If anyone tells you that summoning just requires a chant, Felix can assure you that person is a fool, a complete fool.

A Blazing Tiger with elemental powers can withstand a sixty-man knight troop for half a magical hour and severely injure or even kill a few mid-tier knights in a final desperate counterattack. The combat effectiveness of summoned creatures is unquestionable, and one of the principal creatures from hell, the signature creature for warlocks—the Hellhound, is proof of just how ferocious summoned creatures can be!

Broad summonings are impossible due to the tremendous cost and expenditure required to cross dimensions. A summoner who has stepped into the Silver Domain, along with their contract-bound summoned creature, can sweep away spellcasters of the same rank!

Of course, you'd be foolish to provoke a spellcaster who specializes in "Arcane Seals."

Summoning elemental beings requires elemental sigils, demonic species require soul emblems, and summoning Hellhounds necessitates a plethora of dark crosses. If you ask which spellcaster spends the most in battle, Felix would confidently say—summoners!

To gather enough Holy Light Stones to construct a magic web channel, which people refer to as diamonds, Felix didn’t just spend all his savings but also exhausted the gem reserves of Felendia!

With boundless sorrow and pain, Felix cursed the damned God of Light, scorned the Papacy, and the Notre Dame with a face full of tragic grief, embedding the precious diamonds into the magic circle.

The magic circle's activation required the essence of the diamonds, which would shatter into dust after completing the Descent ceremony.

Just thinking about it made Felix's heart ache as if it were being sliced with a knife.

After embedding the last three nail-sized diamonds into the starburst array, Felix let out a long breath of murky air, but couldn't bear to look at those dazzling diamonds anymore. A whole 200,000 gold coins! A massive pile of glittering gold! Enough to make a bed of Caesar coins!

"Damn it all."

Now Felix finally understood why so few people performed a Descent for holy species—it was like watching money flow like water!

With an odd mix of sorrow and emotion, Felix, now demoted from the wealthy class to the poor, initiated the Holy Cross Summoning!

The chance of failure is high during the initial contract ceremony, also known as the "inducement" process.

To put it in simple terms, after starting the summoning ceremony, it's like lighting a beacon that transmits signals across spatial barriers into other dimensions.

At this time, some powerful creatures will sense it, sense you. If they find you agreeable, they'll link with you through this signal, this beacon. If the two of you get along, or if you offer enough benefits, the contract is set. The next time you perform the summoning ritual, the success rate will be much higher.

If you are too weak or too unattractive, they'll ignore you. No attention, magic depleted, the ceremony fails. There go your 200,000 gold coins—better start saving for the next attempt.

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So, the bitter stories behind a summoner's power are often unknown to the average person...

Behind great power, there invariably lie stringent demands. The vast majority of summoners prefer to contract with beings weaker than themselves, as the success rate for a "Slavery Contract" is the highest. Unless the summoned creature you contracted with gets eaten by someone else, you can basically achieve a 100% summoning rate.

It must be noted that many people say once you summon a creature from another plane, you can keep summoning it indefinitely. That's simply nonsense! Even Hell has its conflicts, and if you happen to be unlucky, the creature you spent a great deal to contract with might be devoured by a stronger being.

Then, repent to the Lord.

You must have done too many sleazy things in your past life, and now your virtue is in the negative.

The biggest reliance of the summoning ritual is mental strength, and the success of the contract lies in the battle of wits and wills. Clearly, in terms of mental strength, Felix has an ability indistinguishable from the real thing in its deception.

A strong mental force is like fireflies in the darkness, invisibly raising the attraction to a much higher level. This is also the fundamental reason Felix dares to risk summoning an angel from the Descend.

For the single use of the summoning array worth two hundred thousand Caesar gold coins, which sprawls across the entire Redemption Room to prevent the leakage of the intense holy light energy and attract unnecessary trouble, Felix even drew a triple Demon Sealing Array on the walls with crystalline foam!

"May the holy light shine upon us forever!"

Felix took the lead by placing his hands on one point of the nine-pointed star array, and after sinking into the spiritual space, he began to slowly guide magical power. The most important parts of the summoning ritual are the beginning and the end of the magical guidance. As long as the initiation is successful, the likelihood of the ritual failing is greatly reduced.

Such an immense nine-pointed star array clearly could not be completed by Felix alone; his modest magical reserves were insufficient for such a grand consumption of magic.

After Felix guided the holy light energy with his magic output, his personal nun, Lilia, and another plumper nun moved to a lower corner of the array. They clasped their hands and knelt down silently, beginning to chant the "Holy Hymn" and slowly releasing their magic.

Nine points of magic output; Felix supported one, while the fourteen nuns left to him by Lady Ireland supplied two to each magic network point's consumption. For the final pivotal grafting point, Felix chose to use the Mammon's Redemption and the strange stick known as 'the Sword' given to him by the mysterious Gamma master as supports. With two staffs almost at the "demi-artifact" level providing the last of the magic supply, combined with Felix's powerful mental prowess, the chance of success was virtually assured.

At Felix's command, the fourteen nuns, one by one, knelt down, chanting the "Holy Hymn" to summon the holy light energy from Saint Erde Cathedral and even from the outside world, filling it into the Holy Cross Summoning.

The supporting points of the nine-pointed star array lit up one by one, with diamonds set in magic crystal powder emitting bright white light. As the magic power output intensified, it lit up like an incandescent lamp, illuminating the entire Redemption Room as if in daylight, sacred and solemn!

After completing the eight peripheral support points, an exhausted Felix rose with the help of Lilia. Clutching the Mammon's Redemption and the mysterious Gamma master's silver stick, Felix moved to the very center of the Holy Cross Summoning, at the central arch's position.

What he had to do now was to light up the three largest diamonds at the center. Once the magic power reached equilibrium, this force would break the spatial barrier, sending Felix's signal to the legendary Heaven's Gate!

And what's left was to wait for a relatively free angel to respond to Felix's call...

With his magic power far from abundant, he simply could not perform the highly restrictive "Forced Summoning."

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"Merciful Lord, grant me a relatively idle angel!"

"Amen."

Felix prayed devoutly before the single-use summoning array worth two hundred thousand Caesar gold coins.