Chapter 20 Ritual
After drinking the fruit milk drink, Shallan and Yiwen returned to Howard Library and continued to read their respective books. When it was time for retreat, Shallan said goodbye to Yiwen as usual and returned home.
However, when he just returned home, the butler Berman conveyed his father Rawl's words to him, asking him to go to Rawl's study after he came back, as Rawl had something to tell him.
After thanking Butler Berman, Sharan came to Roll's office, knocked on the door and walked in.
Seeing his eldest son coming, Luo Er put down the pen in his hand and said to Shalan, "Come, sit down. I have something I want to tell you in advance today. There will be a dance party this Saturday. Some noble officials and even wealthy businessmen in Xinxia City will attend. As my heir, you will naturally have to attend with me. So in the remaining two days, I hope you can review the etiquette and dance steps with the teacher I arranged for you."
"Father, I wonder when I will review the dance steps and etiquette?"
"This is the second thing I want to tell you. Although I really don't want to disturb your enthusiasm for study, I would like to ask you not to go to Howard Library after school for the next two days. Stay at home and review etiquette and dance steps with your teacher. After the dance is over, you can go to Howard Library to continue studying as usual. How do you think?"
"Father, for me, dance steps, etiquette and even the ball are secondary, while knowledge and learning are primary. Are you sure you want me to give up the opportunity to learn and spend two days learning secondary dance steps and etiquette?"
Hearing Shalan's words, Luo Er looked at him in surprise, nodded slowly, and said, "Yes, what you said makes sense. It is true that I did not think it through. So what do you think should be done?"
“I also need to review dance steps and etiquette. After all, I have to attend the dance and I can’t lose face for our Werman family. But in my opinion, this kind of thing is not necessary to consume my two afternoons and evenings.
I will come back tomorrow and rest for an hour to review with the teacher. If the teacher says that I am not qualified after the review, then I will listen to my father and come back to study after school the day after tomorrow. I think this is enough. "
Nodding slowly, Luo Er said, "Okay, then let's do as you wish."
"Thank you for your understanding, father. I will go back to the house now."
"Go ahead."
After saying good night to Luo Er, Shalan returned to her room. With Sally's help, she washed and changed her clothes. She drank some black tea and had some snacks before opening her book to start her evening study.
After Shalan reviewed what he had learned , he let Sally go back to her room to sleep. After Sally left, he closed his eyes and relaxed for a while, then adjusted his breathing and silently chanted a spell. Suddenly, the familiar power surged out from his brows again, and with the help of the spell, it absorbed energy from the void and turned into a wisp of black smoke that swirled in front of Shalan.
Taking a deep breath, Shalan controlled the black smoke to seep out along the crack of the door of the room. Since he didn't know whether other people could see the black smoke, he controlled the black smoke to move quickly in the corner of the wall.
In the process of controlling the black smoke, Shalan found that she could actually observe many things through the black smoke, just as if she had really seen them with her eyes and ears. She discovered a new way to use the black smoke.
The black smoke quickly dissipated when it was about ten meters away from Shalan, and the mental power that formed the black smoke was completely consumed.
At this time, Shalan wrote down in the notebook in front of him how long the black smoke could last and the maximum distance it could leave his body, then he continued to cast the black smoke once, continuing to study the flexibility of the black smoke and other corresponding data. When the black smoke dissipated for the second time, Shalan immediately felt a burst of fatigue. He wanted to try hard to cast the black smoke for the third time, but he had no way to use it. Instead, Shalan's head began to ache.
"It seems that I can only use this black smoke twice. I just don't know how fast the power in my brow will recover. It seems that if I want to study the recovery speed of this power, I need to wait until daytime to study it. At least I can determine the recovery speed of that power based on whether I can use black smoke. As for now... I'd better go to sleep."
As Shalan thought about it, she put away her notes, lay down on the bed and fell asleep.
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At the same time, in an alley in the slums of Cynthia City, Jonathan looked at the wild cat in front of him, gritted his teeth, grabbed the neck of the wild cat that was meowing at him, and twisted its neck when the wild cat was not paying attention, causing the wild cat to scream before dying, leaving several claw marks on Jonathan's hands.
Gasping for breath , Jonathan looked around to see if there was anyone around, stuffed the dead wild cat into his pocket, and sneaked back home. Without talking to his parents who wanted to talk to him, he went straight back to the attic of the small house and closed the door tightly, leaving his mother with rough hands standing at the door, sighing softly.
After returning to his room and locking the door, Jonathan took out the dead wild cat from his pocket. He subconsciously glanced at the door, then carefully cleaned the attic floor which served as his room, took out the paint from the closet, and drew an inverted pentagram on the floor with a little madness, and then placed five white candles on the five corners of the inverted pentagram and lit them.
Looking at the simple inverted pentagram formation that had been set up, Jonathan took out a broken copper bowl from under the bed. It was like a shareholder and had a large number of unknown words painted on its surface. He carefully placed it in the center of the inverted pentagram formation.
Jonathan looked at the copper bowl, and the voice in his mind kept telling him that this shabby copper bowl dug out from the mud in the garbage dump was his future. As long as he completed the ritual according to the voice's instructions, he would gain powerful strength and trample on Shalan, a second-generation rich man with no ability at all, and make Ailan, who was beautiful and had endless power and wealth, become his own bitch, submitting to him!
With trembling hands, Jonathan took out the dead wild cat. He carefully picked up the knife placed aside and cut the wild cat's neck many times before finally cutting it open. He then poured the wild cat's blood into a worn copper bowl.
When most of the wild cat's blood flowed into the copper bowl, Jonathan slowly knelt on the magic circle, held the edge of the worn copper bowl with both hands and began to whisper the prayer that the voice in his mind told him.
Slowly, a strange aura emerged from Jonathan's body and slowly rotated around him without Jonathan noticing, causing the flames to jump slightly.
