Otherworld Advance Team
Chapter 483 - 476: Awakening Ceremony

Chapter 483: Chapter 476: Awakening Ceremony

Time quickly arrived at the fourth day mentioned by the priest. During the four days, these religious officials kept adjusting the machines and the liquid in the tanks.

To be honest, it’s hard to associate these machines in the water tank room with these clerics. These equipments inexplicably have a kind of Otherworldly industrial style, which is nothing like what Ilanadale could possess at this stage.

During this time, Baiyue was probably the busiest. She was not only studying Elvish diligently, but also actively documenting the relatively unusual places in Divine Wood Down, recording them in the form of reports on her notebook.

After obtaining the approval of the priest, she began to sketch these bizarre apparatus. The reason she didn’t use a camera was because there was so much to record, she had used up all her film.

These machines may not seem significant to them, but if handed over to the scientists on Earth, especially the ones who specialize in researching the Otherworld, it might be different. These people all have wide-ranging imaginations, able to extrapolate entire universes from the information gathered by the Advance Team.

With the completion of Luo’er’s body restoration, the religious officials dressed him in the robe of the Elf Race, and then led him up to the altar on top of the pyramid. There was a rectangular piece of metal, forming a trapezoidal shape.

They said it was metal, but the members of the Advance Team couldn’t identify what kind of metal it was. It was glossy black, resembling both steel and marble.

The top of the pyramid was a platform of more than twenty square meters, usually used as an altar. It didn’t pose a problem to accommodate more than a dozen people.

On this trapezoidal rectangular body, there was a human-shaped indented area. Although the indentation was fixed, it inexplicably fit Luo’er’s physique well, and he lay there with no sense of incongruity.

After settling Luo’er, the priest asked everyone to step back a distance. Then he and a few religious officials each took up a different position, preparing for the awakening ceremony.

He took out a helmet-like thing from somewhere and embedded it at the position of Luo’er’s head. Its mould was similar to a baking head cover, instantly covering Luo’er’s entire head.

After the preparations were finished, the priest stood at Luo’er’s head, his left hand placed at the right chest near the armpit, his right hand raised high with the palm facing down at Luo’er’s head.

The priest and the religious officials started to murmur words, all in Elvish. Unlike magic spells, according to Baiyue’s limited translation, they were praying for Tana’s grace to call Luo’er’s soul back.

In the Otherworld, regardless of race and language, the magic spells used by mages are almost uniform, with only variations in accent. Magic spells are a universal language, independent of all major language systems.

Because of this, no race has ever dared to claim that spells were created by them. Generally, the most widely accepted theory is that magic spells are the language of the Ancestors.

That’s why the Advance Team members could tell that the religious officials were not muttering spells, but Elvish prayers.

Even if they couldn’t understand, they could sense the magic disturbances in the air. Ordinary people might not notice these disturbances, but for the Advance Team, this was a basic skill.

After the lengthy prayers, the priest took a deep breath. Suddenly, he opened his eyes wide and started whispering actual spells.

Guided by him, everyone clearly felt the magic disturbances in the air, as if the wind was brushing past them.

As soon as the priest began to speak, the clergy responsible for positioning also started to repeatedly chant the same spell. With as their voices harmonized, they became louder and more synchronized. This was a spell that the advance team had never heard before, and these clergy did not seem to be concerned about them memorizing these spells.

The priest slowly lowered his suspended right hand onto the face mask on Luo’er’s head. As his hand touched the mask, a wave of green light was felt by everyone to suddenly emanate from their surroundings. The light originated from the gaps in the trapezoidal cuboid and the floor nearby.

They could clearly see a deeply engraved magic circle on the floor. As the magic was instilled, this circle instantly lit up.

Making magic luminous is relatively simple, yet tricky magic. It involves compressing magic that has slightly changed its nature. The magic would then emit a soft glow with a color that varies with its nature.

This was developed by mages with inspiration from the glow of the rune magic circles. These runes or magic circles emitted light when activated due to the concentrated magic that was instilled. Mages utilized this phenomenon to create a magical glow using magic.

The principle of magic crystal lamps in the estates of nobles is the same. However, it should be noted that such compression and release of light weakens the magic. To maintain light for a long period, one must use runes or magic circles and power them with magic crystals.

Otherwise, to maintain the glow, one must continuously chant spells to drive the infusion of magic. Therefore, most mages would not bother with such tedious and dull tasks, mainly because it is tiring.

As the light rose, the ritual officially began. The priest and the clergy collectively recited the spells. Tangmo frowned and listened to their spells. It was neither a common spell nor a supportive magic spell, instead it seemed to be exclusively designed to initiate this ritual.

The positioning of the clergy was meticulous because Tangmo noticed that where they stood was precisely the input point for the magic. Apparently, these clergy replaced the magic crystals, chanted spells to guide the magic to flow from their bodies, and then injected it into the magic circle.

In the eyes of the elves with faith, this was a process of communicating with the gods. However, for the advance team with firm atheistic beliefs, this was a simple magic ritual. Obviously, through such a ritual, the priest could awaken Luo’er from his dormant state.

The spell guiding did not last long, with the increasing brilliance of the light, the clergy ceased chanting and began to collectively sing a melodious song.

There was no denying that the song was indeed pleasant. Although the advance team didn’t understand what they were singing, both the voices and melody carried a distinctive flavor.

This choir presented a relaxing and melodious song that was indeed captivating, so much so that even the most impassive among them, Hu Daoke, was fascinated and appeared on the verge of sleep.

The priest stood at the head of Luo’er, his arms spread wide, singing the beautiful melody. He bathed in the light, with an elegant and relaxed demeanor that made the members of the advance team feel as if a deity had descended.

The entire process lasted several minutes. What was strange to the advance team was that even when they stopped chanting the spells, the magical power around them still roiled, with everyone able to feel distinctly that the magic was being rapidly sucked into the magic circle.

Theoretically, once the guiding chant ends, the magic should cease to flow as well. However, the peculiar thing about the magic circle before their eyes was that it seemed to no longer need guidance through incantation. It was as if the circle had a consciousness of its own, genuinely absorbing magic from all directions.

Tangmo furrowed her eyebrows, for she had noticed with her sharp senses that the magic was no longer targeting the clergy for flow into the magic circle, but each rune was automatically absorbing the surrounding magic. This was a very bizarre phenomenon, for unless set in advance, a magic circle could not continue to automatically absorb magic.

Like a magic array trap, the moment a victim touches it, the passive glyphs are activated, guiding the circle to rapidly absorb surrounding magic, which then flows back into the victim. This process is rapid and swift, unlike the current slow sucking of atmospheric magic happening here as though the present circle were a living being.

As the magic’s disturbance gradually calmed, the glow from the magic circle also slowly dimmed. The priest finished chanting and reached out to remove the mask from Luo’er’s face. Under the mask, Luo’er, who had been sleeping for almost a month, finally slowly opened his eyes.

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