He is the tree spirit?
Angor inspected the figure carefully. He had short, clear green curly hair, a handsome face, and perfect body shape like those deities described in folklore paintings.
Everything was fine about him… except that he might need some proper clothes, especially when there was a lady around. Angor glanced at Nausica and noticed that she was admiring the tree spirit while revealing several “tsk tsk” between her lips. She was not embarrassed at all.
Ah, who was he kidding? Nausica was a mighty pirate lady who fought for the dominance of the sea with a bunch of tough guys. She would not mind something like this of course.
At the same time, the tree spirit was looking over the talents as well.
One moment later, he finally spoke, “So you’re the talents for this term? There are… so few of you. But that’s Sunders for you, and I’m sure the man tried his best. Ten people, fine. It saves me a lot of effort.”
The other talents only heard the name “Sunders” for the second time. The first being mentioned by Lady Mirror. So everything they went through was caused by this Sunders?
“You all used Abelles’ Eye to test your talent, did you not?” asked the tree spirit.
Everyone nodded.
“The result you saw was important nonetheless, but it only showed a very vague idea, and random. This is why I will test your talent orientations again, and recommend a wizard art for you. You can either listen to my advice or decide otherwise. My recommendation is only a… recommendation. It lies in your own hands whether you can succeed in your days to come.”
He waved a hand and a row of seats emerged from the leaf veins. A podium and an object that looked like a blackboard also appeared near his location.
When everyone sat down, the tree spirit walked onto the “teacher stage” and explained the arts of wizards.
Angor learned about them before from Mara. There were three commonly agreed major arts: The Element Art, the Bloodline Art, and the Occult Art.
They majored in different factors, but they could also intersect with each other. Elementalists could still absorb the bloodline of powerful creatures to strengthen themselves, and Bloodline Wizards could also learn some elemental spells. The Occult Art was the only art that called for decent talent. Occultists could learn elemental and bloodline spells, but it was not so easy the other way round.
There were other arts too. However, only these three were considered as the “mainstream” ones.
“I will refer to your personal traits and talent and give you a piece of advice on whether you should choose Element or Bloodline. As for Occult, there were very few who could adapt to it, and I doubt any of you possesses the talent for it,” said the tree spirit as he briefly explained the wizard arts and prepared to do an easy test for them.
Instead of doing the test here in the open, the tree spirit created a room and asked them to come in, one at a time.