Kei slowly approached the oval platform and moved up the stairs looking towards the back gate of the oval building ,from where the commoners had gained entrance, through the corner of his eyes . "It is locked but is of medium height , with proper momentum I can jump over it " Kei thought .
He looked at the rakshasa guard standing near the stair fully clad in armor, "the neck region where his helmet ends and his chest plate starts is a vulnerable place and its not covered in armor, I can stab the jade piece there, but I will have only one shot at this ." Kei's mind devised plan after plans of escape as he finally approached the crystal skull.
"Hmm.. this skull must be an important artifact to them, I can use it as a leverage to flee if I can convince them that I will break it, or I can throw it to distract the guard near me" thoughts spun in Kei's head like a tornado .
As Kei extended his hands to touch the skull he thought " Shit, I should have taken someone from the 1st floor as hostage , all were of this nobility shit , I could have leveraged their lives by inducing fear in their family , but its too late now. I will stick to my other plans ."
As Kei's hand made contact with the crystal skull , the skull shone in a binding light and circular shapes started to form on the glass platform .
As the binding light dimmed down all eyes stared at the glass platform where two full congruent circles had formed , one black and one golden . The circles overlapped each other and the wide intersection area of the two circles was of dark green colour which shone brighter than the black and golden hue.
Jaw- dropping silence grabbed everyone's mouth as all looked at the glass platform, unable to believe their eyes . Even the high priests and the grand clerics had stood up from their seats in astonishment .
Soon reality checked in and all gathered their senses and as Cecil was about to speak he was abruptly stopped by Lymic, and his angry voice echoed.
" Honorable grand clerics, before you consider the results of this test I request you all to hear me out. This adolescent Rakshasa named Kaiser was born from the vile union of a rakshasa female and a human male , yet he passed the bestial bloodline awakening through some duplicitous means and now again is showing multiple domain affinity. This is not possible for a human-spawn , humans do not have any bestial bloodlines and neither do the females of our society. Kaiser is clearly making a fool of us by using some kind of forbidden spell, that's why I cannot sense it. I would urge you all clerics to consider this before coming to any decision."
The grand clerics looked at each other and as if all reaching a consensus mentally ,all released a ray of aura from their hands towards Kaiser.
Kei ,seeing the colored auras coming towards him, instinctively wanted to flee but felt that he could not move his legs and was somehow petrified in that spot. The auras varied in color from white, blue, orange ,black, brown, golden, and purple all signifying the colors of each domain swirled around Kei's body and then moved through his body in unison a number of times until they faded out .
"High Priest Lymic , we have reached our decision " one of the grand clerics wearing a golden apparel spoke slowly yet his voice echoed through the building .
"Kaiser is not using any spell ; we have all sensed his domain affinities inside him , so please continue " the voice ,of the grand cleric wearing dark purple apparel, echoed .
Lymic , angered at how he lost face in front of everyone ,motioned Cecil to continue while he stormed off inside his chamber on the 100th floor .
"Hmm.. Kaiser ,from neither the nobles nor the commoners ,has shown multiple domain affinities. The black colored circle signifies his shadow affinity while the golden circle shows his tantamount affinity in martial prowess. It is also a first time that the council has seen two affinities overlapping each other, the overlapped area is of dark green color which is unknown in the records of the council . It may be the color of an unknown domain or of the combined affinity of both shadow and martial domain .
Kaiser you may choose to join either the Temple of Bellicus in our capital center in one week or the Temple of Caedis, located at the outer regions of the Cruentus Rainforest, in two weeks from now . You have to reach the temple of Caedis all alone without any external help if you choose to go there .
You can enroll in both the temples once you attain master level in any one domain " Cecil's voice spoke aloud as the much-awaited true awakening ceremony came to an end.