Strange Old Elder...

Within the large archway was a large hall with different elders of the sect sitting at tables.

Zeras watched as the students approached the elders, passing them their cards and receiving a stamp on their cards in return before heading off through another arch door.

Looking around the place, he could see the majority of the elders were occupied with serving the cadets, but at the farthest corner, he noticed an elder who had no cadets at all in front of him.

Even though he was an elder, the other cadets still chose to stay queued before the other elders instead of approaching the destitute-looking elder, who had a bottle of alcohol in front of him, and his overgrown white beard was all over the table where he laid his head, gently snoring.