Chapter 5: Clown
After such an unexpected spectacle from the brightest diamond in the rough, everyone forgot that there was one more student who hadn't tried his luck yet.
Even Hal momentarily forgot that it was his turn next.
"Hal Fennec!" exclaimed the deputy-headmaster's assistant, rousing everyone from their envious thoughts.
Hal, like everyone else, was jolted awake, quickly heading towards the Arcane Repository the next instant despite his lingering bewilderment.
Only a select few recognized Hal, mostly those who took the affinity test from the same city as him.
It wasn't too widespread that his mana affinity was 1% at this point.
However, things were bound to change soon.
It was fairly normal for people to think that the one next to the luckiest individual in the room, Ennya in this case, could only be unlucky, since the one before him had probably used up all the luck in the area with such a mind-boggling draw.
No one believed Hal would get anything close to what Ennya got.
His reputation as "the low affinity trash" was also slowly spreading throughout the venue.
There was just no way someone like Hal would obtain an artifact equal to the ones acquired by the young aristocrats and the other diamonds in the rough, let alone one remotely close to the blazing core of an ancient spirit-deity.