The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 121 Natural Baptism
It was obvious that Ryan was not familiar with the process of this ceremony, so Betty began to quickly explain what he should do in this ceremony.

After Betty's explanation, Ryan knew that the offerings must be obtained by his own hands, and the process of obtaining them must not be mixed with any evil behavior.

Each person can only place one offering on the altar, so one must be very careful in choosing the offering.

The most important thing is not the preciousness of the offerings, but the process of obtaining such things. The natural will will obtain this information from the offerings and then give feedback fairly.

The ceremony sounded very simple, and Ryan was a little surprised because he didn't understand why the process of this ceremony, which was very important to the centaurs, was so simple. Aunt Betty saw Ryan's confusion and told him that the centaurs admired nature, so they opposed those red tapes. Now these ceremonies are already very grand and complicated in the eyes of the centaurs.

As expected, different races have different values, and only mutual understanding can lead to further communication. Just like Ryan was recognized by the Centaur tribe only after gradually deepening his contact and finally fighting side by side. The bureaucratic behavior of the Ministry of Magic directly setting up a Centaur office is an excellent counterexample in communication.

After explaining his inner doubts, Ryan began to consider what to choose as an offering. After thinking for a few minutes, he opened the space door and began to select the items of his choice from the Wanjie Grocery Store. After searching for a while, Ryan finally took out the item he chose: an animal gallbladder the size of a schoolbag.

This was the guts of a basilisk. Ryan was worried that if he took something from another world as an offering, it would be bad if the natural consciousness of this world didn't recognize it. So after careful consideration, Ryan chose the best trophy he had gotten in this world: the guts of a basilisk.

When Ryan took out the snake monster gall, Aunt Betty, who was standing next to him, shrank her pupils suddenly, and then asked in an uncertain tone: "Is this snake gall?"

"Yes, the gall of a thousand-year-old basilisk. I tried my best to kill it." Ryan said with a little pride.

"At least we centaurs haven't had such a substantial offering appear in the ceremony in the past few hundred years. I have to say that you are more capable than I thought. Well, now that you have the tribute, let's start the ceremony." After saying that, Aunt Betty signaled for the ceremony to begin.

Ryan followed the procedure and handed the snake gall to Aunt Betty with both hands. After Betty took the snake gall, she walked through the archway and placed it on the altar, then began to chant a spell.

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

As Aunt Betty chanted the most important part of the spell, the Emerald Dream was opened, and the snake gall on the altar began to change. Unlike the offerings in the ceremony that turned into dots of green light, the snake gall on the altar glowed green like a fluorescent lamp. In the green light, the snake gall slowly shrank and finally disappeared on the altar.

At this time, the green light on the arch also enveloped Ryan. An extremely gentle energy slowly injected into his body, and at the same time, some knowledge began to flow into Ryan's mind.

This seems to be the advanced natural baptism that Aunt Betty just mentioned. Only a few lucky people can enjoy this. Thinking of this, Ryan focused his attention, because according to Aunt Betty's previous explanation, this advanced baptism has the opportunity to allow the baptized to gain some useful abilities. Ryan felt that a long time had passed, and the green light in front of him finally faded. This also means that this adult ceremony is over. The centaurs began to dance in the moonlight to celebrate the foal's adulthood. Amid the rapid drumbeats, Ryan walked down from the altar and found a quiet corner to check the changes in his body.

After a careful inspection, Ryan found that he had gained a lot this time. Because originally his magic power was gathered in the sea of ​​consciousness in his head, and his spiritual power was hidden in the dantian in his lower abdomen, and the two had always been separate.

He was very nervous about this situation before, after all, different energies in the body can easily cause problems. But this natural baptism allowed the sea of ​​consciousness and dantian to form an energy cycle, and the two energies can be transformed into each other. Of course, this is also related to the fact that the two powers Ryan mastered are based on natural balance. If he practiced the power related to death and killing, he would probably explode directly on the spot during the baptism ceremony.

In addition to building an energy cycle in his body, the natural baptism also strengthened Ryan's physical and magical abilities. However, since building an energy cycle consumed too much strength, the improvement in physical and magical abilities was very limited, probably only half of the improvement of other centaurs.

Finally, and most importantly, during the ritual, Ryan's soul directly faced the will of nature in the Emerald Dream. In this way, Ryan's affinity with nature increased again. Fortunately, whether it was Ryan's life magic or the Taoist practice, natural affinity was helpful for their practice. At the same time, natural affinity allowed Ryan to 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 magical transformations or evil magics in the future. For example, it is basically impossible for Ryan to learn the Fiery Curse or Voldemort's permanent magical transformation of himself, and he will get half the result with twice the effort when learning the Unforgivable Curse.

Seeing that it was getting late, Ryan said goodbye to Aunt Betty and prepared to return to the castle. Aunt Betty originally planned to let Wolfe send him off. But Ryan saw that Wolfe was having a lot of fun, so he told Betty that he didn't need anyone to send him off, because this time he had improved his affinity with nature during the ceremony, making him feel as safe as at home in the Forbidden Forest where he had made great contributions.

Leaving the centaur village and returning to the jungle, Ryan gradually realized the effectiveness of affinity with nature: he felt at ease in the forbidden forest, dispelling the fear of walking alone in the forest at night. At the same time, even if it was pitch black around him, he could know which direction to go and whether there were any obstacles under his feet.

This also made him walk without the tiredness he felt when walking in the forbidden forest before. After walking for a while to adapt, Ryan even put on hook rope wrist guards on his arms, and then hooked the branches and swung on the treetops.

Soon he came to the path beside the forbidden forest. When he walked out of the forbidden forest and took out his pocket watch to check the time, he was surprised to find that he had only spent half of the expected time.

It seems that there are more mysteries contained in this natural affinity than I imagined. I must study it carefully when I have time. Maybe I can develop more uses for it.

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