Chapter 726: Knowledge changes destiny
Chapter 726 – Knowledge Changes Destiny
All the runes were ready, the “text” of the symbiotic contract was written on the ground of the deep sea, the summoner was in place, and the demons had arrived at the right place – all the conditions necessary for the initiation ceremony were complete.
Dog stood in the center of the runic matrix, his eyes flickering with green fire as he gazed at Shirley at the edge of the formation, nodding slowly as his consciousness grew more and more chaotic.
Encouraged by Dog, Sherry came to the “node” of the matrix and tried to calm her mind.
She knew nothing of these complex runes, and had never received any formal training in the occult, let alone the dark and difficult rituals of the Annihilationists – she was now anxious, and only nervous in the face of these arcane runes.
But she trusted Dog – she needed this friend, and she had to recast this connection.
She inhaled gently and slowly closed her eyes, using all her memories and imagination to visualize the demon she would “summon”.
That image had already been deeply imprinted in her mind for many years, and it didn’t take much to paint a picture of it in her mind, but the familiar figure had already surfaced in her heart.
The runes on the ground slowly began to light up, the ancient communication protocols were “awakened” with a logic and form unique to the Deep Sea Era, and a hidden and subtle sense of linkage appeared in both Shirley’s and Dog’s perceptions at the same time, and became more and more solid along with the lighting up of the rune matrix… …
However, only a few seconds later, all the runes went out without warning, and the newly established link was instantly broken – a short, piercing whine came out of the air, shaking the charred black bone fragments all over Dog’s body and the twelve skeleton limbs behind Shirley.
Sherry awoke from her meditation, staring in bewildered shock at the sight of all the runes instantly extinguished – her figure shook for a moment, and she saw Dog in the center of the spell snap his head up as well.
The recasting ritual for the symbiotic pact had failed.
“How did this happen ……” Shirley’s expression was tinged with dismay as she looked at the runes, which were completely unreadable, and then looked up at Dog, who was also in a state of bewilderment, “Did I do something wrong somewhere just now? Or are these runes mistaken?”
“It shouldn’t be ah …… I can feel it activate ……” Dog, however, is obviously also confused, it from the representative of the “Demon “These runes are definitely correct, this part of the knowledge is almost directly imprinted in my mind, you just operated should not be a problem, otherwise they can not light up these things …… But I don’t know what went wrong in the middle …… The whole process got stuck halfway through ……”
Shirley frowned vigorously, she noticed that the fire in Dog’s eye sockets had begun to fade, and her speech also appeared to be intermittent, she was a bit panicked: “I …… Let’s try again!”
Agou immediately nodded, “Okay, try again!”
So they once again returned to the correct position and tested the process just now again – yet the result was still the same.
The rune array was briefly activated and lit up, but it only lasted for a few seconds, and then it was “jammed” like a malfunctioning machine, and all went out with a short whine.
Shelly panicked, sensing that Dog was getting worse during the brief connection she had just established – his sanity and humanity were fading from him, and in a trance he couldn’t even tell what she looked like.
With increasing dizziness and disruption of thought, Dog staggered over to where Shirley was at the “node”, barely able to support itself, and could only slump down, trying to concentrate while whispering, “No… …There must be where I missed …… the ritual arrangement is …… no problem, the problem should be in …… out of the special state you and I now! We have to make adjustments ……”
“Adjustment? How to adjust?” Shirley asked hurriedly, “Should I change my position? Is the position of the node not quite right? Or is this place not suitable ……”
However, Dog seemed to no longer be able to hear what she was saying, its head hanging low, disturbing clicking sounds coming from within its body, its head shaking from side to side, and it could only emit a series of low murmurs that Shirley couldn’t understand at all.
And just then, Sherry suddenly sensed a familiar aura, followed by a low, majestic, yet in this case extraordinarily reassuring and surprising voice that reached her ears, “What are you doing?”
Shirley and the groggy Dog raised their heads almost simultaneously and looked in the direction from which the voice came.
Duncan and Alice were standing not far from the wilderness.
“Captain!?” After a brief moment of hesitation and stupefaction, Shirley snapped to attention, seemingly forgetting that she was now physically changed, so much so that she nearly tripped over herself as she took a step – but she soon re-supported herself with the long knobby limbs behind her, and flew over to Duncan, “Captain. You have to help Dog, it …… it’s in bad shape, our connection is broken, and something went wrong with the recasting ceremony just now, I don’t know ……”
“Stop, stop, slow down,” Duncan quickly waved his hand to interrupt Shirley’s rapid balabala, while slightly frowning at the girl in front of him, which has completely changed its appearance – he can still confirm that this is the girl he is familiar with from the “imprints “He could still confirm from the “mark” that this was the Shelly he knew so well, but he was somewhat dismayed by the other’s current demonic stance – not far from him, Dog looked much changed as well, “What the hell happened to you guys?”
Shirley was stunned for a moment, her lips twitching slightly, “I …… our chains broke.”
Not far away, Dog seemed to have temporarily recovered a little at this time, and it raised its head with difficulty, “We …… tried to re-conduct a symbiotic contract ceremony, but something went wrong with the ceremony ……”
“Something went wrong with the ceremony?” Duncan immediately frowned and asked while walking towards the rough temporary spell on the ground, “What exactly?” “It just started for a moment and then suddenly stopped,” Shirley explained quickly to Duncan while supporting herself with her knuckles behind her and explaining to the Captain again what Dog had just told him about his “knowledge”. “…… I’m standing in this position, Dog is standing in the position that represents ‘Demon’ and then it’s useless ……”
As she spoke, she crossed over to Dog, who was temporarily immobilized, and quickly stepped to the center of the spell, pointing to her feet and explaining to Duncan what had just happened, “This is where Dog was just now, and just now, the runes around here lit up, just …… like now… …like this?”
She paused hesitantly.
This was because she saw the circle of runes around her suddenly release a dim glow – immediately afterward, all the runes on the entire spell formation began to light up one by one, and rapidly flicker according to a set of complex patterns.
Duncan, who had just figured out the process of the so-called “Contract Ceremony” beside the spell formation, also saw this scene, and his expression gradually became a bit subtle: “……?”
Shirley & Dog also: “……?”
The ancient communication protocol is in effect.
Alice saw a special set of “threads” extend from both Shirley and Dog at the same time, which were guided by the shimmering light from the spell to merge together in almost the blink of an eye, and quickly transformed into solid form, reshaping the broken chain.
The whole process was too fast to react – by the time Sherry finally realized what had happened, the chain between her and Dog had already been restored.
The contract spell then completed its mission, and all the runes finally dimmed completely and were gradually covered with a layer of grayish texture that represented depletion.
Sherry in the center of the spell formation, after a moment’s daze, finally stepped out from the position of the “demon”, she raised her arm, the black symbiotic chain made a clattering sound, while on the other side of the chain, the restored spirit of the Dog was slowly rising from the ground, shaking his large skeleton head.
The fire in those eyes that were once so dim that they were almost extinguished was being rekindled, and once again released the light of wisdom that represented the peak greatness of high school graduation and the half-step of the city-state university.
The scene was slightly awkward for half a minute.
“Am I to understand,” Duncan stood next to the wreckage of the phalanx a few moments later, looking at the two ‘crew members’ in front of him, who had rebuilt their chains but were still in the same form as earlier, “that now you, Dog, are really Shirley’s ‘Guardian Dog’, and Shirley …… you are now Dog’s ‘contracted human’.”
Shirley’s expression was a bit dumbfounded, as was Dog’s posture.
Alice, who had been fuming beside her for half a day, reacted at this time and suddenly popped up, “Why is that so ……”
Shirley’s expression continues to be dumbfounded.
But A Dog’s intelligence was suddenly running, it thought a little and hesitantly spoke, “…… Purity.”
Duncan’s expression was subtle, “Purity?”
Dog lifted his head and pointed to Sherry, who now had a partly human appearance but looked almost like a Phantom Demon overall, “Her purity as a Phantom Demon …… is very high.”
“…… That’s not right,” Sherry finally reacted from her stagnation at this time, and immediately spoke up after hearing Dog’s words, “I can’t be as high as you even if my purity is high, I’m just the part of the demon in my body that’s showing up, and you originally is ‘over there’……”
Listening to the two of them this heavenly and solemn analysis, Duncan looked at Shirley, and then look at Dog, also feel that this matter is very incredible, so can not help but also think for a while, the result in his mind suddenly popped up a weird and can not be suppressed thought: “Perhaps …… “
Shirley and Dog said in unison, “Maybe?”
“Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Dog was once ‘marked’ by Rahm, the God of Wisdom,” Duncan thought for a moment, and said with a serious look on his face despite the fact that he found the idea outrageous, “Even though it wasn’t yanked away at the time, it has indeed been nowadays been a saint of the God of Wisdom – that’s probably why.”
Shirley’s expression began to freeze again, “……”
After a few moments, Duncan stepped forward, patted Sherry’s arm (she was now too tall to pat her head anymore), and intoned, “That’s why I always say, knowledge changes destiny.”
(End of chapter)