I am a Taoist priest in the extraordinary world

Chapter 45 Formation and Symbols

"Huh, it seems that it is necessary to ask Joseph to strengthen his physical training."

Dante struggled to move the box into the bedroom, stood up and patted his dusty coat, and wiped off the sweat from his forehead.

"Old Tom's got so many of them, I thought a few bucks would be nice."

He opened the box, took out a palm-sized piece of red sand ore, checked it carefully, and confirmed that it was not much different from the "bloodstone" on the earth.

"The next step is to grind it into powder and test the effect"

Dante took out the borrowed tools from the box, a carving knife, a magnet, a pestle and a fine hammer.

Afterwards, he took out a small glass bottle containing the blood of the dogfish.

"The main material of the miniature spirit array is actually this thing. It seems that the magic of the world is everywhere."

He shook the glass bottle, the liquid inside was lavender, and looked a bit dreamy.

He took out the basin from the bathroom, picked two pieces of red sand ore and put them into it. After confirming that it was completely submerged in the water, he nodded, walked to the desk and sat down.

Grinding cinnabar needs to be carried out under mineral-humid conditions. During the waiting time, he plans to read the book that Old Tom gave him first.

Opening the pale gold cover, he found a passage written in Arengo at the front of the volume:

"Caution, humility, and moderation are the necessary prerequisites for using formations."

Significantly exhorting Dante to nod his head, he kept this sentence in his mind, and looked at the content with expectation:
".Array, can also be called a kind of ritual magic. Extraordinary people use it as the connection point between the world and the etheric world. Before the Middle Ages, it was more regarded as a sacred space for exerting powerful extraordinary power. Another This kind of argument is based on the needs of Extraordinary people's promotion, as a means to help bear more ether energy.

According to the different abilities of Extraordinary people, the price of some formations is Extraordinary power, while others require materials, most of which are certain parts of magical creatures, such as the horn of Campbell's rhinoceros, the tusk of Yegra giant and other materials."

".Although the sayings are different, but as a unique activity of a Extraordinary, of course there must be a unique place to use it,

Extraordinary people back then often chose to arrange in hidden secret rooms or inaccessible woods (mainly to prevent being disturbed), they also usually drew formations on the floor or on the ground to create the required environment. It is regarded as a sacred space by the church. "

".With the continuous deepening of the field of etherology, there are more and more variants and forms of formations, and they are no longer limited to the forms of formations that are unique to the church to engrave the names of gods, angels, prayers, etc. While it's powerful, it's also extremely dangerous"

".When it comes to the variants of formations, the current mainstream ones are the star symbols circulated by the secret reader system (this is also rare, and there is no evidence of the existence of the secret reader system that has been destroyed), the Latil gate of the painter system (a At first glance, something close to the star symbol), and the alchemy circle of the scholar system (many sources of weapons with the effect of hunting demons) and so on."

".Star Talisman was first circulated three epochs ago (or even longer), and most of them were written and inscribed in Sotos script, and there are also very few texts that cannot be found at present. This is why secret readers are regarded as mysterious, Symbols of wondrous abilities, they always claim to have received new revelations from the etheric realm.
As a specific type of formation, star symbols are actually more in the form of spells, usually related to specific extraordinary operations, specific spiritual bodies or planets, but in essence they communicate with the ether world,

Although some scholars once put forward the idea that there are different regions in the etheric world, but because they are not too related to the content of this book, I will not repeat them.”

"...When we mentioned the star symbol, we pointed out an important concept, the symbol.

Different from the commonly used formations, the sigil is a unique and inseparable existence of the secret reader system. The sigils drawn by almost every secret reader are not the same, which seems to be closely related to their wonderful abilities, usually one An irregular symbol, supplemented by magical creatures as the main material for drawing. "

"The Latil gate is the inspiration that painters get from art, and is often regarded as a necessary means for summoning spirits,
According to some 'artists', Latilmen can protect them from harm in the dangerous summoning ceremony, but it seems that there are still many Extraordinary people of this system who died in it, and those who escaped by chance will also have temperament The great change is suspected to be caused by the influence of the summoned creature. "

Dante read the contents of this book fascinatedly, and read the description of the "Star Talisman" several times.

Immediately afterwards, he took out the quill and copied this part of the content.

"From this book, theoretically, the talisman is completely usable."

He stood up, walked to the corner of the room, took out the soaked red sand ore, wiped off the water on it, tapped a few pieces with a small hammer, picked up the pestle and began to grind.

Then, he poured the ground fine pieces on the paper, used a magnet to absorb the impurities little by little, and then continued to grind, repeating this process until he obtained the original cinnabar powder.

"Although the quality seems to be a bit poor, it should be fine for experiments."

After getting everything ready, Dante muttered a few words and took out a writing brush from the desk drawer.

This is what he entrusted Ivy to help find and produce, because this kind of behavior is equivalent to a whimsical idea, only that little girl with a beautiful heart and a pure heart will not ask too much.

Considering the relatively complicated process of making talisman paper, Dante decided to use another test method.

From the drawer, he took out another stone brick that was 20 centimeters long and 15 centimeters wide.

He weighed it in his hand and confirmed that it was a real brick. Dante nodded in satisfaction.

The original meaning of the talisman is the proof of communicating with the gods of heaven and earth. Whether it is cinnabar or drawing paper, they are all carriers of talismans. The real key is the inner secrets and tricks in talismans.

Using stones, bricks, trees, and bamboo to draw characters is not common, but it is not uncommon.

Dante placed the 4 coins he had used before in the four corners of the room again, and he planned to test a talisman first:
Beidi Town House Talisman.

He closed his eyes and concentrated for a moment, confirming that his state had reached the level most suitable for drawing symbols. He opened his eyes, held a pen in one hand, dipped a small amount of cinnabar, and wrote on the stone brick at a high speed.

A circle around the head of the talisman, with a point in the middle, shows that the chaos is not divided, and the yin and yang are opened.

In the middle, the four characters "Decree of the Northern Emperor" are written with the momentum of a dragon and a snake.

Three circles and dotted lines refer to the three stars below.

In the end, it was completed in one stroke with the complicated and mysterious symbols inherited from the master's school as the talisman.

All of a sudden, Dante clearly felt that the energy in his body was poured out along his arm, and flowed into the stone brick along the brush.

I don't know if it was an illusion, but he felt that the spirituality in his body seemed to be a lot lighter, and the "Bei Di Town House Talisman" he had just drawn made him feel as if he had touched something.

Waving his hand to disperse the shielding formation, Dante got up, took the stone brick in his hand, and was overjoyed with his first success, wanting to test the effect of the talisman immediately.

"If there is no problem with this talisman, the next step is to engrave the hunting bullet!"

Boom boom boom!
There was a knock on the door suddenly, and a familiar voice came in from outside the door.

"Dante, the captain is looking for you."

(End of this chapter)