Inside the carriage, two old men wearing the white Shenyi with blue bolder on the edge were sitting on one side while a man in his thirties was wearing a blue robe. The one wearing the blue robe had yellow hair and yellow eyes, he was emperor of the Northern Empire.
Reaching orphanage with a happiness on his face, "Grandfather, Now I know who the great figure came here. I saw the emperor while coming back."
"Is that so?"
"Yes, also it completely left my mind that today one person from this town is going to get a chance to get into the Royal Academy of the Northern Empire."
As the name suggests, only the Royal and Noble family can go to study at the Royal Academy. But there was one expectation, at the end of each year the emperor of the Northern Empire selects ten people across the Northern Empire, and he gives them a chance to enter inside the Royal Academy. It trains students from age ten to seventeen which later help them to join different Clan when they turn eighteen for further improvement.
The selected person gets a chance to study there, the emperor also provides rewards to their family with gold. The town Kaito was living in was the last place from where he would choose one person and leave the place along with him.
"Grandfather, I will be going to take part in the selection test."
"I won't stop you but remember to only use one of your magical energies."
"Don't worry, one will be enough for me to get selected. Hehehe…." Laughing he left the room and went to the arena where the selection was held.
Reaching there he finds himself alone in the center of the round arena. In excitement he went there two hours earlier. The arena was spread in a thirty-meter radius surrounded by wooden walls. Outside the wooden wall there were few trees, walking to one of the trees Kaito sat in the shadow of the tree.
Watching the falling leaf, he slowly fell asleep.
"..you…..in...my nephew will be the one from this town to get selected." Kaito was hearing lots of sound around, as it got louder, he woke up.
Same area that was empty when he came, now filled with people and candidates from the town who wanted to get selected. Kaito stood up, one by one passing people who only came here to watch, Kaito moved forward the center of the arena.
At the center there was a big mirror, and in a line candidates who were taking part in the test were coming in front of the Bronze Mirror. And soon they place their palm on the mirror and a circle appears at the center of the mirror. The size shown on the mirror indicates one's Occult Orb capacity.
The emperor's two warriors were standing close to the mirror watching the score of each candidate and they isolated the candidate with the biggest circle size.
There were two conditions to pass the test to get selected by the emperor, first one needed to be ten years old or below. Other candidates with the biggest circle size would get selected.
Kaito quickly got in the line and started to wait for his turn.
"Hey, look, circle covering half of the mirror." One candidate got a red circle of size covering half of the mirror. It was the biggest one that appeared till now.
He was a boy wearing expensive clothes and was the son of the Town Master. "Well, we all knew, the Town Master's son would get selected."
"Yes."
The test continued and no one even came close to the Town Master's circle size. "Is there really any reason to continue to test?" One warrior standing there was murdered.
Another warrior next to him heard him, "We don't have any option, anyway there are only a few candidates left."
After eight minutes, there was only one candidate left and that was Kaito. 'Finally, it's my turn.' With a smile on his face Kaito went near the mirror and placed his right palm on the mirror. He was not desperate like others to get selected, he only sees it as a way to get a gold coin for his grandfather. If he doesn't get selected, it's still fine for him. But the thought of going to the academy where he could learn about his orb making was exciting for him.
He placed his palm on the mirror, able to use about all magical energy, the circle appearing on the mirror was colorless due to which no one was able to see the circle on the mirror.
"See, we wasted our time. He doesn't even have magical energy." As the warriors present there started to come close to the mirror. 'Shit I forgot to manipulate my magical energy.' Without thinking which magical energy he should be using, he sends his wind energy into the mirror. Soon a small circle started growing and soon it covered more than half of the mirror.
The size of the circle continued growing, "What going on? How can someone from this remote town produce a circle this big."
"Yes, and what with the color of the circle. White? It is rare that he can use wind energy while others here are only able to use fire energy."
While two warriors were talking, the circle covered the full mirror with no space to grow further. Seeing that the Town Master's son was making a distressed face, "I'm sure he is cheating. There is no way someone other than me from this town is capable of producing such a large circle." The Town Master's son, thinking that Kaito would get selected instead of him, he moved forward and continued, "Why not we fight and determine the spot?"
"Cheating? That's not possible, kid." One warrior quickly pushed him back.
Hearing that the Town Master's son looked at the other warrior's face and with his eyes he gave him a single to say anything in his favor, "Hold on! Let's take them both with us and let the emperor decide."
"But wouldn't his majesty get angry? We have the candidate with the highest Occult orb. What's the point of taking both of them?"
"You know, just to be clear. We haven't seen anyone with a circle covering the whole mirror. What if the mirror got damaged during the test and showed us the wrong size at the end?"
"Aam…" He hesitated, "Okay, let's do that then."
Both warriors took their swords out of their ring carrying Kaito and the Town Master's son on swords, they flew out of the area.
"You know, you are the first one I saw with a circle big enough to cover the whole mirror." Warrior who was with Kaito looked at him and said while smiling.
"Haha.. I guess, I am lucky."
"Yes, you are. Not only is your Occult orb stronger than others at that age, but you are also highly likely to get into the Royal Academy and your life would be easier than others."
'I don't care about myself, only my grandfather for the rest of his life without working that would be enough for me. Other Things are just extra benefits for me.'
Soon they researched at the restaurant where the emperor was staying, and without delaying any time they directly walked forward to meet the emperor with two candidates along with them.
'Huh! Even if his Occult orb is greater than mine, it doesn't matter as I will ask my father to convince the emperor to select me.' Town master's son thought while going to meet the emperor.