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Chapter 179: Naming Ceremony. Part 3
Chapter 179: Naming Ceremony. Part 3
The white-masked child escorted Viktor back to the guest chambers after walking around for almost 8 hours. Viktor walked around as much as he could to make a map secretly inside his library but he failed.
He figured out the temple was alive so it changed the hallways as soon as he moved forward. For that reason, Viktor couldn’t map the area. Moreover, the longer he was staying inside the temple the presence of someone behind him was getting sharper and clear.
He looked behind countless times but still, he failed to see who it was.
Viktor then took a seat in front of Adonis and said, "Adonis, here. Shake my hand." Viktor smiled awkwardly so Adonis assumed that something had happened when he was outside.
But he had to act along so he shook his hand. Then Viktor secretly passed a small metal cube.
Adonis wasn’t sure of what he just passed secretly through the handshake but he caught on to the act quickly. "Master, did you have a walk around the temple?"
"Yes, it was great. Name even let me have one of his plants. I can’t wait to see how the flower blooms."
The metal cube suddenly went inside Adonis’ hand through his skin. He kept his act in check because he knew it was something given by his master which must have a purpose. If it wasn’t from Viktor, he’d immediately separate his hand from his body to prevent it from spreading inside his main body.
Viktor again said, "Adonis, I want to be the first one to receive my name. Okay?"
Adonis was shocked. He realised that something wasn’t right so he complained, "Master, I promised you that I would protect you from everything. I can’t let you do that."
"It’s not like I will die, silly.
Suddenly, the cube inside his body broke into tiny pieces and activated an unknown magic. It was a barrier magic that he made a few days ago to save themself from the oddest dangers that he predicted.
They had one in a billion chances of happening in real life but still, the possibilities were never zero. So Viktor made a magic tool that protects the user from every type of mind manipulation magic.
Adonis then said, "Master, you have one of them too, right?"
"Yes, don’t worry. Let your master handle this."
Adonis sighed and said, "Well then. I will allow this just for once."
Mors and Ifrit then approached them and said, "Viktor, I heard you went out for a walk. So what do you think about the underworld?"
Viktor gently smiled and replied, "It was great. The temple is like a maze."
"Maze? What do you mean by maze?"
Viktor immediately opened Ifrit’s record and noticed that there was a part of the book locked with an unknown type of magic. It was his first time seeing it so he didn’t say anything more about maze. He then scratched his head and said, "I mean the temple is really big. When I was walking there, I feel like I might get lost anytime if I’m not concentrating."
"Yes! You’re right. I also got lost here countless times. Name is the one who always found me. Well, don’t peek into the prayer room before you are called. I’ll go out for a walk now. You three stay here and rest a bit."
The three of them knew there was something off about the place. Mors was also getting that off feeling on his back. Even Adonis was getting that irritating feeling all over his body. All of them felt like they had eyes on them from everywhere.
They also knew that their every step was being watched so all of them decided not to talk and keep their guards up.
Viktor also gave Mors a small cube to keep him safe from getting manipulated by anyone and kept his mouth shut. They also avoided making eye contact when all of them were having that odd feeling on their back. They started to act like nothing’s wrong and waited for the ritual ceremony day to come.
....
Friday, at 12:00 AM. Deep inside the prayer room.
Viktor stepped inside the prayer room and looked at the face of Name. It was terrifying as ever but still, he smiled and greeted him.
"I, a nameless demigod, have set my food inside your territory. Please accept me as a guest of honour and grant me a meaningful name." He then bowed in front of him and gave him his hand.
Name smiled with his hellish face and said, "My child, please raise your head." He then held Viktor’s hand and gave him a huge bowl of boiling water. "If you drink this, the ritual will begin. So you wish to continue?"
Viktor nodded and touched the bowl’s edge with his lips. It was so hot that his lips burned.
’Now this is going to be painful.’
...
Somewhere inside the guest chambers.
Adonis and Mors were sitting in the same place facing the opposite way. They were so tired and sick of the irritating feeling around their body that they decided to sit by leaning against eachother’s back.
Ever since Viktor went inside the prayer room, the disturbing feelings started to get more intense. They were so vivid that they were starting to see nearly invisible eyes on the wall.
But for some reason, Ifrit wasn’t affected by them. So Mors said, "Adonis, don’t fall asleep behind me."
Adonis replied, "You too. You have to lose so I can win, right?" He then gave off a weird smile.
Mors also kept the act up and said, "I am never going to lose. I bet you will lose in an hour."
Adonis also went with the flow and said, "We will see about that."
Ifrit went through his naming ceremony so long ago. That’s why he seemed not to get affected by the weird sensations. Moreover, he seemed fine with Name, who was the most suspicious one in the room.
Viktor noticed everything. So he made a small device and inserted it into Ifrit’s body before coming to the underworld. There was also a one-in-a-billion chance of the oddest thing happening so that’s why Viktor also prepared for it.
Everything was well prepared.
Adonis then said, "Mors, you’re not asleep. Are you?"
Mors didn’t answer his question. Instead, he just started to breathe heavily. His heart rate also increased so Adonis said, "Don’t tell me a demigod of death is scared now."
Adonis looked behind and suddenly felt a murderous chill down his spine. It was so sharp and painful that he started to nosebleed. It was his first time feeling heavy pressure all over his body.
Right at that moment, the small cube that had mixed with his blood flow activated a strong barrier. This mind calmed down quickly and then it turned off.
The same thing happened to Mors’ body.
Both of them looked at eachother. To prevent showing a negative sign, Adonis said, "Do you want to listen to music?"
"I have a guitar in my dimension pocket. Do you want to try playing it?"
"Why not?"
.....
Somewhere inside the prayer room.
Viktor was looking through Ifrit’s physical status while being submerged in the boiling tub. After he drank the huge bowl of water, Name threw him into the huge pool-like tub. At first, he felt his skin falling apart from the heat. But later, he quickly got used to it.
Normal gods and demigods are usually noisy and impatient when they are thrown inside the hot tub. Name had to push them back to the tub again to finish the ritual with a long spear. But this time, he was just sitting beside the tub with his long spear.
He was waiting to get busy but this time, the visitor wasn’t even coming up to breathe. He was just sitting on the bottom of the tib doing nothing.
But in reality, Viktor figured out why the boiling water was necessary for the baptism. It was something that even Name couldn’t figure out in his whole life but Viktor did.
Since Name had never touched the water, he doesn’t know what are the benefits of it. If he knew, he’d close all the gates and save it for himself.
’This water might feel like it’s boiling but it’s wrong. This is pure Qi in liquid form. I just learned this from an old record of an unknown god whose Qi is lower than mine. He said that if he knew the properties of the baptism, he’d become stronger.
The water feels hot because it’s trying to get inside my Qi core. If I reject it, it creates a burning sensation in my skin. But when I let the flow inside, it goes all the way inside my Qi core and starts to rotate with the flow.
The ritual will continue for 2.5 days. That’s the exact time my Qi core needs to get modified. The void is a mysterious thing and it’s kind enough to give an opportunity to all the newborn gods and demigods to become powerful.
I might as well take some water in my dimension inventory’s central pool-_-. Because I don’t know if I’m allowed to come here again.’
At that moment, Viktor saw a long spear with a note tied around its tip in front of him. It was from Name who was curious about him and also worried.
The note said, ’My child, are you okay?’
Viktor then wrote a replay on the small page with mana and tied it around the spear’s tip.
’Just let me cultivate my core in peace-_-. I’m so comfortable down here that I might fall asleep.’
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