Chapter 4: The Sudden Arrival of the Whip of Death
Standing under the palace of the King of Time, looking up at the palace on the nine-zhang high platform, anyone will feel their own insignificance and the greatness and solemnity of the god of time. The Akasus followed the chamberlain into the main hall.
The main hall was tall and wide, similar to the Temple of Time, which made Akasu a little nervous. Akasu walked behind the Master, and saw the King of Time sitting on the glittering throne of time from a distance. The King of Time's name is Boudin, and he is also the lord of the City of Daylight, and he has been in charge of the City of Time for forty-five years. King Boudin had long blond hair like a lion, and wore a black gilded robe, a gold crown, a bracelet, and a long sword.
"See the Great Lord of Time!" Akasu, along with Master and Bron, bent down to salute with the palm of his right hand touching the left heart. The chamberlain, on the other hand, fell on his knees and bowed with his palms upward. This is the etiquette of the kingdom of time, the priests, archmages, and royal families bow down to bow, the army bows down with one fist to the chest or kneels down on one knee and clenches to the chest with one fist, and the commoners bow on both knees like the chamberlains.
"The high priest doesn't have to be polite, please just sit and watch the tea!" the king stood up when he saw the master saluting. The Master took his seat and motioned for Akasu to give thanks to the king.
"Akasu thanks the king for the gift, thank the god of time for the gift" Akasu saluted the king again.
"No need to be polite, Akasu. Raise your head and show me," said King Boudin
"Yes," Akasu looked up at the king. Akasu had heard from Master that Bron the Archmage of Sunlight City and Boudin, the current King of Time, were brothers, but Akasu felt that they didn't look like brothers at all. Just by looking at the appearance, you will find that King Boudin's facial features are tight, and there is a heroic aura between his eyebrows. Especially the eyes, clear and soft, as if you can forget all sorrows. On the other hand, Master Bron's round face, round eyes, round nose, and round ears seem to be all round, and he can't help but laugh at a glance, without a bit of royal bearing.
"Haha, the future high priest of our Time Kingdom is still a handsome young man, you are not just twelve years old, almost as strong as Prince Marseille, but my Marseille is two years older than you, and you are fourteen years old this year" King Boudin said with a smile after looking at Akasu.
"Thank you, King," said Akasu again
"Very well," said the king, and motioned for Akasu to go down. Akasu saluted again, walked behind the Master, and stood quietly.
Bron, who was sitting next to Master, stood up at this time, looked at Akasu, and said to Master, "The future High Priest of our City of Time knows at a glance that there is no limit to what he can achieve in the future. This time, thanks to the king's reliance, I am in charge of the time king's test to be held next year, and I wonder if the future high priest will be interested in participating in this time?"
The test of the king of time mentioned by Bronn is also called the Whip of Death test, in the kingdom of time, whether the royal family, nobles, or disciples of mages, whether they are nobles or ordinary people, as long as they reach the age of twelve, they can participate, but the maximum age requirement is to complete the test before the age of twenty.
In the Kingdom of Time, although each city-state has various types of mages and warrior qualification assessment agencies to conduct various tests, after passing the test, those children who learn spells and fighting skills have a preliminary qualification certification, and can go to various city-states in the future to practice and warriors or teach and enlighten children. However, there is only one qualification tournament in the whole kingdom, and that is the Time King Test, if the ranking of the Time King Test "Qingyun List" enters the top 100, it will be the talent that the major city-states will compete for, so although the danger of death is very high, this test is still the best choice for most ordinary citizens to embark on the road to fame and fortune.
Unlike commoners, the children of the royal family and archmages do not need to go through the preliminaries of each city-state to participate in the training camp directly, but if the children reach the age of twenty and still do not pass the test, they will be considered a disgrace to the family and the teacher, and will be deprived of all rights to become commoners. This test is held every two years, each time for a year, the test is January 1 of the current year, the end of December, the end of the year, after entering the training camp for a year after all participants will focus on learning tactics, fighting, spells and other practical skills, during the training must complete three tests. This was a test set by King Tesar in order for the elites of the royal family to be able to deal with the cruel outside world and protect the people of the kingdom. The reason why the test is called the whip of death is because everyone has to face a very dangerous mission, each time on the verge of life and death, and many mages and royal children die in each test. Because this test is very dangerous, many royal families and mages have been practicing spells and fighting skills since childhood, and in order to be more sure of passing the test, everyone generally chooses to participate in this test at the age of fifteen or sixteen. The reason why Bronn made an invitation in front of the master and the king this time was nothing more than to make Akasu timid, saying that he would participate in the future, and suppress Akasu's pride when he saw him just now.
"Thank you Archmage Bloom for the invitation, of course I will participate in this test, and we will see you at the training camp on the first day of January next year," Akasu said to Master Bron with a smile.
The king was a little surprised to hear Akasu's reply, and then laughed again: "What a hero, my son Marseille will also participate in the test this time, I originally thought that he would be the youngest warrior this time, but I did not expect our future high priest Akasu to be even more brave." I am glad that we will have such a high priest in the Kingdom of Time in the future."
When the master heard Akasu's answer, he raised his eyes and looked at Akasu a little confused, but then looked at Bron's surprised expression, narrowed his eyes and nodded and smiled.
"That'...... Then we'll see you next year, and you're welcome to join this test, future High Priest," Bron put away his surprised expression and then looked at Akasu with a smug expression. Akasu thought that he might already be thinking about how he would torture himself in the ordeal four months later.