Tides: Years of Dawn

The story was divided into two parts, the day Gareth and Tristan went to the island was also the day Geraint was transferred from the prison to the detention center.

Crewe never came home and stayed at Gao Wen's house for three nights.

On the morning of the third day, Saru got the news from nowhere and went to the sea monster's house.

Gawain didn't see Saru, but at night, Hua De suggested that Gawain should not go too far, and it was almost time to send Crewe back.

After all, Crewe is still a minor child of the Octopus family, and it seems that he did not inform his family when he left this time.Now Crewe is not considered as an official assistant, nor is he the eldest son or the head of the family, it is too easy to arouse suspicion by running to Gao Wen to seek protection again and again.

The sea monster family has always set the standard of integrity and righteousness, so doing so will inevitably attract discussions from the sea people.

What's more, the first third trial lord's assessment will be held this autumn, and Gao Wen has less than a year to prepare, so he should spend more experience preparing for the assessment.

As for other things, let them go for a while if they can.

The system of three trial lords is commonly known as the "Lord Candidate Competition" by Haimin.

In fact, there is only the final trial on the election of the lord, while the previous two trials are related to the election of the head of the family.

Candidate lords are held every five years and are divided into three trials. The first two trials start in October in autumn and last for two months, ending in December.The final exam lasts for three months, starting in October and ending in January of the following year.

Haimin who have reached the age of [-] and have successfully graduated from Haicheng School can participate in the preliminary test for lord candidates.There is no upper age limit for contestants, and they can participate from the beginning to the end of their lives.

It’s just that people over the age of 60 will not run for election. After all, except for the opinions of the parliament, most of the people in the sea will not vote for candidates over the age of 60.

Because the third trial took too long, if he was over 60 years old at the time of the first trial, he might have accepted the death bestowed by nature before passing the review.

What Gao Wen is about to participate in is only the first stage of the preliminary examination. Although there is still a long way to go before the election of the lord, it is an indispensable foundation for him, that is, to compete for the candidate head.

The initial test lasted for one month, mainly to demonstrate one's own magic power.The results of the assessment are judged by members of the own family—including the main family and the branch family—indiscriminately and anonymously voting.

The two with the highest scores will become candidates, and they will prepare for the second test together for a period of five years.

That is to say, the two winners after passing the first trial will follow their own leaders to participate in political studies for five years before they can qualify for the second test—that is, to compete for the official leadership.

The second test still lasts for one month. The assessment format is divided into two sections: the elder interview and the mana display. The difficulty of the first assessment is slightly improved.The selection criteria are similar to those of the first test, and the results of the assessment are still judged by indiscriminate and anonymous voting by members of the family.

As a result, the person with the highest score is selected to become the master, and enters the second five-year three-test preparation stage

In other words, the candidates who have been candidates for five years become the head, and they need to participate in politics as the head for another five years before they can be qualified for the third trial—that is, the final test of the lord candidate.

And the judges of the final test will also be changed from the original members of their own family to the representatives of the nine-member council and all sea people facing the Split Rock Islands.

The final exam lasted for three months, and was divided into three parts: the nine-person council meeting, mana demonstration, and self-speaking.The outcome is decided by a nine-member parliament together with a popular vote.

The proportion of parliamentary selection is 30.00%, and the proportion of popular vote is 70.00%.In the end, the winner with the highest score officially became the candidate for the lord, and left his home to follow the lord to study in the regent.

After a month of regent study, there will be a final vote with the current lord.

The voting period lasts for one month. Voters include parliamentary representatives and all sea residents. The proportion of parliamentary votes is reduced to 20.00%, while the proportion of public votes rises to 80.00%.

The winner officially takes over as the lord.

The lord may or may not work part-time as head of the household.If the winner is already the lord, the lord will be re-elected, and there is no limit to the number of consecutive terms.

At the same time, the general candidate will marry an offspring of the Turtle family in the same year when he formally becomes the lord. Those who are already married must reduce their original wife or husband to an assistant, and remarry with the offspring of the Turtle family the next year.

Therefore, even if all the assessments are passed at one time, it still takes more than ten years to officially become a lord candidate.Few people on the Cracked Rock Islands can pass three tests at once, and Geraint's father, Baroseben, is a conspicuous exception.

Barose was originally an extraordinary existence in the Cracked Rock Islands, and also the youngest archipelago lord in history.In contrast, Geraint has become the most eye-catching mouse shit that ruined the halo of the Sea Serpent family.He was expelled from Haicheng School, that is to say, he was not even eligible to run for election.

As for Gao Wen, he was far ahead of him.

What Gao Wen is going to take now is the first test.

Of course, it was easy to pass the first test. Gao Wen had high hopes from his biological father, Wald Leviathan, who is also the current head of the sea monster family. People compete with little to no pressure.

Although the main decision of this assessment rests with one's own family, in fact, it is also an opportunity to show one's own strength to other families.This is like a military exercise of the major families, to prove that there are successors in the family, and they are the blue ones.

Therefore, even if it is easy to pass, it is not an easy task to perform well and win glory for yourself.

The display of strength mainly examines the competitor's ability to master advanced natural spells and guide magic. Needless to say, the former, Gao Wen is one of the best experts in the same period, but his ability to master guide magic has always been mediocre.

As I said before, it's not that Gao Wen has any shortcomings in this aspect, but that all sea people's magic channeling ability is similar except for the jellyfish family who sacrificed to the beast Leviathan.

Gao Wen could barely summon a few undead up to now, and he still couldn't guarantee that he would not be frightened by the summoned undead and send the undead away smoothly.

What Hua De meant was for Gao Wen to ask the members of the Jellyfish family. The Jellyfish family did not compete with them for the position of lord, and the relationship was not too bad. The monster itself is a bonus item of the same origin as Leviathan, and perhaps the proud jellyfish is also willing to lend a helping hand to help him.

After all, apart from crocodiles and moray eels, sword whales and sharks were competing with Gao Wen at the same time this time.The heirs cultivated by the latter two families have always been capable and courageous.Compared with Gao Wen, the best of them had almost equal mana.

And if Gawain can get the help of the jellyfish to make him perform slightly better than other families in guiding magic, it will be of great help to Gawain personally and to establish prestige to the entire sea monster family.It can also make longer-term and more adequate preparations for the second and third trials in the future—especially the third trial.

Gao Wen was also happy about this.

Although he has listed Crewe as a reserve support, which means that the dream of making Sheerna his support will never be realized, he is still very happy to contact Sheerna.

If the girl named Hilna had not died in an accident, she would be destined to become the leader of the jellyfish family in the future, and he believed that the emotional foundation in her youth would be of great benefit to the future cooperation between the two families.

But what is strange is that there was no response to several letters sent by Ward to the jellyfish family.The last time he saw the jellyfish's family was at the blood sacrifice ceremony, and after the ceremony, the jellyfish's family seemed to have encountered some problems, so that the door was closed and they were unwilling to communicate with the outside world.

So this matter can only be shelved for a while. After all, if the jellyfish family does not open the door by themselves, it will be difficult for anyone to knock on their door.

It was also because of this small delay that Crewe had the opportunity to meet with Geraint on the first day he was transferred to the control station.

The news of Geraint's transfer to the control center was also informed by Gawain. As expected, Crewe repeatedly asked to meet with Geraint.

Gao Wen also knew that he was going to send Crewe back to the home that was very unfriendly to him later, so he felt guilty, so he asked Leier to notify Pei Di and apply for a visitation permit for the two of them.

After the graduation ceremony, Rael went directly to the prison and followed his brother to work.He has no pressure to run for office, and he has been in prison with Pei Di many times before, so if he arranges it reasonably, there is still plenty of time.

It's just that he still expressed deep dissatisfaction with Gao Wen's behavior.

"If you let him go on like this, he will be a support with two hearts," Leyle reminded Gao Wen in his ear, "The support must only have you in its heart, otherwise there will be endless troubles."

But Gao Wen didn't take it seriously.In his heart, Crewe was still a child, "It is everyone's habit to want to see the partner I played with since I was a child. Crewe doesn't have the kind of adult feelings you mentioned at all."

"Crewe is 15 years old, this year, 15 years old, do you think that when you were 15 years old, did you already know that you should like someone?" Rael continued to refute.

Gao Wen stopped talking.

He had liked Sheerna when he was 15, but that was only a very vague feeling. After the age of 15, the homework became more and more intense, and the hazy feeling became more and more alienated.Up to now, he can't even recall the feeling at the beginning, and it's too much to talk about liking.

And he believes that emotions can be controlled, and he and Rael are well in control of their emotional direction.

But when he came to the control station, Gao Wen felt a little uncomfortable.Especially when he stood outside the one-way magic door and let Crewe go in alone to meet Geraint, and seeing Crewe crying in a mess, Gawain turned his face away and let Leyl walk with him Wait outside the control station.

Rael also took out a pack of sea cigarettes and handed one to Gawain.

Gawain didn't want to listen, but felt uncomfortable in his heart, the only thing Rael could do was to distract Gawain's attention.

"Try it, it relaxes you a little bit," Rael said.

Gao Wen was a little surprised.

Rael didn't smoke or even drink at school.But seeing Leier taking a deep breath on a familiar spot, he suddenly felt that the companion in front of him was a little strange.

"Don't look at me like that. My brother gave it to me during last year's vacation. You know, I was on duty in the waiting room all night and listened to those howls. I had to find something to amuse myself." Rael smiled, seeing that Gawain couldn't even light a cigarette, Simply hand him the already lit one.

Gao Wen took a tentative breath and coughed lightly.

This was the first time he tasted sea smoke, and he never thought that he would not be able to quit in the future.

The cigarette box is a drawing of ocean waves, and all sea smoke comes from the moray family.It is said that sea smoke was the only product allowed to be sold on land by the Split Rock Islands back then, and because of this, the moray family made a fortune.

But later the land wizards developed more types of tobacco, and the market for sea smoke was not so big.After Barrow committed suicide, the council banned the sea people from contacting the land wizards again.So now, the sea smoke can only flow within the sea people, serving as spiritual food for one-third of the sea people.

"Are you still used to being in prison?" Gawain flipped the cigarette case over and looked at it for a while, then handed it back to Leier.

Leyle took out another one and lit it again, exhaled smoke, and said with a smile, "I have just started working, so it's not my turn to worry about any problems I encounter."

Gao Wen thought about it too.After taking a few puffs of smoke, I seem to get used to it.He stared at the nodding light, not knowing what to say for a while.

He tried to distract himself, but he wanted to look back at Crewe.He was going to send that little thing home later, and he didn't know if this trip would make Saru and Elena even harsher on him.

However, his thoughts were quickly interrupted by Leyle, who seemed to think of something, and suddenly asked—"By the way, there was a strange attack this morning. The twins of the Moray family were knocked out Yes, do you know about this?"

Gawain was startled and shook his head, "Who? You mean Warlock and Brock?"

"Yes, they were stripped naked and thrown on Bloodstone Island," Leyle said, a little funny, "but their schoolbags are all in good condition, only their clothes were stripped, it seems that the people who attacked them were just to steal The two student robes are the same."

Gao Wen was caught off guard and choked.

He coughed violently a few times, and asked back—"Stealing student robes...who would steal student robes?"

TBC