"Well, for better or for worse, it's time to surprise these people."
Saying this, Abel placed his hand on the sphere, not caring about the wave of boos the villagers felt towards him.
Although a little before his turn he had been nervous, on the one hand, he feared that his triple affinity would bring her more problems, and on the other, although he did not say it, he was concerned about his own talent.
"I should be more concerned about my triple affinity being discovered than my talent, after all with the ancient rank manual and the large amount of celestial qi I possess, my talent is the least of it, I will still progress to a fast pace."
Martial talent itself was a cultivator's ability to absorb not only a greater amount of spiritual qi, but also at a faster rate.
People with great martial talent needed fewer resources to progress as fast as one with less talent, but more resources; Because of this, the sects valued this more, after all, resources were limited, so in the end, they only selected those with the best talent, thus, their disciples would progress faster by saving more resources.
But this did not apply to Abel, after all, with the purest celestial qi contained in the seal and the art of assimilation of nine elementals, he did not need extra resources for his cultivation, he could progress at the time he saw fit.
Even so, the illusion of having a high talent weighed on Abel's heart, so, facing that test, he felt somewhat fearful.
But as he got closer to his turn, he became calmer, deciding to face whatever this incident caused.
"Well, even if things go south, I still have the strength to defend myself, if I do my best, facing the village head for a short time shouldn't be a problem, so I'll leave what Whatever happens, as for what will happen next, I have the strength to face it. "
Once he came to that conclusion, his mind and heart calmed down completely, his attitude was indifferent, he did not even listen to the boos of the people, he only had a lingering feeling, anticipation for what would happen once. he touches that sphere.
It was at the moment that he placed his hand on the sphere, that a strange event happened, the sphere shone so brightly that he blinded everyone present for a moment.
"But what the hell? What the hell did that kid do?"
"Oh my eyes, what is happening?"
Even the three representatives jumped to their feet upon seeing this, shocked by this reaction from the sphere.
"This is my first time seeing something like this, Hey Clark, do you have any idea what's going on?"
Clark, hearing this, did not respond, he just kept looking at the boy, who after provoking such a great reaction in the sphere, quietly withdrew returning to the end of the row, as if nothing had happened, it was only a moment after this you said:
"It's the first time, but more than that, did you see what color it was that made it shine so bright?"
Hearing this, Fred was surprised, he thought for a moment, but he could only shake his head, obviously, he did not get to see the color of the sphere.
At that moment, the lady, who had remained silent so far, replied, there was a hint of interest in her voice and look.
"It was 2 colors, red and purple, who would expect a child in this place to have the strange double affinity?"
Hearing this, the 2 envoys were even more shocked, astonishment was written on their faces.
Double Affinity!
Only a small number of cultivators possessed this affinity, even their sects, throughout their history, had only met a handful of these cultivators, each one was an unrivaled genius capable of surpassing their own cultivation realm.
"His ability to learn techniques with that attribute will be faster and twice as efficient as other people, also, judging by that blinding brightness, his talent must be even greater than the previous kid, hahahahaha, it seems that my sect will have another genius more, I'm sorry for you Fred, but it seems that this time my sect will take the best seedlings. "
Hearing this, Fred frowned a little, but did not give anything, did not expect that there would be another genius in this village, he even seemed to surpass the son of the village chief by far.
Meanwhile, the lady was still watching the boy with great interest, her thoughts were indecipherable.
On the other hand, the village chief was quite upset, he never expected that the child his father ordered him to take in would be an unparalleled talent, ending up overshadowing his son that he should be the center of attention.
"I hope this result doesn't affect Drake's state of mind, damn it, I should have stopped him when I barely noticed."
Although the boss would never admit it, he could have stopped Abel if he wanted to, but he didn't, he never thought that decision would cause such inconvenience.
It was at this time that the servant who had been giving the results of each test approached him and asked:
"Master, what am I supposed to say? The villagers are quite upset over this event and want to know what happened."
Hearing this, the village chief reacted and turned in the direction of the villagers, who seemed quite upset by this incident, wondering among themselves, some were even yelling at each other, it seemed that this incident was the detonator of a bomb for them.
"Just tell them that there was an error in the measurement, after so much use, the sphere had a defect in its operation, causing that reaction, as for its results, say that it is an attribute of thunder and superior brightness, that should be enough."
The village chief had heard the lady's comment, so he knew that the boy had a double affinity, but decided that, to keep the situation under control, it would be better to hide this detail, after all, it was enough that the stakeholders are the only ones to know.
None of the envoys objected upon hearing this, tacitly agreeing, so the servant quickly approached and mentioned what the village chief said, calming the villagers, as to who would believe that, that was no longer your problem.
The village chief, seeing that everyone had calmed down, got up and walked over to the arena, before addressing everyone.
"Very good, with that ends the first test, all those who have obtained a medium brightness onwards will go to the second round, the rest can retire, the second round will start in about 10 minutes, those who passed prepare."
Saying this, the village chief returned to his place, on the other hand, the children who had passed to the next round were happy and celebrating, while a group of 9 children left the place, the sadness on their faces was evident.
Abel observed all this from his place, while he endured he gave the scrutinizing glances of all the people, there were even malicious glances from those who passed to the next round, he had clearly become the public enemy.
"I did not expect this to happen, my martial talent was lost with my bloodline, so the sphere should not have glowed like that, it is quite strange."
Abel did not care how the rest of the people saw him, in his head, there was only that question, in the end, what worried him about his triple affinity nobody seemed to care, or rather, nobody noticed because of the brightness blinding the sphere, which showed that his talent was even superior to that of the village chief's son, which made no sense to him.
"Maybe it's because of my cultivation manual or the fact that I use celestial qi to cultivate what caused that reaction in the sphere ..., *sigh*, forget it, for now, the worst-case scenario did not happen, so I should prepare for the next test."
With this thought in mind, Abel closed his eyes and waited patiently, completely ignoring the stares of the others.
Soon the 10 minutes passed, by then the villagers had already calmed down and the children again became fearful, now there were 17 children left, including Abel, and there were only 10 spots, so 7 of them would be excluded and put aside.
As many of them looked at each other, the village chief reappeared on the sand, announcing the start of the second round.
"As already said before, the second round will test the cultivator's comprehension ability, then a higher human rank martial technique provided by the envoys will be placed in front of you, you will be given the time of about 15 minutes before remove it and proceed to evaluate how much of the technique they understood at that time, well, children, get on the sand."
Hearing this, multiple discussions resounded from the crowd, even the children were astonished, but more than fearing about this, they felt anxious and excited, as what they would see would be a higher human rank martial technique.
"Did I hear you right? Did you say that you will use a higher human rank technique to test your martial understanding?"
"Yes, I am also surprised, I never expected sects to be so generous as to give away a technique of that caliber."
"Idiot! What do you think the 3 sects are? Obviously for them such a technique is nothing, rather, I envy those children, after all, they have the opportunity to learn that superior human rank martial technique!"
Abel could hear discussions of that type all over the place, but he had already suspected that the sects would use a technique of that level for the test, not only because the sects were generous, but that such a technique was not easily understood.
"After all, a martial technique only reaches the advanced rank, the superior term means that either the technique is incomplete, so it did not reach the requirements of the next rank, or that the use of it has consequences, so the range decreases, considering this, the technique they will provide will surely be of the first type."
With these thoughts in mind, Abel approached the sand with the other children and sat some distance from them, soon, he noticed that a couple of servants were bringing what looked like a painting, which was covered by a black sheet.
"Very good children, from the moment this sheet is discovered, you will have 15 minutes to understand the technique found in this painting, after that, it will be removed and your progress will be evaluated one by one, with that said, that start the 2nd test."
Once the servant finished saying this, he uncovered the sheet of the painting, letting the image shine on it, which Abel, seeing it, was surprised as he thought:
"It is a superior human range movement technique!"