The requirements for the Moulting Ritual were somewhat troublesome... but the Ring Angel and Butterfly Angel were ultimately still angels, not Pillar Gods.
The ritual for calling them did not yet require choosing things like incense, crystals, or statues with especially precise specifications. All one had to do was "state your business, don't ask if anyone's there"—write down the entire request in one go as a message.
Under Iver's direction and assistance, Meg chose a circular Large Ritual Array.
In the inner circle, she wrote her request in Elven Language in precise detail: I currently need to borrow the power of the Butterfly Angel to complete the Moulting Ritual and resist aging. If you are willing to help me with this, I will henceforth embark on an endless path of surpassing myself, choosing "surpassing myself" as my route of transcendence.
She then drew another Ritual Circle inside, isolating these words in the outer ring.
Afterward, she depicted a perfect twisted-snake pattern inside it—the symbol "∞." A huge full-length mirror had to be placed in the middle of the symbol, dividing the infinity pattern neatly into two halves without cutting through the outer Ritual Circle.
Next, along the outer edge of the ∞ and the inner edge of the second Ritual Circle, she had to write the names of the thirty-six apostles, using their names as witnesses to the ritual. Then, she placed a different butterfly or butterfly specimen over each name.
Following the order in which she had drawn the ∞ pattern, she placed seven special objects along the outer edge of the symbol, starting from the point where her pen had first touched down.
"—They must be seven objects capable of representing your entire life up to this point. They must contain some meaning, symbolize your past, and be