The next morning, Sean was awakened by the palace guards.
We need to arrive early today because all the people in the capital of Jagun will gather at the door of the Temple of the Sun to watch. As a member of the Jagun royal family and the eldest son of the Izdihar family, it is necessary to let all the people of the Jagun Kingdom know of his existence.
Worship at the Temple of the Sun is a tradition and also a way to announce one's arrival to the world.
There are quite a lot of rules. You must arrive at the temple before sunrise because the sacrifice is required to be held at the same time as the sun rises...
Sean had to go to the top of the hill where the temple was before dawn.
"Illya, can you help me check if my clothes are tidy?" Sean asked from time to time on the way.
"Everything has been sorted, Your Highness."
I was worried, so I helped by pulling the collar.
It was sorted out, but Sean still felt uncomfortable and always felt like there was a lump in his neck.
Pulling the clothes, I happened to touch Illya's hand.
"Your Highness is just not used to wearing this kind of clothes. This is the clothes that our Adak royal family wears during sacrifices. If you are really not used to it, just bear with it for today." Illya said.
This dress is loose, but I don't know how the fabric is fixed to keep it stable, so it always feels uncomfortable around my neck when I wear it.
"Hopefully not for long."
After getting off the carriage, there was a very long staircase waiting for them, but the Sun King and several other brothers and sisters were already standing there.
"Brother, you're late." Reila was the first one to jump over and say when she saw Sean coming out.
"Sorry to have kept you waiting." Sean didn't expect them to get up so early. They all came here before daybreak.
"It's okay, you're not used to it yet... Come on, I'll tell you what you have to do next." The Sun King seemed very casual.
After one day of contact, Sean could see that his uncle was very caring towards him. Although he didn't know what his relationship with his mother was like back then, judging from this day, it should be pretty good, otherwise he wouldn't take such good care of him.
And the favorability has always remained [Love]...
This is a level of favorability above admiration.
Almost only relatives or family members can have this level of favorability. Sean has only seen it in Frelia. Even the little girl Ignia still has an [admiration] favorability.
Of course, the main reason was that he had only expressed his opinion in front of Frelia.
At that time, asking the other person to put down what was happening around him and follow him was actually equivalent to a confession, so the degree of favorability changed instantly, and it was a favorability that went beyond love.
Sean has looked at all the favorability levels of Frelia from low to high.
Follow the Sun King up to the platform. On the way, he kept telling me what he would do in the sacrifice... It was actually very simple. When the sun rises, walk to the center of the temple square, which will be illuminated by the rising sun. Then the priests read out various rituals and doctrines.
At the last moment, Sean needs to take a bowl of water from the holy water pool where people gather at night, drink it and pour the rest onto the ground, leaving a little bit to scatter to the crowd.
The whole process represents accepting God's will and then loving His people.
The meaning is simple... The process doesn't sound difficult either, except that it may take a little longer because you have to wait until the sun comes out, and the doctrine to be read must rise slowly with it.
Almost all members of the royal family have to go through such a baptism after they reach adulthood, which represents accepting their own identity and being able to love their people in the future!
Sean has been an adult for a long time, but he has been in other countries before, so he has to perform this ceremony when he comes back.
"That sounds easy," Sean said after listening to the story.
"It is very easy, but your brothers and sisters all said that they were very tired that day. In fact, I don't like this kind of dogma, but there is no way... Doctrine is something revered by our country and even the entire desert countries. If you want to rule this country, you must not ignore it." He said it unintentionally, but it didn't sound like that to Sean and the other princes and princesses.
I'm just accepting the coming-of-age ceremony in this area, there's no need to say so much.
If other princes and princesses listened to it, it would sound like they were being taught how to rule a country... He glanced at Mudan and Seria on the other side.
Sure enough, the expressions of the two people at this moment were not very good.
Although the two of them didn't speak at all, Sean could tell their emotions from the way they behaved.
When the Sun King said this in front of everyone, it felt like he was teaching them how to be the king of a country. Although he was not necessarily talking to himself, he was actually the protagonist today.
Above the temple is a spacious platform with a huge open-air altar. At the very edge stands an obelisk with various texts and patterns densely engraved on it.
Those should be the historical records that many people have talked about.
However, these records were written down by ancient people, and they are actually biased... Sean once asked Lilith Bristol to take some ancient books to read. Those records of legends were actually modified by humans and may not be all true.
But at least it shows that this thing happened.
Climbing up to the temple's platform...
There were already about one or two hundred ministers and nobles from all the capital standing outside. Sean, who had just arrived, didn't know any of them, but Melsusa and Ben Tari were among them.
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