The thread had barely left a mark on the rock like a common kitchen knife had been thrown at it. There was only a scratch.
Walking over to misaki was kaido, the eater of limbs, with an aloof face the Goliath looked down at the boy and opened his mouth. "Don't use your ability and it is your time to go up." He said with his rough low pitched scratchy voice. It felt like Misaki's insides were shaking.
Misaki nodded, walking on stage while Kaido followed behind him making sure he didn't stray too far into the other lines where 2 students were testing their abilities by placing their hands on the orb following in their footsteps Misaki placed his hand on top of the orb.
Upon contact the orb shimmered a soft wavering black light that warmed the palm of his hand. Inside the orb, purple letters were starting to form with a slight glowing yellow aura. The word 'sound' was displayed with one link of a chain latched around the S.
A few murmurs were heard but it died down quickly as kaido wrote down on a clipboard before announcing "Reject rank past legendary 1 link ability raven and recently learned one as well not bad" the big man spoke with a hand on his chin.
Misaki had a scrunched up face, not understanding the Ranking his ability received and why Kaido was able to tell he just learned the sound ability.
Kaido, on the other hand, took a second glance at misaki before sighing. "It appears you didn't listen. I will explain again for you since the others can continue without me." He said, taking in a breath of air before explaining to Misaki.
Ability ranks are determined by the glow of the orb since new abilities are being discovered all the time with gray being the lowest and yellow the highest with 5 other colors in between. The order goes gray, blue, red, green, purple, orange, yellow. The letters glow the color of the rank. Below it, many other colors have appeared but it is rarer to find 2 legendary in a single generation.
Gray-common, blue-uncommon, red-rare, green-high rare, purple-diamond, orange-hero, yellow-legendary, other colors-reject.
With that, kaido was done explaining the ranks of abilities and moved onto the links. To cut it short, he brought up levels and why they weren't called levels was because it showed a link and levels would be too cliche. Although if it was up to him, he'd choose to call them levels.
Moving on from why kaido disliked links, he went to the color of the letters. "Basically purple is learned. Depending on the shade, it tells us when you learned it, while pink means you were born with it. Understand?" He asked, having spent around 15 minutes explaining it to misaki mostly due to his shortish rant about links and levels but misaki had it noted down.
A little bit more than 30 minutes passed before the testing was done. In which case, Dashaun walked up to an orb and placed his hand on it. The orb shined brightly with a white light while letters formed with a yellow glow, the letters coming to make the word 'shards' with 3 links of a chain wrapping around the world.
"I'm a reject rank as well and because our abilities share the same ranking, I expect a lot from you. Fyi, reject ranks are abilities only 1 person possesses so for you to be a reject rank and a raven makes you quite the little freak" Dashaun said looking at Misaki.
"Moving on now that everyone has had their abilities tested, move onto the next phase and bring out the weapons. Then separate the students into groups of 2 based on links and ability rankings. For misaki here, put him in a group with a legendary or hero rank since he's the only reject in this batch." Dashaun ordered and following that kaido, Reiatsu, and ribs did as told.
Misaki was paired with a short 5'4 girl who held a Knight's shield, and sword in her hands. It appeared that she brought her own weapons. The shield was a fiery pink, as the sword glistened with a silver light. She stood straight, and strong when standing opposite of misaki.
Next to him was Apu and his opponent, who was a tall 6ft boy that wore glasses with short red hair. On Misaki's other side was the most unfair match up that's going on. An uncommon rank was going up against a hero rank.
Ribs came forward with Kaido and Reiatsu carrying a racket of weapons, ranging from a fork to a cannon; nothing was left out. "Alright kiddos. If you didn't bring a weapon, come choose one. Just pick whichever one feels right to you. Although I would suggest choosing a weapon that suits your abilities. Please come up one at a time to choose your weapons." She stated with a yawn and lackluster tone of voice.