The Twelve Trials

After Daedalus caught up with the adventurer's group the dark elf said "What do you need? Have a quest for us to complete or something?"

Daedalus shook his head and said "I would like to join your adventurer's group."

One of the titans behind the dark elf laughed in a deep voice, he was covered in beautifully crafted plate armour. Eventually he stopped laughing and said "Such a weak elf wants to join us. No offence but you would need more talent than the current top elven genius to join us. In other words unless your below fifty and an S rank adventurer you should give up."

After saying what he wanted to say the titan turned around and began to walk away. The dark elf nodded agreeing with him and said "Is there anything else, we have a quest to complete?"

Daedalus smiled and said "Well for your information, I happen to be forty seven and an S rank adventurer."

The titan who had begun to walk away turned and looked at Daedalus with a judging glare. Daedalus could tell that he was looking for the veracity of Daedalus' words. So Daedalus didn't mind too much, however the titan eventually said "I can't tell, Jago what age is he?"

Daedalus smiled wryly at this but soon a young man walked forward and said "He seems to be in his mid forties. However his features seem to have previously looked older. What's your name?"

Daedalus spoke immediately "My name is Daedalus, I think you might have already guessed but I came from another world."

Jago chuckled and nodded agreeing to what Daedalus said before speaking himself "I think we should use the testing orb."

As Jago said that half the adventurer's group began yelling at him saying "He's clearly older than he says he is let's just go."

Jago shook his head and the dark elf rolled her eyes and handed a small orb to Jago. With the orb in one hand he grabbed Daedalus hand and pressed them together.

At first nothing happened however the orb quickly took in half of Daedalus' mana before producing the myriad lotus. Daedalus felt weak at the sudden decrease in mana and collapsed to the ground. As this happened the adventurer's group's eyes widened before Jago quickly hid the orb and picked Daedalus up.

By this time Daedalus was unconscious due to what happened but that didn't stop Jago and the others from taking him towards the palace. A short while later the group had made their way to the palace gates where the guards, seeing Daedalus, immediately let them in. At the same time the guard commander made his way into the palace and, bowing towards Ceridwen, he said "Your majesty, Daedalus is being returned by the Twelve Trials. He's unconscious and they seem worried about something."

As she heard this Ceridwen shouted "Let them in then, hurry."

A short while later Ceridwen and the Twelve Trials adventurer's group where stood around Daedalus speaking. Ceridwen said "Your telling me the testing orb formed the myriad lotus!?"