Which fruit to take? Waiting online, very anxious

Chapter 5 Which fruit to take? Waiting online, very anxious!

They continued to walk and headed towards the pavilion. It seems that the entrance to main building was this pavilion.

The pavilion was rather wide with height reaching 15-feet tall. The supporting pillars itself would need two or three adults put together to surround it. And there's dozens of them!

Seeing them, the teenager even thought of the Temple of Zeus in legend. But compared to the temple, which was rectangular in shape, this one was circular.

The area of the building was circular. The front half was the open-air pavilion with high ceiling supported by dozens of pillars.

While the back-side half of the circular was a several story building with solid walls. The building had a dome-like architecture.

In such a way, the building can easily be seen as having two different building being constructed into one, the pavilion and the dome building, forming the main building.

While he was impressed by the building architectural details, he suddenly saw it.

There in the center of the pavilion, there's an opening without roof. It's a garden, though felt dwarfed as compared to the outside. But it is large and wide enough.

The built and arrangement was much better and with a single glance one knows special care had been put into building it.

There's flowerbed spread across the opening; lush green attractive bushes surrounded. There's a sense of symmetry and coherency about it between the arrangement of flowerbed, the grass, the bushes, and the garden's stone path.

Such arrangement felt like some type of pattern or formation.

At the center of it, there's a 3-feet high white platform. Beside it, there's a huge tree.

He stopped his footstep. Because even from far away, he could see it. If it was in any other places, he would not take another glance nor care too much about any huge tree.

But here was different.

Here's the ancestor's place.

Here exists the legendary existence that he had dreamt of ever since he was a child.

Looking from afar it seems it was indeed sacred. There's a faintly light coming out, glowing on and around the tree.

The tree was so high that it went beyond the pavilions roof. The tree was lush with healthy green leaves sparkling under the sunlight.

At this moment he was petrified and didn't move one step from the spot. He kept looking at the tree in the garden.

Beside him, the two adults noticed the teenager behavior and stopped. Seeing him fascinatedly looking into the garden, the two of them glanced at each other meaningfully.

"Your Uncle Frank and I am going to meet the ancestor. You wait here first."

"Here, takes this ring. This is grandfather's gift for your coming-of-age and becoming an adult."

Hearing his grandfather calling him, the teenager recalled back his mind and senses. He looked to the two adults and look to the ring his grandfather gave him.

This was a peculiar ring made by metal.

It seems to be made of silver with unique pattern. The ring itself there's some wood and leaves pattern circling around its band.

Its head was inlaid with a glowing blue azure oval-shaped jewel. Once touched, if one carefully observed, the jewel gives out a little heat.

The teenager's mind was still distracted by the tree he saw. So, when his grandfather gives him the ring, he just absent-mindedly took the ring.

When he wore the ring onto his right-hand ring finger, he felt a slight prick on his finger. But looking back to it, there's nothing wrong with his finger nor the ring. Was it his imagination?

"What's wrong?" the grandfather asked knowingly with a hidden smile.

"Nothing," replied the teenager, while his attention went back to the garden.

"Well, you wait here. Don't go wondering around everywhere," the old man reminded.

Then he followed Sir Frank to another side of the pavilion into the deep place.

Knowing his grandfather was gone, the teenager stood there for a while. Then he looked around to see whether there's anyone else here.

After ensuring that he is alone for several times and shouting for his grandfather without any reply, he finally determined his intention. He knows his grandfather was now away and it would be a while before he comes back.

And no one would care nor monitor him here.

He slowly walked toward the garden.

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Entering the garden, he looked around again to make sure that he was alone. No one was paying attention to him.

Then looking at the tree, "Ohh. Ohh. It was indeed like what the eldest sister said. Awesome."

"Is that the legendary fruit?" he saw high above the tree, there's a translucent and glittering fruit of alluring varying colors.

There were black fruits, white fruits, green fruits, yellow fruit, red fruit as well as various other fruits with different colors. There were also some fruits with a mixture of the colors, forming some pattern.

Looking at these alluring fruits, he couldn't wait to find some ladder and climb up the tree. Unfortunately, there's no ladder around, and the tree was too high. The lowest branches were at least 12-feet away from the ground.

He thought about it and went towards the tree.

Walking carefully while looking around for any sign of people coming over.

After he almost reach several feet away from the white platform located in the center, he stopped.

He carefully observed the platform. It's a cylinder platform with height around 3-feet with a 6-feet diameter.

Looking up, from where his was standing, from his eyesight angle, he could see the whole view of the magnificence tree. Each part of the tree was clearly exhibit in front of his eyes.

There were breeze blowing faintly making the leaves flutters around in rhythmic and orderly movement.

With each movement of the branches, he as if saw the fruits beaming and beckoning towards him, urging him a bit faster to take and eat it.

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"Which one should I choose? That fiery one looks attractive. Maybe I could become fire mage?"

"Or maybe that black fruit? That's seems to have the appearance of metal and knighthood."

"Ah, but the temptation of being a cleric is also great. I don't want to get hurt and unable to heal myself"

"Or maybe I can get all type of fruits?"

He keeps mumbling to himself while in having a dilemma on which fruit of to eat. Even though he still didn't know how to reach and pick up the fruit high above, but he already imagine himself playing with spells and charging forward with horse and armor.

He once heard from his eldest sister. At that time, he had asked whether the fruit could also allow him to soar to the sky.

Though he had never gotten any confirmation from his eldest sister and elder brother in the end, the two older siblings had hinted. They told him that maybe if you are lucky, you might be able to fly. After all that's a miracle fruit.

Hearing the words, he was so excited that he couldn't sleep that night and keep imagining flying around the capital city and going to the sea. Picking up girls. Becoming a knight saving princess in distress.

In his excitement he never noticed the foxlike eye and mischievous smile the two siblings showed when saying those words.

So, at this moment, the most important thing...

"Which one can let me fly through the sky? That's the point."

He, who dreamt of soaring to the sky since he was a child, teasing the birds and flying between lands, ocean and seas, cannot resist the temptation of being able to fly.

Which fruit am I supposed to take? Waiting online, very anxious!