South Tivian, Bishop Square.
Just as the New Year's party ended early and the audience gathered in the square were leaving, something unexpected suddenly happened.
Inside the Blue Weave Street No. 1 building, which originally served as the Royal Family's viewing platform, a violent storm suddenly erupted. All the windows were instantly shattered by the fierce wind blowing from within. The loud noise plunged the audience who hadn't left yet into panic. The glass shards thrown out by the strong wind scratched several nearby spectators, and many collapsed in the cold night, clutching their wounds.
At the same time the accident occurred, the emergency medical station set up by the Church in the square immediately took action. Under the direction of the Sister in charge of the medical station, the staff there quickly rushed into the square to provide emergency treatment to the injured people.
On the other side, Adele also used her ability on a small scale to charm the mortal guards present into following her advice, having them maintain order at the scene together with her troupe members to prevent further chaos from causing more unnecessary damage.
Fortunately, because the party ended early, more than half of the audience in the square had already left; otherwise, the extent of damage and chaos at the scene might have been many times greater.
On the rooftop of a tall building on the edge of Bishop Square, Kapak looked down at the chaotic scene, at the Blue Weave Street No. 1 building which had almost no windows left. His expression was grim. He turned his head and said to his compatriots behind him, who also looked surprised.
"Do you have other people preparing attacks elsewhere?"
"No, no? Utar Great Shaman's disciple, we can swear to the great soul, besides Kum and the other two, all of us are here. There's no one else elsewhere."
Facing Kapak's inquiry, a native raised his hand and spoke. Hearing their words, Kapak frowned, his heart filled with doubt as he spoke.
"Everyone is here... So what happened with that building just now?"
"We don't know, maybe it was done by those white skins who contacted Sado... But no matter what, it really wasn't us who did it, all of us are here!"
That native continued to explain to Kapak. After hearing the other party's explanation, Kapak couldn't help but let out a slight sigh of relief, but then began to worry again.
'The white people who contacted Sado... are they the secret society trying to use us from behind the scenes? What is the true purpose of these guys using our compatriots?'
Looking at the scene below, Sado thought in confusion. Just then, a voice suddenly echoed in his mind. Kapak recognized it; it was the voice of the Scholar who had guided him before. The other party was now telling him to immediately go with Thief Miss to the alley on the street opposite the building destroyed by the strong wind.
'Scholar Mr. has new instructions... Are there enemies to deal with in that building?'
Hearing this voice, Kapak felt a sense of solemnity in his heart. He then turned his head to look at Naifnis on the other side and spoke in prite language.
"Thief Miss, Scholar Mr. seems to have new arrangements. We need to act quickly."
"I... I heard it too... Let's go... Ugh..."
On the other side, Naifnis was weakly supporting herself against the wall as she responded to Kapak. As she finished speaking, she couldn't help but cover her stomach and vomit, throwing up what she had eaten that night onto the ground. Beside Naifnis, the lynx-like Wilderness Spirit Soul Xu was intently licking an iron coin placed on the ground.
"Huff... huff... Ugh... I didn't expect... this kind of situation to happen when using Soul Xu's fighting method... Ugh... I even swallowed some, it's really disgusting..."
Leaning against the wall, Naifnis spoke with a pale face, panting. As she spoke, she vigorously wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth. She looked at the Soul Xu beside her with a trace of resentment, but the Soul Xu completely ignored her and continued happily licking the coin.
Just now, Naifnis had relied on Soul Xu to fight through her Soul Appender ability. Therefore, she was also able to use the fighting techniques belonging to a lynx to deal with the Eight-Pointed Nest's monitors.
However, a lynx is a beast after all. Besides its claws, a beast's fighting method is its fangs. In the recent battle, Naifnis, relying on Soul Xu's fighting instinct, directly bit the enemy and tore off large pieces of flesh.
Directly biting human flesh, such a barbaric act was impossible for a rich young lady like Naifnis, who grew up in Tivian. While relying on Soul Xu, she didn't feel anything due to Soul Xu's influence, but once the reliance was lifted, the strong smell of blood filling her mouth immediately became unbearable for Naifnis. Nauseated, she thus leaned against the wall and vomited for a long time.
Facing this situation, Kapak, who knew the truth, was momentarily helpless, while the other natives, who didn't know the truth, were very puzzled.
In the eyes of the other natives present, this woman who acted together with the Great Shaman's disciple possessed a powerful, beast-like deterrent force and also pounced on and killed three monitors like a beast. The scene of her licking the blood from her claws with sharp eyes left a deep impression on the natives. But just when everyone thought she was a wild warrior sought out by a Utar Shaman, her demeanor suddenly changed by a hundred and eighty degrees, and she suddenly began vomiting violently on the side.
Naifnis's transformation made the natives present feel confused, but Naifnis and Kapak didn't have time to pay attention to them now. After hearing the voice in their hearts, they immediately began preparing for the natives' evacuation, and then rushed to a small alley across from Lan Zhi Street.
And during this process, a familiar voice echoed in Kapak's heart again, and this time the voice posed a question to Kapak.
"What? What is needed for summoning spirits?"
...
Inside the ruined Blue Weave Street No. 1, in the messy, dim hall, Vanya, dressed in a white Sister's habit, was kneeling here. With a focused expression, she placed her hand on the wound of the injured person in front of her, performing healing work.
In the soft halo emanating from Vanya's hand, the horrifying wounds on Isabel's body were gradually stopping bleeding. During the slow recovery process, Isabel's breathing in her coma was gradually becoming smoother, and her complexion had improved significantly.
"How is she doing now?"
Beside Vanya, the guard Corpse Puppet controlled by Dorothy spoke up and asked, and Vanya replied.
"Princess's injuries don't seem too severe. I've stopped all the bleeding. Currently, Princess is no longer in life-threatening danger, but further treatment would be better done at a hospital."
Stopping the soft light in her hand, Vanya spoke while also glancing at the surrounding ruined scene and the horrifying corpses. Frowning, she continued with worry.
"How could something like this suddenly happen? Princess and Duke... were actually assassinated under such meticulous protection, and the destructive power was so great... Didn't we already drive the assassins away?"
"Yes, the obvious assassins have been driven away, but we didn't expect those guys to still have such deep trump cards... Heh... Making such a big commotion to carry out an assassination, it seems they were also pushed to the limit..."
Speaking through the Corpse Puppet's mouth, Dorothy said this to Vanya. Then, she controlled the Corpse Puppet to walk over to Barret's body leaning against the wall. She searched around him while asking.
"Right, how long do you think it will take for this Princess to wake up?"
"I'm afraid I don't know that. My medical skills are still quite shallow, and I can't determine the reason for the Princess's coma yet, so I naturally don't know how long she will take to wake up."
Vanya continued her response. Listening to her words, Dorothy controlled the Corpse Puppet to turn its head and glance at the only survivor on the scene in front of Vanya, then continued to have the Corpse Puppet search near Barret.
During the search, Dorothy found an Extraordinary item in the shape of a snuff bottle, already damaged, and its use unknown. After examining it, she put it back. Finally, Dorothy had the Corpse Puppet pick up a piece of cloth soaked in Barret's blood and a broken fountain pen, handing them to the Corpse Puppet bird on its shoulder, allowing it to grasp them and fly towards the exit.
"Vanya, the ordinary guards outside will arrive soon. Remember, from now on, you are the first person to discover this scene. It was you who rescued the critically ill Princess, pulling her out of mortal danger. Do you understand?"
After sending out the Corpse Puppet bird, Dorothy had the guard Corpse Puppet turn around and speak to Vanya. She had confirmed that everyone around here, except for Isabel who was outside, was dead. Dorothy had used the Puppet Mark to confirm that Isabel was genuinely unconscious, so she could directly arrange things for Vanya. Vanya, on the other side, was slightly stunned after hearing Dorothy's words, then nodded.
"I understand."
Hearing Vanya's words, Dorothy silently had the guard Corpse Puppet she controlled walk to the side, then released control, letting him return to a dead state and fall directly to the ground.
...
Outside Bishop Square, in an alley opposite Lan Zhi Street, Kapak and Naifnis stood inside. Kapak looked around with a serious expression, while Naifnis was still vigorously wiping her mouth with a handkerchief. Beside Naifnis, the Wilderness Spirit Soul Xu floated leisurely.
In this dim alley, two ""Silent"" Extraordinarys seemed to be waiting for something. At this moment, footsteps came from the entrance of the alley. The two looked over vigilantly. Although they saw a handsome young man wearing ordinary clothes, a short hat, and a hint of scholarly air on his face, upon seeing the appearance of this young man, Kapak asked cautiously.
"Excuse me, are you..."
"Is that Mr. Brandon?"
Before Kapak could even ask, Naifnis exclaimed in surprise towards the young man. She had seen this young man before; it was Dorothy's Corpse Puppet, Brandon.
"It's alright, it's alright. This is the Scholar's subordinate, he's one of us," Naifnis said to the vigilant Kapak beside her, while Kapak thoughtfully sized up the handsome young man walking towards them, and couldn't help but murmur.
"Mr. Scholar's... subordinate?"
"Hello, Apprentice Shaman from the New World who has traveled a long way, and Thief Miss. I am here on the Scholar's orders to find the two of you. The Scholar has already made my purpose clear to you before. We now need to perform a soul summoning ritual to summon a soul. Mr. Apprentice Shaman, you know how to perform a soul summoning ritual, right?"
Dorothy manipulated Brandon to look at Kapak as he spoke, and Kapak also nodded in response.
"Yes, Shamans are beings focused on communicating with spirits. After I was promoted to Seer, my teacher taught me how to perform soul summoning."
"For any spirit that hasn't completely returned to the great soul, as long as there is a sufficiently close medium of connection, I can attempt to summon it," Kapak responded to Brandon. Ordinary soul summoning rituals can be performed by ""Silent"" Extraordinarys at the Student level. Since Kapak had a teacher guiding him hand-in-hand, he knew this basic skill.
"These are the personal belongings of the soul I want to summon, and a piece of clothing stained with his blood... These should be enough as a medium, right? He just died not long ago, his spirit body shouldn't have returned to the great soul yet, right?"
As Brandon spoke, he took out a broken fountain pen and a blood-stained piece of clothing from his pocket and gave them to Kapak. Earlier, when Dorothy asked Kapak about the key points of soul summoning through the consultation channel, he mentioned needing a medium, so Dorothy found something on Barret to give to Kapak.
Taking the medium from Brandon, Kapak held it in his hand, observed it carefully for a moment, and then spoke.
"Fresh blood from a recent death can be said to be an excellent medium. After a person dies, if a return-to-soul funeral is not held immediately, their soul will wander in confusion for a long time before reaching the great soul. If the person has just died, then soul summoning is definitely possible."
Kapak said this. Listening to his words, Dorothy thought of the secret transmission she had obtained from the Netherworld Coffin Society. It contained a description of the state of the soul after death.
'In the secret transmission of the Netherworld Coffin Society, after a person dies, the soul leaves the body and enters a state they call'seepage', gradually permeating towards the inner side of the world, finally completely detaching from the present world and disappearing without a trace. In the shamanic theory of souls, this process seems to be the process of returning to the great soul. After the soul successfully returns, it also detaches from the present world, making even soul summoning impossible.'
Dorothy thought with interest in her heart, while also manipulating Brandon to continue speaking to Kapak.
"Now that we have the medium, you can perform the Seer ritual now."
"Mr., we have the 'material medium', but we are still missing the 'information medium'."
To Dorothy's surprise, Kapak continued to speak to Brandon. Hearing Kapak's words, Dorothy couldn't help but be stunned.
"Information medium? What is that?"
"It's the basic information about the soul you need to summon from when they were alive, such as their name, date and time of birth, place of birth, names of parents or even children, and other close relatives. Generally, the more detailed, the better."
"The purpose of the medium is to strengthen the connection between the spirit and the ritual. This not only requires physical items but also information. Detailed information about the spirit when they were alive is also an important part of the soul summoning medium."
Kapak explained this to Brandon. Listening to Kapak's words, Dorothy couldn't help but complain in her heart.
'Detailed information from when they were alive... Name... Time of birth... Names of relatives... Damn... Isn't this asking for the eight characters of the birth date? Does soul summoning in this other world also require this?''But I don't know any of Barret's information! Although as a member of the Royal Family, this information should be public, there's no time to look it up now!'
Dorothy thought this. When she asked Kapak what was needed for soul summoning, he only said 'medium', and Dorothy thought it only required personal belongings, but she didn't expect it to be so complicated.
"Is knowing just the name okay?" Dorothy, feeling a bit troubled, had Brandon ask Kapak, and the other party frowned after hearing this.
"Only knowing the name... Tsk... This might be a bit difficult to handle... Generally speaking, if only the name is known, the connection of the medium might not be strong enough..."
Listening to Brandon's words, Kapak spoke with a questioning tone. After thinking for a while without getting an answer, he spoke again.
"Mr. Brandon, please wait a moment, I'll ask my teacher first..."
Saying this, Kapak took out a short pipe from his pocket. After lighting it and taking a deep puff, he exhaled a cloud of white smoke. Then, the white smoke gradually condensed into a tangible form in mid-air.