We've talked about this before.
Because she didn't want to use some sort of sacrifice,
Lan Qingyou's improvements focused on using Magic Power or something else as the offering.
In fact, the reason these improvements took so long
was mainly that she'd gotten stuck on this part.
After all, when you got right down to it, this was basically getting something for free.
So to bypass the balancing mechanism in the Magic Array, she had to make up for it with a lot of tedious details.
That was exactly why
the entire Summoning Magic Array looked so... ornate.
That's right.
Compared to the Basic Alchemy Array, which only had triangles, circles, and squares and looked rather crude,
this Magic Array was so ornate it hardly looked like a Magic Array at all.
It looked more like a work of art.
But Lan Qingyou knew
that compared to the massive Magic Array she'd seen in the Outer Sea back then,
her own array was, at most, "a little decorative."
As Lan Qingyou poured in her Magic Power,
the entire Summoning Magic Array gradually lit up with a purple glow.
At first, the light was faint.
But as time passed and Lan Qingyou continued to pour in her Magic Power, it grew brighter and more conspicuous.
Like a whale breaching the surface,
at the height of the glow, something very familiar to Lan Qingyou burst out of the Summoning Magic Array.
—[Tentacle of Kesuya]
That's right.
It was the thing they'd dug up beneath the Cursed Corridor.
Only this time, because of the space restrictions, there was just one tentacle.
Otherwise, if the entire Tentacle Forest that she'd encountered—and somehow died in—were recreated here,
then not only Albert nearby,
but even the people in the viewing platform halfway up the mountain across