St Chaos Healer

Ch 44 - The Oval-Amphitheatre

I finally was able to enter the Ceremony Hall building premises.

These premises are one of the most important places in the city. It had significant value in the kingdom. The people of the kingdom almost revered this place like a temple even going so far as to worship it.

According to my knowledge, this is not only the place of the ascension ceremony but also where the phoenix familiar first places his blessing. It does the blessing in order to heal the potential mage candidates, giving each of them a fair start in the ascension ceremony.

Hence why the blessing ritual is a big deal. Getting the blessing of the phoenix familiar in person was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and it would be a shame if you miss it.

I just hope this phoenix familiar won't go bonkers and roast everyone alive in the city. After seeing how the second trial went, I have very little trust concerning the safety issues of these mages nowadays.

At this moment, we candidates, orderly entered the oval building.

As we enter we noticed that the interior was a lot bigger and more spacious inside like we were in a palace. There were illustrious paintings of some renowned mages on the wall. Vintage weapons and magical gears are placed like antiques on the display. A Mint chandelier and old rustic hanging candle lamps light up the interior hallway and corridors.

But then our eyes fell on the weirdly dressed people standing in dominating demeanor in the building.

They were adult men and women wearing bright red clothes over a black cape and matching boots like some bizarre uniforms. Each of them was armed with rather unique weapons and watched us carefully under their hawkeye gaze as we walked in.

They were mages who were overseeing the ascension ceremony. From the first look, I could tell they were hard to deal with. These mages had this serious atmosphere around them, almost making them unapproachable. We, candidates, were very quiet so as to not piss off them in any way.

The mages then instructed us to form yet another queue that led upstairs to the upper floor. Our seats would be allotted on the upper floor for the blessing ritual.

So once again the queue was formed.

The candidates in the queue had mixed emotions, some were excited as their eyes lit up in anticipation. Meanwhile, some were nervous wrecks as they sweat and trembled.

Whereas I was really itching to get this whole thing to be over quickly.

After my identity as a gold pass holder was revealed, my fellow candidates were giving me the cold shoulder. The adventurer class candidates looked at me with wariness, meanwhile, the noble ones looked at me with disgust and scorn.

I was already an outcast even before this thing even happened.
I had this ominous feeling just staying in this group.

The queue was moving at a turtle pace. But after a painful wait, the stairs leading to the upper floor finally got closer.

As I was about to just to reach the stairs-

"You there." suddenly one of the mages called out.

It turned out a grumpy-looking old mage holding a staff looked distressed.
He was looking in my direction for some reason.

"Come here," he commanded once again.

I pointed at myself,

"Me?"

"Yes, I am talking to you. Come here,"

What the heck does he want now?
Is there going to be yet another cross-examination?