“Breaking Shackles? What’s that?”
“I don’t know either. I’ve never heard of it. Is there such a level of elental affinity?”
“Why did the test crystal ball shatter? Can anyone explain?”
Even the experienced ntors were baffled by this situation, let alone the students below. The term Breaking Shackles was entirely unfamiliar to them, and many had never even heard of it.
This wasn’t surprising. Breaking Shackles was a once-in-a-millennium occurrence.
The last recorded instance was during the ancient Carillian Empire, where a peerless genius, much like Aesphyra before her, shattered the elental crystal ball used for testing.
However, that genius mage had shattered a water elental crystal ball, and the spectacle was far less shocking than Aesphyra’s display.
Breaking Shackles was a term used to describe an elental affinity level that was beyond the current technology of the Carillian continent to asure.
Thus, even within Breaking Shackles, there could be vast differences, possibly even greater than the gap between diocrity and excellence.
While many ntors present had never seen it, they had heard legends about Breaking Shackles.
Such occurrences were so rare in the continent’s history that even they found it hard to believe this was the legendary Breaking Shackles.
If the ntors couldn’t be sure, the students were even less likely to jump to conclusions. Opinions varied, and the way they looked at Aesphyra changed repeatedly.
They had initially thought she was just a lucky, pretty face. Now, it seed she might be a formidable figure.
“This is significant. I must report it to the headmaster,” the elderly ntor stroked his beard and said gravely.
“Miss Aesphyra, regarding your fire elental affinity, we are temporarily unable to rate it. We hope you can understand,” the ntor spoke politely, his tone filled with respect, as if fearing Aesphyra might leave the academy dissatisfied.
“Of course,” Aesphyra smiled, showing she didn’t mind.
After all, if this truly was Breaking Shackles, it would be recorded in history.
In ti, this extraordinary silver-haired girl would undoubtedly reach the pinnacle, touching the heavens that no one had ever reached before.
The more he thought about it, the more excited the elderly ntor beca. Ignoring the others, he wrapped up the crystal shards and quickly left the trial hall.
“Alright, students, don’t just stand there. Continue testing your elental affinities. When your na is called, step forward,” the female ntor who took over called out to the restless crowd, urging them to settle down.
However, the incident was far from over.
“Water elental affinity: Excellent.” Looking at the surging tsunami appearing on the blue crystal ball before Aesphyra, the ntor’s face showed astonishnt.
A suspected Breaking Shackles in fire elent was already eye-catching enough.
Who would have thought there was more? Her water elental affinity was also at the Excellent level.
Generally, as long as one’s magical aptitude was sufficient to learn mage techniques, having even one elental affinity at the Excellent level was enough to ensure a promising future.
The most typical example was the legendary earth mage, Kantem. His other elental affinities were diocre or even poor, but his earth elental affinity was Excellent, which eventually led him to beco a legendary mage recorded in history.
The ntors conducting # Nоvеlight # the tests felt dizzy. Looking at Aesphyra, who still wore a faint smile, unimpressed and unexcited, they couldn’t help but sense an air of profundity and depth in this silver-haired girl.
She’s putting on a show, they thought.
The students’ astonishnt ca in waves.
While still reeling from the shock of the crystal ball shattering, so students and ntors thought it was just an accident, unrelated to sothing as mystical as Breaking Shackles. Now, their beliefs were beginning to waver.
Vinny glanced at the stunned crowd, finding it sowhat amusing.
Basic stuff, everyone, sit down, no need to applaud.
Are you so shocked you can’t close your mouths? There’s more to co.
“Earth elental affinity: Excellent.”
“Thunder elental affinity: Excellent.”
“Ice elental affinity: Excellent.”
“Dark elental affinity: Excellent.”
“Light elental affinity: Excellent!”
“...” The entire hall fell silent.
Even the ntors responsible for testing and recording the results stopped their work, their jaws nearly hitting the floor. Never in their lives had they been so profoundly shocked.
The earth elental crystal ball displayed a scene of cataclysmic destruction, the thunder elental crystal ball crackled with lightning...
Wherever this silver-haired girl went, the crystal balls lit up like disco balls, illuminating the entire trial hall.
By the end, both students and ntors were numb, and the ntor recording the results found it hard to write steadily.
Aesphyra’s testing was over, but the shock it left behind was far from ending.
It wasn’t just the students who were questioning their existence; the ntors were too.
Witnessing such cheat-like talent, they wondered if they had wasted their lives.
Without exaggeration, if any one of Aesphyra’s elental affinities were given to them, it would have been a qualitative leap.
How can the gap between people be so vast!?
“My goodness, this is insane... Did this beauty save the world in her past life?” Fred couldn’t help but exclaim.
“Such a person probably has no record in the entire continent’s history. Unprecedented and unparalleled. We’re witnessing history.”
“By the way, Vinny, are you so shocked you’ve gone numb? Why don’t you have any expressions?” Fred asked, looking at Vinny, who was yawning beside him.
“Why should I be shocked? We’re just specks of dust under the wheels of history. Witnessing history isn’t our role, so why be surprised?” Vinny glanced at Fred, indifferent.
“That’s true, but you’re way too calm. It’s like you already knew.”
“How could I? I don’t have the ability to foresee the future.”
“Don’t you feel resentful?” Fred asked. The hall was filled with geniuses, many of whom were proud of their talents. Being so thoroughly overshadowed would be hard for them to accept.
“Why should I feel resentful?” Vinny found it strange.
“Our life trajectories and those of the geniuses are parallel lines that never intersect. Each has its own brilliance. Especially with innate talents, it’s a matter of luck. Why feel resentful?”
“Instead of worrying about that, you should think about what to eat tonight. That’s more practical.”
“Haha, you’re quite open-minded,” Fred patted Vinny’s shoulder.
It wasn’t that he was open-minded; it was just that after transmigrating into a cannon-fodder villain, he had to be.
Otherwise, it would be a confusing ending.
Fred, on the other hand, wasn’t a top-tier genius, just soone with a bit of talent and a clear self-awareness.
He didn’t care much about such things; at most, he’d sigh in admiration. He was more interested in card gas and collecting rare cards.
However, others weren’t so indifferent. Many students showed deep frustration, like defeated roosters.
So were so stunned they seed to have left their bodies, and the ntors had to call them back multiple tis.
Clearly, Aesphyra had severely damaged the confidence of these geniuses, and it was a dinsional strike.
These youngsters probably wouldn’t recover for a while.
“Vinny Varelis.” Not long after, Vinny, who had been chatting with Fred, heard his na called and stepped forward from the crowd.
He didn’t notice that the mont the ntor called his na, two pairs of eyes instantly lifted and focused on him.
“... Varelis??” Milian tilted her cute little head, looking at Vinny’s back with a mischievous expression, murmuring softly.
“Varelis? Isn’t that the Saintess family my sister often ntions??”
The other gaze ca from a pair of cold and noble purple eyes.
Isatia Lanteville’s athyst-like eyes flickered as she watched this moon-blue-haired boy, her delicate brows slightly furrowed as she examined him from head to toe, wondering what was on his mind.
“Why is it a man??” So foreign nobles who weren’t from the kingdom looked over upon hearing the surna Varelis.
Seeing it was a blue-haired man, they frowned, not understanding what was going on.
However, only a few who hadn’t paid attention to the news found it strange. Many foreign nobles had heard of Vinny’s “glorious deeds,” as he was, after all, a well-known figure.
Vinny began his elental affinity test. At that mont, he happened to see Aesphyra receiving her test results.
Upon witnessing his testing, her moist lips curved slightly, and her shimring eyes turned into crescents, filled with teasing.
Hmph, this damn protagonist is here to watch my downfall.
Whatever, let her watch. I don’t care.
When it ca to elental affinity and magical aptitude, Vinny had long since given up. Why would he care about this?
He walked up to the first crystal ball for testing magical aptitude and placed his hand on it.
The crystal ball seed too lazy to even emit light. After a mont, it flickered weakly, barely showing a single star.
“Pfft, Varelis’s legendary one star.” The Varelis na was still eye-catching, but upon seeing Vinny’s magical aptitude results, many students couldn’t help but laugh.
However, Aesphyra gradually stopped smiling.
Vinny ignored the laughter and continued with his fire elental affinity test.
“Fire elental affinity: Poor.” The ntor glanced at the dimly burning fla on the elental sphere and recorded it.
“Water elental affinity: diocre.” The glow on the water elental sphere was slightly brighter than the fire elent’s, but still unremarkable.
“Thunder elental affinity: Poor.” Only a few sparks flickered on the thunder elental sphere.
“Wind elental affinity: Poor.” The grass elental sphere showed only a few withered vines.
“Earth elental affinity: diocre.” The earth elental sphere displayed a small, unremarkable hill.
Vinny paid no attention to these harsh assessnts or the mocking looks from behind. In fact, among the elental affinities, he only cared about one.
“Ice elental affinity...” Seeing Vinny place his hand on the crystal ice sphere, the ntor lifted his gaze, his expression gradually showing a hint of surprise.
“Ice elental affinity: Excellent!” Watching the ice elental sphere swirling with a snowstorm, the ntor finally showed so interest.
So, his ice elental affinity was at the Excellent level.
Excellent was only one level below Extraordinary, which was already a very high level of elental affinity, especially since high ice affinity was rare.
No wonder he was so adept at using ice magic.
“Too bad his magical aptitude is only one star. Otherwise, he could have been a great ice mage,” the ntor gave his evaluation.
Next were the light and dark elents.
“Dark elental affinity... None??” Seeing Vinny press his hand on the dark sphere for a long ti with no reaction, the ntor was puzzled for a while before finally accepting it, muttering, “How strange, how can there be no affinity at all?”
“This is really rare.” After recording it, Vinny proceeded to test his light elental affinity.
“Light elental affinity... Wait, none either??” Watching Vinny place his hand on the light elental sphere, which didn’t emit any light after a long ti, the ntor was shocked again.
It was common knowledge that light and dark elents were like two sides of a person, one bright and the other dark, and they coexisted. It was impossible to have none of either.
The ntor held his head, glancing at his colleague responsible for recording, who also looked bewildered.
Having absolutely no light or dark affinity was unprecedented. In a way, it was even rarer than Breaking Shackles.
But rarity aside, it was utterly useless.
Breaking Shackles was terrifyingly strong, a sign of a peerless genius. Vinny’s case was that of a peerless loser.
Vinny, who was well aware of his light and dark affinity from the original setting, wasn’t surprised at all.
Aesphyra, who had been silently watching, raised an eyebrow.
She had just had a rather absurd thought, but now it seed indeed too absurd.
Not only were their personalities and genders completely opposite, but their magical aptitude and light elental affinity also didn’t match.
Aesphyra shook her head.
“Strange, so strange. How can soone have absolutely no light or dark affinity??” The ntor couldn’t understand it and muttered to himself.
“But it shouldn’t matter, right?” Vinny asked.
“How can it not matter? If you have no light or dark elental affinity, it ans you can’t even touch any related magic,” the ntor said irritably.
“Really?” Vinny found it hard to believe.
But when he turned into Vanessa, he could use light magic with ease. Strong Light had blinded many people.
Why was that?
Vinny had a guess.
Could it be that Vanessa’s elental affinity was separate from his?
Vinny’s light and dark elental affinity was zero, but Vanessa’s wasn’t??
Thinking about it, it made sense.
If Vanessa’s magical aptitude was only one star, like Vinny’s, how could she wield the four-star Soul Armant Saint Envoy?
That was impossible.
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