Chapter 58 Bizarre Game
The king of the West Asian Kingdom personally set up examination questions to recruit well-known fortune-tellers. This is a new thing!
People from all over the country and even from abroad who claimed to be fortune tellers came.
Some of them claim to be wizards, some claim to be prophets, some call themselves prophets, and some call themselves astrologers. Some of them are civilians, and some are nobles or advisers to nobles.
No matter what their name is, they are all good at playing with crystal balls, tarot cards, tea leaves, tortoise shells and other things, saying some magical 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 costumes gathered in the royal capital. What a novel sight!
It is Prince Eric who is responsible for presiding over this assessment.
He took over this task from his father and was responsible for selecting the most accurate fortune teller among all fortune tellers.
In fact, he wanted to know the life experience of the "amnesia girl" more than anyone else.
By the way, if there really is such a powerful fortune teller. The prince also wants to ask him or her: Who is the girl who saved him or her in the shipwreck, the savior who looks like the "amnesia girl"?
He looked forward to answers to both questions.
While the prince was looking forward to it, Ariel in the palace was terrified.
She didn't know how many fortune tellers from all over the world were liars and how many had real talents and knowledge.
"If the prince knew that I was a mermaid from the sea, what would he do to me?"
"Will he still hold my hand and watch the sunset and sunrise as he did in the past?
"Will he regard me as an inhuman monster? Because humans fear and dislike mermaids so much."
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Today, Rhine also wore a light-colored robe and a wizard hat, and he looked like a free and easy wandering magician. He was also among a large group of recruits.
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 children, what are you doing here?" The guard in charge of registration asked the two children in strange clothes, "There are important things here today, you can't come in casually!"
Rhine smiled without saying a word and handed over an envelope.
"Please take a look."
The guard didn't know why, but he opened the envelope and carefully read the contents and corresponding supporting documents.
After a few seconds, the guard's expression changed suddenly.
He bowed respectfully to Rhine and Aurora, and made an invitation gesture to them amidst the surprised eyes of others.
"Please come. Sage of the Kingdom of Rose." The guard said in surprise, "I have always heard your legends and heard that you were traveling on the continent. I didn't expect that you had already traveled here!"
Under the confused and shocked gazes of the surrounding adults, 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 is the easiest.
There are ten upside-down bowls placed in front of each fortune teller's table, only one of which has gold coins hidden underneath.
The contestants were blindfolded and had to find the bowl with the gold coin upside down without touching the bowl.
It only took Rhine a second to find the bowl with the gold coins upside down, as if he knew where the coins were from the beginning.
But other contestants are still thinking hard, or uttering strange words, or asking for help from different gods!
Such a simple test question eliminated most of the weirdos, and only one-tenth of the contestants were able to advance to the next level.
"It turns out that they were really just fooled." Aurora sighed.
"From a statistical point of view, it is like this." said Rhine, who simply completed the task.
As a magician, Rhine knew that not everyone, even a real magician, knew how to divination and prophecy. Most of those who can compete are probably just guys who are proficient in deception.
Even if some of the contestants do have real talents and knowledge, how can they compare to him who has mastered the power of prophecy for many years?
The second test question is much more difficult.
A court painter would stay in a small closed room, improvise, and paint a painting alone.
The fortune teller in the open space wants to copy the painting out of thin air.
The prince went in and out of the small room, sometimes looking at the progress of the palace painter's paintings, sometimes looking at the paintings of the contestants outside.
The palace painter picked up his pen and soon drew a delicate rose in the middle of the paper.
The prince went out to take a look again
The things painted by the contestants can be said to be diverse and very different from those painted by the court painters. Some painted mountains, some painted portraits, and some painted war scenes.
At this time, the prince noticed that a pair of tables and chairs were empty, and there was no one on the stool. The contestants did not know where they had gone.
"Where are the people here?" asked the prince.
"It turned out that there was a silver-haired child sitting on the seat. He said he was going to take a lunch break and didn't want to waste time here anymore, so he left early, leaving only a painting here." People around him replied.
The prince took a closer look and saw that there was indeed a painting on the table.
The painting shows a man wooing a woman. The former is holding a bright rose in his hand, which occupies the core position of the entire painting. "Oh my god, this is so similar!" The prince exclaimed in his heart.
The flowers in the painting are almost exactly the same as those painted by the court painter!
"The only pity is that the other parts are not right. The court painter spent only one flower instead of painting a courtship scene."
The prince couldn't help but feel pity for this contestant. If he hadn't added any extraneous details, he would definitely be able to advance.
With this idea in mind, Prince Eric walked back to the small room where the palace painter was.
The prince breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that there was still a delicate rose on the drawing paper.
"Are you finished?" asked the prince.
"No, not yet, my lord. I think the picture is too empty now!" said the painter.
Over the next half hour, under the astonished gaze of His Royal Highness, the court painter added more details to the four sides of the painting.
Finally, the court painter completed the painting.
It was the same look that the prince had seen before.
"Have you ever revealed to others what you are going to draw today?" the prince asked in disbelief.
"Of course not, my highness. It wasn't until 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 can't I don’t know what the final product will look like.”
"Oh God! That contestant - everyone said he was a child - saw the painting earlier than the artist himself, just like the reader knows the subsequent development of the story earlier than the author." The prince was stunned.
This time, only two people passed the level.
Rhine was of course one of them, and the only contestant to finish the painting before 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 outcome before it starts, how can it be called a prophecy?" Rhine said.
"Can you see so clearly in other things, such as paintings?" the prince asked excitedly.
Such a diviner must be able to see the life experience of the amnesiac girl and who was the benefactor who saved him, right?
"I can't guarantee it. The more important a destiny is, the more branches and possibilities it has. All we can know are vague fragments." Rhine answered truthfully.
Rhine noticed that another person who advanced seemed to be a magician as well.
He has an exaggerated eagle nose and a sinister look. His facial features are different from the others, with a more distinct exotic look, and his skin is also dark brown.
"He seems to look different from the others." Rhine asked the guard on the side.
"Yes. His name seems to be Maglido, and he claims to be a magician from the Middle East. He happened to travel here not long ago," the guard said.
"A country in the Middle East?" Rhine had many thoughts.
He and Aurora wondered if there would ever be a chance to travel there.
The third assessment is the most complex.
The only two who make the cut will go out to sea with the fishing boat and use their prophetic knowledge to direct the fishermen to fish, telling them when and where to lower their nets.
The number of fish caught is the criterion for final victory.
The kingdoms of West Asia were built on the sea, and fishing and navigation were very important. That’s why there is such a competition.
"My Highness, I request that the ship on my side go out to sea and lower the net first." The magician who called himself Magrido said.
"No problem. It doesn't matter who goes first and who goes last," said the prince.
Magritto 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 jumping alive in the net, Magrido laughed loudly and said to Rhine on the other boat:
"Kid, I must win this time!"
He knew that the direction he was pointing was where the most fish could be caught in the sea today.
As for that boy, no matter how accurate the prediction was, the net would be set after him.
He can't conjure more fish out of thin air!
Facing Maglido's wild laughter, Rhine smiled and said nothing.
On another boat, Rhine pointed to a body of water and asked the fishermen to drop their nets.
While waiting for the net to be closed, the young man quietly took out the flute carved from shells and inlaid with pearls.
——This is a gift from the Sea King to him, as a testimony from the friends of the Sea Kingdom’s court, which means that Rhine and Aurora will always be the honored guests of the Sea Kingdom. As long as you play the flute, even the mermaids in the deep sea can hear it.
Rhine quietly played the flute. The melodious flute sound was masked by the strong wind on the sea, and no one noticed it.
But this strange melody reached the sea.
(End of chapter)