When the platform finally reached the upper floors Aether noticed in the testing ground there were two types of moods, very happy, or very sad
The woman walked towards a room with glass walls
When they came inside it Aether tried to understand what is going to happen here
"Please wait a minute" The woman said and walked out of the room
A minute later she returned with a weird beetle in her hands
"This is the tester beetle, it can measure your elemental affinity" The woman spoke
Aether nodded
The beetle was the size of a bowling ball and apart from the silvery shell it wouldn't be much diffrent then a normal dung beetle
"Place your hand on the shell and insert a small amount of mana"
'Mana is the thing that makes magic work idiot' Stella said with a clearly mocking tone as if Aether was a small child
'I know that much' Linas couldn't help but get mad at her
Aether inserted some mana and the beetle exploded instantly, painting the glass walls orange and yellow
*Sigh*"You only needed to insert a small amount" The woman remembered the other people that misunderstood, or tried to look cool
"But I did, that was only a tiny amount of my mana" Aether explaines
The woman and the people behind the glass wall who heard him were dumbfounded
"This is a serious test, it's not time for jokes"
"But I am serious"
"Hmmm, well if you are I guess we will try again" The woman picked up a weird black cube with green glowing lines engraved from her pocket
'It's a communication cube, it's an intermediate grade magic item, they will tell you more about it in the magic item and equipment lessons'
"Boss, can you bring me the golden tester beetle?" The woman spoke
"Yes sure, why though?" A low pitch male voice answered
"There is a monster here, the normal beetle can't handle him" She chuckled
The man chuckled confused "All right, we're bringing it in"
A minute later one of the walls moved up to make space and two men walked into the room with their hands occupied with a beetle the size of a car. The beetle was the same shapewise, just the most of his body was shiny golden while the shell was silvery white
"Place your hand and insert the a small amount of mana again" The woman said
Aether did the same process again but the outcome this time was diffrent
The shell shined the colours of the rainbow before it cracked and the beetle exploded
"Woah... Just how much mana did you insert into the beetle?" One of the men asked
"Hmm... Less then a percent, if i had to guess" Aether looked at the ground with a thinking expression
"You sure?" The man looked at him with a confused yet exited face
"Yes" Aether ensured him
"Well I guess we saw what affinity, or rather affinities you have" The woman thought
"So?" Aether although he didn't care, it was one of the things everyone wanted to know
"You are a multielemental" The other man said in a surprisingly low voice "Which is a 1 in a million chance by itself"
"But the thing is you have all of the basic elements"
"Well be careful" The first man spoke again "The are a lot of other people who will probably want to teach you a lesson thinking you are gonna be full of yourself"
"Why?" Aether was once again confused "Wouldn't it make more sence to just have a single element then train it to perfection and then be happy about it rather then having multiple elements and being bad at all of them"
"Well I wish all people thought that way"
The first man was impressed by this kid
"They think more how to be better then others: prettier, smarter, more powerful rather then being efficient with what you have" The man thought again "You gonna have a bright future with that mindset, kid"
"I'm gonna keep that in mind" Aether thought hard
"Time to do the next test I guess" The woman said "Let's go"
While walking towards the other testing machine Aether asked stella some questions again 'What do you think about the multielemental stuff stel?'
'Well I don't know what you want to know about, but personally I think it's quite cool'
The door of the element testing room opened once again and some cleaners with displeased expressions came in
'I'm begining to like this kid more and more' Those were the woman's thoughts 'I'm kinda jeallous of the girl he will choose' She thought while blushing
As Aether was comming up to the other testing room there was a weird force field thing and a counter below
'Another intermediate grade magic item, a force field machine, exept this one has a counter below. It's probably gonna test your physical strenght'
"Punch this as hard as you can" The woman said
Aether walked up to it and punched it.
The force field shattered.
The people behind the glass were once again dumbfounded and even more envious. Some were already thinking of ways how to suck up to him and bathe in some of his glory
*Sigh* The woman shook her head and then walked up to the force field then did some stuff and the force field was good as new again 'It's suppost to stop an aphe (Armor piercing high explosive) tank shell!!!' The woman was screaming in her mind
"Ok... Try using enough power that it wouldn't shatter it but would be able to measure your strenght"
Aether punched it and it cracked.
"I wouldn't even be surprised if your iq was 200 right now" The woman said
"When I measured it last year it was 220 and now probably above" Aether said expresionlessly "And i'm not joking"
Now most of the faces of envy turned to the face 'remind me not to piss him off' and admiration to amazement. Some girls were even thinking how to propose to him with heart shaped eyes.
"Well the only thing you are missing right now is money but knowing your abilities you are gonna get that in no time"
"Are there more tests?" At this point Aether could only think of hurrying up since it has taken so much of his time
"No just a few questions" The woman was surprised at how much Aether didn't care about the test results "what type of team member do you want to be"
'She means support, attack, defence'
"I don't really care" Aether quickly answered
"Second question, what team role do you want to take up?"
'This time she means swordsman, archer, mage'
"Don't care either"
"Third question, what is your prefered weapon?"
"I don't care, although i am proficient in using a katana, daggers, a spear, a bow and a claymore though I can probably learn every other weapon if I put in some effort"
'Wow...' The woman was daydreaming about herself sitting in a huge mansion with a guy who looks like Aether but older
"You ok?" Aether couldn't help but be confused... Again...
"Oh yes..." The woman got embarassed and flushed