The elf called "Physician" had remained silent as well... Most likely, there was no need to look for him anymore.
Three people had been eliminated by now. If Stranger was fine, then Physician had definitely died.
Without an Adaptor to conduct a search or divination, they could only use prayers or rituals to locate things.
As an old ritualist, Olive was proficient in all kinds of substitute rituals. Even without a Ritual Array, he could still perform some simple rituals.
He pulled out his pocket watch, then took a bottle of woodpecker blood from the Ritual Pack and smeared it across his face. Afterward, he put on a white mask without eyes or a mouth and looped the rope around his neck as a noose.
"Lord of the Gallows, Mother of Puppets! Sixty-seven forms of illusion, I offer the blood of a woodpecker!"
Olive stirred his magic power and prayed aloud, reciting the alias of some holy being: "Please watch over this place with endless mist and answer my question!"
Iver knew that these were two other aliases of Gray Angel.
Gray Angel was said to have sixty-seven forms, but that claim was also a lie. At least, the Gray Angel drawn into the Material Realm by the Ouroboros Ring Ritual looked like a huge gray spider. A beautiful woman lay atop the spider's back, as though she had been kidnapped by it—or as though she were riding it.
It was like a spider-tailed horned viper, whose tail was a lifelike spider. When a bird saw the spider and tried to prey on it, it would be bitten by the venomous snake.
In Gray Angel's first phase, it was a woman. In the second phase, it was a woman riding a spider. In the third phase, it was a giant