St Chaos Healer

Ch 43 - The Brightest Light

In front of me stood the famous ceremony hall premises. It had an enormous oval-shaped building with adjacent rows of row-shaped buildings connected to it. There was just a little garden at the front followed by iron fencing covering the entire premises.

The city guards were prowling like a bunch of busy bees.

"So that must be the ceremony hall, huh."

That place stood like a sore thumb, a sure place to conduct the ceremony.

My road wagon stopped about 500m away from the ceremony hall premises as no vehicles were allowed near the premises.

I got down from the carriage and I looked around. What I noticed was there was a long queue of boys and girls of my age heading towards the premises. Definitely must be fellow candidates heading for the ceremony hall as well.

I quickly made my way and joined the end of the queue.

In front of me stood 2 boys, one tall and the other a plump kid who was having a loud conversation. There was even the petite-looking girl who was standing beside them.

"Where did you get those robes from?" asked the tallboy.

"Oh, these? They are made from the skin of the raging stone goats that my dad hunted with his party members. Even my pants were made from them as well." said the fat brat.

To his response, the tallboy had a smug look,

"That's cool but check out my gloves. This was made by the paws of the wild menace lynx that my big brother hunted last month. It can even spring the claws whenever I want."

Saying so the tallboy stretched his palm and small sharp fangs appeared from the tips of his fingers.

"Wow! That's so cool."

"Stop that!" Suddenly the girl exclaimed, "Why are you carrying such a dangerous thing around?"

"Why not?" asked the tall brat in an annoyed tone.

"Because we are heading to the ceremony hall! What if the faculty members saw it."

"Nevermind that. Tanya, so what equipment are you wearing?"

"Me? Oh, I am wearing..."

The three friends continued the discussion of their equipment in detail.

These brats are in a different league.

They haven't yet completed the ascension ceremony but were armed with adventure class gears already. This is what sets apart us commoners from the elite.

From the way they talk, their parents must be adventurers and have hunted a lot of monster beasts. So chugging out a few of these gears to their kids would be no big deal.

I stood behind them eagerly waiting for the queue to move forward. The queue was moving rather at a slow pace for some reason.

One thing I noticed was that most of the kids here knew each. They already had started making groups and banded together.

I don't plan on joining any such friend circle for the time being. Making friends with kids wasn't my strong suit. I was a loner even back in the demon realm, so I prefer to work alone.
The only thing I want right now is just for this ascension ceremony to go without any trouble.

"Tch, look at these pathetic peasants."
Suddenly someone with a cocky voice shouted from behind.

I turned around and saw the mysterious speaker standing behind me who also had joined the queue for some time now.

There were about another three young boys who were dressed in flashy outfits.

They were dressed in linen clothes with red, purple, and green velvet fabric each. In their arms were jewelry-like bracelets and rings as if they had just robbed the jewelry store down the lane.