Florent bowed carefully before he gave Heroline a brief explanation about the talents recruited for White Coral Floating Island Academy.
“Anyone with special body properties or talents?” Heroline asked.
She had not found herself a real student for several decades now, because students with good talents were so scarce. She decided to finally recruit one this year, and if she could really find a student with decent talent, she would make the first move. This was why Heroline did not even ask about Barbie’s Restaurant first.
Florent tried to recall the talents he found and remembered no special ones. “I found a total of seven from the Land of Revelation, the Magus Corridor, and the Valhalla Isle. None had special body properties. As for special talent… there seems to be one. A talent from the Valhalla Isle claimed he saw shining stars in the sky when taking the talent test when there was nothing at all in the middle of a winter night.”
“Stars on a starless night?” Heroline pondered. She hesitated before saying, “I think I saw a similar description in the 467th volume of Abelles’ Annual Talent Collection . It talked about a child from a wizard family. When he touched the Abelles’ Eye, he saw every star in the sky circling around a track, so all stars formed countless star trails. It also mentioned about the test being done on a starless night.
“After a more detailed test, the talent was truly a special talent that was proved to develop towards astrology of Occult Art, so the kid majored in astrology divination,” said Heroline. She then shook her head in pity, “Regretfully, he did not become a wizard. He died of age, putting his talent to waste.”
Everyone also felt regret. Even good talent could not save people from aging. If one did not become a wizard, one would turn to dust.
“The one you talked about just now appeared to possess talent in astrology. Not bad,” said Heroline. She then sighed, “It’s a pity that I don’t know anything about Occult.”
Accepting that one as a student would be wasteful. Of course, she could still do it. However, she would have to spend a lot of time teaching him while knowing that the student would probably fail. Heroline certainly would not want to do something so thankless.
She declined the idea silently, then asked Florent again, “Are there any other special talents apart from that one?”
Florent shook his head. “Apart from the seven talents, Mara also found three. I don’t know about them though.”
When Heroline looked at Mara, Mara quickly tidied his clothes and stepped up politely. He said, “I found three talents from Marginalized Island. Two of them are my grandchildren, their talent is fine, but not special. As for the third one…”
Mara recalled the day of Angor’s test. The Talent Sphere shined brightly, but he remembered Angor mentioning “floating”.
“Floating” was still a common talent.
“There was nothing special about the third one, either,” Mara gave Heroline a firm answer.
Listening to their explanation, Heroline’s expression became disappointed. Decent talents were rare, after all.
Heroline glanced at Easley. If not for the fact that the kid already learned the channeling method of Tower of Hurricane, she would have tried to win him over. A young man with such outstanding spiritual power would very likely become a formal wizard regardless of the path he took.
Pity… he already joined the Tower of Hurricane. Sure, Jellal inflicted great pressure on the boy, even scolded him, but Jellal never actually harmed him. Usually, when someone offended Jellal, someone would either die or get hurt badly. Jellal made an exception this time just because of Easley’s outstanding talent, or the consequence would probably be more severe.
“When we’re done with the situation, show those talents to me,” Heroline spoke. The test using Abelles’ Eye was only a basic test, so it could go wrong. They were on the sea now. She had plenty of time afterward, so she would just take the time and go see for herself.
Mara and Florent instantly knew what Heroline was planning to do. They even began to envy the young talents for their good fortune.
Heroline had a good name in the academy. Unlike the other wizards who always acted noble and arrogant, Heroline was gentler towards apprentices, a pleasant sight in the world of wizards.
Now Heroline even planned to test the talents herself despite her identity. Such a great honor!
Mara was feeling content about leaving a small impression to Heroline just a second ago. Now, he envied the “students” concerned by Heroline… including his two grandchildren.