The magician of the fairy tale world

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 soothsayers came.

Some of them claim to be wizards, some claim to be prophets, some call themselves prophets, and some are called 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 the 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.

"What would the prince do to me if he knew that I was a mermaid from the sea?"

"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 despise mermaids so much."

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Today, Rhine also wore a light-colored robe and a wizard hat, and his image was that of 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 just come in!"

Rhine smiled without saying a word and handed over an envelope.

"Please take a look."

The guard didn't know why, but he still 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 from 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 see 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 courting a woman. The former is holding a bright rose in his hand, occupying 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 wrong. The court painter only drew 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 definitely 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 hour, in the surprised eyes of His 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 that the prince had seen before.

"Have you told others what you are going to paint today?" The prince asked in disbelief.

No mistakes in one song, one post, one content, one content, one book, one bar, one 6, one 9!

"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." said the painter.

"God! That contestant - everyone said it was a child - saw the painting earlier than the painter 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 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 things start, how can it be considered a prophecy?" Rhine said.

"Can you see so clearly in other things, such as paintings?" The prince asked excitedly again.

Such a fortune teller must be able to see the life experience of the amnesiac girl and who saved her at the beginning?

"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 sly look. His facial features were different from those of the others, with a more distinct exotic style and dark brown skin.

"He seems to look different from the others." Rhine asked the guard beside him.

"Yes. He seems to be called Maglido, claiming to be a magician from the Middle East, and happened to travel here not long ago." The guard said.

"Middle East?" 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 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 ask my boat to go out to sea first to cast the net." said the magician who called himself Magredo.

"No problem. It doesn't matter who comes 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 net, they really caught much more fish than usual. Four or five fishermen spent all their strength to pull these fish onto the boat.

Seeing the fish jumping in the net, 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 couldn't possibly conjure more fish out of thin air!

Facing Magredo's rampant laughter, Rhine smiled and said nothing.

On another boat, Rhine pointed to a piece of water and asked the fishermen to throw down the net.

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 of the friends of the Sea Kingdom's court, representing that Rhine and Aurora would always be the distinguished guests of the Sea Kingdom. As long as the flute is played, even the mermaids in the deep sea can hear it.

Rhine quietly played 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 was transmitted to the sea.