A wizard's talent is reflected in three aspects: elemental affinity, rule analysis ability, and mental concentration ability.
Talent test crystals can comprehensively test the potential in these three aspects.
Holding the crystal ball, the colors displayed in the crystal represent one element each. Water, fire, earth, wood, wind, and gold, the six basic elements of nature, six colors, are all displayed in Ash's hands. This means that Ash has a perfect affinity for elements.
The crystal ball contains thirteen spell models.
When a wizard learns magic, he must first construct a model of the spell in his mind before he can actually use it. In order to successfully construct a spell model, he must completely analyze the rules contained in the spell.
The spell model in the crystal ball is very simple, but for an ordinary person, it would take a long time to fully understand the rules.
But as soon as Ash took it in his hand and looked down, he deciphered the rules.
This is... well, still full marks.
Next, after analyzing the rules of the spell model, only if you concentrate enough can the spell model really appear in the crystal ball. Otherwise, just analyzing the rules will not show anything in the crystal ball.
Anyone who holds the test crystal and the crystal does not move will never become a wizard in his lifetime.
In other words, a person can have weak elemental affinity and weak rule analysis ability, but he must not lack mental concentration. If the former two are weak, at least he can become a wizard apprentice. But if the latter is lacking, he can only be an ordinary person.
The moment Ash touched the crystal ball, an upside-down galaxy appeared vividly inside the crystal, and even the details seemed to be carefully carved out.
The appearance of the galaxy meant that the first thing Ash sensed was the prophecy rule among the thirteen rules.
The vividness of the galaxy further proves that Ash is a natural prophet and astrologer!
Nance suddenly wanted to bring Sigourney in, and pointed at Ash's crystal ball and said, "Look! Just say that he is a young man favored by the stars! When I tested it that year, the galaxy in the crystal ball didn't dare to be so arrogant!"
Truly, the stars are blessing you.
He was almost jealous.
"You have to disguise it," Nance said firmly.
Once this talent was exposed, the eyes of the wizarding world would be on Ash.
Ash's current identity was originally fake. No matter how perfect a fake thing is, when countless people's eyes are focused on it, it will only be exposed.
"How do I disguise myself?" Ash asked humbly.
Nance frowned and thought about it. He had only heard of people using all means to cheat the test crystal in order to make their talent test results better. This was the first time he had to work hard to suppress his talent.
Without any previous examples to refer to, he could only think of a new way on his own. Anyway, he was mentally prepared for this.
After a little thought, he came up with an idea.
"Why not start with the test crystal?" He thought thoughtfully. "It's hard to conceal a person's talent, but as for the crystal... it should be possible to make it a little duller."
Having thought of a solution, he smiled and said, "Ash, don't worry, leave it to me. Just test it normally."
Ash responded, "Thank you, Lord Nance."
"If you want to thank me, how about spending more time with Sigourney?" Nance smiled, "He needs a friend like you." He pronounced the word "friend" in a particularly meaningful way, showing disrespect for the elderly.
Ash didn't understand the hidden meaning in his words and agreed seriously: "Yes! I understand!"
But the promise was made, and it was indeed difficult to find Sigourney in the third wizard tower.
Ash looked for several places where Sigourney often was, but he didn't see her. There were a few times when he felt he had found the right direction, but in the end he still found nothing.
Selvi popped up at this time and told him: "Sigourney is avoiding you."
"Huh?" Ash tilted his head, confused, "Why?"
Selvi snorted, clearly very dissatisfied: "He is always like this, a man with a bad temper and an erratic personality!"
Ash whispered in defense: "...No, right?" She is obviously strong, handsome, gentle and beautiful.
Fortunately, he didn't say what he was thinking, so Selvi still treated him as a buddy in the trenches and was willing to continue talking to him: "He's so willful, mean, narcissistic, and awkward! Ash, why are you looking for him? Don't look for him anymore, I'll play with you, okay?"
There was a hint of shyness in the gorgeous baritone: "I can introduce my body to you."
"...Well, thank you for your help, Selvi." Ash agreed without much hesitation.
He did not ask Selvi to help him find Sigourney's whereabouts. Since Sigourney did not want to be found, then don't bother him. Everyone wants to be alone sometimes. As for Mr. Nans's request, there will be plenty of time in the future.
He also took this opportunity to learn about the Wizard Tower.
Under the guidance of Selvi, he took the elevator in the wizard tower and first came to the mission hall on the first floor.
The mission hall is spacious and open, with a very high ceiling. Hanging from it are magic lamps with crystal tassels, which illuminate the hall extremely brightly and make the obsidian floor shine brightly.
The hall was bustling with people, including wizards, their guards, and the magical creatures that followed them. Because it was daytime, the magical creatures that appeared here were mostly orcs, monsters, and a few moonlight elves and forest elves.
Ash walked around slowly. His presence was very low, and no one noticed him as he walked by.
It was Ash who spotted the acquaintance first.
"Yelena?" He saw a familiar face behind a window that accepted rentals of magic materials.
There was a long line in front of the window, all submitting thick application materials. Yelena sat behind the reception window with a look of despair on her face, mechanically checking and collecting the materials.
In the noisy hall, Yelena miraculously caught Ash's voice.
Her eyes lit up, and she suddenly turned around and said something. Then another girl came out from behind the window and temporarily took over Yelena's job.
Yelena got a brief respite, ran out quickly, and pulled Ash into the corner.
"Ash!" Her eyes were filled with tears, as if she was crying for joy after being sold to a black mine and finally seeing her old father. "Long time no see!"
Ash, who had just received meal from Yelena yesterday: “?” Has it been a long time?
Not knowing how to continue Yelena's conversation, Ash asked, "Yelena, do you work here?"
Yelena sighed to the sky, "How is this possible! My dream is adventure, you know? Holding a long sword, fighting the devil in hell, fighting the undead in the abyss! How could I choose to be trapped behind a small window, repeating these boring and meaningless paperwork every day!"
Ash was puzzled: "But you were just doing this kind of paperwork?"
"..." Yelena choked for a while, "You kissed Scarlet Moon?"
"Huh? Eh!" Ash's eyes widened and his ears quickly turned red. "No, no. Why do you say that?"
"You must have tasted his saliva, so you were infected with his habit of stepping on people's sore spots like him, right?" Yelena sighed, "Ash, you have been corrupted by him."
Ash, who was just telling the truth just now: "..." This time, Sigourney is really innocent.
But before Ash could open his mouth to defend himself, Yelena clasped her hands together pitifully: "Ash, can you tell Lord Scarlet Moon that I have realized my mistake? How about asking him to take back the punishment?"
"punish?"
"I've been sentenced to work here for three months." Yelena continued to feel hopeless, as if her soul had been vomited out of her mouth. "From today on - I don't think I can hold on for even a day."
Ash looked at her with sympathy. For the outgoing and lively Yelena, being trapped behind the window and doing registration work was indeed a punishment.
"He said that I act without thinking and get hot-blooded easily when provoked. It's a good opportunity for me to calm down here for three months and temper my temper." Yelena said listlessly, "I know what he said makes sense, but there are other ways to temper one's temper, right? Why did he ask me to do this?"
She pulled the corners of her lips with lifeless eyes: "How about just smashing all the windows?"
"If you smash it, three months will definitely turn into six months." Ash tried to comfort her.
Yelena was hit by another arrow in the heart.
"...Have you really never kissed each other?" she asked quietly.
Ash blushed and shook his head.
Yelena rolled her eyes silently and waved her hands listlessly: "Forget it, forget it. Just remember to put in a good word for me to His Excellency Scarlet Moon. Three months is really too long!"
She had asked someone to help her fill the position, and it was not convenient for her to stay outside for too long, so she said goodbye to Ash in a hurry, and after walking a few steps, she turned back and emphasized: "You must say something good for me!"
Ash looked at her extremely hurried back, and the words got stuck in his throat and he couldn't say them out.
——Mr. Nance said that the wizard academy is about to start. Yelena seems to be a student too. Is she going to school?
If I go to school, I won't have to do hall work anymore, right?
In other words, the deadline that Sigourney set for Yelena was not actually as long as three months.
Such a simple thing, when Yelena comes to her senses, she will definitely find it. Ash thought so and went to other floors of the wizard tower.
There were many places in the public area of the Wizard Tower that Ash had no right to enter. Nance did not open any backdoors in this regard, and only opened his own private area to Ash. The rest of the places were in accordance with the regulations of the Wizard Tower.
It took Ash two or three days to walk through all the places he could go. He also had a rough idea of the outline of the third wizard tower.
During this period, Sigourney appeared and disappeared mysteriously, and Ash never touched even a corner of her clothes, as if she had disappeared.
But with Selvi helping her friends secretly report the news, Signy was reading, always reading, those adventure romance novels of Yelena's! She read them in her bedroom, in the astronomical observatory, in her private library, in the alchemy laboratory...
Perhaps Sigourney didn't expect that Ash would become good friends with Selvi so quickly and get help from Selvi - you know, Selvi, this alchemical life with delicate feelings and sensitive emotions, is actually very difficult to deal with. No matter how many people want to talk to him, he ignores them.
So except for a few special cases, Sigourney did not prohibit Selvi from being around him, so Selvi gave his first-hand information directly to Ash.
"You don't have to tell me," Ash told Selvi. "It's fun to imagine what he's doing every day."
Selvi was depressed: "Oh."
"Thank you anyway." Ash stopped Selvi from passing on the message secretly and invited with a smile, "Can you go to the library with me? The library is so big and there are so many books. I'm worried that I won't be able to find the kind of books I want to read. Selvi is different. She must know every book like the back of her hand, right?"
Selvi was somewhat happy: "That's right! You can tell me what book you want, and I will help you find it!"
"Yeah. Thank you." Ash took Selvi and settled in the library.
Until the day when the Brilliant Branch of the Wizarding Academy opened.
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