After this ultra-long-distance "castling", Valeela found that her state was a little special.
She is in a special state of disguise, which is different from the completely illusory cognitive deception of "stealing appearance", nor is she placed in a real body like "occupation", but is somewhere in between, possessing A "shell" that is half virtual and half real.
Obviously, this is the difference between "real shadow" and "phantom shadow" in "castling"——
After the "translocation", the "phantom" will collapse on its own, but the "real shadow" can still remain stable. The "shell" as a disguise overlaps with the real body after the displacement.
This state is somewhat similar to "occupation", but the difference is that it does not require continuous consumption of spiritual energy to maintain.
Valeera took back half of the previously separated spirituality. While making up for the consumption of "translocation", she also recovered the "real shadow" experience during the period of losing close contact.
During that time, her personal maid Liya did enter the bedroom after knocking on the door to remind her that dinner was ready... At that time, "Real Shadow" did not make any major mistakes in her independent answers.
This gave Valeera a deeper understanding of the "real shadow"——
Without her own perception and interference, the "real shadow" can only guide according to her separated spirituality and reproduce certain words and deeds of her past, and cannot be flexible.
Therefore, "real shadow" is the embodied mark of the past, is it an echo of the past? Thinking of this, Valeela suddenly felt something in her heart: Isn't "regret" something similar?
The so-called "regret" refers to those things that were dissatisfying and unwilling in the past, combined with strong negative emotions, forming a profound reverberation in the memory.
With this understanding in her heart, Valeela also gained a deeper understanding of the ritual magic she awakened, "The Art of Summoning Shadows."
It turns out that the "painted shadow" it awakens is actually the same as the "real shadow", which is just a remnant of the past.
Although Valeela had known for a long time that the "painted shadow" was not her own person, she still couldn't help but feel a little sad after learning its true nature.
Winter, winter, winter.
A knock on the door brought Valeela back to reality.
After a while, Liya, wearing a black and white maid uniform, opened the door and entered the bedroom, saying to Valeela:
"Miss, you can't put off dinner any longer. Please eat a little. I asked the kitchen to prepare an extra appetizing sweet soup."
"Okay." Valeera nodded.
…
Late at night, Valeela, wearing a two-piece pajamas, opened the secret door and entered the secret room.
She glanced at the self-portrait that had been restored to its original state at the entrance. Without stopping, she walked to the middle of the secret room and clipped the portrait of "Desperate Nightingale" Panadia onto the drawing board.
After the "spiritual wall" rose, a black flame flew out and ignited the "shadow lamp" on the eucalyptus table.
In the unfolding "Field of Shadows", Valeela followed the visualization method required by the "Shadow Writing Art" ritual and recalled the scene when she first saw Panatia over and over again in her mind——
[In view of the general environment,
This is somewhat similar to meditation, but there are some differences.
Gradually, she felt as if her consciousness had sublimated, as if she had reached some unknown high altitude, "looking down" at the "Desperate Nightingale" Panadia who was sitting in front of the dressing mirror at that time.
She had experienced this similar feeling of sublimation not long ago during the experiment of returning from "translocation", and even longer ago during the first meditation after each sequence promotion.
Of course, there are still some subtle differences between them:
The sense of sublimation brought about by meditation after promotion is the strongest, and every time Valeela's consciousness can enter a void with slightly broken cracks;
In comparison, the other two sublimation feelings were much duller. Valeera felt more like she had gained a more special and lofty perspective, and gained wonderful vision and experience——
When she "translocated" before, she felt like she was in two places at the same time; but now
In the "Shadow Writing" ceremony, what she felt was a subtle insight.
From the "overlook" perspective, Valeela discovered that as long as she was willing, she could clearly see the details of any place in Panatia at that moment...
After a few thoughts, she was washed away by a large amount of observed information, and was forced to exit the wonderful "overlook" perspective.
The torrent of information that came out of thin air was like a flood. After washing through Valeera's mind, it evaporated and disappeared, leaving only the remaining traces——
This externally manifests itself as a source of creative inspiration.
With this inspiration, Valeela picked up the paintbrush, dipped some pre-mixed paint from the palette, and started creating.
This is different from ordinary creation.
While Valila was painting, the shadow of her right hand also left dark patches that gradually blended into the canvas.
Shadow graphics—this is the complete "Shadow Writing Art" ritual magic.
Soon, not long after, Valeela’s focused creation came to an abrupt end.
She stopped painting suddenly, as if she was not sure what color to choose and where to paint the next stroke.
Looking at the still mostly blank canvas, Valeera assessed her mental state again and decided to visualize and create again.
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After performing the ritual creation of "Shadow Writing Art" three times in succession, Valeera stopped painting.
She already felt quite exhausted, and was vaguely tired of creating.
Obviously, this is a spiritual intuition of self-protection——
Before resting and recovering, she is not suitable for the next creation.
Looking at the large and small color blocks on the canvas, Valeela sighed. At this pace, I really don't know how long it will take to complete this portrait of Panatia.
She shook her head, turned towards the eucalyptus table, and extinguished the burning "shadow lamp".
After the faint blue light faded, Valeela looked at the canvas again and found that even with her current master-level painting skills, she could not understand the artistic value of the messy color blocks on it.
Maybe this is the creation of occult paintings... Valeera smiled faintly, yawned, exited the secret room, closed the secret door, and got back into the soft and comfortable bed.
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At the same time that Valeera was creating rituals, she was in a room covered with thick soft carpets.
"Desperate Nightingale" Panadia was sitting in front of the dressing table wrapped in a white bath towel, and was carefully applying hair care cream to the damp hair that was gathered in front of her.
During the process, she felt the skin on her chest was slightly itchy and rubbed it with the back of her hand. After a while, she threw her well-maintained hair back and subconsciously rubbed the back of her neck.
As a demigod-level witch, it was certainly impossible for Panatia to ignore her own feelings, even if they were very slight.
However, this normal reaction in life, which is small and does not touch the premonition of crisis, has not been taken seriously and has been ignored.
