Otherworld Adventure 53 Spell Caster's Exam

The old lady behind the gla.s.s window waved her staff and the floor in the middle of the room opened.

A target dummy slowly rose from the opening.

Cecil observed the dummy. He took another glance towards the examiners and raised his hand.

'Huh... so it's only this...'

Without the need for the examiners to say anything, Cecil concentrated his mana and sent his version of an air bolt towards the dummy.

The examiners were astonished at Cecil's lack of chanting. They immediately thought that he was using an original magic.

The next scene however left the examiners apart from the old lady dumbfounded.

When the 'air bullet' came into contact with the dummy, the top part of the dummy was immediately blown away leaving only the base.

"H-how is it that powerful?!"

One of the shocked examinees exclaimed.

Cecil turned back towards the examinees and waited for the next test.

The old lady spoke once more, "Examinee No. 1561, Cecil. Was that an original spell based off of the air bolt spell just now?"

Cecil responded honestly, "Yes, it was."

It was indeed an original spell, but it was not based off the air bolt spell. All Cecil did was use Mana Burst and instead of focusing the mana into his body, he condensed it all onto his hand and fired it. The bolt of mana was pale gold in color, so other than the color, the characteristics were similar to the air bolt spell. Cecil called it 'Mana Bolt'.

Cecil also had a version of the Mana Bolt where he continuously fired them. He called it 'Mana Volley' and there was another more powerful version where he continuously channeled his mana after firing the Mana Bolt, forming a wave or laser. At first he wanted to call it Kamehameha, but he settled with 'Kinryugiha', since he wanted to sound original.

The old lady only nodded slightly, since it was an original spell, the characteristics of the spell would not be the same as the normal one so the pale gold color did not bother her. She continued asking, "Are there any other elements you have a good apt.i.tude with?"

"Earth..."

Cecil paused immediately and began thinking quickly, there was no way his mana could imitate an earth bolt. So he made something up on the spot.

"I'll also be using another original spell based off the earth spike spell." Cecil replied. On the outside he looked calm, but he was sweating profusely on the inside.

'c.r.a.p! Why'd I have to open my big mouth?!'

Cecil was a non-elemental user so he didn't have any affinity with any of the elements. All he did was manipulate his mana into imitating the visual and effects of the elemental spells as best he could.

It wasn't so obvious with the wind element, but if he wanted to use the Earth element there was no way he could imitate an earth spell using the environment in the room. It's not like he could destroy the floor of the exam room.

Cecil just bluffed and hoped that because of the irreparable state of the dummy they would just proceed with the next test.

The old lady took a look at the dummy and thought for a moment. She then said, "If the effects are the same as the original air bolt, then we will just continue onto the next test."

Cecil released a sigh of relief inwardly and replied.

"They're almost the same."

"Then we will move onto the next test, the Stage Evaluation test."

Once again the lady waved her staff. The dummy or what was left of it disappeared into the floor and not long after a pedestal with an orb perched atop it rose from the opening on the floor.

Cecil knew immediately what it was and before the examiners said anything, he was already walking towards the orb.

'It's just like the one Mrs. Anna used.'

Cecil stretched out his arm and concentrated. He was prepared to send his mana into the orb.

'Better not send all my mana in... 500 units should do it.'

Although he and Lucia agreed to not hold back on the exams, but Cecil thought that injecting all 5000 plus units of his mana into the orb would be overkill.

'I just need enough so I can stand out in a good way.'

Like the saying goes, the nail that sticks out will be hammered in. Cecil wanted to stand out, but not in an abnormal or bad way.

Cecil sent his mana into the orb and the orb started to light up.

The body of the pedestal started to glow and a violet bar shone on the bottom most part. As Cecil kept channeling his mana into the orb, the light bars on the pedestal shown blue, then green, while climbing up until it stopped on orange.

This time even the impa.s.sive old lady had her eyes widened in astonishment.

The pedestal would light up in color according to how much mana you injected into the orb on top. Violet was the lowest and it indicated that you were only in the initial stage. Blue indicated the early vapor stage, green was middle vapor stage and so on.
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Orange was the second highest evaluation possible on the pedestal. It indicated one being at the Mid Mana Sea Stage.

Right when the first bar shone on the pedestal, Cecil had already planned to light up the pedestal all the way into the 2nd highest evaluation possible.

What he didn't expect though was that he had to inject almost 800 units of mana into the orb.

'Well, this should be a cinch for Lulu. Her mana is already close to mine.'

Lucia's mana if she added in the mana acc.u.mulated from her family's unique mana technique would rival Cecil's amount.

After half a year of training, Lucia had already successfully condensed 3 authentic mana cores in her 3 tails. Each core could store 1000 units of mana, added with her 1000 units, Lucia would have over 4000 units of mana in total.

Cecil sighed and thought 'Why am I even worrying? These tests are all too easy for us two.'

Cecil walked back to stand in front of the long window and waited for the next test.

The old lady examiner had regained her composure quickly and said. "Examinee No. 1561, Mid-Level Mana Sea Stage. Very good, very good now on to the last spell caster test."

The old lady was happy to find such a promising seedling. She immediately thought that the days ahead for the academy would be very interesting indeed.

She already heard rumors of the most talented child of the royal family enrolling into the school, but what she didn't expect was that she was also able to find another child who's talents didn't lose out to the princess.