"Two tents, you said."
Miss Feliana looked at her two students, and her expression became far richer at that moment, no longer carrying that terrifying numbness.
Shade looked at Miss Feliana's face. Even though her lips were pale and she looked unwell, that unique charm was something ordinary people could never possess.
"In my era, I paid a bottle of Fishman's Elixir of Immortality to find the Guiding Light Hermitage, then obtained incomplete ritual records. This is an extremely dangerous God Summoning ritual. You have forgotten one thing: the ritual has actually already begun."
The firelight illuminated the faces of the four "people," while Shade's slow, low voice continued asking questions. The crackling campfire made everyone's shadows sway. The four people sat in four directions, three pitch-black shadows stretching into the distance, while only the Giant Tree Witch's shadow beneath the tree was cast upon the trunk of the towering ancient tree:
"Miss Feliana, you said you lost a large batch of ritual materials. But can you be certain they were lost, rather than already consumed?"
The witch could not answer. Her memories had begun to grow muddled here as well.
"Miss Feliana, you said the ritual required witches possessing the powers of nature, time, and space. You prepared powerful relics to replace the witches, but the forest absorbed the relics' power. Are you certain the relics' power was absorbed, rather than the ritual already having begun?"
They still could not answer.
"Who was it?"
Miss Feliana's lips moved.
"It certainly wasn't you. You are a real person; there is no doubt about that. I once suspected this lady."
Shade pointed at the Moon Witch, who looked at him in slight confusion.
It was as though Shade's arrival had brought new strength to the Witches. With his words, their numb