[El's POV: ]

Elements.

In this world, there were six main elements: water, fire, wind, earth, light, and darkness. And aside from these main elements, there were many other elements that were either mainly related to these six elements or were too different from them to be in their category.

'But, these six were called main elements exactly because they were the foundations of all the other elements.'

Magic had many forms, types, and kinds. Elemental magic was just one of many kinds of magic that existed in this Worldline. And the skills with elemental effects were included in this.

But, there were many other elements too. And I called all of them 'branch elements'.

There were other different categorizations that changed according to the area of the Worldline but calling them all a 'branched element' was the easiest.

Everything that was somehow related to the main element was a branch element and if something didn't relate to any of the six main elements, it was called a 'null element'.

'Nes's main elemental affinity.'

Null element users were rare in the entire Worldline. And we had one among us, so there was no way I wouldn't want her.

But there was no device that could detect a null element, because it was null, obviously.

'This was my failed attempt to make a joke. So laugh if you don't want to get tortured by my gentle gloved hands.'

Nes's main elemental affinity was null, but her secondary element was something special too.

-Oooooooong!

It was her turn first so when she put her hand on the crystal ball, a bright pink light filled with many shining stars appeared inside it. And Levi was surprised once again.

"From the intensity of the light, the Mana purity and pool limit alone is <S> rank but… to think I would be fortunate enough to ever meet someone with [Space] elemental affinity..."

He was surprised. Anyone would obviously be surprised to see someone that had an affinity with the space element.

There should hardly be three or so known people on this planet to possess this elemental affinity and if a new one was standing inside the association, these people would be dumb if they let her walk away from here just like that.

"I will have to talk with higher ups again. Let's finish this quickly."

He was tired, I can tell. He wanted to have some rest, but, the poor thing still had much more absurdity to witness.

'And there were still a few things that needed to get destroyed.'

"Alright. Lady Evaline."

Eva went before the crystal ball and put her hand on it and, with a less bright green light, a little swirling wind gathered around the crystal ball.

"I'm fine because you are here lady Evaline. Thank you to be relatively more normal than those three.

You have wind elemental affinity as you might already know, and the Mana rank is <A>. Just like your every other rank."

"Thanks, mister Levi~."

Eva came back and I gave her a unique look.

'You like this cute Elf?'

I was asking that through my eyes. We didn't need words for small things like this so, this was more than enough and even more efficient.

'I like him? Of course not, dear. I just think he is adorable~. Just like some rabbit.'

'Right~? I think he is like a puppy. Hehe.'

I wanted to tease her but I knew she only had hearts for my Lucy. And she was allowed to have that unrequited love. That cold bastard was never going to reciprocate her feelings. And she knew that fact very well.

"Alright, so, Miss Auriel?"

"Nope. Lucy first."

It was better if he went first since I can control the outcome with my Mana.

He goes first, destroys the crystal, we bring out another one, and I destroy it afterward. The shock from this sequence would be more devastating than me going first since Lucy had not destroyed a single thing yet.

"Alright."

So... Lucy went before the crystal and burned it.

"Oops. Lucy, looks like you made a mistake this time."

"It's not my fault though. I didn't even do anything."

There was no light, so it was clear he hadn't even inserted his Mana yet. The crystal ball burned and just melted down in mere moments from the level of his affinity with his elemental affinity alone while he was still standing there.

"Fuck…"

And this was the first time Levi cussed out loud. With that same absurdly shocked expression of course.

"Hehehehe."

The miserable puppy didn't even have any energy left in him to do more than that. So, he just sighed, took a deep breath, set up another one of those super costly crystals, and looked at me.

"I know you will break it anyway so let me at least get his Mana readings first."

He was requesting me even though he was the instructor. This was just how far he had fallen. And it was all because of my sexiness for the most part.

"Hehe, of course~. You are an examiner here. Do whatever you want~."

He was like how puppies are after a long playground time on a hot day. Exhausted, miserable, thirsty and hungry, and in severe need of rest.

'All this kind of turned into mental torture, lol. I should reward him later for enduring all of this.'

He asked Lucy to shoot some Mana at the ball from afar... no you dirty-minded people. Not like that.

Anyway, Lucy did it in moderation, I mean shot his Mana from afar, and, a pretty bright light came out of it, out of the crystal ball, not him.

"Alright. Extreme fire affinity, and <S> rank purity and Mana pool. And since you are a swordsman too, it's somewhat like that famous wandering swordmaster."

"<Master of a thousand swords> right? I want to spar with him someday, too."

The one they were talking about was one of the exceptionally strong ones in this world and we would meet him one day anyway so Lucy will have his duel, and I will have his treasured swords. Hehehe.

"Good luck with that."

Meeting him was no great thing since every high-ranking adventurer crossed paths with him on their journey anyway. Winning against him though, will be difficult even for my Lucy.

He isn't someone we could challenge with just our current strength. He is almost a transcendent being so we have to be at least on that level to cross swords with him.

But that arc should still be quite far away.

"Alright, Ledy Auriel. Please quickly break this one too so that we can go for the last stage of this already absurd test."

"Lol, dude. Yes, yes. Chill out a little. Let's take the readings first. Be surprised a little more."

"I'm still young, miss. Let this poor soul live for a little longer…"

"Of course, you will live~. You will live for a loooooong time~."

And serve us as our personal receptionist, partial slave, and partial dog. 'Hehehe, but he will faint right away if I tell him that.'

"Please just finish this."

He wanted to go home, but he as well as all of us knew the end was still quite far away from here.

There would be illusionary creatures in that artificial dungeons and the branch manager as well as all the executives would be watching us there.

We would have to put up a good show there, but… before that, the last stat test.

-Oooooooooooooooooong!

There were six colored lights perfectly harmonized with each other and winds, chunks of rock, a little flame, some balls of water, a ball of light, and a curtain of darkness that had also materialized around it.

It was the clear sign of my six elemental affinities that almost gave him another heart attack, but the intensity of light that followed after that…

"Hexa elemental affinity… and <SS> rank Mana? Just… what are you?"

He was on the ground, grasping his heart, covered in sweat, and there was a pretty smile on my face that was making him even more unwell.

He just couldn't accept all this. He couldn't. No one could. Anyone other than him must have run away midway through this exam process but he was still here… and this was the very thing that made him the best here.

-Crrrrrrr.

The crystal ball had internal cracks once again, and it shattered into fine powder as it did with that strength-measuring crystal.

This was the last of the stat test, the destruction of simple devices was finished here, so… it was now time to destroy some cute illusionary creatures and the thing that made them possible.

"Hehehe."

He would faint in there, I was ninety percent sure of it, and if my bastard Lucy doesn't hinder us much, I could actually have a chance to open up an elf for the first time in this life~.

'It was fun until now.'

And it was going to be even more fun for me~.

But, I knew for sure that right now, the people that might have finished going through our test papers must be in a hurry to see just what kind of people we were. Especially the two of us.

They couldn't let people like us slip, they would be the dumbest MFs otherwise. And we also couldn't let go of this golden opportunity to milk the great adventurers association of the great capital of the great empire. We wouldn't be ONE otherwise.

'We would be foolish instead, hehe.'

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