From afar, the mountain gate of the Mithraea Warrior Sect looked like a huge palace. It was no less than a hundred feet tall and incomparably vast. It was entirely made of precious white marble. Under the illumination of the sunlight, it glittered brightly like the Prayer Hall. The Griffin marks on the pediments were vivid and lifelike, as if they were going to fly into the sky!
On the signboard, there is the emblem of Mithraea. In this scene, Mithraea is depicted as stabbing a bull in the neck and meeting the sun. A scorpion is stinging the bull's testicles as a dog licks the bull's blood. There is another fresco showing horses that have taken off their reins and soared into the sky, leaving behind a trail of dust.
According to the legends, that insignia was drawn by the founder of the Mithraea Warrior Sect, The Gladiator. It contained great fortune and profound mystery.
In front of the mountain gate, there is a plaza that is constructed from large limestone blocks. The plaza is very large, and it is the size of over ten thousand acres of farmland. But now it is densely packed with people!
There were men and women looking at the small mountain path in the sect that was built with concrete. Every time a young man wearing the uniform of a servant ran out of the mountain gate, a middle-aged man or two would immediately walk out of the crowd and greet him with a warm embrace!
The rules of the Mithraea Warrior Sect are very strict. It is even stricter when it comes to these lowest-level servant disciples. A servant disciple of the Mithraea Warrior Sect is not allowed to leave the mountain gate without permission unless it is a matter of great importance!
However, the upper echelons of the Mithraea Warrior Sect are not heartless. Every year, the family members of the servant disciple would have a chance to visit them!
June was the only month that the upper echelons of the Mithraea Warrior Sect allowed servant disciples to visit them. Hence, from the first day of the sixth month
onwards, the square in front of the mountain gate gets filled with people for an entire month!
Amadeus, who was wearing a white tunic and had a slender body and sword-shaped eyebrows, stood under the majestic mountain gate. He held a large bag in his hand. Inside the bag were five hundred silver denarius, an upper-class Pneuma Invigorating Pill, and a few sets of clothes that his mother, Camila, had personally sewn.
He looked at his parents, who were gradually disappearing into the distance. Unknowingly, tears began to roll in Amadeus's eyes!
They waited the whole year for this meeting, and they only got one hour. Time is up and they have to go back.
Amadeus had the urge to follow his parents back home. In the world of warriors, the bloodline gets respect. And he is the lowest grade of the low grade nine bloodline. He's only slightly better than garbage, with a bloodline that can't be trained for fights.Even if he trains himself hard for his entire life, his achievements will be limited. He could only stay at the bottom of the Warrior's ranking. He might not even be able to pass the annual examination in a month's time.
The Mithraea Warrior Sect did not raise useless people. Every year, the New Beginning servant disciples would be tested. Those who had yet to break through to the second layer would be mercilessly kicked out of the sect.
The human body contains 108 arteries. The Warrior's first realm, the Pulse Opening Stage, needed to connect to these 108 arteries.
In fact, the first round of the annual examination wasn't difficult. The first three levels of the Pulse Opening Stage were just the foundation of the foundation. Even for those with low ninth-grade bloodlines, as long as they were willing to work hard and practise for a year, they could easily break through to the second rank!
However, Amadeus had just managed to open his pneuma. He could barely be considered to have broken through to the peak of the first layer. With his low talent, breaking through two small realms in a short month is a distant dream.
"It's him! It's all that damned bastard! Otherwise, how could I not break through to the second layer? "
In terms of hard work, among all the servant disciples, he admitted that he could not be called number one, but he could still be ranked at the top. After a year of hard work, even if he couldn't break through to the Second Layer Late Stage, he wouldn't be bothered by the annual examination. All of this is because of that person. At some point in time, Amadeus clenched his fists tightly, the veins on his forehead bulging. His eyes were spurting blood, like an enraged beast that seemed to have eaten someone!
After a while, Amadeus finally calmed the anger in his heart!
"Don't worry, Father and Mother. Amadeus won't let you down! " With that, he carried the heavy package. Amadeus's eyes became moist again. 500 denarius of silver. To some of the disciples of major families, it really wasn't much. A random pill could cost more than this price. But for Amadeus' family, it is practically the result of their parents' being frugal for most of their years.
There is also the upper-class Pneuma Invigorating Pill. Although his parents didn't say anything, Amadeus knew that this upper-class Pneuma Invigorating Pill was used by his father, Cepheus, to break through the bottleneck of the Sixth Empyrean. However, in order to fulfil his dream and give him a chance to stay in the sect, his father gave up the hope of breaking through and left this upper-class Pneuma Invigorating Pill to him!
The love of his parents is as great as the heavens. For the sake of their children, his parents would give up everything!
"Dad, mom, just you wait and see. Not only will I pass the annual examination, I will also successfully breakthrough to the outer sect! " Amadeus clenched his fists tightly and made up his mind. Although Cepheus didn't say anything, Amadeus knew that his dad always had a regret in his heart, and that was that he didn't pass the Bronze Warriors' Lane and break through to the Outer Sect!
The Bronze Warriors' Lane was the final barrier for the servant disciple. Those who pass it would be able to reach the heavens in a single step and advance to the outer
sect. From then on, they would be superior to everyone else. However, the difficulty of the Bronze Warriors' Lane is not something to joke about. There are millions of servant disciples in the Mithraea Warrior Sect, but among the hundreds of people who passed through the Bronze Warriors' Lane successfully, there might not even be a single one!
Twenty years ago, Cepheus was once a servant disciple of the Mithraea Warrior Sect. He also dreamt of breaking through to the Outer Sect and soaring to the heavens. However, his talent was low and his strength was limited. In the end, just like most of the servant disciples, he failed in the Bronze Warriors' Lane!
"Father, I will definitely make up for your regret. I swear! " Amadeus had a determined look on his face. Unknowingly, he recalled the shocking scene from last night.
"Outer Sect! I will definitely become an outer sect disciple! "
Red Reed Peak is an unassuming mountain peak in the Apennine Mountains Range, which stretches for thousands of miles. It was less than a thousand feet tall and was named after the reed forest on the top.
There are hundreds of thousands of servant disciples in the Mithraea Warrior Sect. It is naturally impossible for so many servant disciples to live in one place. Instead, they were scattered on small mountain peaks like the Red Reed Peak. There were different numbers of people. The majority were thousands of people, and the minority were only a few hundred. Amadeus was one of the Red Reed Peak's 600 servant disciples!
There is flat ground halfway up the Red Reed Peak. It is several hundred acres wide, and there are small houses built with red bricks on it. This is the home of the 600 servant disciples on the Red Reed Peak
At this time, all the servant disciples are free. They gathered in groups of three to five in an open space in front of the houses. Some talked, some held jars and ate big mouthfuls, and some were topless, rubbing herbs on their bodies.
Suddenly, an exclamation attracted everyone's attention. "Amadeus is back! Amadeus is back! "