He looked into the red eyes of this redhead and said politely. “Senior, my sister is blind. I have been authorized by someone else to bring her here.”
“Oh?” That woman looked at Lauren and felt a bit of pity.
But soon, she turned her attention back to Vicente. “What’s her name?” 𝘦𝘯.𝘰𝘳𝘨
“Lauren.”
That redhead looked at the young black-haired girl next to Vicente and said. “Lauren, you are already at the awakening site. Just stay where you are. You won’t need to move from now on.”
“OK.” She said.
“As for you, little lad, come with me.” She said as she grabbed Vicente’s shirt and practically dragged him out of there.
“Uh? Hey, let go of me. I can walk by myself!” Vicente yelled at this woman, but she just smiled at him.
As she stepped off that platform, she stopped dragging him.
“You will accompany your sister’s Awakening by my side. During the Awakening, no one but children who are 14 years old and without a Magic Gem may be on the platform.
A younger child or an adult with a Magic Gem could suffer drastic consequences if they were in there during the Awakening.”
“Is that so?” Vice straightened his clothes and asked, looking at this beautiful woman. “Has it ever happened that someone outside those parameters stayed there during Awakening?”
“Hmm, several times. So we know about the danger of doing that.” She said, observing the surroundings. “Many have tragically died doing that…”
Gulp!
Vicente looked into that woman’s eyes with a solemn expression. “Is that why we can’t have more than one Magic Gem?”
Given how amazing it was to have only one Magic Gem, many had already considered the possibility of having two of them simultaneously!
Unfortunately or fortunately, this was impossible, as gems connected to souls. To have two of them, one would have to have two souls!
“Hmm, without a space to add a second Magic Gem, the person who went through a second awakening would suffer a mental and physical collapse, with chances of more than 80% of their soul being obliterated.
If one were very talented, even if one didn’t die, that person would still be crippled in every imaginable way.” She didn’t see a problem in answering this child’s questions.
As a member of the Awakening Temple, it was part of her duties to pursue knowledge regarding the Magic Gems and Pentagrams, and she loved to talk about the subject.
Vicente didn’t know her but could see it in her countenance.
Even as she taught him while observing the surroundings, this woman had satisfaction in her voice.
Time would quickly pass, and soon more than 50 14-year-olds would be on the Awakening Platform, waiting for the clock on one of the side walls there to strike the middle of the day.
There were only a few minutes left, so the chatter of family, friends, and onlookers was slowly diminishing as this special moment arrived.
But while Vicente was watching his sister, feeling his hands sweating, Andrew and Nina stood in front of the glass wall that overlooked the waking platform.
Andrew was looking at his daughter, waiting to see if she would inherit his or Kate’s characteristics.
In this world, you couldn’t be sure of that until the day of the Awakening, so he was focused on watching her, waiting for that sign.
He wished she would inherit Kate’s characteristics since she was more talented than him.
If that was the case, then he could finally be reassured about his children’s future.
Kate did not have great magical talent, but she had at least reached the end of the 2nd stage.
If Lauren was like Kate, even blind, she could help Nina and Vicente somehow.
‘Kate, oh, Kate, if only I had been the one to die, our children would have a better life.’ He lamented as he closed his eyes.
Unlike Kate, he had no living relatives. It was just him and his children. Thus, Vicente and his sisters had no one to rely on since their grandparents were unlikely to help them, which is different from what happened with paternal grandparents in this world.
While Andrew was lamenting, Nina was not paying attention to her old man. All she had on her mind was this fantastic place and the desire to awaken her magical talents one day.
‘One day I will come here just like big sister and finally help her and big brother!’ She thought, more excited than her family members.
Luckily small children overcame losses faster, and even though she was deaf and motherless, Nina could already smile and imagine a better future.
She had trouble walking and was deaf. But so what? One day she could control the mana in her body and become a magician!
This was the thought of this little girl…
Finally, the central clock in that area struck noon, and bells rang from a large bell on the top of the fifth floor of the Awakening Temple.
In that instant, everyone in the surrounding area came to a complete stop with any remaining conversations or even vague thoughts.
The platform where the 14-year-olds stood began to transform as the dark obelisk in the center of the zone changed color, becoming extremely bright, so white that no one could look directly at it.
Mana condensed in the surroundings, forming something similar in appearance to water but much less physical as if it were a mirage.
Those seeing it for the first time opened their eyes wide, subtly noticing the energy they felt in their bodies.
As Vicente paid attention to this, noticing the ‘stars’ on the ceiling trembling, a voice said.
“Young people, welcome to my temple for the Awakening Ceremony.
I wish you all the best. I hope everyone here today to awaken their skills will reach their peak and win in their journeys.
Go on, seek your desires, become magicians, and bring the world your uniqueness!
I look forward to meeting the next Archmage of Polaris Realm!
Will they appear here? I sincerely hope so!
Get your Magic Gems!”
The voice said as the children and teenagers took deeper breaths, extremely touched by these words.
Archmage… What was an Archmage?
That was the title of the strongest magician known to millions around this continent!
But as they tried to identify where this powerful voice came from, the obelisk in the center of that area shot up a special energy along with the last words of the master of this temple.
Then…
Several of the gems stuck in the ceiling of this place, glowing brightly in the same color as the obelisk, shot up from the ceiling, flying in complicated trajectories.
But quickly, several of them took their way, ‘choosing’ their owners, those most compatible with them in the area under analysis.
Some of the young people on that platform felt a little afraid at the sight of these gems flying at top speed toward them, but even the most uncertain ones didn’t move.
In the blink of an eye, these gems quickly approached their owners, crashing into their foreheads like a revolver bullet.
Vicente saw one of these shiny things hitting the area between his sister’s eyes and couldn’t help but feel his heart leap faster in his chest.
But he knew that this was normal procedure and that it would not hurt his sister.
Even someone who failed to connect to a Magic Gem had very little chance of being injured during the Awakening.
And so Lauren felt something warm penetrating her forehead, noting that her Awakening was already happening.
‘What will I get?
Sigh! Unfortunately, I won’t even be able to see what the shape of my Magic Gem looks like… Will it be as beautiful as my mother’s?’