The Record of Unusual Creatures Chapter 507: Tattoo ceremony
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The unsmiling cardinal Auburn led the Hao Ren. They left the palace and went through a secret path to a church facility near the cathedral. Hao Ren was curiously looking at the surrounding scenery along the way. He found that the palace and the cathedral are very close-in fact they are almost a pair of twin buildings, separated by only a wall from each other. It is difficult to see this in other kingdoms: the two authorities are so closely linked that the imperial power and the divine power have no barriers, and each has a role in their own domain to rule this country. It seems that Holleta is indeed a unique place.
At this moment, the night has fallen, and everyone is walking on a secluded path, so the surrounding atmosphere is very quiet. The exquisite brass lampposts on both sides of the road sprinkled with soft white light at the top, illuminating the road and at the same time outlined the shadowy silhouette of the roadside bushes, and at a further distance, you can see the tall and magnificent facade of the Royal Palace at night. Towering like a cliff, two rounds of the moon are rising from a tallest minaret in the palace. The big red spot of the moon is watching the earth like the eyes of an indifferent giant.
Lily is slightly more excited in the moonlight. She gently shakes her ears and listens to the noise of the night market from the far street. The golden eyes reflect the shadow of the moon. She took a deep breath and flicked her tail: "Hooah-fresh air. The wind gathers on the gauze moon like frost, and the old clothes are checked under the window-remembering that I had a house in Peiping, which I can see every mid-month The best moon, awkward, but unfortunately I did n’t live there after the war. Then I have n’t seen such a good moonlight for decades ... this world is actually quite good, at least more moons than the earth. "
A circle of people all looked at the Lily like a monster, and shocked the latter: "Why do you look at me?"
"Did you eat a bad stomach just now?" Vivian kept a distance of two meters from Lily, as if afraid of a big dog biting, "How did it suddenly become like a female Republican of the Republic of China-and the two poems are stealing Whose? "
Lily glared, twitching Wuuu threats twice: "I was originally a literary young woman! You will not forget this even if your amnesia is serious? And what is stealing someone, I wrote it myself. ! "
Hao Ren looked at Lily at the corner of his mouth and said: "I know you are a female youth, but your usual image is too popular. Please say it in advance next time when you switch forms, listen to Huskies suddenly chanting Is it easy to scare people to know the two poems? "
Lily glanced at Hao Ren and patted his belly: "I am full, so I am inspired. Most of my works are written with hiccups."
People walked all the way in this way. Archbishop Auburn, who led the way, was able to keep his eyes straight. This bald uncle with a full barrage was as unsmiling as a wooden man, and he did not show any strangers behind him. Express any personal emotions. He didn't stop until he led the crowd to a building built like a small monastery attached to the cathedral, reminding Hao Ren: "This is the place where the tattooing ceremony is held and the priests are trained. There are 22 in the whole city. In such a place, it is the glory of many clerics to be able to perform the tattooing ceremony in Wangdu. "
Seriously serious, Archbishop Auburn explained two more sentences very thoughtfully.
He then gently tapped the gate of the monastery, called out the priest on duty and gave a few words, and then walked forward: "Come on, a new believer is receiving the thorn print, you can see a brief introduction How did mortals accept the blessings of the goddess and become the spokesmen of theocracy. "
The crowd walked into the monastery and saw the lights inside.
The Huiyao sect is very large, with countless priests, and "spin" is a ritual that even the most basic priests must perform, so these small monasteries have people who receive this blessing almost every moment. . The new priests studied the scriptures in these small monasteries, learned various mysterious knowledge, and received a series of training and tests. Once they reached a certain "standard", they would be selected and tattooed in the small church of the monastery. Only after the tattoos were they eligible to enter the cathedral to meet the pope and take on various teaching duties.
In the light-filled chapel of the monastery, a sacred and weird ceremony is taking place. Hao Ren They were brought into the scene by a servant from the side door. Archbishop Auburn beckoned them not to say anything, just watched quietly.
The middle of the room is covered with a thick leather cushion with a diameter of more than two meters. The cushion is painted with pale gold paint and obscure mysterious symbols, some of which are Leita runes and the rest are Bilet Runes are also old and powerful ancient runes. These powerful symbols flickered and shimmered, continuously projecting some ambiguous words in the air. And a young monk wearing a linen robe is lying in the center of the round pad, he is the newcomer who received the tattoo today. Around this young man stood three older priests, each of whom held a heavy classic, chanting the most sacred sentences in it—that is, the most inaudible Those chapters that I understand.
It seems that the tattooing ceremony started with the teacher San grouping a bad luck student.
The young monk noticed that unexpected strangers entered the scene, and even Archbishop Auburn appeared. He was subconsciously nervous. Archbishop shook his head at him, and he quickly converged and returned to the ceremony.
After reading a verse, an old priest put the scripture on the young monk ’s chest: "Bier? Raymond, a servant under the care of the goddess. Do you have a powerful mind to see through all the evil in this world? Blind, you have a firm belief, can follow all the teachings of the goddess, do you have a tenacious will, and can face all the hardships and obstacles to fulfill your mission? "
"In the name of the goddess, I swear, in my life, I will do what He has appointed."
"Then you will receive the sacred blood, which is the fine wine given by the goddess. It will wash your soul as a mortal, so that you can hear the voice of God and practice the greatest justice in the world. It also Will test your heart, if there is a shadow in your heart, it will be swallowed by this shadow. Pierre Raymond, now meditating on the name of God, you will be promoted. "
Lily watched the ritual with amused eyes, and suddenly muttered a sentence: "How do you look like the scene of a cult ..."
As soon as Hao Ren heard this, he quickly covered the girl ’s mouth: the young literary girl just had an illusion just a few seconds ago, and he could not relax his vigilance against this foolish for a moment! Husky's thoughtlessness hasn't killed people so far. It's simply because it's fatal.
But in fact Hao Ren is not qualified to talk about others: his mouth ca n’t be much stronger, in fact, Lily whispered just the idea of wandering in his mind at this time ...
Fortunately, the sound is so low here that even the nearest Auburn station did not hear it. In the middle of the room, the tattooing ceremony has already reached the final step.
A boy attendant sent a pale gold "artifact" to the old priest in charge of the ceremony. It was a bizarre long-necked container, half of which was made of gold and the other half was transparent glass. Through the glass shell, you can see that there is a liquid like blood shaking.
The old priest pointed the tip of the container at the forehead of the young monk who received the "spin", and then gently pressed: "May you be accepted by God."
There is a hollow needle tube at the tip of the container, which punctures the skin of the baptist. The **** liquid in the container immediately begins to emit a slight light and is injected into the body of the young monk along the needle tube.
Almost at the same time, the round pad filled with mysterious symbols shined a lot, and the ancient runes with various effects were activated one by one, and began to assist the ritual, while the body of the baptist suddenly tightened, a trace of gold red The thin thread spread out along the small hole in his forehead pierced by a needle, as if the blood vessels under the skin were bulging. The young monk gave a depressive growl in his throat, and his whole body shook violently with lightning.
Something powerful is changing his body structure—especially the brain structure.
The whole process lasted a few minutes, then everything calmed down, and the young monk successfully completed the "Blessing". He sat up sweaty, and when he opened his eyes again, a strange gleam seemed to flash in his eyes.
"The voice of the goddess is echoing in my mind ..." the young monk said incredulously.
“This is the ceremonial ceremonies,” Archbishop Auburn ’s voice awakened Hao Ren, “The sacred blood will give this young man extraordinary powers, and he will be able to use the magic that only the baptized person can master Since then I heard the voice of the goddess in my mind. "
"What's in the bottle?" Vivian's voice is very serious. "I feel it's familiar ... It's like" source blood "flowing out of First born."
Archbishop Auburn was silent for a while, and his voice was low: "When I first learned about the" First born ", some people in the church did indeed speculate that this caused even a little panic, but we have checked it from the manuscript found in the second sacred cave. Ming, that is not the "source blood" of First born, but the blood of the more ancient and sacred root ... "
Hao Ren suddenly realized what it was: "It is the original sample." (To be continued.)