Chapter 375: mirror of erised
Brilliant and dazzling, magic power surged.
As three bright beams of light burst forth from the hexagonal magic stone, in an instant, the three magic stones merged into one, and with an astonishing magical power fluctuation, they surged into Anthony-Black Sparrow’s Silver Mirror.
“Plop—”
As if a stone had fallen into a lake, at the moment the magic stone entered the Silver Mirror, ripple-like waves spread across the mirror’s surface.
Immediately after, the light receded, and before the surrounding people could observe closely, all the strange phenomena on the Silver Mirror disappeared.
“Before we begin, please sign the non-disclosure agreement first.”
As soon as Anthony-Black Sparrow finished speaking, dense silver-white streams of light flew out from the Silver Mirror, then transformed into concise text, floating in front of every Wizard Apprentice.
“Is this—the aura of the Spirit World?”
As a seasoned Summoning Apprentice, Jia Na's familiarity with the Spirit World was the highest among all the apprentices present.
Therefore, the moment the “contract text” was generated, Jia Na felt the aura of the Spirit World from the other end of the Silver Mirror.
“It seems that the Law power corresponding to this mirror wizard tool should be the Contract Law.”
Thinking of this, while Jia Na quickly concentrated her mental power to sign the non-disclosure agreement, her gaze towards the Silver Mirror wizard tool also held a few more layers of an unreadable inquiry.
Up until now, in addition to the Purification Law Fragment and the Fragment of the Law of Beauty, the other two Law Fragments that Jia Na possessed, namely the Growth Law Fragment and the Withered Law Fragment, both corresponded to Jia Na’s A-grade Wizard Talent, Natural Affinity.
However, regarding the Law related to Jia Na’s other A-grade Talent, Spiritual Body Shuttle, Jia Na had yet to gain any insight.
Although Jia Na knew in her heart that it was better to have fewer authorities than more, as a top-tier talent in the mysterious side of Summoning, Jia Na was still reluctant to give up Spiritual Body Shuttle.
Even if she would still primarily cultivate Subordinate Law under the Law of Nature and Life as her authority Law after becoming a Formal Wizard in the future, the powerful combat power amplification brought by the Law corresponding to the mysterious side talent was something Jia Na could not abandon.
After all, one of the important reasons why the Turin City crisis was safely overcome this time was that Jia Na successfully summoned the Six-Winged Seraph Lucifer by virtue of her top-tier mysterious side talent.
“Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—”
After all the Wizard Apprentices completed the signing of the non-disclosure agreement, the “contract text” with their names also transformed back into silver-white streams of light and vanished into the mirror surface.
“Since the contracts are all signed, everyone will now proceed to the mirror of erised in the order of roll call to begin the preliminary assessment.”
“So, the name of this wizard tool is the mirror of erised—”
The meaning of Erised in mitchis is “truth.” Therefore, Jia Na could also guess from Anthony-Black Sparrow’s simple words that the purpose of this magic mirror wizard tool, in addition to establishing “contracts,” also had the effect of verifying “talents.”
However, Jia Na was still unsure about the detailed extent to which this wizard tool could verify talent.
“Jia Na-Roland.”
Hmm?
Just as Jia Na’s attention was still on the mirror of erised, Anthony-Black Sparrow’s voice sounded in her ear at the opportune moment.
“You go first.”
Me first?
As soon as Anthony-Black Sparrow finished speaking, the gaze of over a hundred people in the Fighting Training Field, like searchlights, collectively turned towards Jia Na, who was still seated.
As the focus of everyone's attention at that moment, Jia Na's eyes couldn't help but flicker with a momentary daze, but very quickly, she calmly stood up and walked composedly towards the mirror of erised.
“Anthony, the assessment has just begun, and you’re sending your academy’s ace out already. Isn’t that a bit too much like bullying?”
Seeing that the first person Anthony-Black Sparrow called up was Jia Na, who had been extremely prominent recently, Losia-Haige, who was sitting nearby, complained with her mouth, but her eyes, as she looked at Jia Na, held undisguised admiration.
“After all, the Wizards of White Tower are still watching from the other side of the magic mirror. If we don’t start with something impactful, I’m afraid they’ll look down on us.”
Just as Losia-Haige had said before, the preliminary assessment this time was being monitored by the Wizards of White Tower throughout the entire process.
However, the White Tower Wizards, as “record keepers,” were not only monitoring the Turin Wizard Gathering Place at this time but also dozens of other third-tier Wizard Gathering Places that were simultaneously conducting preliminary assessments at this very moment.
And the Turin Wizard Gathering Place, as a relatively lower-ranked medium-sized Wizard Gathering Place under the jurisdiction of Dordogne,
To secure a place in the “White Tower Trial,” an arena nominally for recruitment but in reality for resource redistribution, only continuous “high-profile” and “exposure” are the ways of survival for medium-sized Wizard Gathering Places like Turin—
“Principal Anthony, may I ask what I should do next?”
Jia Na, who did not know how the mirror of erised conducted talent assessments, asked Anthony-Black Sparrow in a low voice after walking to the mirror.
“Relax. The test has already begun the moment you walked in front of the mirror of erised.”
That efficient?
Hearing Anthony-Black Sparrow’s words, Jia Na’s gaze couldn’t help but turn to the magic mirror in front of her once more. However, apart from her reflection in the mirror, Jia Na did not detect anything unusual.
“Next is the soul detection. You just need to keep walking forward until you pass through the mirror surface of the mirror of erised. If the magic mirror doesn't show any other abnormal reactions, it means your test is over.”
“soul detection?”
Hearing this unfamiliar term, Jia Na had a sense of déjà vu, like getting a “full body CT scan” in her previous life.
However, a “CT scan” is only used to examine the physical body, while the mirror of erised can detect the soul. The difference between the two made Jia Na feel a sense of incongruity, as if her secrets were being pried into.
“Pop—”
As Jia Na stepped into the rippling mirror surface of the mirror of erised, a dizzying sense of weightlessness instantly assailed Jia Na’s soul.
“What—what’s going on?”
It was clearly just a simple test, but Jia Na felt her consciousness rapidly plummeting in this bizarre sense of weightlessness, and her vision was quickly darkening as well.
“Could it be that there’s a problem with my soul?”
The moment Jia Na realized this possibility, the “seed” that had been hidden within Jia Na’s soul suddenly appeared in Jia Na’s soul vision, contrary to its usual behavior.
