How To Wear a Goddess Statue

Chapter 60: coming-of-age ceremony

There is a very important part in the process of the eighteen-year-old christening for young people from royal families, nobles, officials and wealthy businessmen.

The family of the baptized should sort out in advance what their children have done and achieved before they reach adulthood, write a narrative article or lyrical poem that is as detailed as possible, and then hand it over to the host , to be read at the ceremony.

What can a young adult achieve?

It is nothing more than what grades you have achieved in the school test, and how many things you have observed and participated in with your elders. Take it out and make up the count.

But not much, it sounds too embarrassing.

There are also young adults who will accomplish a few major things independently, which will completely allow their family members to write an admirable article.

Before the idols, you can use language to carve the past of the baptized person, but never allow false deception, and create something out of nothing.

Therefore, it is not easy to write long poems for some nobles. There are always sad-faced parents who quietly entrust bards to help write them. The purpose is to not deceive the gods. Circumstances glorify facts.

With so many brains and words, there is always a way to make a decent poem.

Of course, no one was worried about such an embarrassing situation at Eleuil's bar mitzvah.

Because of low-key requirements, most of the people who can act as spectators outside the shrine are members of the royal guards. These people remember clearly about the achievements of the princess, because these are in their testimony happened below.

As soon as they reach this stage, they puff out their chests and look proud.

No one.

Even if the time goes back hundreds of years, no aristocratic boy can achieve such a feat as a princess at this age.

—Only the master they follow.

Luodus' eyes drooped slightly, and his eyes fell on the kraft paper in his hand.

She is the only surviving family member that Eleuil has acknowledged, and she wrote this narrative herself.

The warm sunlight of early winter cast light and shadow on the kraft paper, and Luo Das spoke slowly.

After any glorification, just stating the facts.

At the end of the article, it is customary to summarize the characteristics displayed by the baptized, and declare before the gods the way they have traveled in the past, and the way they will go in the future.

The baptized at this time should have bowed his head to show humility, but Eleuil raised his head with dignity.

After writing this article, she hadn't read it yet. The queen wanted to know how Luodus would evaluate herself, and also wanted to see how the gods looked when they read.

"Eleuil, the queen who worships the goddess of the Ilu River."

"You are the proud blood of the royal family, a good scholar, and a good warrior."

"At the same time, you are also a favored one, a..." The leader of the present and future.

"Your past and future are under the eyes of Luodus."

This last sentence can be regarded as a common closing sentence, the gods will watch you, just a cliché, but here is a paragraph that can be written into a factual narrative.

Eleuil got his wish and saw the look on Luodus's face when he read.

Moderate, appreciative, unspoken expectation.

Fortunately, she did not find too much gratification of "my child is very good", which made her relieved.

After this, the ceremony continues according to the process.

The water of the Ilu River, which symbolizes the holy baptism, is dotted between the eyebrows, slides down to the tip of the nose, and finally raises the beautifully curved chin.

This part was done once five years ago, and Luo Das was very familiar with it.

There was only a small accident in the middle. When her finger dipped in the river water and touched the tip of the princess' nose, as if to represent intimacy and play, Eleuil blew lightly.

She froze slightly.

Eleuil's smile deepened.

Lotus: "…"

Luodus remained silent, just using his fingertips to increase the force when he pressed his chin, more like poking than the starting point.

Many of them have also watched the little princess's thirteen-year-old christening, and now they will inevitably have more feelings.

However, Wick, who has witnessed the current prince's coming-of-age ceremony in Acht, has no less feelings than these people.

As a messenger of Acht—or rather, the unfortunate guy who has been bragging about the real nature of the watcher for a while, and was strictly guarded by legitimate reasons, Wick has absolutely no good feelings for the princess.

He wanted to grow wings and fly back to Acht now, but he knew clearly that what was waiting for him would not be a good result.

Wick's position among the cronies of King Horst is actually quite embarrassing. Due to his background, none of his colleagues look down on him.

If this were not the case, the thankless role of the messenger would not have fallen on his head.

It was not taken seriously in the first place, this mission was a complete failure, and Wick himself was a little bit broken, otherwise no matter how sloppy he was, he would not be wrong in front of the caravan owner talk.

And now, Wick is standing in the corner outside the door, in an unremarkable position, watching the ceremony with complex eyes.

Wick also heard the reading of the crown prince's coming-of-age ceremony. In the Temple of the Sky and the Wind in Aht, the high priest wearing a luxurious robe announced the crown prince's achievement to all the spectators. .

No one can deny the excellence of the Crown Prince.

He is the heir identified by the king, and many officials also recognize his identity, and the prime minister is even more optimistic about him.

Behind the crown prince, there are countless staff and military guards, and he has countless help, far beyond the reach of the princess who was exiled to Katiera since childhood.

However, why is there such a gap in the achievements that are finally shown in the coming-of-age ceremony?

Such a difference…

Wick was shaken.

Decisions cannot be made lightly. In the battle of the royal family, the strength of the leaders themselves is not so important. It mainly depends on their supporters and the meaning of the person sitting on the throne.

In this regard, the princess has no chance of winning, unless she plans to launch a rebellion directly and rely on the frontier forces to win - but the frontier generals may not listen to her!

Wick frowned, just as he was about to laugh at his sudden thought, he suddenly remembered how the princess treated Kopal, who had half slave blood, in Vash City.

The deliberate indifference in the outside world did not deceive Wick's eyes. He can be sure that the accidental death of the former Vash City Lord was definitely because of the calculations of these two people.

Even if he is properly guarded by the businessman, Wick still has the opportunity to release the carrier pigeon, but for some reason, he did not write this matter in the secret letter sent to Horst.

Wick reached up and touched the scar on the back of his neck.

This scar was caused by himself, in order to hide the indelible slave brand, and because of this, he suffered endless cold treatment under the late king and Horst.

Should I make a choice?

While thinking about it, Wick turned his eyes and suddenly found that the owner of the caravan was looking at him with a smile.

Whenever he wants to do something for the task, he will receive this kind of look, and the follow-up can be imagined, but he has never succeeded.

This time he really did not intend to do anything wrong!

Wick gritted his teeth and turned his eyes back to the shrine room, the ceremony was almost over.

Lotus ends the ceremony with a hymn dedicated to the goddess of the Ilu.

Because it was a bit ashamed to praise herself, she spoke a little faster, and because of this, she gained Eleuil's meaningful and insightful eyes.

After the adult ceremony, the two stayed at the temple to deal with the follow-up matters before strolling back to their residence.

On the way, they passed the theater in this city, saying it was a theater, but it was not the same as the open-air theater in the City of Helios, strictly speaking, it could only be regarded as a theater stage.

Luodus glanced over there and quietly retracted his gaze.

Back to the residence, Eleuil thought of going back to the room, and she couldn't help but slow down.

Lotus didn't notice and said, "Come to me."

Eleuil's eyes widened slightly, but she quickly reacted and said with a smile: "Is it my gift?"

"Yes, they are for you."

Lotus took out two ebony boxes from the cabinet.

The two boxes are not the same size. From the size and width, you can roughly guess what is inside.

Like a modern wrap gift, the light gold ribbon wraps the long box with a bow at the front.

Eleuil looked down at this—or two gifts, and suddenly pursed the corners of her mouth.

Luodus taught her: "Pinch here and pull it."

“…hmmm.”

Untie the ribbon and open the ebony box.

A brand new longbow and sword appeared before Eleuil.

"I asked a friend to forge it. In the world, there is no weapon more suitable for you than them."

Lotus recited the words of the Fire Goddess, seeing the princess staring at the bow and sword motionless, he smiled and asked: "Do you like it?"

Eleuil stretched out her hand to caress the bow body that exudes a lustrous wooden luster, and the cold light of the sharp sword reflected in her golden eyes.

"I don't want to thank you, Luodus." She smiled clearly, "But from now on, all the glory I get with them will be in your name."

Luodus paused for a while, then suddenly turned his face halfway, and said jokingly, "Isn't the glory before today dedicated to me?"

"It's different."

"What's the difference?"

Eleuil leaned forward and gave the **** a hug lightly.

"I'm an adult, so it's different."

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