Chapter 1178: Lifting the Curse with the Power of Nothingness

The ancient Parthian Kingdom, the rock cellar city.

Two days have passed since the three demons were sent back.

During this time, Aiwass's convoy did not enter the Rock Cellar City, but remained outside the city. Aiwass, accompanied by several ritualists, entered to study the ritual. He also brought Sherlock with him to help them cast spells to resist the curse.

Although the troll wizard who continued to use "Cursed Nova: Petrification" as the basis of the ritual array had been killed by Aiwass - by the way, the name of this skill was also given by Aiwass, after all, he didn't know what the actual name of this move was - the activated curse still remained.

The soul of the troll wizard, the foundation of the ritual, had almost been burned out.

In fact, even if Aiwass didn't take care of him, after a while... say a week or two, he would gradually burn out, and then die completely and shatter into ashes.

By killing him, Aiwass actually freed him, allowing his soul to enter the dream world.

Even if he had to enter the cycle of reincarnation with fragmented information, it was better than complete annihilation. And who knows, maybe a celestial official would be interested in him.

The three ritualists were waiting here just to contact business, but they were also responsible for protecting the troll wizard and preventing him from being killed before he burned out.

——Since the enemy doesn't want him to die, Aiwass will let him die.

It was precisely because the troll wizard died prematurely that the ceremony was suddenly interrupted before it was fully completed.

According to the original arrangement of the ritual, once the ritual was completed, the petrification state should have become permanent. It is precisely because the ritual was interrupted that these petrified people have the possibility of being rescued by conventional means.

Although Aiwass could also transform into a sin beast and forcibly resurrect the troll wizard to take revenge, or unpetrify all the people in the city...but he ultimately did not use such a tricky method.

On the one hand, it was because he had Isabel by his side, so he was not alone and carefree; on the other hand, it was also because Aiwass was also deliberately guarding against the influence of the Tao himself, and by deliberately not doing things that were too devoted, he suppressed the depth of his dedication to the Tao, so as to balance the power of the Tao as much as possible.

And these things don't mean much.

After all, this fourth-level ritualist has little chance of successfully taking revenge on his sixth-level fellow transcendent, and Aiwass cannot be sure that he is absolutely reliable and not really brainwashed... and if it is just to show an attitude, then the three ritualists who have turned into demons are enough.

The petrification curse in the city was not that difficult to lift after the array base was broken - after Aiwas took Zhu Tang and Iben to study for two days, they found the vulnerability of the ritual.

This curse ritual has two core elements.

One of them was the troll wizard killed by Aiwass. He was the most important foundation of the formation, used to continuously mobilize the power stored in the ritual, transform it and condense it into a cursed star, thus covering the entire city with the petrification curse.

In addition, there is another core - that is the foundation of the ceremony, that is, the signed transaction slate.

The theory behind this ritual is simple.

Through the tradition of the Parthian era, the "city" is considered the property of the benevolent master, and furthermore, an extension of the benevolent master himself. When the other party "agrees" to sign a contract, it is equivalent to ceding the property in the name of the master and taking responsibility for their own words and actions in their own name, thus achieving a closed loop that does not require secondary verification.

This petrifying power wasn't provided by the benevolent Lord of Paradise City; it truly came from the power of amber. All that the benevolent Lord did was pay the price of communicating with the amber in advance, thereby leveraging the amber's power... allowing the will of the contracted party to reach the amber directly.

Simply signing one's name can borrow the power of the Pillar God - this is truly a genius ritual.

At the same time, he used the contract to ensure that the supplier of power and the signatory of the contract did not communicate with each other; and through the troll wizard as the core of the ritual, he transformed this originally mild amber power that could be interrupted at any time and slowly solidified the entire environment into a violent, instant attack that could actively resist the priority of extraordinary power and a petrifying curse that specifically attacks the living... to make the realization "instantly completed."

Because the signer of the contract had been completely petrified immediately, he himself could not veto this operation. And since he had not said to stop, Amber would continue to output power until everything was completely solidified.

Even if the troll wizard, the converter of power, has been damaged, since the signatories of the ceremony did not object, the power amber that has been output will not be taken back.

If a different pillar god were used, this operation would definitely be impossible. Even if the situation wasn't immediately clear, as long as someone prayed or complained, they would know what happened.

But Amber happened to be sleeping, and her authority was automatically executed like a machine... The benevolent master of Paradise City found a bug in this "automatic operation system of divine power".

"From the perspective of a ritualist, he is truly a genius."

Zhu Tang praised, "And he's incredibly bold—that's the highest compliment for a 'wizard'."

"If it were someone else, it would be difficult to remove this curse."

Aiwass sighed: "After all, he has transformed the pure power of amber into the curse of amber."

The original BUFF becomes a DEBUFF, so whether it is to resist or remove it, a seventh-level priority confrontation is required as the initiator of the ceremony.

——But apart from Aiwass and Gray, how many people in this world have the ability to dispel and can hold the priority of the seventh energy level?

But this trick is the only thing that can't stop Aiwass.

Because when dealing with the Amber Disaster of the Theocracy, Aiwass had already learned this lesson in advance.

The essence of this matter is similar to but opposite to the elves' Amber; Adil actively forces the opponent to fight against him if they want to dispel this state, while the principle of Amber is not to fight and become a BUFF that cannot be dispelled.

But no matter whether it is BUFF or DEBUFF, Aiwass happens to have the ability to remove them.

That is the sinthorn.

Aiwass had discovered that the fruit grown on the Sinthorn could dispel and cure the Amber Condensation state. It was actually a blessing-disintegrating ability that dispelled the blessing from the Amber Celestial Master.

Now, Aiwass has transformed into a sinbeast, extracting a vast number of sinthorns. He uses these sinthorns to orchestrate a new ritual... thereby transmitting the power of the sinthorns into every person in the city. This is equivalent to attacking them with the sinthorns, triggering the sinthorns' ability to "seal extraordinary power," forcibly dispelling the curse.

However, Aiwass transformed this "attack" into a "blessing" through the ritual, so he would not resist any power other than the curse. Therefore, this ritual would not allow the power of the Sinthorn to truly hurt those people and thus dissolve their professional level - although Aiwass could indeed do so.

This is exactly what Adil inspired Aiwass.

The same ritual theory, simply reversed, can often become the principle for releasing the other party.

Of course, Aiwass was also worried... After all, the Sinthorn was most likely a power from nothingness.

But he eventually gave up worrying.

——There is no good or bad in power, as long as it can be used, it’s fine.

So, as the ceremony began...

The entire petrified city was covered with black thorns that were as empty as shadows.

The dim yellow petrified traces began to gradually dissipate and melt within the range of influence of the sin thorns.

I got some sleep today and feel much better!

There is another chapter after midnight, don't wait, it will probably be at two o'clock.

(End of this chapter)