10 The Elents
[Scan complete. Yellow. Earth Affinity.]
It spoke! Almost everyone was baffled. How could an object speak? Minerva didn't bother explaining as the crystal ball selected its new target and went above the mysterious young girl wearing a large veil with her long hair peeking on its edges and snowish-white skin. It didn't take long for the ball to turn to glow green.
[Scan complete. Green. Plant Affinity.]
The others who didn't understand started muttering. Minerva then started explaining while the crystal ball flew around, "A lot of you must be wondering. Let explain here. The whole universe was nothing but darkness in its infancy. And from that darkness, gods and goddesses erged. The gods and goddesses, however, were split in what they wanted to accomplish. So wanted to fill the worlds with life, so wanted eternal emptiness. It was inevitable that a battle would erupt between the gods and goddesses and it did.
"Aeons have passed and the gods and goddesses battles ended. Those who have wanted life won, obviously. The primordial energies that erupted from the battle from the gods and goddesses birthed uncountable galaxies and one of them is ours. These energies are what we call the Ten Elents.
"The Ten Elents are divided into four main elents naly the fire, wind, water, and earth. While the four sub elents are the lightning, ice, plant and tal. These are the eight elents that are the most abundant in the whole universe, but the last two elents are the ties that hold everything together. They are also the rarest to appear in a person, the darkness and light."
As soon as Minerva finished explaining, the crystal ball hovering over a bald and modestly clothed boy shone white.
[Scan complete. White. Light Affinity.]
Minerva turned slightly red, whether it was because of excitent or embarrassnt only she knew. "As I've said, it is quite rare that we have an acolyte with light or dark elents every year."
The crystal ball selected people at random and it finally ca back to the group of youths from Kalios, a magus world. Another young boy from their world was scanned and the crystal glowed red before its half turned purple.
[Scan complete. Red and purple. Dual affinity. Fire and wind.]
"Having multiple elental affinity is like having a double-edged sword. It is both fortune and curse," Minerva comnted at the young boy who had a smug look on his face at first.
A couple of minutes had passed and the crystal ball was almost finished scanning everyone. The 18 youths from Kalios had mostly single elental affinity but five of them had dual elents.
Not long after, the crystal ball floated over Ery's group. They were the last people to be scanned. It first approached Julian and shot its beam. It turned yellow before being split in half with red.
[Yellow and red. Dual affinity. Earth and fire.]
Julian whistled with a smile on his face.
Thrax was the next to be scanned.
[Red. Fire affinity.]
Julian had half a smile as he watched Thrax trying to argue at the crystal ball why he had less elental affinity compared to the roman pig. But Julian's cheeky smile turned into awe as he watched crystal divide itself into three above Klea. The colors inside the ball showed three distinct shades.
[Scan complete. Purple, blue, and indigo. Triple affinity. Wind, water and lightning.]
"Hmm. Out of the hundred youths in this class, so far you're the only acolyte who has three elents," Minerva comnted with a knowing look.
The class started a slight uproar and faces of slight admiration, especially the boys. Indeed there were many of them and this beautiful, sexy, bronze-skinned woman had three affinities. The other girls' faces, however, told a different story. That showed how rare it was for a person to have three of the elents.
"Truly an extraordinary lady!" exclaid Julian.
"It wasn't much," replied Klea, flicking her hair.
"Congratulations, Klea," said Ery with a grin.
"Thank you, cutie," smiled Klea with a wink.
Next, the crystal moved toward Chumo and showed a single color.
[Black. Darkness Affinity.]
Ery didn't have ti to congratulate Chumo for the rare elent because he was blinded by the light ray coming from the crystal ball.
He closed his eyes, slightly afraid of what he was about to hear and see. Since childhood, Ery believed he had never had success. The people around him always had low expectations from him. Even his father who had always treated him like a little boy. He never felt special nor a protagonist of the stories he had read in his father's library.
The crystal ball shone bright before becoming dark then transparent. It was quiet. The crystal ball only needed only a few seconds to finish a scan but this was a bit too long.
Ery opened his eyes and stared at the transparent crystal ball. He sighed, it was just as he had thought. He was nothing. He wasn't special. But why was he even here? Did soone or sothing make a mistake? He was about to sit down when Klea muttered his na.
"Ery..."
[Scan complete.]
[Blue]
The crystal ball showed blue. That ant he had water affinity. Ery's heart issued a slight jumped. He may be special after all. But then the crystal ball halved itself and showed another color.
[Yellow, Green]
Yellow, Earth affinity, and then a third color! Green, Plant affinity, a triple affinity!
Ery could feel everyone's eyes staring at him. He felt his breath shortening; he sowhat wanted to lower his head and hide underneath the desk. This was the first ti he had everyone's attention solely to himself. It actually felt suffocating.
Then his ears piqued as he heard gasps of the others. He had his eyes on the floor, but when he looked at them before casting his gaze at the crystal ball. He was as surprised as them.
[Black]
"..."
[Blue, Yellow, Green, and Black. Quadruple affinity. Water, Earth, Plant, and Darkness.]
"A quadruple acolyte! Only one in every thousand acolytes have this!" Minerva exclaid with a slight smile. She flew toward Ery and asked, "What's your na boy?"
"E—Ery," Ery stuttered.
Minerva recalled the crystal ball since everyone had finished being scanned. "You better work hard, boy. It looks like everyone's done but don't you guys get excited just yet. Having an affinity for an elent isn't enough. Next, we'll see how much your aptitude is."
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