Chapter 356 The Other Choruses
The priestess channeled a large amount of mana through her body and her staff. She consumed so much mana that it cut her imaginary mana bar by more than half. She would surely cast a grand spell. As soon as she tapped the staff on the floor once, a large, twenty-foot-wide magic circle appeared on the floor with her as the center, and then she started chanting. The magic circle glowed white, and patterns like runes appeared on it. "I call forth my ancestors and spirit guides. Come forth to my side and assist me in the Sacred Rites of Magick! Level 8: Greater Angel Summoning!" Almost immediately after she invoked the spell, the magic circle started to react, and the magic circle glowed even brighter. Soon after, something, or someone, seemed to be emerging from the magic circle. Its head protruded first, and then its entire body fully emerged from the surface. When I got a grasp of its appearance, I began inspecting the entity. I took heed of its pair of white feathered wings sprouting from its back. Its hair was long, blonde, and wavy. But its face was completely void of emotion. It was as if it had no will at all. Under its white tunic, its body was muscular and robust. With a longsword in one of its hands, the summon had the air of a seasoned warrior. The figure might have looked the same as a male human, but it was not actually one. The thing that made it distinguishable from a human was its pair of white-feathered wings. Once the bright lights subsided, an angel was summoned upon the priestess's call. "Whoa..." "I-is it really an angel?!"
"Wow...first time seeing one."
"He is kind of hot, though."
A gasp of surprise and amazement went up from the observing students when they saw an angel being summoned right before our eyes. I was not excluded from the ones who were astonished. Even though Mom had Level 10 proficiency in light magic, she could not do any angel summoning spells at all. Those who went through the church's special training could pull this off. "Greater Angel Summoning is an upgrade of Level 6 Angel Summoning as well as the counterpart spell of Dark Magic Level 8: Greater Devil Call. This spell summons a more powerful angel that will fight along with the summoner to fight the evil." Just as Eisherz elaborated, the angel she just summoned was a more powerful class of angel compared to its inferior spell. The same as the three-way relationship between elements—dark over the five elements, the five elements over the light, and the light over the dark—angels were effective against dark-type entities such as devils and undeads. While the Angel Summoning spell summoned a small, baby-like angel called Putto, the Greater Angel Summoning called forth a manlier type called Ish, or Ishim in plural form, with a fixed level of three hundred. As the Puttos were proficient with magic, Ishim was skilled with swords. By the way, summoning magic spells were examples of ritual magic. Ritual magic was a type of magic casting that required several preparations to commence, such as a larger pool of mana, longer invocations, and generally more casters. Greater preparations meant greater results and more firepower. Spells under ritual magic needed to be accurately cast, and the casters focus should be on the spell. Each word should be properly invoked, so Chantless had no room for that. Now that I thought about it, Ishim were said to be considered the lowest class in the angel hierarchy, but the summoner needed to cast "Greater" Angel Summoning to call them. That really baffled me. If Ishim were said to be the lowest class, were there really other classes of angels available to summon? <Received. In addition to Puttos and Ishim, there are other superior classes of angels that can be summoned. The other classes, from lowest to highest, are Angels, Archangels, Principalities, Virtues, Powers, Dominions, Ophanim, Cherubim, and Seraphim. Each class comprises eight angels; hence, seventy-two angels in total.> Suddenly, Akashvani answered my wonder. Apparently, there were other classes of angels that could be summoned. And from the sounds of them, they were already powerful. (Oh, really? If there were, is there a way one can summon them?)
<Affirmative. In order to summon superior angels, the summoner must learn World Magic Level 7: Shem HaMephorash and follow the preparations and rituals for the summoner's desired angel to summon.> What...? Was there that kind of spell? Moreover, it was a World Magic spell, a Level 7 spell at that, higher than Level 6: Atomic Age. But Shem HaMephorash, huh?
(So is there a way I could learn Shem HaMephorash?) <It is possible for the user to learn Shem HaMephorash. By using the user's mana reserve, the user could summon an angel as high as a Cherub.> (Sweet!)
Although I could not summon a seraph, the most powerful chorus of angels, being able to call forth an angel of the second most powerful class was already a great feat. But there were still some questions I wanted to inquire about. (Is there a limit on the number of angels one could summon? What are the default levels of each class, and how long can the summoner keep the angel?) <The summoner could only summon one angel at a time. Once an angel was summoned into the material world, they would be removed from the catalog and could not be summoned by other summoners.>
That made sense. Angels were like rental objects, and they could not be rented by others until the contract was done. Akashvani stated that there were seventy two angels, so hypothetically, only seventy two summoners could have an angel at the same time. <Angels have a fixed strength of Level 400 upon summoning and an additional two hundred levels for every rank up, making Seraphim at Level 2000.>
In that sense, a cherub should be Level 1800, even though I was around Level 1500. I thought that an angel must be as powerful as their summoner, but Akashvani mentioned that summoning was based on the summoner's mana. My mana was abnormally high due to the stats I received from Overlord of Sins: Gluttony. <An angel summoned through Shem HaMephorash does not have a time limit on the material world as long as the summoner is alive. In addition, the summoned angel could gain EXP from eliminating leveled entities, level up, and evolve into the higher class. Once the angel dies or the summoner ends the contract, they will return to the spiritual realm, and all the EXP, stats, skills, and memories they accumulated during that time will be entirely reset and will be available for summoning again.>
In other words, I could have my angel all the time throughout the entirety of my life, and they could level up and learn skills with me as well. If my cherub could gain EXP, making them a seraph would not be a dream anymore. But the sad part was when they were gone. Resetting their stats was fine for me, personally, but wiping out the memories the angels had with their summoner would be painful to the summoner themselves. Even if they managed to summon them back, they were strangers once again. Nevertheless, I was quite intrigued by this Shem HaMephorash, and I really wanted to give it a try. Having an angelic companion did not sound bad.
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