Chapter 54 - Rune Affinity (2/2)

Cheng Chao accepted the paper and placed it on the machine next to him.

“You’ve already confirmed that it’s a fire ability? Then there’s no need for another test. We’ll just measure your consciousness and rune affinity.”

Cheng Chao took out a red fire crystal, a rare crystal core with attributes, and placed it in the machine.

“This machine is a piece of essential equipment that you will need in the future. It can break down the runes in special ability cores. The more gifted a person is, the more powerful he or she would be able to absorb the runes. This all depends on their aptitude as well! Of course, even if results are not outstanding, you’re still fortunate. Don’t get too stressed. Alright, let’s start now!”

Qin Feng nodded. He was already seated inside the egg-shaped machine with a blindfold over his eyes.

“Release your consciousness and capture those runes – the more you get, the better!” Cheng Chao instructed.

Accordingly, Qin Feng unleashed his conscious energy and ‘saw’ countless fire runes bouncing here and there!

He knew that these runes were part of the test. Capturing them with the powerful pulling force of his consciousness, he absorbed the runes.

However, no matter how hard he tried, he was only fast enough to absorb 1% of the dark runes.

On top of that, once the runes reached his consciousness, they disappeared almost immediately.

At the end of the day, Qin Feng was still a dark ability user, no matter what he tried. He simply posed as a fire ability user because of the fire runes.

Even if he absorbed the fire runes, it would not be stored in his diamond planet.

“But what about the sub ability core around my ability core? I wonder if I can carve the runes onto them?”

Sub ability cores were those really narrow and small infernal satellites orbiting the ability core.

Qin Feng pulled the fire runes in again and attempted to carve them onto the infernal satellites.

“It works!”

He had successfully absorbed two runes. But just before he could continue, a beep rang in his ears, and all the fire runes disappeared.

“Done!” The teacher blurted as the machine spat out the report. Ripping off the sheet, he took one look at it, and his eyes widened. Then, he slapped his thigh regretfully. “Sigh!”

Qin Feng looked at the man. “Teacher, what is it? Do my results disqualify me from enrolling into the academy?”

“No, you are qualified. It’s just… a little unfortunate!”

The teacher passed on the results to Qin Feng.

Elements captured: 2

Strength of consciousness: S

Rune affinity: G

Qin Feng did a double-take. The power of his consciousness was ‘S.’

“It’s too bad. If only your rune affinity could be higher. It’s very rare to see S-tier consciousness!” Cheng Chao looked a tad disappointed.

Qin Feng did not react to the comment, though. He knew now that his rune affinity was Class-G because he did not only absorb dark runes.

“Sir, how is affinity evaluated?” Qin Feng asked.

He knew practically nothing about ability users. The more basic the information given to him, the fewer details he knew.

“A G-tier ability user’s initial absorption ability is at a 2. Similarly, it’s 4 for F, 6 for E, 8 for D, 10 for C, 12 for B, and 15 for A. S-class is the strongest. It could even go up to 20! Don’t underestimate the small difference between the tiers. If all consciousness’s strength is the same, then the efficiency of an elite absorbing rune would have greatly increased!”

One should know that even a G-tier special ability would need at least 1,000 fire runes, needing a G-tier affinity ability user to complete it in 10 days. However, an S-tier affinity ability user would be able to complete it in 2 to 3 days. When it came to high-tier special abilities, one would need at least tens of thousands of runes.

Qin Feng remembered when he had just awakened dark runes, he was able to absorb 20 dark runes in an hour during the day and over 100 at night.

Did that not mean that his talent had, in fact, exceeded S-tier?