chapter 12

As it was finally his turn, he went onto stage. The bishop, looking at Arthur, showed no expression and guided him to place Arthur's hand on the crystal ball.Arthur also did not care for that bishop and went ahead with the process. As soon as he touched the awakener's stone, it started shining with a white light with a high brightness. Usually the awakener's stone has a specific color for a specific element, and the brightness will not actually exceed the surrounding few centimeters, but Arthur's element exceeded the normal brightness, and even the color of the element is a new type.When surrounding people saw the huge brightness coming from the ball, they were first shocked, but after closely observing the type of element, they were confused as the color did not match any of the existing elements.Looking at the white light coming out of the stone, everyone started murmuring that 'someone awakened an unknown element'. The awakening of a new and unknown element is not actually a desired outcome for the awakenee. That is because the new element does not have previous information on how to improve it, the spells needed for it, and most importantly, how to train it. Every element has generations of forefathers researching the most efficient ways to train it and also an ample amount of spells to increase their synergy with the said element, but if a person awakens a new element, then he himself needs to train on it wholly without any help, and he himself needs to create his own spells based on his understanding of the element, so it is pretty difficult for a new element awakener to reach high stages in his cultivation.The white light does not coincide with any other known element, so the surrounding people thought that Arthur's future journey would be difficult, and just as they thought it was over, the awakener's stone started glowing again. After the white light faded off, the stone started glowing again with a silvery color.As soon as the awakener's stone started shining a silvery color, there was a huge uproar among the crowd of people. Someone from the crowd pointed at Arthur and shouted, "He awakened a second element." Another person among the crowd shouted, "It's the space element."Awakening a space element is uncommon, and awakening a second element is even more uncommon. But those two things are happening at the same time in front of them, how can they be calm?Seeing the silver color, even the bishop was surprised, but the process should go on, so he shouted "Silence" to the crowd. As the crowd silenced down, he asked Arthur to continue with the affinity test.As all of this was happening, Arthur continued to keep an indifferent face and stood there as if everything that was happening did not concern him. As the bishop asked him to continue, he went ahead and kept his hand on the affinity stone.Immediately, the affinity stone started shining with an amazing violet light. That's it. This time, the people erupted like a bomb.A person awakening a new, unknown element; a person awakening a double element; a person awakening the rare space element; and a person awakening the violet affinity. Any single one of these is sufficient to make the person famous in its own right, but if all four of these happen to the same person, the people's reaction can be expected.A hubbub was created from all the people talking and making noises; even the bishop trying to control the crowd was not able to control the crowd. Finally, the bishop amplified his voice with mana and shouted "Silence," and he also immediately released the mana pressure, which forced the people to become meek and silent.After everyone stopped shouting, he announced, "The awakening process continues." Immediately, he asked Arthur to leave the stage and get down to the waiting area.Even when the next member was called, nobody was paying attention to the next guy; everyone was still focusing their attention on Arthur as he made his way to the Ashborn clan's waiting area.Even though the nobles around there also have their attention on Arthur and seem to be excited, they aren't showing as much enthusiasm as the common people are. And there is a reason for that.First of all, the element Arthur first awakened is an unknown element, and it is pretty difficult for a person to rise in their cultivation with a new element that does not have any cultivation methods or specialized training methods for their progress. It won't even have any spell books for their abilities to manifest properly.Secondly, his second element is the infamous space element, which is said to be one of the most difficult elements to practice, and there is no one in history who has reached such high levels with that element. Thirdly, there is the problem with the affinity stone.The affinity stone does not have the ability to assess the affinity of the second element; it can only show the affinity of the first element. But it was not a problem because most of the awakeners will awaken only one element, and people usually only use one element as their primary element, and the second element is usually used to support the first one.Also, the person can understand his affinity by the size of the element form it took in their consciousness.The nobles were not surprised about Arthur's second element because, in the history of the continent, no person awakened two elements with violet affinity; actually, the second element will have very little affinity compared to the first one, and his first one being an unknown element made the nobles take less notice of him compared to William, who awakened the fire element with violet affinity.That is the reason when Arthur returned to the Ashborn clan's waiting area, even though the members were surprised they were not showing as much respect to Arthur as compared to William.