In the airspace above Livingstone High, amongst the clouds, several beasts and beast variants levitated there, there were birds bigger than three aeroplanes, winged lions and tigers bigger than four elephants.
There were several people on the back of these beasts. These people were the people the principal and the others called the big three and other magic colleges.
The big three represented the three top colleges or institutes of the Xenos Country, they were Livingstone College, Guardian Academy and North Weaver Institute.
The signature beast mounts of the big three were a 8 ft tall dragon scaled griffin, which belonged to the Guardian Academy, a dragon winged bull salamander, which belonged to Livingstone College, a winged black panther belonged to the North Weaver. All the beasts were Lord Class beasts aside from the other schools whose beasts were Pseudo Lord Class, they stayed some distances behind the three beasts.
Standing at the head of the griffin, was a child garbed in a red cloak, with a shield emblem.
The child looked down at Ezra who was walking unto the stage, and his eyes twinkled before he grinned.
"What do you say, Orson and Idril, how about we make a bet?" The child said as he still looked at Ezra.
The old man from the Livingstone side and the ice cold beauty from the North Weaver side looked at the child.
"What tantrums do you want to play now, Oab?" Idril, the ice cold beauty asked as she folded her arms.
"I'm for real this time, if a black talent should appear at this moment what would you do?" Oab asked with a smirk.
"You know a black talent only appears in deviants and deviants are mostly talents owned by devils" Orson, the old man said with a frown.
"That is what the world has thought, humans awakening black talent is necessarily not a bad thing, there are no useless or evil talent only useless and evil holders" Oab countered.
"...that boy would awaken as a black level deviant talent?" Orson said as a question causing Oab's smile to deepen.
"I want to train a deviant, what do you say... You won't stop me, right?"
Idril's cold eyes widened while Orson sucked in a breath.
"Are...Are you sure about this?" Idril asked to which Oab nodded.
"I hope this won't come back to bite you in the future" Orson said with a shrug.
Ezra reached the crystal ball, Mr. Leon gave him a wry smile with dim eyes, he had no hope of Ezra awakening a superb talent.
"Clear your mind, then place your right hand on the ball"
Ezra breathe in and breathed out before he placed his hand on the ball. As soon as he placed his hand on the ball, his mind jolted and he appeared in a plane filled with clouds and a clear sea that reflected the clouds.
Ezra noticed he was corporeal, he immediately understood he was in his consciousness. His gaze immediately shifted to three balls of swirling energy that gave off some overwhelming pressure. The three balls were of different colours, One was pitch black with some white, the middle was red with some black and the last one was pure white.
Deity class and demon class talent, Ezra just seem to know what the balls of energy represented but he did not know what the black white ball of energy represented.
The next thing that happened made his eyes go wide, the black white energy devoured the deity talent and the demon talent consecutively, becoming a huge mass of swirling energy, it was no longer just black and white, there was red and purple.
His consciousness had changed as it became a dark night filled with stars but the sea still remained the same, reflecting the dark sky.
Suddenly, two eyes opened in the void and they jolted Ezra, sending him out of his subconscious realm. When Ezra regained himself, he noticed the crystal ball was shining with a pitch black light.
He removed his hands as the light disappeared, Mr. Leon looked at him with fear and the hall had dropped into a pinch drop silence.
Mr. Leon looked towards the stands and the principal nodded.
"Ez... Ezra Wolfe, high black de...de..deviant talent"
The crowd gasped causing the students to be confused as they asked their parents what was going on.
"Young man, you might not know this, but every deviant talent found in the human race, are immediately killed on the spot" Mr. Zephyrus said as he floated out of the stand and approached Ezra and just stopped some distances away from him.
"Killed?... Just because of my talent?" Ezra's eyes widened as he found the reasoning incredulous.
"Yes, because of your talent, if you had awakened a red deviant talent, we would have considered whether to kill you or not..." The yellow haired man appeared beside Mr. Zephyrus in a bolt of lightning.
"Barnes... "Ezra's heart skipped. The yellow haired man was called Barnes.
"... unfortunately, it had to be black, it is believed that every black deviant talent has a devil immediately sealed in them... And once the seal is removed, such person would be taken over by the devil and become a universal level threat, so instead of keeping a ticking time bomb, we rather nip it in the bud" Barnes said as he conjured a lightning spear.
Zephyrus also conjured an ice spear.
"Childe, the kid's about to be killed... Why aren't you doing anything?" Idril said with a frown.
"Someone else is here, and he is much stronger than the three of us, he seems to be guarding the boy" Oab said.
Zephyr and Barnes shot the spear at Ezra.
Ezra stared wide eyed as the spears shot towards him, he looked towards the bleachers, he saw Ruby jump out of her seat as she ran towards him, but she seem extremely slow. Before she gets here, I would have been blown to bits.
He looked towards Zaiah and saw the latter's gloating smirk and Ezra wished for nothing more than to smack his face.
"Get lost!!" Someone roared followed by a crash as the spears were destroyed before they reached Ezra while Zephyr and Barnes were thrown back as they crashed into the pillars.
A huge hammerhead struck the arena causing cracks to appear. The handle of the hammer was taller than 6 ft. Beside the hammer stood a middle aged man, wearing white vest that fit tight to his body showing off his muscles, he wore black jeans and boots. His arms were covered in dragon scales.
Turning around to face Ezra, the man smiled, "you okay, kid?"