A lifelike sketch was drawn on a sheet of paper.
With just a few strokes, it perfectly depicted a delicate, adorable little girl.
After Xu Yue completed the simple formation and pasted the illustration onto it, the crude magic circle traced in blood began to shine brilliantly.
The already beautiful illustration suddenly seemed to come alive.
Its two eyes turned different colors, though the rest of its body still bore the marks of an ordinary stick-figure drawing.
"Ho ho ho~! I knew someone was trying to harm me! Didn't expect it, did you? This time, I only descended a tiny bit!"
When those two lively eyes swept over Xu Yue, Amaterasu spoke smugly in a tone that suggested she had seen through everything.
Again and again—I was nearly plucked bald!
This time, I finally found a countermeasure!
"Huh? But that's not right. You didn't use the Descent Military Formation, and this is still a punishment world. Why were you able to summon me?"
Amaterasu then noticed something amiss and stared at Xu Yue with a wary expression, as if trying to see through him.
"What are you talking about? I received the great deity's gift before, after all. We do have some bond between us, don't we?"
Xu Yue crouched on the ground and poked Amaterasu with a finger, speaking with a smiling expression.
He had harvested Amaterasu's wool several times already, and he had studied all Three Noble Children as well. After absorbing and devouring them, it had not been difficult to simulate part of Amaterasu's original aura, then use a portrait as a medium to call upon her.
Of course, unlike the Descent Military Formation, there was no sufficiently large channel for the power of the lower realm to pass through. Amaterasu could respond to the descent without