Chapter 389: Spirit Summoning Ritual
Hearing the opportunity, Nell immediately agreed to it. She was also a little curious about the chit-chat in question.
"I want to come too!" Rhea raised her hand enthusiastically.
"Fufu, sure, feel free to join tonight. Oh, we might have something a little interesting later. Pajamas party?" Elena glanced up as she took a moment to think.
"Pajamas party? Yay! An evening party." Rhea tilted her head slightly, but she cheered as if she understood a joy would be held tonight.
"Uhm, it"s more of a private party intended to strengthen a friendship or something like that, Rhea." Elysia explained a little because she felt Rhea misunderstood something.
"Eh? Then, what are we going to do at the pajamas party?" Rhea looked up and gave a curious gaze.
Elysia tried to find the right words to explain, then gave a little enlightenment to the curious baby. "Hmm... Pajamas party is usually held by girls who are already quite familiar. They"ll throw a tea party and take selfies. Ahem, I mean, playing and telling stories. Anything fun. Also, I"ve heard of something like pillow fights and many more."
"Ooh..." Rhea and Nell answered in unison as that sounded like a fun party.
"Okay, but we"ll have that after Lifa and I are done with our business. After that, we can have a pajama party." Elena clapped once for attention.
"Yay!" Rhea nodded in agreement, and so did Nell. Although, they had no idea what Elena and Lifa would do privately.
"Okay, let"s get back to what got us here. Hmm... We"re in Tiger Paw Forest. Let"s go to Jimmy"s grave." Elena approached a reasonably large mound of earth with a pair of tombstones on it.
Everyone also followed, and all of them were now surrounding Jimmy"s grave.
"Ely, please adjust the Nature Realm"s portal so that part of Lifa"s body appears in this world. She plays an important role in this spirit summoning ritual." Elena asked, and it was immediately granted by Elysia.
A portal opened nearby, but it was facing upward. A small tree appeared from there following the portal, which was descending slowly. When Lifa had appeared to the bottom of the trunk, the portal stopped there.
"Let"s not dig up the grave. We"ll only summon Vanessa"s brother spirit with a summoning ritual spirit. It"s like a revival but has a higher chance of success considering my current state and other factors." Lifa immediately spoke to stop the white tiger before the tiger could dig the grave.
Hearing that, Vanessa stepped back a little and just nodded. It was the same as long as she could meet her brother.
"Well then, Elysia, please hand over Jimmy"s Energy Core to me. You and Elena will help me and follow my every instruction for this ritual. Got it?" Lifa held out a branch, asking for something to be put there.
"Okay."
"All right."
Elysia and Elena answered, then Elysia put Jimmy"s dark blue crystal ball on Lifa"s branch.
"For the others, please stay two meters away from us." Lifa gave a shooing gesture with her small twig.
Thus, everyone other than Lifa, Elysia, and Elena immediately took their distance.
"I won"t teach anyone about extreme or forbidden life magic. If you can imitate it, then you are suitable for life magic. The great responsibility for this power will be yours to bear." Lifa spoke into empty air, not to anyone.
Elena just gave a silent approval without giving any gesture. She only had a short chat with Elysia through their private channel. "Ely, I learned a lot of divine knowledge from Lifa. She was generous enough to share that when I cornered her, hehe... You can access my memory if you want to know. Otherwise, I"ll only tell you later~"
"Then, I chose the latter option. Let"s focus on the current event. Madam Lifa will start her ritual." Elysia didn"t need to consider anything. She was patient enough to wait, even if it was tomorrow.
"Mkay." Elena complied.
At that moment, the dark blue Energy Core floated one meter into the air. A golden-green magic circle emerged around it and formed a ritual circle with many symbols and runes.
The two things that caught Elysia"s attention the most were the large hexagon in the middle of the ritual circle and the tens of trigrams around the ritual circle.
"Preparations are complete. This spirit summoning ritual circle is the one that will help to summon Jimmy"s spirit. Please channel your divine magic energy into this ritual circle. We need a lot of power because I have no part in this high-level divine magic other than being a caster. Are you ready?" Lifa felt quite tired from doing the preparations. But, the tiring work for her was finished here.
"Give me thirty seconds to catch my breath." Elena stalled for a bit of time. Lifa didn"t understand the nonsense, but she just waited patiently.
Meanwhile, Elena used her sacred vision to closely observe the spirit summoning ritual circle to emulate it another time. Feeling not enough, she also asked Elysia to do the same.
Every const.i.tuent element and all the energy components of the spirit summoning ritual circle were imprinted down to the smallest detail into a technique scroll. Elysia created that in the Soul Realm with her magic. The first high-level divine technique she copied was based solely on observation.
Literally, Elysia and Elena were willing to burn what they observed into their memory in detail because this was such a rare opportunity. Well, it had become a technique scroll because of Elysia.
"I"ve made a scroll in the Soul Realm, Sister Elena. I think this is enough." Elysia announced that, but she still used her sacred vision to see the ritual circle.
"Good job, Ely." Elena smirked a little, then she stretched her hands up. Elysia followed suit. "Alright, now is the time, Lifa. Ely and I are ready to supply our magic energy to this spirit summoning ritual circle."
"Well then, let"s get started. I"ll be telepathically sending my instructions to both of you for quick guidance. Make sure you don"t miss any of my instructions." Lifa raised her two branches as if they were hands.
At the same time, Elysia and Elena received instructions from Lifa. They immediately channeled their magic energy into the ritual circle.
Seeing that the flow of magic energy was enough to perform the spirit summoning ritual, Lifa started chanting her spell. "O the Absolute Law of the heaven and the universe, heed my words. The mortal dies, and the divinity comes to summon the spirit that wanders in the realm of the dead. Allow the spirit of this Energy Core to return to the world by my will. Spirit summons!"
*Rumble*
The energy fluctuations in the air suddenly surged, and the air became heated. Elysia and Elena continued to follow Lifa"s every instruction, but the others became a little nervous.
The ritual circle rotated slightly and shrunk with the Energy Core as its center.
*Poof*
The ritual circle melted and formed a winged tiger. The energy fluctuations decreased gradually following the two suppliers who no longer channeled magic energy.
A semi-transparent black winged tiger appeared into the world as a temporary ent.i.ty. The tiger curled up as if asleep.
"Have we succeeded?" Elysia wiped her sweat. She was a little overwhelmed as she doubled up to support the magic energy and also rewrote the spirit summoning technique into the scroll.
"En, we made it." Lifa checked the Energy Core in the winged tiger form, then thoroughly inspected the temporary spirit ent.i.ty to be sure. After that, she glanced at Elena only to get a grin.
"Why are you grinning, Elena?" Lifa decided to ask.
"Who knows. Perhaps, Ely and I could use this spirit summoning ritual with our own technique. Thanks for the demonstration. Even if it"s not a revival technique." Elena complained a little because this was not the technique she wanted the most.
"We"ll do it later for Vanessa"s father. I wonder if you can actually emulate my forbidden magic or not. Uh, I"m more worried about your plans at Brisline Woodland." Lifa felt quite anxious to know what Elena was planning to do with those fire lions, especially the Emperor.
"Thank you very much. That is if we succeed. If it fails, then plan B will be used. Gio and Vann are going into the spotlight, fufu..." Elena patted Lifa as if the tree was her old friend.
"..." Lifa decided not to answer. Once more, she glanced at the semi-transparent winged tiger and then asked Elysia to return her to the Nature Realm.
She didn"t worry about anything because that winged tiger temporary spirit ent.i.ty would return to the world of the dead with the rules of heaven and nature at dawn.
"Thank you, Madam Lifa." Elysia slowly moved the portal up.
"You"re welcome." Lifa responded casually. That was her last word before the portal was closed by Elysia at her request.
Meanwhile, Vanessa drew a little closer to the black semi-transparent winged tiger. Her brother had been successfully brought back into the world in a complete form using only his Energy Core as a catalyst.
Even though her brother wasn"t bigger than a tenth of his previous body size, it was still Jimmy nevertheless.
"Jimmy, o, Jimmy... Are you there? Do you remember who I am? Please open your eyes and look at me." Vanessa"s blue eyes could see that her brother"s spirit was alive. She just tried to wake him with a gentle tone, but it became a little hoa.r.s.e from emotion and the urge to cry.
"Unyahh... Eh?" Jimmy opened his yellow eyes and yawned. He rolled in the air, but he immediately fell to the ground.