They walked as per the words of the blindfolded man, reaching a rotten wooden door. Arthur turned the knob of the brown wooden door. The door immediately restored itself to a new door. Arthur felt his prana drained a bit. The knob turned itself to the original position.
He again turned the newly formed gold inlaid knob. The door opened, revealing the grandeur room, with the appraiser sitting on the cushioned chair. Besides , the blind folded man was laying on a red cushiony sofa, reading a black hard cover book. I had a symbol of eye emanating red blood.
Johandas's eyes calmly moved. He noticed his surrounding again. Ensuring that this isn't an illusion. Ever since he got the letter from the government, he is constantly facing abnormalities, illusionary events and unimaginable things.
But his comrades, didn't show hesitation nor doubt in their eyes. Their behaviour told him that they are already familiar with the system here.
"Must be the perks of being a noble, heh.." He lampooned.
"But they did not show any arrogance to me. Are all nobles like this? Uh...I can't jump into a conclusion. It maybe because of the fact that they don't fully know about. Yeah! They don't know about my origin." Johandas gradually understood the people around him.
"Good morning, my children, did you succeed in your trial?"
The appraiser in black coat and white linen shirt, representing a middle aged man. He had noticeable beard and mustache. He wore old spectacles with its chain extending to his ears. His hands had purple stoned finger ring.
Before him, on the. long wooden table was fixed. Four chairs were placed before the table. It's like one man interviewing the four employees at once.
A goatskin-made note was opened on the table. A quill with lid-opened black ink bottle is laid beside the goatskin-made note
"..." Johandas didn't open his mouth. Their gaze turned towards Arthur.
"We did not see the end. Except thay shrimp over there" Arthur pointed Johandas.
"Your name, young sorceror? "
Johandas replied in a calm manner, "My name is Arjun, Arjun Johandas, I prefer to call me with my second name"
"of course, Johandas. All of you can sit down there"
Only then, they replied in harmony, "thank you sir."
After they sat down, a sound of striking a string was heard.
Ting!
The whole bright atmosphere turned into a gloomy one suddenly. They suddenly are in a basement area! It was lit by blue flamed torches. The red head was nowhere to be seen.
"This appraiser must be talented in using illusion. He is showing his abilities from the door itself. What's worng with him? Is he trying to amaze us with his powers?" Johandas analyzed.
"Now then, you can start explaining your experience one by one. You must understand the fact that we are not asking about the trial one by one so as to prevent anyone from lying or twisting the truth itself, heh, even if you lie, we can extract the recognize it. So don't make ways for us to work more I hope you will don't understand it."
"Uh..."
***
At the same time,
In the Tis forest,
A dark cathedral suddenly arose from the ground, showcasing shining windows and intricate patterns and architecture. Some 'men' with black hoods on entered the cathedral; one man with a violet stone crucifix on his neck took out a key half of his arm's size and opened the cathedral.
Gigantic hall with big windows on both sides; crimson moonlight fell from sideways, illuminating the area with red color; a knight-like man with a dark crown made of steel wire, which is intertwined and spiking at certain points, and a black iron knight mask wearing very strong armor that looked like even a cannon could not beat him. He is as tall as 8 feet. Though the cathedral looked the average size of a cathedral that is normally found in the city, the inner hall is several times bigger with a bigger chandelier that glowed with a dim white color. The dark knight was sitting on a large throne that emanated a dark aura from it.
About forty of the hooded men stood before the seats they are about to sit in. They took out large boxes made of wood on the table before them and made a four dot hand sign on their body before they sat down, with a sound of "Hail Lord Apophis."
All of them sat down and opened the boxes, revealing the heart of Mijuan monsters. The Dark Knight with red faint in his eyes raised his hand and let out "a human-sized creature. Though segmented like a centipede, it had scales like a snake and lacked the usual arthropod shell. Its head resembled a centipede's, while its body was lined with countless legs."
The centipede moved towards the opened boxes and ate all the hearts in the boxes one by one, revealing the blood that slowly gushed out of its mouth, and the surroundings smelled of blood stench.
Soon the centipede ate the last box of Mijuan heart at the other end, where the man wearing the violet-stoned cross was at the end of the table. They made no sound and made no motion when the centipede was feeding. The centipede grew larger and larger as it filled its appetite.
The centipede, while travelling opposite, moving towards the large black knight, suddenly turned into a big-sized heart with silver spears piercing it in the midway that originated from the table, piercing from downward. It glowed with red light, and some golden chains surrounded the heart that came from unknown regions of the cathedral. All of them suddenly stood and watched the magnificent transformation that occurred before their eyes. Then the man said in a cold voice, "Let's revive the Lord Apophis and bring the new era of Eternals."
****
While in the Soncia Academy,
"Based on your story, I can infer that you have been pulled into a different trial. No one in the past days have encountered such trial. Usually there won't be altar, or any corpse revival things in the trial. And the Tomb raid, you have mentioned is sure interesting. The trial is corresponding to the real life matters. After I heard about your preliminary understanding of your skills, it's better for you guys move to Dukly Service. But you have spend atleast a week here before familiarizing with the environment of the outer world. You are strictly not allowed to step outside. Use these days to attend classes. Make sure you read the books in the library, I have already wrote what you have to read. But the appraisal result only reach you guys at the end of the week. So it's better to move in Monday. Check the letter before you. Oh, right, I forgot it"
The appraiser snapped, suddenly the area returned to its normal environment. And a letter appeared out of nowhere.
"You may leave now. Use your mentor to ask any other queries"
Arthur asked "mentor?"
"Oh, man, didn't you even introduce to these kids?"
"I'm busy, George"
"I apologize for his attitude, but when it comes to teaching, no one can beat him. You should be proud that he is your mentor. He too will move to Dukly Service with you. Here, refer for this and familiarize yourself with the academy"
"Whatt? Why? No mentor has ever gone for matters such as that."
"Like you, Stephen, these are special ones"
"Huh?" He blurted out.