On a forest, there was a peculiar village, the homes were built in the trees, people who are living in there all have pointed ears
On a house that was build on the biggest tree of the village, there was a man that looked like he was in his thirties, he opened the letter and started reading, his expression went through various changes, sometimes he frowned, while other times his face paled
The man placed down the letter and sighed
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Ren just woke up, today was the day of the test, so he didn't plan on lazing around, he got up and prepared himself to go to school
In his way, he overheard various conversations , all of them were about the same subject-super powers
In the previous days, superpowers became the main subject, videos about people using superpowers in real life became extremely famous, people claiming to see them appeared everywhere
Ren guessed that this was the government doing, they probably wanted the masses to slowly adapt, he wondered how they made superpowers the common subject, after all, if someone claimed to see some supernatural occurrences or even show them a video of it, others would just think it was faked , if someone didn't think so he most likely have a hole in the brain
This didn't affect him , so he didn't care too much about it, he soon arrived at the school building, Ren felt that the mood was heavy, there were military man everywhere, the students weren't allowed to enter and they were ordered to stand outside
Everyone was trying to guess what's happening, the majority linked it to the hot topic which is 'superpowers'
Ren simply stood in there, he couldn't see Elias, he tried to sense his aura , he detected that he's inside the school
Not too long after, A old man wearing a military uniform came outside
He shouted
"Silence!"
Arter seeing that no one was talking anymore, he continued
"As everyone knows, in the recent days , there were a lot of sightings of supernatural phenomena, I, on behalf of the government, declare that every thing you saw is true!"
Everyone was stunned at this declaration, unlike one would expect, there was no clamor, after all, no one know how to react at such a stunning declaration
The old man seemed satisfied at the students reaction and said
"Right now, I'll be saying the name of each one of you, you'll go to the respective hall, in there, your talent will be tested, also, you'll have to join the clan that tested your talent, the ones who aren't called will be tested by the government and will join us, of course , if someone refuses to do the former, you can join us, the military, that's the only choices you have"
"Let start, hall 1 - The clan of.."
The so called halls are actually where the drama club conduct it activities, it also where important speeches are held, because of a embarrassing event that happened long ago, additional halls were built to avoid a similar case
"...Hall 5- Reinerd clan...Student No.655...No...656...Student No.677 Ren"
Hearing his name, Ren entered the school and went to hall 5 , 'REINERD' was written in the door
Ren was afraid that his affinity or talent worsened after reincarnation
'Is this what someone is about to enter a job interview feels?' Ren thought to himself
After entering, Ren didn't attract any attention, there was a student next to table in the platform , he had his hand places on a glowing white crystal ball, there was a man sitting behind the table, he had a paper in his hand and seemed to write something
behind the man, there were two people standing in guard
'Hallucinations?'
Ren recognized the method used to test affinity
Like the other students, Ren took a seat while waiting his name to be called
Few minutes later, Ren name was called, he went to the platform
"Place your hand on the ball and relax"
Ren did as the man said, he placed his hands on the ball and relaxed
The ball started glowing the same way it did with the other students
Suddenly, the ball started shaking and emitting a strong light
Seeing this, the man frowned
'Using low quality trash..' Ren thought to himself
From the mana flow, Ren could tell that the item used is the same one used to test the commoners in his past life, it was easy to create it on mass, but if the one being tested talent surpasses the ball limit, it would explode
Ren instantly used a method to stop the overflow, then he extracted the appraising essence from the ball
The theory behind the talent test ball is easy, it will make one go under a hallucination, making him peek to a world that represents him, judging from what one sees, it possible to guess his talent
But what Ren did was different, he extracted the appraising essence and made it go in contact with him, the essence went under lots of changes , white flame, dark ball, light, block of ice, water ball, dirt, purple lightning, a storm, and in the end, it started distorting
Ren was satisfied, his degree of affinity didn't change, it surpasses the one a prodigy possesses, just as Ren thought the test ended, the essence tranformed into a clock
Ren was stunned, in his past life, there were multiple known attributes, the major one were
Lighting, fire, water, earth, wind, light, darkness and space, in addition, there were some attributes who are a branch of a major element, they were called the sub-attribute
for example, ice is a branch of water, one who possess water affinity can use ice magic, but the reverse isn't true, but, if we were to compare someone who have water affinity with another one who have ice affinity, the later capability is better in regards of ice magic
Every attribute have it sub-attribute, except space, it was rumored that time was a sub-attribute of space, but it was denied, no one found a way to affect time using space, and there wasn't any one who had affinity towards time, also, time is but a measurement tool used for convenience
'Maybe...Time is a major attribute , that why the space attribute didn't affect it?"
At this moment, Ren had a feeling in his heart, it was the same feeling he had when he started
learning magic in his past life, the thirst for knowledge