The Seven Deadly Child
Test Preparation
main Hall of the House of Alknight
Like the main hall of a large house, the hall of the house of Alknight is magnificent. Rows of paintings of large figures from Alknight house neatly lined up, equipped with deskirpsi along with their positions and achievements when they were alive.
These paintings are used as a reminder to the next generation, of how amazing and stylish their house is. These paintings also served as a motivating force for later generations to train diligently, so that one day their paintings were also displayed in the main hall of the family, remembered and admired by later generations. This is the highest achievement in the family.
In addition to a row of paintings of large figures in the family, the main hall is also filled with first-class furniture. It has become a tradition, that the main hall of a house is the prestige and prestige of the house, because the main hall is also used to welcome important guests who visit a house. The main hall is the front face used to welcome guests.
Currently inside the main hall, a row of chairs in a circular arrangement surrounded one large table. On the table, there was a row of papers piling up. While in each chair, sitting all the important figures in the house, they were seriously observing the notes in the paper.
"Sister what do you think? Is there any good potential in our house this year?"
The heavy sound of the full wiabowah broke the silence. The one who asked was none other than a man in his 50s. He had a stern face with sharp yet dazzling eyes.
His carrying made the person who saw him pushed to lower his head, would not dare to look at him for too long.
This man was none other than Arduric Alknight. Lord of the current generation Alknight house. The most influential figure in the house, as well as having the highest authority.
"Sir, to be honest the result of monitoring our young house talents whether it's a nuclear family or a branch family in some areas, judging from the bone quality tests and which flow around the meridians we did a few days ago, the results are quite satisfactory."
"This shows that this year there are many talents whose quality is above average, although there is no indication of the emergence of talent that has dual Element seed like the first young lady and the second young master."
"Our hope may only be in the third young master, whose results of the bone quality test as well as his mana flow are amazing. However, we still need to wait for the certainty of the official test results from the imperial envoy that will come in a few more days."
The one who answered was the man next to the Lord. The man at first glance looks very similar to Lord Arduric, because he is none other than his second brother, Bosweric Alknight, who also serves as the second vice lord in the house. His job is to become a master who takes care of the care and education of young talents in the house.
In the Glaire empire, house-houses could only take outside measurements for young talents. Limited to the quality of the bones and their mana flow, unless they had an expert who specifically grew the heavenly eye manual commonly called a necromancer. The necromancer was able to see the growth of Element seeds in one's soul.
Training the heavenly eye manual in addition to requiring talent, also required not a little resources. This manual specializes in observation and research on the human body. Few were interested in this manual, because other than for the observation of the soul and the human body, this science was useless at all in battle.
Therefore, large houses usually do not want to waste their talent and resources for this manual. Only the imperial side had hereditary training necromancers to continuously monitor the development of talents within the empire.
Large houses would usually wait for necromancers from the upcoming empire to conduct a talent assessment each year.
Annual appraisals were very important to every house, as the results of these appraisals would determine their prestige in the eyes of the empire. The more good talents were born, the higher their prestige. The higher the prestige, meant the more resources the house received from the empire.
In addition, the annual assessment also served for the entrance qualification test within the knight academy in the empire.
The knight academy in Glaire empire was split into 3, namely the Heaven Academy, which would take care of young talent who had the potential to become an A-grade knight. Then the Earth Academy, which nurtured young talent who had the potential to become a B-class knight. Lastly the general Academy, which nurtures young talent with average knight potential.
"Good! very nice! finally the revival of our House will not be long"
One of the elders responded.
"We must continue to pay attention to the flow of resources for the development of young talents in the future!"
One by one the house elders began to respond to the news of young talent development with enthusiasm and enthusiasm.
The House of Alknight used to be the number one house in Glaire Empire. Countless talents are born in this House each year.
They donated many great generals to Glaire Empire. It can be said that the House of Alknight is one of the pillars that maintain and sustain the Glaire Empire.
In addition, the founder of the House of Alknight was also the adopted brother of the founder of Glaire Empire. This made the relationship between the Glaire empire and the House of Alknight intertwined quite well
But a few decades ago, or exactly 150 years ago. There was a horde of Demonic beasts within the Glaire Empire region, this horde of Demonic Beasts was led by several extremely powerful Demonic Beast Kings. This event is known in the history of the Glaire Empire as a Demonic Beast disaster.
This incident resulted in many fatalities and threatened the foundation of Glaire Empire. In this difficult situation, the House of Alknight advanced at the very forefront of leading the imperial army as well as other large houses, to face the horde of Demonic Beasts.
In a difficult and protracted struggle, they finally managed to kill several Demonic Beast Kings along with their horde, they managed to beat back and stop the disaster.
But the price paid by Glaire Empire in this incident is also not small, many great generals who died in battle. This made the foundation and strength of the Glaire Empire decrease, and ended up making them the weakest empire in the North Region.
The one who suffered the most in this incident other than the imperial side was the House of Alknight. Many of the great imperial generals who died were members of their House.
In addition, many of their young talents were also killed in this disaster, because they were the ones who took the lead and stood at the very front when the Demonic Beast disaster occurred.
This made the foundation of the House of Alknight collapse, from what was originally a Gold-ranked House, to be down to a Bronze-ranked House.
While the fame when becoming the leader of the war against Demonic Beasts only lasted for a few moments. Due to the destruction of their foundations, other House-Houses began to replace them.
On the other hand, several other empires began to threaten the territory of the Glaire empire, the depressed Glaire empire party, the, finally divert their resources to houses that still have a strong foundation and have faster potential to rise.
This situation made the position of the House of Alknight difficult and they began to lag behind the other House-Houses.
Today, hearing the annual reports of young talents starting to appear in the house even though with limited resources, the house elders are certainly becoming enthusiastic.
"Okay, very good! sister, your work is excellent in leading the youth development and education division, it is not wrong that I forced you to return home earlier than the empire a few years ago. Haha…."
Lord Arduric lashed his sister's tea-drinking shoulders and began to laugh out loud, showing him great satisfaction and pride in his younger brother's performance. Without a care the little sister choked on the diminishing tea.
"My master, you're too complimentary" Bosweric replied as he rubbed his mouth, and looked at his brother with a dangerous look.
Bosweric began to grumble inwardly, 'brother, if I had not heard the report that my talented nieces and nephews would be the pillars of the family began to become little delinquents because you often pamper, I won't want to go home sooner and become a family caretaker, even if you insist and beg!'
'I haven't even had time to get a wife to take home shit! and how many times have I told you not to call me sister in an official family meeting. Basic self-knowing, remember your position as god! are you really my brother from the same parents? why are we so different?'
Of course in front of many people he did not dare to speak his mind. Waiting for the right time to rebuke her brother.
Looking at the gaze of the younger brother, the originally loud and proud laughter of Lord Arduric began to become an awkward laughter and finally stopped, feeling cold on his back. He immediately switched the subject, continuing the family meeting meeting.
The family meeting was followed by reports from the elders about the flow of resources, security, and other important things that happened in the House during this year. Then closed with the division of tasks in the nearest agenda, namely the welcoming of members of the imperial necromancer who will perform the Element seed test in their families in the next few days.
The elders began to leave the family hall, which left behind only the elder brother-in-law and the second vice-Lord.
Lord Arduric knew that if his brother did not leave immediately when the meeting was over, there was something he wanted to discuss with him. Feeling that the sister wanted to prolong the matter earlier, she would immediately step away, as if she did not understand the intention of her sister staying.
"Sister, can't we have a drink here for a second? I have something to talk to you about"
The voice of the younger brother made Lord Arduric's footsteps stop, he flipped his body and put on a friendly smile.
"Sister, there's actually an elder who needs my help to take care of something important.so, I'm in a bit of a hurry on this, if you don't.."
"Sister, I want to talk about Theo." before the elder brother finished speaking, Bosweric immediately cut him off.
"Ohh my handsome son Theo, what's wrong with him?" knowing that would get into trouble was Theo and not him, Arduric immediately sat down and brewed tea.
The corner of Bosweric's eyes twitched, irritated by his brother's sudden change of attitude. 'this attitude, this feeling, now I will no longer doubt whether Theo my nephew or not' swallowed his frustration in heart, Bosweric then began to continue talks.
"Sister, when I did the Meridian test and the flow of mana to Theo a few days ago, I noticed some peculiarities in his development."