Chapter 121 Natural Baptism
Clearly, Ryan was not familiar with the flow of this ritual at all. So Betty began to quickly explain what he should do in this ceremony.
After Betty's explanation, Ryan knew that the offering must be obtained by himself, and the process of obtaining it must not be mixed with any evil behavior.
Each person can only put one offering on the offering table, so you must be cautious in the choice of offerings.
The most important thing is that the preciousness of the offering is not the most important, but the process of obtaining such a thing is the most important. The natural will will obtain this information from the offerings, and then give it back impartially.
It sounds like this ritual is very simple, and Ryan is a little surprised, because he doesn't understand why this ritual process, which is very important to centaurs, is so simple. Aunt Betty saw Ryan's confusion, and she told Ryan that horses respect nature, so they oppose red tape. Now these ceremonies are very grand and complicated in the eyes of the centaurs.
Sure enough, different races have different values, and only by mutual understanding can we further communicate. Just like Ryan, who was recognized by the centaur tribe through in-depth contact from step by step and finally fighting side by side. And the bureaucratic act of directly setting up a centaurus office like the Ministry of Magic is an excellent communication counter-example.
After explaining his inner doubts, Ryan began to think about what to choose as an offering. After thinking for a few minutes, he opened the space door and began to choose the things he chose from the Wanjie grocery store. After some rummaging, Lane finally came up with what he had chosen: an animal gallbladder the size of a schoolbag.
This is the guts of the basilisk, and Ryan worries that if he uses things from other worlds as offerings, it will be bad if the natural consciousness of this world does not recognize it. So after careful consideration, Ryan chose the best loot he got in this world: the guts of the basilisk.
When Ryan took out the basilisk gall, Aunt Betty, who was standing beside him, shrank abruptly, and then asked in an uncertain tone, Is this a snake gall?
Yeah, the guts of a thousand-year-old basilisk. I did my best to kill it. Ryan said with a little pride.
At least our centaurs haven't had such a significant offering at the ceremony in the past few hundred years. I have to say that you are more powerful than I thought. Well, since you have the tribute, let's start the ceremony quickly. After speaking, Aunt Betty motioned for the ceremony to begin.
Ryan held the snake gallbladder to Aunt Betty with both hands according to the procedure. After Betty took the snake gallbladder, she put it on the offering table through the arch, and then began to sing a spell.
When the first short paragraph of the incantation was finished, Ryan came under the arch and lowered his head, then clenched his hands into fists on his forehead, and communicated with the natural consciousness in the Emerald Dream according to the ritual requirements.
As Aunt Betty's incantation reached the most important passage, the Emerald Dream was opened, and the snake gall on the altar began to change. Unlike the ritual offerings that turned into a little green light just now, the snake gallbladder on the offering table glowed green like a fluorescent lamp. In the green light, the snake gallbladder gradually became smaller, and finally disappeared on the altar.
At this time, the green light on the arch also enveloped Ryan. An extremely gentle energy slowly poured into his body, and at the same time a part of knowledge began to pour into Ryan's mind.
This seems to be the advanced natural baptism that Aunt Betty just said, and only a few lucky people can enjoy this. Thinking of this, Ryan focused, because according to Aunt Betty's previous explanation, this advanced baptism has the opportunity to give the baptized some useful abilities.
Lane felt that after a long time, the green light in front of him finally receded. This also represents the end of this coming-of-age ceremony. The horses started dancing in the moonlight to celebrate the foal's coming of age. With the rapid beat of drums, Ryan stepped down from the altar and found a quiet corner to check the changes in his body.
Upon closer inspection, Ryan found that he had a big hit this time around.
Because the magic power in his body was originally gathered in the sea of consciousness in his head, while the spiritual power was stored in the dantian in his lower abdomen, and the two have always been well water.
He was very nervous about this situation before, after all, different energies in the body can easily cause problems for him. But this natural baptism has formed an energy cycle between the sea of consciousness and the dantian, and the two energies can be transformed into each other. Of course, this is also related to the fact that the two powers that Ryan masters are based on natural balance. It is estimated that if he cultivates the power related to death and killing, it is likely to explode directly in place during the baptism ceremony.
In addition to building an energy cycle within himself, Natural Baptism also strengthens Ryan's physical and magical abilities. It's just that building an energy cycle consumes too much power, so the improvement in body and spells is very limited, maybe only half of the improvement of other centaurs.
The last and most important thing is that Ryan's soul confronts the natural will in the Emerald Dream during the ritual. In this way, Ryan's affinity for nature has risen again. Fortunately, whether it is Ryan's life magic or the Taoism of practice, the affinity of nature is helpful to their practice. At the same time, the natural affinity allows Ryan to pay more attention to the whole world, and imitate all things in nature to perceive his own magic.
Of course, this also comes at a price. Ryan may encounter unprecedented difficulties and disadvantages when learning some magic transformation or evil magic in the future. For example; it is basically impossible for Ryan to learn the Fire Spell or Voldemort's permanent magical transformation on himself, and he will get twice the result with half the effort when he learns the Unforgivable Spell.
Seeing that it was getting late, Ryan said goodbye to Aunt Betty and prepared to return to the castle. Aunt Betty had planned to let Wolff send him. But Ryan watched Wolff having a good time, and told Betty that he didn't need anyone to send him, because this time he improved his affinity with nature during the ceremony, allowing him to live in the Forbidden Forest where he made a great contribution. Safe as at home.
Leave the centaur village and go back to the jungle. Ryan gradually realized the effect of natural affinity: he felt a kind of peace of mind in the forbidden forest, and dispelled the fear of walking alone in the forest at night. At the same time, even if the surroundings were pitch-dark, he could know which direction to go and whether there were any obstacles under his feet.
This also made him walk without the tiredness of walking in the Forbidden Forest before, after walking for a while to get used to it. Lane even put hook and loop bracers on his arms and swung up and down the treetops hooked on branches.
Soon he came to the path beside the Forbidden Forest. When he walked out of the Forbidden Forest along the path and took out his pocket watch to check the time, he was surprised to find that he only spent half the time he expected.
It seems that this natural affinity contains more mysteries than I imagined. If you have time, you must study it carefully, maybe you can develop more uses.
