'1000 years!!!!! How can a simple little town survive for 1000 years??!! Even history's greatest empires fell in less than 1000 years!! This world..... will I have another hope to live for?'
"Come on kids walk forward in an orderly manner, One person at a time, Don't make a fuss"
Antara and the other kids were brought inside the town hall following the 11 people that are supposedly the clan's higherups. Inside the hall was spacious the walls were made of something similar to oakwood and the walls and ceiling were painted intricately with paintings depecting people living through different ages, The most obvious painting was of a young man downed in white robe with black hair and black eyes, He was holding a sword in one hand while the other was stretched forward, In the middle of the hall stood the 10 higherups and the seemingly clan leader, In front of them was a small pond built with white jade like material, The water inside of it was bone white. "The clan elder will call out your names one by one step forward to finish the ceremony and determine your future prospects",
"Qais son of Qabil come forward, Stand in the center of the jade spirit pond, You need to stand there still without movement in order to awaken your magicas sea."
After saying this the clan leader ordered the elders to activate the pond, The pond shone in white light of mildly bright intensity, "Good Grade aptitude, Great young hero you will be of great help to the clan, now step back in line"
"AlMansour son of AlNassir come forward, Stand in the center of the jade spirit pond, You need to stand there still without movement in order to awaken your magicas sea."
The same happened after activating the jade spirit pond, It shone with a mild light this time, "Average grade aptitude, You will be a usefull asset to the clan, now step back in line"
"Amr son of Omayr come forward, Stand in the center of the jade spirit pond, You need to stand there still without movement in order to awaken your magicas sea."
After the same process the jade spirit pond didn't shine.
"No aptitude to practice mystical arts, You will be of use for the clan still, now step back in line"
"It seems this year's aptitude measuring ceremony will be like last year's"
"Yeah some candidates might show a Good Grade aptitude but mostly it will be Average and Null grade aptitudes"
"It seems the ancestors' blessing is weakining, The Abu Amr bloodline is getting weaker, For the past 20 years we haven't gotten an Excellent Grade aptitude."
The elders spoke amongst themselves, Comparing the past years' Aptitude Measuring Ceremonies with this year's.
The ceremony continued for a while until ..."Antara son of Shadad come forward, Stand in the center of the jade spirit pond, You need to stand there still without movement in order to awaken your magicas sea"
after that the elders proceeded to activate the jade spirit pond, The pond shone with a mild light, "Average Grade Aptitude, You will certainly be of use to the clan, now step back in line".
'Average Grade? huh? I guess that's what I should've expected, From what I can decipher this aptitude grading measures how high can a person reach in their life in whatever this magicas mystical arts thing is, I wouldn't be born with a golden spoon in my mouth anyway or in this case rebirthed with a golden spoon'.
Antara thought to himself as he was walking back in line, while the ceremony continued another name was called out, "Yousif son of Ayub come forward, Stand in the center of the jade spirit pond,You need to stand there still without movement in order to awaken your magicas sea", As the jade spirit pond was activated it shone with a light of incredible intensity, Antara hasn't seen the jade spirit pond shine with this much intensity with all the previous awakenings, It was so bright that he squinted his eyes trying to check the situation.
"Excellent Grade Aptitude!!! You Are The Future Of The Clan!! This Calls for A Celebration! Come forward son, We have a lot of things to discuss after the ceremony young dragon."
The leader said and murmurs started going on around the clansmen as they cheered for securing the future of the clan as they see it
"Sigh... to think after all those years we finally can secure the future of the clan" Haroon the elder with the most influence inside the clan after the clan leader said while inwardly thinking 'This fox, He made his move as soon as he saw the kid was an excellent grade aptitude, Trying to keep the leadership inside his family by roping in talents'
"Now continuing the ceremony, Thankfully the ancestors haven't discarded us, Next hero come forward Khaled son of Waleed, Stand in the center of the jade spirit pond,You need to stand there still without movement in order to awaken your magicas sea" the leader said that as his mood was obviously a lot better than before, then suddenly..."Another Excellent Grade Aptitude!!!!!!".