29. Return of Eric I

"We found Eric"

Draven answered and as if mountain was lifted from his shoulder he finally relaxed.

"Where is he?" Aldrian inquired

"He is currently in midford city."

Other three didn't say much, they were not particularly close to Eric rather no one other than his father was close to him, but still felt happy for him as Draven had been too stressed lately.

Back to platform

Edward was standing in front of black Orb with his hand on it, waiting for screen to turn blue and soon it did. And his status window appeared on screen but this time with his age.

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Name: Edward Alastair

Race: Human

Age: 17

Arcane power: [ Flame Seeker ]

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[ Divine flames SS+]

Rank: F

Strength: F

Agility: F

Stamina: F+

Mana capacity: F+

Mana quality: SS

skills: ---

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★ There was some unbalance in status window of Eric so I changed it, you will see the changes in upcoming chapters. ★

Edward had a SS+ arcane power, and SS mana quality with all this he was destined to be at least SS rank power house. That was the thought in everybody's mind.

In theory everyone should be able to reach S rank if they had enough resources. but that is not true, talent of mana was very important , if person with low quality mana were to fight with person having high quality mana on same rank, later would surely win. because with high quality mana his skills and arcane power will also experience qualitative changes.

But If they fought while having different rank, let's say person with low quality mana is of high rank and person with high quality mana is low rank, even then chances for victory would be balanced, not guaranting the victory of high ranker even with infamous rank gap, that was the talent of mana. With high quality mana you could even ascend ranks faster.

"What is that? Does that mean he has two arcane power?"

"No no didn't you see the arrow it clearly means one is derived from another."

"It's my first time seeing this. Hey wait a minute don't you all see his age! he is 17 years old! 17 years!"

"What 17! Isn't age to awaken 19, how is he 17"

With Edward's status window out in open, spectator were once thrown to chaos.

With Edward's appearance two norms of awakened society were changed, but man who had done this had little to no idea of what he did.

Inside the tower

"Your son is one of the new ones or more precisely one of the forced Awakend." Synthia said as she looked at Edward's status on screen.

"New one?" Draven asked

"Yes because of sudden influx of mana with father's advancement, caused the minimum awakening age to decrease from 19 to possibly 17 & 18"

"There are currently 9 children excluding Edward who had managed to awaken before age of 19. And according to our calculations it won't be longer then 5 year, for age limit to decrease to 15 years old."

Draven didn't doubt what Cynthia said as she was the one who controlled intelligence branches of family.

"Then what about that extra arcane power?"

This wasn't the first time he saw a awakener having two arcane ability, it's just that he had never seen status window of said awakener so he had nothing to compare.

"This is what you can call a [Class], like in old video games where there were classes like warrior, mage, thief, knight etc.

although the research is still in progress, we can easily assume that classes are more versatile and powerful form of arcane powe., since it's only been few months since status window appeared we are still collecting data about different kind of classes"

This time Cynthia was answering while looking at her smartphone which was projecting holographic words in air.

"Hmm."

"Then are there any rank among classes?"

Draven asked, he wasn't aware of most of the findings because he has to guard borders or go to the expedition in the Motraica country which shared border with them.

Actually there were only two countries who shared borders with Midgard. Motraica and Oltondia, Midgard is situated in the central region of the world, surrounded by water bodies in three directions. North, South and West, while only small part of Eastern region was connected with other two countries. This unique geographical placement was the reason for its survival in dark ages when monsters attack were never ending.

Cynthia started at her brother and explained patiently.

"For now no, but classes give birth to more derevative aspects of power and according to those, we can try judge them, but it would be hard. for example let's say one person has a [mage] class and another has [warrior] as a class. Both are classes with significant number of skill but there usefullness can only be shown in there favourable situation.

Currently with these two there are three other classes which have appeared in masses in both new and old awakeners [Tank] [Archer] [Healer], of course some unique classes like your son has also appeared and the research on them is still ongoing."

While they were discussing new changes in world.

Commosion at the platform has subdued,

Zeferino stared at Edward unsure what to say. At last he gave Edward nod of aproval and moved on.

"All of your results and information about your future position in the family will be delivered to you by tomorrow."

Zeferino and gazed at everyone, there he could see many had crestfallen expression on their face.

"But to those who have low talent rejoice and to those who had gotten high talent be wary because this is not end. after two years tournament of succession will be held in the city, if you perform exceptionally well you'll have chance to change your destiny. Remember talent is not everything, hardwork is more important than anything.

Now disperse."

With few words of encouragement zeferino made his exit.

As if light of hope has appeared in their darkest hours, many eyes beamed with determination once again, to control their own fate they have been given one more chance.

WHOMMM!

Suddenly a white flying car with stripes of red at the side, passed above there head. Everybody looked up and some whispered as well.

"Isn't flying car not allowed in main state?"

"Can't you see it's colour,it's security team's car. They must be escorting some elder."