The next day Vaelorian woke up early and walked out of his house, today was the day he learned about his affinity and he was really excited. As he walked he saw many people gathered outside Remus's hut. Vaelorian joined them and heard the conversations.
"But how is this possible?"
"Look at his body, the holes are so precise."
"If not disease then what could have happened? Does anyone have any idea?"
"I heard that a couple died when they were shagging and their door was broken."
"Is this a coincidence? I mean this kid and those guys are not even related!"
Vael was shocked, 'those were not his mom and dad? OOPS' Vael sighed and left the rowdy crowd. This was the most interesting thing that happened in the shanties and people were gonna gossip a lot. The question was where and who were Remus's parents? He had killed two innocent people thinking they all were related. He couldn't help but laugh loudly. Because of him two unlucky people died and he was laughing, he found this even more hilarious and couldn't stop his laughter.
"Are you alright kiddo?" An old man came out of his hut.
"Yeah yeah, see you later." Vael shrugged him off and increased his pace, a smile plastered on his face.
He reached his destination but was a little late because of the detour. Almost all the chairs were occupied, he started looking for one when his gaze stopped on a girl. She was the one who related the mana to Earth's oxygen! He still remembered the components, the chair to her right was empty. He quickly moved and sat there.
"Hey, I am Vaelorian, Nice to meet you." Vael shot his hand forward.
"I am Alice," she smiled and shook his hand. "This is Alexa." She pointed to her friend who nodded at Vael.
Vael smiled and nodded back. "I overheard you explaining the breathing technique and couldn't help but be amazed, you were so right! Taking in oxygen and breathing out carbon dioxide and other gases." He spoke in excitement.
"Haahaha thanks, I tried the breathing technique. It's really hard, I think I will have to give it several months to get a gist of it."
"Me too, I tried it but it was really hard." Vael nodded, "how are you liking your life here in comparison to Earth?"
"Uhmm, to be honest, it's still early to say anything. I would like to explore more. I miss my life though. I used to go to clubs and drink with my friends haaha."
"Clubs? Drink with friends?" Vael couldn't stop himself from asking.
"Yeah, we used to go out every weekend and drown our throats in vodka." She smiled remembering the old times.
'So clubs are places where humans drink this vodka?' He thought, wanting to try it.
"I apologize, I was busy with something. Let's begin today's lesson!" King Maximus made his way to the stage, there was a huge crystal in his hands. "This is another mana crystal and it is going to tell you your affinities. From the first row, starting from the right, please come one by one and touch the crystal. Try to move as fast as you can because we don't have time to waste on this. I need to teach you basic spells too!"
The first guy walked with confidence and put his hand on the crystal, the crystal lightened up showing two colors, red and green. "You have an affinity to fire and nature. Congratulations!"
He walked off the stage proudly followed by another student going to the stage. He also had a dual affinity and so did the third and fourth one. After more than twenty people had dual affinities the King was genuinely shocked, were the people of Earth special? he thought as he saw everyone had dual affinities with many exceptions of three and some rare with four affinities!
Soon it was Vaelorian's turn, he walked towards the crystal and put his hand on it, he could feel something stirring inside him and soon the crystal changed its color to white. "Congratulations you have an affinity towards air." King Maximus spoke carefully observing Vaelorian, he was the only one till now who had only one affinity.
Vaelorian walked off the stage in thought. He saw Alice moving towards the stage and stopped to see the crystal. As soon as she put her hand on the crystal it turned bright yellow with many colors.
"Congratulations you have an affinity of light element as well as small affinities towards all the other four elements!"
King Maximus observed Alice, 'She's the first one to have an affinity to all five. I must teach her healing magic.' He thought and looked at her as Alice walked off the stage with everyone staring at her.
'All five affinities huh' Vaelorian fell into thought. Was it really worth it? He saw Alice looking at him and smiled at her. "Congratulations, you are really talented!"
"Thanks haha" Alice laughed and they both sat on their seats. After 15 minutes everyone had seen their affinities and only Alice had five affinities among them.
"I am going to demonstrate the basic spell of all the affinities now, watch carefully." King Maximus spoke and started levitating, "This is the most basic spell of light element, it is called Lumina Ball and it can be used to illuminate or blind opponents."
Mana started gathering in King Maximus's palm and a ball formed which was bending the light, it was so beautiful that no one could keep their eyes off it. The ball suddenly burst and light filled the surroundings blinding everyone for 3 seconds.
"Now the basic spell for the fire element, it's a fireball that is highly offensive and its intensity can be increased for mass destruction." Mana started gathering in the King's palm and soon crisps of sparks appeared and a fireball was formed, he shot the ball on the grass and the area started burning and turning black. "Did you see how sparks appeared and light bent? This is a successful sign of extracting the affinities from the mana. I slowed the process so you could understand it. Now this is the basic spell for nature element."
King Maximus stopped levitating and stood on the ground, he concentrated the mana on his palm and the dust particles rushed into it forming a spike. The spike shot forward and rammed into the tree it was aimed at.
"This is the sign that you can successfully extract Nature affinity, the dust particle will rush towards the mana. Now this is how the spell of water element works," King gathered the mana to his palm and waves started appearing in the mana, turning it blue and water started gushing out. He controlled the mana and a condensed ball of water was formed in his hands, he shot in the air and burst, raining droplets on everyone. "Water is shapeless so you should not try to restrict its shape for long and let it flow freely."
"Now the last element, air." He repeated the process and mana coalesced, and the wind started flowing out of his palm. He jerked his hand in a crescent motion, giving rise to a dense air slash that ascended into the sky. "This is the sign that you have successfully extracted the element from the mana, you will feel the wind gushing out."
Vaelorian imbibed everything the King had demonstrated. He suddenly realized something, the King had shown them spells for all the elements, does that mean that he has an affinity towards all the elements?