studiobondurri Chapter 255 - 252 Clairvoyance
Chapter 255 - 252 Clairvoyance
The circle of purple flames was not tall, measuring only about ten centimeters high—an easy step would carry one over it—but those dancing flames seemed like a boundary, thoroughly isolating the inside of the circle from the outside.
"This is a form of protection, and I hope you will remember that no matter what ritual you perform, always take the necessary precautions to avoid unnecessary dangers, especially with spiritual communication rituals. It is strictly forbidden to proceed without protection," Chen Yu explained the precautions of the ritual to Misumi Mikoto.
Besides her, Kube Rokuro and the Nakado Department were also listening seriously, as this was a rare opportunity for them to encounter the mysterious and unknown.@@@@
Especially for the Nakado Department, ever since he learned that this spiritual communication ritual could summon his lover, he listened even more intently, hoping to memorize the ritual so that he could have the ability to summon his lover too.
"Teacher, why? Could there be some danger in a spiritual communication ritual?" Misumi Mikoto asked Chen Yu about things she didn’t understand. She clearly knew that pretending to understand in a field she was unfamiliar with could lead to severe consequences.
"Every ritual is potentially dangerous because there’s always a chance of losing control.
Although for some rituals, the possibility of going out of control is as likely as you choking to death on drinking water, it’s not nonexistent," Chen Yu joked in a half serious manner before explaining earnestly, "Spiritual communication rituals require summoning and communicating with spiritual bodies or certain special entities.
Depending on the level of the ritual, it will have different levels of attractiveness to entities of different levels. Dr. Misumi, you must have heard stories about young girls playing with soul summoning and ending up calling forth evil spirits, right?"
"Teacher, you can just call me Mikoto," Misumi Mikoto remarked, apparently feeling it was odd for Chen Yu to call her Dr. Misumi, and then she nodded, "That kind of thing is a classic trope in ghost stories."
It’s used in many spells and rituals, and the more advanced the ritual or spell, the more stringent the blood requirements are. Of course, for the simplest rituals we are conducting today, ordinary animal blood is sufficient, without the need for human blood or live sacrifices.
Don’t think it’s impossible. In fact, if you really want to conduct a high-level spiritual communication ritual, preparing a few living people as offerings when communicating with certain entities who have peculiar tastes is quite normal. Some entities might even require you to prepare a massacre. Of course, those are not the kind you would want to communicate with, I presume."
Misumi Mikoto realized through Chen Yu’s words that magic was not just an interesting and mysterious thing; it was also very dangerous, particularly the necromancy she had chosen to learn, which dealt with the dead.
"Returning to the ritual itself, in most rituals, the ritual magic circles used are circular, symbolizing the world and truth.
Especially for Necromancers, it represents the one truth we believe in, the Unity of All Things," Chen Yu finished drawing the magic array, and began to explain the deeper meaning of the magic array to Misumi Mikoto, "Within the circle, we usually use shapes imbued with magical power such as triangles, squares, pentagrams, and hexagrams as part of the magic array.
Today, to keep it simple, we are using the triangle."
Having said that, Chen Yu lit candles at the three points of the triangle he had drawn. But clearly, these candles were different from the white candles he had shown to Misumi Mikoto before, and she noticed this because the flames that the three candles burned with were green.
"These are ritual candles, a special type of ritual material made mainly from materials such as human hair soaked in corpse oil, corpse wax, cat ashes, grave moss, and grave soil.
The process is quite complex, and I will provide you with a method for making them later, as it’s something you must master," Chen Yu noted the noticeable disappointment on the Nakado Department’s face when he said this, chuckled, and then purposely added, "Of course, white candles can also be used, but as for the effectiveness... It’s a matter of luck, it could still work if you’re lucky."
After finishing, Chen Yu recited the summoning spell over the completed ritual magic circle, and with his incantation, a semi-transparent female figure finally appeared within the magic circle of the ritual.