Mystery: I can change things in books

Chapter 138 Ceremony
They were already familiar with ritual magic, and they quickly arranged the altar. Three candles were placed on the round table, two candles were placed correspondingly, and one was placed in the center to form a line.

A dark purple candle symbolizes the hidden sage; a dark blue candle symbolizes infinite knowledge; an ordinary candle symbolizes "I".

Corresponding spiritual plants were added to the three candles, such as moonflower, starmint, sawgrass, etc. After Chris smelled it, he felt that this was somewhat similar to the materials added to the candles when praying to the goddess of the night.

Chris stood at the table, closing and opening his eyes, his eyes became deep. He mobilized his spirituality and used the friction between spirit and matter to light the three candles in sequence.

Then he took out a pure copper dagger, inserted it into a small bowl of mercury beside the table, and recited in ancient Hermetic language:
“Eyes that peer into the world;”

"Secret and knowledge personified:"

"The end of infinite mysteries."

Then, Chris's voice suddenly rose:
"I pray for your attention, I pray for you to lead me to the kingdom of knowledge and open the door to knowledge!"

He jerked his dagger out of the quicksilver and walked around the table, but left a gap as Wilmot had requested.

Then he dropped the mercury on the tip of the dagger onto the candle flame, and then quickly carved a lifeless, indifferent eye on the table.

Rodel, Dorn and Pengka quickly put the sacrificial materials they had prepared on the table - a book, a pile of small-denomination banknotes and a roast chicken.

Chris watched with a livid face as the surfaces of these things gradually turned transparent and turned into nothingness. He knew where these things had gone. Wilmot said that he used secret techniques to turn these sacrificial objects into own bedroom.

A strange wind blew, and the three of them knelt on the ground devoutly. Seeing Wilmot kneeling down, Chris also knelt down on the ground like him, but there was no respect or piety in his heart.

Complex knowledge was introduced into Chris's brain, but he found that the knowledge was different from what he had heard before. He could even clearly identify the content, which was a repeated word:

"Intis Beach, Intis Beach..."

The corner of Chris' mouth twitched, it was Wilmot's trick again.

He glanced at the others with his peripheral vision and found that Rodel and the three of them had puzzled expressions on their faces, as if they were in an unconscious state.

Is it a transfer method?Prayers to the Hidden Sage turned to prayers to the God of Knowledge and Wisdom?No, maybe this ritual magic was never possible to succeed from the beginning...

Chris thought to himself, and when Wilmot stood up, he also stood up.

Chris extinguished the candles and ended the ceremony according to the procedure. After clearing the altar, the three people still knelt on the ground and did not get up for a long time.

He exchanged a look with Wilmot, who nodded slightly.

Chris said in a low voice: "The ceremony is over, stand up."

The three of them stood up and sat around on the sofa. After the ceremony, it was a fixed communication time to exchange and communicate the knowledge they had acquired.It's somewhat similar to Tarot Club.

Rodel stood up first, closed his eyes and raised his head, and said slowly: "I heard His call and felt knowledge chasing me..."

Chris glanced at Wilmot, who looked at Rodel with a smile on his face and was satisfied with him.

"I heard it too," the gray-haired Pengka raised his hands and stood up tremblingly, "He accepted my sacrifice, He also imparted knowledge to me, and I pleased Him with a hen that had just laid eggs. …”

Chris froze on the spot, this scene was completely different from what he expected.The Moss Ascetic Order is a corrupted secret organization whose members are cunning and insidious. In order to embrace knowledge, they will do anything to embrace knowledge, and they are willing to accept the transformation of the hidden sage, and they will not hesitate to refine the human body...

But now, although these three people pretend to be secret organizations, what they say does not sound like members of a secret organization at all, but more like patients in a mental hospital.

What made Chris even more unbelievable was that Wilmot actually showed great interest. He listened with great interest and would interject from time to time and ask questions to the three of them, just like a teacher who randomly checked the students in class.

Chris felt like a student auditing.He sat aside and listened to Wilmot's teachings, and found that he cleverly changed the focus of the conversation from "Hidden Sage" to "Knowledge", focusing on the latter, even making it feel like it was an ordinary tea party .

During the communication between the three ordinary members, Chris coughed and asked indifferently:

"Rodel, how much do you know about the symbols created by Emperor Russell?"

Rodel looked at Wilmot, then at Chris, and hesitantly said that he had initially deciphered the content of the symbol:
"Mr. Witcher, I have studied his self-created symbols for a long time and achieved rich results.

According to my research on Russell’s symbols, there are a small number of symbols that are repeated, such as——”

He took out a piece of paper from his bag, took out the pen on his chest, and drew a few symbols on it. Chris recognized that what Rodel wrote were several Arabic numerals with very standard shapes.

Rodel screwed on the cap of his pen and said respectfully:

"Mr. Witcher, here is my judgment based on the number and placement of these symbols: I believe they represent time.

These symbols often appear at the beginning and tend to be sequential, probably representing different times and dates..."

Chris was slightly surprised. He originally thought that Russell's diary was a secret that no one knew in this world. Now it seems that not only Old Neil of Nighthawks and Fred of Mechanical Heart know this secret. , even Rodel, who has just become a Extraordinary for less than three months, has an accurate guess about it.

His mind changed and he quietly made a guess: "Is it possible that it was Emperor Russell's record of the location?"

He wanted to change the direction of Rodel's research as much as possible and hide the "diary" matter. Although it was impossible for them to analyze its contents, the fewer people who knew about it, the better.

"Place?"

Rodel pinched his chin and fell into deep thought. He had never thought of this possibility before.

"By the way," Chris changed the topic and asked casually, "Did Emperor Russell create many greeting cards?"

"You know this?"

Rodel felt that his research was finally being taken seriously. He continued with excitement:

"Yes, Mr. Witcher, Emperor Russell created a total of 12 greeting cards with constellations as the background, namely 'cultivation constellation', 'expectation constellation', 'first harvest constellation'..."

When Rodel mentioned the "harvest constellation", Chris's eyebrows jumped. He remembered that this corresponded to "Virgo".

Virgo, witch...

Is it...

(End of this chapter)