Chapter 16: Congratulatory gift! (1/2)
A few moments later, instructor Nina Olsen, Theo Rose, Lisa, and a few other examinees calmed down and suppressed their shock as they came up to him.
”Congratulations for awakening an ability, Elliot,” Theo said to him with a smile.
”Thank you, Theo,” Elliot said, feeling happiness at experiencing what it means to be the center of the stage.
Instructor Nina Olsen also congratulated him for becoming an awakened magician at the young age of sixteen before taking off the black bracelet on her wrist and handing it over to him. ”I don't have anything precious to gift you but take this bracelet as the congratulatory gift. It has a subspace within it that will allow you to store stuff.”
It was a tradition for two close magicians to hand a congratulatory gift to one other once one of them awaken an ability.
Instructor Nina happened to be his childhood friend, so it wasn't wrong for her to give him a congratulatory gift for awakening.
Of course, this shocked many examinees and even the sneaky Headmaster of the Magician Academy as they didn't know the actual relationship between them.
They concluded that Nina is enamored with Elliot and is trying to win over his heart with powerful and supernatural treasures.
”Thank you for the congratulatory gift, Nina. It's more than enough for me.” Elliot said with a smile, accepting the spatial storage device from her slender, soft hands with enticing long fingers.
He found it hard to believe that the childhood friend that used to stick close to him all the time still remembered how close their relationship was and decided to gift him such a precious thing.
Still, he was very happy that a beautiful lady like Nina has given him a congratulatory gift.
While the examines that haven't had any beef with the weakest magician in the past were congratulating him and the ones like Cain and Rodriguez were cursing him under their breath, a middle-aged man dressed in a robe and wearing an emerald mask walked out from behind one of the many pillars in the classroom and walked up to them.
”Hey there, young boy. I'm an agent who came here under the order of the headmaster to find out the cause of the energy fluctuation that erupted in this examination center. Do you know what happened here?”
”Um, I seem to have awakened an ability,” Elliot replied, blinking his eyes at the masked man.
”Oh, that's great. The more awakened magicians in this world, the better. Can you tell me what kind of ability you've awakened?” Gerald, hiding behind the man, came straight to the point.
He was dying to know about the ability of this young boy who had produced an energy fluctuation great enough to startle him and many others with great energy-sensing abilities during awakening.
Elliot recalled the description of his ability. And remembering how terrifying it may sound to other magicians, he decided to tell only a part of its capabilities to him.
After all, he didn't want to attract a lot of attention and unwanted trouble towards himself.
”My ability allows me to manifest weapons and shield according to my thoughts.”
”Oh, can you show it to me?”
”Okay,” Elliot nodded.
Following the method to use his ability which he read just a few minutes ago, Elliot's eyes glistened in an abstract light as an image popped up in his mind.
In the split of a second, five out of fifty units of essences of life stored in his body got used, leaving him with only forty-five units as three glowing swords and two round shields manifested around him.
Elliot felt that he could control them with a thought, increasing their speed and controlling the trajectory of their flight.