Upon hearing this, Kuonji Yuju said quietly, "But, you actually got the church's baptism ceremony?"
Well, it's not actually the church's, to be exact.
But a vampire's...
An ancient ritual that Altluchi had collected from somewhere in his mind.
It seems to date back to the eighteenth century, and its function is an evil ritual to grant power to subordinates... ahem, but in essence it is no different from the blessing of the Holy Grail and the baptism of the church.
They are just using higher mysterious and pure magic to guide ordinary people to gain mysterious power.
The role of ritual is actually to optimize the efficiency, success rate, and protection of mysterious assimilation.
In this regard, the Holy Grail Blessing focuses more on talent and is the safest, while baptism tends to be a balance of the three. As for the evil ritual in Victor's hand...
It just emphasizes simple and crude efficiency and success rate, completely disregarding the life or death of the other party.
That's why Victor planned to use the spiritual veins and arrange several auxiliary rituals to ensure that Shizuki Sojuro would not be unable to withstand the overly rough transformation of this ritual and would not die directly in his hands.
Come to think of it, it’s all the fault of the current Magicians Association.
According to Altluki, when the Age of Gods just ended, similar ceremonies were everywhere. This was because during the Age of Gods, as long as the "magicians" at that time wanted to recruit disciples, even if they really wanted to teach magic to someone who had no talent for magic at all, there was no problem at all.
You may not be able to learn it, but at least you won’t be banned.
At that time, ordinary people also generally knew about the existence of "magic".
However, as the mystery declined, the related rituals became increasingly rare... and the Magician's Association, although not the main reason, also played a role in fueling the situation.
It's hard to judge.
Victor said with a few complaints, coughing twice, "What do you mean by church baptism? It's an ancient baptism ceremony and has nothing to do with the church!"
"Oh……"
Kuonji Yuzu looked at Victor, said "oh" as if to confirm, and then nodded.
Understand.
"…So I just said that you might have misunderstood something, forget it."
Victor gave up explaining, since there was no way to explain anyway: "Well, since you didn't ask, I'll go upstairs and rest. I'm very tired today."
The main tiring part is not going head to head with a former magician.
Instead, he comforted Her Royal Highness Princess Artelucci.
It's not just because Altluchi was a little dissatisfied with the fact that after Victor reached an agreement with Aozaki, he put her original purpose aside.
It was also to dispel her career ambition that had nowhere to go.
Really, the former lazy Altluqi was indeed not that good, but with the career-oriented Altluqi, Victor only felt more tired.
Because it’s even more uncontrollable.
He didn't mind that Altluci was thinking about how to expand her Dead Apostles' power all day long for their cause, and he wouldn't stop her from trying to infect more magicians.
But the problem is, this is just a copy after all. Even if you infect the entire Misaki City, it will not affect reality!
Instead, it would easily attract the attention of the Magician Association and the Church.
After much persuasion, Victor finally persuaded Altluchi to give up the idea of infecting more magicians.
It was also at this time that Victor suddenly understood why there was a restriction in the mission that the two parties could not be involved for more than seven days.
That restriction, in fact, is more of a restriction on the existence of Altluchi, right?
Otherwise, relying on Altluchi alone, it would be easy to break through this copy.
So, it seems that the system does not encourage itself to rely too much on external forces.
The so-called formation system is actually more of an auxiliary system that is generated when one hopes to be dominant based on one's own strength.
In this situation, even if you use props to take advantage of a small loophole, you will be restricted.
Well, that's fine.
Not good.
Chapter 72: Victor is very thoughtful
The sunlight coming through the window is very bright. It’s nine o’clock in the morning and it’s almost time to start studying.
Thinking of this, Shizuki Sojuro sat on the sofa and looked outside.
Another week has passed since he first started learning about magic with Victor. His blessing ceremony (in Victor's words) has gone from being strange to being serious, and is now drawing to a close.
In Victor's words, although the crude ritual can allow you to possess magic circuits in an instant, it can also send you to hell in an instant.
So, thanks to Aoko, he enjoyed the service of customizing a ceremony for others for the first time in Victor's life.
Well, although it is a bit troublesome, I have to admit that Victor is indeed a good teacher who does his job conscientiously.
Especially when he took great pains to collect almost a person-high basic magic course and threw it in front of him.
"That's basically all the basic subjects for five years. I don't expect you to learn them quickly, but since you can only reach the "basic" level in your lifetime, use all your energy to learn them."
Victor said so.
Although the other party's remarks were full of blows and ridicule, Shizuki Sojuro never showed any dissatisfaction or depression.
Just as he was content with his previous poor life, he was grateful that he was able to survive and even receive Victor's teachings.
Shizuki Sojuro is a person who is easily satisfied.
Even in Japan, the word "master" has a huge meaning. Although it is not so popular in the magic world, but... in the secular world, it is still respected like a father.
Speaking of which, the yard outside hasn't been mowed for a long time.
Shizuki Sojuro looked out the window and suddenly realized that while he was immersed in these obscure basic knowledge, everyone had become busy without him noticing.
Aozaki Aoko's body has recovered, but her sister's frequent attacks have also caused her a lot of headaches.
After checking his condition, the master named Victor began to go out frequently, seemingly busy with something.
The adjacent sunroom offers a view of the barrenness of the atrium.
He thought about it and found that there was indeed not much he could do.
······I'll find some time to sort it out recently.
I'm afraid I can only help you a little in these aspects.
With this thought in mind, he turned a page in the textbook.
The left side of the table contained normal mathematical data, while the right side became the basic structure of the so-called magic circuit...
And now placed in the middle is Aozaki Aoko's review record. Whether it is secular or magical, he is following Aozaki Aoko's route step by step.
He works hard.
This was Victor’s first feeling after returning.
However, for Shizuki Sojuro, this is not the case at all.
Compared to studying, Shizuki Sojuro actually really wants to watch TV, but... this privilege seems to be only available when Aoko is around.
Neither Victor nor Kuonji Yuzu seemed to have the habit of watching TV.
It also fits Shizuki Sojuro's stereotype of a magician.
However, the actual root cause was that one of the two people liked reading, while the other was still busy learning the so-called "necromancy".
Using the ritual for Shizuki Sojuro as an excuse, Victor secretly used the spiritual veins to experiment with many spirit summoning rituals, but the only success now was to summon a low-quality familiar, which made him very frustrated.
Of course, he was not the only one who felt defeated. At least he was relieved that Shizuki Sojuurō had a hard time even getting started.
He even began to look at this useless disciple with more favor.
It was evening when Victor came back and the clock had already struck eleven.
And Qingzi hasn't come back yet.
······Compared to this, everyone is working very hard.
Unconsciously, the obscure knowledge in Shizuki Sojuro's eyes became more distant and he became dazed.
The pen rolled on the notebook. Kusajuro knew that since he started learning magic, except for himself who only needed to study peacefully every day, Aoko and the others had been doing some activities. In recent days, she had hardly slept.
It wasn't until today that she finally couldn't hold on and had a good nap this weekend.
She must have been terribly exhausted, but her words and actions showed no sign of exhaustion.
It’s not that she’s too strong-willed, that’s just her personality. Well, coming to think of it, Victor who just came back is the same.
I go out every day, and although I don’t know what I’m sitting for, the mental exhaustion after each ceremony in the past few days cannot be covered up by a mask.
"what happened?"
Victor chuckled and took off his windbreaker.
"Ah, no, it's nothing."
Shizuki Sojuro came back to his senses and looked at the book in front of him.
Actually, it’s not quite right to say that I’m satisfied.
Shizuki Sojuro thought to himself that sometimes, poor talent could make people feel unexpectedly uncomfortable.
Especially when you see them moving forward towards their destination and their goals, you feel like you want to catch up with them but just can’t.
But, we can’t blame it all on talent, right?
Shizuki Sojuro reflected and felt that he must find a clear purpose like them.
……
what's the situation?
Victor was slightly stunned and tilted his head to look at the silent Shizuki Sojuro.
I just saw him glowing?!
Well, what the hell is this protagonist? Even doing a homework can bring out the brilliance of human nature, right?
Victor smiled and shook his head. He always felt that Shizuki Sojuro seemed to have made up his mind and then changed something.
However, this kind of thing is natural for their protagonist, right?
No longer paying attention to the other party, Victor looked at Jiuyuanji Youzhu. Compared with the other two, Youzhu was the only "NPC" he cared about in this copy, apart from the so-called complex purpose, such as the other party's fairy tale magic, or the first law, the mystery of his life experience, the witch and so on.
More importantly, her personality is more in line with Victor's calmness.
"I'm sorry to be back. What would you like to eat tonight? Anything?"
"I've actually already eaten." Hearing this, Youzhu answered without even raising her head. She was used to ignoring everyone around her. When she felt hungry, she would just take care of it by herself. When Qingzi was around, she would call for takeout. If Qingzi was not around, she would often just use the stored food at home to get by.
But to be honest, Kuonji Yuzu was quite uncomfortable at first with a guy like Victor, who always regarded eating as a pleasure rather than a necessity, and who never forgot to ask everyone if they wanted to eat even when going to a convenience store.
But later...I got used to it.
As she spoke, there was a hint of hesitation in her tone: "But if you make Chinese food, I can eat a little more..."
After saying that, she became a little angry again.
She felt herself becoming more and more depraved.
...However, it seemed that she had no reason to blame the other party for anything. After all, the premise of all participation was based on one's own will, and as far as the current situation was concerned, she was indeed more or less satisfied.
In fact, today, when she finished her work and started reading, she felt a little uncomfortable.
She didn't know when it started, but she had gotten used to the sound of someone sipping black tea from the opposite side occasionally coming over while she was reading.
Occasionally, she would recommend books as a guide for the other party to learn and study fairy tale magic.
The other party will also interpret the books that you have read many times from many new perspectives.
Although there was absolutely no communication between them most of the time, the atmosphere was not bad.
There is both a sense of liberation from being alone and a sense of security from having someone by your side.
However...when was I affected without realizing it?
She watched Victor humming a little tune as he entered the kitchen, and frowned slightly.
A moment later, Victor walked out of the kitchen with three simple servings of egg fried rice, a slightly simple dinner.
