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oval-shaped courtyard of the fortress and slipped through the open door. He found himself in a narrow and dark passage that ended in a kind of hall. This was the direction from which the voices were coming; from there, a dim light cast rays out into the passage.
    Why do you know what you will find in there?
    There had been no hall in the historical prints, and this unsettled Peter. As quietly as he possibly could, he tiptoed through the passage towards the light.
    And then he saw it. And what he saw made him freeze.
    The hall had an octagonal layout and was the size of a crypt. A narrow colonnade surrounded the entire hall. Peter counted 14 monks standing around a circular stone table. They were wearing white hooded robes with a golden symbol on the back.
    The crossed symbol from the amulet. There was no doubt, Peter could see it clearly. A wave of triumph washed over him.
    You are in the right place.
    The monks were humming the unintelligible chants that had led Peter into this hall. The only light in the room came from the torches attached to the pillars. When the monks took each other by the hands and lowered their heads for some kind of incantation ritual, Peter used the opportunity to enter the hall silently and hide behind one of the eight pillars. From there, he continued to watch the ritual that was taking place around the stone table. One of the monks, a kind of prayer leader, was standing a little bit closer to the stone table and seemed to be waiting for something.
    Peter bent slightly forward to get a better look at the table. Something was engraved into the stone. In the torchlight, Peter could make out two concentric circles that formed a band of unfamiliar characters and numbers. The inner circle was filled with two pentagrams.
    Peter had seen something similar before, in a book at Don Luigi’s when the priest had told him about the history of occultism.
    A »Sigillum Dei«!
    The »Seal of God.« A magical diagram from the Early Middle Ages, it was said to grant the initiated master power over all creatures, if he used the amulet to call the name of God and summon the Archangels. A Sigillum Dei could only be created by following complex and precise instructions. Seventy-two Latin letters in the circular band formed the Shemhamephorasch , the ineffable name of God, the magnum nomen Domini Semenphoras licterarum . The tips of a pentagram had to touch the circular band, and the points of the pentagram had to be labeled with the names of the Archangels: Cafziel, Satquiel, Raphael, Michael, Anael, Gabriel and Samael. As well as the five names of God: Ely, Eloy, Christ, Sother, and Adonay. A heptagon had to be drawn around the pentagram, and the upper tip of the heptagon had to touch the center of the pentagram. Around this first heptagon was a second and a third one, which created further segments that had to be labeled with crosses and additional names of God. Don Luigi had told Peter that variations of the Sigillum Dei were used in almost every occult ritual.
    As Peter bent even further forward, he could see that this seal was not covered with Latin letters but with unfamiliar characters, which reminded him of the runic alphabet and the Carolingian minuscule.

    The prayer leader ended the chanting with one simple gesture and began to speak.
    In a language that Peter had never heard before.
    In a language which was, nonetheless, frighteningly familiar to him.
    »Ol sonuf vaoresaji, gohu Balata elanusaha iad caelazod.
    Sobrazod-ol Roray i ta nazodapesad Giraa ta maelpereji da hoel-qo qaa notahoa zodimezod, od comemahe ta nobeloha zodien. Soba tahil ginonupe pereje aladi djem vaurebes obolehe giresam. Casarem ohorela caba Pire da zodonurenusagi cab, erem lodanahe pilahe farezodem zodenurezoda. Adana gono Iadapiel das hometohe soba ipame lu ipamis. Sobolo vepe zodomeda poamal, od bogira aai ta piape Piamoel od Vaoan! Zodacare eca – od zodameranu odo cicale hoathahe Saitan!«
    I reign over thee, you seraphs, in