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Disclaimer: All rituals appearing in this novel are fictional. Do not imitate them.
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Kayson took out a small knife and gently dug out the entire apple core. He carefully picked away the flesh clinging to it, leaving only the core's inner peel and seeds.
Then he used the knife to make a small cut in his palm.
"Ah... tsk, tsk, tsk..." Grimacing in pain, Kayson picked all the apple seeds out of the core and stuffed them into the wound he had just cut.
Almost instantly, verdant green vines sprouted from the wound.
Kayson hurriedly picked up the apple, now left with only peel and flesh, and stuffed the vines growing from his wound into the hollowed-out space inside it.
Once the vines extended into the apple's flesh, they continued growing wildly, like the capillaries that ran through every inch of the human body's muscles, fat, and skin.
The vines that had grown from the wound spread through every inch of flesh inside the apple as well.
Then Kayson picked up the apple core's inner peel and carefully chewed it in his mouth until it was pulped. This was to offer a sacrifice to some unseen existence. As for what he was sacrificing... as everyone knew, apple seeds and the core's inner peel contained cyanogenic glycosides, which broke down in the human body to produce the highly toxic hydrocyanic acid.
Although the amount was about as lethal as an Avada Kedavra cast by a first-year Hufflepuff wizard, consuming this toxin could still be understood as sacrificing a certain amount of life to that existence.
Don't worry about how much was sacrificed. The point was, a sacrifice had been made, right?
It was like how every minute I performed a ritual, I sacrificed sixty seconds of my life.
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