Chapter 17

Now on the face of the old man, there was no longer a bored look. At that moment, he thought about it. And indeed, remembering all the ceremonies that he conducted, the strongest children from the group did not always go through the ceremony, on the contrary, some weak-looking children went through the ceremony the first time.

Noticing the thoughtful look of the teacher, Ivo said, "In fact, even before the ceremony began, I developed certain exercises that help to improve the physical body, besides me, these exercises are also performed by my sister and I believe that if you give her a chance right now, then she can already go through the ceremony "

Remembering the conversations of his students, the Shaman remembered that some of them said that the children in the Kato family are constantly playing some strange and incomprehensible games.

After a little thought, the old man said, "Well, maybe your theory is true, but unfortunately we cannot test it now, a rare plant is used for the drug, which is very difficult to find."

With a grin, Ivo said, "Master, you apparently did not pay attention to my words about fear and desire to fight, before that I had already made a hallucinogenic potion, which also causes fear and I think that my sister would not mind trying to wake up now." After his words , Ivo pointed to a small wooden cup on the side.

Rubbing his beard, the old man walked over to the cup, sniffed the potion, and then dipped his little finger and rubbed his finger against his gums. After a moment, he said "Ahh, this is the plant you asked about recently, hmmm, this potion is not dangerous and in principle we are not losing anything, so we can try this, let's go to your house."

Delighted, Ivo took a cup of potion and led the shaman to their house.

When Ivo's parents noticed the shaman at their house, they were very happy, because apart from the fact that their son is a shaman's apprentice, they almost never intersect with this old man.

But when they found out about the purpose of his arrival, the parents began to worry, because after all, this is their own daughter, Vesta had the opposite reaction, she was not at all afraid and was really looking forward to such an opportunity, therefore, under her constant persuasion and Ivo's words that everything it will be good, they finally agreed.

Armed with a shield and a spear, the joyful girl ran into the center of the field, and 4 people stood around her, Ivo, Shaman, Mom and Dad.

Bringing the cup with the potion to Vesta, Ivo said "After you drink this potion, you will become very sensitive to fear, but your main task is still to have the desire to fight and then you will succeed."

Nodding, Vesta grabbed the cup and instantly drank the potion and closed her eyes.

Ivo stepped aside and, along with the others, began to seriously observe.

The first 30 seconds nothing happened, but then noticeable beads of sweat appeared on the girl's face, then she suddenly opened her eyes, firmly grabbed the spear and shield, while looking around constantly saying "Mom, Dad, Brother? Where are you ?"

After waiting a little longer, Ivo saw the Vesta begin to shake, and then she screamed "NOOOO, what are you doing with them, you bastards, nooo, get out."

After her scream, Vesta began to fight with phantom enemies, constantly shouting "Nooo, don't come, get out, this can't be."

Vesta's parents were very worried about the state of their daughter, they looked at the shaman, but he was only carefully studying Vesta, when suddenly surprise appeared in his eyes.

After his words, Vesta, who was fighting against phantom enemies, fell to her knees with someone fighting, as if several people were holding her tightly. And then she jumped up with a cry, waving her weapon to the sides, at that moment air distortions appeared around her body, her blood boils.

Parents breathed a sigh of relief, and then they were delighted, because now they have another warrior in their family.

Gradually, Vesta began to calm down as the fear potion evaporated from her body during the boil of her blood. When she completely calmed down, she saw her parents and brother. She immediately burst into tears and ran up to them to hug "I thought * whimper * I thought you were dead * whimper *, I am so glad that everything is fine with you * whimper *"

While the parents were reassuring Vesta, the old man smoothed his beard for a long time, and then said as he left, "Don't tell anyone about this yet, Ivo come with me, we must discuss this with the leader"

A few minutes later, the shaman and Ivo arrived at the leader's house, at that moment there was no one here only the leader, who was sitting in his chair and resting with his eyes closed.

Noticing Ivo and Shaman, he opened one eye and said "What?"

The old man spoke up "We have certain circumstances."

After that, he began to tell everything that happened before that, including the conversation between Ivo and Shaman in his shack.

When the Leader heard all this, his sleepiness immediately disappeared, getting up from the chair, he began to walk from side to side. After a few seconds, he turned to Ivo and said "You are great and did everything well, but you also probably don't understand what problems your new technique will bring us. Think about it, right now at least half of every ceremony fails the test. But now most likely the majority will become warriors, it would seem, what's wrong with that? But then the question arises, how should new children appear in the tribe? You probably should know that it is very difficult for warriors to have children, to have one child in a family of warriors is already a rarity, I have no idea what your father did so that the goddess Flora blessed him with his second child. "

Now hearing about this, Ivo finally understood the seriousness of the question, he did not even think about it.