7 Despair
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Chapter-7
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After 15 minutes, the break was over, people returned inside of the tower again.
Now the crowd is more stable than earlier.
Iris is now standing with Mary and the others, while Ron hasn't appeared yet.
Ron just got out of the washroom while patting his stomach as he mutter in low voice "haaa….damn now I feel alive again, looks like eat little too much this afternoon, but I go fast now, the ceremony almost about to begin"
As he started running towards where the ceremony was going on at full speed.
Fortunately, he arrived at the time, he saw the iris and others Worriedly searching for him.
He quickly waved his towards them, and as sees him they quickly felt relieved.
Ron quickly stands in the boys group who are about to awaken.
once again, the old man comes to stage and as he speaks "NOW THE REST IS OVER, LET'S CONTINUE THE CEREMONY, PLEASE REST OF THE CHILDREN COMES IN THE CIRCLE"
As per instruction, children come inside the circle.
Old man starts chanting his spell again, the circle with a star, children's Mana tools start to manifest but this time only one star appears on all the Mana tools.
Except one
Ron, nothing happened to him, no Mana tool manifested in front of him, no bright light shines in front of him.
He looks around him sees to everyone mana tool started to manifest now, he starting get very bad feeling but he shook his trying to shake off this feeling.
He waited, 1 minute past then 2 minutes, like this 5 minutes past but nothing unusual happened.
He look around to see that everyone else have awakened the Mana tools without any problems and they are now checking their mama tool.
He then moves his head towards looks old man nervously who has his eyes closed this whole time.
He then finally slowly raised his hand and then spoke with a nervous tone "A-Ano wh-where i-is my m-mana to-tool??"
As he said this, everyone turned their attention to him. The old man opened his eyes, looked at him with a confused expression.
He stroked his long beard and closed his eyes as he started to think.
This situation is also new for him, he has been the guardian of this tower for nearly 40 years. In those 40 years, he never encountered a situation like this one, he didn't know what to say to this child.
*gulp*
Ron nervously swallowed his saliva, the old man then opened his eyes and said "HMMMMM... MAYBE BETTER LUCK NEXT YEAR?" While tilted his head.
Hearing this Ron looked like his whole world has been destroyed, he just kept looking at the old man with wide opened eyes while his mouth couldn't even utter a single word.
"Puffff- hahahahahahahahahahahahaha…. I-it's-so funny to think t-there is person w-who can't even a-awakened…..hahahahahahahahaha~"
a nearby boy heard the whole conversation and said this while laughing.
"HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAA~~~W-WHAT A LO-LOSER....~HAHHAHAHAHHAHAH~" Another boy commented this by the side.
"hahahhaahaha~...H-HOW MU-MUCH OF THE LO-LOSER….CAN Y-YOU RE-REALLY BE?? PUFFFF-HAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH" Boy from the front said this while started to laugh loudly.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA~.....I-I HAVEN'T E-EVEN HEARD OF A PE-PERSON WHO HAS F-FAILED TO AW-AWAKENED...~~HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA~" Another boy from the back said this while he laugh.
"HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA~" one by one every person started laughing loudly.
Two nobles at the corner are also laughing loudly as they are seeing this and thought 'yes this is the place of the peasant they couldn't be allowed to wield Mana tool…'.
Three people who are wearing cloaks also have amusing expressions.
"O-oh god n-no…." Priest matter this with unbelievable expression.
"How…c-can this be…" Sister said while she covered her mouth with her hands.
"wh-why" Mary said this also with tears in her eyes.
*sniff* *sniff*
Mark and Marco also looked like they were about to cry.
Iris looked at this whole situation with her wide opened eyes without saying anything.
The people of the church can't believe what's happening in front of them.
Ron in the middle of this couldn't understand what's happening to him, he couldn't awaken the mana tool, now as he is looking around to observe he sees everyone ridiculing him as they are all laughing loudly.
He is lost, and doesn't know what to do, so he just wants to escape this cruel reality.
So he ran outside as fast as he could with tears in his eyes.
People from church wanted to chase after him but the crowd was too much to break.
Ron goes outside and behind the tower, as he sees the big old tree.
He stopped and started to climb up to the tree, he climbed at the fast pace, as he reached the highest branch and lay down on that branch.
While he stared at the sun who now started to fall with his lifeless, his mind try to process everything that happened.
….
After the whole awakening ceremony was over, people started to return home for their children's celebration.
Now the sun is almost fall, Iris and others are searching for Ron.
But they couldn't find him, and now Marco and Mark started to feel hungry, they couldn't continue to search because now night started to come as they hadn't begun to prepare the dinner.
"You all go first, I will find him" Priest said as he saw the condition of Mark and marco.
Suddenly Iris came forward and said in solemn tone "I will go to find him" As she chanted the speed spell and now she got wind attribute so her speed also increases, she quickly disappeared.
Seeing this others have helpless expressions, after all they all know how stubborn she can be in the matters that involve Ron.
They slowly started walking towards the church.
Iris now at right side of the tower, she started to
search for Ron.
*clap* *clap*
*clap* *clap*
"Ohoho~~look brother, who is this??" As twin nobles show from the back while clapping his hands as said this.
The second brother with long hair replied "Oh~ brother you don't know, she is the hope of the peasants of this town" With a sarcastic expression.
"We know you cheated somehow, tell me how you get 4 stars Mana tool?" Noble with short hair said this like ordering a slave.
"Yes tell us, we might let you go and not tell anything about this to anyone" Long hair said this very arrogantly.
Iris just turned and stared at them with expressionless face without saying anything.
Seeing that this was not showing any expression, they started to get irritated.
"Maybe she forgot her place brother, let's show her, what a noble can do" While his red ring started to glow.
"I agree brother" While the other twin ring started to glow blue.
As they activate their skills as they speak Simultaneously.
"Fire ball" "Water bubble"
As the ball of fire appears in the hand of the short hair noble.
And the ball of water appears in the hand of the long hair noble.
""Take this and know your place, peasant!!"" As they said this, they threw their attacks at her.
Iris seeing their attacks coming, she slowly raise her hand and her pendant started glow as she whisper "Whirlwind"
As she whispers this, a small vortex appears on her hand, as she launches her attack.
*clash*
The vortex collided with a fireball in the result creating a small fire tornado vaporising the water bubble, as the small tornado started to move towards the twins.
Seeing this, the twins eyes wide opened in horror, they started to run but it was too late, as per fire tornado already reached them.
""AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"" They both shout in pain as the fire tornado burns them, and then makes them fly towards the nearby wall.
*crash* *crash*
They both hit their heads on the wall and then lose their consciousness.
Iris looks at this without any expression, after all they got what they deserve.
Iris fights this fight smartly, because she knows her limits.
Even though she awakened the 4 stars it doesn't mean it will make you great.
More stars having, means the effects of the skills will multiply only.
Like her whirlwind skill attack power is 30 x 4 (number of stars) = 120 attack power.
So, the twins also awakened the 2 stars Mana tools, so at best it may draw or she will be overwhelmed because defending against 2 different elements at the same time.
Even more, she just today awakened her Mana tool, so she is only at level I.
As the person levels up they will awaken new skills on each level.
Person can only awaken one skill at one level.
Active skills are common, while passive skills are very rare.
So, she launched her attack on a fireball, then controlled the vortex to combine the fire in the wind as per result creating a fire tornado.
Now, after she is done with nuisance, she turns around to continue the search for Ron.
suddenly metal chains come towards her and bind her, as she noticed that her Mana started to be absorbed by these chains at a high speed.
She then sees 3 figures who are wearing cloaks coming towards her.
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