When Angel returned to the cubicle, Gleipnir was still making arrangements for the ritual.
The formation on the ground has been drawn. Now, she is placing the final props.
Yes, there are also specifications for the placement of props. Any deviation from the coordinates may cause the ceremony to fail. From this, we can see how strict Madalaku is in the ceremony specifications.
Graipnir calculated the coordinates while wandering outside the "Six-pointed Eye".
——The Six-Pointed Eye is the formation chosen for this ceremony. A pattern of a six-pointed star is drawn on the ground, with an eye in the center, which means to peek into the true meaning.
After calculating the coordinates, Gleipnir will place the corresponding ritual props in the corresponding locations.
Soon, the inside and outside of the Six-pointed Eye were filled with various props.
Colorful inks are cut into geometric fabrics of different specifications, and gorgeous oil wax is poured into it along the grooves of the six-pointed eye.
I have to say that after Gleipnir arranged it this time, the ceremony looked a lot more formal.
If Angel's original idea was to just put the props around casually, it would be like a grass-roots team. But now, at least anyone who sees it can understand that this is a ceremony.
No matter whether the final ceremony can be successful or not, the appearance of the person has improved.
"The current time is 2:10 in the morning." Gleipnir murmured in a low voice: "There are still ten minutes left, and the ceremony should begin."
Angel: "How do you feel now? Are you worried that the ceremony will fail?"
Gleipnir shook his head: "I'm not worried. We have made all the ritual preparations according to the rumors given by the mission. If we still can't succeed, then it can only be said that there is something wrong with the mechanism."
There is a high probability that there will be no problem with the mechanism of the dungeon, so in Gleipnir's opinion, their ceremony this time should be a success.
"If I'm worried, it might be because I'm worried about what to do next after the ceremony is successful."
Their purpose this time was to find the carnival night clown who was sealed in the darkness through the three major rumors: prayer rumors, sacrifice rumors, and location rumors... to start the ceremony.
But what do you do after you find it?
Because there are no task prompts, they actually don't know what to do next.
The only thing I know is that I want to get the Prada beauty pageant back on track, and the "Carnival Night Clown" is the key point.
But they found the "Carnival Night Clown", can they really bring it back directly to Prada Media Company?
You know, the last fashion monster that was sealed was the time radio. In order to get the puzzle pieces of the time radio, the task they performed was extremely difficult.
In the same way, if you want to get the "Carnival Night Clown", do you also have to do the challenge mission?
If they really want to start a challenge mission, can they complete the challenge before the end of the main mission?
Anyway...
Gleipnir is not worried about the failure of the ceremony, but is worried about the consequences.
After thinking for a moment, Gleipnir turned to look at Angel: "If you want to get the Carnival Night Clown and you need to complete a challenge mission, then let me challenge it."
"If you take on tasks outside, your chances of completing them will be higher."
If a challenge mission really needs to be carried out, one of the two of them must enter the challenge space. Gleipnir decided to challenge the space himself, while Angel stayed outside.
Angel can also "get" tasks outside, and since he has God's world and various powers, his chance of completing tasks outside must be higher than hers.
That's why Gleipnir made such a distribution.
Angel also understood what Gleipnir meant and nodded: "Okay."
Gleipnir: "When the time comes, you first look at the difficulty of the task. If the task is too difficult and cannot be completed in a short time, then you go to Yusup first and use money to smash the main quest."
Graipnir said and returned the Modern Card to Angel.
Angel understood that this was indeed the best arrangement.
At this time, there are only a few hours left before the end of the main mission.
If the "Carnival Night Clowns" really want to do a task, and the task is too difficult, then they can only choose to use money to break Yusup's mouth open first.
After the main mission enters the next stage, complete the "Carnival Night Clown" mission to get back on track.
They discussed various details, and after confirming that everything was correct, the time came to 2:19 in the morning.
In one minute, the ceremony will begin.
Any ceremony needs a host, and this ceremony is no different.
They had discussed before that Greipnir would be the person in charge, so when the time reached nineteen minutes, Greipnir began to tidy up his clothes.
After confirming that there were no wrinkles or dirt, she threw away the crutch and slowly walked into the "Six-pointed Eye".
She stood quietly in the center of the "eye".
Then she cast a look at Angel, who also understood what she meant, gave her a "Leave it to me" gesture, and then walked quickly to the front of the "Six-pointed Eye".
On the high side of the wall here, Gleipnir carved out a small groove, installed plated nails in the groove, and then placed the "Sacrifice of Light" in the plated nails.
The so-called "sacrifice of light" was the lamp she brought from the Theater Abreu.
Under the lamp, there is a small stone pier.
There is a holographic projector and something similar to a "pot lid" placed on the stone pier.
The holographic projector will display competitions from previous Prada beauty pageants. This is what Gleipnir bought from Yusup.
The roar during the game is the "sacrifice of sound".
Once the holographic projector is turned on and Angel puts the "lid" on the pot, he can "only hear the sound but not see the shadow", which perfectly matches the effect of the "sound sacrifice".
These are all preparations Gleipnir has made in advance.
As soon as the ceremony time comes, they will all come in handy!
…
Two twenty in the morning!
For people in the modern city, this is not a very important time, and no one will pay attention to this time.
The only thing he paid attention to was probably the starworm in the cramped rental house.
He looked at the round clock on the wall and saw the minute hand jumping from 19 to 20, and his mood increased to the point of nervousness.
Originally, his thoughts were still immersed in "One Hundred and Eight Applications of Fusion Magic", but at this time, he couldn't help but look out the window...
The ceremony should have started.
Can Gleipnir and Angel succeed?
"What are you looking at?" Kaushik saw Starworm staring blankly out of the window, and he also looked outside: "There is nothing outside."
There is nothing outside the window except the neon sign of the building across the street.
Starworm: "Even at midnight, the modern city looks so bright."
Kaushik: "...For people in the modern city, there is no difference between day and night."
Under the thick dirty clouds, it is dark during the day and dark at night. No matter day or night, what really brings light to the city is the neon light and shadow on the outer buildings of each building.
Therefore, there is no difference between day and night in the modern city.
The only thing that can really make a difference is... rain.
Under the curtain of acid rain, the modern city will truly become quiet.
Tick, tick—
"I was just thinking about rain, and then it came." Kaushik stroked his forehead with some trouble: "It rained just last night, and now it's raining again. When daytime comes, it is estimated that many people will have to go to the hospital."
Not only does acid rain bring pollution and diseases, but the air after acid rain is also a major source of disease.
Therefore, after every rainy day, the hospital will be full.
This is the hidden price hidden under prosperity.
Starworm retracted his eyes and continued to look at the book in his hand, but his mind had already flown to the distant underground neighborhood...
It's two-twenty! Time's up!
After seeing the time prompt in the text column, Gleipnir immediately glanced in Angel's direction.
Angel understood it immediately, nodded slightly to Gleipnir, and then turned on the lamp he got from the Theater of Bielle.
The round dysprosium lamp emits white light instantly.
However, this white light is not released evenly, but converges into a beam of light.
Beyond the beam, there is still darkness.
And this beam of white light shines directly at the center of the "Six-pointed Eye" formation. In other words, Gleipnir has now become the only agent of this beam of light.
Just like the glory on the stage, her old face was also dappled with light and shadow.
Feeling the throbbing caused by the "Sacrifice of Light", Gleipnir slowly closed his eyes.
She clasped her fingers together, put her palms together, and placed them on her chest. She slowly recited the "Hymn of Praise of Maradaku" as if she were praying.
This hymn has more than 200 words in its entirety, and Gleipnir has already memorized it in his heart.
There was no fluctuation in her tone when she recited, but with the illumination of the dysprosium lamp, her whole person seemed so sacred and inviolable. Even the prayers she recited seemed to be the sounds of nature washing away the dust.
And as Greipnir prayed, Angel could clearly feel that the surrounding space energy was ripples.
These spatial ripples are like waves, spreading continuously, seeming to be resonating with a hidden corner, and seeming to be conducting spatial feedback with unknown places.
Perceiving this scene, Angel understood that the ritual "capture" had already begun.
As long as you can "capture" the coordinates between Wu Guang, it means the ceremony is successful!
A minute passed.
Gleipnir was also halfway through his prayer.
"The Hymn of Maradaku" has three chapters, corresponding to the beginning, climax and end.
At this time, Gleipnir happened to be reciting the "climax" part, which also corresponded to the "epic" chapter. Her tone became passionate and surging, as if she had seen the tall towers of Madalaku and the heroes with her own eyes. Leap into poetry!
It was also at this time that Angel placed the cover of the "pot lid" on the holographic projector, and used his mental power to open the holographic projector.
Graipnir had already adjusted the sound and light time. When Angel turned on the projector, the climactic applause and shouts from the Prada beauty pageant instantly filled the cellar.
All the sounds and Gleipnir's chanting seemed to blend into one!
At this point, everything is at a climax.
Even under Angel's perception, the ripples in the space became more and more frequent. It was obvious that it was also inspired by the "Sacrifice of Sound".
Seeing this, Angel simply took out the Hermit Ring and played the "Modern Fashion Show" that he had purchased from the Hermit Society.
The projection is blocked and only the sound of the modern fashion show is played.
When the applause and calls of the new audience were integrated into the ceremony, the ripples in the space became more frequent, almost turning into high-frequency shock waves, sending "calls of those on the same frequency" in all directions!
Half a minute later.
The call of the fans has been answered!
The power of space also sensed this feedback, and almost immediately turned into a surge, rushing towards the corresponding space coordinates.
However, in just a short moment, Angel sensed a cramped space that was superimposed on their current coordinates.
And what this "superposition" shows to the outside world is the changes in the various sacrifices in the formation.
There are three kinds of "food offerings", namely oil paint, cloth, and oil wax in carnival paper lanterns.
At this time, the oil wax that originally outlined the depressions in the formation seemed to be evaporated by heat and slowly changed its shape. It was seen that it continued to lengthen upwards and was shaped in the hot wax.
In the blink of an eye, the oil wax in the carnival paper lanterns formed a three-meter-high door frame, standing in the center of the Six-Pointed Eye.
The fabric placed on the ground flew into the air, filling the "skeleton" of the door frame with "flesh and blood" in the form of a geometric puzzle.
After a while, the door curtain made of "fabric" also took shape.
Finally, those gorgeous oil paints seemed to be dipped in color by invisible brushes, and were painted on the door frames and door curtains, forming a strange graffiti.
This graffiti does not have a fixed pattern, but is more like a combination of various colors.
Red, white, black.
Yellow, green, blue.
It's obviously just a combination of colors without any outline, but Angel is somehow able to perceive the "emotion" and "background" brought by the colors.
Red represents enthusiasm and vitality, like a clown's nose.
White represents calmness and reason, like the background color of a clown’s face.
Black represents expressiveness and exaggeration, and is the color used to outline the lines of the clown’s eyes and mouth.
Yellow, green and blue are the embellishments on the clown, representing joy and absurdity.
Just the accumulation of colors makes people seem to see a clown laughing wantonly at them...
At the moment when this graffiti appeared, the chaotic spatial fluctuations that were originally disturbed by the "door frame" and "door curtain" slowly became stable.
It seems that this graffiti is a natural space stabilizer.
But Angel has carefully observed that there is nothing abnormal about this graffiti. What really makes the space stable is the energy coming from the superimposed space.
After the strange graffiti door was stable, Angel looked at Gleipnir, who had already finished reciting the prayer and took two steps back.
"The ceremony is over."
"It's over." Gleipnir nodded, then looked at the strange door in front of him.