Chapter 62 "Dancer" (Monthly Pass)
Lumian was in no hurry to find the three foreigners, Ryan, Leah and Valentine, and went straight to the old tavern, trying his luck.
If that mysterious lady appears, he has a lot of questions he wants to consult!
Anyway, they have already accepted the free gifts, and they will inevitably pay the price in the future, so it is better to take the opportunity to gather more wool as Aurore said.
As soon as he entered the old tavern, Lumian's eyes lit up.
The mysterious lady was sitting in the old seat in the corner, with two glasses of emerald-colored absinthe in front of her.
Two glasses? She knew I would come? Lumian walked over and greeted with a smile:
"Good morning."
The lady was wearing a white blouse with a vine pattern on the neckline, a beige ankle-length loose skirt underneath, and a pale red women's beret at her hand.
Lumian was influenced by his sister's various magazines and knew that this was the latest trend in Trier.
The lady looked up at him:
"It's not early, it's almost noon."
Isn't this to accommodate your routine? Lumian scolded.
Seeing this mysterious lady instantly made him feel at ease.
He sat down and said very directly:
"I've had a lot of things happen recently."
The woman pushed a glass of absinthe to Lumian, and the swaying green liquid seemed to be the goddess of joy in everyone's heart.
She didn't say she could speak, nor did she say she couldn't speak.
Lumian picked up the glass of absinthe and took a sip gently, only to feel that the wine was fragrant, refreshing with a faint bitterness, which was somewhat different from the absinthe he had drunk before.
"This is?" He asked suspiciously.
"Another kind of absinthe, which has been very popular in Trier recently, is more popular than absinthe in order to distinguish it from the past, and is especially admired by writers, painters, and poets." The lady also took a small sip.
Inside the transparent glass, the green liquid seemed to have a bit of a psychedelic color.
The three main ingredients of absinthe are absinthe, fennel and fennel, and the absinthe produced by different wineries has slightly different recipes, and some even add lemon essential oil.
I went to Trier for a few days when I didn't show up before, just to bring back some absinthe ouzo? Lumian couldn't understand the behavior of the lady across from him.
He didn't ask and talked about what he had experienced during this time, including reality and dreams.
The lady tasted the small glass of absinthe and listened quietly to Lumian's narration.
"That's pretty much it, is there any way for me to master that mysterious dance in the shortest possible time?" Lumian went straight to the point.
As for the key to breaking the cycle and the secret of the dream, he believes that he will not get an answer even if he asks with previous experience.
The lady gently shook the emerald liquid in the cup and smiled:
"You will never learn without an extraordinary improvement in flexibility.
"Of course, you can force yourself to jump through a section, but you will definitely get injuries such as torn ligaments and torn muscles, so how can you hunt monsters?"
Lumian is very sensitive to the hidden meanings in other people's words:
"Is there a way to greatly improve my flexibility?"
The lady chuckled:
"You have to ask yourself."
"......"Lumian was once again defeated by this vague hint.
If the opposite side is a more familiar and not so mysterious person, he will definitely say two sentences:
"Explain it to me clearly!
"Don't let me kneel down and beg you!"
Seemingly hearing his inner voice, the lady added with a smile:
"The way to improve your flexibility is in yourself."
"Huh?" Lumian looked confused.
The lady took a sip of absinthe fennel and sighed and said:
"Didn't Sister Ling teach you ritual magic?"
Lumian noticed that the strange emotion in her eyes reappeared.
"I taught you." Lumi moved with peace of mind, "Pray to yourself?"
The lady looked him up and down, smiled and said:
"Who do you think you are, and what does it do to pray to you?
"You can only choose the weakest one when summoning creatures in the spirit world, and your inspiration is all related to the body."
For example, danger intuition? Lumian probably understood what the mysterious lady said:
The spirituality of the "hunter" has actually been enhanced, but it is mainly focused on inspiration and cannot meet the needs of occult affairs such as ritual magic.
"What should I do then?" Lumian asked.
The lady sighed:
"Have you studied dual ritual law?"
"I learned." Lumian nodded.
The lady said "hey":
"Fortunately, you have a sister, otherwise I will have to tell you about this occult knowledge, it's too tiring, too tiring."
It turns out that you don't talk about ritual magic, meditation and spiritual vision, contract creatures, and supernatural language, is it troublesome? When Aurore finished speaking, you appeared? Lumian instantly felt like his blood was surging and blocking his throat.
He took two deep breaths and said:
"The dualistic ritual method requires gods or hidden objects that are closely related, but I don't have them......"
As he spoke, Lumian fell silent.
The lady smiled and said:
"You have.
"How is it, do you remember?"
Lumian pointed to his chest:
"The thorn symbol and that blue-black symbol?"
The lady nodded first, and then reminded:
"The blue-black symbol doesn't need to be considered, the essence of using the dualistic ritual method to get a response is to extract the divine power contained in the target item, if its power decreases, the balance that your body has finally achieved will fall to the bad side, and then ......."
She didn't finish her words, but her expression made it easy for Lumian to understand what the subtext was.
In Auror idioms, it is:
"It's hopeless, just wait for death!"
"Is it the blue-black symbol that protects me from being completely polluted?" Lumian already has some occult knowledge and understands that the current situation is called pollution.
"It was the great being I mentioned that protected you." The lady seriously corrected, "When you unlock the secret of the dream ruins, I will tell you His name, and you can pray directly to Him."
Was it the great being who lowered his power and sealed the pollution represented by the thorn symbol in my heart, not allowing it to completely contaminate me? Lumian didn't know if the great being was good or bad, if there were evil intentions, but at least it made him feel close to him.
He thought for a moment and guessed:
"Use the dualistic ritual method to steal the power represented by the thorn symbol?
"If that force becomes less, the pollution will be weakened and the seal will be stronger?"
"How can it be called stealing?" The lady retorted, "This is a request for a gift from a certain person, but He happens to have some power beside him, and he responds according to the principle of proximity, and the seal of the great being and the weakening of a certain barrier make it impossible for a certain subject to perceive it."
Or do you people who only speak half of what you say...... What is the difference between this and steal? Lumian muttered a couple of words in his heart.
Combining the divine gifts and abnormal ways that the lady had spoken of, he asked thoughtfully:
"Through the dualistic ritual method, pray to the power corresponding to the thorn symbol, and ask it to give me a gift, so that my flexibility will be greatly strengthened?"
"That's pretty much it." The lady nodded, "To be precise, please give you the power of a 'dancer'."
"'Dancer'?" Lumian thought of the performance of "Noodle Man".
The lady took a sip of absinthe and said:
"For the transcendent paths beyond the twenty-two paths, we still divide them into sequences 9 to 0 for easy understanding, correspondence, and reference.
"Hmm...... In a sense, the division of sequences is in line with the underlying rules of this world."
"'Dancer' corresponds to sequence 9 of the thorn symbol, just as 'Man in the Ring' corresponds to its sequence 4?" Lumian asked several questions in one go, "Does it improve my flexibility, enhance my spirituality, and make it easy for me to master that mystical dance?"
The lady smiled with relief:
"Sure enough, with the foundation of occultism, communication will be much easier, and I don't need to explain anything more."
Lumian asked a little excitedly:
"What are the corresponding sequences 8, 7, 6, and 5 called?"
"Sequence 8 is 'mendicant monk', sequence 7 is 'indentured person', oh, do you know what to do so much? Master the ritual well and strive to become a 'dancer' as soon as possible." The lady was not too impatient.
"Mendicant monk" ...... "indentured person"...... Hearing these two names, Lumian instantly had a lot of associations.
"Mendicant monks" is a real profession that mainly refers to certain members of major churches.
Like the "Eternal Sun" church, it is divided into multiple groups due to different concepts, among which there are two main ones, one is the "Evangelistic Brotherhood", and the other is the "Little Brotherhood", also known as the "Mendicant Monks Association".
The former is dominated by many clergy in the church and the "purifiers" of the Inquisition, emphasizing the brutal crackdown and cleansing of heretics, cultists, and wild extraordinary people to promote the orthodox doctrine of the "eternal sun".
The latter members were mainly concentrated in monasteries, and some church people also joined in, advocating moderation in desires, begging for food and asceticism, and preaching to various poor places, so that more people believed in the "eternal sun".
Therefore, at the mention of "dervish monks", Lumian felt that it was associated with missions, asceticism, special ritual magic.
As for the "contracted person", the first thing that came to his mind was the black mark on the body of the priest and the mouthpiece monster.
Aurore said it might be a trace of a special contract.
"The monster I killed was originally a 'person of contractor'?" Lumian asked in astonishment.
I actually killed a monster equivalent to sequence 7?
The lady nodded slightly:
"Yes, the 'Godfather' is to use the special contract and divine testimony provided by that being to obtain different powers from different creatures, and one contract corresponds to one ability.
"Whether they are powerful or not depends on what abilities they have acquired, how many abilities they have, and it is not impossible for ordinary people to kill those who go astray.
"In fact, there is a similar situation in the Transcendental Realm, and it is common for certain extraordinary people who are not good at fighting to be killed in a lower order.
"Ability is very important, brain is also important, and preparation in advance is equally important."
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(End of this chapter)