"So Tunita is the one who created the crystal?" Angor rubbed his chin.
Luigi shrugged. "It's hard to say whether Tunita was the one who created the Holy Corpse Crystallization. Perhaps other Crystal Eye Race members have created the Holy Corpse Crystallization before, but this is a secret of the Crystal Eye Race.
"The only thing I'm sure of is that Tunita is the one who added the crystal into the building materials of Crystal City."
"Anyway, Tunita and the crystal have something to do with each other." Angor mumbled, "Crystallization of Saint's Corpse is a sensitive topic among the Crystallized Eye Race, and Tunita has something to do with it. So the secret might be related to the crystal."
Angor suddenly remembered something Luigi mentioned earlier.
The crystal seemed to have something to do with a legacy ability.
And it was usually a young Crystaleye Race member who obtained the legacy.
The strength tower should be at the right age.
So the strength tower wasn't related to the legacy, was it? Could it be that there was some fatal danger in this inheritance?
Angor hesitated for a moment before he told Luigi his theory.
After Luigi heard this, he fell into a trance … Or rather, Glaipnir, who was far away on the other side, fell into silence. After a while, he replied through Luigi's mouth, "Your speculation is not far from the secret that I know."
"It's really related to the legacy?"
Angor frowned. Before he could ask more questions, a new image suddenly appeared in the "static" live room.
Everyone's attention was attracted by the strange movement in the live room.
All the patrolling guards in the circular fortress stopped, walked to the railings, and made a strange hand gesture in a certain direction.
Their middle finger and thumb were touching, while the other three fingers were pointing upward, which looked like a "peacock head". However, it was a "peacock head" gesture made by two hands at the same time. The "peacock beak" was also connected to the left and right, which looked like a set of chuunibyou hand seals.
"Synchronized hand gestures? Is this some kind of ritual?" Angor guessed that it was a sign that a ritual was about to begin.
But Luigi shook his head. "It has nothing to do with the ritual. It's called a 'hand salute', which is similar to how humans stroke their chest. It's a basic etiquette to show to a superior."
As he spoke, Luigi pointed at a certain spot on the screen. "Look, someone is here."
The place Luigi was pointing at was a platform on the second floor of the circular castle. A member of the Crystal Eye Race who had turned his crystal shell into a floating chair slowly floated onto the platform and entered the live stream.
And all the "hand salutes" that the guards had made were directed at this person.
Without a doubt, this person should be the so-called 'superior' that Luigi spoke of. At least in the eyes of the Crystal Eye Race guards, this was a superior.
His appearance … didn't look too different from the others. The only difference was that the pupil in his eye was yellowish, which made him look like an old man.
As for what he was wearing, it was completely different from the crystal armor of the surrounding guards. It was an extremely exquisite robe. Although the overall color was plain, there were very complicated laces.
"Who is he?" Luigi murmured doubtfully.
However, in the next second, Luigi's confused gaze became wise. "He is Casata, an elder of the Crystal Eye Race."
There was no need to guess. Glypnir told him Casata's name.
As for why Glypnir knew about Casata … It was simple. Enamel lived near Glypnir, so he could just ask someone he didn't know.
"According to Enamel, Casata was promoted to an elder 600 years ago. However, he spent most of his time in the forbidden area and rarely appeared in public," Luigi continued. Luigi paused for a moment before adding, "Even Ida was confused as to why Glipnir would suddenly describe Casata's appearance."
Enamel's confusion was not important. Unlike them, Enamel could leave at any time. However, Enamel lived in Crystal City for a long time. Knowing too much was not a good thing for her.
However, Enamel's description of Casata made Glypnir think that … the puzzle had arrived.
Casata spent most of his time in the forbidden area, and so did the Crystal Eye Race's heritage.
The secret behind the force tower was most likely related to the forbidden area as well.
Casata's sudden appearance in the outside world and in front of a certain "ritual" was highly consistent with what Enamel vaguely revealed earlier.
Angor was certain that Casata was the key figure in the "secret". He might even be the mastermind behind it!
The upcoming ritual would most likely reveal a small part of the secret!
In the live broadcast, Casata arrived at the platform on the second floor of the castle. He did not look at anyone else. Instead, he silently watched the crystal dust pouring out from the bottom floor of the castle.
The crystal dust that gushed out had already covered the entire bottom layer of the ring-shaped castle.
Angor could not see anything on the screen. He could not see the movement of the crystal dust either.
Casata looked at the sea of mist condensed from crystal dust below and a smile appeared on his face. His mouth opened slightly as if he was mumbling something.
Since they were too far away, Angor did not know what he was talking about. As for lip reading … Angor could not decipher it. It seemed that Casata was speaking the language of the Crystal Eye Race.
Angor looked at Luigi, who also had a confused look. Clearly, Luigi did not understand Casata's words either. However, Luigi was not alone. Glypnir was standing behind him, and Enamel was beside Glypnir.
Glypnir simulated Casata's lips so that Enamel could read them.
Enamel was not good at lip reading, so she could not decipher all of Casata's words. However, she still managed to guess a few words through repeated simulations.
"… We're going to meet again … old friend."
From the literal meaning, Casata's words could be understood as "old friends reunite."
But where was his old friend? Was he inside the crystal dust? Angor recalled that the crystal dust tried to form a human silhouette at the beginning. Could this human silhouette be Casata's old friend?
But if that was the case, why would Casata's old friend meet in such a way?
Also, the guards said that the castle was holding a ritual.
If it was a ritual, and the result of the ritual was the appearance of Casata's old friend …
In other words, the ritual would result in a "living person" being born.
Angor could only think of three types of rituals that could result in such a thing: teleportation, summoning, and summoning.
Teleportation, as the name suggested, was used to send Casata's old friend back from a faraway place. It was unlikely because teleportation would cause spatial ripples, which would affect the quality of the live stream. Since the live stream was stable, there were no spatial ripples.
Summoning was a common ritual used by Summoner wizards to summon creatures from another world. Summoning required a special summon, either a bloodline, an offering, or a contract. So far, Angor did not see any obvious signs of such a ritual.
Summoning was an unusual ritual. It was forbidden in the southern wizarding region and forbidden by the Supreme Cult. The major wizard organizations did not object because such rituals were often associated with "gods".
Wizards only sought truth. They did not believe in gods.
All the gods in the southern wizarding region were either evil gods from the Abyss, wild gods, or foreign gods from Drauna Plane. In short, there were no good gods. They came to the southern wizarding region either because they wanted to conquer the world or the law of energy.
Humans or fallen wizards who were tempted by them would use summoning rituals to spread their tentacles to the southern wizarding region. This was why summoning rituals were often associated with "evil" and "corruption".
Would Casata use a summoning ritual here? Angor did not think so. All the races in the southern wizarding region were gathered at Crystal City. Would the Crystaleyes dare to offend them?
Although the Crystal Eye Clan was not weak in the White Sun Mirror Zone, it was still far from the top clans like the Mirror Dragon.
And there was more than one Mirror Dragon here. The Crystaleyes would not dare to do anything crazy at this time.
So it was more like a summoning ritual?
As Angor pondered, Casata suddenly took out a crystal scepter and raised it high in front of all the guards.
The guards closed their eyes and began to mumble something.
Every guard's mutterings were different. This time, he didn't even have the chance to read their lips. There were over a hundred guards here. Even if Glaipnir could remember everyone's lips, he did not have time for Ida to read them one by one.
As the guards mumbled, Angor could clearly see the sea of crystal dust at the bottom shrinking rapidly.
It was like a bloated water ball being forcefully squashed.
Angor could not figure out why this happened just by looking at the screen.
However, Laplace suddenly said, "There's a force that's involved in this' ritual '."
Angor looked at her in surprise. "You can sense it?"
Laplace controlled the mirror, but the mirror was still inside the mezzanine space. Could she sense the energy fluctuations in the real world from the mezzanine space? Could it be that this energy was mixed with spatial properties?
Laplace shook her head. "I did not sense it from the mirror. But I sensed a slight energy shift in the Crystal City just now."
In other words, Laplace did not sense the energy ripples from the fortress. She sensed the energy flow of the entire Crystal City!
Angor did not know what to say. As expected of the Grand Elder.
Angor could not learn from him.
"So the energy for the ritual came from the Crystal City itself?" Angor asked.
Laplace nodded.
How did the Crystal City provide energy for the ritual? Angor did not know the answer to this question.
But he knew that the Crystal City contained the Saint Corpse Crystal, which was the key clue to all secrets. It seemed that the ritual was also related to the Saint Corpse Crystal.
One after another, they were all connected. All the clues pointed to the same place. No wonder Glaipnir was watching the live stream from afar.
The scene continued, and the crystal dust continued to shrink. By now, the crystal dust had already condensed into a human silhouette.
It was almost the same as the first one Angor saw. But this time, it looked more solid. Angor could even see its facial features.
A single eye, a pointy nose, thin lips, elf-like long ears, one of which had a golden earring, and thick, transparent hair.
This was exactly how a Crystal Eye Race should look like.
So this is Casata's old friend?
After another half a minute, when all the crystal dust had been absorbed by this new member of the Crystal Eye Race, he slowly opened his eyes.
His eyes were slightly dazed as he looked around, as if he hadn't realized where he was.
It wasn't until he raised his head and saw Casata that his gaze gradually recovered from its daze.
He seemed to have recognized Casata, and there was a hint of surprise in his eyes.
His thin lips parted slightly as he said something.
Angor still did not understand. He looked at Luigi, who gave him a "don't worry" gesture, which meant that Glaipnir had begun his "test" with Ada.
While Ada was reading the lips, something changed on the screen.
Casata did not talk to the new Crystal Eye Race being. Instead, he waved his hand, and the new Crystal Eye Race being fell into the oval mirror below.
When the new Crystal Eye Race being disappeared completely, Casata yelled out something.
As he shouted, the group of Crystal Eye guards, who had been mumbling with their eyes closed, opened their eyes one after another.
Casata waved his hand again and said something like "the ritual is over". Then, he turned around and left the fortress.
The group of guards first looked at each other, then looked at the mirror surface at the bottom. When they saw that there was no crystal dust near the mirror surface, a trace of doubt flashed in their eyes.
From their expressions, they did not see the new Crystal Eye Race being, nor did they know the final result of the ritual.
They were participants of the ritual, but they did not know the details of the ritual, which was in line with what the guard said.
Both Casata and the Crystal Eye Race being made of crystal dust had disappeared, which meant the livestream was coming to an end.
Angor and Laplace exchanged a look.
Without any hesitation, they moved at the same time. Laplace destroyed the mirror while Angor destroyed the illusion nodes.
This meant that not only was the livestream over, but it also meant that all traces of the ritual had been destroyed. No one would ever find out that they were watching the ritual again.
The livestream ended, but the aftermath was not over yet.
Two minutes later, Luigi raised his head and said, "Aida has already read the meaning of that sentence."
You … Why are you so old?
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