A mage? A spell engineer!

Chapter 387 The user you dialed did not answer.

Rorschach remembered that Cano had told him how the dwarves who tried to launch themselves into the sky with fuel rockets died.

He already had experience traversing the metamorphic dust, but that's not what Rorschach wanted.

To directly ascend to the Symbolic Realm and then attempt to construct a "server" for the spell cloud would be pointless—with the original text already existing, it would simply be a superficial rebranding, offering no advantage whatsoever. Even as a rebrand, Rorschach aims to make the spellcasting system smoother than the original.

Could we go a step further than the "church" setting and fix the tower spirit between the material and symbolic realms, or, in layman's terms, within a "bubble" between "reality" and "illusion"?

Rorschach knew of such a spatial structure. If the "Church" was the protrusion from the material world to the symbolic world, then the "sub-plane" was a "spacetime vesicle" separated from the primary material world by a great force. Its main body was real matter, but the sky was shrouded in metamorphic dust, and the concept of "desolation" permeated the entire plane.

Strictly speaking, transmutation dust is also a similar product, but its transformation direction is opposite to the previous two examples. It is the result of the transformation from the symbolic divine realm to the material realm after the shattering of the divine realm.

Given the precedent, Rorschach believed there were other similar existences, perhaps even fragmented and incomplete former divine realms, drifting between the material and symbolic realms.

So how do we pinpoint the locations of these potential "vesicles"?

Begin the prayer!

"Teacher, you've suddenly started studying mythology?" Andre brought over a pile of materials that Rorschach needed, some borrowed from the Magic Guild and others from the libraries of various universities in Byrne.

He actually wanted to borrow the Tower of Arcane Arts, but now Rorschach thought those people would definitely make all sorts of excuses to refuse.

"It's a ritual related to prayer and ascension." Rorschach had Andre compile all the recorded materials on divine sacrifices and rituals performed by believers after death. Clearly, a believer must offer tribute, and if the ritual is correct, it should first be sent to the god's divine realm. Secondly, most believers hope that after death their souls can ascend to the divine realm and enjoy eighteen beautiful girls or boys or blessings.

In other words, both types of rituals point to the divine kingdom of the gods, provided that the divine kingdom is not completely shattered and the ritual is not completely ineffective.

First, any evil gods or authorities containing keywords such as life, nature, or earth are excluded. Second, those that have been dormant for too long or too long are also excluded. Finally, gods with prophecy, perception, or intelligence are also excluded. This leaves about ten or so orthodox deities, mainly the craftsmen gods and celestial gods of various civilizations (such as the sun-light god and the planet-war god).

Rorschach created several more clones—limited by the limitations of clone spellcasting abilities, all the clones were crudely made and on the verge of collapse at any moment. But these constructs had only one purpose—to carry out rituals directed towards the divine realm. Most of their souls were artificial creations made by Rorschach, then infused with the thought of carrying out the mission.

They conducted the ceremony in an empty warehouse at the Kempson Steel Plant. In the vast space, more than a dozen ceremony sites were prepared, with makeshift altars and symbols scattered about. Since some of the rituals were inherited from the primitive era, large and small animals were also prepared for the sacrificial rites.

In short, it was a chaotic scene, and Rorschach was about to pray to more than a dozen gods (not excluding the possibility that one god had multiple identities) in such an environment.

Looking at the chaotic, super-blasphemous party, Andrei was somewhat frightened: "Professor Rorschach, isn't what we're doing too risky?"

Rorschach was still making final preparations, while explaining to Andrei, "Those constructs are scapegoats. They contain unstable artificial souls. If the ritual succeeds, even if a god awakens or responds, it will shatter the moment the divine consciousness descends, and it won't be traced back to us."

It's like I'm setting up a dozen virtual machines to dial up here. What about Rorschach in the xx park? He doesn't consider prophetic authority, and the highly perceptive God is also here. We need to ensure that He has no ability to investigate.

Andrei was still worried: "My father warned me when I was a child not to underestimate the gods or doubt their power. If you really want to do this, you should ask the Grand Master to oversee it."

"I understand what you mean, but an archmage isn't enough. Look at this!" Rorschach finally made a final precaution: he inscribed the holy emblem of the Lord of Light and Order in the center of all the ritual "stalls." The dagger Rorschach used to inscribe it still shimmered with a holy light. Andrei looked at the emblem itself again; not only was the shape accurate, but the grooves were also consistent with the construction magic circuit.

Andrei couldn't help but swallow. The sacred aura emanating from it was unmistakable; it was a genuine, mystical emblem of order, while the ones in the chapel were merely simple child's drawings in comparison.

Luo Xia sheathed his worn-out dagger and said disdainfully, "As far as a god is concerned, can an archmage match the power of the Lord of Order? The other weaklings on the field are no match for Tang Guangming, the God-King, who could defeat them with one hand."

"I'm about to begin. Stand next to the Holy Symbol, holding this jar of transmutation dust. If anything seems amiss, sprinkle the transmutation dust onto the Holy Symbol and pray to the Lord of Order."

"Will it work?" Before becoming a high master in Upper Valuana, Andrei was a novice believer in the Lord of Order, but now... he probably wouldn't be qualified to enter the church.

Rorschach patted his timid apprentice: "It's alright, your teacher is very familiar with the Lord of Order."

With everything ready and the warehouse doors locked, Rorschach gave the order for all the constructs to begin performing pre-set simple actions. Some started throwing materials and lighting candles, some started performing shamanistic rituals, and others took out their tools and smeared them on the necks of unfortunate animals, blood splattering all over the altar, and even smearing it on their own faces.

Immediately, the magic began to become chaotic, and various auras overflowed. Rorschach erected a blue light barrier to isolate the various "stalls".

During this period, there were clashes between scorching Mars and frigid ice crystals, as well as sounds resembling the hammering of iron coming from a distant place, and other undetectable anomalies intertwined and occurred one after another.

Andrei stood in the center, trembling, but also enjoying the spectacle.

Of the dozen or so rituals, more than half of the anomalies gradually subsided, even when Rorschach used Transmutation Dust to release magical stimulation. Of the remaining survivors, some gradually went out of control, leaving only constructs with depleted souls and energy.

Only three rituals made it to the "final round," two of which were the master craftsman and the forge god. Rorschach asserted that these two were one god with two identities, and the other was a certain elven god. At this moment, a cold wind howled through the ritual site, and a salty, fishy smell of water vapor rushed towards them.

Luo Xia first selected the two altars of the God of Craftsmen. He could no longer ask someone else to do it for him, so he could only let the soul carried by his clone leave his body and explore along the path connected by the altars.

"If there is a deeper anomaly, then destroy the ritual and activate the holy emblem of the Lord of Order." After instructing Andrei, Rorschach's clone resolutely plunged into the towering torrent of flames, which resembled a furnace. He was sacrificing himself, but at this moment, relying on the characteristics of the clone technique, he continuously climbed along the weak bridge between reality and the divine realm.

(End of this chapter)