Chapter 397: Tests (1/2)

There were parents and their children, mothers to their young, fathers to their offspring, and vice versa, relating in pure display of love and affection.

Calming words were given. Encouraging advises were exchanged. A heartening last farewell to a loved one they might not see again for the coming years.

You stop to think of this and wondered of your own parents. Since the empty void and the inception of time and space, you have always been alone.

You simply existed and knew nothing about your kin, much less of one to call a father or mother of your own. Thus, the feelings you witnessed in droves right now were basically alien to you.

But it never failed to give you an amusement to while the time away as you wait. Sigh! You were the 10,343rd applicant and realized that this was going to be a long one indeed.

Five hours later, the angry sun was now fiercest in its high noon shade and you were finally next in line. You saw the outstretched hands of a sexy lady.

A dark robe may have hindered most of her parts but the curvaceous allure of her frame was not lost in the eyes of a trained observer.

”Hello, woman.” you couldn't keep yourself from saying as you gave her the payment for the trial. This was the most beautiful girl you've seen so far in this city.

While there might be others but you purposely haven't used your all seeing eyes to peek on those flowers just yet. You wanted to search them all by chance or perhaps by fate.

Or what was the point in living here together with the ants and not feel what it was to be like them? A puny existence in a single breath amidst the endless span of a timeless eternity.

”Call me woman again and i shall have you eating your teeth down your throat, Mister Handsome.” Quite fierce and threatening. A woman worth taming.

You immediately noted her in your list of interesting persons and would have liked to retort a smart one but now was not the time.

And so you responded with a smile instead and proceeded to enter the hallowed grounds beyond the veil of mortals.

Only a thin violet cloth separated the outside from what's within and when you passed through that, a whole new world has affronted your vision.

The simple cottage the size of a house was in truth a facade for a huge expanse of lands. Everything was different here for even the smell of the air was imbued by an unusual substance. Sweet and palpable.

The sky was inky black with its starless deluge of deep emptiness. And the tall structures were akin to the raging waves of creation in the entire Mythborne city itself.

Magical was the word you described to such scene.

”Welcome aspiring student!” You heard a voice broke your intimate perusal of this magnificent place. You searched the cause of the sound and saw no one around.

No people but the imposing towers before your eyes. You could not even perceive the footsteps and the shadows of the ones who came before you.

In your eyes, you were the sole breathing soul in your immediate vicinity.

”Don't fear, young man. I am indeed here.” the eerie voice said again.

Though most of the applicants were young, teenagers really, but it was good that the school didn't bar the admittance of older ones.

As long as money was available then there was no cause for concern. It was ultimately a good trade for both parties. Thus, your 30 something appearance would be aptly still considered young.