Chapter 3: Idiot Prince
As an imperial prince, he has the most time. A geek like him has basically nothing to do. There is no entertainment in this world, except singing and dancing, or boring dances and other aristocratic activities.
What Cage wants to do most now is to read books to relieve his time and understand this world. Three years old is the age for royal children to study, and at the same time, a series of tests must be conducted, such as tests of fighting spirit talent and mental strength, to determine everyone's possible future development. In this world, warriors and magicians are very promising professions, especially magicians. Due to their scarcity, they have the most status in this world, basically equivalent to aristocrats. Of course, if you have no talent in both aspects, you can only become a historian, cultural expert, or geographer, etc., which are second-rate professions. If you don't have any talent in the royal family, it means that you are just a marginal figure in the royal family.
Royal children aged 3 to 12 are taught by dedicated tutors. At the age of 12, they can enter the Royal Academy to study and build their own power.
Although Cage was a marginal person, he had to receive education at the age of 3. Under Watson's guidance, he came to the Royal Academy, which was actually the Royal Nursery. The difference was that those who could come to this place were all upper-class nobles.
"Get out of the way, little mute." Cage was knocked away by a child older than him at the door of the academy, and the other children laughed and walked in.
Cage knew this child. He was his brother, the son of the second princess, the sixth prince of the empire, Warner. Beside him were several children from his maternal family, all of whom were high-ranking nobles of the empire. Cage was not so angry with a few children. His mental age was over 30 years old. Having experienced life and death, he was more indifferent. Warner also has the capital to be proud. He has a good talent for martial arts. In the test of physical strength, he reached level one, which basically met the requirements of a basic warrior. With such a good body at the age of less than 5, his future achievement will be at least an earth warrior. If he has a good opportunity, he can reach the level of a saint. The warriors in this world are divided into nine levels. The earth warrior is equivalent to the level of a ninth-level warrior. Level one is the most basic quality of a warrior, which means that he is stronger than ordinary people in physical strength, endurance, and power. In physical assessment, it means that the density, ligaments, and reactions of the body are stronger than ordinary people. The body of an average child cannot reach the requirements of level one. There is basically only one warrior in every 10 people, and with each level up, the number will be relatively smaller. Levels 1 to 3 are the basic levels. After a long period of training, most people can reach level 3. Only when you hold the brass Dou Qi (the color of Dou Qi is bronze, the darker the color, the higher the level), can you be called level 3. Level 6 is also a watershed. At this time, your Dou Qi has reached a certain level and is converted to silver Dou Qi (silver-white Dou Qi, the darker the color, the stronger it is). If you exceed level 9, you will be converted to gold Dou Qi (golden, the Dou Qi becomes dazzling). Those who can enter level 3 or above are one in a thousand, and those who enter level 6 are one in ten thousand. The higher the level, the more difficult it is to upgrade each level. If you want to be a level 9 warrior, basically there is only one in a million people. Some countries do not have relevant advanced levels, and there is not even one in ten million people. There are even fewer people who reach level 9 or above, only one in every 100 million people. According to the population of this world continent and the known holy-level warriors, there is basically one in every 1 billion people. The Reis Empire with a population of 500 million does not even have one.
There are five levels of magicians. Those with magic talent are basically apprentices, but there is no level. Above them are apprentice magicians. There are five levels of magicians, magicians, intermediate magicians, great magicians, and magicians. An apprentice magician is equivalent to a noble with a baronial title, or even higher. Those with magic talent are selected from ten thousand. Only one in every 100,000 people can become an apprentice magician, and only one in a million people can become a magician. Therefore, there are only five recorded magicians in the entire continent. The Reis Empire is lucky to have a great magician, the royal high priest Hudson.
Cage entered the academy, which occupies a large area. The royal collection of books is not here. Here are basic enlightenment books. There are 5 children in the lobby. These are three-year-old children of great nobles and royal children. Cage entered the door, and a total of 6 people were tested in various aspects such as physical health.
Under the guidance of the middle-aged man, the physical tests were carried out first. The children went in one by one. Although Cage was a prince, no one took it seriously. Several children only saluted Cage in name according to the etiquette of the nobility, with disdain in their eyes.
Cage was the first to go in, and a mighty middle-aged man tested them.
"Seventh Prince, please hold this ball and squeeze it with your greatest strength." The middle-aged man handed Cage a transparent gel-like thing. The things in this world are very strange, and I don't know what it is at all, but it can test people's muscle density.
Cage used all his strength, and the ball emitted a very weak light, which was basically invisible. The middle-aged man said expressionlessly, "Seventh Prince, please use all your strength to hit this iron plate."
Cage used all his strength, and the only thing he felt was pain in his hands.
"Please run through these dodgeballs."
The reaction test was to dodge the dodgeballs. Cage, who had not been trained, was almost covered with white spots, and most of his body was hit by the balls.
The middle-aged man wrote on the assessment that "reaction is average, strength is average, and endurance is poor. There is little hope of becoming a warrior above level three." This basically determined that he had no talent for martial arts.
The other people who came out of the room were basically beaming with joy. It seemed that they had basically passed the test and had hope of becoming warriors. Cage was also very curious about why the physical fitness of these noble children was very good. Even the poor ones had the talent to become warriors, and the better ones even had the talent of magicians.
Cage failed the physical test, so he had to make one last attempt to see if he had the talent of a magician. The test is very simple. It is conducted by the royal magician. As long as you concentrate your mental power, put your hand on a magic ball similar to a crystal ball for the test. The test result is not good, showing colorful colors. Although the eyes are very dark, it shows a problem, that is, the mental power is scattered. The mental power of the magician is very concentrated, and the magician also follows the principle that water and fire are incompatible. A magician can practice elemental magic that matches his mental power, but he has no talent for relative magic. Although Cage's mental power is very strong, his scattered mental power will also doom him to have no more achievements in magic.
Because Cage has no talent, he is also called the idiot prince by other people in the entire Royal Academy, and he is more marginalized. Even Reis XII and Princess Jena basically no longer see him. The good thing is that Cage enjoys the "best treatment" of the Royal Academy since its establishment. There is a teacher who teaches him alone. He is a very old man, a famous royal historian, who specializes in recording historical events. This old man has a lot of things to do, so he has little time for class, and he doesn't teach him much. Anyway, he is a prince who eats and drinks for free, so it doesn't matter. After teaching Cage how to read, he basically stopped appearing, which made Cage very happy.
As a prince, he had a privilege to freely enter the Royal Library to read, but he was not allowed to take books out of the library or copy them. After understanding the writing of this continent, Cage finally had time to read. The continent where Cage is located is called Addis. Its area is equivalent to ten times the size of the Earth where Cage lived in his previous life. It has a population of more than 10 billion, hundreds of countries of all sizes, and 5 superpowers. Each country has a magician. The Reis Empire is a medium-sized country with more than 50 countries, and there are even more small principalities. Many countries are only the size of a city, and the king is similar to the city lord. The beliefs of each country are different, and the gods they believe in are recognized by the world. For example, the God of Wisdom can see through the future, the God of War controls war and force, and the God of Water controls the elemental laws of water. All magicians have faith, and believe in gods that are close to the elements. Warriors and samurai all believe in the God of War. It is completely different from the Earth where Cage lived in his previous life, but he has never seen God, and he doesn't know if God really exists. According to the records in various books, miracles often appear, and in some places, there are even traces of the war of gods millions of years ago. Cage has never seen it, so he doesn't know the specific situation. There are many languages on this continent. There is a kind of ancient writing called divine writing. In Hansen's opinion, it is a combination of hieroglyphics and cuneiforms. Some of them are similar to Latin. However, after millions of years of evolution, it is divided into pictographic writing, spelling writing, etc., with different focuses. For example, the Reis Empire uses spelling writing, which mainly focuses on reading. You can use basic writing rules to spell out various meanings.
Cage feels that after traveling through time, his brain is much more useful. Learning is easy and fast. His memory is surprisingly good. He can basically remember everything he has seen and read ten lines at a glance. After understanding the rules of writing, Cage first studied various writings on the continent. Even he himself felt that he had a great talent for language and could learn anything quickly. At the age of 4, he could freely read all kinds of books. The library became his favorite place to go. He basically stayed there all day. There was a special resting place in the library. He asked Watson to deliver a meal every day. Anyway, no one cared about him. He could read freely in the library and resumed his otaku life in his previous life.