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Chapter 02 :- Irregular Rank Exception
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Under the guidance of the Instructors, all of the people in square were walked into the main hall.
Within the main hall.
Many people were gathered inside the main hall to results of students. The great hall is located inside a building which looked like cathedral. The great hall floor is also paved with pure marble.
In the very front of the great hall, there were a line of chairs , seated upon which were representatives and recruiters from other kingdoms. Magus Academy is not the only academy used to train mages. There are total four large academies build in each kingdom.
There were total four kingdoms which comes under the Heaven's Empire. Each Kingdoms represents their power and loyalty towards Heaven's Empire.
They were North Kingdom, South Kingdom, East Kingdom and Lastly West Kingdom.
This Magus Academy Is located in the east region, which is called Easter Academy.
Which is located in the east kingdom, which is the Kingdom of Dorothy.
Directly in the middle of the great hall was the testing location. There was a black robed magus smiled and said in a clear voice, “ The testing location is right in the center. All testees, please come one at a time. No one else can enter the circle in the center. All testees, please get in line. Family and friends, please step to one side.”
There were numerous people who were looked towards the voice, and did as per the instruction. Parents, Friends and other non testers stepped back while testees came came forward.
Many of them were nervous and looked towards their parents. Of course, they would be.
Everyone wanted to make their parents proud and trained themselves from childhood. However, deep down they were sweating and looked scared to know their results.
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There also many Testees who looked absolute confident about their results, while some were scared.
Many of Royalty and Noble's children looked calm on their surfaces because given their background its not that surprising. Because, most of the mages came from nobles and Royalty bloodlines and source of their confidence was, they must have already checked their affinity with magic by using some tools.
In the middle of the Testees. There was a youth with dark black hair and crimson red eyes, who looked neither scared nor confident, he was analysing the situation. His name was Tian Dreyheart.
Tian was looking towards the central circle which was ten or so meters wide, and there were three adults along with black roped mage within it. Two of them were responsible for administering the test, while one was responsible for recording the results. The testing equipment consisted of a crystal sphere and and a complicated, six-sided magical formation.
“First.”
The black robed mage pointed at the crystal ball and said,
“Place your hand atop the crystal ball. We will test your elemental essence affinities.”
The first tester was a twelve or thirteen year old young man. That young man nervously placed his right hand atop the crystal ball. Immediately, the entire crystal ball began to emanate a hazy, light red glow, with the occasional hint of green mixed in. The Elder Mage glanced at the scrap of paper in his hands, and emotionlessly said,
“Age, fourteen. Elemental essence affinities – Fire, average affinity. Wind, low affinity.
“Now, step into the magical formation. Time to test your spiritual essence. Remember, stand there. Don’t kneel or fall down. Let’s see how long you can take it.”
The Elder mage who was recording remained as cold as ever. The young man nodded, then stepped into the six-cornered magical formation. A holy white aura immediately emanated from the bladed mage who was next to the Elder Mage, which shot into the middle of the magical formation.
Light-style elemental magic – Holy Press
“Looks like the testing procedures in this era is the same as it was in the past.” said a old man who was next to Tian.
“Grandpa Hogs, what do you mean?.” a azure haired girl and blonde haired boy who was standing beside Tian asked the old aged man, without any change in facial expression, he kept focusing his hearing senses towards them.
“In the magical aptitude test, the elemental essence affinity test is secondary. The spiritual essence test is the main one. With proper meditation, your spiritual essence will increase your understanding the magic efficiency for the people your age.” Hogs explained to their grandchildren.
In a short period of time, the youth in the middle of the magical formation could no longer hold on.
“Spiritual essence, two times stronger than the average person of the same age. Not qualified to become a magus.” The bald elder coldly announced as the magical formation deactivated, and the youngster quietly departed. A burst of noise from nearby.
Everyone pitied the youngster who was not capable of becoming mage.
"Grandpa Hog. Why was he not qualified, didn't you say, Spiritual essence must be stronger than why was he disqualified"? asked the blonde boy who was not accepting the results. Even, Tian looked shocked.
"Sheila,Ryan.." Hog looked towards his grandchildren and explained " that boys results is inevitable failure because his Spiritual essence was only two time stronger than average person.."
"Grandpa?…" the kids were looking towards their Grandpa who looked knowledgeable about mage requirement with confused eyes and were becoming nervous. Hog who explained sighed and was tried to explain in better words. But, he words were interfered by other voice.
"He meant, your Spiritual essence must be stronger than your age or In simple terms, even if your magic affinity is good without stronger Spiritual essence you will never improve as mage, so that boy did not meet the requirements as mage …"
The Girl Sheila and Boy Ryan suddenly turned towards the source, and even Hog who was trying to explain to his grandchildren looked towards the voice. There was a young boy with Dark black hair which floated in thin hair and reached the ears and dark crimson eyes who looked like more radiant than fire. He was wearing silver jacket and black pant and was releasing a aura which was no less than nobles or royalty.
"Sorry, for interrupting your explanation Mr. Hogs.
My name is TiAN Dreyheart.
I was little troubled about this test to check this affinity towards magic. However, with your knowledgeable explanation, I somewhat get the basic idea how this works. For that, I thank you from bottom of my heart." Tian spoked in respected manner.
"Oh! you were listening to my explanation…ahh" Hogs replied in casual manner who was bit amused and looked towards the boy.
"Yes! Mr.Hogs." nodded Tian.
"Well! Shelia, Ryan. Did you understand that boy's explanation…" Hogs looked towards his grandchildren, who expression showed they got it.
At the same time
“Age: 16, Spiritual essence, seven time stronger than the person of the same age.” The bald elder announced as the magical formation deactivated, and the young lady ran towards her parents with tears running from his eyes.
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"Oh.."
A burst of noise from nearby.
“Silence.” The bald elder coldly said, and immediately a large group of nobles no longer dared to speak.
“Next.”
Hogs and his grandchildren with Tian watched with interest from the side. One after another youngster was tested. Of the first ten, none met the requirements. Right now, this was a young lady in the magical formation, who had been able to hold out for longer than any of the ten before her.
“Hrm?” The bald elders eyes shone, and he immediately increased the power of the magical formation. After a long period of time, the young lady finally dropped down to one knee. The bald elder nodded in a satisfied manner. A hint of a smile on his face, he said,
“Spiritual essence, eight times stronger than most people your age. The minimum qualifications for becoming a magus have been met. You also possess average elemental essence affinity. You can become a magus!” The judgment of the bald elder had just determined the fate of this young woman.
“Oh, how wonderful!” The first person to shout with joy was not the young woman. Rather, it was the young woman’s father, a bald, middle aged, gentlemanly looking person.
“Quiet!” The bald elder snapped in a cold, unhappy voice. Immediately, the ushers came and escorted the girl and her father to where the line of magus academies recruiters sat.
Many envious eyes were cast towards the young woman. As time went on, the people in the main hall grew more and more numerous. The magical testing event would go on for seven days, so most people didn’t see the urge to come right away at the beginning.
“Next.” The bald elder said again. TiAN calmly walked into the center, Everyone looked towards the young boy who looked neither confident nor scared. His eye caught in dark hair and crimson eyes affected many people. Many young ladies looked towards the him with awe expression even the mages looked without blinking an eye towards the youngster.
TiAN placed his right hand on the crystal ball. Instantly! The crystal ball suddenly burst forth with light, as though it were the sun! Different rays of light intersected with colourful rays of light, and there were even some thin lines of red spaced in between. That eye-piercing brightness forced even the people nearby to squint their eyes. Seeing the sun-like brightness emanating forth from the crystal globe, everyone in the great hall was stunned.
Then soon the light settled down while only colors leaving behind which enclosed the whole crystal ball.
The bald elder mage quivered as he stared at the piece of paper in his hands. It was written clearly on top that details of the boy.
“Age:-17. Elemental essence affinities – Light and Darkness.
Affinity level of exceptional for both is average"
"Uhmnn"
The crowd looked disappointed with the result.
However, That bald elder and other mages felt their heart thumping wildly. Most magi had average or High elemental essence affinity with different elements. However, Light and Darkness essence affinity are ridiculously rare!.
For example, an ordinary magus might require many years of training for understanding their elements and produce results, but for TiAN it will not be the same.
Looking at the the mages expression, the crowd who looked disappointed felt the results are something incredible they changes their expressions.
“Ooooooo.”
The entire hall burst with different expressions.
"Silence!" The mages shouted at the same time.
The crowd felt silent and did not dared to utter any thing from mouth.
TiAN understood very well, that his affinity to light and darkness is rare, without changing his facial expression he removed his hand from the crystal.
“Please enter the magical formation.” The bald elder mage actually used the word ‘please’ in addressing TiAN. Even the nearby nobles began to look at TiAN with a new light in their eyes. For a person to make these famous mages to address him with respect made them to change their attitudes towards TiAN.
TiAN stepped into the magical formation. The magical formation immediately glowed with a white aura, and then a sense of pressure immediately flooded into TiAN's Spirit.
≧Light-style elemental magic – HolyPress≦
Some kind of aura was forcing on Tian's body. TiAN stayed relaxed and closed his eyes.
The aura of the magical formation grew stronger and stronger, and the overawing presence grew stronger and stronger as well. Everyone in the great hall held their breaths, as everyone were looking towards youngster who was still relaxed with same position as before.
The mages were feeling impatience, their facial expression kept changing as they kept on increasing their power. But, soon a Dark robbed mage who was the representative of Magus Council came forward and stopped the test and looked towards the boy.
"Young! Lord are you feeling okay…" the mage asked TiAN who looked relaxed as eyes closed.
"Ahh..Yes" replied TiAN who opened his eyes.
"Young Lord, this magic spell is one of basic spell to check the Spiritual essence. However, the mage force they used might have killed a first level mage. But, why are you still standing like nothing happened…" The mage asked TiAN in respectfull manner.
Everyone, who were present in the large hall kept looking towards TiAN with ' come tell ' expression. TiAN felt bit creepy and replied, which made whole hall room shocked.
"Oh! Did something like that happend?"
Silence.
Complete Silence, the moments of silence filled the hall. Many did not know what to say or speak. Then once again it was broken by TiAN with another comment.
" Mage Lord's. why are you still standing, what about my test…" replied TiAN who looked still confused by the situation. But, others were not.
Many people looked with awe and mages looked doubtful about the magical formation and kept on trying the spell which worked quite well, However, to protect their dignity as Mages to Dark Robbed Mage announced to give him a Rank.
"Oh! What a Miracle, What a miracle. This child is blessed with by our Almighty Lord, and gifted with with rare ability to neglect light magic. From today onwards our church is blessing him with a rank as 'Exception'. "
"Ohhhoooohhhh"
The entire hall once again burst with different expressions.
“Does anyone know that youngster? What clan does he belong to?”The nobles in front were all whispering to each other. If they had made friends with this youngster of amazing potential, they would have acquired, in the future, an extremely formidable ally.
“His name is TiAN?” Some of the magus academy recruiters learned his name from the test administrators. The entire group of magus academy recruiters, who had previously been sitting there, smiling, all ran over enmasse to watch. Which magus academy would not want to recruit a genius such as this?
Standing alone in the magical formation. TiAN felt disapointed and left the magic formation.
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Chapter End
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