who in seconds", they will pull this out as a basis to reversely infer the corresponding professional level of this NPC.

When players learned sacred skills in the past, they all had to spend seven points of experience to learn them - and the teaching NPC whose name Aiwas forgot was at least a certain bishop, no matter how weak he was.

So what's the matter with you, old man? You have such a high level in version 0, why have I never heard of your name in the game?

——Oh no, I ran into the Sweeping Monk.

Today is still more than 6,000 words, remember to read the new book period~