25 Aptitude

'Hey, i can feel it now! Now i just need to control it.'

After another minutes of trying i can now feel the mana around me, their appearance cant be described, it just cant. It feels real but also surreal at the same time, it feels like they are just a wisp of light, gathering together.

I then flipped the manual to the next page, Controlling mana, harnessing it's power to my desire, using it to use elemental skills. At this stage it also took me around 15 minutes of trial and error, just like Kae said, it only took me 30 minutes to control mana, its not that good, but it should be enough to use the aptitude stone.

Out of curiosity, i asked Caecilia how long do people usually take to do this, she said that the average people in low level world took around 3 days, medium level world took 1 day, high level world took 12 hours. That's all just the average, but if a super genius in the high level world, it'll took 1 hour for the to control mana to my level if they start from scratch. It means that i'm a super-duper genius.. well all the credit goes to the system though.

'Kae, now i can test my aptitude right?'

[Yeah, just direct your mana towards the Aptitude Stone and let it flow inside the stone, according to the color and brightness of the stone, your aptitude will be found.]

I grabbed the Aptitude stone beside me, and followed Kae's instructions, i slowly control the mana from the surrounding, into my body and flowed to the stone, at first the stone didn't react at all, but after a few seconds past, it suddenly glowed.

The stone kept shifting between pure black color, to bright yellow and pure white, all three of them shined brightly, well the yellow one is a little bit dimmer than the other two but its still considered shining really brightly.

'Wow, its so bright,the stone also kept shifting around 3 colors, what does this mean Kae!' i asked Caecilia with excitement written all over my face, i already have an idea of what this means, but i just want to know it from my trusty partner.

[Well, this is unexpected, you actually have a really high darkness and light aptitude, a two contradictory elements and such high intensity of glow!

Let me Explain, every world have in total 7 Basic elements in which are Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Lightning, Darkness and Light, there are more elements but only can be obtained by either special means or combining 2 or more elements you have, with at least high aptitude in both of each elements.

In some cases there may show a completely new color, unrelated to the 7 basic elements, completely independent and can't be created by combining 2 or more basic elements, which is a really rare case, some might say, its harder to see one of these aptitudes than meeting with the 4 Mythical beast [1] altogether in one place. For example, the most recent element that appeared, the Poison element.

The brightness of the stone reflects on how high your talent and aptitude is for that specific element. In your case, the lightning aptitude you have is a High-Grade one, while both the Darkness and Light is Peak-Grade, the highest grade ever known.

The reason your aptitude is unexpected is because there have never been a person with both Darkness and Light element and such a high grade talent for both of them, there exist a record for someone who have both darkness and light element,but he only have a low grade for each of them and even then, he ranks pretty high in the higher world! It just shows how powerful both of the elements if combined!]

'Wait, don't i get the darkness element from the darkness scythe skill? I mean i can only control dark element with the help of the skill' I asked Kae confusedly

[No, there are some things that even i can't do, if i could give you a peak grade darkness aptitude with just an easy quest, i would've just gave all of the 7 basic elements talent for you. Yes, the darkness scythe skill helps you control the dark element, but do you ever wonder why it took only less than a day to upgrade you rare skill?]

'Don't you mean...'

[Yeah, you have both of the elements peak grade aptitude from birth, meaning you are pretty much destined to be at the peak of the world, remember, Me, the system, is just a tool for you to use to get stronger, some people have a powerful background in their arsenal to a stronger, and some have a magic artifact, but you, you have the best tool of them all to get stronger, Me]

'But if you're such a great way to be stronger, why did the Goddess from before gave you to me?'

[I currently can't answer that question, but i can tell you one thing, what she gives to you, is not what you think it is. That's it, try to decipher my words if you can. I will tell you when you get stronger though]

Thinking of what Caecilia said, he tried deciphering her sentence... he got a clue on what she means but even if he gets it, it won't help him in any way, she just decided to shrug it off and ask Kae

'Now that i knew what my aptitude is, what should i do?'

[Complete the manual you just bought and then buy the manual for the lightning, darkness and light elements, a piece of advice, don't rely on the skill leveler too much.]

'Yeah, i won't, i'll just use the skill leveler to level up the darkness scythe to max level then use it on other skills, not the elements.'

[K...]

*Knock..Knock*

'Huh'

"Vulop, I have been instructed by Master Stevan, its time for dinner so please come with me to the dining room"

I heard what the maid outside said and just realized that i have spend a pretty long time talking with Kae and practicing, maybe 1 hour or so, i got up from the bed and opened the door. The maid is standing in front of the door waiting for me to come out. She saw me opening the door and asked me to follow her, i then followed her to the dining room.