My Weekly Refreshing Mentor Spirit

Chapter 425 325: Summoning of Heroic Spirits, What Does Zeus's Advent Mean? (Part 3)

Although the name is the same, the humans in this world refer to "Magic" as "Mysticism".

Unlike the mystic scholars Xue Dili had encountered before, in the parallel world's Earth, the so-called mysticism relies on tools from the Divine Era and consensus to achieve special rituals, which is a false path to the extraordinary that the mystic scholars in a world of forbidden magic desperately forged in their quest for knowledge of the Divine Era.

In essence, mysticism is a ritual.

But in this world, mysticism is magic, and the nobles who control mysticism also monopolize this forbidden knowledge.

The only way to break the monopoly is to be one of the fortunate chosen children in the centennial great expedition, and even more fortunate to return victorious.

This is the only way to break the class system.

Xue Dili put down the book recording the history of the Laurent Family's rise and continued to scroll through it. Indeed, he found a book that interested him the most.

"The Laurent Family Ceremony (Engraved Copy)"

It seems this Count was a bit open-minded, leaving such books here. Perhaps Xue Dili's direct request to see the library caught him off guard, and he didn't have time to retrieve them.

To Xue Dili, this was the most interesting. Could even a little beggar complete this complicated Heroic Spirit Summoning Ceremony?

He immediately opened the book, and sure enough, discovered the Heroic Spirit Descent Technique and its details.

Xue Dili began recalling the technique runes he had seen on the sewer slabs; indeed, they were the same.

According to the recorded information, this technique doesn't require learning. As long as the child is chosen, the knowledge of how to deploy this technique is instilled in their mind; they only need to prepare a sacrifice.

And this sacrifice is usually "a living person".

The so-called Heroic Spirit Descent is a technique that can only be used by sacrificing a living person, so Xue Dili felt it was closer to the "Rebirth of the Filth", calling upon the undead from the Netherworld as servant demons using living people as sacrifices.

This is the essence of Heroic Spirit Descent.

I wonder how that little beggar found the living sacrifice to complete the summoning.

After thoroughly understanding the principle of this technique, Xue Dili became curious.

Could he summon a Heroic Spirit?

Even though he is now in this world as a Heroic Spirit, could he himself use this technique to summon another Heroic Spirit?

In the Heroic Spirit Descent ceremony, there is no stipulation that a Heroic Spirit cannot summon another Heroic Spirit.

However, when seven Heroic Spirits summoned by a race have been reached, that's the limit, and no more Heroic Spirits can be summoned afterward.

As for such a cheating scenario...

Xue Dili was about to say that the Ninja World War is a war of mutual cheating, play if you like, or don't if you don't.

He immediately communicated with the Insect-devouring Tree within him. Now, the power of this Divine Tree is mostly sealed, and Xue Dili could only invoke a tiny bit of its power, gathering it through the tree's growth into a wooden humanoid figure.

After several hours, the humanoid sacrifice was born. Xue Dili began biting his finger, drawing the Heroic Spirit Descent technique on the ground.

Then he placed the wooden Divine Tree in the ceremony, smiling as the technique unfolded.

Soon, he managed to communicate with the technique.

The Heroic Spirit Descent Technique usually summons an ancestor closely related to oneself. If there is no corresponding member, it chooses the nearest or second nearest ancestor.

Earlier in the book, he read about a Viscount a hundred years ago—Mad Viscount—who devised an even bloodier ceremony, secretly using the descendants of great heroes as sacrifices to draw the technique, thus pinpointing the summoning of Heroic Spirits.

But because his experiment was exposed, this Viscount secretly kidnapped members of the royal family to use their bloodline to summon the founding emperor of humanity, the Golden Emperor, prompting a grand manhunt and pursuit by the royal family.

Before completing the summoning, he was found by the royal family and exterminated, and the corresponding research was destroyed. This was the event from a hundred years ago recorded in the Count's library.

Xue Dili suspected that the royal family likely did not destroy it but stored the research for their own future use.

But it doesn't matter; this has already given Xue Dili a direction. He only needed to infer the method from a rudimentary understanding of the technique.

Thus he bit his hand, letting a small portion of Cursed Blood and his own blood serve as the material for the ritual.

He was eager to know if the essence of Heroic Spirit Descent in this world was to only summon the souls of this world or if the summoned was actually a corresponding Heroic Spirit image from a human consciousness collective, or perhaps just a figment of one's imagination.

"Technique unfold!"

With the last drop of Cursed Blood falling onto the wooden figure, the technique erupted with terrifying light in the underground library and successfully unfolded.

If the summoned is a local Heroic Spirit, then the Heroic Spirit Descent Technique calls forth only local souls. If through this Cursed Blood, the summoned were a Great Sage, or a fusion of the Great Sage concept and local soul, it would prove that the essence of the Heroic Spirit Descent Technique is not soul summoning, but an image corresponding to the consciousness collective.

This made Xue Dili uncontrollably excited.