31 OPPORTUNITY

Balaji Vishwanath explained that once they were aware about me and my kingdom, they did further research on me. The people in the court were very shocked when they received the information that the prince from the rumours was not even sixteen. This signified that I had not even truly entered the noble society and had no significant allies. This also pointed towards the fact that I was not someone who had gained knowledge and intelligence from life experiences.

My young age meant that I would have just finished my basic education and would be in wait of my sixteenth birthday to finally begin my own journey in the world. If I was some kind of extraordinary genius then I would have already had my name spread throughout the empire.