"While we're at it, how about you also test the talent of Sophia and Nina?"
The silence of the room was suddenly broken when Eva, the main reason behind it, spoke up.
She said something entirely different from what Christian had expected, and he couldn't help but wonder if now was really the right time for that.
He looked at Eva, who smiled at him… with her usual calm smile, seemingly unbothered by the result she had just heard… when he also knew that couldn't possibly be true.
"You really don't have to worry about me… Most importantly, whatever the problem with me is, it's probably going to take a long time to solve, right?"
Christian, who also knew this fact, because the scale of Eva's talent was just that huge, hesitated to confirm it.
But Eva, who caught on immediately, smiled and said,
"So, as it'll take a long time, there's no need to delay other things."
Christian reluctantly agreed, feeling like maybe he was the one who had just been told there was something wrong with his talent, not Eva.
Who exactly was supposed to be comforting who?
In the end, he shook his head and said a single word,
[I will immediately call them.]
Iris's voice rang in his ear right away.
… It didn't even take a full minute after that, when Sophia and Nina were standing in front of him.
The room returned to silence, with Eva and Annabelle now dressed again.
And this time, Christian didn't ask who to start with, nor did he ask them to remove their tops.
Instead, he simply began with Nina on his own.
Again, it took some time…
Not to the extent of Eva's test, but still… much more than his sister. When Christian finally pulled his hand back from Nina's stomach, he couldn't help but have a complex expression on his face.
'So, she really did have immense talent.'
While thinking that, he glanced toward Eva again, still wondering what exactly her situation was that allowed her to instinctively feel this many things.
In the end, knowing he wouldn't arrive at an answer for now, he shook his head and moved on to test Sophia, without even saying anything about Nina's result.
… He wanted to see if all the people around him were this abnormal.
But this time, he was met with a completely ordinary result.
And with a bit of relief, realizing it wasn't that his technique was broken, he thought,
'This is what normal looks like.'
"Okay, you can go back now."
Sophia and Nina, who still didn't know it had been a talent test, just that he'd done something they didn't understand, nodded and left without question.
And as soon as they were alone again, Eva, with a smile on her face and one eyebrow raised, asked, "So, what was the result?"
Christian didn't answer immediately. Instead, he stayed silent.
Would his sister really not be affected? He couldn't help but start worrying.
In the end, knowing she was bound to find out sooner or later, he said,
"For Sophia, her talent rank is three, and the current power system she's training with is actually the one most suited to her. So she probably just needs to switch her technique to a stronger one within the same attribute, so she doesn't waste time. And that's it."
"She has a talent rank above ten. And while it doesn't seem as overpowered as Eva's, I'm still unable to estimate exactly how high it is."
While Eva had a smug and proud expression on her face when she heard that… she was the one who insisted on bringing Nina with them, after all, Christian was more concerned about his sister.
But when he saw how she just smiled too, seemingly genuinely happy for Nina, he couldn't help but start to have some doubts.
… Was she really simply happy for her?
In the end, knowing that his sister's and Eva's situations were far more important than the other two, and that there were still many things he hadn't explained, Christian decided to change the topic and said, "So, back to the main topic. Sis, you're suited to the same power system I'm currently training with… the Core Creation power system."
'Well, I still haven't found a way to actually create the said core, though.'
Christian couldn't help but shake his head internally, remembering the scattered information he had on this power system.
"…But if you want, I can also explain the other power systems I've found so far, and you can train in whichever one you'd prefer."
Eva didn't mind that he'd changed the subject. And she just stayed silent, curious about the new term, Core Creation, which she was hearing for the first time.
She hadn't known they even had such a name, and until now, she had just attributed the word extraordinary for anything related to that side.
Annabelle, on the other hand, who heard that she was suited to the same power system her brother trained with, was slightly intrigued and asked, "There should be advantages and disadvantages for every power system, right? So what does this one have? And if I chose something I'm not suited to, wouldn't that just make things harder for me?"
"Hmm. Actually, things are simpler than you think, especially for this Core Creation power system."
While saying those two words, Core Creation, Christian couldn't help but remember just how many different names this power system had.
It seemed like every group of people gave it a different name. Something typical like Swordsman, Warrior, Archer… or more unique names like Seer.
In the end, he didn't bother explaining the whole naming mess to his sister and instead focused on the more important part… the advantages of this power system, and how it was the most widely used one, based on what he'd found.
… But why had some people given it a unified name?
Because it revolved around one core concept: core creation.
All the low tier techniques, or at least the ones he'd obtained so far, hadn't even reached that part yet.
But that was another story.
These Core Masters… as they are apparently called, would create a core somewhere within their bodies, where they would store the essence they'd accumulate in.
If one were to summarize this power system to the extreme, it would be like that.
But what made it the most popular wasn't just that.