Chapter 656 (1/2)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
It was the middle of summer, and yet the northern area of the suburbs was still cool. A group of people was assembled at the empty field behind the house, lighting candles, drawing the summoning circle and setting up the ritual items. It looked it some sort of heretical gathering. Hao Ren looked on as Lily was busying herself with the preparation. “If someone were to see us pulling this stunt, who you think would come first, the police or the mental hospital staff?”
“Probably the mental hospital.” Wuyue said as she lifted a leg and shook her body. Even when she was in human form she could not shake off her habits of being a snake. “If I was a normal person and saw a bunch of middle aged people summoning a vampire with a serious look on their face, I’ll definitely call the mental hospital…”
Nangong Wudi suddenly sighed. “Never thought that I, a demon hunter would actually join in on this. In the past, this is demonic.”
“What are you talking about?” Lily spat back without a tongue. “You are already married to one no? Don’t be so uptight.”
Lily said as she prepared the summoning circle. No one knew where she gotten the limestone from as she drew a crooked five pointed star summoning circle. The more Hao Ren saw it the more awkward it felt. “You think it’ll work? Your five pointed stars have four crooked points… and the last one is a curved edge?”
“Whatever works!” Lily was clearly excited. “I have placed the ritual items, now lets get someone to bleed.”
Hao Ren gave the items that Lily had placed on the five pointed star a suspicious look. “Where did you get all of these from? Will they work?”
“Of course they will. I gathered them myself.” Lily pointed towards the items on each corner of the summoning circle. “The dried mistletoe leaf is from my own specimen collection that I made while travelling, the bat fangs I got them from the wild. The limestone’s a plenty here, the ashes of a woman’s hair is mine…It hurts me to even do that.”
Hao Ren was flabbergasted as he heard before remembering that one of the ritual items was a black mountain goat skin, but he only saw a petite leather shoe on it. “…I thought we need black goat skin? Where did you get the shoe from?”
“The shoe is mine, and at any case the shoe box says it’s mountain goat skin…. Come to think of it there should not be any difference between that and a black mountain goat skin.”
Even Y’lisabet who came to join in on the fun was stunned. The little brat facepalmed. “If she could really summon something that’ll be quite an achievement.”
Nangong Wudi continued to sigh. “If all sorcerers were like her, demon hunters would have a very easy time…”
Hao Ren initially a little worried about testing the grimoire. He was afraid that it might actually summon some ungodly beings out into the open. While not much of a threat, but it will still be a problem. But after seeing how Lily’s doing things he swallowed his worries whole. With how the husky was doing things, even if she were to set up this in the middle of town, the only thing that she will be summoning is the city’s enviromental officers…
“Let me see…” Lily grabbed on to Hao Ren’s arm as she peeked at the illustration. “Hmm.. the positioning is correct… the summoning circle… seems alright… the moon is full… oohhhh, everything is ready. So lets give it a try, Mr Landlord?”
As Hao Ren just about to step forward, Nangong Sanba could not help but to warn him. “You sure you’re gonna go ahead with this summoning ritual?”
While the grimoire may be some gibberish nonsense to a common man, it is no plaything in the eyes of a demon hunter. The grimoire from the dark ages contained real heretical and forbidden knowledge. Every demonic or divine name on it resonated with the power of a living otherworldling or the remnants of their powers, and such rituals usually ends up creating more trouble. Such tomes were prevalent a few hundred yearas back, and many a kingdom or fortress was destroyed due to the uncontrolled use of such tomes; there were even records of large scale catastrophies linked to the grimoires. Not to mention quite a few nobles or heretics seeking hidden knowledge were possessed by evil spirits when they opened the grimoire. There’s no absolutely safe way to handle these things.
Hao Ren shrugged. “With Lily’s childsplay of a ritual, what can she summon anyway? And this ritual was supposed to summon Vivian…”
Nangong Sanba pondered for a moment before keeping quiet.
Hao Ren and Lily stood on the opposite corner of the summoning circle. Baring her fangs, Lily looked at hger finger. “So I really need to bleed myself… I feel its such a waste all of a sudden.”
“Fine by me.” Hao Ren had already shut off part of his shield and had also lowered the reinforcing nanomachines within his body to bleed himself. “You only need three drops.”
Lily replied with a “Oh” before giving her finger tip a bite. Hao Ren followed suit at the same time.