Chapter 3: Martial ROOTS

Situated on four large mountains was the Imperial College. Established by the great Emperor Hei Wuchen to cultivate the citizens into great people and martial artists all around the land. With such a long historical background, the Imperial Academy became the renowned holy Land of the Hei Empire. The examination to recruit new students was held after every three years. Being of great heritage, people from all over the Empire did their best to enroll in the school.

Outside was a large crowd of people in preparation for the enrollment exercise. Whoever passed the exercise would officially become a student of the Imperial College.

The students were differentiated into outer court disciples, inner court disciples, and direct disciples. The inner court disciples were highly respected and held equal authority with some of the elders in the College. Above them were the direct disciples who were directly under Palace Masters. Below the Inner court disciples were the outer court disciples who were also known as the Freshers of the school. It was extremely hard to get into the Imperial College and those who did were either highly talented or shared a strong backing.

After a while, a great aura descended causing many people to all have a difficulty in breathing. Before that Big Brother released his causing the pressure to decrease tremendously on Futian's side. Knowing that there were Martial experts in the congregation, the three elders reduced their auras letting the people have sigh.

Before the congregation was three experts. One was bald with thick dark skin and dressed in green robes. Besides him was a beautiful lady with fair skin and long dark hair falling behind her back. Her dress was white spotless as snow. She could be called a beauty. Beside her was a young man clad in white just like the lady. With him was a calm unwavering expression that gave off a feeling of unshakeable mountain Tai.

" Welcome everyone to this year's enrollment exercise. My name is Ounyu Rein, an elder at the Imperial College, and will also be your teacher. However, today I shall be the Head Invigilator in today's exam. Don't worry everything in this test shall be free and fair. Besides are Mu You and Lu Chong fellow examiners in this test." the bald man's voice echoed out throughout the premises. There was total silence as the audience gave him their ears.

"Today's test shall be divided into two parts. One is the Martial root test and the second is the beast core test," he added.

" Okay let me hope everyone has got that into their heads. In the Martial root test anyone without a Human orange ranked Martial root will have to be disqualified. You should know where you belong. As for the beast core test, Mu You shall give each of you the details.No needed for you to panic."

" As expected of the Imperial College, with such high standards; few people will make it to the end of the test."

" Of course, the holy Land has greater requirements."

"Cheri! I have already failed this test. My talent is too low."

" What do you meet brother? Why not?"

" Don't you see my Martial root is Human grade green? How can I continue with the test."

" Alas! Me too."

" Don't worry! you can try enrolling into the Military Academy."

" Right! That's my only option."

Discussions erupted in the congregation as the lecture continued.

Elder Ounyu Rein continued to elaborate on the rules and regulations of the enrollment exercise as everyone listened carefully.

In the Martial World, Martial roots played a big role in the development of people's futures. Martial roots played in big in holding one's talents. Martial roots were divided into three groups. The Human Martial roots, The earth martial roots, and Heavenly martial roots. Among the three Human Martial roots were the commonest followed by the Earth and lastly Heavenly Martial roots. In each of the above, martial roots were further divided into Yellow, Green, Blue, Orange, Red, and lastly Violet.

Before that Human Orange, Red and Violet were the minimum requirements for the test while those with Earth Martial roots were recorded as geniuses in the Empire. Anyone with a Heavenly martial root would be counted as a dragon as they were highly valued by the Empire. These had a right of being direct disciples of the Palace Masters.

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