"Book of Calamity?"
"Yes. It was a contingency left behind by Queen of Calamity Cohinem for her resurrection, containing one characteristic and part of her spirit."
"Kalvetua was able to become the Sea God because it consumed a characteristic from Cohinem and was lucky enough not to lose control on the spot."
The pair of pale violet eyes before him, seemingly surrounded by stars, trembled slightly, and he heard Bernadette's soft laugh.
"Lucky? Unfortunately, what it consumed back then wasn't from the Pathway most blessed by luck."
"Since it didn't make it through this time, that only means it wasn't lucky enough."
After a brief pause, Bernadette ended the topic and said, "Use a sacrifice ritual to send Kalvetua's corpse over. A messenger can't carry such a large corpse, and bringing a Sequence 3 corpse through the Spirit World isn't safe either."
"No problem. I'll prepare the ritual right away," Cyril replied immediately.
Kalvetua's corpse might have been enormous, but it certainly wouldn't have stumped his old gentleman messenger. Still, the other party would surely despise such a fishy, foul-smelling corpse that looked like a heap of rotten mud.
He got along quite well with his old gentleman messenger. There was no need to make him deliver something so disgusting.
Soon afterward, he once again imagined the sacrifice ritual from the drawing paper, making a few modifications so that it pointed toward Queen Mystic Bernadette.
Before long, the light over the reef beach dimmed once more. The sea breeze blowing in from the ocean turned cold and gloomy, continuously whimpering as it circled through the air.
Candle flames stained a deep blue leaped endlessly, outlining an illusory door covered in patterns amid the cold, damp air.
Immediately afterward, a tremendous suction force suddenly came from behind the "door," drawing chunks