Chapter 6

There were around 10 000 teenagers who awakened their power in Eplia City this year. Out of 10 000, 65% of them were boys and 45% were girls. Last year, the girls were 5% higher than the boys.

After the ceremony finished, the plaza where the ceremony being held were filled with joy. Many of the teenagers who awakened their power were happy because they got what they wanted. Some of them unfortunately were unlucky and didn't get what they wanted. Their faced show how disappointed they were.

"That light surrounding your body, Luke, is it 'The One' title?" asked Elder Dario to Luke.

During the awakening ceremony, the teenagers from the noble clans were accompanied by the elder from their clan to ensure their safety from unknown danger. A long time ago, there were a Ranker who held grudge towards the noble and massacre many nobles during their awakening ceremony. The Ranker ran away afterwards. The nobles were enraged and hunt that Ranker. It took them 3 months to finally able to kill that Ranker. The Ranker were really good at hiding and running away that took the nobles awhile to kill him. There were rumors floating around a few months after the death of that Ranker that he was still alive and well.

"Yes, Elder," Luke smile.

"Congrats cousin. How long has it been since our clan member last receives this title?" said Luke's cousin.

"It's been 20 years. Hohoho, train hard, Luke and you might be able to lead our clan in the future," said Elder Dario while laughing. "How about your talents affinity?"

"Status - talents" Luke status information appeared in front of him

1. Swords - 95%

2. Metal Elements - 85%

3. Fire Elements - 85%

4. Horse - 75%

5. Wind Spirits - 30%

"I have swords talent the highest at 95%. Two elements, metal and fire both at 85%," said Luke and then he stopped.

"They are all have really high affinity. How about the other two?" asked Elder Dario.

"Urm… horse talent at 75% and wind spirits at 30%... I know the wind spirit has relations to the spirit element but I never heard about horse talent. Does it have something to do with how good I will be while riding horse?" asked Luke.

"Horse talent is part of beast element. It's a specialize talents," said Elder. "What are you going to focus on?" asked Elder Dario.

"My first skill is one handed blade, so I will be getting myself a sword art and fill the remaining slot skills with elemental skills," answered Luke.

Elder Dario was actually Luke and the other Gryth clan member's teacher. He teaches all the young members in the clan.

Eplia City, Southern Area. Ethan's house.

Ethan finally reached his home. After he checked his status information, he immediately decided to rush back home. He had a really hard time walking home because his body feels really weak. He was sweating a lot and even walking was hard.

Ethan open the door and enter his house. "I'm home,"

Gooey saw Ethan was back and happily bouncing towards Ethan and Ethan quickly raised his hand in front of Gooey and said, "Wait, Gooey. Stop. I'm sorry, today don't come close to me,"

Gooey showed a sad face. Ethan smile and continued, "Don't be sad. I'm not angry at you but my condition right now is really bad."

Ethan sat on his bed and with a heavy heart "Status," his status information appeared in front of him. He looked at his status info and he show a grimed face. "Why?" tears start flowing out.

"Stupid special skills. You ruin my life and what in the world is special skills. I never even heard or read it before,"

Stats

Hp – 1 / Mp – 1 / Str – 1 / End – 1 / Int – 1 / Wis – 1 / Agi – 1

Talents

1. Dagger - 1%

2. Water - 1%

3. Cooking - 1%

4. Sewing - 1%

5. Language – 1%

Special Skills

Newborn - reset stats, skills and talents to the minimum. This skill will disappear after 24 hours. Cannot raise any stats until this skill disappear. (23:59:45)

Due to the special skill – newborn, all of Ethan stats and talents reset to 1. With all his stats at 1, his body becomes weak. A normal slap can kill him because his Hp is 1. That was the reason he stopped Gooey from coming close. Gooey is a slime and slimes were monster. Monster biologically stronger than normal human. Luckily the newborn was not too cruel. Even though his strength and endurance at 1 he still can walk. His intelligence at 1 too but he still can talk, his memories about his family and people he knows were still there but the knowledge he accumulated all his life by reading lots of books were gone.

All of his talents were at 1% affinity. It is not an exaggeration to say that it won't be much different to say that he didn't received any talent at all. Whatever skills he learns will be hard to master. It will take years to even master 1 zero grade skill. Zero grade skills is the lowest and easiest grade to master. Whatever skills people learned, they will start at zero grade and slowly raise its grade to higher level.

"And my skill…"

1. Tame - Zero Grade (0/10) [Tame normal animals Mp:10 Max:5]

"It's not even related to my talents. I can't even use it. Even taming normal animals use that much Mp. Should I just quit with being an adventurer? I will raise my stats slowly and open a ranch," said Ethan.

"I'm really unlucky. Maybe this cyan shades I have on my hair really bring bad luck. They were right after all. I can't even get rid of it," Ethan than reach a small mirror and look into it.

"Huh?" Ethan checked his hair.

"It's gone. The cyan shades on my hair is gone. Why is it suddenly gone? Is it because I awakened my power? Now that I think about it, I never have this shade on my hair until what happen 9 years ago. Is it some kind of curse?" Ethan wondered.

"Curse or not, nothing will change now. I'm doom…"

Ethan stayed on his bed until night and fell asleep. He woke up late the next day because he feels really tired. He tried checking his status again hoping that it was all a dream but he was not dreaming. His stats were the same as yesterday.

Newborn - reset stats, skills and talents to the minimum. This skill will disappear after 24 hours. Cannot raise any stats until this skill disappear. (00:30:45)

"30 more minutes and this skill will disappear and I can start living a new life, again,"

Growl~ his stomach growling. He went to the kitchen to cook something. He tried to lifts up the pan but the pan was too heavy for him. He gave up cooking and then he grabbed a fruit and ate it. He saw Gooey staring at him from a far. He offers some fruits to Gooey but Gooey refused to be near him. Gooey afraid that he will accidentally killed Ethan. Ethan sadly smile at Gooey and throw some fruit to Gooey. Gooey also not in the mood, so he slowly ate the fruit.

Ting~ a notification appeared.

Newborn – (00:00:00)

'Special skills Newborn time limit end. Newborn will now disappear from your data'

"Yeah, yeah, whatever," Ethan mocking the system.

The system continued 'Newborn special effects activated. When newborn reach the time limit and disappear from your data, new special skills will be born. All the original stats points and talents' affinity were used to create the new special skills. Six special skills successfully created'

"??? What?"