Bening asked her carriage driver to drive Jago to his own courtyard first. Once Jago reached his personal courtyard, he came out from the carriage, bowed to his elder sister and closed the carriage's door. He watched the carriage rode slowly and until it was no longer could be seen among the trees then Jago walked into his own courtyard.
When he came to his courtyard, his beautiful personal maid, Semok Grey, was waiting patiently. The small boy then asked for some lunch to be prepared. He also asked Semok to bring his lunch to his room instead of the dining room.
Jago walked to his room and sat down on the floor. He closed his eyes and started to meditate. Noble family descendant would be taught to meditate early on. Even before the element affinity test, or so called awakening ceremony, conducted when once ages reach 5 years old.
The meditation taught to them was normally only to attune them to the element energy that exist in the nature. No absorption of element energy was allowed before the element affinity test. In this stage, the purpose of meditation was only to "feel" the existence of the element energy. They were not allowed to withdraw any element energy into his body before the affinity element test conducted.
The main reason was because a mistake of the element selection will hinder the progress of the individual during their cultivation. Someone would not know which element will have highest affinity for him/her before the test, even if they could feel the element and drew them to their body. If the element he chose was not the correct element that matches with their affinity, it would only hinder the progress for their cultivation.
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Year 4580, Day 128, Five Element Calendar.
In the Five Elements Continent, there was exist so called cultivator. These cultivator cultivated element energy that naturally available on the surrounding. To cultivate that element energy, cultivator need to absorb and accumulated those element energy into their body for further use. After thousands of years of development, it was known that absorption rate of each individual persons was different.
This element energy absorption rate was given by birth right and could not be changed or altered. After years and years of development, the absorption rate of element energy was studied in details thus the cultivator society had established a standardized method of measuring and grading of this process. At current time, it was commonly called as element affinity.
Element affinity was very important to every being live at Five Element Continent. It could greatly affect someone's life. It would also decide the future and glory for each persons. By right, everyone would be born with affinity to the element energy. It might be strong affinity or the opposite. Since the cultivation path on the continent involved with the absorbing and refining of element energy, a strong affinity to the element energy would've helped tremendously during cultivation.
In order to know someone's affinity level, tests needed to be conducted to measure their affinity to nature's element energy. The test normally would be conducted when a child older than 5 years old.
Element affinity test was simple. It was done using specialized formation with main function to detect and measure the element energy absorption rate. The formation would directly measures how "close" someone to the nature element energy. The formation used for the affinity test called 'Element Sensing Formation'.
This formation was not a specialized or sophisticated formation that would hinder any persons to know their own element affinity. Thus there was no accident where a genius prohibited to be tested or unnoticeable prodigy or similar cases like that happening on the empire.
The formation normally would be installed in every lowest education level on the Kingdom which was Primary Academy. Mass test would be conducted every year to catch those gifted children with above average element affinity. And the test itself was free of charge.
The kingdom's education system was totally developed and it was closely related to the Kingdom's governmental system. Every graduate from the academy would be offered to serve for the Kingdom's offices. There was no case of unemployed academy's graduate on the kingdom.
The affinity test itself was also became mandatory requirement as passing point of each student who applied to the academy. In subsequently, syllabus on each academy was also tailored to suit element affinity of each student. Then, the affinity test became standard practice before entering the academy.
On the Five Element Continent, the education system was separated into three major levels. The lowest level education was called Primary Academy, then continued to the middle stage Advanced Academy and lastly the highest education level which would be conducted in Royal Empire Academy.
An empire consisted from dozen of subordinate kingdoms. A kingdom would be consisted of several dukedoms. That was the only three level of nobility known on the empire. Each dukedom would establish its own Primary Academy.
Only the kingdom allowed establishing the Advanced Academy. Thus in each Kingdom, only one Advanced Academy could be found and it was normally located in the Kingdom's Capital.
For the highest level education which would be the Royal Empire Academy, it would be located on the empire capital.
The education system on the empire was designed to be a continuous system thus it would be impossible for someone to directly enroll on the Royal Empire Academy without studied on the Primary and Advanced Academy.
With the limited quota of the student's enrollment, especially in the higher grade such as Advanced and Empire Academy, the entrance test and student enrollment became hot topic for discussion on the empire.
Element affinity test would be required to be conducted before entering the Primary Academy. Since affinity level was birth-given talent, it would be impossible to change or alter it, thus a repeated element affinity test never required for higher Academy enrollment.
For royal kingdom family members, element affinity test would be conducted in the Primary Academy's Element Sensing Formation. Due to the royal family's status, the ritual would be led by the Academy's Principal.