The king of the Kingdom of West Asia set the test himself and recruited well-known fortune tellers. This has caused an uproar among the people.
People who claim to be fortune tellers from all over the country and even many foreign countries came.
Some of them call themselves wizards, some call themselves prophets, some call themselves fortune tellers, and some call themselves astrologers. Some of them are civilians, and some are nobles or advisers of nobles.
No matter what their names are, they are good at playing with crystal balls, tarot cards, tea leaves, tortoise shells and the like, saying some mysterious words, claiming to be able to see the future and past of others and talk to the dead.
Hundreds of people wearing cloaks, hoods, and mysterious clothes gathered in the capital. It was a novel sight! The person in charge of presiding over this examination was Prince Eric.
He took over this task from his father and was responsible for selecting the most accurate fortune teller among all the fortune tellers.
The fact is He wanted to know the life experience of the "amnesiac girl" more than anyone else.
By the way, if there is such a powerful fortune teller. The prince also wanted to ask him or her: Who is the girl who saved him in the shipwreck, the lifesaver who looks like the "amnesiac girl"?
He was looking forward to the answers to these two questions.
While the prince was looking forward to it, Ariel in the palace was very scared.
She didn't know how many fortune tellers from all over the world were liars and how many had real talents.
"If the prince knew that I was a mermaid from the sea, what would he do to me?"
"Will he still hold my hand like before to watch the sunset and sunrise?
"Will he regard me as an inhuman monster? Because humans are so afraid of and disgusted with mermaids."
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Today, Rhine also put on a light-colored robe and a wizard hat, and his image was a free and easy wandering magician. He also mixed in a large group of applicants.
Aurora followed the boy as the magician's bodyguard.
Such two cute and beautiful children undoubtedly attracted the attention of the adults around them.
"Two little friends, what are you doing here? "The guard in charge of registration asked the two children who were dressed strangely, "There is an important matter here today, you can't come in casually!"
Rhine smiled and handed over an envelope.
"Please take a look."
The guard didn't understand, but still opened the envelope and carefully read the contents and corresponding supporting documents.
After a few seconds, the guard's expression changed suddenly.
He saluted Rhine and Aurora respectfully and made an invitation gesture to them in the surprised eyes of others.
"Please come in. Sage of the Kingdom of Rose." The guard said in surprise, "I have always heard of your legend and heard that you were traveling on the continent. I didn't expect that you would travel here! "
Under the confused and shocked gazes of the adults around them, the guards escorted Rhine and Aurora to the venue.
The prince stood in the square in front of the palace and began to preside over the assessment competition.
The first level was the simplest.
There were ten upside-down bowls on the table of each fortune teller, and only one had a gold coin hidden above the bottom.
The contestants had to blindfold themselves and find the upside-down bowl with the gold coins without touching the bowls.
It took Rhine only one second to find the upside-down bowl with the gold coins, as if he knew where the gold coins were from the beginning.
The other contestants were still thinking hard, or muttering strange words, and asking different gods for help!
Such a simple test question eliminated the vast majority of weirdos, and only one in ten contestants could advance to the next level.
"It turns out that they were just guessing," Aurora exclaimed.
"From a statistical point of view, this is the case. "Rhine, who had simply completed the task, said.
As a magician, Rhine knew that even among real magicians, not every one of them knew divination and prophecy. Most of those who could participate in the competition were probably just guys who were proficient in deception.
Even if there were a few contestants who had real talents and skills, how could they compare with him who had mastered the power of prophecy for many years?
The second question was much more difficult.
A court painter would stay in a closed little room, improvise, and paint a picture alone.
And the fortune teller in the open space had to copy that picture out of thin air.
The prince went in and out of the small room, sometimes looking at the progress of the court painter's painting, and sometimes looking at the paintings of the contestants outside.
The court painter picked up the brush and soon drew a beautiful rose in the middle of the drawing paper.
The prince went out to see what the contestants had drawn. It was very different from what the court painter had drawn. Some drew mountains, some drew portraits, and some drew war scenes.
At this time, the prince noticed that a table and chair were empty, and there was no one on the stool. The contestants didn't know where to go.
"Where are the people here?" the prince asked.
"It turned out that a silver-haired child was sitting here. He said he was going to take a nap and didn't want to waste time here, so he left early and left only a painting here." The people around answered.
The prince looked closely and saw that there was indeed a painting on the table.
The painting showed a man courting a woman, and the former was holding a bright rose in his hand, occupying the most central position of the entire painting. "Oh my god, this is so similar!" The prince exclaimed in his heart.
The flower in the painting is almost the same as the one made by the court painter!
"The only pity is that the other parts are wrong. The court painter only painted a flower instead of a courtship scene."
The prince couldn't help but feel sorry for the contestant. If he hadn't added unnecessary parts, he would have advanced.
With this thought in mind, Prince Eric walked back to the small room where the court painter was.
When he saw that there was still a delicate rose on the drawing paper, the prince breathed a sigh of relief.
"Have you finished it?" the prince asked.
"No, not yet, My Highness. I think the picture is too empty now!" said the painter.
In the next half an hour, under the surprised eyes of His Royal Highness, the court painter added more details on the four sides of the painting.
Finally, the court painter completed this painting.
It was the one the prince had seen before.
"Have you told anyone what you are going to paint today?" The prince asked in disbelief.
"Of course not, my lord. It was only when you entered the room half an hour ago that I felt that the painting was too empty and wanted to add some details to it. And before a painting is officially completed, even I don't know what it will look like in the end." The painter said.
'Wow! That contestant—people claimed it was a child—noticed the painting even before the painter himself, just as the reader understands the future development of Art sooner than the Artist.'The prince was astonished.
This time, only two people passed the level.
Rhine was of course one of them, and the only contestant who finished the painting earlier than the painter.
"Why did the copy you copied appear earlier than the original?" The prince asked the child who returned to his seat.
"If you don't know the result before it starts, how can it be considered a prophecy?" Rhine said.
"Can you see so clearly in other things, such as paintings?" The prince asked excitedly.
Such a fortune teller must be able to see the life experience of the amnesiac girl and who saved her in the first place?
"I can't guarantee it. The more important the fate, the more branches and possibilities there are. We can only know vague fragments." Rhine answered truthfully.
Rhine noticed that the other qualifier seemed to be a magician as well.
He had an exaggerated eagle nose and a shifty look. His facial features were different from those of the others, with a more distinct exotic style, and his skin was also dark brown.
"He seems to look different from the others," Rhine asked the guard beside him.
"Yes. He seems to be called Magredo, claiming to be a magician from a Middle Eastern country, and happened to travel here not long ago." The guard said.
"Middle Eastern country?" Rhine's thoughts were mixed.
He and Aurora didn't know if they would have the opportunity to travel there.
The third assessment was the most complicated.
The only two qualifiers had to go out to sea with the fishing boats, use their knowledge of prophecy to command the fishermen to fish, and tell them when and where to cast the nets.
The amount of fish caught was the criterion for the final victory. The
The Kingdom of West Asia lived on the sea, and fishing and navigation were very important. That's why there was such a competition.
"My Highness, I request that my boat go out to sea first to cast the nets." said the magician who called himself Magredo.
"No problem. It doesn't matter who goes first or later." said the prince.
Magredo then went out to sea with the fishing boat and pointed to a certain sea area.
After the fishermen spread the fishing nets, they caught many more fish than usual. Four or five fishermen spent all their strength to pull these fish onto the boat.
Seeing the fish in the net jumping around, Magredo laughed and said to Rhine on another boat:
"Little friend, I must have won this time!"
He knew that the direction he pointed to was the location where the most fish could be caught in this sea area today.
As for the boy, no matter how accurate the prediction was, he would cast the net after him.
He can't conjure more fish out of thin air!
Faced with Magredo's rampant laughter, Rhine smiled and said nothing.
On another boat, Rhine pointed to a piece of water and asked the fishermen to cast their nets.
While waiting for the net to be collected, the boy quietly took out the flute carved with shells and inlaid with pearls.
This was a gift from the Sea King, as a testimony to the friends of the Sea Kingdom's court, representing that Rhine and Aurora would always be honored guests of the Sea Kingdom. As long as the flute is played, even the mermaids in the deep sea can hear it.
Rhine quietly blew the flute, and the melodious sound of the flute was covered by the strong wind on the sea, and no human noticed it.
But this strange melody spread to the sea.