1127: The Little Mummy's Confidence-My Grandma Is a Big Star in the Underworld (Bonus Chapter 415)
Nefertari said she was going to perform a ritual, and everyone was curious, including the three vampire archdukes.
The secrets of how the Church of the Dead Moon, the origin of the necromantic schools, communicated with the Underworld were closely guarded. Necromancy had flourished across the continent in many forms, but when it came to orthodoxy, the Sanghe people were still the authority.
Back then, even the genius Triss had spent several years secretly studying in the Dead Moon Holy City and still hadn't fully mastered the secret arts of the Dead Moon. That showed just how deep the tradition ran at its place of origin.
Most importantly, the other necromantic schools taught their apprentices how to wield the death energy that brought harm through dark erosion while they were still alive. Only the Church of the Dead Moon had a complete set of secret arts specifically for the dead. Many of their powerful forbidden techniques could only be used by the dead themselves.
That was the main reason Triss hadn't learned every secret art back then.
The Scarlet Witch might have been crazy, but she wasn't about to kill herself just to learn a few forbidden techniques.
In any case, while Baburo and Claire took a group of pirates who didn't want to go to the Underworld because it was bad luck, and accompanied Senior Sennor to negotiate a deal with the Batis family's Underworld pharaoh, the little mummy began her performance in the priest dormitory in the ritual district where everyone was hiding.
She didn't need any particularly complex ritual implements. Since the summoner and the summoned were related by blood, the little mummy herself was the most important implement.
The rest were just supplementary materials. With Grand Duke Hathor, the vampires' foremost psychic-energy master, right there, Nefertari