"Sulfur, salt, mercury."
In the evening, Sherlock Hermes was in his room, confirming the advanced ritual materials to be used tonight.
Wearing a monocle, he tried to confirm the words he had scrawled on the labels of bottles and jars.
Sherlock murmured in a low voice, running his fingers over the bottles and jars on the shelf. "Consecrated silver powder, blessed holy water. A bunch of dried black sage, untouched." Used white crystal, six new red candles"
On the other side, in the palace of silver and tin.
Princess Isabel also paced nervously in her room.
She kept reciting the names of the materials needed for the promotion ceremony, and she was visibly restless.
"There are also clove essential oil, cinnamon essential oil, cypress essential oil, benzoin essential oil, helichrysum essential oil, chamomile essential oil and more"
Sitting aside, humming and writing Yanis, the elf artist who was playing the music, put down her pen helplessly when she saw this.
"There are also ginger, fragrant dill, and white bread. Let me tell you, little Isa, what are you nervous about? You have to trust your palace ritualists. They can arrange the ceremony better than you can prepare it yourself. "Yes, I know" Isabel murmured, no longer even emphasizing the words "call me Isabel instead of little Isa".
She felt a little breathless, and gently grasped the collar of her white gauze skirt, as if she wanted to lift the collar to fan some air in and relieve her tension, but she was concerned about the image and dignity of the royal family. She didn't dare to do such vulgar behavior in front of outsiders.
“It’s very easy to advance for the first time, don’t be nervous.”
Yannis said calmly, “You have to believe in yourself, you are very strong, and your foundation is better than most Everyone is reliable. The first time you advance, or the full moon advancement, there should be about six or seven people who can advance, so what are you afraid of?"
"That's what I'm afraid of."
p>Isabel looked worried, "If six of the nine people can advance, but I cannot advance, then if this spreads, it will lose the face of the royal family.
" Moreover, some people will gossip about you, teacher, and some will say bad things about you. They will make terrible rumors."
She can embark on the path of beauty purely because of Queen Sofia's doting on her. Because the royal family of Avalon, the "Dulac" family, normally only Can choose the authoritarian path.
But among the Queen's six grandchildren, Her Majesty's favorite is the second youngest Isabel.
The only one who is younger than Isabel. Her younger brother, who was only two years old, showed her outstanding artistic talent at a very young age. I took the Queen to listen to the opera Lulu's The Magic Flute. Even though she didn't understand Star Antimony Language, she could sing the arias directly after listening to it once.
Queen Sofia is very happy. Because before she became the queen, she dreamed of becoming an opera master. She even wrote several operas of her own in her spare time after inheriting the throne. I didn't publish it just because of my identity.
Among her many children, only Isabel inherited her opera talent.
Because of this, she defies all opinions.
It directly set a precedent for Isabel. Allow her to enter the path of beauty and formally study "art".
The path of beauty is the path of harmony and art, flow and eternity.
The key skill on the road to beauty is "art".
Including opera, music, painting, sculpture, drama, dance, and poetry, they all belong to the mysterious skills of the path of beauty.
Art itself is mysterious. Great art masters, without exception, are all pioneers in the path of beauty.
Just as the key skill of the authoritarian path is "leadership", the king's skill of controlling his subordinates and the skill of arranging others to obey himself are also mysterious.
If you want to improve the depth of your path, it is definitely not possible to specialize in one skill.
Perhaps because of her one-quarter elf blood, Isabel's talent lies in singing and dancing.
Since you want to embark on the road, you must go on firmly.
Once extraordinary people step onto the path, they will be troubled by the desire to rise higher. They will be obsessed with drilling deeper and rising higher. The longer you stay where you are, the easier it is to go crazy.
It is like an outstanding young person in a certain industry who has some talents but cannot be called a genius. They often feel desperate for their true talents. People outside this industry cannot feel it, and can only understand it after going deep into this industry. It is a soul-shaking chasm.
This kind of powerlessness and shock will make a person crazy if it occurs on the extraordinary path.
The path of beauty emphasizes perceiving the beauty of the world, and perceiving the harmony and eternity of the world makes it easier to become crazy.
Those art masters who specialize in one art are almost without exception crazy.
So the Queen specially invited Master Yanis for Isabel to teach her the skills of painting, sculpture and arrangement.
Because this is the safest promotion route.
Anyway, it’s not Isabel’s turn to succeed. Since the queen is happy, let the children play.
That’s what others thought at the time.
However, the good times did not last long.
Starting more than ten years ago, the Avalon royal family suddenly began to fall ill one after another.
At first it was suspected that someone was poisoning, but later it was determined that someone was carrying out a powerful curse of annihilation. It is a continuous and powerful curse that cannot be completely dispelled by the church's illumination technique and cannot be protected by the holy bones of past sages. Effective curse.
What cannot be dispelled and resisted by the power of one country can only be defeated by another country.A curse issued by a country.
Who else could it be?
It could only be the Star Antimony Kingdom.
Although there is no evidence in Avalon, we know from common sense that ritualists who can use this kind of strength can only be in the Kingdom of Star Antimony.
Therefore, starting a few years ago with the first royal being dragged to death by an incurable curse, Avalon and Star Antimony officially entered a state of hostility.
To this day, among Isabel’s father’s generation, only her father is still alive.
And in her lifetime, half of them have died of illness.
Only Isabel’s eldest brother, Isabel, and her two-year-old brother were left.
She inexplicably became the second heir to the Kingdom of Avalon without doing anything.
If she really inherits the throne, then a big problem will arise.
The whole country advocates the authoritarian path of Avalon, but its new queen has no aptitude for the authoritarian path at all.
Now she is the second heir, but no one knows whether she will suddenly become the first. Because "second" is already a very dangerous position.
Isabel did not do anything wrong, especially Master Yanis. However, due to the changes in the situation, there are even rumors among the kingdom's senior officials that the purpose of the Star Antimony Kingdom is to put Isabel on the throne so that Avalon can be plunged into chaos from within.
The entire kingdom's privileged class, all extraordinary people in government departments, and even most of the soldiers come from the authoritarian path. How could the Queen of the Path of Beauty get their 100% loyalty
So Isabel was under a lot of pressure.
Any mistakes she makes will be constantly magnified. Then be criticized and blamed.
But she didn’t want to blame them.
Because she could sense that they were under a lot of pressure and worried about the future.
She can also understand that their worries are correct. If she really becomes the queen in the future, I am afraid that there will be long-term chaos in Avalon. But she really doesn't have the adaptability to authoritarianism. She has tried hard many times, but she really can't learn it.
All she could pray for was that her brothers would not die again.
But she couldn't do anything. She didn't say this either.
She can only do everything according to the rules, silently and doing her best without giving others the opportunity to find fault.
Because of this, she did not use her privilege. Instead, he entered university and lived with other students.
She became a transcendent through formal channels only after passing the comprehensive assessment for the three semesters of her freshman year. Before that, she strictly restricted the scope of her learning, only learning the marginal parts of "art" skills, the parts that ordinary people could touch, and then continued to hone the basic skills, but never did anything involving extraordinary power. study.
She endured and practiced basic skills for thirteen years.
It’s boring and meaningless, and painful enough to make you want to vomit. But she persisted.
Because she wanted to show that she would not use royal privileges at will.
She hopes that this will make those dissatisfied voices disappear.
She tried hard to downplay her impression as a "princess" and hoped that people would only look at her as an ordinary person, not as the second heir to the kingdom.
But it was only now that she suddenly realized
Maybe she had never become an "ordinary person" in the true sense.
She is still being served, pampered and helped by others.
While other extraordinary beings were preparing their own rituals, she could only sit aside and drink tea. The royal ritualist will help her take care of everything. She doesn't have to do anything, and she doesn't have to worry about drawing the wrong ritual array, or buying inferior or fake materials that will cause the ritual to fail.
"I'd better do it myself."
Isabel made up her mind.
She bowed deeply to the ceremonial master, "Master Osborne, I'm very sorry. It's not that I don't trust you. I just thought maybe it wouldn't be good for me to watch from the sidelines."
Isabel didn’t know how to describe the tension and anxiety in her heart.
But she always felt uneasy when she watched the white-haired ritual master preparing the ceremony for her.
It’s like it’s your own fault, but someone else takes the blame.
Her brothers and sisters used to love her very much. If she accidentally broke something, they would be the first to admit it.
Although Isabel was not reprimanded at that time, she always felt restless.
Just like now.
It seems like something is tormenting my heart.
"Please let me prepare for the promotion ceremony myself."
Princess Isabel repeated.
Her voice became clearer, not as timid as before, "You can help me from the side, Master Osborne."
The white-haired ritualist on the side laughed happily. He touched his beard, smiled and nodded.
"Okay, my little princess. It is true that this kind of thing must be done by yourself, so that it has a sense of ceremony.
"Remember this feeling well, Her Royal Highness the Princess. Entering the dream world for the first time, and coming into contact with the other eight paths for the first time. Truly break away from the identity of a trainee and become a true transcendent"
The other side.
In Moriarty Manor, Aiwass climbed up from the bed with his forehead covered.
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He was not yet full of sleep
But his spiritual intuition told him that if he did not wake up, things would be delayed, so he forced himself to wake up. The sun was setting outside.
Aiwass rubbed the match with his trembling hands several times before lighting it.
He trembled.He flicked on the white candle placed on his bedside, which was obviously the "healing medicine" prepared by Oswald.
Aiwass grasped the flame and felt the vitality pouring into his body from the candle flame, and then he slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, because Aiwass is interested in occultism, he has a variety of materials prepared in his room. It won't delay things.
The so-called "poor students have too much stationery".
Although he didn’t know how to use it, he bought everything he could buy.
But he hasn’t eaten all day.
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