After showing some more important places inside the palace and in the capital to Bayezid , the trio soon came to the palace once again.
Soon nightfall came.
"I hope today , you would have gotten a clear idea of how dire our state is. Two weeks from now would be your coronation day and most of the other vassals and nobles both inside and outside the capital would start arriving from tomorrow. I don't think you would have any free time." Jass said while leaning onto his car.
Even though they had rudimentary cars and stuffs like telegrams, radio , trains, their technological improvements were pitifully low given their long history.
From what he heard, the continent of Drake had been inhabited for almost 2 billion years . Golden rock was only inhabited 2 million years ago.
This was because the lands leading to it was barren and treacherous and beyond it to the north east laid the "The great ice" which composed of most of the north east of the continent of Drake and the continent of Emilia that was further north east.
The Golden rock only had recorded history of 500 thousand years as this part was mostly ruled by uncivilised tribes. These 500 thousand years were divided into 50 eras, each era containing about 10k years.
But as more history came to be recorded , the more the previous history got erased or got lost.
While the common people probably had access to history of ten eras , the records of history of other eras were scarce and only held by prominent clans, clergies and nations across Golden rock.
The clan Athreya , said to be one of the progenitor clan that came to this continent was eventually reduced to an insignificant one following the invasions of legendary beings called the epoch beasts that were the more dangerous bunch of monsters ,beings ubiquitous throughout the world as enemy to all of the races.
They were mostly beings without sense and intelligence with only the most powerful ones having intelligence and even forming tribes.
Even though the clan of Athreya summoned heroes from other realms to fight these epoch beasts , these heroes were unable to solve the problem entirely.
Due to being reduced to a small size they found residence in golden rock about 300 thousand years ago.
Even though they were further reduced to nothing , they still ruled the mortal's valley by themselves but due to further deteriorating , after many generations their greatness was left a myth and they were just reduced to the mere state of Erlands.
"Hero" Jass laughed
"You are just like how I was when I was little, tugging to my father's sleeves when he was showing me around the entire country. I would ask him all the questions I had , whether silly or not. That old man would answer all of it and sometimes even give me a good smack on my head for asking some really silly ones. I don't know about you , but today I had fun."
"Yeah , the hero is very curious. I was taken aback by some of the questions he asked. Im not being rude , for someone who said he would return back to his land when given an opportunity , the hero didn't look like he would actually do it !" the head mage said.
"As I said head mage Lucas , just stop this "Hero" thing , I don't like it"
"But hero you would be soon crowned king and would have to be addressed as "Your majesty". You cant reject the title as it would be equal to mocking the crown , considered a treason"
"..."
"Ah head mage , just drop it at it would ya? the hero would soon get accustomed to this world sooner or later"
Laughter of the head mage and the prime minster filled the courtyard of the castle.
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The moon was shining bright giving its luminosity to all of the inhabitants of the world. It was a pearl lost in the myriad of space waiting to be claimed by someone.
The moon and sun were said to be one of the application of Energiya , the essence that kept Aurelius running.
The candle light by the side of Bayezid's table was slowly flickering , indicating it was running out of wax.
"It is already night huh , today I was so engrossed in reading books , that I lost track of time"
He just sighed and stumped to his chair and looked at the chandelier hanging at the ceiling. Even that worked with energiya. Electricity existed in this world but it was considered an inferior energy source than energiya. Thats why appliances using electricity was rare to be seen.
"14 days already? it just feels like yesterday that I was summoned here."
These 14 days for Bayezid was more or less hectic.
Many important people came to the capital to see the "Hero" that was supposedly going to save them from danger.
The state wasn't much eager to let them know , even if they were fellow kinsmen and countrymen, that he was summoned from another world and kept that information as highly classified, only known to some people.
Some of the less important people who knew like the mages present with Lucas during the ritual were bound by a secret oath of a two star ability that instantly made one kill themselves if they were to reveal the secret out.
But even if it got out , they didn't care as there were many reasons why.
Firstly , Bayezid was going to be the ruler of the country. While they could keep his origins as a secret , eventually people would start to probe on his origins, friends and foes alike, and probably find out that he was not a long lost member of the clan Athreya descended from one of the noble bloodlines.
As who would just accept a mysterious guy appearing out of nowhere getting to get the throne of Erlands just because he was from a noble bloodline while they had been scheming to seize it for probably their entire life?
Secondly , even if other countries came to know that he was summoned from another world , they wouldn't believe it. Civilisations had existed for hundreds of thousands of years in this place. News of miracles or certain special interests were rampant and mostly turned out be hoaxes.
They would just dismiss it as ridiculous and get on with their work. There were about 100 plus countries and states in golden rock. Erlands was one of the weakest out of them and had little to no special interests except its fertile agriculture land.
"While they might harbour foreign feelings for me , they are still trying to get me under their wing" Bayezid noted.
The 10 council members were dived into 2 factions. One of the factions which included Jass supported the king , while the others supported for overthrowing the king's rule.
The nobles across the realms either stayed neutral or aligned themselves with one of these 2 factions.
The largest faction was the one which supported the king as Jass was a powerful man second only to the king and the queen.
While the state knew of the existence of the dangerous faction , they couldn't do anything as they were still powerful despite their small numbers. They had allies from Silliands , the kingdom of Trimbiole to the north and many other nations.
"Although it has been only 14 days , I have already learned to write the script , learnt more history of the world and generally a lot about the arcane arts and movement arts."
Even Jass and the head mage Lucas were surprised by his speed of learning.
He was to learn swordsmanship from Jass and water magic from Lucas. The clan of Athreya were known for their water magic.
Any person could learn the arcane arts and movement arts with rare exceptions. But Usually one person had only one aptitude they could excel at. Thats why one couldn't excel at both as that would be absurd.
They decided to seek where his aptitude lay at , as he was a foreigner. To their surprise Bayezid was a monster and he had aptitudes for both the arts. Well Bayezid just contributed it to the fact that he had ethereal talent.
Talent was something that was important here. It indicated how well one could excel at life in general , learn the arcane arts or the movement arts depending upon where their expertise lay and most importantly if they could proceed to the next tier or not.
Currently golden rock knew of 5 tiers of power.
Each Tier was divided into low , middle and high level.
The method to achieve different tiers and levels in each arts varied but based on their achievability , the chances were mostly same.
The first tier could be achieved by almost anyone.
The second tier could be only be achieved by 1 in 10 people of the first tier.
The third tier could only be achieved by 1 in 100 of second tier people.
While the fourth tier was considered the realm of geniuses with only 1 in 1000 people of the third tier that could achieve it.
That was only a person in a million.
The fifth tier was considered to be a mystic realm considered to be achieved by only 10 persons throughout the history of Golden rock with the 10th person currently believed to be in the Greater east region.
He was one in a 100 million people.
Talents on the other hand were ranked as follows.
Common , uncommon , rare , very rare , diamond , legendary.
Of course the 5th tier mage of the Greater east is said to be of the legendary rank.
Jass was an uncommon level talent while the head mage was a common level talent.
The head mage due to this even after living for 70 years was still unable to proceed to the next tier and was stuck at the higher end of 1st tier.
But even then he could give a good fight to a low second tier movement arts practitioner , as arcane arts practitioners were generally considered to be slightly powerful than movement arts practitioners.
But talents were not absolute.
Theoretically talents were just heresy. Anyone could harness the power of Energiya and achieve greatness.
One with a common talent could theoretically achieve even the 5th tier if they wanted to. But the amount of time it would take them as compared to a legendary rank talent was much greater.
There were many instances where individuals of the common talent achieved even the higher ends of the second tier.
But this was generally exceptions as each tier had a lifespan attached to it with the mages generally having a slight edge.
And the way to determine the talent was just to use a talent stone.
Talent stones were just ordinary rocks. Like a computer programme , the people imbued energiya and made it to function in such a way that it would show the man's talent if he imbued the energiya he had absorbed either in his core or dantian.
The stone would then simulate many unique puzzles which could only then be solved with great energiya control.
The more talented one was , the more puzzles they could solve.
It was a given as more enegriya control was correlated with more intricate energiya understanding and finally more achievements in the arts.
As energiya could be used in an infinite number of ways , this was not groundbreaking.
Jass offered Bayezid a talent stone but he of course refused. He just couldn't reveal his talent even if they were the ones who had summoned him. It was not even in the list of talents they had described.
Although he got more closer to them than the first day , he was still skeptical and kept his distance.
They didn't care as well as they knew he had a great amount of talent just from the speed of his learning as he had already achieved the low level of the first tier in both arcane and movement arts.
The first tier in movement arts included the formation of the structure called dantian while the arcane arts included the formation of the structure called core. Both source of energy was of course energiya.
Children usually formed the one they had an aptitude in naturally and formed it by ages of 10 to 13.
That didn't mean however , that they couldn't form the other they don't have an aptitude for. Without proper technique , just due to natural course of time it would continue to form unless there was an underlaying condition that prevented it from doing so.
"But this is what it feels like to be a perfect guy huh?" Bayezid just smiled to himself.
These few days gave him a lot of dopamine. Who wouldn't like to be the centre of attention ? people getting to envy you ? do things people thought was impossible?
Just 14 days , he done this much. What more could he do further down the line?
Some of the female courtiers married or unmarried were even blatantly flirting with him to get his attention.
He then went and looked himself in the mirror.
He just stood there for a good 10 minutes. He was just normally staring at the mirror. But if one closely observed they could see a creepy smile forming.
His other side was slowly igniting and coming out of its dormant state.
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"Hey , its that day today" a man with long brown hair came running down to a shabby rundown workshop.
Various sounds of metal clashing with something could be heard. The temperature inside was also higher compared to outside.
"Oh , they are starting it?" the man inside with a scruffy beard and sweat all over his face asked.
"Yes , they just started to broadcast. Don't you want to see it?"
"Of course , who would miss the chance of seeing the new king being crowned?"
Soon they both took off for the local tavern.
It was very noisy with many people cheering and speaking to themselves.
Mostly they were adventurers who hunted monsters and some vagabonds with no affiliations.
Of course today it was also filled with the common people as the tavern was one of the places which had Tv , a mass communication device used for announcements, entertainment , news and so on.
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"Hey god damn , bring in that wimpy looking guy , how long are you going to do the ritual?" a brawny man with a a huge scar on the right side of his face said . His hands were so big that the mug of beer in his hand looked small.
"George , you haven't even seen how he looks like , how do you assume he is wimpy?" asked a young handsome man with a "holier than thou" vibes.
"Wimpy or not but George is right , why are they taking so much time to crown the king? , they have been literally doing the rituals and ceremonies for 2 hours." asked another guy.
Cassandra meanwhile just rolled her eyes. She wasn't really interested in seeing the new king being crowned. There were no reasons why , she just didn't really want to see it. This nation already took a lot of damage during its recent war with Herzia. Her mood was worsened further because all the guilds today were closed due to this ceremony and they couldn't do any job.
While Lucia , a petty mage girl didn't know what to say and just stayed silent with an awkward smile.
All these 5 guys were good friends and were part of the Hawkeye adventurer group.
It was a rank 6 adventurer group.
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"I hope you are ready" Jass dressed in a luxurious dress said.
In front of him was seated Bayezid. His black hair glistened, while his eyes looked soulless and looked like they could absorb anything that stood in their way. He wore a white shirt , a black blazer and pants.
On his neck he wore a sapphire chain and there were sapphire stones embedded in his black blazer , indicating the water magic that the clan Athreya was proud of.
His cape was also black but on the inside it was coloured in dark blue colour.
This was the imperial dress only allowed for the king to wear.
He looked so majestic and intimidating that even Jass took a step back. He couldn't believe this was just a young hero summoned 15 days ago who had no knowledge of this world.
They were currently seated in the waiting room waiting for the initial ceremony to be over.
Bayezid just stared at the Tv in front of him.
"Are the citizens watching?"
"Mostly they are , I believe , many people lost their belief in the throne as the economy got a huge downhit."
At one point, Erlands was having a national income of almost 13 million bronze coins. Over the 5 years , the economy deteriorated rapidly.
The ceremony of coronation of the king was simple.
All the important nobles except the council of ministers gave gifts and performed the dance called "The fiery dance". In this, each noble house related to the clan would carry out their own version of the dance with at least 10 members on board in front of the council of members except the prime minister.
The ministers would then ceremonially observe the event and praise the nobles for their participation.
The clan of Athreya didn't have a religion they adhered to.
Hundred of thousands of years ago ,when the clan was reduced to a speck and retreated to the mortal's valley , Taizhong Athreya the pacifist decided to change the coronation ceremonies.
As clan Athreya lost most of its bloodlines and families , he decided to take in capable individuals into the clan and start new families and potentially bloodlines if from other races.
For that he created the extremely complex "Fiery dance" using his ability "The heavenly dancer" said to be a seven 7 Ability.
It was also created to make the people indirectly recognise his rule by dancing in front of him in a symbolic way.
He challenged the people interested in joining to do the dance exactly as it is.
But most failed miserably , but some succeeded although with poor execution.
Although Taizong was not extremely into this and just considered it as a tool in his polity , the newly joined families started to take it seriously and began to improvise their own "Version" of the dance so that it could match the original "Fiery dance".
Over time it just became a part of the coronation ceremony.
Suddenly Steward came into the room.
"They are calling for the new king" he announced.
Bayezid stood up and stretched.
"Don't blame , if the nation takes a further hit " he said in a cool tone.
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The coronation hall was massive. The ceremony took place not in the capital city of Lawnlow but at the city of Edinborough situated about 30 kms from Lawnlow.
It housed the second palace of the king but most importantly the coronation hall.
The coronation hall was massive. It was just like an opera hall but of course massive.
It was painted in gold with chandeliers hanging on the ceilings at regular intervals. It had galleries above for the many kinsmen and nobles to see the king being coronated.
Below on the ground was also crowded with many people. Fountains at regular intervals. With a path in between.
Certain drones were flying across the room recording this ceremony.
In the middle of the hall , there was a massive throne adorned with precious stones and metals. There was a table in front of it and the crown jewel lay on the table.
The last worthy noble with his band was doing the dance while 9 ministers surrounding the throne observed him.
"Isn't that the son of Karl, who recently died in the small skirmish in Olga?" Augustin asked. He was the imports and exports minister.
"Yeah , it is said he possesses "very rare" talent and is believed that he could even ascend to 4th tier in arcane arts!" said Johnson , the minister of Home affairs.
"Ah wouldn't it be beneficial to get him into our side?" said Augustin while smiling.
These two belonged to the faction that focused on overthrowing the king and were hideous people.
In a certain part of the gallery the queen and the kids of Jass, Maria and Caesar sat.
"Aunt Lilith , when will dad come?" asked Maria. She was a beauty known throughout Erlands and had may suitors.
Lilith had a soft spot for her niece and nephew.
"I think it should be about time."
Just as Lilith said that , Karl and his band soon finished the dance , then there was silence for sometime.
A man riding a white horse came into the hall.
All the people present bowed their heads in respect of the man.
The man giving the horse to a guard slowly walked up to the throne. He then approached the minsters one by one who started to kneel down and gave each of the ministers artefacts taken directly from the treasury.
He then assumed stage and began to observe the surroundings. He then using the 2 star ability , 'The voice of lion' began to address the crowd.
"Dear esteemed kinsmen and families of the grand clan of Athreya. As the prime minister of Erlands , one of the humble descendants of it , welcome you all to this historic event of our land' s history that would change it once and for all."
He then looked into the drones flying at certain corners of the room.
"Also to the wonderful citizens of the great kingdom of Erlands, I welcome you all to this historic event."
"As you all know , the previous king of Erlands , a noble king even though cursed during the battle against the despicable Herzanians still continued to rule though his queen , for the queen and the king are just but one."
"But due to his worsening condition , Im afraid to say he wouldn't be to continue his rule much longer."
"But needn't be afraid as the king and the kings before him were best of planners. For many years he had been grooming a descendant in secret said to be a part of a noble family of clan Athreya that first came into the continent of Drake."
"This beaming young talent, as he foresees, will transform our country so much that it will once again see its former glory and take clan Athreya to the greatest of heights."
Cheers from the crowd were raised while some snickering could also be seen.
"Then without further ado, I give to you , the new king of Erlands , Bayezid!"
As soon as Jass said that trumpets were resounded across the hall. The king's guard , an elite group of soldiers directly under the king walked in with their weapons held high.
In midst of it, a much more majestic white horse seemed to have descended from the heavens came in.
The nobles slowly gave way as the new king came in.
They didn't bow , as he was not officially the king, until he put the crown on.
He then slowly dismounted the horse and came to the throne.
Jass guided him to the throne.
Then receiting some thing , he bowed down and gave Bayezid the crown.
Bayezid received the crown and put it on top of his head.
Observing the massive crowd he sat down on the throne slowly.
In his pocket , a talisman burned.
"Rejoice! , Im your new king!" he bellowed using the same ability that Jass used.
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