Chapter 67 - Test - I (1/2)

After entering the building, Aryan took me to a room which quite close to the entrance in the same floor. The inside of the Elders building was not as grand as the outside. It was quite simple and which was a good thing in my books. Aryan knocked on the door and we heard someone from inside giving permission to enter.

Inside the room I found an old man waiting for me. He looked similar to Dumbledore with a similar beard and long rain but thankfully he did not wear those hideous clothes. Instead he was wearing clothes that were similar in design to those that Aryan wore but were completely white. His overall look and feel was the closest thing to a sage in my mind.

Since my mage sight was active, I saw the same weird magic core on him. by now i knew that most probably everyone will have a similar magical core they must have achieved it using some means. The aura of strength he was giving out was quite close to that of what I felt from Dumbledore. My guess is that he has similar strength to that of Dumbledore without the Elder wand.

The room itself was ordinary. It had a big table and chair for the Elder along with bookshelves were huge registers were stored. For guests there were some wooden chairs. There was a fire pit for heating the room and that was it.

When we entered the room Aryan bowed to the elder in respect which I imitated.

Aryan spoke first ”Elder Atulya, I have bought the guest as you instructed.”

The old man stared at me for a few second before saying ”What is your name child?”

I replied in a very respectful manner ”My name is Charles Daniel Falken, Elder.”

Elder Atulya said ”The Falken family, hmm. You are strong for someone your age. I have great expectations from you. Now lets move to your test grounds. We will continue the conversation after you pass the test. Aryan you are welcome to watch the test.”

He then walked towards the fire pit inside the room and said ”We will travel via what you call floo travel in Britain. Here we call it Fire travel. The different places are too far to walk every time so we use fire travel to move from one place to another. I am ȧssuming you know how to use the floo. The address is training ground 1. I will wait for you there.”

After walking outside, I was met with the sight of a large field surrounded on all sides by mountains. The only way out from here was to either use the floo or fly out. Other than that there was nothing special about the ground. I saw that there were some people already waiting for me inside the training ground. There were two other elders that wore clothes similar to that of Elder Atulya and also some five other people who wore similar clothes to that of Aryan's. I ȧssumed they were the apprentices of the Elders. They were all older than me and had gone through magical maturity from the looks of it. I think I will have to duel one of those people for the test.

When Elder Atulya saw me, he said ”Welcome Charles. These are Elder Akash and Elder Nainesh and some students of theirs. They are going to judge you along with me. For the test you have to duel Rohit here who joined the academy 2 years back and survive for 10 minutes. If you are able to do that, you pass.”