Chapter 495 - 427: What on Earth has Bewitched You?! (Two in One)
For the Logos people, the significance of Summit Day was unparalleled by any other festival and nearly equaled that of Rebirth Day. In the ancient times, it was because Al ascended the high mountain and received the oracle from God that the Logos people were able to free themselves from their first existential crisis, giving birth to the world’s first Prophet.
The priests had begun their preparations a month before Summit Day; in the Pattern Garden, they wrote down all the thoughts and knowledge they had gathered over the year onto papyrus and held three grand sacrificial ceremonies under the witness of King Nimirda.
The first took place at noon in the square in front of the Palace, the second at dusk, and the final one inside the Palace, a ceremony that only the King and the priests attended—it was the most important of rituals. At that time, the priests would throw the papyrus into a bonfire, while King Nimirda was to kneel before the Holy Scripture, praying to God with the utmost humility, pleading for the promised anointing.
The night of Summit Day.
King Nimirda watched the bustling activity inside the Palace. Maids were still frantically cleaning the dust in the hall before the ceremony, while the priests either bowed their heads in meditation or recited prayers over and over. The guards, bearing ceremonial responsibilities, were stationed from the outside to the inside of the Palace, lined up alongside the stairs, having stood there for nearly half a day.
Almost everyone here was busy preparing for the most important ceremony of the year, without any complaints or regrets.
In the Palace, everyone was exhausting all their energy on this ceremony.
For this was not just a ceremony but a plea to the Divine.
The Logos people left the idyllic Nus Kingdom, left it in pursuit of a better realm, for the anointing spoken of in the Scriptures.