"Chad Bulmung. Twelve Spirit Strand."
"Lisa Grayback. Nine Spirit Strand."
At this point, Neil's face was already ashen. He no longer has the energy to express his disbelief. He heard from his family that normally, the Spirit Strands of first-year students would only be four, and the highest would be eight.
If there are 13 or 14 years old with a higher Spirit Strand than that, they were most likely from the main family of each Arcane Path.
As far as he knows the Dark Arts Faction only has five Founding Members or main families… The Moontomb, Featherstar, Angelart, Ravinie, and Vermont Families.
As for the remaining families, they were just recruited by the founding members becoming the second generation or even the third generation of the Dark Arts Faction.
Neil had studied all of these families…
He thought that he only has to worry about Leonore since she was from the Second Generation Family which was connected to the Ravinies.
However, he was wrong. Jody Lumbarde is only from a Fourth Generation Family but she was already equal to him in terms of Spirit Strands!
Then, the Bulmung Family, a third-generation family which is the same as his Sommerhalder Family in the Rune Arts Faction produced Chad Bulmung who had four more strands than him!
Even the unknown girl who was recruited from the commoners had a higher baseline than him!
'I can't believe this…' Neil didn't expect that there are already 4 people who had a higher Spirit Strand than him. Not even half of them were called.
As Professor Harwin continued calling the names of his classmates, he couldn't help but feel nervous. Luckily, the next students who were called had ordinary Spirit Strands.
Most of them have 4 or 5 Spirit Strands with a few 6 or 7. No one has reached a similar or above his result.
'I guess I only have to worry about those four…' Neil sighed inwardly as he noticed that there were only three people left uncalled.
The next person was another 13-year-old male student with common brown hair. He has a freckled face and looks very ordinary. He wasn't in any groups so no one cheered for him as he stood up and walked to the front.
Soon, Professor Harwin's voice stunned many of them.
"Dalton Stranway. Sixteen spirit strands…"
This is the second 16-strand student of Class 2!
"Another one? What are we supposed to do?"
"Aren't our Class 2 so amazing?"
"I think that the teachers failed to properly distribute the students."
"Don't think too much… It's our growth speed that is important. They might have an incredible starting line but their talent may not be as good." One of Neil's lackeys consoled himself and the others who only had 4 or 5 spirit strands.
"That's right… Furthermore, having a higher spirit strand is not everything in Dark Arts… It might be true if you're in Dorelts Academy. However, we're in Vermont Academy so you can't lose hope."
It was Leonore who spoke this time. She observed Dalton very carefully but she doesn't have an impression of him at all.
Even Chad, who was most informed about the families surrounding the Dark Arts Faction, doesn't know this man at all.
"Stranway… They're probably from a fourth-generation family like the Chambers Family… I know all the second generation and most of the third generation… The Stranway Family is not included in them so he must be from a countryside branch." Chad commented.
He can't make sense of how this person was able to possess a Spirit Strand similar to those nurtured by the second generation families and even the main families.
"It's probably similar to mine… He has a special physique. It's either a natural gift or something bought with money like mine." Aubrey commented with a soft voice and only their small group heard of it.
Vale was quite surprised that Aubrey didn't mind telling her secret. Although she didn't mention what type of physique she has, this information is still quite sensitive in his opinion. Well, it's probably not a big deal considering the fact that she's from a huge merchant family.
As soon as the other person was called, Vale realized that he was the last person. He wasn't sure if the Professor deliberately arranged this…
"Warren Lawstein. Seventeen Spirit Strands."
Again, the whole class looked at Warren with a questioning gaze. This person belongs to another "weak" family.
The Lawstein doesn't even belong to a special branch of the Dark Arts Faction. Instead, they are simply a supplier of specific spiritual herbs. They don't own a huge land and only supply two types of herbs to the faction.
It was quite baffling that he could equal someone from the Second Generation Family, Leonore Roland!
Leonore looked at Warren who seemed happy about the result of his Spirit Strand test.
"Thank you, Professor. It's my first time having this test…" Warren said as he expressed his gratitude before leaving the platform.
His seatmates immediately started talking to him. They were curious as to why he had never tested his Spiritual Force before and how he was able to achieve his result…
They weren't too interested in Vale's result since they believe that he'll just get an average result…
"Ahem… I must be lucky since I heard that my father fed me the essence of Pride Pomegranate when I was young." Warren revealed.
"Pride Pomegranate? Does it really exists?"
"Hehe… Of course… I'm sure you'll learn more if you join our student club." Warren replied with an invitation to his club.
At this point, Vale already held the Spirit Converging Crystal and was waiting for the result to come out.
Aubrey, Chad, and the others who were paying attention to his actions noticed that the appearance of the Spirit Strands is taking quite some time which shouldn't be normal on this occasion.
'It's already five minutes… Why was the result delayed for such a long time?' Chad mused as he looked at the crystal with a frown.
