Entrance Exam

It is 1st January 2065, There is no concept of the country in today's earth as the whole earth is unified and is managed by Earth Union.

SilverPhenix City

At this time there is a bustling crowd at the entrance of the famous SylphySpirit Academy Because today is the day where these students will enter the true path paved by Earth Union in this Spirit Ability Era.

There are many boys and girls mixed in the crowd to take the entrance exam into this SylphySpirit academy which is one of the 5 best academies in the current Earth Union. These 5 top-tier Academies are collectively called The Big five.

After 15 minutes, the Entrance gate finally opened and an elder came out holding his beard, Looked around at all those students he shouted, "Silence!" his power held some type of power like all those who heard him stopped talking and looked towards the elder.

"Entrance Exam will start in 5 minutes, But let me tell you beforehand that Sylphyspirit Academy may not have the most strict criteria for choosing students among top 5 Academies but neither we have the most lenient criteria, So don't make a scene when you don't pass our tests." Said the elder looking at those students.

Hearings what the elder said made the atmosphere around students became a bit heavy.

"But don't worry, If you don't pass our test and you still have good test results we can recommend you to other high-tier and mid-tier Academies, of course, it will not be possible for us to recommend you into The Big Five."Said the elder.

Hearing these students relaxed. And among these students, one of them is the main character of our story.

His name is Ash. He has above average looks with black hair and light brown eyes.

Currently, he is looking at his hand, To be specific he is looking at something that looks like a digital watch but far more advanced than a regular digital watch. Currently, he can see something like this on his watch :

<Name: Ash Alvin>

<Rank: No rank>

<Age: 15>

<Stats>

Strength: 5

Constitution: 4

Agility: 4

<Spirit Ability>

Spirit Sea cap: 20

Spiritual motes:19

Spirit Skills: none

Spirit: not awakened

Spirit Talent: not awakened

This thing that looks like a watch is called Digi-X which is something that is given to all humans after registering their ID.

Currently, Ash was certain that among all students gathered here he was one of those who have the lowest amount of spiritual motes. And he also knows that he has a very low chance of getting admitted into SylphySpirit Academy. But he still has a chance of getting into the academy because of his fire affinity

While Ash was lost in thought the 5 minutes passed and the Entrance to the exam hall was opened.

After entering each student was assigned numbers according to order and when they called numbers they have to go into said rooms to test their aptitude and affinity.

"No.78 Go to room no.9 please"

hearing this Ash entered room no.9 on the right side of the hall.

In front of Ash was a table and on the table was a round crystallized ball and behind the table was a middle-aged man sitting on the chair.

" Come here and sit " Beckoned the middle-aged man for Ash to sit on the chair in front of the table." My name is Brit Talin now what you have to do is to put your hand on the ball and meditate until I say stop " Brit cut to the chase and directly told Ash what to do.

Ash did as he was told and entered a meditative state while putting his hand on the ball.

" stop," Said brit after three minutes.

Hearing this he stopped and opened his eyes. The stat of the ball was totally different from before. When he entered the room the crystallized ball was white and inside was swirls of white mist but now There was no white mist inside the ball but the insides of the ball were filled with fiery red mist-like particles and the surface of the ball also turned into the sun-like the orange color.

" Your fire affinity is of Grade A and as for other elements, you have not shown an affinity for them. ", Said Brit while smiling. " Grade A is considered rare so I hope you get a good overall grade to get better resources also You can be considered passed in elements test because our lowest criteria to pass elements test is to have Grade B affinity for any element. "

Ash Attentively listened and was quite happy after hearing that his fire affinity was of Grade A. He knew that having Grade A affinity was rare and currently highest Grade affinity any person could have was Grade S. And if he can acquire some Rare heavenly treasure to upgrade his affinity Grade She can directly awaken a fire-related spirit without training hard.

Of course, he is dreaming if he can think he can get the fire-related heavenly treasure to upgrade his affinity because they are even rarer than finding a person with Grade S affinity.

" So I am considered to have admitted into Academy right ? ", Collecting his thoughts he asked.

" Of course but this is just the first test and since you passed the first test you can proceed to the next test because our academy put more emphasis on elemental cultivation than other Academies and only after passing the first test can an examinee proceed to the second test. And the result of the first test and second test both combined will decide your overall result and also determine your treatment/resource in the academy, of course, you can also increase your results in the monthly test held in the academy and if you are hardworking then you may get more resource."

" oh..." Ash was getting nervous since he knew his spirit sea cap was only 20 which is considered below average and he knew that the Spiritual motes and spirit sea are the foundation of spiritual ability. But since his family is not rich he can't afford to cultivate using spirit stones.

" You might already know but still let me tell you in detail that Spiritual motes are the foundation of all types of spirit ability. We need spiritual motes to awaken our spirit and evolve our spirit and whenever you use your spirit skills or learn new abilities you have to consume your Spiritual motes but first, you have to expand your spirit sea so that it can fill in more Spiritual motes and when you have finally expanded your spirit sea and filled in at least 100 spiritual motes you will trigger your first evolution which will awaken your spirit and also awaken a spirit talent. Then you have to Expand your spirit sea again and fill in 1000 spiritual motes to trigger 2nd evolution which will upgrade your spirit. " Brit patiently explained to Ash about spiritual motes and how they affect spirit and spirit abilities.

Ash finally understood the importance of Spiritual motes. Without spiritual motes, it is useless to have a high-grade affinity of fire because if you want to use your fire-related skills and learn new fire skills he needs to have spiritual motes, and to get more spiritual motes he has to expand his spirit sea. Everyone automatically opens their spirit sea after 10 years of their birth and the size of spirit sea varies from people to people, Some of them have a bigger size of spirit sea and some have a smaller size of spirit sea right after their spirit sea opens It all comes down to their talent and aptitude. And Ash's spirit sea is of average size which can currently hold 20 spiritual motes.

Brit waited until Ash digests the things he said to him.

" Now you will proceed to the 2nd test which is about your Spiritual aptitude, After existing from this room you will be escorted to the 2nd hall ", said brit to Ash and pressed a button on the table and beckoned Ash to leave the room.

Ash got up and exited the room and saw a middle-aged man waiting outside for him.

" Ash ? " seeing ash nod middle-aged man said," follow me".

They both proceeded to enter the second hall which was right beside the first hall and Ash noticed that people in the second hall were way less than in the first hall, There were only fourteen examinees in the hall which was expected.

The middle-aged man then led Ash to one of the rooms in the second hall.

After entering the second room ash was greeted by the examiner who told him to sit on the chair and in front of him was the same table but on the table, there was not a crystallized ball instead there was a Digi-X but a bit more advanced than one given to normal citizens.

The examiner was a fine-looking middle-aged woman.

Ash proceeded to sit on the chair and after sitting the middle-aged woman introduced herself," Hello Ash I am Calor Deniz " And said, " For this second test you have to do two things: first you have to create spiritual motes and second you have to try to expand your spirit sea in front of me. After seeing the speed of you creating spiritual motes and speed at which you try to expand your spirit sea, I will grade your performance which will determine your overall results." Calor Explained the nature of the second test to Ash.

Ash was a bit nervous about his second test but he entered into meditation and started gathering spirit energy to cultivate spiritual motes. After just ten seconds of meditation, he realized that this room was a bit different, He could feel that the rate at which he was creating spiritual motes in this room was at least ten times faster then when he did outside it means that this room must have a spiritual array which explains the abundant spirit energy in the room. And after just five minutes he already cultivated his first spiritual mote in his spirit sea.

After he finished cultivating the first spiritual mote he heard Calor saying," You can stop now and try to Expand your spirit sea and use only ten spiritual motes to expand your spirit sea and leave the remaining spiritual motes as they are."

Ash once again entered meditation and started putting pressure on ten of his spiritual motes to expand his spirit sea which was the size of a small bowl. There were two methods of expanding the spirit sea: first was when you filled your spirit sea brim with spiritual motes and expand your spirit sea by dissolving your spiritual motes into pure spirit energy and then use that energy to put pressure in your spirit sea to expand your spirit sea, during this time the pure spirit energy will keep being used as the spirit sea expands. The second method was using spirit stones and use spirit energy of spirit stones to expand the spirit sea.

The method of using spirit stones to expand the spirit sea is faster than using spiritual motes to expand your spirit sea.

One low-grade spirit stone can increase the spirit sea cap by 3.

The method currently used by Ash is the first method but for test purposes, Calor told Ash to use only ten spiritual motes to expand the spirit sea. generally, it is possible to expand the spirit sea with less spiritual motes but it's not recommended because a lower amount of spiritual motes mean a lower amount of spirit energy and it is hard to expand the spirit sea with a small amount of spirit energy as such low amount of spirit energy will not put much pressure in the spirit sea and makes expanding spirit sea hard but this method can be used to test students.

After Ash spent ten minutes trying to expand his spiritual sea it did not budge much and he was also getting mentally tired but he persisted.

After spending another five minutes he finally expanded his spirit sea's limit by two spiritual motes. It means it took him 10 spiritual motes to expand the limit of spirit sea by 2 but it is not certain that it will stay the same, It comes down to their aptitude of spirit energy, the maximum a person can increase his spirit sea is half of the spiritual motes used, For example, if someone has Grade S aptitude he/she can expand spirit sea limit by 5 using 10 spiritual motes. There are some spiritual treasures like Heavenly spirit fruit that can increase a person's aptitude for spirit energy but it is extremely rare and only a few were found by giants like The big five and other organizations so there is only demand but no supply for that treasure.

" ok, you can stop now. " Calor said.

Ash did as she said and stopped. He knew that the reason for this test was to see the talent of students and their aptitude with spirit energy.

" Result of your second test is Grade C which means you passed the second test since the lowest grade needed to pass the second test is C," said calor with a smile.

" This Digi-X on the table is a bit special than general Digi-Xs used by citizens, Pick it up and replace your Digi-X with it ".

Ash did as told and replaced it and when he looked at the details there were few changes and also changes about his stats.