Chapter 767: Ritual
Compared to the information provided by Frigila Vigo, the various information provided by Reggier is obviously much more practical, not only the map of the elven ruins close to the surface part, but also the information of a large number of underground monsters, most of which have mutated due to the environment, and with these materials, Leo can be more prepared.
In addition, Leo also refined some wizard potions, not only for himself, but also for Sylvia.
Although Sylvia's own strength, plus Geralt, Regier, and the knights who followed her, it was almost impossible to be dangerous in Touscent, but in order to avoid accidents, he still prepared some medicines for Sylvia to improve her physical fitness and heal her injuries.
Because of Frigila Vigo, Duchess Touscent's concerns about Sylvia have also dissipated a lot, and she no longer rejects the matter of letting Sylvia form a knight, and asked Fringira to bring a message to Sylvia, if Sylvia wishes, she can canonize her Vetaucente knights, and allow her to form a knight and accept the Duchy's employment to patrol the borders of the principality.
As for Sylvia, she was originally just trying to fulfill her dream of being a knight for many years, and she wasn't very interested in things like forming a knight order, but with the determination of the goal of Wigo Fortez, Sylvia felt that she and Leo were going to leave this world sooner or later, so she wanted to leave something in this world to prove that she had been here, so she also officially began to think about forming a knight order.
For the vast majority of people, the formation of the Knights is not a simple matter, this is not just a matter of gathering a few knights, and then announcing the establishment of the Knights, which involves a series of complex matters such as the structure, rules, and authority of the Knights, not to mention an ordinary person, even a knowledgeable nobleman is probably anxious to face these things.
But these things, which were a headache for others and would take years to sort out, became the easiest thing to do here in Sylvia, because she had an extremely well-established French Order as a model for the Knights, whether it was the internal rules and regulations, the staffing, and even the badge of the Knights, she copied them as they were.
In order to form the Knights, he also selected a noble and respected old knight from the knights gathered around him, Grace of Maribo, as an assistant, and before Leo was ready to set off from the underground elf ruins of Boukland, the structure of the Knights had been preliminarily completed, and it was waiting for Sylvia to go to Bockland to be knighted.
For this reason, Sylvia decides to travel to Bowkeland with Leo, and after having Leo participate in her canonization ceremony, she will go to the underground elven ruins.
"Yes. Hearing Sylvia's request, Leo nodded in agreement, and then said, "However, before that, we should go to a place, which may make your knighthood more legitimate, even more formal than being canonized by the Duchess." ”
Sylvia was stunned when she heard this, but soon became conscious and said, "Is there an island in the middle of Lake Seravi?"
Leo nodded and said, "The knights of Towson all believe in the five virtues of knights, and the source of the five virtues of knights is the fairy in the lake, and it is obvious that this fairy in the lake and the lady in the lake in our world are the same existence. ”
"Are you sure?" asked Sylvia.
"I have the Lady of the Lake in me, and when I'm near Lake Seravi, I can feel her presence and she can feel my presence. Leo turned to look at Sylvia and said, "As long as we go to the island in the middle of Lake Sailawey, and with the attention of others, you will be crowned as a knight of the fairy of the lake, and then you will not have any accidents in the canonization of Bockland." ”
Sylvia smiled and said, "Do you think there will be an accident when I accept the canonization in Bowclan?"
"Didn't you notice it too, you didn't follow Friengira's words and go straight to Bowkelland, but stayed here and put together the basic framework of the Knights first," Leo shook Sylvia's hand lightly and said, "And with your strong character, if you don't really feel uncertain, how can you let me stay and go to the underground elf ruins when the matter is decided?"
Sylvia didn't deny it, she just leaned on Leo and didn't say anything superfluous.
The next day, Sylvia summoned several of her knights of some prestige and said that she would go to the island in the middle of the lake to be baptized by the five virtues of the fairy knights of the lake, and let them be spectators.
Her subordinates were naturally willing to comply with Sylvia's proposal, and they also thought that Sylvia, as a knight of light, was fully qualified to be baptized by the five virtues of knights, but they were still a little nervous in their hearts, and they didn't know that Sylvia's baptism was completely different from what they thought was baptism.
Although the story of the fairy and the knight Wude in Lake Touscent is almost a household name, because no one has ever seen a fairy in the lake, the vast majority of people do not think that the fairy in the lake really exists, and there is no church or other religious organization in Taocente.
The reason why Towson connects the fairy of the lake with the five virtues of knights is mainly the pond in the middle of the lake and the five ancient stone tablets around the pond on the island in the middle of the lake in Lake Seravi, on which are engraved the five virtues that knights must abide by honor, wisdom, generosity, valor and mercy, and the pool in the middle of the lake is bottomless and is said to lead to the palace of the fairy in the lake.
There is a default ritual among the knights of Towcent, as long as a knight is recognized as having the five virtues of knighthood, then that knight is eligible to go to the island in the middle of the lake to be baptized with the five virtues of knighthood, and the knight who has received the five virtues will have a glory and prestige that far exceeds that of the champion of the knights' conference.
But not everyone is qualified to go to the island in the middle of the lake, those knights who are not good enough to go to the island of the lake, if they go to the island of the lake, they will either be disoriented due to the fog in the lake and will never be able to reach the island of the lake, or they will board the island in the center of the lake but never find the five stone tablets engraved with the five virtues of the knight.
So even though the knights who revered Sylvia thought that Sylvia was eligible for the baptism of the Five Virtues, they still felt a little uneasy, if Sylvia hadn't landed on the island in the middle of the lake, or if she hadn't found the Five Virtues Tablet on the island, then her newly established prestige might have been severely damaged, so they would be worried.
However, if Sylvia can successfully obtain the baptism of the five knightly virtues, then the establishment of the Order will be smooth sailing, and there will be no more moral obstacles, the only thing to be careful about is those who do not want a new Order to appear.
It was not enough to ask the knights within the Order to observe the ceremony, but also to invite others, so Sylvia invited Geralt and Frigila Vigo, and through the sorceress, invited two nobles of some fame in Toussaint as spectators.
The next day, heavily armed Sylvia and Leo arrived at the shore of Lake Seravi, where the others were already waiting.
Among these people, only Geralt had seen Leo wearing Abyss armor, the others had only heard of Leo, but had not seen Leo's full body armor, especially those knights who had seen Leo himself for the first time.
These knights who voluntarily followed Sylvia knew that the person they followed had a partner, but they had never seen it, and they felt that a knight as perfect as Sylvia should not have a partner, so they always had a certain antipathy towards Leo's existence.
However, after seeing Leo, they all lowered their heads involuntarily, because they felt that Leo had an inexplicable power, which was even ten or a hundred times stronger than the Duchess of Toussaint they had seen, and they couldn't help but shudder in the depths of their souls in the face of this power.
The knight was fine, and the other two nobles who had been invited to watch the ceremony almost sat on the ground with weak legs as if they had seen something terrible.
And Frigila Vigo, who had met Leo a few days ago, was also surprised and surprised by the changes in Leo's body at this moment, because the invisible power exuded by Leo at this moment reminded her of the emperor of the Nefgaard Empire, Enshir Enrith, even more powerful than that emperor.
It's just that Frigila Vigo doesn't think that this is a change in Leo's body, but thinks that Leo's current power comes from a gorgeous and mysterious armor on his body.
However, the sorceress did not know that the armor's current role was not to create power, but to suppress it.
Because with the continuous development of the potential of the body, the suppression of the life level that Leo should have from the higher life forms is becoming more and more intense, Sylvia is not particularly sensitive to the gradually increasing power of Leo because of the special bloodline, but others can clearly feel the changes in Leo.
With his current power, if there is no abyss armor on his body to block it, let alone ordinary people, except for Frigila Vigo and Geralt who can barely withstand this kind of power, everyone else will definitely be suppressed by this power and lie on the ground, just like facing a god, this kind of upper and lower level suppression of the essence of life can not be changed by the size of the power.
"Everyone is here, let's go. After coming to the dock, Leo looked at the crowd, and without saying anything, he walked directly onto the boat next to him and said.
Sylvia nodded as well, motioning for the others to board the boat, and the group rowed towards the island in the middle of Lake Seravi ahead.
Halfway through the boat, a thick fog began to form on the surface of the lake, and everyone knew that the test had come.
It's just that what happened next surprised and shocked everyone.
Because according to the notes left by the knights who had received the baptism of the five virtues before, after the thick fog was generated, the only thing the people on the boat could do was rowing, and only those who had the five virtues could eventually row to the island in the middle of the lake, while other people who were not qualified would row back to the shore where they had set off before, and the dense fog on the lake would disappear when the boat docked.
But the scene that appeared in front of everyone's eyes was not the same at all, in the dense fog that had just been generated, a straight passage appeared in the fog, separating the dense fog into two, forming two fog walls tens of meters high, and at the end of the passage was the island in the middle of the lake.
"The fairy of the lake! this is the fairy of the lake!" the knight exclaimed in surprise at once.
Grace of Maribo, who was appointed by Sylvia as an assistant, immediately chimed in: "Yes, it is the fairy of the lake who agrees with the five knightly virtues of Lord Sylvia, so she does not need to test the adult, and directly opens a road to the island in the middle of the lake." ”
Hearing Knight Grace's words, the two nobles nodded approvingly, and looked at Sylvia, who was fully armed, with more respect.
It's just that they don't know that at this time, Sylvia is also surprised by the scene in front of her, and secretly taps her fingers on Leo's palm a few times, as if asking if all this is Leo's doing.
Leo replied by shaking his head slightly, indicating that it was not his doing, and pointed to the island in the middle of the lake.
With the mark of the Lady of the Lake, he can clearly feel the presence of the Fairy of the Lake at this moment, and the Fairy of the Lake can also sense him, and the fog generated on the surface of the lake is caused by the rules that the Fairy of the Lake has made for this lake before, and the passage that appears now is the invitation of the Fairy of the Lake, but she is not invited by Sylvia, but by Leo.
The group soon came to the island in the middle of the lake, and after landing on the island, the fog on the lake dissipated, and they found a path that had been carved out in the woods on the island, and after walking through a small hill and a dense forest, they came to the middle of the lake pool without any problems, and they all saw the ancient stone monument of the knight's five virtues.
At this time, all the knights who accompanied her knelt on one knee to pay their respects to the stele of the knight's five virtues, while Sylvia walked alone to the pond in the middle of the lake, and what she needed to do now was simple, take the water from the pool and pour it on her head.
Once at the edge of the pool, Sylvia looked at the deep pool, and although she couldn't see anything, she could feel the presence in the pool watching her.
She then removed her helmet, took her armor off, and then took the pool of water in both hands and poured it on top of her head.
Seeing Sylvia finish the seemingly simple ritual, all the knights who were on one knee cheered, and the two Touscent nobles bowed to Sylvia as a sign of respect.
And just as Sylvia stood up and was about to turn away, the pool suddenly reacted abnormally, only to see a ray of light emanating from the pool, making people feel as if there was a sun in the pool, and everyone present was stunned by this scene, completely speechless.