Chapter 115: Summoning Ritual
Quiet, exceptionally quiet.
When Bell-Moonshadow said these words, Vivian didn't even maintain the most basic decorum. Her smile vanished. Unlike the defiance in Bell-Moonshadow's expression, Vivian's gaze held only coldness.
"Whether I'm qualified enough, perhaps you'll find out on the dueling platform in a moment."
"Glad to accompany you—"
"That's enough."
Seeing the two about to arrange a duel at the slightest disagreement, Jia Na, with a slight frown, immediately spoke up to stop them.
"Bell, Vivian is my friend. I hope you can be a bit more polite in your tone towards her. Otherwise, I think it's better if we don't team up."
"Sorry."
Seeing the obvious dissatisfaction in Jia Na's expression, Bell-Moonshadow, knowing she had misspoken, immediately closed her mouth and decisively chose to apologize.
"It's fine, Jia Na. Even if we don't have a match today, sooner or later, I'll find classmate Bell to spar with her alone."
Looking at Vivian's expression, which was almost unable to hold back, Jia Na silently sighed and gently held Vivian's left hand, which was trembling slightly with anger.
"Sorry, that was my problem just now."
Seeing the other party apologize again, Vivian, who was still mindful of decorum, also slightly calmed her anger. However, looking at Bell-Moonshadow's face, Vivian, who always held grudges, couldn't say anything pleasant no matter what. She could only turn her head and say to Jia Na beside her:
"Night is the time when Shadow Creatures are most active. For efficiency, I suggest we depart exactly at twelve o'clock tonight. The meeting point is at the entrance of the dining hall, how about that?"
"No problem."
After confirming the time with Jia Na, Vivian turned her head and looked at Bell-Moonshadow, pretending as if nothing had happened.
"What about you, classmate Bell?"
"I have no problem either."
Seeing everyone reach an agreement, Jia Na, who was afraid the two might actually fight, also secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Jia Na, I still have things to do, so I'll leave first."
"Okay."
Vivian, who could no longer maintain a smile, said goodbye to Jia Na and walked towards the dormitories without looking back.
Seeing this, Bell-Moonshadow also nodded towards Jia Na and left alone in the opposite direction.
"These two..." Jia Na sighed again, feeling a bit helpless. After confirming her teammates and departure time, Jia Na proceeded towards the Magic Tower according to her original plan.
Bang— Closing the dormitory door and placing the bag containing the 【Elf Summoning】 ritual materials onto the lab bench, Jia Na tidied her hair and casually tossed her wizard robe onto the bed.
"This time, it cost me a lot of money again."
After taking out the ritual materials from the bag and placing them on the table, Jia Na's gaze couldn't help but look at one of the completely crystal-clear red magic stones with a bit of heartache.
"Although it's expensive, there's a reason it's expensive—after all, the quality is here."
Unlike the low-grade magic stones Jia Na had bought in the past, this time, to make the ritual more effective, Jia Na spent a fortune buying a medium-grade Flame magic stone. Besides its more beautiful appearance, the rich fire-attribute elements on the magic stone almost burned Jia Na's palm when she touched it.
"I hope it doesn't disappoint me."
After skillfully placing the trimmed sea beast hide onto the lab bench, Jia Na didn't hesitate at all. She picked up the mithril dagger and smoothly carved the summoning array onto the sea beast hide. Immediately after, she gently opened the glass bottle containing laurel flower powder and uniformly poured it onto the surface of the silver-faced round mirror in a counter-clockwise direction.
"This—"
Flames bloomed. After placing the lit spiritual candle and the Flame magic stone together in the center of the mirror, Jia Na picked up the mithril dagger, gently sliced open the palm of her left hand, and let the bright red blood beads drip onto the mirror surface from Jia Na's excessively pale palm.
"Great Spiritual World Lord, you are the ruler of the vast star realm. Please listen to my will and bestow your boundless power. Spirit World Gate, open!"
Whoosh— The Flame surged, illusions blurred.
As the lengthy, obscure incantation was recited from Jia Na's mouth, just like last time, the spiritual candle standing in the center of the round mirror suddenly burst into a huge Flame. The temperature rose, candle wax dripped, and amidst a reddish glow, the Flame magic stone placed beside the spiritual candle also suddenly emitted a dazzling firelight.
However, the firelight burning around the Flame magic stone was different from ordinary orange-red. It was a deep, ethereal blue that seemed to draw in all gazes.
"This Flame... It seems this time's 【Elf Summoning】 ritual connected to a very formidable fire element plane."
After careful consideration, Jia Na ultimately chose a fire element attribute magic stone as the communication medium for her second 【Elf Summoning】 ritual.
Initially, she had actually struggled between the two high-burst attributes, Frost and Flame. Ultimately, Jia Na still chose the fire element magic stone, facing the challenge head-on based on her own plant-type attribute's weakness of "fear of fire."
Plants fear fire and fear cold. If she had to choose, Jia Na would still prefer not to face an apprentice skilled in casting fire-type Witchcraft.
From the perspective of attribute counter-effectiveness, Jia Na actually should have chosen a Contract Summoning creature with water element attributes.
However, among low-level elemental elves, any elf linked to the water attribute can only fight in water. Once on land, they lose all advantages and are even in a "crippled" state.
In contrast, while ice elements also have a certain counter-effect against Flame Witchcraft, most of the time, ice elemental elves, like water elemental elves, are particularly affected by the environment.
If it were in a snowy and icy environment, ice elements would naturally not fear fire elements. However, Jia Na most of the time,
is in a normal temperature environment, which is inherently unfavorable for ice elemental elves. Therefore, in this situation, ice-types would instead be completely suppressed by fire-types.
Just like Vivian, who possesses the 【Flash Freeze】 talent, facing Andre, who possesses the 【High Temperature】 talent, in a normal field environment,
she never gained the upper hand. Of course, if Vivian were fully armed and faced Andre, Jia Na believed that it wouldn't take more than a few minutes for him to be defeated.
Andre would inevitably be defeated. "Buzz—"
As Jia Na waited, suddenly, a layer of wave-like silver-white light rose from the mirror surface. As the light grew stronger, the round mirror originally placed in the center of the array also slowly floated in the air.
"Spiritual Body Shuttle—" At the moment the ritual succeeded, Jia Na, who had already prepared herself, immediately cast her talent. As a colorful light flashed through Jia Na's pupils, the familiar feeling of weightlessness, accompanied by the murmuring whispers in her ears, immediately swallowed Jia Na's consciousness...—·