Awakening

"No attribute, Purification Scepter -Six star bloodline."

"What is your name?" he asked.

"Grandpa, my name is Hale." she replied while blinking her blue eyes.

"Ok, practise hard you can become a strong support star knight." he encouraged her and motioned for the next boy to step in.

'Support Star knight? And why is her attribute not lightning? Is she not from clan direct lineage?' Max was confused.

The next boy had the same facial features and hair color as the previous boys. But his hair had spikes on the front and he looks like a child with somewhat high status which you could tell from his arrogant look on his face. So the old man asked "Boy, what is your name?"

"I am Levyn Miller. My father is Otto Miller." He replied with a smug face.

'No wonder. So he is the son of patriarch's youngest brother.' he thought

As the boy sat on the platform a dark blue rune with a spear pattern flashed in front of his eyebrows and melted back and disappeared. Then a sword with dark blue hilt and lion shaped emblem on the hilt and the whole body silver with blue lines across the surface appeared in his hands.

"Variant natal spirit?" The voice sounded in the entire hall and the crowd all focused their eyed on Levyn.

"Most of the children get their 'natal spirit' or 'attribute' from their parents. While in some rare cases children have 'different attributes or different natal spirits' from their parents. Those with different natal spirits derived from their parents are called 'variant natal spirit'. In some people the variant natal spirits 'evolve'. Some people have their variant natal spirit 'degenerated'. While some people have variant natal spirit with just different form and same strength compared to their parents." The old man clarified their doubts.

The boy walked forward and put his hands on the stele when the stele flashed brilliantly with seven stars.

"Lightning attribute, Desolate Lion Sword -Seven star bloodline."

The old man shouted with excitement as the boy walked away with a proud look on his face while he glanced at the remaining boys with disdain.

The next boys also awakened his attribute, natal spirit and the bloodline.

"Lightning attribute, Desolate Lion Axe -One star bloodline."

"Lightning attribute, Thunder Sword -Five star bloodline."

"Fire attribute, Swift Sword -Three star bloodline."

Only one boy other than Max was left after awakening everyone. The old man motioned for the chubby boy to come forward.

As the boy sat on the lotus platform a circular rune with a lion pattern on it slowly projected from his eye brows and disappeared back. The old man thought of something when he saw the rune and looked at the boy expectantly when a huge purple lion phantom with lightning all over its body descended on his back.

The boy was surprised and was overjoyed seeing the beast spirit and exclaimed "Beast spirit!"

The old man smiled seeing the boy as the lion phantom retracted into his body and tested his blood line as it showed six stars.

The bloodline of the Thunder lion mansion direct or affiliated lineage mostly awakens weapon natal spirit for the Star Knights. Beast type natal spirits are rare in the clan. But it does not mean that the beast spirit natal spirits are stronger than weapon type natal spirit.

"Lightning attribute, Thunder Lion - six star bloodline." The old man smiled encouragingly as he could see the boy was very happy because he thought he was special from others due to his beast spirit. He motioned for Max to come in

The old man was taken back when he looked into the eyes of Max where all he could see was calmness and indifference that was not something a child could have. He wanted to see what kind of star power and spirit this child could awaken.

As Max sat down and concentrated, his whole physical strength and spiritual seemed to have a qualitative leap. He felt that he could see everything within ten meters around him which is very much high for a seven year old awakener according to a book in library, but considering that his spiritual power is strengthened to a large extent due to his reincarnation he took it for granted.

He concentrated in his sea of consciousness when a circular rune with complex silver and black lines with dual moon blades in a cross shape appeared. The silver lines have been covered up by the black lines so the old man could not see it, but Max could feel the silver lines in the rune that seemed to be there but illusionary. It felt like nothingness.

'Is it dark and space attributes?'

Max was shocked since he had never heard about dual attributes or space attribute before and neither were they recorded in the books of library. He covered up the abnormality with a calm look on his face and took back the rune while two pitch black moon shaped blades floated in his both hands. He was very excited because these two moon blades were exactly same in shape as the weapon he used in his previous life that had accompanied him throughout his life except this moon blades are very pitch black and had delicate red patterns on the black handles that seemed to yearn for blood. As he gripped the two moon blades his eyes glowed with excitement and a red baleful aura was emitted around him when he snapped out of it in a second and took back the blades.

The old man had a drop of cold sweat on his forehead when he felt the bloodthirsty aura.

'How could a child have such intense killing intent? May be it is due to his natal weapons.'

"What is your natal spirit?" he asked curiously with lingering fear in his eyes.

"Black moon blades."

Max replied after thinking for a moment. Even he did not know its name so he thought it sounded good. He walked to the stele and place a hand on it when the steel lightened up all its stars to the maximum.

The old man was forget about everything that just happened before and was immersed in joy when he sensed the Nine star bloodline but all his excitement cooled down when he remembered that neither did the boy have Thunder attribute nor did he have Desolate Lion Axe. He looked at him with complicated emotions as he thought Max was not from the clan's direct lineage.

"Dark attribute, Black moon dual blades -nine star bloodline."

He noted down his star power details along with previous ones and left to report to the patriarch.

Max was the only one left in the hall as all the children who have awakened left after their awakening and he was the last one.

He looked into the distant blue sky and thought of his future.

'I will reach the pinnacle of strength in this continent'

He was excited thinking about his future and all his enemies that he would slay on his path as his eyes flashed with bloodthirsty light and his mouth curled up slightly.

Max suddenly thought of his family in this life. He knew that his mother died giving birth to him. He feet somewhat guilty about that. He remembered that neither his father nor his siblings visited or took care of him since his birth. He was used to being self dependent. But thinking of his father or brother's apathetic behavior towards him, that trace of guilt vanished. He is not the type of decadent and self-loathing guy.

All he could depend on was his double moon blades that had and will accompany him in his journey.