Chapter 471 : Prayer Summoning Ritual
Chapter 471: Prayer Summoning Ritual
As Janna had seen, the instructor teaching Advanced Contract Studies at the White Tower was indeed the white feline seated at the lectern—White Cat Tifa.
“There really aren’t many who chose Advanced Contract Studies as an elective.”
Inside the classroom in the【Book World】, aside from Janna, there were only four other students, all from her same cohort.
Among the four, two were necromancer apprentices with undead summoning talents similar to Anthony-Blackcrow. Another was a spirit summoner apprentice with the ability of necromantic perception.
The talent possessed by this spirit summoner was extremely similar to Padding-Green—the one known as “Ghost Child” whom Janna had met previously at the Blackbone Grove Academy in the Turin witch settlement. Both were apprentice dark witches skilled in ghost summoning.
The fourth person was a white witch apprentice named Lucien-Watson. Like Janna, he belonged to the orthodox summoning category.
The only difference was that Lucien-Watson had a rather one-dimensional summoning style. Limited by his witch talents, all of his summoned contract creatures were pure elemental beings—such as Flame Guardians or Frost Guardians—and his variety of summonings was quite narrow.
However, due to his innate talents, Lucien-Watson was naturally favored by elemental beings.
By contrast, Janna always had to first beat those stubborn elemental beings into submission before she had any chance of successfully completing a contract.
“I’ll be skipping the introduction in Chapter One. Turn to Chapter Two directly.”
Just as Janna flipped open her Advanced Contract Studies textbook to the first chapter, she heard White Cat Tifa swiftly skip ahead to the second.
“Good thing I previewed the material ahead of time. Even if I skip the first chapter, it won’t affect me too much.”
However, due to time constraints and the complexity of the material, Janna had only managed to preview a portion of Chapter Two.
“Before we begin today’s lecture, let me introduce myself first.”
White Cat Tifa narrowed her eyes as she looked down at the students.
“As you can see, I’m a cat. A white cat—cursed.”
Cursed?
Hearing White Cat Tifa’s introduction, Janna couldn’t help but pick up a whiff of juicy gossip.
“Not long ago, I was just like you—a person with a human body. But because of a curse, I now have to maintain this appearance.”
So White Cat Tifa was originally human?
Hearing this, Janna couldn’t help but speculate about her real identity.
“Of course, even though I now appear before you in the form of a cat, it doesn’t affect my ability to teach—”
“Especially when it comes to Contract Studies. For me, it’s elementary-level knowledge—”
“Even if you wish to learn about the【Law of Contracts】, that’s not a problem—”
Janna’s eyes lit up at those words.
“The【Law of Contracts】? It actually understands the【Law of Contracts】only grasped by the【Lord of the Spirit Realm】?”
As a【Primary Law】that spans multiple plane worlds, the【Law of Contracts】was incredibly difficult to comprehend.
Aside from its mysticism being profoundly complex, the【Lord of the Spirit Realm】held a firm grasp over it—making it nearly impossible for most to perceive even the slightest fluctuation of power through observable contractual phenomena.
Because of this, despite possessing an A-level【Spirit Traverse】talent, Janna had yet to comprehend even a single【Secondary Law】related to the【Law of Contracts】.
So at times, Janna found herself wondering: if she hadn’t started with her【Plant Affinity】talent, perhaps she would have chosen the【Law of Beauty】as her primary law instead.
Alternatively, like Vivian, had she possessed the right bloodline, Janna wouldn’t have minded pursuing the【Warlock Pathway】.
“There are many media through which contracts can form—text, speech, and rituals. Among them, contracts based on rituals are unidirectional and passive in nature. Only when there’s an active response from the other party can the ritual begin to take shape.”
After that explosive introduction, White Cat Tifa moved right into Chapter Two and began her lecture.
Janna noticed that although Tifa said she would skip Chapter One, in practice she seamlessly integrated content from both chapters in a way that flowed smoothly and made the class easy to follow.
“And the【Prayer Summoning】described in Chapter Two is the most classic type of unidirectional passive ritual. It’s also the most failure-prone ritual among all advanced contracts.”
Hearing that, Janna couldn’t help but think of the【Ancient God Contract】she currently possessed.
The【Ancient God Contract】was a subcategory of【Prayer Summoning】. Though it required a related item as a support medium, most of the time it was a solo act performed by the ritual initiator, rarely receiving any response.
Aside from that, even Janna’s【Contract Summoning】had certain passive elements to it. But in most cases,【Contract Summoning】was a mutual agreement between the summoner and the contract creature.
After all, at the moment the【Contract Summoning】ritual was established, the creature summoned through “Soul Resonance” was already a sentient being that, deep down, desired to form a contract.
It was just that under the influence of the【Law of Contracts】, the two parties, guided by their mutual “Soul Resonance,” completed a “two-way journey” to meet each other.
It wasn’t like【Prayer Summoning】at all, which was entirely based on one side desperately begging, relying purely on luck to achieve the contract.
“To reduce the high failure rate of【Prayer Summoning】, later generations made many modifications to the ritual.”
“One such adjustment was expanding the target range of【Prayer Summoning】from exclusively【Spirit Realm】high-dimensional entities to include high-tier beings from the【Material Plane】.”
High-tier beings?
Hearing this, a flicker of confusion flashed through Janna’s eyes.
“The term ‘high-tier beings’ refers to those whose innate energy far surpasses that of the summoner. For instance—a witch.”
At that, Janna’s confusion quietly faded, replaced by astonishment.
“Then doesn’t that mean the current【Prayer Summoning】ritual can, in theory, summon a consenting witch the summoner knows?”
At that moment, the first person that popped into Janna’s mind was Anthony-Blackcrow, far away in the Turin witch settlement.