"E-eh?" The boy replied, his eyes widened in shock.

"I said," she started, picking up his hands with a bright glow sparkling in her eyes, "be my bri-" "I'm very sorry!"

Suddenly, she let go of his hands mid sentence as she apologised, the feathers of his body changing into a blue hue.

 A convenient function of this clothing was its ability to absorb sweat, completely hiding the fact that cold sweat was pouring down from his back.

"I am extremely apologetic for my actions, please don't take them to heart!" He bowed deeply, his image completely different from the two before.

Wiping the cold sweat that also appeared, the boy returned with a smile, "Is-is that right? It's alright then."

'No no no, marrrrryyyy meeeeeeeee.' An ominous scream sounded in his mind.

With a twitch of his eyelid, he replied, "Sorry for bothering you." Before he continued walking as if nothing had happened.

And in an instant, his feathers changed back to a white color.

"It's true…..the fifth prince is a complete nutjob…."

"Mommy…." A beastmen child cried out.

"Oh my."

With the erupting gossip surround them, a vein bursted on his forehead as Virtla clenched his fist.

'….Justine.'

'Fight me.'

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Afterwards, he gathered at where the first test occurred, which was simply testing one's potential for magic and element attribution. At this place, there was only children and no adults, perhaps to save space, only children were allowed into the testing grounds.

The apparatus for this testing was simply a crystal ball and a crystal pillar.

Standing in line with the usual indifferent expression, he watched the proceedings with only a hint of interest in his eyes.

In the auditioning children, majority were beastmen while the rest consisted of many other races, despite having mostly beastmen consisting of the population and the fact that this was a war city, many races from neighbouring cities also came to attend this academy.

It was also a reason for the king's many wives, which were each a difference race. This city took pleasure in conquering many smaller cities while remaining at a truce with the more powerful and influential other nations, with a signed treaty as documentation.

Of course, for this city to prosper, it required extremely powerful soldiers and adventurers, and these people could be trained by focusing on their youths' training, therefore came the existence of this famed academy named Wisan Academy, which was an extremely popular choice for even citizens and royalty of other nations.

Right now the only royalty here weren't limited to simply the fourth and the fifth princes of this city.

Therefore, in front of him, was the third princess of a neighbouring country named the Trilaisea kingdom, with the majority of humans in the population.

After reincarnating for five years, this was their first time meeting with a human, but somehow, all four of them was completely disinterested.

Soon, it first came to her turn, and following the instructions given, she covered her eyes and placed her hands onto the shiny orb before her.

In an instant, the original translucent, milky color in the orb changed to a mix of two shades of blue, as well as a light green.

Immediately, whispers erupted from the side.

"Triple Mage, how tragic, the second princess earlier was a dual with light as one of them…."

"The nature element is good but…."

"It clashes with the ice element doesn't it?"

In this world, the lesser the elements one attributed to was better, it meant the purity of their attacks, while focusing on an element gives more area for improvement instead of multiple. Some elements, like having water and fire which naturally repelled each other, was the biggest tragedy that could happen to an aspiring Mage, it meant that he wouldn't never succeed.

The princess, of obviously shaking, made her way to the pillar like thing, this time, placing both of her hands as she took a deep breath.

The colors slowly lit up, red, orange, yellow, green,  before stopping at blue, extremely close to crossing the threshold to indigo.

At that moment, a slight bloody smell waived into their extremely sensitive nose, the princess had chewed her lips bloody. 

Yet again, conversations started amongst the more nosy parents as they whispered back and forth, causing tears to gather at her eyes and fall to the ground.

As she wallowed in self pity, she was suddenly enveloped in a terrifying aura.

"Move." A rather high-pitched voice commanded, obviously belonging to a child, but at the same time, to a kingly figure.

At that moment, all feline beastmen started to tremble innately, it was as if their king just released his aura.

It was Virtla, of course, who stood behind her. He had gotten bored of waiting for her and decided to move her himself without any pity or mercy. Afterall, he hated humans, or actually any humanoid, wait, he just hated everyone.

Without turning back, the girl trembled even more, whimpering slightly, annoying him even more.

It was bothersome enough he had to attend some academy, he only wanted to quickly pray for the time to pass faster, yet there was this girl here.

Stepping forward, he faced the back of her head with only inches apart as he growled, "Done? Move."

As if the dumb human finally gotten his message, she moved away, allowing him to access the things before him.

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At this moment, no one spoke, clearly affected by the atmosphere surrounding them, despite the fact that all the children here were mostly from powerful families, no one spoke up.

Without hesitation, he placed a hand onto the ball before closing his eyes.

A moment later, he opened them to see a complete lack of change.

'Wait wait!' Justine shouted, 'How could this be?'

'We're just unlucky.' James replied, shrugging halfheartedly.

'No, let me try! The thing I did earlier! I took control, the orb's job is to test the attribution of the soul!' Justine argued.

To the eyes of others, the fifth prince was currently staring in shock at the orb, and immediately the previous atmosphere was instantly gone as people started to mock and snicker.

"So he isn't much, huh?"

"How disappointing, and he was just showing off."

Without speaking, Virtla ignored the comments of both the spectators and the souls in his body as he walked over to the longer apparatus, placing his hand on it.

In an instant, the colors reached the highest level, violet.

"Wha- even so, without an attribute, he can't do anything!"

'Look, if the body has such a high potential of channeling magic, it won't be logical if we can't use it!' Justine refuted.

'Even so, you're not allowed out!' James scolded.

'Then, let me do it? Hehe?' Keith interrupted as he took over easily with the permission of Virtla.

Dying the room green as well as their feathers, he disappeared from the room as Virtla took his place.

 Returning to the previous device, he placed his hand there again, and this time the orb changed into a pure grey color.

"….doll magic?!"

"Ehh?!"

'Ooo, lemme try!' Justine shouted, but instead, Dominion took over.

In an instant, it changed into a pure black color.

"Black magic?! I must be seeing things!" 

Then, it was James' turn, in accordance to his presence, the orb changed into a transparent tone, without any hint of color.

"It's broooookeeeeennnnn!" 

Lastly, Justine came out, and it changed into a pure red color.

"A normal color!" A child screamed in relief.

With the testing over, Virtla took over, ignoring the comments from the crowd as he walked over to the dumbfounded testers.

With himself only slightly taller than the table they sat at, he asked with an indifferent tone, "Do I pass?"

"A-ah! Yes!" A female invigilator replied, snapping back to her senses.

Without caring about the results of the fourth prince, he left to the waiting area. Afterall, there was quite some time before the second and last test would be conducted.

With nothing to do, he decided on walking around aimlessly.

Treading around with light, almost completely silent steps that he had adopted as a habit from Dominion, he accidentally walked in on a certain third princess crying.

Without much care, he turned to leave.

But at that moment, he bumped into the second princess, her position painfully obvious to him with her frilly dress similar to the third princess's.

Instead of letting him go past her, she called out, "Virtla, the fifth prince, right? It's a Honour to meet you." She curtsied with a big smile.

Despite his dislike, he nodded in return, "My pleasure." Barely grunting out a reply, he walked away. 

'Aww, so much potential on that child, I'll have to keep an eye out for her…' Keith's mumbling could be heard.

"Wait! How about we go together!" The second princess called out, but he ignored her.

Soon, they reached the second testing ground, where chairs and tables were laid out, it was a theoretical test.

Seating down at a random chair, he waited for the signal for the start of the examination, and as quick it started he finished.

There was a time limit, but if one were to complete it before time was up and were sure of himself, one could pass it up early.

To their expectations, it was full marks.

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Easily, they managed to enter the academy and receive a special dorm room designed for only himself to reside in, unlike the other rooms which required four students. 

After unpacking his many things, including their tailored weaponry, he laid in the bed ready to go to sleep.

After receiving news of his passing, he immediately moved over and unpacked, giving him time to rest before classes were allocated tomorrow morning and started in the afternoon.

As he closed his eyes, a strange feeling washed over him, it was simply excitement with a hint of killing intent? But such a feeling was so negligible, he fell asleep, ignoring such a feeling.

What he didn't know at that time, a soul's strong feelings could affect the others' mood too.