The Ritual of Creating a Monster

March 21, night.

Aleister, Honey Badger, Prince Siya Erduo, and Fenrir had all gathered beneath the moonlight to watch Moon Witch Selene perform her ritual.

This was the first day of spring. Spring itself symbolized the revival of all things, the rebirth of life from deathly stillness. And on March 21, the sun would appear in Aries... Aries was the constellation representing the Dawn Angel. The Dawn Angel itself was also the world's third sun, as well as Constant Self's lover, her divided self, and her son.

Thus, this was the night when the concept of "creation" was at its strongest throughout the entire year—without exception!

Selene donned a pure-white woolen robe and faced the moon, carefully washing her hands in a silver basin. As she washed them, she seemed to be intently caressing the moon in the water.

"What are you doing?"

Prince Siya Erduo humbly asked Aleister.

But Aleister could only shake her head.

Let alone her—even the well-informed elves of the Theocracy probably knew nothing about this. Only Hypatia, who had sold the Ovum Moon Grimoire to Iver, could answer this question.

After all, the Moon Witch's inheritance had already been lost, and the last Moon Witch had been Constant Self herself. Aleister was not qualified to read the Ovum Moon Grimoire, so she could not understand what Selene was doing at all.

However, the essence of rituals was interconnected.

She therefore tried to make a tentative deduction. "Perhaps she is touching the 'moon in the water' to complete the ritual of the Twin Mirrors. The Sacred Number of the moon can be one, while water's Sacred Number when serving as a mirror is two, and three..."

As Aleister spoke in a low voice, Selene lifted her glimmering hands from the moonlight beneath the water, allowing the