Chapter 248 : Merfolk Form - Janna
Chapter 248: Merfolk Form - Janna
"This should be about right."
Looking at the completed 【Spirit Summoning】 ritual before her, Janna nodded with satisfaction.
As a spark ignited the spiritual candle, Janna deftly took out a sterilized mithril dagger and made a cut across the palm of her left hand, letting droplets of blood fall onto the silver mirror.
When the blood on the mirror turned its darkest shade, Janna timed it precisely and retrieved a low-grade water-elemental magic stone from her Thorn Bracelet, clutching it in her right hand.
"Great Lord of the Spirit Realm, ruler of the vast star worlds, heed my will and descend with your boundless might—Gate of the Spirit Realm, open!"
With the incantation complete, flames surged upward. As the silver mirror floated into the air, Janna activated her talent.
"Spirit Traverse—"
Buzz—A flash of light erupted. As Janna passed through the mirrored corridor into the spirit realm, the magic stone guided her to a vividly colored projection of various planes. She targeted a cerulean interdimensional coordinate and transformed into starlight, slipping into a dimensional fissure...
"Splaaaash—"
Waves surged as endless blue filled her vision.
Gazing at the boundless deep blue ocean surrounding her, Janna couldn’t help but smile upon confirming her successful descent.
"This place, just like the 【Flame Plane】, is a purely water-based 【Water Elemental Plane】——"
However, unlike the 【Flame Plane】 teeming with fire-elemental creatures, here in the 【Water Elemental Plane】,
aside from the infinite ocean, Janna found no trace of any water-elemental beings.
"It seems this is nothing but a dead sea with incomplete laws."
Incomplete laws implied a missing 【Plane Will】. If a plane had not even birthed a 【Plane Will】, then surely no planar creatures would inhabit it.
Because the 【Plane Will】 was always the first conscious entity of any plane, born from its fundamental laws.
The sole purpose of the 【Plane Will】 was to guard the plane. It was both the objective vessel of the laws and the external manifestation of the plane’s strength—interdependent and inseparable.
"If the 【Plane Will】 is in slumber, does that mean the plane’s laws are also missing?"
Staring at this still-unformed 【Water Elemental World】, Janna naturally thought of the long-slumbering 【Will of the Witch】 in the 【Primary Material World】 where she currently resided.
Once one of the strongest planes in the vast cosmos, it had suffered from the Outer Gods' intrusion and the plundering of its source energy, leaving its laws in a fractured state.
Faced with this, the witches gathered in enclaves had no choice but to tirelessly study the 【Primary Laws】 and
continuously cultivate new witch apprentices through the Witch Academy model.
Only by doing so could they continuously produce witch seedlings capable of grasping 【Law Fragments】.
Once these seeds sprouted and grew into towering trees—they would become the backbone of repairing the laws of the 【Primary Material World】,
and awaken the slumbering 【Will of the Witch】.
In the end, all of the witches’ efforts were simply for survival in this world.
"Haa—"
Janna exhaled deeply, shaking off her cluttered thoughts as she took out the crystal ball sealing the Deep Sea Mermaid.
"Though the laws here are incomplete, the water elements are abundant enough not to affect my performance of the 【Synesthesia Ritual】."
The reason Janna had gone through such effort to descend in spirit form to a 【Water Elemental Plane】 via the 【Spirit Summoning】 ritual today was to increase the success rate of simulating the "fish tail" water-elemental structure through the 【Synesthesia Ritual】.
Crack—
With a firm squeeze, Janna crushed the crystal ball, releasing the sealed mermaid into the deep sea.
At once, Janna, who had already cast 【Hand of the Witch】, lifted the mermaid to float above the azure sea.
"Clear Insight—"
Though part of ritual witchcraft, the 【Synesthesia Ritual】 differed from 【Spirit Summoning】 and 【Contract Summoning】 in that it required no additional materials besides an element-rich environment.
Janna only needed to pronounce the key parts of the incantation in precise 【Dragon Tongue】 and match them with corresponding occult gestures to successfully execute the 【Synesthesia Ritual】.
"Perception Expansion——"
As she uttered the final line of the incantation, Janna felt her 【Perception】 magnified hundreds of times over.
"Success!"
With the spell cast in one go, Janna immediately used 【Partial Transfiguration】 to gather threads of magic power, which surged into the fish tail of the Deep Sea Mermaid.
Compared to the complex and clumsy attempt the day before, this time, every single water-elemental magic particle in the "fish tail" felt vivid and clear.
In this 【Synesthetic】 state, Janna’s magic threads moved like nimble flying fish, swimming swiftly between the water-element particles—until, miraculously, she completed 【Elemental Synergy】 in that moment.
"That worked?"
Water begets wood, and wood draws from water.
After observing the structure of the water-element particles, Janna quickly "disguised" her plant-element particles to resemble water-elements.
As time went on, Janna’s magic threads gradually took on the flowing form of water.
Although the essence of the plant-element particles remained unchanged, through this simple "camouflage," her magic had effectively "transfigured" into water-elemental magic.
"To think the 【Synesthesia Ritual】 would be this effective."
Even without conscious control, Janna’s magic threads no longer faced any repulsion from the water-elemental magic in the "fish tail."
In mere moments, she had gained complete insight into the "fish tail."
"Ever-changing—"
Splash—
As waves rolled, Janna’s submerged legs swiftly drew together. Soon, shimmering ice-blue scales began to grow along her joined legs.
Fish scales, fish tail, fish fins———
And when even her ears transformed into fins like those of the Deep Sea Mermaid, Janna suddenly realized the once "foreign" seawater around her had started to feel "familiar."