13000 years prior, The Ancient Empress attacked the entire world which resulted in wiping out almost all the humans from earth. The human Civilization was Destroyed and the species became endangered. The empress Released evil energy on the surface of earth which corrupted the Animals to become some weird creature know as monsters.
Although the evil energy had no effect on humans it caused them to go through a mutation to receive strange powers called magic which can be increased by cultivation and used to fight Against the monsters.
After 13000 years that is the present time humans have multipled Again and their population is 50 million.
The world Was distributed into two types of people, One were Normal people who worked for the economic strength of a kingdom and the other were called Fighters as they protected the Common people from Monster attacks.
The world was divided in 4 major Kingdoms, The Aurora Kingdom, The Blood Oath Knights Kingdom, Sky blue dragon Kingdom and the Mythical Force Kingdom.
The World consisted of 5 Major Academies which were constantly recruiting new magicians. There also existed Some a unpopular Magic Academies
Every Magician knew the value of Adamantite Stone. There were only 2 of them in the whole world. One who receives the stone will have the favour of fate and luck and also Will have the Honour of Being known as the greatest magician or Magic Lord
The Stone Was formed by the concentration of evil energy but it's said that it was untouched for so many years that the evil energy got converted into divine Energy.
The place where it's located will also have a dense amount of evil Energy surrounding it.
In this world No one knew about gods, But every thing has a certain supreme power watching on them. The Gods in Order to help humans, made 4 Divine weapons filled with infinite Magic Power in them. The 4 Weapons were The Sword Which represented 'Unity', The Shield which represneted 'Peace', The Bow which represented 'Courage' and the lost Weapon was unknown but it represented 'Ultimate power' and Randomly Got dispersed in random places on earth.
Only fate will Lead The rightful owner to their Respective Divine weapons.
If the 4 divine Weapons Get corrupted By the empress the Human Civilization may go extinct without the weapons.
The Talent Awakening Ceremony was going To take place as it did every year.
Hundereds and thousands of children came every year to participate in this Ceremony. The best rank
The Talents were divided in 6 categories from the best to worse were, Obsidian, Diamond, , Golden, Silver, Bronze, Glass and Wood.
It wasn't bad to get a Bronze rank but glass and Wood Talent were really Outcasted by other talent holders.
Their average physical Strength was Above than that of a average human but Their magical skill would be below An E rank Monster.
The Ranks on awakening gave a specific colour in the crystal Ball. Wood gave Light brown Colour, Glass gave transparent, Bronze gave dark brown, Silver gave Greyish white, Golden gave bright yellow, It was full white for diamond and Grey for Obsidian.
Meanwhile in a small house of Aurora Kingdom there was a boy who was Hesitant to go to the Ceremony. He was nervous because he did a lot of hard work and Wanted a good rank, but what if He got an outcasted rank like wood or Glass?
He realized That he was getting late for the ceremony and Before the leaving the house his grandfather said "Ryujaku, Come here for a second"
Ryujaku Followed the orders of his grand father and Went to meet him downstairs. As soon as he arrived, his grandfather held onto an odd Object. It looked like a stone Which was Made out of different pieces and was very ordinary looking.
His grandfather gave him the stone and said to take a very good care of it and said "Good Luck for the ceremony". He thought That the stone was Being given to him as a lucky charm and gladly accepted it and said "Thank you Grandfather!".
He left home Hurriedly and Was running on the way to the ceremony hall. As he ran he was thinking about his Talent.
As soon as he reached the Ceremony hall, He could see thousands of Children of the age of 10 Waiting for the ceremony to start. He Also knew these people will be his competitors in the coming future.
As he entered the hall And it was Really crowded and due to his height he could see nothing but the legs of Adults talking to each other.
While moving In the crowd he bumped into a girl and they both fell on the ground. He Quickly got up and asked her "Are you hurt? Please forgive me for not seeing you" he extends her a hand.
The girl Refused to take his hand as a support and stands up herself. She Says "I am Fine, you don't need to worry about me"
He thought she must belong from a royal family, After all Why would a loyal accept his help.
He continued As an old man Got on the stage which was setup for children with a crystal ball for Talent Measuring.
The Old man Was Elder Ming and He was giving a brief introduction about the talent awakening ceremony and at last he said "No matter what rank you get done not lose hope and keep Protecting the Human civilization"
He further said "Today we also have the headmaster of top 5 academies who would recruit you all after awakening."
Getting an Obsidian Talent is really rare and only 10 people have ever received that rank
As there were so many people, They got divided into Batches and Ryujaku Was placed in the last batch.
The first Child Stepped on the stage and focused her energy to The crystal Ball and it became greyish White in colour. The elder Exclaimed "Nice, A silver Talent right of the bat"
Everyone was excited and that excited created a lot of noise when someone got a silver rank. After the first child Many children came some received Silver other Received bronze and four received golden. Now it was Time for the last batch.
The batch consisted of 5 people, The first three people went to the stage. One of them got Silver talent and other two bronze.
The other person with Ryujaku was the girl who bumped with him Earlier. She looked very nervous and Scared. Ryujaku Patted her Head and said "Don't Worry, It will be all fine" She Remained Silent and Didn't respond. It was her turn next she went onto the stage and kept her hands on the crystal but to everyone's surprise nothing was happening. The elder went to the stage and When he looked up, It was bright, "Is that a rain diamond?"he asked. "It's a Diamond Talent!!!" he exclaimed
For ranks like Diamond And Obsidian the ball doesn't Change its colour but A strange phenomena Occurs. It's different everytime.
everyone got up and Made a lot of noise and the little girl opened her eyes on the stage, Unable to Understand what was going on In her surrounding, she remained quite. Now it was His turn, As he went onto the stage Everyone was staring at him and were hoping for another diamond or golden Talent.
Ryujaku became very nervous but after that He mustered up enough courage put his hands on the Crystal Ball. For the first 2 minutes nothing happened but after thhose few minutes the ball changed to Light brown colour which Depicted Wood Talent. .
Everyone had their hopes high but He just turned to be a wood Talent. People where whispering "Ehh, Only a wood Talent" and the other were whispering "We got our hopes high for nothing.". As Ryujaku opened his eyes he saw People laughing at him and saw the light brown colour of the ball. He thought in his mind "Is this The best I can do? Am I bound by fate?"
Everyone had their hopes high but He just turned to be a wood Talent. People where whispering "Ehh, Only a wood Talent" and the other were whispering "We got our hopes high for nothing.". As Ryujaku opened his eyes he saw People laughing at him and saw the light brown colour of the ball. He thought in his mind "Is this The best I can do? Am I bound to fate?"
He thought "If this is my fate, I will Overcome my fate!". Just when Everyone Thought it was over and were leaving, He shouted "No, Not Yet! It isn't over Yet!".
People were whispering "Doesn't he know that it's over? Once the Light of the ball Disappears you are stuck with your rank forever."
He thought in his mind "I will Surpass Every one of my rival!"
The real miracle which took place was when the ball started to lit up, it was Still light brown colour.
people who were on the verge of leaving stopped and Stood there to watch the miracle.
The stone which was to Given to Ryujaku y his grandfather started emitting heat waves in his pocket. He could feel the warmth of the stone.
The Stone Decided to help him, as soon as her swore to surpass everyone.
Another Miracle Took place, The crystal Ball changed Its colour, it became transparent which depicted glass rank. Everyone was surprised but it didn't stop there. The Ball changed colour again this time it turned golden, a direct jump of ranks from glass to golden. This made people drop their jaws out of their mouth. The Ball Changed its colour again, this time the diamond rain phenomena occurred. Next, It changed colour again To Full grey which Represented obsidian rank. The Drastic Rank change was enough to Make people rethink their lives but on top of that the next thing Confused people. It changed colour again this time Full Black Colour. He himself was confused on what's going on.
The Stone which Was emitting heat had stopped it's action and it was silent.
The elders exactly knew what the black colour depicted and hey were scared from something. One elder even Muttered "Heavenly Tier Talent..."
The ball lost its colour and ryujaku came to his senses. Everyone was staring at him like he was some kind of monster. But all this was far from end.
The Ground Cracked and He was surrounded by the Four elements, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth from four sides.
It started to thunder. The Loudness of thunder was not normal. The elder quickly realized what it was and shouted "It's Heavenly Tribulation, Everyone evacuate"
Everyone knew What a heavenly tribulation was. It was basically a Trial of heavens to humans, Not many people could witness it.
The trial consisted of 7 lightnings, each time they fall the intensity of lightning increases
Ryujaku's Movement Had been restricted but he didn't resist it and went with the flow. The first strike fell on him he didn't move. No harm was done to him.
Second, third and fourth strike were landed, none injured him severely.
After the fourth strike, the sky turned red in colour and the lightning also became red. The stage Had already Shattered into million pieces. Ryujaku didn't care and was standing still. The fifth and sixth Strike fell on him which injured him a little bit.
The heavens were preparing their seventh strike and Ryujaku knew this can severely injure him. As the seventh Strike fell, Ryujaku Lifted his hand And Stopped the attack. As he was unable to nullify it he sent it back to the sky.
The sky got cleared after the shot was sent back indicating the trial has came to an end
To Be Continued
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