An honorific name was like a telephone number: only an incantation with precise descriptions could connect the call without mistakenly reaching some other hidden entity.
Together with a sealed spiritual environment, it formed the true core that made ritual magic work.
As for things like "choosing a suitable date and time based on astrological results or consulting the relevant manuals," "using bells, crystal balls, silver cups, incense, and other objects as aids," and "candles and herbal essential oils prepared and arranged in strict accordance with their symbolism"...
You couldn't say they were completely useless, but most existed to attract the corresponding entities' interest and please them into responding to the ritual.
Naturally, Klein didn't need Justice and the Hanged Man to attract his attention.
Mr. Fool, still in his startup phase, wouldn't miss a single prayer, but he hoped the procedure would at least look convincing.
"Or rather, what do you intend to have people use to 'please' you?"
Something to please me? If Justice and the Hanged Man were willing to give me some gold pounds, I'd certainly be interested... Klein thought instinctively.
But wouldn't people laugh at the idea of pleasing a god with gold pounds...?
He realized that if he didn't want Mr. Fool's reputation-which didn't actually exist-to take a strange turn, he had better not do that.
"Well? Have you decided?" Lin Chuan asked.
"Hmm..."
As Klein considered how to make the ritual look convincing, he suddenly recalled the honorific name of the Eternal Blazing Sun, one of the seven orthodox gods:
Undying Light, Embodiment of Order, God of Contracts, Guardian of Commerce!
If you wanted to please the Eternal Blazing Sun, wouldn't you use gold pounds as ritual materials? They'd correspond perfectly to His title of Guardian of Commerce...
*Wait, when I visited Old