While Rhodes was on the top floor, the death energy in Rowling's body became stronger and stronger, and a lich-like aura began to permeate the tower.
Combining the various anomalies previously observed and the things used in the ritual, Rhodes has recognized what kind of ritual Rowling is guiding.
If Rhodes had not made a mistake in his judgment, the ceremony being held at the top of the Soul-Calling Tower at this time was the most mysterious of all the undead magic rituals. It was also necessary for the advancement of the Lich, the Endless Night Ritual.
When the ritual is successfully completed, the mother of dead souls as the core of the ritual will disintegrate, and all the pure death energy contained in it will be absorbed by Rowling, and Rowling herself will also get rid of the limitations of the human body and become an immortal lich.
Rhodes didn't know what Rowling had gone through during this period, and her strength had actually increased to the point where she could perform the Endless Night Ritual, and she took the initiative to hold the ritual on the top of the Soul-Calling Tower, but Rhodes didn't want her to be promoted just like that. For the lich.
In the later stages of the game, since the attribute points and skill points obtained by upgrading are roughly the same, the only difference that can really widen the gap is the quality of equipment and treasures, and the only differences in professional expertise.
Once promoted to a lich, Rowling's spellcasting ability will be limited by the lich itself, and her overall strength will drop a lot. The immortal ability of the lich cannot bring any improvement to her strength for a while. This is why Rhodes The judgment was made a long time ago.
Rather than letting Rowling be promoted to a lich, Rhodes hoped that she could maximize her spellcasting ability and choose other professions related to spellcasters.
Even with the restrictions of spiritualism, Rowling could not become an orthodox legendary mage, and Rhodes did not want her to be promoted to a lich, thereby wasting her originally powerful spellcasting ability.
Rhodes noticed that Rowling was still in the first stage of the Endless Night Ritual at this time, so there was still the possibility of remedying the situation.
Epic-level spiritualism has extremely detailed records of the ritual of the endless night. After all, before being promoted to a lich, there are few other ways for a necromancer to obtain epic-level spiritualism, and the god-level magic possessed by Rhodes Spiritualism has a very detailed analysis of this ritual.
According to the feedback from spiritualism, the endless night ritual of transforming the lich is divided into three stages according to the depth of progress.
In the first stage, the necromancer will use the effect of death energy to cause his body to be severely eroded, even to the point of death, in order to complete the initial transformation of death energy.
The crimson lines on the surrounding walls contained extremely rich death energy. As the ritual progressed, they were gradually approaching Luo Lin, completing the erosion of her body.
For regular necromancers, when they are at the last level before being promoted to lich, which is the fifth level corresponding to senior necromancers, the erosion of their bodies by the death energy is to allow them to adapt to the ritual of the endless night in advance. environment in order to meet the requirements for promotion to the Lich.
Under the erosion of the death energy, the body of the senior necromancer will fall into a state of decay. While his appearance becomes terrifying, it also meets the physical death required in the first stage of the endless night ritual.
This is precisely why the senior necromancers in Diya pursue an appearance that is corroded by the energy of death. In comparison, they will not care about the terrifying appearance.
Due to the erosion of death energy during the endless night ritual, most lichs are unable to retain their intact human bodies after completing the ritual.
In Rhode's sight, Rowling, who was sitting cross-legged in front of her, had obvious corrosion marks on her face on the backlit side, with flesh and blood falling off in some places, and she could even see the inside of that side through the side of her face. His teeth and short hair were extremely messy and fell off from time to time.
At this time, Luo Lin only had traces of death energy corrosion on her face that was not covered by the wide black robe, let alone other parts of her body.
Looking at Rowling in this state, Rhodes was able to detect more of her status through blood perception. During the period when Rhodes was exiled, Rowling was always in a very low mood, even to the point of being haggard.
Rhodes noticed that the energy-capturing secret method that he originally sought for Rowling had not been used by her for a long time. Apparently, she had made plans to hold the Endless Night Ceremony before that, and had been preparing for the ceremony for a long time.
The top of the Soul-Calling Tower is the center where death energy converges in the entire City of the Undead. As long as the ritual patterns outside the tower are not damaged, when necessary, it can even gather the death energy of the entire City of the Undead. This also allows many powerful necromancers to They all like to conduct their own research at the top of the Soul-Calling Tower.
Rowling chose the location of the Endless Night on the top of the Soul-Calling Tower, obviously to take advantage of the efficacy of the Soul-Calling Tower itself. Even the entire Soul-Calling Tower was built for this ritual.
The first stage of the ritual, which involves the erosion of the body, can be completed in advance through the preparations made during the senior necromancer period. This stage mainly depends on the necromancer's daily accumulation and the degree of compliance with the energy of death. It will not be too big. Danger, Rowling is in the first half of this stage at this time.
In the second stage of the Endless Night Ritual, the various rare materials in it will cooperate with the energy of death to fully stimulate the potential in the soul of the ritual leader, making it reach an unprecedented level of strength. Even spiritualism cannot limit this kind of power. state of the soul.
During this stage, the necromancer performing the ceremony will endure unimaginable pain. The pain that directly tears apart the soul far exceeds the limit of physical pain and is not something that ordinary people can bear.
During the ceremony, the necromancer must remain awake at all times. Once he falls into fainting due to pain, or loses consciousness, the entire endless night ritual will immediately fail, and the necromancer's own soul will dissipate and his consciousness will fall into eternal silence.
The dissipation of the soul will have extremely serious consequences. Even if the body of the necromancer is preserved at the last moment, there is no way to awaken the necromancer in this state.
The second stage of the Endless Night Ritual follows immediately after the end of the first stage. Once the second stage is entered, there will be no way to terminate the Endless Night Ritual.
Some senior necromancers have completed the erosion of the body by the death energy before the ceremony begins, and more powerful senior necromancers can even overcome the body erosion in the first stage of the ritual and directly start the second stage.
