Chapter 23: Mentor
'Twenty-one? Wait, place your hand on the orb and repeat the test," Eden insisted, blinking furiously as she stared at the flickering numbers on the Aura testing orb.
Damien too. He couldn't believe what the glowing ball was saying.
So he placed his hand on it once again as Eden commanded, furrowing his brows as confusion overtook his senses in an instant. How could his aura value skyrocket like that while he traveled here?
'Maybe it's a fault,' he comforted himself.
However, when the large numbers began flickering on the orb again, counting down at tremendous speed until they stopped at 21, he knew as well as the others in the room that he wasn't hallucinating.
His aura value had increased.
"Why do the two of you look shocked?" Eden's father asked. "His aura value should be making you laugh, not shocked," he added, glancing at the teenagers standing opposite him and his attendant.
They were standing on a circular podium in the middle of a rather empty room, with walls that were painted white and nothing but the orb placed next to them, glowing. The King as Damien addressed him now, was the one who made it awaken by placing his hand on its base and releasing a bit of his aura as if to feed it.
Once it awakened, Damien had been asked to place his palm on it by a woman who had followed them after they left the large dome, and he did, only to find out that his aura had risen by eleven value points.
"From ten to twenty-one, just because you fell from the sky? Are you even recessive?" Eden blurted out, glancing at Damien with squinted eyes.
"I don't know," Damien silently replied, looking at Eden directly in the eyes. "How does it usually work?"