23 Az: The unique slime

"Miss… you want to see if this slime has the talent for magic?"

It was not everyday that someone asked him for a magic talent test for a creature.

There surely were some creatures in nature capable of performing magic, wielding special powers, and controlling the power of Mana, but not all creatures possessed enough intelligence to create the spells.

There were only rare cases of creatures who even understood what the other intelligent beings like them even wanted to say.

There were great restrictions on those creatures of nature. But still, some surely overcame those restrictions and mastered the special power of the intelligent beings– magic.

"Yup. I'm paying for this anyway so there should be no problem with it, right?"

"Well…"

There surely was no problem… other than the simple fact that the creature in question was a mere slime!

"We could certainly do it if you wish, ma'am."

There was something strange about this slime, he knew that ever since he first saw it.

It was different from the slimes that they had in this tower. It interacted with the two of them and made sounds as a reply to their questions.

More than that, he had this strange feeling while looking at it that… he could not explain with words.

It was just strange.

But, all that had nothing to do with this slime having affinity for magic.

 It was a slime, the simplest creature of nature. 

There sure were extraordinary slimes in the world capable of many things, but this simple slime with no special skills or that low level seemed nothing like those legendary creatures.

He did not think there would be any reactions from the magic plates when the lady placed the little slime on the glass tablet associated with Elemental magic.

He did not even seem interested in this, until…

-Oooooooooooooong!

The magic affinity detection plate that only reacted to someone's magic capabilities started glowing with a brighter light than what they had seen a moment before.

"...what?"

He was confused for a moment, and he was stunned as well.

He stayed in his place, frozen. And even after Alex took Az away from the glass tablet, he stayed in that frozen state.

"Can you please place the slike back again?"

He could not believe what he had just seen, so he had no choice but to ask them to place it back again so that he could confirm it again.

-Oooooooooooong!

And just like before, when she placed the slime back on the tablet, it glowed with the same intensity it had done before, making the mage look at the slime with wide open eyes.

"That slime… it has a [Rank-3] Uncommon affinity for elemental magic?"

He could not believe this result.

It was just too absurd that a creature possessed magic affinity, but the added fact that the creature in question was a slime and had an abnormally high magic affinity rank shocked him even more.

He was stunned for a moment, but then he looked at the master of the owner.

"Is that a Familiar by any chance?"

The only explanation he could think of right now, was this.

"Do either of us look like a (Level-100) to you that we would have familiars? Az is just His tamed partner."

Alex understood exactly what was going on with this person. That's why there was a smirk on her face when she said the slime was just a tamed creature… and she emphasized the fact that its tamer was Elio and not her, making the mage look at him with another stunned expression.

"Anyway, if you are done with checking this one, let us move on. We do not have the whole day, you know?"

"Ah! Of course!"

He was in a daze, but her stern words brought him back and they tested Az for the other two categories as well.

"Hmm. Looks like you can't use unique or natural magic, Az."

"Muuu…"

It was strange how a slime, a creature of nature, could not use natural magic. But since it was now confirmed that the slime in question was in fact that Uncommon Mana slime, he was not that surprised.

He had received enough shock today that he was done being surprised.

So… they moved on to the second part of the test: Elemental affinity test.

"As we all know, there are six Main elemental affinities."

Elemental magic followed elemental affinities, and natural magic also somewhat relied on elements so it was possible to guess what kind of natural element one possessed affinity with through this test.

"These crystals here react to the elemental affinity so just holding them will make them glow if you have affinity for that element."

Unique magic also sometimes relied on elements but it was unique by nature, so it was not reliable to use this specific test for testing what kind of unique magic one possessed.

One had to find out their unique magic themselves with time and experience. That was just how it worked.

"Then, let's get started."

Of the Six elements: Darkness, Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, and Light, it was pretty rare to have affinity for even more than two of the elements.

-Ooooooooooooong!

But, in the hundreds of years that this magic tower was standing, there had hardly ever been any cases of someone possessing an affinity for all six elements.

"Is this rare?"

Especially someone that did not possess any affinity for elemental magic.

It was just absurd how someone could light up all six elemental crystals. And that too, at an intensity so intense it almost blinded his eyes.

It was just absurd to him as someone who was witnessing it for the first time in his entire life.

"Rare would be an understatement to that, El darling."

Even Alex was stunned right now.

She was exactly opposite to him in this manner, so this absurd situation right now was giving her a mixed feeling.

On one side, she was smiling at him.

And on the other side, she was squeezing the innocent slime so hard that its round shape… had now become something closer to the Klein bottle.