226. Chapter 222 – The Old Fox Teaching the Little Foxes
Chapter 222 – The Old Fox Personally Teaches the Little Fox
Aiwas had not expected at all that he would actually run into Mei Lin during this promotion ceremony.
As a half-dream demon, Merlin had half of a bloodline that transcended the Dao, so he was proficient in the art of rituals;and he was also a mage who eventually became Weizhe’s apostle.
But when it came to the establishment of Avalon, that still didn’t get around Merlin.
Ivars even told the students the story of Merlin’s love affair with Vivian, the lake nymph.
At the same time, the Holy Sword – the Red Handled Sword, which was temporarily stored in the hands of Ivars, was also sealed by Merlin. The establishment of the Temple of Silver and Tin, the Eye of Avalon and several other heirloom artifacts are also related to Merlin.
From this point of view …… Merlin’s importance to Avalon is even higher than the “Gawain” who presided over the promotion ceremony for Aiwass before.
However, Ai Huas had more urgent things to say to Merlin right now ……
“Hold your horses.”
Merlin reached out his hand and tapped it on Aywas’s forehead.
Even though he had become an apostle of the Nine Pillar Gods, he didn’t look the least bit serious. Completely lacking the majestic aura of being a Subordinate God, he still looked as if he were a human-even though he had never been a human before becoming an apostle.
This legendary mage clad in blue robes with a sword at his waist smiled and said, ”I know you have something to say …… so instead of being late today, I arrived here early. And because of that, you were pulled here early by me.
“Don’t worry. None of them will come until our conversation is over.”
…… So I was the first one pulled in by the examiner using cheating tactics?
Aiwas first breathed a sigh of relief, and then felt a bit inexplicably lost.
It turns out that I am not that strong ……
“Aren’t you a dream demon?”
Aiwas first asked rhetorically, “If you have something to say, why don’t you just look for me in your dreams?”
“That’s easy to leave evidence. I’m now Weizhe’s apostle, it’s not convenient for me to meddle in Arthur’s side of things, it’s easy to fall into the wrong hands and easy to be hunted down. Besides, you don’t need the ritual to pull me down …… I came over to find you myself, wouldn’t that be giving yourself a banjar?”
Merlin smiled and said, looking like a fox, “In comparison, it’s still safer in the dream world. No one can peek into what’s in the promotion ceremony …… With a slight time difference, there’s no safer place than here.”
Apostle looks as if he’s quite troublesome as well ……
Such a thought popped up in Ivars’ mind for a moment.
But Aiwas quickly dispelled the thoughts in his head and went straight to the point: “Do you remember the Shadow of Avalon ritual you once constructed? It was that resurrection ceremony for Lancelot I.”
He had originally wanted to remind Merlin that there had been an error in that ritual.
As a result, Merlin pondered for a moment, but revealed a sprightly and sunny smile, “Sorry about that, I forgot. It’s not important anyway.”
“…… That was Lancelot’s resurrection ceremony!”
Aiwas was a bit shocked, “Can you even forget this?”
Then if this goes wrong, won’t Lancelot just not be able to be resurrected?
If he fails to fake his death, he’ll become truly dead. That would really be a big job.
Sad report, Lancelot I, the pioneer of Avalon’s traditional arts and intangible cultural heritage of fake death, died tragically while performing for the first time in his life. ……
Aiwas suddenly realized that this Merlin didn’t seem to look very trustworthy.
So he explained in more detail, trying to jog Merlin’s memory, “‘As long as there is the blood of twenty-one du Lacs who died of murder, the ancestor can be brought back to life. He will descend within his shell once more, holding the holy sword Alondette, which was awakened by the blood and unsealed’. Now that Avalon has advanced this ritual to its final step, the number of victims is at twenty, with only one more to go.”
“Oh…”
Merlin trailed off in a long voice as if in a daze, “I seem to have remembered. But isn’t this pretty good? What’s the problem here?”
“The problem lies in the fact that back then, Miss Vivian tampered with the ritual you left behind. Now the connecting end of this ritual is wrongly pointed at the Shadow Heaven Division. Once the ritual is successfully activated, I’m afraid that the one who will be resurrected will not be Lancelot du Lac, but that Queen of the Kingdom of Shadows.”
“Don’t worry, it won’t.”
Merlin smiled and said, “The Celestial Division doesn’t descend into the Material Realm that easily. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be foreigners you’d have to worry about, but Bear Tenshi.”
“The situation is different. This time, there may be the participation of the Ringed Heavenly Division within the ceremony. He has a ceremony that can pull great existences from the Dream Realm to the Material Realm.”
Aywas could no longer care about keeping his information secret. Even though he couldn’t explain where he got this information from, he hoped that Merlin would hurry up and fix the problem if he could run into him once in a while. Even if he couldn’t get the bug fixed, at least shut down the ceremony first-
Hearing this, Merlin finally got a little more serious.
After pondering for a moment, he opened his mouth and asked, “The Ring of Articulated Tail?”
“Yes!”
Aywas felt elated at once – being able to explain the Ring of Articulated Tail ceremony without giving Merlin a chance to do so was arguably a lot less troublesome.
“Heh,” Merlin just laughed, “I won’t ask you how you can know this ancient ritual …… Do you really think that Vivian woman can modify my ritual without any traces and make it without any mistakes, Vivian could have modified my ritual so that it would run silently, without any errors, utilizing the conditions I had set up, and that it would satisfy the effects of the Ring of Tail ritual without any knowledge of how to do it? At the same time the ritual was so intense that it was able to pull down Shadow Tenshi, and the ritual had the permission of the Ring of Tenshi ……
“Don’t forget, she’s a lake nymph of the Way of Love path, and knows nothing of the Beyond Path.”
Hearing Merlin’s glib remark, Aiwas froze slightly.
He quickly reacted, “Are you saying …… that this matter is related to the Ring of Heaven Division?”
“I didn’t say anything. This is all your own guess. I’m not responsible for these remarks.”
Without any delay, Merlin made a one-button trifecta.
Aiwas’ expression became subtle at once.
Didn’t you just say that you had already forgotten it a long time ago ……
For some reason, Mei Lin gave Ayworth a Mycroft-like sense of empathy. Although the two men had different paths, different races, different personalities, and looked completely different …… in weight, yet that sense of greasiness that couldn t be grasped was so similar.
But if according to Merlin’s meaning, the problem of the “Shadow of Avalon” ceremony is afraid to be related to the Ring of Heaven Division.
…… Does Lancelot know about this? What about the Coronet?
No, the Coronet should not know. If he knew, he would have warned Sofia.
If the Coronation Master didn’t know, why would Merlin know? Or was it that he knew but didn’t tell the Coronation Master?
Thinking of this, Aywas instantly realized – it wasn’t that Merlin knew that this matter was related to the Ring of Heaven Division.
I’m afraid it was because Merlin hadn’t fully believed Aiwarth’s words from the very beginning. He was subtly wary of Aywas.
The things he said afterward were all reasoning based on the fact that “what Ivars said was not true”. In other words, he was doing the same thing as Sherlock.
Although he expressed an attitude of “I have nothing to do with this statement”, which seemed to imply that Ivars was the truth. But Merlin didn’t say anything, so if he guessed wrong, he could tell Ivars “I told you I didn’t say anything” with an innocent face. ……
There’s no way to guess what he’s going to do.
What an old fox ……
Ivars felt like he had learned another trick.
“Then at least,” Ewas added, “Mr. Merlin has to take care of the matter of Wolfram, the Giant Prince, doesn’t he?
“You were the one who said you would keep him back then. Now he has broken out of prison, the very prison you designed …… and is causing quite a bit of trouble for Avalon today.”
Though the regular army was out in force. Ivas added mentally.
Merlin smiled and said, “Fine, fine, I’ll help ……”
“And specifically?” Aiwas wanted a definite answer.
“You’ll naturally know when the time comes, would I lie to you? Oops, it’s already late. I’d better let those people in.”
Merlin said so and suddenly disappeared behind Aywas.
When he reappeared, he transformed into a huge stone statue and appeared in the middle of the field.
–Not a black-haired youth, but the appearance of a gray-haired old man.
Without waiting for Aywas to spit, a newcomer appeared on his right side.
(End of chapter)