HPMRS CH 121: Natural Baptism

Obviously, Ryan is not familiar with the process of this ceremony at all. So Betty quickly explained 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 must not be mixed with any evil behavior like theft and scamming.

Everyone can only put one offering on the offering table, so you have to be mindful of what you use as an offering.

The most important thing is that the preciousness of the offerings is not the most important, the most important is the process of obtaining such things. Natural 'will' or Nature's Will, will obtain this information from the offering, and then give blessings accordingly.

The ceremony sounded very simple, and Ryan was a little surprised because he didn't understand why this very important ritual process for the centaurs was so simple. Betty saw Ryan's confusion, she told Ryan that people have respect for nature, so they oppose over-detailed and wasteful ceremonies. This ceremony is already grand and complicated in the eyes of the Centaurs.

Sure enough, different species have different values, and only with mutual understanding can you further the communication. Just like Ryan was recognized by the Centaur tribe through in-depth contact step by step and finally fighting side by side. The bureaucratic behavior of directly setting up a Centaur office like the Ministry of Magic is an excellent counterexample of it.

After clearing the doubts in his heart, Ryan began to consider the question of what to choose as offerings. After thinking about it for a few minutes, he opened the space door and began to select the things he chose from the Myriad Realms General Store. After a lot of searching, Ryan finally took out what he had chosen: a bladder the size of a schoolbag.

This is the guts of the basilisk. Ryan is worried that if he takes things from other worlds as offerings, it will be bad if the natural consciousness of the world does not recognize it. So after careful consideration, Ryan chose the best trophy he got in this world: the guts of the basilisk.

When Ryan took out the basilisk gall, the pupils of Betty, who was standing next to him, shrank sharply, and then asked in an uncertain tone: "Is this a snake organ?"

"Yes ah, a thousand years old basilisk guts. It took me a lot of effort to get rid of it, could've lost my life due to a misstep." Ryan said.

"At least we Centaurs have not seen such a big-sized offering in the ceremony in the past few hundred years. I have to say that you are more powerful than I thought. Okay, now that you have the offering, then hurry up and start the ceremony." After speaking, Betty signaled to begin the ceremony.

Ryan held the gall bladder in both hands to Betty according to the procedure. After Betty took the gall bladder, she passed through the arch and placed it on the altar table, and then began to chant the spell.

When the first paragraph of the spell was finished, Ryan came under the arch and lowered his head, then folded his hands into fists and placed them on his forehead, communicating with the natural consciousness in the Emerald Dreamland according to the ritual requirements.

As Miss Betty's incantation reached the most important passage, the Emerald Dreamland was opened, and the snake gall on the altar began to change. And the snake gall bladder on the table emitted fluorescent green light. In the green light, the snake gall slowly became smaller and 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 flood into Ryan's mind.

This seems to be the high-level natural baptism that Miss Betty had told him about, and only a few lucky people can enjoy this. Thinking of this, Ryan focused his attention, because according to Miss Betty's previous explanation, this kind of advanced baptism has the opportunity to give the baptized person some useful abilities.

Ryan felt that after a long time, the green light in front of him finally faded. This also represents the end of this coming-of-age ceremony. The Centaurs danced under the moonlight as they celebrated the foal's adulthood. In the rapid drum beat, Ryan walked down from the altar and found a quiet corner to check the changes in his body.

After careful inspection, Ryan found that he had gained a lot this time. Because originally the magic power in his body was concentrated in the sea of consciousness in his head, while the spiritual power was hidden in his dantian in the lower abdomen, the two had always been maintaining distance.

He was very nervous about this situation before, after all, different energies in the body can easily cause problems. But this natural baptism has formed an energy cycle between the Sea of Consciousness and Dantian, and the two energies can be transformed into each other. Of course, this is also related to the two powers that Ryan masters are both powers based on natural balance.

In addition to building energy circulation in his body, natural baptism also strengthened Ryan's physical and magical abilities. However, because the building energy cycle consumes too much power, so the physical and magic enhancements were comparatively lackluster, if you compare it with the only other Centaur's normal enhancements, Ryan only got halfway through.

The last and most important thing is that Ryan's soul was blessed by the natural will of the Emerald Dreamland during the ceremony. In this way, Ryan's affinity for nature has risen again. Fortunately, whether it is Ryan's life magic or the practice of Taoism, or plants cultivation natural affinity is helpful to all these practices. At the same time, the natural affinity can make Ryan pay more attention to the whole world, and imitate all things in nature to comprehend his own magic.

Of course, this also comes at a price. Ryan may encounter unprecedented difficulties and disadvantages when learning certain magic transformations or destructive magic in the future.

For example; it is basically impossible for Ryan to learn the Fiendfyre curse or Voldemort's soul-splitting magic to make Horcruxes, and he will get half the result with double the effort when he learns the unforgivable curse.

Seeing that it was almost morning, Ryan said goodbye to Miss Betty and prepared to return to the castle. Miss Betty had planned to ask Wolfe to send him off. But Ryan saw that Wolfe was playing very happily, so he told Betty that he didn't need anyone to show him away, because this time he improved his affinity with nature during the ceremony, and now Forbidden forest feels like home to him.

Leaving the Centaur village and returning to the jungle. Ryan gradually realized the effect of natural affinity: he felt a sense of peace in the forbidden forest and dispelled the fear of walking alone in the forest at night. At the same time, even if the surroundings are dark, he will still know which direction to go in, and tell whether there are any traps or obstacles near him.

Also, he wasn't getting tired by walking in the forbidden forest, it took him a while to get accustomed to the new abilities he gained. Ryan even put on a hook brace on his arm and then swayed around the treetops. In the jungle, he was as resourceful as Tarzan and his senses were as responsive as spiderman.

Soon he came to the small road by 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 it only took him half the time he had expected.

It seems that there are more mysteries in this natural affinity than I thought.