19 First Talent Assessemen (1/2)
After elder Zheng calmed down, he went back to his seat and forced a cough to gather everyone's attention. Then he began.
”As I have already told you the function of the token that I gave you, I advice you that you pay attention to collecting all the information on basics from the first three floors of the sect library first, then proceed on to the next floor and begin to slowly accumulate the information available on those floors. But be sure to not proceed to further floors without completely ingraining all the information's, and the best way to completely ingrain those all information's is by visiting the halls where you can gain practical experience and probably gain insights this way you'll deepen and broaden your knowledge.
For now we'd like for you to complete accumulating all the basic information and pay visit to the halls where you can broaden your knowledge and gain insights.
But first let's visit all the halls where you can test your knowledge and make it a part of you.
But before we get going, disciple Astra do you have any first choice where you want to begin your test from that you want to have as your main field of expertise?” [Elder Zheng]
”Yes elder, I do have a priority. I would like to take the Apothecary exam first and am thinking of taking it as my major field of expertise for the future.” [Astra]
Saying and hearing this much, elder Zheng stood up from his seat and nodded at the other elders and told Astra and Nanea to follow them, more precisely the apothecary elder Chen, to the test ground of apothecary hall where the tests for the student aiming for increasing their experience in Apothecary take tests.
After the group followed Elder Chen for around 5 minutes, they arrived at the Apothecary hall. The hall was located in the back part of the Heavenly Sword Sect cause concocting any kind of pill of elixir required a calm and quite environment.
Astra and Nanea had this awed look on their faces, it was not much for Nanea as she had been here before but it was too much for Astra to take. He was in a daze as he had never seen anything like this before neither in his old world nor here. He could see a garden filled with multiple colors of multiple kind of herbs. And on looking closer he could identify some of the herbs which he had learned about during his stay in the Sect Library. The garden added an inexplicable charm and beauty to the environment. All in all the scene was so serene that anyone who gazed at it would feel their mind and sould calm down, and this state would be really important for cultivators as the state of mind they attain would be real beneficial for their cultivation.
Looking at the dazed Astra all the Elders and Nanea smiled at him as at this moment Astra seemed like kid who had just left the wings of his mother and had stepped in the world.
But the smile that Nanea had was not that simple as it also carried the complicated emotion that she had since a day before. But no one had noticed it and all of them began following Elder Chen to the test grounds, where the basic attainment in the field of apothecary are practiced and tested.
When the group of elders walked in along with two disciples, it attracted a lot of attention. All the disciples gathered there looking at the group trying to figure out why all the elders including the Head Elder was here and what was the identity of the two disciples that were following them.
The disciples began to whisper among themselves asking each other what their identity was. At that moment one of the disciple who had seen and heard of Nanea a couple of times spoke. ”Ah… Isn't that the Inner Sect Disciple who goes by the name Nanea”. When he spoke those words all of them looked at him and after hearing his words some other disciples that had seen her also confirmed his words. After confirming one of the duo disciples identity, they began asking around who the second one could be.
Neglecting what others talked about, the duo kept following the elders, till they reached a section where the test and practice in the attainment in the basic knowledge of apothecary were carried out.
When the instructor who was responsible for that section saw the elders heading his way, the instructor went to the elders and greeted them.
All the elders nodded at him them, then Elder Zheng nodded at Elder Chen, after which Elder Chen spoke to the Instructor.
”I need you to conduct a test of highest level in the attainment of basic insights on the field of apothecary for that boy over there. Oh.. and rather than conducting the concoction test, I need you to conduct the another test as this disciple has never even seen how pills and elixirs are concocted. You get what I mean right? And as for the consequence of the standard test, just ignore it for this once since it is not a formal test and we just want to test his attainment and nothing more.” [Elder Chen]
Elder Chen spoke pointing at Astra.
The instructor was shocked with what he heard. Firstly the cause of his shock was that, the elders themselves came in order to conduct a disciple test, and another cause was that the test they had to conduct instead of concoction test, which was the most difficult of all the tests which even veteran apothecary are scared of.