"To become a mage, you need to have special aptitude. If you don't have this aptitude, you will never become a mage. Unfortunately, our species is the worst one in term of magic talent. It's why the human has the least territory compared to the other race. But I'm getting off topic.
The test will principally verify your talent in magic. Depending on your magic talent, you will have different opportunity.
If you have a small magic talent, you could study magic science and become a magicatien. They are the scientist of the magic and invented all the machine like train. This expert can be as important as mage.
If you have a medium talent, you could integrate the special force under blood thirsty. He is one of three generals of the rebellion. He is called blood thirsty because of a stupid story but otherwise he is an idiot.
To finished, if you have high talent, you could become a mage and a personal disciple of the leader himself.".
"If I have high talent in magic, will I be able to fly!" asked Charlot who was very excited.
"Calm down boy! As I said, talent in magic is very rare. So, you better prepare yourself to don't have talent. People with magic talent is less than 1%. And people with high enough magic talent to become mage is less than 0.1%.
Even if you have talent, you will need to learn how to manipulate mana. To finish, flying? Normally, it should be possible, but you will need to be very strong like the first emperor!" answered the young women.
"The first emperor?"
"You don't know him. You really come from the countryside. Okay! Listen attentively. The first emperor is the hero of the human. Without this genius, we would have stayed the slaves of others intelligent race. He led the revolt and arrived to create an empire for human. But 400 years ago, with the fall of the empire, we never heard of him again."
"Woah!! I will be like him in the future!!"
"Ahahah! You have a long way if you want to be like him," laughed the young women.
After they finished their conversation, they went out of the headquarter and went toward the back of the cave.
A big forest was here. The trees were glowing in a strange purple color.
Fungus grew everywhere. It emitted a blue light. The entire forest was creepy.
"Madam are we entering this forest?" he asked worried.
"Eh! Don't be afraid, be a man! And called me Elly, I'm not old." Elly replied.
"There is the test at the center of the forest. I will conduct the test when we arrived over there" continued Elly.
After a short walk, a large clearing appeared. At the center of the clearing, there was a temple. It looks like very ancient. Nobody was present here. Beside the temple a large area was present.
"Sunday, all the training camp come, and the supervisor will evaluate your improvement. Even if you don't become a mage, you could always be useful for the rebellion. Don't slack off in the future!"
They arrived before the temple. They took the stair who bring them at the top of the temple where a room was situated. In front of the door to the room, a black membrane blocked the access to the room. Elly made strange sign with her arm and the ring at her hand shined with the usual blue light. After the blue light touched the black membrane, this one disappear letting place to a dark room lit by a cold blue light.
Inside the room, the wall was completely black. A pool who emitted the blue light, light the altar behind. Beginning inside the pool, stair went all the way toward the altar. A faint trace of blood seemed to come from it.
"To test your talent, you need to enter naked in the pool. If you have talent in magic, the pool will illuminate."
Charlot was nervous. He wanted to be the next hero of humankind. If he has magic talent, he could do anything in the future, he could even fly! To be able to accomplish his wish that was the promise of magic.
Charlot took off his clothe slowly, he didn't want to rush in the pool. He was scared to learn that his dream will never come true. Will he be useless?
Elly who was looking at him, couldn't take anymore. She made a big gesture with her arm; blue light went out from her hand, and it hit the back of Charlot. He felt his feet took off the ground. His body flew into the air, and he plunged into the pool. He took his head out of the water and waited for the result.
He already has forgotten about Elly; all that matter was the next second and his future. He felt nothing.
At some point, he felt that his body was slowing down, he had difficulties feeling his toes. His muscles seemed to tense, and he could hear his hearth.
"Is-it normal?" Though Charlot.
Yes, Charlot. It's completely normal. Charlot was so stress that he didn't even pay attention to anything. The blue water was very cold, and he was just feeling the temperature of his body go down, nothing more.
"Go out." Said Elly with a tone of voice much colder than before.
"You have no talent in magic. Not even a bit. You are completely useless." She said with an angry voice.
"Go to the training camp for the solder, it's at the west of the temple."
Elly didn't even think to bring him herself to the camp now that he shows no talent in magic.
"What a waste of time." She said without thinking of the feeling of Charlot.
Charlot was shocked to hear that he doesn't have talent. Does-it mean that he will never be as fabulous as the first emperor. Charlot felt for the first time his fury. He wanted to become strong. He wanted to fight for the humankind like the first emperor. He wanted to cure people from the plague. He wanted …
Is talent something that you can go over-it. Charlot couldn't imagine that the world was big, and that there was maybe other way to become strong.
He began to get dress next to the pool but as he put his tee-shirt, Elly looked at him with disdain and said:
"Go dress outside the temple, I need to close it." She ordered.
He dragged his feet and went outside. The sky was blue without any cloud, if we forgot the strange forest, this was the perfect place and time to take a nap. Charlot put his cloth on and sat on the ground.
Yesterday, he left the orphanage to go on an adventure. And there he was, next to a temple after walking on a moving train before witnessing an assassination and make a race with aero-slider.
At this thought, Charlot couldn't stop to smile. "Even if I don't have magic so what. I always dream to go in adventure and that's what is happening to me right now! Magic talent will not stop me!" he thought.
He began to smile and after a few second, he laughed:
" Ahahah! That was so funny! I never had a day where I had so much fun! Ahahah! If mom and dad see me! Ahah" thought out loud Charlot.
Elly arrived next to Charlot and said with a much calmer voice:
" Sorry, Charlot to have said harsh word. I was just expecting too much. Okay, let's go see if you could have other talent."
Charlot was surprised that Elly strange behavior. She seems to change personality in a second.
He was young but he had a good experience of people thanks to the quarantine. Even if she recuperates her manner, she will still think of him as a disappointment. He saw her looks when she realized that he has no talent. It was not a look of someone who didn't care about the result.
So even if she smiled at him like nothing happen, he will always be on his guard with her.
Charlot followed Elly through the forest. They were going in other directions by which they entered.
"Okay, even if you don't have talent in magic, there are plenty of other work that you can do. But I need to say that even if you are remarkable, without magic you will always be limited."
Charlot was young so he didn't take to hearth, but he will discover that talent is something that is difficult to surpass. Without magic, he could not become as important as generals or other extreme important position.
They arrived outside the forest, where a big camp was present. A small wooden wall with rows of tents was installed. It was very neat. At the center of the camp, a big red tent was installed.
"Welcome to the soldier camp! It will be surely your new home!"