Awakening

Mark was very excited when he woke up because today was the day he would awaken his mana and open the system. For the last 3 years, Mark had learned lots of things about this world.

First of all, everyone in this world who awakened got a system and they could sense mana in nature. After awakening, they were considered as tier 0. Then they had to absorb neutral mana in nature and create a mana core. By meeting these conditions, the person became tier 1. As for further progress, there was no need to worry yet.

Mark was coming downstairs today, as usual, to have breakfast with his family. Lucas, in particular, was at least as excited as Mark today. Frankly, Lucas did not expect much from his son because before, he was not very keen on ideas such as swordplay and fighting, but now he definitely did not think so because his son had really undergone a huge personality change. He thought that his son Mark's personality had matured because of what he experienced after Baron Patrick sent mercenaries to them.

Lucas was a really close friend of Baron Oscar. That's why Oscar said that he wanted to attend Mark's awakening ceremony with him and his little son. Oscar was a good person. The current emperor at the time offered him the chance to join the royal guard after the Great War, but Oscar chose to become the baron of a town in the north in order not to become a tool of the intrigues of the nobles in the capital. The reason why Lucas followed Oscar was because of Oscar's personality.

On the other hand, Mark repeated his usual routine with Marcus until the evening, but he could not read a book in the evening because he had his own awakening ceremony. He was really having fun training with Mark Marcus. He had never done such active things in his past life. He didn't like to move very much. This was one of his favorite aspects of his life. He didn't know why, but he felt freer when fighting.

Mark: "Do you think I'll be able to perform well in my awakening?"Marcus: "At least from what I've observed so far, Mark, you're very skilled in multiple battles. I'm sure you'll do well there too."

After these words, Mark felt much more relaxed and ended the sparring. Now it was time to go to the awakening ceremony.

In the evening, Mark came to the Baron's house for awakening ceremony and met with the Baron and his wife.Oscar: "Oh Mark, the last time I saw you, you were a 3-year-old baby. You have grown so much."

Mark had never had a proper conversation with the baron before.Mark: "I thank you, my lord."

Mark also noticed that the baron's child was also there. The child's name was Osiris. He was 2 years older than Mark and was going to the royal academy in the capital next year. In short, he was a genius.

The ceremony began after a while, without further ado, and Oscar asked Mark to place his hand on a crystal, and he held his hand on the crystal until Oscar said, "You can move it." Apparently, this crystal was called the awakening crystal. After a while, Oscar took his hand away from the crystal, and while Oscar was looking at the crystal, he suddenly had a happy facial expression.

Oscar: "Congratulations, Mark, you have awakened the affinities of space, fire, and earth."

He had perfect affinity to space, perfect to fire, and excellent affinity to earth, respectively. Mark was really happy, especially space affinity was an intermediate-level element Mark could also use the magma element and magma was an intermediate-level element too also they were hard to find. However, what made Mark happier was the affinities he had towards these elements.

In Mark's world, the degree of affinities to the elements was listed as follows: low, medium, high, excellent, and perfect. What makes Mark happy the most was the superior element he could use that is "Solar".

After Mark received congratulations from the people who were there that night the ceremony was finally over and Mark returned home.

Mark really had a great day.