LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 55
Chapter 55: Guidelines for Using the Sacrificial Summoning Spell
Looking at the blushing and incoherent small imp beast, Dak couldn’t help but wipe away some cold sweat.
“That was close!”
“It’s really great to have the small imp beast here!”
Dak quickly took out his notebook to record the effects.
This flower card had clearly undergone a qualitative change, and with the added power from the flower card itself, its effects should be more significant than those of “Arrogance I.”
“Temporarily marked as ‘Bliss I.'”
“From its form, it must be the ultimate version of the ‘Joy Card.’ Even just a wisp of mist leaking out can make the small imp beast fall into bliss.”
“But why does apricot blossom succeed while the red plum blossom fails when treated in the same way?”
“Is it because of the different colors?”
“This seems a bit too subjective.”
Dak wrote in his notebook: perhaps the apricot blossom and ‘Bliss’ are more compatible.
To prove this conclusion, he needed to conduct more experiments.
But before that, he had to thoroughly study ‘Bliss I.’
Dak drew out the card 【Magical Beast: Ibut】 from his mana card deck and summoned little Ibut.
“Bu-ei—”
Ibut looked at him with her head tilted.
Dak felt a pang of reluctance, but finally gave the command.
Ibut, with an intelligence level of 2.5, could not help but show a trace of grievance, but still jumped onto the table, pressing her paw pads on the pink flower card.
A wisp of mist seeped out from the flower card, and Ibut slightly squinted her eyes, her cheeks turning red, her body swaying slightly.
But unlike the small imp beast, she did not faint directly.
She patted it twice more, and there was no more mist in the flower card.
Dak concluded: it should only be the aura leaking during the formation.
So he first tried touching it with his mana pen, then touched it by hand, and finally held the flower card in his hand.
After about a few minutes.
The small imp beast slowly regained consciousness, but when it finally lifted its head, it saw the lowly Ibut softly lying in the owner’s arms, licking the owner’s fingers.
Immediately after, it saw the pink card in the owner’s other hand, and instantly closed its eyes, falling limp!
“Mana Summoning!”
Dak activated ‘Bliss I’ for the first time.
In an instant…
A faint glow appeared on ‘Bliss I,’ and the pink petals suddenly surged out, no longer resembling apricot blossoms, but a completely unfamiliar flower of bliss.
These petals turned into mist upon contacting the air, following the mana instructions, and rushed towards the feigning small imp beast!
“Aah!”
The small imp beast let out a cry as it was surrounded by pink mist!
Then, a small imp beast with panting breaths appeared on Dak’s head…
Afterward, he used Ibut for further experiments and finally obtained the experimental results.
The effects of ‘Bliss I’ were significantly stronger than those of ‘Arrogance I,’ but slightly weaker than ‘Arrogance II.’
The duration was approximately 15 minutes, longer than ‘Arrogance I,’ and with a cooldown of only 30 minutes.
Initially estimating, this ‘Bliss I’ had already reached the limit of what one drop of the Capital Sin could achieve.
Additionally, after returning to normal, Ibut’s intelligence level increased to 3.0.
There was no way to judge the small imp beast.
…
Dak recorded all the data satisfactorily and paused the experiment.
By the afternoon, he once again used the mana dropper to extract a drop of ‘Pride’ and attempted to place the tip of the dropper near the mouth of the grass cat plant, but the grass cat plant seemed uninterested and refused to suck it up.
Dak didn’t want to waste it and re-injected the ‘Pride’ into the worm branch.
Unexpectedly, the grass cat plant seemed to suddenly smell something interesting, meowing and rushing to suck it up.
Then, the tender sprout on top of its head visibly grew!
Dak observed and recorded, feeling extremely delighted.
After the grass cat plant absorbed the last of the ‘Pride’ in seventeen minutes, the sprout on its head stopped growing but had grown into a tiny bud!
…
By the weekend afternoon, Dak extracted another drop of ‘Pride’ and injected it into the worm branch.
The grass cat plant, as usual, used its two meaty balls to press against the worm branch’s head and sucked vigorously!
The bud on top of its head also grew larger!
Gradually, it even reached the point where it was about to bloom!
Dak excitedly recorded the data: “At this rate, it should only need one more drop to bloom, and maybe two more drops to bear fruit!”
But after recording, he suddenly realized that he had exhausted his monthly quota of ‘Pride’ extractions, and immediately felt deflated.
“Miao—”
“Miaomiao!”
…
By Monday morning.
The young magi, who had rested for two and a half days, returned to their busy daily studies.
In the first Summoning Spell class, Professor Shylph finally began teaching an advanced technique for regular summoning spells—one of them being the Sacrificial Summoning Spell!
Sacrificial Summoning Spell is a special type of summoning spell born out of the ultra-long summoning times of mana spirits of four stars and above.
Mana spirit cards are divided into tiers: the first tier includes stars one through three, the second tier includes stars four through six, the third tier includes stars seven through nine, and anything above nine stars is the fourth tier.
Each tier increases the casting time and cooldown for regular summoning spells.
The shortest casting time for the first three stars can be compressed to as low as 3 seconds.
For the fourth star, it starts at 1 minute.
For the seventh star, it requires at least 30 minutes.
For anything above the ninth star, it starts at 3 hours, and some mana spirits might require several days, nights, or even months of continuous casting to be summoned!
During the early stages of mana technology research, even high-level mana spirit cards were difficult to summon in direct combat.
Every time a higher-tier mana spirit was summoned, it required a large number of people to provide protection.
It wasn’t until roughly thirty years ago that a special summoning technique emerged, allowing magi to sacrifice lower-tier mana spirits to summon higher-tier ones, successfully shortening the summoning time.
However, each sacrifice caused irreparable damage to the lower-tier mana spirit cards.
Only in recent times has this technique been improved, no longer damaging lower-tier mana spirit cards and further reducing the time required for sacrificial summoning. It was officially named “Sacrificial Summoning Spell.”
The core of the Sacrificial Summoning Spell lies in the cumulative stars.
It doesn’t matter how many cards are involved; it’s purely about the cumulative stars.
The necessary rule is that to summon a third-tier mana spirit, the offering must include at least one second-tier mana spirit, and so on.
…
Professor Shylph demonstrated in class, summoning a six-star mana spirit in 15 seconds, leaving the young magi amazed.
Sacrificial Summoning Spell shares the same cooldown as regular summoning spells, with the shortest casting time and cooldown both being 3 seconds.
…
At this moment, Dak realized that his 8-second summoning time was far from sufficient.
“Stay humble!”
Just as he was daydreaming, he noticed something unusual about Wit sitting in the last row.
-He was holding a flower card and using it to reflect light?