Chapter 76 (2/2)

After a few days of hunting monsters, which werehad become littered with all manner of lootOf course, I’d left the bodies and other raw stuff outside, but killing all those Go a whole bunch of their equip that I could find so they had, and now there were a bunch of dead, naked Goht outside my base

But the experiotten lots of little tools to use, and eventually, I’d made a new discovery

“This, I can use… this, ic circle”

Magic circleIt’s so us our Jobs, the all-important compass, and even the somewhat useless texted updates

What I had discovered was that I could use them in my Curses too

“The effects change slightly depending on how I arrange the ingredients”

That’s right, by just changing how I placed the sacrifice ite’s size and depth

“Circular ones are best”

The first ic circle we all had to draw in our notebooks was circularI was sure that this shape would wield the best effect, even for les and squares, but those didn’t have as much effect as the circles

I drew out these circles as precisely as possible, with blood, of course

And drawing a perfect circle was easyAll I had to do was stick a spear at the center and tie another spear to it with a blackhair ropeThen I just circled around the first spear with the rope in a slight tension and carved the circle into the ground with the second spear

Pouring blood along this guideline gavethe first step

“And I place the ingredients in a hexagram”

I then drew a hexagraredients on the 6 points where the shape touched the circleFor a while, I was at a loss as to how to draw a perfect hexagram, but let’s not talk about that

First, I speared a point anywhere on the perimeter of the circlePoint AThe center point I alreadyfroht until it reaches the other side of the circle is point BThus the line AB is the circle’s diameter

After points A and B are in place, I then drew an arc of the sa on AThis should be obvious, but what I did was stab the spear on A, lifted the spear at the center O, and arced on the blackhair rope until I reached the circle on both sidesThe intersections of the arc with the circle are points C and DIn other words, if A is the top, C and D are to its left and rightI then repeated the process with point B now as the center and got points E and F

Now I just had to draw the triangles AEF and BCD and voila, a perfect six-sided star, AKA, a hexagram

And after I painted the hexagraic circle

Finally, at the center I copied the Bloodseal mark on my palm that had an eye-like shape, and drew that freehand on the center of the circle

Now I just had to place the 6 ingredients on the 6 points of the hexagram

Which went clockwise froora, so Blood, a Zombie’s Head, soo corpse at the center, and skewered them in place with a spear

“And, done”

This right here was the ritual circle I created after countless trial and errorThis would getit over, I took in how similar it turned out to the occult fiction back on EarthMaybe the fanatics back there were on to soht just be due to e of this kind of ritualAnyway, all this work had ledwithout expending any extra blood or ic

I naram Eye

Just hexagram wouldn’t do at all since I didn’t coive it a siive my props to the math Gods

After all, the only part that could be called a personal touch would be the central eye syot from Ruinhilde-sama

“I can win… I can beat the Basilisk, with this”

This can give e I need

I can do itI can kill the BasiliskI was ready to solo challenge a dungeon Boss

For the next 2 days, I focused on preparing for the confrontationWell, it wasn’t that different fro redients

There was a quiet agitation inlike a surprise encounter with an Armorbear, and I didn’t have Mei-chan withto fight a massive foe, a Boss, all onmy life on my own volitionI was nervous as could be

“Listen up, Reonna explain the plan”

“GAGA”

Reotten all our preparatory materials and I spoke out the plan, mostly

the plan, mostly in order to make sure I myself knew it

“First, we’ll have 2 carry a Goma as bait and lure away the Basilisk”

I’ve confirmed that the Basilisk ets too close to its Mandragora fieldIt did this every ti it

But to make sure this works, I’d need live Gomas, not corpsesI already had 2 of thoseI’d captured and tied them up outside the Square, and had Re them, I could now capture one alive without issue

“We lure it to the Hexagra the way, the plan fails and we fall back”

Every step needed to happen as planned, or else we’re bound to mess up if we improviseWe could retreat if the live bait part doesn’t work out and think up a new planWe were facing asi ere up toOr at least, I hoped

“And once the Basilisk is on the ritual circle, I’ll cast Rotten Bog right under it”

The real fight begins here

“I’ll instantly folloith Blackhair Bind, and hold it downBut only the head”

If it gets a chance to use its breath, I’m done forMy first priority will be to hold its ht

“I won’t be able to do anything with its bodyThat’s where Reuys need to attack it as much as you can”

The ets out of h that we can chase it down and kill it

“With its massive fraed tactics”

For that too, I’ve prepared a few things:

Red Knife Spear: I attached the Red Knife to a Go the Basilisk from a safe distance

Torch Oil: The oil that Gomas use in their torchesI stocked up every pouch I could find and have a total of 2 liters

“2, you’re on oiling dutyAnd Reht it upWe’ll turn it into BBQ lizard”

Just stabbing won’t do any decisive daWe’d use the oil to compensate for that lack of muscle

“You need to make sure to only set fire to its hind areaIf the flames reach its head, it could burn off my Blackhair and I’ll be decayed toast”

“GAGA”

I didn’t kno this whole struggle with time will play out, and won’t know until we actually went out and did itBut I wanted to keep an optimistic attitude

“After you’ve used up all the oil and set fire to it, don’t stop attackingAll those spears, axes and knives we gathered up, give it all to the Basilisk, and give it good”

“GAGAA!!”

The Re with every edged Goot our hands on in the past week

“The rest just depends on how long I can e to bind it down”

This was the o to shi+t if I can’t restrain the Basilisk withresponsibility was on my headWell, mostly because I was the only one here

It was nerve-wrackingIt was extremely scaryBut I had to tryIf I didn’t, I could never move forward

“Let’s do this――”

Chapter 76 How to Draw a Hexagra pointI needed some time to recover my mana now, so to best o and observe the Basilisk so around as always, while I was also only casually observing the beastI still felt like a pro ca for that perfect shotAs for today s events, no stupid Gomas had run into the Basilisk s territory, and neither were there any stray MatangosThe zone Boss only got up to have it s big breakfast of Mandragoras and didn t dodid happenThis, it s definitely the thing s skinDoing a once over on the Mandragora fields, I sahite piece of skin just lying thereIt had an area of around 30 c I d caused, for exa the Basilisk when it least expected it and tearing off a piece of skinSo this Basilisk sheds tooMeaning that this was naturally shed off skinHow the Basilisk, or any eon was still an unknown for me, but I knew that this monster in particular needed to sleep and eatIt was a living beingIt shedding its skin could be a sign of growth, and if not, it could just be a way to get rid of its old skinIncidentally, I had 2 go to the field and collect the skinMng, using it for Rem parts kinda seems iffyWith how small it was, I didn t think it could cover all of Rem with the skinI d expect that a few parts of her body would get some white skin patchwork at most, which would be less defensive and more ornamentalAnd frankly, we had no tiot just the right use for thisIt was as if a lightbulb flicked on on top ofthe Basilisk, so oing to bedRotten BogI let loose a drop of blood andI then cut off a small piece of the Basilisk s shed skin and laid it down on the acid puddleThen I waited daYes With this little experi would really work on the Basilisk s skinIn games and fantasy, Basilisks that specialized in their acidic breath always had strong resistances for sion with fire, I d almost assumed that the Basilisk was immune to any and all poisonBut the only way I could even i the Curse that had theIf my acidic swa up a plan of actiondaht just actually possibly workThe Basilisk skin wasn t showing any changes for the first few seconds in the puddle bog, but soon enough, I could see sradually, the piece had started , I could see that it took more time to dissolve than Mantis shell, but it definitely wasn t ih as Ariven up on this etherAnyway, this basicallyon it effectivelyIt could be that its meat, that is, the muscle under the skin, is even ine that possibilityWhich leavesto est one I couldThe Basilisk was at least 5 irth tooI needed a way tothat could hold the hborhood of 10 meters squaredOn that note, I had a few proble speed, and whether I had enough blood to make it workI mean, I could probably do it if I putthe Basilisk would in no way end with siI d have to hold it in place for a pretty long tih for it to dieIn other words, I d have to e the bog and luring the Basilisk into itWhich e Rotten Bog and then I had to h ropes of Blackhair Bind to restrain the Basilisk until it diedAnd with my current total uess I ll need a way to increase my mana, or alternatively, find a way to use lessover what I needed to do as I slowly drifted off to sleepThe next ht, I ll get myself a sacrifice I call it the, Please, rantawesome super Curse planI ll be frank, I had no idea whether this whole sacrificial shi+ndig was going to do anything, but I also didn t know if it ll do so, so I d just tryI d justify hly dependent on the caster s i so Shaet redients for Reured that a Shaman was the sort of Job that could s in its other Curses tooSo what I called a sacrifice would siuesswork on et theo, and the three of us then temporarily left the poison marsh zone and headed back into the ruins that led hereWoith the second Rem, I actually feel a lot more at easeThanks you two, you re the bestGAGAA And after some time, we d done e set out to doHere are the day s pickings Going its neck, so there was no blood or other woundsI have two of these and Reo Corpse Found this one waddling around the Fairy Square so I grabbed itI used ed knife tentacle attack and sent in Rem and 2 up close and personal as they were i s for me to huntMonster Blood Blood I collected fros and the like while they were still aliveI ve stored them inside the leather sacks the Gomas carried their water or booze inI have around 2 litersCore Fragment Really small shards of monster core that the small uess it wasn t a proper sacrifice since I was using corpses, but all these gory ingredients gave off a good shaman y feelLet s try with just the blood firstI started off the experiredientsThe cores, no matter how small, were still raw crystallized ive htI poured a cup s worth of Goround, added a drop of er but not by a large inFro ith 1 drop, so I could clearly tell that adding GohtNow I know that it does soIf push comes to shove, I could very well collect a tub load of bloodBetween Rem, 2, and I, we should be able to carry it all relatively fastTime s a wastinI redid the experiment with all sorts of coe to use ic coI redients and noted down the effects gained with a redientsOnce that was done, I increased the nuredients to 3, then 4, and repeated the combination experimentsThat said,redients to be as efficient as possibleThis work kept me busy for another 3 daysThe ti of the experiredients and time required to replenish my blood andAfter a few days of hunting monsters, which werehad become littered with all manner of lootOf course, I d left the bodies and other raw stuff outside, but killing all those Go a whole bunch of their equip that I could find so they had, and now there were a bunch of dead, naked Go quite wellI d gotten lots of little tools to use, and eventually, I d ic circleMagic circleIt s so us our Jobs, the all important compass, and even the somewhat useless texted updatesWhat I had discovered was that I could use the on how I arrange the ingredientsThat s right, by just changing how I placed the sacrifice ite s size and depthCircular ones are bestThe first ic circle we all had to draw in our notebooks was circularI was sure that this shape would wield the best effect, even for les and squares, but those didn t have as much effect as the circlesI drew out these circles as precisely as possible, with blood, of courseAnd drawing a perfect circle was easyAll I had to do was stick a spear at the center and tie another spear to it with a blackhair ropeThen I just circled around the first spear with the rope in a slight tension and carved the circle into the ground with the second spearPouring blood along this guideline gavethe first stepAnd I place the ingredients in a hexagraed the ingredients on the 6 points where the shape touched the circleFor a while, I was at a loss as to how to draw a perfect hexagram, but let s not talk about thatFirst, I speared a point anywhere on the perimeter of the circlePoint AThe center point I alreadyfroht until it reaches the other side of the circle is point BThus the line AB is the circle s diameterAfter points A and B are in place, I then drew an arc of the sa on AThis should be obvious, but what I did was stab the spear on A, lifted the spear at the center O, and arced on the blackhair rope until I reached the circle on both sidesThe intersections of the arc with the circle are points C and DIn other words, if A is the top, C and D are to its left and rightI then repeated the process with point B now as the center and got points E and FNow I just had to draw the triangles AEF and BCD and voila, a perfect six sided star, AKA, a hexagraraic circleFinally, at the center I copied the Bloodseal mark on my palm that had an eye like shape, and drew that freehand on the center of the circleNow I just had to place the 6 ingredients on the 6 points of the hexagramWhich went clockwise froora, so Blood, a Zombie s Head, soo corpse at the center, and skewered theht here was the ritual circle I created after countless trial and errorThis would getit over, I took in how similar it turned out to the occult fiction back on EarthMaybe the fanatics back there were on to soht just be due to e of this kind of ritualAnyway, all this work had ledwithout expending any extra blood or ram wouldn t do at all since I didn t coive it a siive my props to the math GodsAfter all, the only part that could be called a personal touch would be the central eye syot from Ruinhilde saive e I needI can do itI can kill the BasiliskI was ready to solo challenge a dungeon BossFor the next 2 days, I focused on preparing for the confrontationWell, it wasn t that different fro redientsThere was a quiet agitation inlike a surprise encounter with an Armorbear, and I didn t have Mei chan withto fight a massive foe, a Boss, all onmy life on my own volitionI was nervous as could beListen up, Reonna explain the planGAGAReotten all our preparatory materials and I spoke out the plan, mostly in order to make sure I myself knew itFirst, we ll have 2 carry a Goma as bait and lure away the BasiliskI ve confirmed that the Basilisk ets too close to its Mandragora fieldIt did this every ti itBut to make sure this works, I d need live Gomas, not corpsesI already had 2 of thoseI d captured and tied them up outside the Square, and had Re them, I could now capture one alive without issueWe lure it to the Hexagra the way, the plan fails and we fall backEvery step needed to happen as planned, or else we re bound to mess up if we improviseWe could retreat if the live bait part doesn t work out and think up a new planWe were facing asi ere up toOr at least, I hopedAnd once the Basilisk is on the ritual circle, I ll cast Rotten Bog right under itThe real fight begins hereI ll instantly folloith Blackhair Bind, and hold it downBut only the headIf it gets a chance to use its breath, I m done forMy first priority will be to hold itswith its bodyThat s where Reuys need to attack it as much as you canThe ets out of h that we can chase it down and kill itWith its massive fraed tacticsFor that too, I ve prepared a few things Red Knife Spear I attached the Red Knife to a Go the Basilisk from a safe distanceTorch Oil The oil that Gomas use in their torchesI stocked up every pouch I could find and have a total of 2 liters2, you re on oiling dutyAnd Reht it upWe ll turn it into BBQ lizardJust stabbing won t do any decisive daWe d use the oil to compensate for that lack of muscleYou need to make sure to only set fire to its hind areaIf the flames reach its head, it could burn off my Blackhair and I ll be decayed toastGAGAI didn t kno this whole struggle with time will play out, and won t know until we actually went out and did itBut I wanted to keep an optimistic attitudeAfter you ve used up all the oil and set fire to it, don t stop attackingAll those spears, axes and knives we gathered up, give it all to the Basilisk, and give it goodGAGAA The Re with every edged Goot our hands on in the past weekThe rest just depends on how long I can e to bind it downThis was the o to shi+t if I can t restrain the Basilisk withresponsibility was on my headWell,It was extremely scaryBut I had to tryIf I didn t, I could never move forwardLet s do this