Chapter 6: Shocking Results

Cyril went on stage and stated his name and age. He then calmly put his hand onto the pillar and waited. However, the pillar did not change at all. There was no color change, nor did the pillar change in brightness.

Everyone alive in Eurathia has some affinity with an element. There simply cannot be someone with no affinity with any element. In Eurathia, that would make a person literally a cripple. He could not take up any jobs, nor could he contribute to society in any meaningful way.

At 16, most youths should have some fundamental control of the elements already. Only geniuses like Heracle could use his abilities as weapons like a wizard at 16. 

As Cyril could sing and throw knives like his parents, everyone simply assumed he had air weaving potential like his parents.

Cyril's frowned, and looked at the pillar. How could he not have any affinity with any element? Was this not impossible? Was he crippled in some way?

Heracle started laughing loudly, mocking Cyril. "A cripple, a useless cripple! You defy me when you are a useless cripple?". Some boys in the crowd who was jealous of Cyril's closeness to Kyra also started laughing.

Heracle suddenly stepped forwards and said "There is no place for useless people in our society" as he shot a pillar of fire at Cyril. 

Cyril looked at the flame approaching him but suddenly decided not to dodge. The flames engulfed him burning him and roughly 3 feet all around him.

Kyra screamed and rushed towards him, but was stopped by the two beautiful women from Aqua Aequoris and Aura Aetheris as the flames were incredibly hot. 

They each stretched out their free hand and simultaneously shot a pillar of water and air respectively at Cyril to try to put out the flames. But in their hearts, they knew it was too late. Such an attack would have burned the boy to ashes by now.

Heracle laughed as he continuously shot flames at Cyril, but as the water and air pillars reached Cyril, the flame was quickly put out.

However, what they saw shocked everyone. Cyril was standing there completely unharmed. Not only was his clothes unburned, they were not even wet from putting out of the fire.

He stood there contemplating what he had just learned from watching the fire, water and air approach him. "Hmm, is that how it works?" he thought to himself.

Just as he was completing his thought, Heracle prepared another fireball to attack Cyril. Cyril looked at him, and with a twinkle in his eye, he kicked a small stone at Heracle, hitting him in the groin.

As Heracle bent over in pain, he dropped the fireball at his feet creating a small explosion of flame, burning his pants. He screamed in pain as his lower body caught fire. 

The representative from Ignis Incendium pulled him out of the fire, and with a evil look at Cyril, flew off carrying the injured Heracle.

The crowd still remained shocked. Kyra threw herself at Cyril, burying herself in her arms sobbing. The representatives from the Wizard Academy and the two ladies from Aqua Aequoris and Aura Aetheris approached Cyril with curiosity in their eyes. A representative from Terra Telluris appeared too and approached.

"How did you survive the fire?" asked the Old man representing the Wizard Academy. "I simply instructed them not to harm me" answered Cyril nonchalantly. 

He didn't want to explain that from each of their attacks, he learned the law of each element. The deeper his understanding of each law, the more profound his mastery of each element is.

The old man shook his head as if the whole world has gone upside down. He asked Cyril, "can you put your hand on the pillar again? I don't understand". Cyril obliged and put his hand on the pillar. Again the pillar showed no results. No colour change, no change in brightness.

Irina Icecaster from Aqua Aequoris shot a spout of water at Cyril suddenly. He lifted his hands and the water stopped in mid air. He then shot it back at her, which she easily dispersed.

Anita Airwalker shot a small tornado at him which he gracefully caught and threw back at her. She too easily dispersed it with a look of surprise on her face. "Astounding" said Anita as she admired his control of air. 

The man from Terra Telluris simply said "My name is Buff Bigmountain. Take this!" He created a 9 foot tall earth gollum, a moving statue that follows orders from its maker. 

The elemental rushed towards Cyril and threw a dangerous looking punch with its fists made of rock. Cyril surprisingly blocked his punch with a punch of his own, causing the elemental to crumble into dust. 

No one knew what to make of Cyril. Here he was with supposedly no ability in any of the elements, yet is able to control every element although in his own strange manner. 

Finally the old man from StarRock Academy introduced himself and said "My name is Gildor, and I am one of the teachers of the StarRock Wizarding Academy. I would like to invite you to join us. Although you are not the typical student that we look for, we would like to study your abilities and see if we learn from each other." The representatives from the three sects also gave an open invitation to join them, or to visit them if he chose the StarRock Wizarding Academy.

Cyril smiled and said. "I will join StarRock, as this is what Kyra and myself have decided. But as we have an open invitation to your esteemed Sects, we would be happy to pay a visit to each of your Sects". The 3 representatives of the 3 Sects smiled and nodded. 

Gildor from StarRock was extremely pleased. Although there were several good recruits from earlier, to recruit a two element genius like Kyra was a huge bonus. On top of that, a 4 element controlling curiosity with supposedly no potential like Cyril is unprecedented and would surely excite all the teachers at StarRock.

Gildor instructed those selected to go home and pack their belongings, and a carriage will pick them up from Westhaven in a week. Cyril and Kyra nodded and eagerly left for home to inform their families.