To test Angor’s talent in details was his plan. The tree spirit did not expect such a strong opposing force in the boy’s mind. Keeping the natural aura on the outer part of Angor’s mind was already tiring enough, let alone pushing the aura deeper.
“I can’t believe this! There is no way the mind pool of a mortal can prevent natural aura from going inside!” The spirit was not convinced. He was swearing all over now, but he still could not breach the defense of Angor’s mind.
He could try infiltrating forcefully but doing so would cause irreversible damage to Angor’s brain.
In the end, the spirit could only retrieve most of his aura, while leaving only a small part of it and try to “admit defeat” to see if Angor’s mind would decide to accept the aura.
It worked. The small trace of aura approached a little deeper inside… but still a lot far away from the core.
As the tree spirit asked his aura to move forward again, the intense force came once more and pushed the remaining aura out of Angor’s mind.
The mighty force caused the tree spirit himself to stumble back a little.
“Such strong power!” He sighed deeply. He was covered in sweat now, and his stamina and spirit power was exhausted.
“Mister Tree Spirit, what happened?” A low, hoarse voice came from the distance.
“Sunders… Your student is a beast. You don’t see such strong spirit defense often. Formal wizards will have a hard time peeking his mind even if they forced their way in,” answered the tree spirit.
“Naturally. He’s my student after all,” said Sunders. He appeared to be pretty proud, which was a rare reaction from the gentleman.
The tree spirit rolled his eyes. He was not praising Sunders anyway.
“So did Mister Tree Spirit figure out Angor’s talent orientation?” Sunders asked.
The spirit shook his head, “I was pushed out by the second defense line, so I don’t know the details. But there’s no doubt the boy inclined toward Occult Art, Illusionist.”
Sunders smiled at those words.
“However… I sense more than one orientation. He has another orientation beside Occult Illusionist, but I cannot tell which. Your new student is certainly a good one. I met many talents with two element orientations or someone with both element one and an occult one, but I don’t recall seeing many talents who had two occult orientations.
“The last time I encountered someone like this was… about twenty thousand years ago. A talent who held orientations for Occult Summoner as well as Occult Prophet. Pity, that man abused his prophecy and died of divine punishment before he could become a wizard.”
Sunders remained silent for a moment before speaking, “Quality beyond quantity. Don’t mention this to him for now. Just tell the boy about the Occult Illusionist branch. If he wishes to choose another branch, he can study for himself once he becomes a wizard.”
The tree spirit chuckled, “Looks like he’s really important to you. Very well, I’ll do as you said.”
With that, the spirit wiped some sweat off his forehead and wrote down the last line:
[Advice on Talent Orientation: Occult Illusionist]