Flynn, Sophia and Cassandra entered the testing building a minute or two after Grey went inside, they found Grey studying the device with an interested look in his face.
"Grey what makes this chair more special, such that you would have such an interested look on you face?"
Grey glanced at Flynn before answering him.
"I think it would be these extra two orbs on the right side of the machine."
Flynn and two girls also started moving around the device in wonder too, as the four classmates studied the chair, more of their classmates came in the testing building. Those children could not hide their interest as well, the last to come surprisingly was the pair of Miranda and Petra.
Every child gave the two tier 4 talents a weird look, which somewhat made the two girls awkward.
"I eat slowly."
Miranda felt that she should confess that she ate slowly, in her orphanage she was taught that girls she eat with grace. Thus she never changed that style, she would only eat faster if it was super important situation.
To her confession the rest of the children only nodded back in understanding. When the clock reached 13:00, 1st Lt Finn Miller came into the testing room together with another male individual, who was wearing 2nd Lt badges.
"This here with me is 2nd Lt Dale Summer, he will be helping me with your elemental affinity testing."
Even though his surname was Summer, he did not look like a sunny person. The 2nd Lt was a recipient of a surname gotten from the name of the season that he was born in, I really think that someone should persecute these orphanage staff, or maybe it's a scheme, we will never know.
The 2nd Lt had black hair with black eyes, his looks were average at best. 2nd Lt Summer had a serious look on his face and he gave the feeling that he was a very strict man, to others and himself.
"The device you see in front you will be used to test your elemental affinity, none of you children have tier 6 talent thus this device will be used for your testing."
"There are seven elemental affinities, Darkness, Ice/Water, Wind, Earth, Lightning, Fire and Light. Dale you can start the preparation of the testing device."
2nd Lt Summer started to fiddling with the device.
"Depending on your main affinity and secondary affinity, three lights will glow from the seven orbs on the left of the machine."
"The intensity of the main element will be the highest and the two secondary affinities will have the same intensity."
A new hand was raised from the back of the class, this time it was a male child with blond hair and hazel eyes, he was slightly cute as a child, he would grow to be handsome. The name of the child was Bon Meyer, the child had cool feeling to himself.
"Sir what of those two other orbs?"
Everyone asked seem to have their attention increased, most of the kids were very interested to know those other orbs.
"Bon, I was getting to that"
1st Lt Miller was still smiling, this passive aggressive prick, or maybe its a show of patience.
"These two orbs represent special affinities of Life and Death, some of you should have already figured that out. Special affinities can be combined two elemental affinities to create two types of magic, people with such magic are very important and very powerful."
The kids had look of understanding, some were nodding to show that they understood.
"Death special affinity can be combined with darkness affinity to create Necromancy magic. Life special affinity can be combined with light affinity to create Healing/Recovery magic."
'It looks like things like healing magic are not tied to religion in this world like how it is shown in novels. That is good, I was never a religious person anyway.'
Grey thought to himself as the 1st Lt continued to lecture the children.
"To have a special affinity is a rare affair, most people who get the light and darkness affinities mostly never get the special affinities, but people who have special affinities will always have the corresponding elemental affinity."
"Sir Miller, the testing device is ready."
As the 1st Lt was lecturing the children 2nd Lt Summer interrupted him.
"Ok. Flynn you go first, you were first in the introductions."
Flynn walked with confident steps as he approached the testing chair, 2nd Lt Summer strapped him into the chair.
"Flynn are you ready?"
2nd Lt Summer checked if he was ready.
"Yes Sir"
The 2nd Lt pulled a lever and the device made some noise as it started to work, it ran for 30 seconds and stopped. Three lights started to glow with one of the lights having a higher intensity.
"Flynn. Main element is Earth element and the two secondary elements are Wind and Fire."
2nd Lt Summer reported to 1st Lt Miller who just nodded.
"These three elements can be combined to make higher tier magma spells, if you get to that point in your mage path they can be really powerful."
1st Lt Miller commented to Flynn as he joined the rest of the children. Grey did not wait to be called, he was the second person who introduced himself in class. The 2nd Lt just nodded to him as he started to strap him to the chair. The device started to work after Grey gave the go ahead to 2nd Lt Summer, Grey thought he would feel something as the device was working, but nothing came. After 30 seconds the device stopped like it did for Flynn.
'Then why do they need to strap me in like this?'
Grey thought to himself as he left the chair.
"Grey. Main element is Light and the two secondary elements are Wind and Fire."
'Yes! [Explosion] is a go, but light magic is new in this kind of setting, most protagonists would have something like darkness affinity.'
"Light magic together with Lightning magic are some of the fastest magic used in the magic industry, and fire and wind synergise very well making them very dangerous. Light magic is a highly offensive magic if its wielder knows it advantages, it should not be underestimated because it can be used in Healing/Recovery magic ."
The 1st Lt commented as Grey was thinking of [Explosion].
"Miranda. Main element is Fire and the two secondary elements are Lightning and Ice/Water."
"Fire, Lightning and Ice/Water make for a highly offensive and defensive combination, Fire and Lightning for offense and Ice/Water for defence."
1st Lt Finn Miller commented after 2nd Lt Summer called out Miranda's elemental affinities.
"Petra. Main element is Lightning and the two secondary elements are Wind and Darkness."
"Lightning, Wind and Darkness have high offensive and high speed, it is a good combination, it is similar to Grey's."
1st Lt Finn Miller commented after 2nd Lt Summer called out Petra's elemental affinities.
"Sophia. Main element is Wind and the two secondary elements are Ice/Water and Lighting."
The 1st Lt stopped commenting after the tier 4 talents were done with their tests.
"Cassandra. Main element is Ice/Water and the two secondary elements are Fire and Light."
The rest of the children also did their elemental affinity test, Grey was first surprised when he got the light affinity as his main affinity. He personally thought that with his personality there should be no reason to get such a bright elemental affinity.
But as the rest of the children did their elemental affinity test, he realised that he was still thinking of those fantasy/Isekai novels, where the personality or the colour of a person's hair somehow influences the type of elemental affinity they will have.
For example, Scarlet with her red hair, Grey originally believed that she would possibly have affinity with fire. But Scarlet did not even have fire as a secondary affinity, she got Lightning as her main elemental affinity and Light and wind as her two secondaries.
Another example would be Sheldon, with his explosive personality, he still got Ice/Water as his main elemental affinity and his two secondary affinities were Darkness and Wind.
Another surprising observation was that unlike those novels he used to read, Darkness and Light affinities were not very rare, some of the kids also got Darkness and light as their main affinity or secondary affinity. The thing that was still the same was that the two affinities still could not be found together in a person.
There was no child that had light affinity that got darkness affinity as a secondary and the same was true for children who had darkness affinity as their main affinity. At least the fantasy/Isekai novels got that correct.
'No special affinity in this class.'
1st Lt Finn Miller thought to himself as he reviewed the results of the children in his mind, he had memorised the affinities of all the 25 children his class.
'Special affinities are too rare, never mind.'
"Children we will end the class at this point today. Tomorrow you will start your normal education classes and your officer training classes, you should expect to start and end the day with physical training, that will also include weapons training. That should relatively simple for you little geniuses."
1st Lt Finn Miller and 2nd Lt Dale Summer left after that.