Chapter 474 Prayer Summoning
“Is this what they call a sixth sense?”
Jia Na tapped her finger, looking at the sea surface covered by dead algae in front of her. In an instant, a huge white lotus appeared on the sea.
“This should do it.”
Seeing that the Turance Snow Lotus had bloomed, Jia Na, in her spirit form, landed in the stamens. Then, she poured out all the ritual materials hidden within her spirit form.
“Although Prayer Summoning is a type of Advanced Summoning Ritual, its ritual form is not complicated—”
Jia Na had already learned a thing or two about the Prayer Summoning ritual when she was studying Ancient God Contract.
As a special branch of Prayer Summoning, Ancient God Contract and Prayer Summoning share similarities in both ritual materials and ritual forms.
In addition to the usual spiritual candles and silver circular mirrors, the Prayer Summoning ritual, like Ancient God Contract, requires a ritual altar cast from obsidian.
The only difference is that, besides the obsidian ritual altar, Prayer Summoning also requires laurel flower powder and six elemental gems of distinct attributes.
At the same time, the ritual initiator also needs to complete the carving of the ritual array themselves, and finally activate the ritual with an incantation.
“Whew—”
She took a deep breath and slowly exhaled.
After completing all the preliminary preparations for the ritual materials, Jia Na sat by the obsidian ritual altar, carefully using her soul power to engrave the contract array on the surface of the Silver Mirror.
It was only after a moment that the focused Jia Na finally completed the carving of the array.
“The next step is to activate the ritual.”
With that, Jia Na orderly placed the six elemental gems on the six magic junctions of the contract array. Then, she stood the spiritual candle in the center of the circular mirror and lit it with phosphorescence.
“Fortunately, the Prayer Summoning ritual doesn’t need to be initiated at the darkest time of the day (midnight) like the Ancient God Contract. Otherwise, I would only be able to attempt it in the Primary Material World.”
Due to the absence of the Dark Laws on Zoey Star, there is only daylight here and no night.
Of course, the reason why there is still daylight on Zoey Star is not because the Light Laws are well preserved; it simply basks in the reflected light of the Main Material World, projecting a faint light source.
Once Zoey Star moves out of the star field where the Main Material World is located, it might even lose this last bit of light source completely.
“Sizzle—”
Looking at the eerie blue flame burning on the candle, Jia Na's pupils flickered between bright and dark in the shifting firelight.
“The next step is to continuously recite the incantation.”
Unlike Ancient God Contract, Prayer Summoning cannot pre-lock a coordinate using a medium. Therefore, the ritual initiator can only passively call out to high-dimensional beings across countless Planes, with the help of an Advanced Summoning Ritual and the favor of the Lord of the Spirit Realm, until they respond.
This time depends on how long the spiritual candle burns, which is about three hours.
Once three hours are exceeded, after the spiritual candle extinguishes, the Planes connected by the Silver Mirror will exceed the coverage of the Lord of the Spirit Realm's contract array, and it is very likely to connect to certain evil entities.
“Great Lord of the Spirit Realm, you are the ruler of the vast star realm, and the guardian of contract power. Please, under the eternal, unfalling stars, transmit my call into the ears of friendly beings across billions of Planes—”
As a long incantation composed of mitchis was recited from Jia Na's mouth, the circular mirror, originally placed on the ritual altar, continuously rippled with wave-like light.
However, the light was very faint, not at all as brilliant as during previous rituals.
“Advanced Summoning Rituals are indeed exhausting physical work.”
As time passed little by little, Jia Na had recited the incantation dozens of times. However, no matter how Jia Na recited it, apart from that halo, there was no other anomaly on the Silver Mirror.
And as for the occurrence of this situation, Jia Na, who had already prepared for failure, did not feel too much disappointment.
“Buzz—”
Just as Jia Na was still reciting the ritual incantation repeatedly, suddenly, a strong aqua-blue light burst forth from the mirror surface. Immediately after, powerful water elemental energy also appeared on the array along with the light.
“It actually responded!”
After a brief moment of surprise, Jia Na's eyes were filled with unbelievable joy.
After all, White Cat Tifa had said when teaching Advanced Contract Studies that the probability of getting a response on the first attempt of Prayer Summoning was less than one in ten thousand.
Yet, Jia Na had received a strong response from the other end of the ritual on her first attempt, without even using an hour.
“Whoosh—”
As the aqua-blue light on the Silver Mirror grew stronger, suddenly, the sea surface of Zoey Star, which had originally been like a 'stagnant pool,' began to ripple. In a short while, the ripples grew larger and larger, and waves, representing 'ocean phenomena,' were born out of thin air.
“Just the scattered magic power can make the dead sea, whose ocean origin has dried up, reappear with ocean phenomena. What kind of creature have I summoned this time?”
Under the invasion of powerful water elemental magic, soon, the elemental gems placed at the six magic junctions of the contract array all developed large cracks, then shattered into powder, and dissipated around the circular mirror.
La la — la la —
“This is—”
Waves, whirlpools, tides — in addition to the intensifying ocean phenomena, an ethereal voice suddenly sounded in Jia Na's ears.
And at the moment she heard this voice, Jia Na's consciousness experienced a brief 'stiffness.'
“Buzz—”
After the singing, a blue light, a hundred times stronger than before, suddenly burst forth from the contract array.
Seeing this, Jia Na didn't bother to identify the source of the singing and immediately closed her eyes to block the direct glare of the strong light.
“Whoosh—”
After a moment, accompanied by the sound of waves in her ears, Jia Na gradually opened her eyes.
“I finally found you, little witch.”
The moment Jia Na opened her eyes, she saw a familiar 'creature' floating in front of her, smiling and greeting her.
Pale skin, deep blue long hair, and two ears like fish fins, plus a blue fish tail on her lower body that was so beautiful it made Jia Na's breathing momentarily stop—
With just one glance, Jia Na immediately recognized this incredibly beautiful creature that was all too familiar to her.
“It's actually a Deep Sea Mermaid.”
