Chapter 1196

I have to say, no matter when, people are always suckers for looks.

Ning Chen and Xiao Han, the two of them with their striking looks, successfully drew everyone's attention.

Tianze brought the others to the elder's side. The moment he saw Xu Chenchen beside him, Tianze's mind went blank for an instant, but he quickly came back to himself and looked toward the elder to speak.

"Father, what do we do now?"

The elder stroked his beard and said, "Let's go. We'll go in and test their abilities, so we have something to report to those fellows up top."

With the elder leading the way and Tianze bringing up the rear, the procession marched grandly into the building before them.

Ning Chen and Xiao Han stood behind him, one on each side, like two bodyguards.

This place seemed to have originally been an office area — it was neat and bright inside, and there was even an elevator.

The few of them, who hadn't seen such modern traces in a long time, couldn't help looking around inside the elevator, like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden — dazzled by everything they saw.

Soon, the elder led them into a room. The room was very large, roughly the size of six classrooms combined.

Right in the center of the room was a glass chamber, with a device in the middle of it, and surrounding the glass chamber in a ring were all sorts of instruments.

The elder stepped up to one of the instruments, pressed a few buttons, and the glass door opened automatically.

"Which of you wants to go in first?" the elder turned and asked the group.

Ning Chen glanced at the others. Toward the unknown, people always have a kind of fear — just like right now.

Ning Chen said nothing, but lifted his foot, intending to go in himself.

"Wait, Ning Chen, don't move yet. You go in first," the elder stopped Ning Chen, and pointed at Xu Chenchen.

Xu Chenchen's face was blank — him first?

Xu Chenchen, at a loss, stepped little by little into the glass chamber. The moment he stood before the device, the glass door behind him closed.

"Can you hear me talking?" the elder switched on the microphone in front of him and spoke with Xu Chenchen inside.

"I can hear, I can hear."

"Alright, I can hear you too. Listen to my instructions. Now, place your hands on the corresponding positions in front of you."

Following the elder's instructions, Xu Chenchen raised his hands and placed them on the spots on the console in front of him that were also marked with hand symbols.

"Good, hold it like that and don't move. In a moment, just use your ability — no matter how big it is, you only need to let it out."

The moment the elder finished speaking, Xu Chenchen focused his attention, looked at the console in front of him, and used his ability.

A gust of wind immediately kicked up inside. Xu Chenchen himself was unaffected, but the flapping hem of his clothes and the faintly visible shape of the wind both made it clear he was using his ability.

The elder immediately began analyzing Xu Chenchen's ability on the console in front of him.

About two minutes later, the elder stopped.

"That's enough, you can come out now."

Xu Chenchen stopped using his ability, and the door behind him opened fully. He walked out from inside.

The elder held a slip of paper in his hand, on which was written Xu Chenchen's name along with a description of his ability and its grade.

Next to Xu Chenchen's grade was written: yellow.

He looked at the slip in his hand, a question popping up in his head: what does yellow mean?

Perhaps Xu Chenchen's wide, questioning eyes were too conspicuous, so Tianze, who was beside him, explained: "Here, abilities are ranked. White is a muggle — someone with no ability. Green is low-grade, blue is mid-grade, yellow is high-grade, red is top-grade."

Hearing this explanation, Xu Chenchen understood — his ability, Exploration, was high-grade.

Next, the elder continued to call people forward, and the rest went in one by one.

Xuyue was mid-grade, Xuri was high-grade, Huo Jinglin and Lin Yi were high-grade, Gu Yanqi was high-grade.

Now, the only ones who hadn't been tested were Ning Chen and Xiao Han.

The two looked at each other, and then Xiao Han strode toward the glass chamber — clearly he intended to go first.

Xiao Han only extended one hand and placed it on top.

A black aura emanated from his body, clearly visible, and even through the glass chamber, a powerful sense of oppression could be felt.

This was Xiao Han's power — the power of darkness.

Xiao Han came out immediately after finishing the test; he didn't even bother to look at his grade.

What's there to look at? He didn't need to look — he was obviously top-grade.

The last to be tested was Ning Chen. He walked in at a leisurely pace. The moment he entered the glass chamber, Ning Chen had a very strange feeling — this glass chamber probably wasn't a simple glass chamber; it was saturated with some other kind of power.

And it was likely precisely because of this power that the glass chamber's safety was ensured when ability users came in to test their abilities.

Ning Chen placed his hand on the device, and at the same moment, he activated his ability, which spread outward in all directions.

The glass chamber, which had originally been able to withstand everyone's abilities, suddenly stopped working. Ning Chen's ability spilled outward, and the entire room was explored by Ning Chen's ability.

A golden-white radiance emanated a faint glow around Ning Chen, making him look like a person who was glowing.

Looking at the readings, the elder was inwardly a little startled — a Light-attribute ability.

He hadn't expected that the rare Light and Dark attributes would both be here.

"That's enough, come on out."

Receiving the instruction, Ning Chen withdrew his ability and walked out of the glass chamber.

The elder looked at the readings in his hand — two top-grade, four high-grade, one mid-grade. This was no small matter.

In this base, out of so many people, there were only five high-grades in total, yet this team alone had two at once — truly a place where dragons and tigers lay hidden.

After thinking for a while, the elder decisively changed Ning Chen and Xiao Han's abilities to high-grade.

If they were top-grade, the two of them definitely wouldn't be able to move freely — at the very least, they'd be poached by the people above.

If that happened, it would be a huge obstacle to their purpose and operations.