The roads leading to the Aspirant Entry Test registration venue were overflowing with people.
Carriages lined the streets for hundreds of meters, their wheels clogging the stone roads while merchants shouted from makeshift stalls erected overnight to profit from the crowds.
Banners of countless cities fluttered in the wind, mixed among the flags of distant kingdoms.
Bentram Kingdom was the only nation with no official enemy state, which made other kingdoms seek technological knowledge here.
The registration had become far more than a simple examination.
It was an event, a gathering of future elites.
Among the masses were ambitious youths from every corner of the continent. Some wore expensive robes embroidered with family crests and sigils. The strongest talents of neighboring powers had arrived as well.
Delegations from the mighty Krynova Kingdom could be seen moving through the crowd, escorted by armored guards.
