Awakening ceremony ( 2 )

Since descending the cave, Ares has been watching his surroundings carefully and trying to gather any information that could help him carry out his plans in the future, and so his eyes fell on his younger brother York, whose expression was different from the rest of the young people and as if he was already aware of this place, which made him suspicious.

Ares already knows from the memories of this body that he is the "original Ares" and his brother York were geniuses recognized by everyone, so he knew very well the personality of his brother and this aroused his suspicion.

Ares' gaze at York did not last for long. He knew very well that this world had many secrets and mysteries that had not been discovered, and even he did not know much about them. Who knows what secrets York could hide, and yet he had to put His brother factored into his plans.

His eyes fell on the young people full of vitality and hope to change their destiny among them. A certain group caught his attention, and it was none other than that group belonging to the Commercial Complex.

For some reason, 5 years ago, the Commercial Complex decided to establish branches in the three main cities of this island, which was welcomed by citizens due to the lack of resources and the extent of the isolation of this island from the mainland, as a round trip may take about a few months of travel.

But those with a certain degree of intelligence know that a Commercial Complex wouldn't be nice to help the citizens of this island calculate their profits, so there was constant doubt as to why they chose to set up branches in a secluded place like Storm Island.

Since then, the Commercial Complex has been expanding its influence in each of the three cities by purchasing real estate at high prices and increasing its workforce. This prompted the governing authorities to intervene, indirectly limiting their growing influence through the imposition of new laws that undermined their authority each time.

As a kind of multiple attempts to extend their influence, it was decided to push their young talents during the awakening ceremony in the past two years in an attempt to project their dominance in various fields.

Because of the prominence of Ares and York this year, the number of applicants for their side has been twice the number of applicants in the past two years.

York felt his brother's gaze and yet showed no reaction. He knew from his previous life that his brother was not an ordinary person.

If York had used the second chance inscription to go back in time to his childhood, Ares was quite the opposite.

Ares was an evil cultivation who rose to fame several thousand years ago for being one of the few to stand up to the righteous faction head-on but was betrayed by his closest allies at the time, tragically leading to his death. But who knew he would succeed in using the second chance inscription to be reborn?

When the righteous faction revealed this story a few years later, the world went into a stir, causing Ares' fame to rise as there was no one left in the world who had not heard of this story.

But now Ares was just an ordinary child who had not yet awakened his inner world.

However, York did not dare to confront Ares, first Ares was hiding a lot of secrets and who knew what plans or machinations he was scheming In addition, York considered Ares an important pawn to confront the righteous faction and attract attention away from him, but ironically, Ares was thinking the same way, as York's talent and accomplishments might overshadow his plans giving him greater freedom.

And so, as the awakening ceremony continued, both brothers slowly began to make their plans.

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The awakening ceremony continued little by little and to the disappointment of the elder of the Academy, no talent has yet emerged that deserves attention.

The next moment, the academy elder called out the next name: " Jean McLean "

"Here!" A young man with a thin face slowly made his way through the crowd, tall and exuding an arrogant aura reminiscent of the sons of one of the masters of the city.

Some may wonder if Jean has any relationship with the famous McLean twins, but in reality, it is nothing more than just a similarity in name. In the City of the Sun, there are many individuals with similar names, mainly due to the older generation that founded this city a long time ago.

Jean climbed the rock and the engraves began to light up one after another, 10 inscriptions, 20 inscriptions, 30 inscriptions; Continue until 35 inscriptions are lit before he could finally go no further.

The youths watched with wide-opened eyes, shocked. The academy elder happily exclaimed, "Good, good, Jean McLean, middle-class talent!."

Then he retracted his hand and nodded, recording down on the paper:

" Jean McLean, Middle-class inner world."

This talent can be measured by five grades according to the number of inscriptions that light up when young people climb onto the rock of the engraves, the lowest level of talent is from 10 to 20 inscriptions, the middle-lower level is from 21 to 30 inscriptions, the middle level is from 31 to 40 inscriptions, the upper-middle level is from 41 to 50 inscriptions, and what exceeds this number is considered a upper-class talent.

Alex Winters from Star City had achieved the mark of 54 amazing inscriptions, which made the pressure on the cities of the Dawn and the Sun increase to get new talent, especially the Sun City, where he did not show a distinctive talent in several years.

One hour later, half of the youths had already stood on top of the rock of the inscriptions, There were quite several middle-lower and lowest-level talents among them, while half of those youths had no talent at all.

" Sigh, the bloodline is getting thinner. These few years the city hasn't had any rank five masters to strengthen the bloodline." the city head who was watching from afar said with a deep sigh.

At this moment, the academy elder shouted, " Wilfred Green! "

Wilfred Green had a small and short build. He was clenching his fist, his entire face sweating. It was evident that he was incredibly nervous.

As he stood on the rock, he lit 35 inscriptions before being kicked out.

" Another middle class! " The academy elder yelled.

The youths started a commotion, sending Wilfred Green envious stares.

" Wilfred Green, Jean McLean huh... "Amid the crowd, York stroked his chin thoughtfully. " It seems as if nothing has changed from the memories of my previous life, if that's the case, then Ares and I..."

As he pondered, he suddenly heard the academy elder call out his brother's name:

"Ares McLean !"