Chapter 105: Contract Summoning
Magic Tower, first floor.
Since there were no classes scheduled for the entire day, Jia Na went directly to the magic crystal wall on the first floor of the Magic Tower after collecting her salary at the Bauhinia Bank.
"This is it."
Constantly flipping through the magic crystal wall, finally, at the end of the third page, Jia Na found the course she was planning to exchange for this time.
"【Primary Medical】: Only for Wizard Apprentices at or above the Second-level Wizard Apprentice level to exchange, no magic attribute restrictions required." Looking at this course, which was the only other one Jia Na wanted to exchange for besides 【Metamorphosis】, Jia Na didn't hesitate. She directly took out ninety-two jin sule, corresponding to ninety credits, and placed them on the magic crystal wall.
"Gawen-Tuer, why are you on duty here today?"
"No choice, Miss Bei'er is out on business recently, so I was temporarily transferred from the library to help out here..."
Gawen-Tuer was the Three-level Wizard Apprentice who was working part-time at the library when Jia Na borrowed books before.
Thick glasses, slightly protruding teeth, and a rather ordinary appearance, but Gawen-Tuer's B-grade 【Curse】 talent left a deep impression on Jia Na.
"Let me see, you're exchanging for 【Primary Medical】. Congratulations! I didn't expect you to break through in such a short time—"
Seeing the course Jia Na was preparing to exchange for, Gawen-Tuer naturally knew that she had successfully broken through to the Second-level Wizard Apprentice.
However, if Gawen-Tuer remembered correctly, Jia Na should have been a new apprentice who had just enrolled not long ago, about half a year ago.
To be able to successfully break through to the Second-level Wizard Apprentice in such a short period, her talent and diligence must be outstanding among her peers.
"However, I must remind you that the 【Primary Medical】 course is personally taught by the Principal, so the class schedule will be very unstable."
"Thank you for the reminder, Gawen-Tuer. Actually, I was already mentally prepared."
As Gawen-Tuer said, the class schedule for courses personally taught by the Principal completely depends on whether the Principal is busy. Jia Na had a very deep feeling about this when she took the 【Contract Studies】 course.
But there was no other way. To fully develop the potential of the 【Plant Affinity】 talent, the 【Primary Medical】 course was almost one of Jia Na's compulsory courses.
Of course, when Jia Na breaks through to the Three-level Wizard Apprentice, 【Pharmacology】 and 【Transformation Studies】 are also compulsory courses within her plan. Moreover, these two courses belong to those that may not necessarily be brilliant in the later stages, but the initial expenses cannot be reduced by a single point.
"I have already registered you. The course hasn't started yet, so if you go now, you don't have to worry about falling behind."
"Okay."
Under Gawen-Tuer's enthusiastic guidance, Jia Na successfully completed the registration for the 【Primary Medical】 course. After leaving the Magic Tower, Jia Na did not delay any longer and returned directly to her dormitory.
"Everything back in its place—"
Closing the dormitory door, Jia Na immediately cast the Cleaning Spell, tidying up all the scattered items on the experimental table.
Immediately, she took out the spiritual materials that had been prepared long ago and carefully placed them on the table.
"A 20 cm long laurel scented candle, a silver-faced round mirror, a bottle of spiritual blood, fifteen grams of bone powder, a short knife made of mithril, twelve magic stone fragments with conflicting attributes, a deep-sea serpent demon's shed skin—"
As Jia Na carefully counted the ritual materials, she also found that the 【Contract Summoning】 ritual materials used in the Second-level Wizard Apprentice stage were actually very similar to the 【Elf Summoning】 ritual materials. Besides the different specifications, a large portion of the materials overlapped and could even be used interchangeably.
"Rip—"
Raising the mithril short blade, Jia Na quickly cut the shed skin into an equilateral hexagon shape with an area of about one square meter. Then, light flickered, and under the guidance of her externalized mental force, Jia Na's pupils were quickly dyed silver-white. Like flowing mercury, silver-white mental force tentacles wrapped around the mithril blade, tracing the lines of the contract array in Jia Na's mind, lightly touching and outlining on the shed skin, completing the cut in one go.
"Exhale—"
Lightly exhaling, although she had practiced hundreds of times, seeing the magic array completed, Jia Na's tense body gradually relaxed.
"Bang—"
As the magic array was completed, Jia Na, who had put down the mithril short blade, quickly assumed the casting gesture. As fire element particles rapidly condensed, a flame quickly ignited on the laurel scented candle.
"Elemental conversion casting is indeed more strenuous."
As a plant-type apprentice, Jia Na needed to perform an elemental conversion when casting other elemental types of Witchcraft. Not only was it troublesome, but the casting effect was also very poor, completely unlike the smooth casting of plant-type Witchcraft.
With a faint green smoke, accompanied by the sweet scent of laurel flowers filling the entire room, Jia Na also poured the sealed spiritual blood into the test tube containing the bone powder. Then, she stirred it evenly with a stirring rod, picked up the mithril short blade to take a small amount, and carefully applied it to the outline of the outer circle of the magic array.
"Next is the final step of the ritual."
Picking up the silver-faced round mirror, which has special meaning in Mysticism, she placed it in the center of the magic array, and then placed the twelve magic stone fragments with conflicting attributes on the round mirror in a counterclockwise order.
Finally, Jia Na carefully cleaned the spiritual blood from the mithril short blade, then raised her left wrist. Without even blinking, the sharp mithril short blade gently cut a wound about three centimeters long along her wrist.
"Drip—Drip—"
Crimson blood beads slowly flowed down her fair wrist. Under Jia Na's intentional control, each blood bead dripped precisely onto the center of the round mirror, not deviating by a single millimeter.
"Great Spiritual World Lord, you are the ruler of the vast star realm and the overseer of billions of creatures in all dimensions. Please listen to my will and bestow your boundless power—soul Resonance!"
The ritual oath of the 【Contract Summoning】 ritual, which is a single arrow pointing to the Spiritual World Lord, is largely similar to the 【Elf Summoning】 ritual. However, due to the different focus of the rituals, the ritual prayers also have some deviations.
【Elf Summoning】 is when the summoner actively enters the Spirit World in the form of soul consciousness, while 【Contract Summoning】 is after entering this plane, borrowing the authority of the Spiritual World Lord to connect all realms, summoning visitors from other worlds to actively establish a contractual relationship with the summoner.
If the coordinates of another dimension can be locked, 【Contract Summoning】 can also set up the contract dojo in the designated plane and initiate the summoning directly at the coordinates.
The former has risks, and success depends entirely on the summoner's methods. The latter is something that tests one's mindset. Whether the contract is successful depends entirely on whether the summoner can attract those otherworldly magical creatures seeking contracts.
In short, it depends on luck.