Chapter 356 The Other Choruses

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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."

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.