It was the height of summer, but the night in the northern suburbs was still very cool. A group of people gathered in the open space behind the house, lighting candles, drawing magic circles, and placing offerings — it looked like a cult gathering. Hao Ren looked at Lily and could not help but sigh. "If outsiders see us doing this, who do you think will come first, the asylum or the police?"
"Probably the asylum." Wuyue stood on tiptoe and swayed her upper body as if she could not avoid the habit of being a snake even in human form. "Anyway, if I were an ordinary person, if I saw a group of adults summoning vampires with a serious face, I would definitely call the asylum first …"
Nangong Wudi suddenly sighed. "I didn't expect a demon hunter like me to participate in this kind of thing. In the past, this was a demon."
"Why are you saying this?" Lily turned her head and said bluntly. "You have already married a demon, don't be so noble."
Lily continued to fiddle with the summoning circle as she spoke. God knows where she got some quicklime and drew a crooked pentagram on the ground. The more Hao Ren looked at it, the more he felt it was unreliable. "Do you think this thing will work? Four of the five corners you drew are crooked … and the last one is even rounded? "
"As long as it's the intention," Lily looked happy. "The offerings have been placed, and now we just need to find two people to bleed!"
Hao Ren looked suspiciously at the offerings that Lily had placed on the pointed corner of the pentagram. "Where did you get these things? Are they reliable? "
"Of course it's reliable. I collected them myself." Lily pointed to the things around the summoning circle. "The mistletoe leaves are specimens I made when I was traveling in the past. I caught bat teeth in the wild. The limestone is no problem. The ashes of the woman's hair are my own. It's so distressing."
Hao Ren listened to her in a daze. Suddenly, he remembered that the summoning required black goat fur, but he only saw a small leather boot on the magic circle. "… Where's the black goatskin? Where did you get these shoes? "
Lily said, "This is my shoe. Anyway, the shoe seller told me it's made of goat skin … I think goat skin should be no different from black goat skin."
Y'lisabet, who had rushed over to join in the fun, was stunned. The little girl covered her face and said, "If she can summon something, then I'll be damned."
Nangong Wudi continued to sigh. "If all the wizards in the world were like her, the demon hunters would save a lot of effort …"
Hao Ren was a little worried about the magic book experiment. He was afraid that the book would summon something messy. Although it was not a threat, it was still a nuisance. But when he saw Lily's seriousness, he suddenly felt relieved. Based on the husky's experimental attitude, even if she went to the city center and set up a lot of things, she would only be able to summon the sanitation workers.
"Let me see." Lily clung onto Hao Ren's arm and glanced at the illustration in the magic book. "Well, the placement is fine. The magic circle … it looks like it. The moon is also full … Oh, the conditions are met. Mr. Landlord, shall we try the ritual?"
When Hao Ren was about to step forward, Nangong Sanba could not help but say, "Are you sure you want to do this kind of summoning ritual?"
The magic book may be more like a farce in the eyes of others, but in the eyes of the demon hunters, it was not a joke. This heretical book handed down from the Dark Ages recorded the real taboo knowledge. Almost every name of the demon and god in it corresponded to a living otherworldling or their residual power in the world. Those seemingly absurd rituals often had very troublesome effects. Hundreds of years ago, there were many kingdoms and castles in Europe that were destroyed because of the abuse of magic books. There were even several large-scale 'natural disasters' related to this kind of magic book. There were also some nobles or heretical scholars who were obsessed with secret knowledge who opened the magic book and had their souls taken over by the evil spirits in the book. This kind of thing was impossible to guard against.
Hao Ren shrugged and said, "What do you think Lily's ridiculous summoning ritual can summon? Not to mention that this thing was originally used to summon Vivian … "
Nangong Sanba thought that Hao Ren was right and did not say anything.
Hao Ren and Lily stood on both sides of the magic circle according to the book. Lily bared her teeth and looked at her finger. "I really have to drip blood … I suddenly feel like I'm losing out."
"Anyway, it doesn't matter to me." Hao Ren had already turned off part of his Steel Membrane Shield and reduced the tissue strength of some of his limbs. He was ready to bleed. "I just need three drops of blood."
Lily nodded and bit her finger. At the same time, Hao Ren bit his fingertip.
Blood dripped on the ground. Hao Ren turned to look at the summoning circle beside him. The crooked pentagram did not move. "Looks like it didn't work. I told you that these things you prepared were nonsense. "
Lily raised her finger and said, "That's because my blood has not dripped yet and it's already healed!"
The onlookers were stunned. The corner of Hao Ren's mouth twitched. The regenerative ability of the werewolf had shown its power!
"Let's try again?" Lily wagged her tail excitedly. "I'll bite hard this time!"
Hao Ren tried again and it turned out that the husky could not control her regenerative ability at all. She bit a hole in her finger and it was already healed before her teeth even came out. It was a funny situation. Nangong Wuyue could not help but mutter, "You're going to have a problem if you're going to make a blood pact with someone."
Lily looked at her hand in a daze. Suddenly, she gritted her teeth and ran back to the house to get a straw. "Mr. Landlord, let's try again! This time, I'll put a straw in after I bite. I don't believe it'll last long! "
Hao Ren suddenly broke out in cold sweat. He quickly pushed the crazy husky aside and turned to the others. "Who wants to try for her? Otherwise, the husky will really put a straw in her body. "
Nangong Sanba looked around and stepped forward. "Looks like it's me."
The half-baked demon hunter's regenerative ability was not as monstrous as the werewolf's. The last step of the summoning ritual was finally completed. However, after the third drop of blood, the summoning circle was still silent. There was no magic or any other visible supernatural phenomenon. Of course, Vivian was still in the house.
"It doesn't work?" Lily flipped the magic book over and over. "There's magic in it. It shouldn't be fake. I heard from Battie that the wizards were unreliable when it came to other things, but they would never record invalid spells in their magic books because they relied on it to maintain their reputation. "
Y 'zaks crossed his arms and shook his head. "If you drew the four corners of the circle correctly, it would probably be more effective. It's all crooked. Do you think you can draw the circle freely?"
"Could it be that the ritual requires human blood to be used for the summoning?" Lily was still holding the magic book and thinking hard. She refused to admit that the circle she drew was too abstract. "Let's try it with two humans?"
Hao Ren looked around and was stunned. He found that there was not a single human around him!
His house was a zoo of demons and ghosts.
"This …" Hao Ren's forehead was covered in cold sweat. "We have all kinds of weird things here, but no humans."
"Forget it." Lily lowered her head regretfully and handed the magic book to Hao Ren. "Let's go to the hospital and get two bags of blood."
Hao Ren felt that the husky's ideas were all bad. But considering that it was a full moon night, he did not expect Lily to maintain her intelligence and logic. He took the magic book and casually flipped through it. "Tsk tsk … the book is real."
He did not notice that he was standing in the center of the summoning circle. When the magic book was flipped open, the brightest moonlight of the full moon shone on the illustration of the summoning of the King of Blood.
A thin layer of cold air suddenly rose from the pages of the book, and then a strange red color appeared in the cracks of the pages and quickly spread outwards.
The summoning ritual did not fail. It just lacked a prerequisite: to put the book on the energy focus!
Now, it was activated.
(It's still an early update … I've been busy these days.)
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