Chapter 352 Vampire Marriages
Chapter 352 Vampire Marriages
Lilith explained to Emilia about how vampire marriages occurred.
Like every other culture in this world, in vampire marriages, one had to pay one's respect to the respective people, which includes: one's ancestors, parents, and the Vampire Queen herself. The couple pays respects and gets their blessings in return.
This is a part that usually happened at the very last when the actual marriage was done.
The marriage has a lot of ceremonies to be done before the vows are made and the groom and bride become husband-wife.
There are a series of ceremonies and its present there because vampires, in the Immemorial Era and before it, were beings who had a very long lifespan. Even though they were mortals, their lifespan was long and so, marriage was something that would become a good memory for them that would last their whole life.
Vampires cherished this day and thus, to make it even more memorable, a lot of ceremonies had been prepared. But of course, as time passed, these ceremonies changed and got adapted to the eras they were in.
Vampire marriages, therefore, were and are the longest ones in this world. The shortest vampire marriage also only ended up getting completed in around 2 weeks and the longest marriage ended up lasting for around ten years straight.
From what Lilith was planning to do, their marriage ceremonies would at least take a month in the least to end. They wouldn't go overboard with the ceremonies and just do enough so that they can cherish it when they look back at it.
A good thing was that, unlike the angelic weddings where only two people could be present at a given time to marry each other, vampire marriages had no such restrictions. There could be any number of people present that are getting married and the ceremony would be the same for all.
After the ceremonies are done, there would be vows and when vows are done, the vampire couple would bite onto each other's neck at the same time and suck in some blood to officially make them husband and wife.
After this part was done, the couples would usually have a kiss together and after doing that, they would seek the blessings and go towards the second last step of marriage, the grand wedding dinner. After the dinner is done, all the people would be sent back home and the final step of the marriage would commence. Once the final step is done, the marriage is officially completed for the vampires.
The final step was something that the vampire couple does in private. It is intercourse and once the groom and the bride initiate intercourse, the marriage is officially completed.
Hearing about so many steps and things, Emilia was amused as well as surprised. She had never thought that vampire marriages were so complicated.
It wasn't only her that was feeling this. Lith was feeling the same. He had learnt a lot about the vampires as he was of their race now but he never bothered to know about the marriage. It was only now did he get to know about it.
It would definitely take a good amount of time to get married, Lith thought. But it was all worth it since this is a special occasion and shouldn't be rushed. It would become a good memory for all and so, Lith was fine with everything.
"Mother-in-law, you just said that people have to pay respect to the Vampire Queen, right?" Arya, who was also listening to this, asked.
Lilith nodded. "Yes, what about it?"
Arya chuckled and continued, "If that is the case, the Vampire Queen herself is getting married. Who will she pay her respect to?"
"Ooooh, nice question. Yes, who will you pay respect to, mom?" Lucy said with interest.
The rest of the ladies had their ears perked up as they heard this and it wasn't just them, the servants as well the other three people present were the same.
Lilith could tell that everyone was interested in knowing this. She simply smiled and said, "No one."
"What? Really?" Lucy asked.
Lilith nodded. "Let me question you back about this. Why do you pay your respects?"
Lucy thought about it and said, "To seek blessings."
Lilith nodded and looking at Lucy, she asked with a smile, "And why do you seek blessings?"
Lucy fell into deep thoughts and wondered about it.
Noticing this, Lilith said, "No need to think so much, you won't get an answer to it. I haven't told you about this and you haven't read or come across this, I know. I'll answer it for you."
Lucy nodded her head and was all ears now.
Lilith continued, "It's a very simple concept yet has a very deep meaning. You do know that nothing in this universe is constant, right?"
Lucy tilted her head and asked in a bit of confusion, "nothing is?"
Lilith shook her head. "At this stage, you should only know that nothing is. All particles in the universe revolve around something that is much bigger than them in mass. The bigger particle takes responsibility for the smaller one and that's how the law of the universe currently is."
"So the people who pay respect to me or to their ancestors or parents, the main reason for that is to have a form of protection through our blessings. Life becomes much easier when you know that there's some bigger power watching over you constantly, so no matter what you do in life, things will always be for the best."
Lilith stopped after saying so much.
Lith, Lucy, and everyone else who were hearing all of this suddenly felt that they knew nothing about the universe.
Even though Lith was a reincarnated being, these things were still going over his head and he wasn't understanding the concepts related to gods much at all.
Lilith could tell what everyone was thinking and simply chuckled and didn't elaborate on this further.
The most surprised person among everyone who heard this information was none other than Arbour. He didn't know that simply being around the Vampire Queen would let him access to such profound and divine knowledge. It was as if Lilith was speaking the language of gods that all mortals were forbidden to hear.
This new knowledge that he just heard enlightened him a lot and only now was he starting to have a much deeper understanding of everything related to worshipping that people did and being worshipped.
Lucy, who roughly understood a few things, looked at her mother and raised a question. "Mom, if the bigger things take responsibility of the smaller ones, and smaller ones always revolve around bigger things, who is it that you revolve around? There would be someone right? Because you just said that all particles move around and aren't constant."
Lilith chuckled hearing it and said with a smile, "You'll have the answer to that question within a few thousand years, don't worry about it."
Lucy shrugged. It wasn't like there was anything beneficial in knowing this anyway. It was just too much useless info for her.
As for Lith, the same couldn't be said. He was thinking about things on a much deeper level for this. Previously, all things were going above his head but as he pondered over it more, he was starting to understand these things.
Electrons revolve around the nucleus and the speed of it, it's not constant as well. His mother had just said one thing, that is, 'nothing in the universe is constant' and she basically gave a conclusion to years of scientific research on Earth.
Previously, way before Lith was born, it was said that electrons, negatively charged particles, and protons, positively charged particles, all were present in the same place and it was called the plum pudding model. Here the speed of electrons was constant.
Then came the gold foil experiment where electrons were actually discovered and here as well, the speed was constant. Then there was the Bohr's model which also said the speed is constant and the electrons just move around the nucleus in orbits with a constant speed.
However, only during recent research in Quantum Mechanics, Heisenberg came up with the uncertainty equation and it was because of this, the concept that electrons move with constant speed was disapproved.
When one measured the momentum, speed was not accurately calculable and vice versa was true as well. The product of uncertainties in momentum and position of an electron was always greater than or equal to h/4π and thus, it was proved that electrons do not move with a constant speed.
Lilith, Lith's mother basically summarized these years of research with just a single sentence and Lith didn't know if he should commend her or be happy to get such knowledge.
In any case, the more Lith thought about this matter, the more things were getting complicated and at his level, his brain would be fried if thought so much. It was best to let everything go and just relax.
Lith took a deep breath and picked up his teacup back. His mother really did end up triggering his memories of past life and made him remember the things he learnt in his science classes.
He sipped on tea and tried not to dwell much on this.
Lilith could notice her son's stress and she wondered what he just thought to become like that. She was sitting beside him and simply patted his head.
"Don't think too much about whatever I said. It's not something that you should know at this level." Lilith said with a smile.
Lith nodded. Indeed. This was a bit too much.
He continued to sip on some tea and heard the discussion of the ladies.
A few hours passed and the discussion was coming to an end. Sel, Rain, Arbour, all these people were given work and they had left the courtyard. There were only a few servants present now.
Lith looked at his ladies and noticed that Emilia seemed tired of everything. He decided to cheer up his soon to be wife and make her relaxed. He was now in a relationship with her, it was his duty as her husband to look after her.
Lith got up from his chair and walking close to Emilia, he held her hand and said, "come with me."
Emilia wondered what it was about but she didn't question much about it and simply got up and continued to hold Lith's hand.
Lith walked at the edge of the pavilion with Emilia and turning back, he looked at the other ladies and said, "ladies, continue with whatever you are doing, I'll get back to you shortly."
Saying so, he left the courtyard along with Emilia.
Looking at them go, Alexandra knitted her brows and muttered, "why is it not me that darling took?"
Lilith was sitting just beside her. She chuckled and patted her head. "Don't worry, your turn will come soon as well. He has to give equal time to all his wives and he's trying his best."
Arya who was sitting opposite to Lilith, nodded and agreed with her. "Indeed. Don't stress, your turn will come."
Alexandra sighed and hoped that her darling just came faster to her. She got back to doing the marriage work and got herself busy with it soon.
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A/N: A very informative chapter. I didn't purposely write it, but it just clicked well to me when writing this chapter. I am a soon to be med student and I guess it's showing effect on novel as well lmao.
Anywho, I'll try to not write something too complicated. Or do you want me to continue with it? Do let me know on this.
As for this chapter, it's a big one, but I'll just assume this as the 1st out of the 4 bonuses to be given.
You guys completed the powerstones goal. The 1000/1000 one.
The next is 1107/2000 and it's +3 bonus chapters. Good luck :)
As for GTs, it's 1143/1250. Just a little bit to go for +1 bonus chapter!