“What element have you been blessed by, my child?” The man asked, and Alex quickly replied-
“Fire.”
“Understood.” The old man sighed in slight disappointment. While his hair was fully grey due to his age, his core told Silas that he was a water mage.
At the same time, the old man in a young man’s body grinned. One of his affinities was the fire element, and now since the boy wasn’t a water mage, he could have him all to himself.
Due to the nature of Alex’s red hair, they did not trust the color of his eyes to tell his affinity. It was weird. People with unique hair colors didn’t have eyes that told others of their affinity.
“A mage?”
“Yes, sir.” Alex replied with a bow.
“Then, you will show us your capabilities.” The man in the middle nodded before tapping on something on his desk.
Suddenly, the floor parted, and something began to come out of it slowly.
It was a training dummy, but from the amount of mana crystals powering it and mana cores, Silas knew that it wouldn’t be ordinary.
“Shoot a tier-1 spell at the dummy,” The elderly man ordered.
“Can I use my staff?” Alex asked with a polite tone.
“No.” The man replied.
“Understood.” Alex nodded and pointed his hand at the dummy in the distance.
They expected him to start chanting, but instead, something that made every single one of their eyes bulge happened.
“Ember.” Was the only thing that came out of Alex’s mouth, but in the next instance, a magic circle appeared before him, shooting out a small tendril of flames that struck the dummy. However, By the time it reached the dummy, its power had significantly weakened.
“Can you try to make it stronger?” The man in the middle asked with a complicated expression.
“I can. But are you sure? It might destroy the dummy.” Alex asked back.
“It’s fine. We can always get another.” The young man sitting on the older man’s left said with a snicker.
However, inwardly they all already understood that the boy had no power to destroy the dummy. The only thing that would destroy the dummy would be a significantly powerful tier-4 spell, and the amount of natural talent and luck one would need to create a spell with so much mana was almost impossible.
They could only imagine seeing it from someone of a royal status, or at the very least a noble one. They had nearly infinite resources, so their heirs were trained and fed from a young age to have the largest mana pool possible.
Alex pointed his hand at the dummy without thinking about what they had said. At the same time, he looked at Silas from the corner of his eyes to get permission.
Silas simply shrugged, as if telling him that it was up to him.
A grin suddenly pulled at the corner of Alex’s lips as a smile blossomed on his face.
“Fireball,” Alex muttered, and a tier-1 magic circle appeared before him.
However, instead of spitting out a tendril of flames, a small candle flame appeared in the middle of the magic circle.
In the next instance, it began to rotate.
And in the next, it was growing in size.
Before they knew it, the candle had grown to the size of a fist, before growing into the size of a soccer ball.
At the same time, its color changed quickly, going from a light red to a deep blue in an instant.
And when the fireball was finally launched, it whistled through the air like a missile and appeared before the dummy instantly.
The sound of an explosion reverberated through the air alongside a shockwave that made Alex cover his eyes.
Everyone else looked unperturbed and simply nodded at the display of power.
Yet, when the smoke dissipated, the people behind the table could not help but widen their eyes.
The dummy was scorched beyond belief, but the dummy itself wasn’t destroyed or broken. It was simply turned black like it had been on an everlasting flame for hours.
His hands were behind his back, while his eyes remained shut the entire time.
Without an ounce of hesitation, he jumped from the elevated platform and landed on his feet. He bent his knee slightly to take the power of the impact before standing up straight.
Opening his eyes again, they were filled with a certain glint that Alex could not understand.
In the next second, he pointed his hand toward Alex and smiled.
“There’s no point making you do the same test as those normal people. Show me your strength.” His grin only grew wider.
And in the next instant, a tier-2 spell appeared before his hand without him saying a single word.
Alex’s eyes widened when he saw it, but he quickly retaliated by pointing out his staff toward the young man who looked like he might have been only a few years older than him.
‘Even Syra can’t do that.’ Alex thought to himself before creating a tier 3 spell and launching it toward the young man, launching a firebolt of his own.
He had used the most efficient runes Silas had taught him, and even the young man looked surprised to see how efficient the magic circle looked.
The runes on the young man’s spell quickly changed and shifted to look exactly like Alex’s, but even then, he didn’t stop changing it.
The runes changed repeatedly, all of it happening in less than a second, to the point where the magic circle itself had been downgraded to a tier-1 spell rather than a tier-3.
Quickly, a fireball appeared before his magic circle, glowing with the brightest pale-blue flames Alex had ever seen. It was so hot that even Silas could feel its heat from where he was standing.
The pale blue flames formed into a fire bolt that shot through the air and shot right through Alex’s firebolt before appearing before him.
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