"It is okay for me, Lord Father." Jago replied.
"Hening, go on then." the king said.
Hening which was standing on the formation edges, start walking to the formation, nervousness shown in her little faces. Although her mother and brother had discussed this issue to her many times previously, she still could not calm down. Anyway, she was still 5 years old little girl.
Once Hening arrived on the formation center, Jenggot spoke to her from outsides the formation.
"Your highness, the formation has been activated, once you are ready, you can start to meditate. Take your time and try to feel the element energy surrounding you."
"You may hear voices and seeing something, but there will be no danger for you."
"I understand, thank you Principal." Hening replied.
Hening started to meditate on the formation center, she closed her eyes and try to sensing the element energy on the air. For a person which not started to cultivate the element energy yet, their body was like a hollow bottle. Peoples of five element continent believed that element energy had their own will.
Thus the purpose of affinity test was basically just to open the bottle and let the element energy came pouring in to the body. Once the element energy entering the formation, it would be sensed by the formation. Thus the element magic stone would react according to each element that gathered on the formation.
The quantity of the element energy that poured into the body was also measured. The amount of the element energy and required times to absorb it would be used to measure the affinity level. In other word, the affinity test in a whole was just simple test to know, which element energy was most suitable for someone and how fast it would be collected inside the body in certain given time. The longer it takes, the slower would be the cultivation progress in overall. Thus come the term to differentiated a genius and normal people from the affinity test.
Although above process seemed exhausting, all of it was done entirely by the element sensing formation. Starting by detecting the element energy, measuring the affinity and display the result on the element sensing stone, it was all done by the formation.
Hening closed her eyes and meditated, she felt that she no longer standing in the first floor of Academy's Library. Although she closed her eyes, she can "see" clearly the pentagram below her feet shined with warm green luster.
Her family was no longer can be seen and the element sensing stones that located exactly on the pentagram tips were also cannot be found.
Besides the glowing pentagram on her feet, her surrounding was filled with dark, gloomy, grayish color. Once she looked further ahead, only darkness could be found. The whole world was like a colorless black and white world with the black color was more dominant.
According to her mother and brother, this dark world was called element energy dimension. Although she knew that there was no danger as long as she remains inside the pentagram, the little girl started to sob and crying.
Hening felt some fear but she tried to suppress her feeling and started to concentrate and meditate on the pentagram. Not long after she started it, she was seeing some colorful rays of light outsides of the pentagram. Those lights were flying around on the surrounding of the pentagram boundary among the darkness.
Previously, when Hening first arrived on this strange world, she did not pay too much attention to these surrounding in details. She only saw darkness on it. But in actual those lights were always there. These lights consisted of mainly 5 colors with the most dominant color was green. The sight was magnificent. These clusters of colorful light were scattered randomly. They gave a comfortable feeling to Hening, much like the green light summoned by Jenggot when he activated the formation.
"Your highness, If you see some colorful lights in the surrounding, that will be the elemental energy. Try to communicate with them and gather them on your body."
Hening heard Jenggot's word when she was still looking at the colorful lights. Those lights were scattered outside the pentagram where Hening was standing. Hening stop her meditation and slowly walked from center of the pentagram to one of the nearest cluster of green light.
Prior the affinity test, her mother and brother had explained to her that these lights are representing the elemental energy. The green light was representing the wood affinity, so they stated clearly that Hening should focus as much as possible to collect the wood elemental energy.
Their kingdom was located in wood affinity empire, and the wood affinity was the basis of their kingdom strength. There was plenty resources and knowledge to nurture prodigy with wood affinity, but for other element genius, their fate would not be as good as them.
"Your highness, please avoid to step out of the formation." Jenggot's voice sounded again in this mysterious domain.
Hening which previously planned to step out from the formation and chased out the wood energy, stopped in her track. Standing on the formation periphery, she lifted her hand to the direction of the green cluster of lights.
The green cluster of light, which previously randomly flying around in the middle of other lights were starting flying to Hening's hand. Seeing the wood element came closer to her hand, Hening could not conceal her happiness. She smiled and waved the hand slowly akin to calling out those lights.
Eventually the green lights arrived near the pentagram, once the green lights passed the pentagram, the formation outsides on the library's floor were lit up.
Closely following the lit up of the formation, the element sensing stone representing the wood affinity started to lit up with green color, seeing this, the royal family member's faces soon started to smile and whispering.
"Indeed, descendant of the Rivermountain, she lit up the wood stone first among others." Alash's voices slowly reverberated in the library, suppressing the murmur of the other family members.