Chapter 154: The Hero Summoning Ritual(Part 2)
"Okay, I’ve gathered all the necessary ingredients, I should go over the instructions just to be safe, I can’t afford to screw this up," Alphonse muttered to himself.
It was the next day, and after listing down everything he needed to conduct the ritual after skimming through the documents, he snuck into Sapphire City.
"Mmmpf! Mmmm!"
"Tch, shut up, you filthy little brat, I’m trying to focus here!" He snapped, kicking at a young boy tied up with ropes, sprawled across the dust-caked floor.
"Mmmm!" The boy pleaded desperately, tears flowing out as he frantically tried to break free of the ropes, but to no avail.
"I wish I could just kill you, but I need a living sacrifice, a child who hasn’t yet awakened their Magic. Okay, let’s see here...interesting, so these so-called Heroes are summoned from a world without Magic. How is that even possible? And it says that these Heroes usually have little to no combat experience, and they tend to be highly empathetic. Tch, who cares about that? Ah, here we go...when summoned to this world, they gain powerful Magic abilities, with potential as great or even greater than that of Royals. Fantastic!
I just wish I was able to gather more than one sacrifice and summon several Heroes, instead of just one. But I couldn’t afford to get too greedy, it would have been pointless if I ended up exposing myself and got captured by the Knights. Alright, then, I think I’m more or less clear on how this works, everything is already set up, so all that’s left to do is activate the ritual and hope for the best," He muttered to himself, before standing up and turning his gaze towards the boy he kidnapped, who froze in terror.
Alphonse reached down and grabbed him by the hair, a muffled, despairing cry ringing out as he dragged the boy towards a large Magic Circle he’d drawn across the floor.
He then lifted the boy up and carefully placed him at the center of the circle, before stepping back and placing his hands on the edge of the circle, taking a deep breath to ease his nerves before running his Mana into it.
His heartbeat quickened as the formulations inscribed across the Magic Circle began glowing, getting brighter and brighter with each passing second, before an excruciating scream of pain rang out from the boy as his body spasmed violently.
Alphonse flinched with a startled look on his face as the boy’s torso suddenly burst open across the middle, blood spraying out and splattering across the ground, a few drops hitting Alphonse, who grimaced in disgust.