As Pavel left the council building with a dejected face , the nobles hollered and throwed taunting remarks at him and the commoner rakshasas, seated on the floors below .
"Next Room 3, Nessa from Nobility .." the voice echoed as the ceremony continued on amidst the cheers of nobility and sighs of the commoners.
"Room 75, Markus from the commoners "
As Markus stepped on the dais and came in view of the audience , his 5.8 feet lean stature with night black jade skin was seen . A protruding canine was also seen and Markus retraced his claws of his hands and feet showing them towards the audience .
Cheers came from the commoner's floors as they felt overjoyed that one of theirs was able to pass the ritual . They had high hopes that one day a commoner amongst them would become a high priest and elevate their position in the society .
A ruckus started on the 40th floor among the nobles seated there and a council guard noticing this, reached the 40th floor through a long jump from the ground floor . He caught the noble, causing the ruckus and after listening to what the noble had to say, he brought the noble along with him to the 99th floor ,through another long jump.
The noble was sent back to his seat upon hearing his words and the voice of Lymic echoed " Everyone , please congrats Markus for awakening his bloodline ,it's a proud day for the commoner's indeed . But , unfortunately the bloodline which Markus has awakened was not from his family as he is not born from his commoner father' seed " Lymic said ,pointing towards a certain individual in the commoner section who was Markus's father .
Lymic continued " Markus is the illegitimate son of the third duke of the noble house of Tsakani's born through an illegitimate affair of his mother and the duke . I therefore present Markus with two choices, he can either continue on this ascension by keeping his identity as a commoner in which case his mother will be killed for acts of debauchery or Markus can accept a position of nobility in his real father's house by cutting all ties with his commoner family and thus sparing their lives . "
An uproar spread amongst the audience when they heard the news , the commoners felt as if they their face was burnt from shame hearing the abusive and slandering remarks of the nobles .
As Markus chose to save his mother , the ceremony continued on without any more hiccups until the last door remained to be open .
"Room 100 , Kaiser from …from ..well here is an interesting one , seems like this guy is neither from the nobility nor from the commoners . Guards bring his soulgem " Lymic ordered .
A soulgem was a special gem which recorded info about an individual's background ,place of birth , identity of his parents and so on by prying superficially into their soul , it was more of an online id card of the modern world.
Each candidate had to record their personal information using the soulgem before the awakening ritual.
As Lymic read the information on Kaiser's soulgem , he chuckled and said
" Oh my, who knew that we had this in store for us today. Everyone, the next participant ,Kaiser, is neither a nobility nor a commoner since he was seeded by a lowly human."
Hearing this there was a mighty uproar among the rakshasa's both among the nobility and the commoners . Even though the nobles and commoners differed by social status they shared a similar mind regarding their attitude towards humans .
"Silence ! Yes this spawn was fathered by a lowly human but he was born a rakshasa ..tsk…tsk.. so, he was allowed, as per our law, to undergo the ritual. " Lymic' s voice echoed silencing the disgruntled crowd .
"Hmm…guards… start preparation for the next part of the ceremony as I doubt this human spawn will take much of our time and he has little time left too in this world " Lymic ordered the council guards as he read about the punishment that Kaiser's maternal elders have set for him .
"Ok, room 100 , Kaiser of the damned , guard bring him in " Lymic chuckled at his own announcement .
The audience on all floors joined in the laughter amused at the name calling of Kaiser as they eagerly waited for the last candidate to fail in order to belittle and slander him and to gain pleasure from his despair and failure .
Epicaricacy or schadenfreude was an innate base nature of Rakshasa's