Chapter 219 Guess why it glows?
As night falls, the sky is gradually dotted with stars.
Horn stood on the marble floor on the third floor of the minaret, looking expectantly and curiously at Shilov in a wheelchair.
The ten days have come, guide the return of Ether.
Horn has been waiting for this day for a long time. The astral world and the ether are too high-end in this low-magic world.
In an era when civilization was still engaged in feudalism, cross-space spells had already appeared?
Horn later asked Paslik about the ether, and he told Horn.
At the beginning of the birth of the Magic School, there was always a question that troubled them, that is, through what method is magic power transmitted?
A wizard from the Scales Monastery proposed the ether hypothesis. They believed that the reason why the spells of the Evocation Witches were more powerful was because they used ether to guide the elements when casting spells.
However, because the existence of ether has never been discovered, and the divination to the witch also failed to find the existence of ether, it is regarded as a hypothesis.
But now, the real ether, and even the application of ether, have been revealed before Horn's eyes.
On the ground is a pattern of eight-pointed stars within large circles within small circles. Among them, the half-moon-shaped yellow crescent moon holds five connected stars like an embrace.
Not far from the base of the obsidian obelisk, Shilov commanded Afu to arrange various alchemy equipment around them and place them in appropriate positions one by one using mechanisms.
I don’t know why, Horn always feels that the steeple is shaking.
Looking up at the ring wall of the towering spire, it is covered with spirally distributed fluorite, which emits a soft white light.
The starlight shining through the tower top and high windows illuminated Shilov's focused face. Her furry ears were slightly raised and turned left and right like a radar antenna.
"Horn, bring me my star map." Shilov's voice broke the silence, and Horn took out a star map and handed it to her.
After carefully comparing the star map with the celestial phenomena, and confirming that the stars had returned to their positions, she whispered: "It's time to get ready."
Listening to Shilov suddenly became hoarse. With a deep voice, Horn swallowed his saliva and protected Jeanne, Paslik, Bonard and others in front of him.
"Your Majesty, stand behind me." Victor raised his small shield and stood in front of Horn.
Instructing Ah Fu to adjust the telescope to the correct position, the brass frame of the telescope glowed with a faint golden color under the light of fluorite.
As Afu continued to turn the winch, amidst the creaking sound of gear meshing, the telescope hanging above everyone's heads began to move along the brass track, while Shilov used the rocker on the other side to The handle controls the direction of the telescope.
"Ding——" Horn heard a crisp sound, but when he looked around, he once again found that no one around him seemed to be moving.
You must be really nervous, right? Horn blinked guiltily.
At the same time, Shilov suddenly shouted: "Stop."
The telescope's lens was focused on specific stars in the sky. For the next second, Horn found it difficult to describe the situation in front of him in words.
Starlight, infinite starlight rushes from the distant star realm and gathers above the spire.
The high window of the minaret is like a funnel, countless starlight converges along the telescope, and finally flows to the base of the obelisk.
"Wan Wan is hot, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh..."
Singing an incomprehensible El language spell in his mouth, Shilov drove a wheelchair and stopped at the eight-pointed star. central.
When she cast her magic power, Shilov's pupils lit up in a circle, and the fluorescent stone lamps on the wall spiraled upward one by one, lighting up with purple light.
As Shilov read faster and faster, her voice gradually became ethereal, as if she was speaking in a huge theater, and was reflected countless times each time.
“It’s so hot, so hot, so hot…”
Holding his breath, Horn looked at the stars pouring down. In the starlight, the base of the obelisk trembled slightly. The light of the fluorescent stone lamp began to flicker continuously.
As time went by, the starlight became stronger and stronger, almost turning into a dazzling white light beam. He could even hear a "buzzing" sound like a lightsaber being waved.
"Dong dong..." Everyone present felt as if their throats were grabbed by a big hand, locking their breath.
A focus gradually lit up in the white beam of light. It was a purple-black dot. In the blink of an eye, it swallowed up the starlight and continued to expand until it became the size of a fist.
This focus tears apart the space, becoming a completely two-dimensional plane with no thickness.
“The rift in the star realm!”
For the first time, Horn heard Paslik scream like a little girl, but he didn’t bother to laugh at Paslik, He just stared at the purple-black dot with his eyes.
His pupils tightened, and a strong feeling of palpitations filled his heart.
Why do you feel a suction? It was as if something in the crack was attracting him.
Subconsciously taking a step forward, Horn stretched his head and continued to look into the crack. The starlight penetrated the purple crack and turned into indigo light, which shot into the moon pool on the first floor through the small hole on the base.
In the first layer of the moon pool that no one can see, the water ripples slightly, surging with indigo light. The large and small star-cast gears in it absorb this blue light like a sponge. .
After she stopped singing, Shilov's face became much paler. She wiped the cold sweat on her forehead with a handkerchief and shouted loudly to Horn: "The ether is entering the moon pool. Wait a moment, and the ceremony will take place naturally." Stop."
Seeing that Shilov succeeded, Jeanne immediately turned to look at Horn: "Brother, look...Brother, what happened to you?"
I don’t know when I got up. , Horn took several steps forward, and his face became paler than Shilov.
Staring straight at the purple-black crack, his lips kept opening and closing, but he didn't make a single sound.
“Brother, brother, speak.”
"Mianxia, Mianxia? Hurry and help Mianxiao go outside."
"Wait, why is Mianxia's neck bleeding?"
In the clearly visible starlight, everything They were all covered with a layer of light fluorescence, so everyone could see that the holy mark on Horn's neck was slowly oozing blood.
“Don’t touch him.” Paslik kicked away Victor, who was about to run away after picking up Horn. “The farther he got from the astral rift, the blood on his neck was bleeding. The more.”
“Shilov, stop the ceremony.”
Shilov ran over in his wheelchair and said at a loss: "I, I don't know how to end it, I only know how to start."
"Shilov, stop it."< br>
Seeing the blood flowing from Horn's neck floating in the air, and then flying towards the rift in the star realm, Jeanne grabbed Shilov's shoulders and ordered.
"I don't know how to end it..." Shilov said as he turned his wheelchair to the controller of the telescope and shook it with difficulty.
But at this point in the ceremony, no matter how Shilov turned the telescope, the starlight continued to pour into the rift tearing the astral world.
"This, this, idiot ritual, idiot, stop, stop." Seeing Horn's abnormality, Shilov knew that there was something wrong with the ritual, but no matter how she fiddled with it, changed the telescope, or even extinguished the glowstone lamp, nothing happened. Nothing works.
"Giggle--" Horn made a sound like phlegm stuck in his throat.
It was only then that Jeanne was horrified to discover that the holy mark on his neck actually showed signs of tearing.
A drop of blood seeped out from Horn's neck, crossed Jeanne's chin, and rushed into the purple-black crack.
“Damn.”
Gritting her teeth, a look of madness appeared in her eyes. She let go of her arms holding Horn, and bright gold color quickly dyed her hair.
“Wait.” Paslik immediately tried to stop him, but it was too late.
“Stop!”
Jeanna was so anxious that she attacked with full fury, and a bolt of lightning as thick as a bucket shot out and landed heavily on the crack in the star realm.
“Buzz——” Everyone, even the people in the town, heard something shaking.
"Get down!" Paslik yelled.
In an instant, intense white light swallowed everyone's vision. Countless large and small purple electric snakes danced wildly on the walls and bases, and many chains were directly melted by the electric red.
Several large mechanical structures and brass components fell from the sky, hit the ground, and rolled down. A series of electric sparks danced on the metal until the white light gradually dissipated.
I don’t know if it was three minutes or five minutes, but everyone got up from the ground as they gradually woke up from the shock and dizziness.
The night breeze poured in through the broken stained glass windows, blowing up a cloud of burnt-smelling dust.
The astral rift on the base of the obelisk had disappeared, as if it had never appeared. Shilov lay on the ground in a panic. She was also knocked down from the chair by the shock wave.
Fortunately, Ah Fu threw himself on her back and withstood part of the impact for her.
"How is your Majesty?" Standing up unsteadily, Victor found Horn who was being pushed down by Paslik.
Jeanna staggered over with bruises on her mouth from falling, turned Horn over, and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the blood scab gathering on her neck.
"Send Your Majesty to the palace." Jeanne once again hugged Horne in a princess hug, "Call Cecil and the doctors in the town to come."
"No." Horn reluctantly opened his eyes, "Just call Sisi, the doctor will come, it will panic."
(End of Chapter)