While Maxwell was waiting, the mirror changes a few words appears...
{Weak fire control}
"Thats great! I knew i could make the candle move! I wasnt crazy!" The commoner shouted while having a smile
"Next. Note that one for a test on his mage talent, he could become a decent fire evocation mage" The mage leader said to his follower and continued with the assesement
The next commoner went in front of the mirror and...
{Loud shout}
"...i thought i had a little louder voice but not this..." With his head low, he went off the stage
"Next"
...
Maxwell went through many emotions, first it was excitement for those unscientific powers.... then it was shock... then he was spechless... and now he is indifferent
He saw many powerful powers, ence his shock. Many like, {Great wind control}, {Shadow bend}, {Elemental body}, etc.... but those were only the 1% of the commoners, the other 99% had normal and useless powers... there are even powers that cant be called powers but disablities
FIrst were the normal ones, things like {increased earing}, {nimble limbs}, {Never hungry}, {Great might}, etc. The most powerful among the normal ones were the ones that increased the strenght or modified the body in a positive way
Then we have the useless powers... some to the point of being funny. Some of what Maxwell saw were like {Rainbow blood} which makes one to have blood of many colors, {Candle blower} which turn of the candles by only looking at them, {Nail painter} which makes one able to control the color of his nails at any time... and those were some cases of useless power
But they are far from being the worst ones... there are some powers which are straight disabilities
There was a poor commoner which has {Sweet sweat}, it may sound good but for a commoner who sweats a lot its pretty bad... and the mosquitoes and all other insects
Another one has {Hard sleeper}, making the commoner to sleep more than 12 hours per day
And the last but most horrible one Maxwell saw... it was {Bad luck}, imagine going out for a walk and tripping on a rock... 5 times in a row. Then when getting home you find that for some reason a fire was started on your roof... only to discover that you have no water nearby... only to...
Just looking at the poor guy who looks like a crazy man makes him shiver in terror. That man cant literally do anything he wants, as the outcome will always be bad
...
After having a traumatizing and eye openner experience, Maxwell goes back to the inn he was staying
Inside the room, Maxwell speaks with him mom
"When are we going home?" Like a little child who got a new toy, he asks
He very much wants to start experimenting with his new powers
"Sorry maxy, We gotta stay a little longer, Leopold has some errands to for your father in the capital"
"Okay, ill wait" Maxwell sat on a chair and started to use his {Numeric Sigh} on anything to pass the time
Like how many kilograms of wood has a table
He also started to test in various forms like how tall in meters is the door, how many splinters are in the room, etc
The results he got is that he could count anything as long as he provides the right question, it mostly depend if he has any knowledge involving the issue, for example he has to specify in his head if he want the height of the door in cm or inches
Also he cant numerize certain things suprassing his current powers, as he starts to feel a headache, for example he asked in his head while seeing the roof of how long until the roof decays in days, as he has to specify the type of measure. The answer he got was {274}, meaning that in 274 days the wooden room is going to decay. To his surprise, his power could, by a certain extend, read a predetermined future
After giving it some thought, he wanted to see the limit of his detection range without incurring permanent damage on his head or power, so, recalling his earlier experiment, he beggan to think what to do in order to test his limits, and the question he will asks is... How long until the whole room decays in days
After asking this, his whole world started to spin and he fell over to the floor. A great but bearable ammount of headache washes over him. In all of this he move his eyes to a top corner on his vision and there it was a {452}
It seems that this is the limit of seeing a premedited future, but he doesnt know if other questions have other limits but for now he is in too much pain and went to the bed in order to sleep
In the bed, he starts to think of many things and experiments he could do with his powers
Right now he doesnt know how to increase the limit of this {Numeric Sigh} power, maybe it could be using it, maybe by growing up, but atleast he is certain of one thing. This is not a 'simple' numeric answer, if asked the right question he could count anything in the world, maybe one day, he could see how many days until a person 'decays', or, saying it simple, dies
While having many sweet plans for the future, he feel asleep
...
The time flows and Maxwell never stopped to train his mana gathering and to see if his power could get stronger by using it many times
Although impatient at first, he tried to forget about {Energy Controller} for now and started to concentrate on testing {Numeric SIgh} while in the capital
As for why he didnt use his other power? He has many reasons, like privacy, space, testing materials, etc. Also he got a liiitle bit of trauma after literally exploding himself in his previous life... although his addiction can get over it quickly
Days pass and Leopold finally finished his things... although he came with some blood on his always clean suit
Maxwell mother and the guards competly ignored that and they started to prepare for going home
The next day, a noble carriage left the capital, inside was a excited Maxwell, hyped for experimenting at home and his mother who was watching Maxwell with a smile
Leopold was manning and the guards were left being in the capital, as they belong to the Silverwing family outpost they have there
Maxwell gaze at the distance, wishing for the carriage to be faster