Leif, who always felt that her life was short-lived, had never thought about the future, and love was something she had never thought about at all.
Eli is researching summons desperately, trying to support this generation of Boggart family with his brother Savi, and waiting for the summoning changes. Eli is even more inexperienced in this aspect, and has few contacts with his peers, let alone women of the same age.
Savi, Duckweed, and Lu Yu all believed that it would take some time for the two of them to adapt to their new relationship. However, after Lu Yu left Durdelan, the relationship between Eli and Leif, who had already established a relationship, continued to heat up.
Although Leif was very shy, she rarely refused Eli's suggestions...for example, wearing beautiful clothes from Sligo.
The Durderans believe that "Noel" must be some kind of incarnation that can arouse people's inner desires. His masterpieces can always arouse the primitive desires that make people's blood boil...
Eli thought so.
When they learned about Leif's pregnancy, the reaction of Lu Yu and others was not much better than that of the two relatives, Sa Wei and Duckweed...
Leif, who had never been taught how to be a mother, was still confused, but she still subconsciously asked Lulu if the "curse" left on her body could be hidden in her body and passed on to the next generation.
After receiving the answer that taking the medicine on time and according to the formula was not a big problem, Duckweed breathed a sigh of relief for her friend.
The Summoning Temple no longer communicates about the current situation of summoning propagation in the continent where the pioneers are located, nor does it exchange experiences. It has become a conference to torture Lu Yu - the other two coal briquettes that can become one with you are around you, but you have no idea.
Shit, even Eli can perform a set of combo punches to complete the inheritance of life in an instant... What have you been doing all these years?
Concentrate on calling career?
That's more or less an excuse. The night is long, do you always fall asleep to death?
It's good to take your time in cultivating relationships, but sometimes you should be... reckless, just like Eli.
In terms of summons, Orcus is Lu Yu's predecessor. In terms of age, Orcus has eaten more salt than Lu Yu has eaten rice. When he tortured Lu Yu with good reason, Lu Yu's good
Eloquence is completely useless.
Moreover, although Orkus only has Little Bun to accompany him now, he also has blood heirs and a family... His torture of Lu Yu caused real harm.
The small theater of the Summoning Temple made Duckweed laugh out loud. She had never thought that the pioneer who made the people of the Duldran Business Complex tremble would actually look so embarrassed.
Watching Mao Jing who was undergoing a blessing ceremony, Duckweed decided to repay Lu Yu for this wonderful fate.
"If I tell Mao Jing that she has been away for so long, Lu Yu and those two people will still be the same as before...he can't escape in reality, right?" she thought.
Cat Jing is holding freshly picked radish roots of various colors and gently brushing Leif's belly that has not yet shown signs of pregnancy. In the Theocracy, this step usually uses ordinary maple leaves and ordinary silver maple leaves that fall from non-sacred trees. Cat Jing has it at hand.
She did not have these two props, and she did not want a child who was not religious to be confused with unknown gods, so she improved the ceremony.
The reason for choosing radish roots was after hearing about the deeds of Winter, the pioneer of the Boggart family. Considering that this is the key inheritance for the Boggart family to insist on summoning, Mao Jing replaced all the ritual materials needed for the remaining steps with radish. .
The holy water was prepared using the juice of radish and water elements purified by some blessed ones. Since Leif wanted her children to be healthy rather than strong, Mao Jing removed the three elements of fire, thunder and darkness from the ceremony. , leaving behind vegetation, water, and soil that are more friendly to life.
Catwax does not explain the ceremony throughout the process, and it is actually not easy to explain, because after Laurent claimed that he had communicated with the "God of Glory" to obtain a blessing ceremony and spread it widely, the number of births in the Theocracy increased significantly, and the number of newborns increased significantly. The infant mortality rate dropped - this was once an important achievement for Laurent to consolidate his prestige and make believers regard him as God's agent in the world.
However, Laurende smiled and told Mao Jing, who looked admiring at the time: "All blessings are essentially a kind of psychological comfort. It can soothe people's hearts, calm pregnant women's uneasiness about the changeable future, and welcome the new baby with hope." every day, so the ritual should be complex, incomprehensible, and difficult to understand, taking advantage of people's awe of unknown knowledge and giving them a good psychological foundation for carefully concentrating on their bodies."
"A mother always hopes that her child will be born safely. At this time, she is willing to believe that there is a god in this world, and the ritual is a bridge that makes her convinced that the god who does not know where he exists has already connected with her."
"Life is sometimes stronger than they think, all they need is some... hope."
The source of Leif's uneasiness was the toxins that had remained in her body. Even though Lulu's medicine could suppress it and slowly return her to normal, she was still unavoidably worried.
Lulu's medicine can heal her body, but not her heart. Cat Jing will complete the rest.
The milky-yellow "holy water" mixed with radish juice and some fresh herbs was smeared on Leif's belly, and she drank the rest in one gulp.
The complicated ritual steps did not make her, who was most afraid of trouble, feel irritated. The moment Mao Jing stopped moving, she suddenly felt a sense of relief.
"It is indeed the country where saints were born as mentioned by Lu Yu... There are so many details in the ceremony." Savvy and others who were watching could not help but sigh with emotion until this moment.
Duckweed rolled her eyes at them: "Don't forget what Lu Yu said. This is a country where the God of Glory is very likely to be born. Your tone seems to be disrespectful before."
These words made the two brothers wave their hands, indicating that they had never thought of it that way.
Mao Jing smiled, waved her hand and refused Duckweed, brought the wine, and drank up the rest of the holy water - she made it so fragrant, I had long wanted to try it... The liquid made from these colorful radishes and herbs was actually very good. It tastes so delicious, unexpected.
Regarding this step, Mao Jing explained: "Prayers need to also take holy water. This is a signature, which means to let the gods know the person who performs the prayer."
In fact, it was a lie... She just wanted to take a sip and try it. Mao Jing vaguely remembered that Chenxi Ling had made some strange juice slimes, and wondered if they would be interested in this wonderful tasting "holy water".
A child...?
Mao Jing's thoughts were suddenly brought back by the fragrant smell that echoed through his taste buds.
Before Laurende returned to the Theocracy to succeed the Pope, she once half-jokingly asked him what he wanted his children to do in the future.
Laurent did not answer this question, but asked another question out of curiosity.
"If you give birth to children with a snake man, how much will these children resemble their mother and how much will they resemble their father?"
She didn’t have much knowledge about the bloodline inheritance of Mao Jing. At that time, she could only describe it clumsily: “Some tails will be fat, some tails will be very slender; some tails will be long, and some tails will be short;
Of course, the scales will also change. I have seen a hybrid snake man with particularly beautiful sapphire green scales... although to human aesthetics, that would be very strange."
"Doesn't that mean that every child can bring double-meaning surprises to the hybrid snake-man parents?"
"Probably so."
ah……
Why didn't I think of it back then... Laurend was telling her some unexplainable emotions in disguise.
If there had been no Theocracy...if the Pope had not given it to him!
Why did so many people choose him back then?
The annoyance was welling up in her heart, but perhaps she felt the warmth that she had not experienced in this chaotic era for a long time. Her anger was annihilated by the happy smiles around her before it broke out.
"Is going back... really the right choice?" Mao Jing couldn't help but think.
But she just didn't want to obey Guanghui's will... After solving her inner doubts, she must leave Meira again and settle in another place.
Since traveling will make her decay, then choose a more quiet time for the two of you.
Seeing that the time was right, while others were packing up the ritual utensils, Duckweed came forward and whispered softly.
Mao Jing was stunned when he heard this: "Really?"
Duckweed nodded: "You can ask them when you go back."
Mao Jing covered his forehead: "This guy..."
"What are these three people doing!" Mao Jing gritted his teeth.
Mao Jing clenched his fist: "It's been years!"
If it were me and Laurent back then, the little snake people would be running all over the place.
She wanted to see what the Dawn Leader had to do to keep them busy day and night.
A big radish appeared in the basement at an inappropriate time. It timidly used its roots to hold the door open, carefully observed the situation in the room, and then came to Savi's side.
"Well... what did he say?" Savvy frowned, "Okay, let me confirm."
Savvy asked Cat Jing: "There is a captain named Gardner who claims to have a little relationship with you. Do you know him?"
Hearing this, Mao Jing laughed and introduced the captain who was unwilling to engage in the slave trade and had a certain bottom line.
If they had no money and no business, who would be willing to make an empty trip to Duderland, a place they were unfamiliar with, with an empty ship and no income? Who could they compete with in this long-established trading continent?
"Now that we are not engaged in the slave trade, it is difficult to find experienced ship owners. In some sea areas, ship owners no longer use currency to exchange information, but high-value slaves."
"Has it come to this already?"
"Natural disasters caused the collapse of the traditional currency system. The metal currencies that everyone recognized in the past on the great voyages showed differences in value, so barter became the mainstream. Nowadays, the most profitable people on the sea are slaves, so it will naturally evolve into this.
"Savi explained, "So even we have to purchase one or two slaves for information exchange. This is the rule."
There are not many ship owners with ethics and perseverance, and the environment will force them to accept this reality - human resources are the most expensive, and if they don't integrate, they will starve to death.
Savi said: "However, since it is a person that Senior Maojing considers to be of reliable character, we are still willing to believe this judgment. I still have two routes in my hand that do not need to be involved in the slave trade. The main directions are Mera and Ke.
Lai, but the prerequisite for participating is to become a member of the Boggart family and sign an agreement."
Gardner seems to have no other choice but to accept it. His rich sailing experience can only allow him to escape natural disasters. But the most terrifying thing about the sea now is not the natural disasters when the magic tide rises, but the man-made disasters that are raging everywhere.
Not long after Savi left, another carrot came to Eli's side. When the carrot opened his mouth, he made a butler's voice.
"Master Eli, Devin's ship is back and he wants to see you immediately."
With permission, Devin quickly appeared in the basement, which only the Boggart family's confidants knew about.
This slovenly man brought two big news to Eli.
"Six exploration ships of the trading complex headed north were completely annihilated in the Crystal Sea?"
Devin nodded.
"What are they going to do in the Crystal Sea? It's a place of death. I don't know how many ships have been buried over the past hundreds of years... Do they still believe that there are crazy treasures in the vast Crystal Sea?" Eli couldn't find it.
I believe, "They should know the dangers."
When Devin saw two unfamiliar faces present, he seemed hesitant to speak.
"It doesn't matter, he is a trustworthy person."
Devin then said: "It is said, just said... that someone saw special elves playing in the sea outside the Crystal Sea... but they were very mini and cute, like butterflies and elves. You know,
In order to compete for a share of the slave trade, every force is fighting like crazy. If they can harvest this new, unheard-of slave, it will be a sure blow."
Mao Jing's hair trembled for a while, and the water fairy held the back of her neck and shivered.
"Isn't this nonsense? There are more dead things than living things on the Crystal Sea. That place is a forbidden area of life that even the sea people are unwilling to approach. How can any race survive... Although it is a bit arbitrary, this is my understanding.
"Eli seemed to have thought of the various strange events caused by the magic wave, and changed his mind, "Whether it is a new race or not has nothing to do with us. Anyway, we don't touch this industry, let them fight for it."
Devin nodded and said yes: "The other news is a rumor heard at a gathering place of maritime merchants not long ago. The credibility cannot be confirmed. In the north, further north in the waters of the 'Quiet Courtyard', some people saw figures moving in the storm.
, the magic power around the sea area is scarce, almost to the point of banning magic."
"Banning demons in the entire sea area?"
"All the ships were unable to activate their protective shields at that moment and were almost swept into the storm circle. At that time, some people claimed to have seen doll-like objects falling into the water. But as you know, in the storm, the fog was too
Thick, so hallucinations and misunderstandings happened from time to time, and no one took it seriously at the time. But this time, many people witnessed the same thing happening, so the merchants were spreading the word that in that area
There might be a huge sea monster, or something else..."
"The doll fell from the sky into the sea, could it be a sea monster?" Eli had heard many rumors about the sea, but this one was a bit too unreasonable.
What kind of sea monster can create dolls?
I'm fine, but I still keep coughing. What's wrong?