Theo listened to Harley's story and immediately replied to the young prince.
"At least Her Majesty finally held the talent festival again. This is a chance, isn't it?"
Prince Harley nodded as he nimbled some cookies.
"Yes, yes. My sisters and brothers have also been talking about this. They're all ecstatic!"
No one doubted whether the queen wouldn't pick them up when they truly had a useful talent.
After all, although only the queen could see people's talent, the queen was also not dumb.
If she could find many talents to help her, why would she hide them away?
Even if the talented people were her sisters and brothers which were her potential rivals, the queen's throne wouldn't be shaken that easily
Not to mention if the queen managed to reform the kingdom through these talented people, she could make a name for herself.
Who would remember the other officials or talents except for a few famous one like the prime minister or Duke Fez?
The commoners would only remember the queen!
Thinking like this, Prince Harley smiled slightly at Kian while patting the boy's shoulder.
"Right, Kian, the festival for the commoners will start next week. Do you want to come? We can use a disguise!"
No one said that the nobles couldn't attend the talent festival for the commoners, but wearing the noble attires was really too eye-catching.
Many young nobles would disguise themselves as commoners and were eventually chosen as one of the talented people, even before the charity banquet!
This was common, and the young nobles actually loved the thrill.
Theo actually didn't want to mingle with so many people at the talent festival, but when he thought about attending a festival in another world…
Maybe it's a good chance to relax.
"Alright, your highness. I'll prepare our disguise attire. Just leave it to me."
While Kian and Harley were planning to go to the talent festival for commoners, Mariella was talking with Duke Fez about the festival itself.
"Lala, try to use your ability. You have to train using your ability because on the festival day, you will use the ability all day long."
Duke Fez tapped the coffee table as he looked at Mariella.
Mariella immediately straightened her back and nodded. She rarely looked serious and solemn as Isabella, but now she was.
It's all for the sake of becoming a lazy queen!
"But how do I use this ability, dad? I have never used it before." Mariella grumbled, already looking irritated by this ability training.
After all, she had not activated her ability for two years already!
Duke Fez never had this kind of ability, but it didn't mean he didn't know how the previous king used his ability.
Since Duke Fez had quite a good relationship with the previous king, the king also shared a lot of things about the talent scouting ability.
He hoped that Duke Fez could somehow become his child's tutor in mastering this special ability, especially when Duke Fez was really talented.
Thus, Duke Fez sucked in a deep breath before nodding at Mariella.
"Close your eyes, and then imagine looking at someone."
Mariella immediately closed her eyes and imagined Old Byron in her head.
"Done. Then?"
"Good. Next, imagine seeing a bunch of data above the person's head. Any kind of data is okay, just use your imagination."
Mariella immediately imagined there were alphabets appearing above Old Byron's head, and then it became one alphabet.
Oh, it's a grading system using the alphabet!
"I did it, dad. What to do next?"
Before Mariella lost focus, Dule Fez immediately commanded.
"Quick, open your eyes and use the ability on me. Just maintain your imagination over the row of data above my head."
The child immediately opened her eyes and stared at Duke Fez unblinkingly, but her crimson eyes suddenly looked a bit different.
This time, there was this golden ring around her pupils, making the child look solemn and mysterious.
Yes, Mariella had successfully activated the ability!
"A row of data…." Mariella muttered as she looked at the diamond stars above Duke Fez's head.
There were...one, two, three, four...five! Five stars!
It was surprisingly a star grade system, not an alphabet system. But for a kid like Isabella, a star grade system was easier to understand.
The shining diamond stars floated slowly above the Duke Fez's head, and when Mariella looked down, there was a simple word written in red.
'Military'.
"Dad, I see five diamond stars above your head and one word in red….what does the red word mean?"
Mariella immediately asked. She had a hunch about the five diamond stars and the red word meaning, but she's still unsure.
Duke Fez was surprisingly calm when facing Mariella's question.
He only tried to smile to soften his expression and praised Mariella.
"Good job, you did it. The number of stars above my head indicates the level of my talent."
"Level of...talent?"
"Yes. One star is a normal talent, two stars is a good talent, three stars is a great talent, four stars mean it's an excellent talent, and five stars means perfect."
Duke Fez pointed at the five stars above his head that only Mariella could see.
"The stars show the degree of someone's talent. According to the kingdom's tradition, we will only pick people with three-stars talent and above."
As for why the stars were diamond stars….
The one-star talent would have a gray star. The two-stars would be bronze. Three stars would be silver and four stars would be golden.
Five stars– diamond.
"In the whole kingdom, people with five stars talent are less than 1% of the whole population, "
Duke Fez kindly explained to Mariella, but didn't know that the kid already looked at him with sparkling eyes.
Five-stars talent! Sh*t!!
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