Chapter 472: Prayer Summoning Ritual
As Jia Na observed, the teacher at White Tower who taught Advanced Contract Studies was none other than White Cat Tifa, currently seated at the podium.
“As expected, not many people chose Advanced Contract Studies.”
In the classroom where the Book World was located, besides Jia Na, there were only four other people, all from the same year as Jia Na.
Among these four, two were Necromancer Apprentices with undead Summoning talents, similar to Anthony-Black Sparrow, and one was a Spirit Apprentice with psychometric perception talent.
The talent this Spirit Apprentice possessed was very similar to Pading-Green, known as the Ghost Child, whom Jia Na had met at the Black Bone Forest Academy in the Turin Wizard Gathering Place. Both were Black Wizard Apprentices skilled in Summoning ghosts.
The fourth person was a White Wizard Apprentice named Lucien-Watson, who, like Jia Na, belonged to the relatively orthodox Summoning discipline.
The only difference was that Lucien-Watson was a very specialized Summoning Apprentice. Limited by his Wizard Talent, the Contract creatures he summoned were all pure elemental beings, such as Flame Guards and Frost Guards, so his Summoning categories were not extensive.
However, due to the influence of his Wizard Talent, Lucien-Watson was naturally favored by elemental beings.
In contrast, Jia Na always had to beat those stubborn elemental beings until they submitted before she had a chance to successfully sign a Contract.
“I won’t be covering the introductory part of Chapter One; please turn directly to Chapter Two.”
Just as Jia Na had turned her Advanced Contract Studies textbook to Chapter One, she heard White Cat Tifa skip that section and quickly move on to Chapter Two.
“Fortunately, I had previewed the material. Even if I don’t study Chapter One, it won’t affect me much. However, regarding Chapter Two, due to time constraints and its relatively obscure content, Jia Na had only previewed a small portion of it.”
“Before I officially begin lecturing, let me introduce myself.” At this point, White Cat Tifa narrowed her eyes, looking at the people below.
“As you can see, I am a cat, a cursed White Cat—”
Cursed?
Hearing White Cat Tifa’s opening self-introduction, Jia Na vaguely sniffed out a hint of gossip.
“Not long ago, like you, I also had a human body. However, due to a Curse, I have to maintain this form.”
So, White Cat Tifa was actually a human?
Upon hearing this, Jia Na couldn’t help but have some conjectures about White Cat Tifa’s identity.
“Of course, even if I appear before you in the form of a cat, this will not affect my ability to teach you—”
“Especially the content regarding Contract Studies, for me, it is very simple knowledge—”
“Even if you want to understand knowledge related to the Law of Contract, it’s not a problem—”
Hearing White Cat Tifa’s words, Jia Na’s eyes lit up.
“The Law of Contract! She actually understands the Law of Contract, which only the Lord of the Spirit Realm masters?”
The Law of Contract, as a Main Law spanning multiple Planes, is extremely difficult to glimpse even a corner of it.
Aside from the relatively complex and profound Mysticism knowledge involved in the Law of Contract, the Lord of the Spirit Realm’s control over the Law of Contract also makes it very difficult for many people to perceive the changes in the Law’s power from the phenomenon of “Contract.”
It is precisely because of this that Jia Na, who possesses the A-grade Spiritual Body Shuttle talent, has not yet comprehended any Subordinate Law related to the Law of Contract.
Therefore, Jia Na often lamented that if she hadn’t initially possessed the Plant Affinity talent, she might have truly chosen the Law of Beauty as her preferred Main Law for the future.
Or, like Vivian, if there was a suitable bloodline, Jia Na wouldn’t mind changing to the Warlock path.
“There are many mediums for the formation of Contracts, including text, language, and rituals. Among them, Contracts primarily based on rituals will have a one-way passivity. Only when the other party actively responds can the ritual be considered to have taken initial shape.”
After completing her explosive opening, White Cat Tifa began to lecture voluminously according to the content of Chapter Two.
Moreover, Jia Na noticed that while White Cat Tifa said she would skip the introductory part of Chapter One, when she actually lectured, she seamlessly combined the content of both chapters, delivering it exceptionally well.
“And the Prayer Summoning described in Chapter Two is the most typical one-way passive ritual, and also the most likely Contract ritual to fail among all advanced Contracts—”
Upon hearing this, Jia Na couldn’t help but think of the Ancient God Contract she currently possessed.
The Ancient God Contract was a branch of Prayer Summoning. Although it required a certain related item as a supporting medium, most of the time, it was a “solo dance” by the ritual initiator, and it was difficult to get a response.
In addition, Jia Na’s Contract Summoning also had a bit of a passive Summoning aspect, but most of the time, Contract Summoning was a two-way choice between the summoner and the Contract creature.
After all, at the moment the Contract Summoning ritual is established, the creatures that receive the “soul echo” summon are themselves intelligent beings who deeply desire to establish a Contract relationship. It is merely the influence of the Law of Contract that allows the two to complete the process of “two-way approach” through the form of “soul echo” inspiration.
It is not like Prayer Summoning, which relies entirely on one-sided “begging” and one’s own luck to achieve the Contract.
“Therefore, in order to reduce the excessively high failure rate of Prayer Summoning, later generations have made many adjustments to the Summoning ritual.”
“One of these adjustments was to broaden the target of Prayer Summoning from only high-dimensional beings in the Spirit World to high-level beings in the Material Plane.”
High-level beings?
Hearing White Cat Tifa’s words, a hint of doubt flashed in Jia Na’s eyes.
“The meaning of high-level beings is that their own energy far exceeds that of the ritual initiator at the time, such as—a Wizard.”
Upon hearing this, the hint of doubt in Jia Na’s eyes quietly faded, replaced by surprise.
“Does that mean that the current Prayer Summoning ritual can completely summon a Wizard who agrees to be summoned?”
At this moment, Jia Na’s first thought of a familiar Wizard was Anthony-Black Sparrow, who was far away in the Turin Wizard Gathering Place.
