As night falls, the moon regains its dominance in the sky.
The silver-white moonlight shone down, like a thin gauze covering the quiet forest, and an aura full of mysterious flavor quietly came out.
Fiona placed Speru far away, and slowly came to an open space where she could bathe in the moonlight. After a simple cleaning, she began to arrange the ceremony.
This place is far away from York, so there is no need to worry about being discovered by people from the church, and the beasts hiding deep in the forest have no courage to come forward.
Fiona drew a complete circle on the ground with her bare feet, then cut it off from the middle, then sprinkled dry powder of bay leaves around it, and placed five piles of frost moss on the outer layer.
After finishing all the ceremony arrangements, Fiona stretched out her right hand and condensed an ice mirror emitting a slightly cold air in the center of the ceremony. Then she took a pious posture and looked at the full moon in the sky.
"...The child of doom who was born in chaos, please give me new guidance."
The bright moonlight shone on the ice mirror, and a slight fluctuation began to appear. Soon, this abnormal fluctuation became more and more obvious, and the ice mirror gradually became deeper and darker.
Suddenly, a bright red light appeared on the ice mirror, getting bigger and bigger, and finally formed a blurry, small red figure.
Seeing this scene, Fiona lowered her head and knelt down in front of the ice mirror piously and humbly.
Her round shoulders began to tremble slightly, whether it was due to the influence of the environment or the pressure brought by the figure in the ice mirror.
Tiny ice crystals were flying, which seemed to bring huge pressure to the air around the ears. Fiona kept her head lowered, lying on the ground, and did not move for a long time.
"Get up, my child, I don't blame you." said the red figure in the mirror.
"I obey your will." Fiona moved quickly, but after standing up, she still lowered her head and lowered her body slightly.
After some tangle, Fiona knelt down again and said in a trembling voice: "This operation failed. It was my fault. I failed to capture Nielliu. I will continue to track her.
I will not let her go."
"Failed?" the red figure questioned, but there was no hint of surprise in his tone, "Why?"
"I met a troublesome person who was a member of the church."
"Well, that's understandable."
"I will definitely catch Niellelu back, for sure."
"Well, it's not important." The red figure began to shake. "This matter ends here. There is no need to continue to follow up, and there is no need to pay attention to the defected 'witch'."
"What...why?" Fiona was puzzled.
"Because it's fun. I want to see what she can do. And...there are other more fun things that need you."
Fiona nodded, thought for a moment, and asked:
"I... I felt your breath on that person who was in the way. Is it the mark you left?"
"Did you discover it?" the red figure said with a smile.
"Yes, but I don't understand why there is your mark on such a person."
"Because that person has a lot to do with me. You don't need to pay attention to the brand on him. You just need to treat him as an ordinary person. You can even fight against him."
"Against him?" Fiona was confused, but she didn't say anything and just nodded silently.
The red figure continued: "After you finish one thing at last, you can go to the stage for the next act to prepare. I think you know where it is, right?"
"Faerun," Fiona nodded, "don't you need me to stay here to witness everything?"
"No need, just leave it to those guys..."
The sound gradually dissipated, and when Fiona raised her head, she found that the ice mirror in front of her had returned to normal, and the red figure in the mirror had long since disappeared.
Only a strange forehead symbol remained on the ice mirror.
Fiona let out a sigh of relief and looked at the symbol on the ice mirror.
In the center of a skinny palm, there is an eye drawn, confused and without focus.
"Eye in the Palm? True Knowledge Society?"
After a brief moment of surprise, Fiona's face returned to calm.
After destroying the traces and eliminating the spiritual residue, Fiona turned around and went into the deep forest.
Fiona had no doubts about the red figure in the ice mirror, nor did she dare to have any doubts. It was the messenger representing the will of the red goddess, and all "witches" were children of the red goddess.
The will of the goddess in red is the direction they move forward.
Speru was sitting on a huge rock, looking up blankly at the moon in the sky. At this time, a rustling sound reached his ears. When he turned his head, he saw Fiona walking towards her.
"Teacher Fiona," Speru jumped down from the stone and asked with concern, "Is everything going well?"
"Of course," Fiona nodded, "I have received permission. If you are willing, you are here and I will guide you to become a true transcendent."
"it's here?"
"What? You don't want to?"
"No, no, I am willing, I am very willing, but..." Speru looked around, "It's just that there is nothing here."
Fiona looked at Speru, smiled, and didn't answer. She just stretched out her hand. Soon, a crystal clear ice bowl appeared in front of the two of them.
Speru's eyes widened and he looked at everything in front of him with an incredible look, while Fiona took out one piece of material after another from the package on the side.
"Because you have chosen the fallen realm, your ability will be slightly different from mine, but this does not affect it," Fiona said, moving her hands constantly, "Pour in 100 ml of pure water."
"Ten sleeping pills. Remember, if there are extraordinary materials, they must be taken in the correct order."
"Wrist vein blood is 20 ml. The set of tools I gave you before can be taken out. Right here, add your fresh blood to it."
Fiona threw a withered flower in, "Finally, we need three tears of betrayers."
"Tears of the betrayer?" Speru asked.
"Yes, in the 'admirer' stage, you will have a deeper understanding of the heart-breaking pain of not being able to love someone. Only after experiencing this can you truly transform."
"But where can I get the betrayer's tears?"
"You can do it yourself. To a certain extent, you have also betrayed your colleagues in the prison, right? Although it is obviously their fault."
"It's their fault..." Speru murmured in confusion as he followed Fiona.
"Yeah, look at this world..." Fiona came behind Speru, leaned close to Speru's ear, and murmured in a low voice.
"It's obviously not you who's wrong, it's obviously them who are inflicting violence, but it's people like you who are persecuted and endure pain."
"Everything you insist on will be trampled under their feet. They trample on the dignity of others. They think they are superior, singing and laughing without caring about the pain of others."
"And you, do you like this kind of world?"
Speru stared at Fiona's charming eyes and shook his head firmly.
"Yeah, I don't like it either. Instead of laughing with those people in such a world, it would be better to fall into the abyss and feel endless pain..."
"Then one day, come back from the abyss and let those who have trampled on you and those who have laughed at you experience it once..."
"The pain you've been through."
After Fiona finished speaking, she silently backed away.
At this time, Speru had already burst into tears, and the crystal tears flowed down his cheeks and slowly dropped into the ice bowl.
Upon seeing this, Fiona put a red pill-like crystal into the ice bowl. She saw that the materials in the ice bowl began to change, and then came to Speru's side again.
"Feel the pain, my child. One day, you will find a way to live with it, and at that time, you will know what true depravity is."
After a while, Fiona picked up the ice bowl and came to Speru.
"Come, drink it, and then I will take you to Faerun, in that great city known as the 'Heart of the Griffin'. Soon, everyone will know a name, and that is your name."
"Speru."
After hearing this, Speru wiped away his tears, took the ice bowl in Fiona's hand, and drank the bright red blood-like liquid inside.
Mysterious and strange changes began to occur in Speru's body, but Speru just stood with his eyes closed, as if he was suffering from some huge pain.
From beginning to end, Fiona just stood aside and watched. She knew that this was a stage that every "admirer" had to go through, and that there was endless pain waiting for Speru behind.
While waiting, Fiona remembered something, so she went to the side and in an inconspicuous corner, she began to spiritually draw a symbol of the eye in the palm.
Bathed in the soft moonlight, Speru opened his eyes again and looked at his hands in disbelief.
Suddenly, with his fist clenched, Speru looked at his hand and could clearly feel the power flowing in his blood.
"My child, may you become a true transcendent."
Speru turned around and looked at Fiona, his eyes glowing with dazzling light. He was about to say something when he suddenly paused, then knelt down on one knee, made a pious gesture, and whispered:
"Thank you to the great goddess in red."
Fiona narrowed her eyes slightly, like two crescent moons, and began to look at Speru with a little admiration in her eyes.
"By the way, do you need me to do anything for you about your boss who was once in prison? I can let him die quietly."
"No need," Speru shook his head, "I suddenly felt that he was just a poor person, still struggling in the twisted world you mentioned."
Feo nodded, very satisfied with Speru's answer, "Let's go to Faerun, where there is a stage that belongs to you."
Speru followed Fiona's footsteps, his eyes full of confidence.
This seemed to be the first time since he was born that he was so confident and full of dignity.
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York City, Blue Square.
The mist that diffused from the Lims River covered every corner of the square. At this time, the place was peaceful and even a little unnervingly empty.
In a place where no one is paying attention, a symbol written in blood undergoes mysterious changes.
The originally dried blood suddenly began to glow, and after a moment, the dull color became vivid again, as if it had been smeared with fresh blood.
This symbol full of depravity was only active for a moment, and then dimmed again, as if everything before was just an illusion.