This Saturday is also an important day for Dr. Schneider. Tonight is the full moon of the Yellow Moon in March, so it can be called the "Yellow Moon Shining Day", which is the day that the doctor has already scheduled for the fifth ring to be promoted to the sixth ring. It happened that Dorothy suspended the class this week, so Shade stayed in the doctor's clinic and helped him perform the promotion ceremony.
Compared to Dorothy's advancement from the fourth ring to the fifth ring, which required a series of sublimation words, Dr. Schneider's ceremony of advancing from the fifth ring to the sixth ring seemed a bit simple.
In the attic of the doctor's clinic, when the yellow moonlight illuminated the circular ritual array painted with blood on the floor from the attic window, the three overlapping isosceles triangles in the circle emitted red, blue and green light respectively. In the middle of those geometric patterns, demonic runes and contemporary common ritual runes appeared alternately.
There were no clouds tonight, and the moonlight shining in was quite stable. On the outer ring of the nested double rings, the illuminated runes flickered at a special frequency.
With the help of Shade, Dr. Schneider was hung upside down by one foot above the glittering ceremony on the ground. His eyes were closed tightly, and his wrists and ankles were each wearing three, five, seven, or nine silver bracelets.
When the time came to 7:23 in the evening, Shade, who was standing at the door in a black robe, immediately shook the bell in his hand. In the buzzing sound that seemed to resonate in his forehead, Dr. Schneider bit his tongue, and at the same time, the life ring on his back appeared.
The yellow, chaotic moonlight passed through the life ring, causing the shadow of the life ring to coincide with the nested double-layer rings on the ground. A strange black substance emerged from the upside-down doctor, wrapping him like a cocoon.
This was a sublimation ritual that the doctor had transformed with demonic knowledge in combination with the ritual provided by the academy. In the moonlight, Xia De clearly saw that when the black cocoon was completely closed, it was not Dr. Schneider inside the cocoon, but some kind of horrible and indescribable demon without a fixed shape.
The inverted cocoon made the already small attic even more eerie. Shade snapped his fingers, and the eleven white candles carved into the shape of worms surrounding the ritual array on the ground lit up one by one.
Amid the explosion, Shade took two quick steps forward, lifted the front of his robe, and took out thirteen short silver daggers one by one, stabbing them into the black cocoon to form a constellation-like pattern. These thirteen silver daggers were made of pure silver, and the doctor paid a high price to have them made by a specialist. On the handle of each dagger, there was a different red twisted demon rune. This red substance was not a ruby, but a fake philosopher's stone.
The forged Philosopher's Stone that the Doctor was looking for for this ritual could be considered the cause of all the stories that happened after the stranger came to this world. And now, they have finally been put to use.
As the thirteen silver daggers completely penetrated the black cocoon, a strange darkness descended upon the attic, leaving only the scarlet light at the end of the daggers, floating in the air in the darkness.
Xia De counted to nine in his heart, and the moonlight and candlelight came back on. At this time, Dr. Schneider, who had already landed on the ground, was standing on the ground in the bloody ceremony, smiling and twisting his neck, and showed Xia De the life ring behind him.
He has successfully advanced to the sixth ring.
Shade breathed a sigh of relief and gave up the urge to take out the Moonlight Greatsword. The doctor had said in advance that his ritual might attract some troublesome things, including but not limited to evil spirits and evil spirits:
"This ritual of yours is more evil than most of the evil cult rituals I have seen."
Xia De turned on the gas lamp in the attic, and the warm yellow light dispelled the evil atmosphere in the attic. Then he walked out of the room and took the night watchman. He shook it left and right in the attic to confirm that there was no reaction. He pointed it at Dr. Schneider, frightening the doctor, but nothing happened (note). Xia De then completely confirmed that the ritual was successful.
The doctor smiled and replied:
"It can't be helped. The devil is in my heart. If I want to advance, I must consider its power. But tonight went really smoothly. I heard you talk about Louisa encountering the mirror ghost when she was promoted, and I thought I would be in trouble this time too."
"If you get into trouble, it's not your bad luck, it's my bad luck. After all, I was there both times."
Shad was also happy for the doctor.
The two of them cleaned up the scene in the attic that would definitely be mistaken for a cult ceremony, and the doctor planned to go to the pub in the city with Shade for a drink. Although Shade didn't drink often, it was okay to drink a little tonight to celebrate the doctor's promotion.
But before they left the clinic together, someone delivered a letter to Shad, and specifically stated that it was from Miss Cavendish.
"Which Miss Cavendish?"
Xia De asked instinctively while holding the letter. The doctor standing next to him looked at him with great surprise.
Then, Shade sniffed the envelope:
"Oh, the scent of Lecia's perfume, there's no mistaking it."
He thought about it, and when he opened it, he found that it was a letter from Resia inviting Shad to watch an opera at 8:30 tonight at the King's Opera House in the south of the city. It was almost eight o'clock, and Resia probably didn't find Shad in Saint Teresa Square, so she asked Dorothy and sent the letter here.
"Doctor, I'm afraid..."
Xia De looked at the blue-eyed middle-aged doctor with some apology. The latter was still doubting whether the last name he just heard was "Cavendish".
"It's okay, just go do your thing."
He shook his head and looked up and down at Xia De in surprise. Xia De asked, but the doctor refused to say anything:
“Young people today are truly amazing.”
I hurried home, changed into formal clothes, and took the cat in my arms to the opera house in the south of Tobysk. Fortunately, I was not late.
When Shad saw Resia in the box with the widest view on the top floor of the opera house that night, she was indeed accompanied by Princess Ajelina, who was dressed in a gorgeous dress. Seeing Shad walking in breathlessly, Resia enthusiastically asked Shad to sit down, and before the opera started, she mentioned the wedding of Resia's sister, Ajelina's sister, Princess Mona Cavendish.
Lecia had already mentioned this matter once last Saturday on a rainy night.
The wedding of the royal princess will naturally be quite lively. Not only Ajelina, but even Leicia is looking forward to the wedding. The specific date of the wedding is the 18th or 19th of the Frost Descent Month, and the venue is the Peace Church in this city. The preliminary preparations are currently in full swing.
When discussing this topic, Leicia sat upright, as if her relationship with Shade was no different from before. But after the famous contemporary love tragedy opera called "Murder at the Wedding" began, the red-haired princess suddenly stopped talking and waved her hand behind her. Her personal maid led a group of servants and went to another box next door through the side door of the room.
Then, the princess, who was sitting on the sofa, smiled and looked at Shade:
"Knight, do you miss me?"
She reached out and hugged Xia De, touched the ruby earrings on her ears with a smile, and then kissed him without giving Xia De a chance to speak.
"It's like this again."
Sixteen-year-old Ajelina Cavendish said in a low voice, but she found that there seemed to be something wrong with the two people's actions.
"A week ago, on that rainy night, you behaved really well. I don't believe she didn't look for you during this week. Really, she knew that I couldn't just spend the night outside, but she just didn't agree to let me use her body temporarily."
Leicia complained quietly, untying her skirt. Her face flushed with excitement, and she covered Shade's mouth with her right hand to stop the young knight from talking. Then she rubbed off her left shoe with her right foot, and kicked off her high-heeled shoe on her right foot with her left foot wearing a white garter stocking.
With a wave of his hand, the light of the gas lamp in the box gradually dimmed, and then he kissed Xia De again with shining eyes.
"Sister, you guys..."
Seeing that something was wrong, Ajelina immediately spoke out to stop it.
"Oh, Ajelina, you're still here?"
After a deep kiss, Leisia let go of the panting Shade, raised her hands, reached behind her head, tied up her long red hair with her belt, gently pushed Shade to lie down, and said to her sister:
"Take Shad's cat and go out the side door and help guard the door for us. I've cast a silencing spell, so don't worry about any strange noises."
The little princess covered her mouth in disbelief:
"Sister, you really... But Shade belongs to Great-Aunt Carina... You are sharing the same..."
"My dear Ajelina, there is still an hour and a half before the end of the opera. Apart from cleaning and putting on makeup, I don't have much time. Now, either get up and lock the door from the inside and watch us here; or go out through the side door and send a servant to help us watch the door."
Leicia was quite strict with her sister:
"Don't waste my time."
"But... ... "
The princess, dressed in her bestiality, picked up the reluctant Mia and stood up pitifully in the dim light in the room. She somewhat understood why the incense was lit in the box in advance today.
She bit her lip and watched the somewhat "helpless" Xia De being pressed down on the sofa by her strong sister. For a moment, the young girl's naive emotions burst out, and she even wanted to cry.
"Hamilton Knight..."
She wanted to help the handsome and weak knight, but the psychological trauma caused by her sister Leicia over the years made Ajelina just clench her fists, hold Mia in one hand with a dejected look, and walk towards the door on the side wall with the midnight snack prepared for Mia.
"Close the door tight."
When Ajelina walked to the door, Leicia reminded her, but her voice was a little muffled. Ajelina pursed her lips, wanting to scold Leicia for ruining the family's reputation, but the words turned into:
"Do you need a midnight snack?"
She did not get an answer, because the lights in the box were completely turned off. Ajelina stood in the darkness, listening to the loud singing outside praising the young girl's immature love and the joy expressed in the singing.
It took her a long time before she carried Mia away.
As for the cat she was holding, it seemed to understand the young girl's feelings and curled up in her arms quite docilely, but in fact it didn't want to leave.
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