20: Arrival

After he sat on his seat, he tried to look as relaxed as he could because he knew that most of these people would either be from the sage families or those who had fought the death battles in the tournament and won.

He didn't want to look out of place between these people and cause future problems for himself.

The train didn't leave the station for the next hour, in this period many people had gone past the train but nobody noticed their presence.

From time to time some students would come and enter the carriage. Once the Carriage B was fully packed with people the C&D carriage was then slowly being filled.

At 10:00 sharp the Elder which used to come out of the A carriage in the front signalled with his hands to the front of the train and the train started to move while the elder who was standing outside the train slowly disappeared.

Looking at this Wade was quite shocked because even with Abby scanning he couldn't find where the Elder had gone.

As the train started to move it slowly picked up speed but in front of it, the people could only see Darkness.

He didn't know how long he was there in the darkness while the train was running, but he could still feel the train was moving in a single Direction without turning left or right.

Even in this environment which was gloomy and quite spooky to be fair enough, Wade didn't show any signs of fear.

After two to three hours according to Abby's calculation, the train finally stopped and not knowing when the darkness around the train was slowly lifted, but when the scenery outside was totally revealed all of them were shocked, as it was a mountain.

The situation didn't shock them, as to whether they were in the wilderness or not really didn't matter but because the way they were looking at the mountain shocked them as it was from the top.

The train was in the air and they were looking at the mountain from topside and on the mountain they could see some kind of invisible dome.

Because as the train descended, on the side from where the train was entering the dome-shaped invisible wall started to give birth to a small hole in it but even though there was a hole they could only see Darkness behind it.

Slowly as the train entered the Dome the hole from which they entered because of the train slowly started to collapse and close on itself.

But their attention was grabbed by the huge City-sized Palace that was built below them. It was so huge that its size was at least half of Gazi district. Slowly the train started to head towards the East direction of this castle and landed.

After the train landed on the ground knocking sound could be heard from the outside and then the doors opened.

An elderly looking woman was standing outside of the train and said, "All new students of the Black Academy come down from the train and form three lines according to the carriage you were in." she commanded.

As soon as the command was given the students without any hesitation started to come down from the train in an orderly manner and formed three lines as the woman had commanded.

The woman looking at the situation nodded but before she could say anything the elder which they had seen vanish earlier reappeared again in front of them out of thin air.

After nodding in the woman's direction he left in the west direction as his figure vanished again.

The students were again shocked to see such a magical scene happen in front of their eyes the so many times but still not being able to understand it.

Looking at the students eyes the woman laughed and said, "Alright! Kids! Now follow me into the testing area!"

As if remembering something she also said,

"You guys can call me Mina, of the beautiful Mensel Shine Tower. Trust me, if you are to choose a faction, the Mensel Shine Tower is definitely your best choice!"

Mina brought Wade and the rest, a total of 90 odd people, into the middle of the hall room.

Here, was a large door of pure black colour, and there were still strange animal patterns on the outside of it. They seemed like both decorations, and yet resembled writing as well.

Wade could not help but look at it closely, "Abby! Begin Scan!"

[Beep! Forming Image!] Abby sent the information, but in the constructed image, there was nothing on the walls, as if the pattern had never existed before.

"How could this be?" Wade stared at the wall once again with disbelief.

"Sage's, are they always this mysterious?" Wade wiped his cold sweat off, still carrying a lingering suspicion of the occurrences earlier.

"Oh! You guys need to give us your token, and take the aptitude test! And then it will be time for department selection!" saying this Mina started to collect the tokens from everybody starting from his line.

After taking all the tokens she went inside the room and there was complete silence outside, it stayed this way for some time until the voice came.

"Come over!" An ancient voice sounded.

It was very spacious inside the room, and there was only a white-haired old man sitting on a black chair and a crystal ball which rested on quite a number of tables in the room looking at the scene Wade could discern that it was approximately the same amount as them.

"You have all been gathered here to take an aptitude test. This test will help us organize your according to the aptitude you have as well as discern the elements you are good with and what kind of latent talents are held inside your life Matrix.

You might not understand most of what this test will interpret because you have not started on your journey to becoming a sage but after this test you will be given one lesson in which all the basics required for starting your journey towards the sage will be thought to you.

As for the rest of the instructions all will be given after the lesson, so let's start the test. Now go to the Crystal ball on which has your name written to take your test."