Chapter 1 In Fact, Regarding the Location of the Summoning Ceremony

In fact, Hao Ren and Vivian had also seriously discussed the issue of where to conduct the summoning ceremony. Regarding this ceremony, Hao Ren's goal was one word: stable. It had to be as stable as possible. All risky factors had to be eliminated during the preparation stage as much as possible. Therefore, Vivian needed a stable casting environment, a complete security system that could monitor magical power, and a complex amplification device—all of which were facilities in the magical field. Hao Ren, who dealt with technology equipment all day long, found it a little difficult to understand, but he didn't need to understand the specific principles. He only needed to organize the data and requirements Vivian listed, and the Irim elves prepared such a place—their royal district's magic tower.

The Irim elves were a race that started in the magical field, and they are still magic experts. Don't think that they are all high-tech things just because they manufactured spaceships, built space fortresses, and researched solar material collection stations. In fact, technology and magic are indistinguishable after developing to a certain level. Irim's aircraft started with "levitation," the predecessor of plasma weapons were swords with searing enchantments, and the Corona Station in those years—an advanced device similar to an early Dyson Ring collector—was a huge, semi-permanent enchanted building. So if Hao Ren wanted to find an expert in the magical field among his forces, the Irim elves would definitely be the best choice.

Even if they were a bit miserable at home and even failed to fly out of their own planetary system, these elves, who were forced to develop a technology tree in their home for thousands of years, had an insane level of mastery in the precise control of magic...

The Royal Mage Tower of the City of Stars stands in the north of the city, next to the still unfinished Elven Royal Court—because the Irim royal family has assigned all the engineering power to key livelihood facilities, their Royal Court is still a large construction site and a few temporary palaces. Only the office area and the Royal Mage Tower, which also functions as the city's energy node, have been completed.

This is a white tower with elegant lines, consisting of a main tower and three attached towers built around the main tower. Large golden crystals float on top of the three attached towers. These three crystals are the first large-scale equipment made by the Irim elves using the local resources of this planet. They receive energy broadcasts from several solar wind collection stations in space day and night and send these energies to the main tower, which then distributes the energy to energy storage stations and magic pools throughout the city.

The Irim elves' royal mages usually live in the central main tower. These wise scholars study the ancient blueprints extracted from the database day after day and modify and adjust them so that they can be used on this new planet. A portion of the magic tower's energy is used to allow them to put these blueprints into practice.

And on this special day, most of the energy supply of the Royal Mage Tower has been temporarily adjusted. The city's energy flow is temporarily managed by another control station, a temporary facility that the elves hastily built when they first landed on this planet. It can still be useful today. As for the magic tower itself—after evacuating most of the personnel and putting various safety systems online, it has become Vivian's exclusive test site.

At the top of the magic tower is a sky-blue circular hall. The floor of the hall is covered with complex runes and composite magic arrays, and the surrounding walls are inlaid with mana crystals and gems with various functions. A dozen Irim royal archmages are busy next to the control magic array in the corner of the hall, constantly entering new data and fine-tuning the energy flow of the magic tower on the screens floating in mid-air. Vivian is standing in the center of the hall, stepping on the central node. Although she showed a confident attitude before, she seems a little nervous now.

Hao Ren and his party and Hilda stood outside the range of the magic array. The sanctified elven queen nodded to Hao Ren: "Please rest assured, this magic tower has the most complete safety measures, and the extra magic power it provides will definitely reduce the pressure on Lady Vivian. She can devote most of her energy to controlling the magic itself."

"To be honest, I also thought about letting Vivian conduct the experiment in space or in the uninhabited area of this planet," Hao Ren said. "This way, even if the experiment fails, the losses can be minimized."

"Allow me to be blunt, any magic experiment requires a stable environment and a lot of supporting facilities." Hilda shook her head gently. "Risk is unavoidable. A qualified magic researcher will only think about how to reduce risk on the premise of conducting the experiment, rather than completely avoiding risk. Otherwise, wouldn't it be better to just give up the experiment?"

Hao Ren hmm'd. He knew that the biggest risk of the "Red Moon Project" actually came from the Red Moon itself. That moonlight was a deadly thing. Under normal circumstances, the descent of the Red Moon was inevitably accompanied by moonlight irradiation with great destructive power. Therefore, letting Vivian summon the Red Moon meant that everything around the summoning site was in danger of being destroyed by the moonlight. This is why he initially planned to have Vivian hold the summoning ceremony in the uninhabited area of ​​New Irim—but after that unexpected "journey of reversion," Vivian regained the power and memories she had lost in the past ten thousand years, and touched the mysterious red crystal in the depths of her consciousness. This finally allowed her to freely control the power of the Red Moon, including manually turning off the erosive nature of the moonlight.

So in the end, they decided to use the magical facilities of the Irim elves to complete this test.

But risks still existed. Even if the Red Moon did not go out of control, mobilizing such a huge amount of energy itself meant danger, but as Hilda said: What experiment doesn't have any risk?

As long as all the preliminary safety work is done well.

The data terminal floated in mid-air, projecting a summary of the situation of various space facilities: "Mobile satellites are in place, testing radar systems... Radar systems are in good condition, temporarily switching to optical observation mode.

"Observation stations 1 to 16 have moved into place and are releasing probes... Probes are anchored.

"Signals from ground sensors are normal, calling in sequence... Sequential calls are completed, and the information link is normal."

The various facilities left behind when helping the Irim elves settle on this planet once again came in handy. A large number of mobile satellites and observation stations in space widened their eyes in their predetermined positions, waiting for the moment when the Red Moon descended.

"There are fifteen minutes before the start of the summoning," Hao Ren looked at Vivian. "Don't be nervous, just follow the rehearsal we did before. This is just an ordinary summoning. You bring out the Red Moon, and I'll take care of the rest."

Vivian took a deep breath, and her heart slowly calmed down. She showed a slight smile: "Yeah, don't worry."

Hao Ren nodded and looked at Lily not far away: "How is the emergency stop device?"

Lily was standing on the edge of the magic circle, holding a giant alloy x7 sword. After hearing Hao Ren's voice, she excitedly waved the giant sword, and her tail shook vigorously: "The emergency stop device can work at any time!"

"Damn, I always feel that there is something wrong with this emergency stop device..." Hao Ren rubbed his forehead. "Vivian, are you sure you don't want to change to a more normal plan? Like an energy interrupter or something..."

"That's not reliable," Vivian shook her head. "The Red Moon is a summoned object. Once it takes shape, it can continue to exist for a long time even if the energy supply is interrupted. The only way is to interrupt my mental connection with it. The quickest way is to make me lose consciousness—I asked you to borrow an energy impactor before, but you wouldn't, so I can only ask the big dog to help. Now my only worry is that the big dog will take the opportunity to retaliate and mess around. You never know what a husky will do when their brain short-circuits..."

Lily jumped up as if her tail had been stepped on: "Bat, if you slander me like this again, I'll really hit you! I took time out of my meal to be your protector, and you're still not happy?"

Hao Ren covered his forehead: "A protector wielding a two-hundred-pound alloy steel..."

But anyway, since Vivian took the initiative to ask Lily to help, and the two of them rarely reached a consensus, let these two do whatever they want. Anyway, in addition to Lily, there are still a group of people here to take care of things, so there shouldn't be any problems.

When there were five minutes left before the summoning ceremony, Hilda gave instructions to the royal archmages, and then the dome of the hall began to slowly open.

Accompanied by the sound of mechanical vibration, the blue dome above everyone's head, which depicted the stars, slowly unfolded to the sides, and the light of the last ray of the setting sun also sprinkled into the hall in a timely manner.

Vivian closed her eyes, and a low hum sounded from below the hall, and powerful magical energy began to gather under her feet.

"The Red Moon will appear in five minutes, ring the bell."

The melodious bell rang in the City of Stars. The elves who heard the bell raised their heads and looked up at the sky with some expectation, waiting for the descent of the Red Moon.

For these elves who had never seen the terrible side of the Moon of Destruction, "Red Moon" was just a mysterious and strange word, and they were only curious about it.

"I'm going to space for observation," Hao Ren grabbed the data terminal next to him. "The others stay here with you. Stay in touch, don't hang up."

Vivian still kept her eyes closed, but nodded gently: "Yeah."

Accompanied by the flash of teleportation light, Hao Ren had already arrived on the bridge of the Petrified Turtle Rock in space.

"Activate panoramic optical observation, activate additional shields."

Nolan's voice came from all directions: "Understood."

In the next moment, the walls and obstacles on the bridge of the Petrified Turtle Rock were replaced by holographic images. Everything disappeared except for the metal platform under Hao Ren's feet and the console in front of him. The scene of the universe and stars surged from all directions.

This gave Hao Ren the illusion that the spaceship had disappeared and he was floating directly in space.

But Nolan's voice still came from all directions, reminding him of the existence of the spaceship: "The Red Moon will appear in one minute, the information link has been connected, and the information from each terminal will be fed back in real time."

Hao Ren looked forward. He saw the stars twinkling in the vast space, and the occasional lights lit by mobile satellites and space observation stations in the distance were like fireflies in the dark. Irim was below the field of vision, and had become a blue ball only the size of a soccer ball.

"The Red Moon will appear in ten seconds."

Hao Ren clenched his hands, then slowly released them. He took a deep breath and lightly calculated each second while slowly exhaling.

A ripple appeared in space.

Immediately afterwards, this ripple instantly expanded into a spherical space about half the size of the moon. Red light vibrated and spread violently between the ripples, and filled the entire field of vision within one or two breaths!

The Red Moon had descended—in the expected position.

It was indeed a celestial body that could be reached, a space object that could be observed in the universe, rather than an atmospheric phantom that could only be observed on the surface!