Awakening II
Kaiden recalled the Art's First-Tier to Fourth-Tier Abilities…
As far as he knows, the Dark Art's First-Tier doesn't have an impressive fighting ability…
It would only give him Night Vision, Light Absorption, and Create: Shadow Soldier. If he also selected the Transformation Arts, then his only fighting strength would be his shadow soldiers.
After all, the First-Tier of this ability was only Shapeshift: Human, Animal, Plant…
"Haa~"
Kaiden looked at the other powerful abilities as he remembers his trusted friends.
Arial will take Summoning Arts…
Helvi will take Combat Arts…
Fey will take Xylokinesis…
Rainart will take Lightning Manipulation Arts…
Mile will take Crafting Magic...
Raizen and Reese will take Dark Alchemy and Pure Alchemy respectively as expected of the twins.
If he takes the Dark Arts as his main power… Will it work perfectly with his friends?
"Haa… I should stop overthinking…"
Kaiden muttered as he selected the Emblem of Fate's suggestion…
As soon as he did this, he heard his mother knocking on his room's door.
"Son… Is everything alright?"
"Huh? Yes, mom… What happened?"
"I just felt something… I'm not sure…" His mom answered.
He wasn't too surprised as the Awakening causes some changes in the surrounding air... But aside from that, there shouldn't be anything concerning during the process.
"Everything is fine. Don't worry, mom…"
After reassuring his mother and waiting for her to leave, Kaiden closed his eyes to feel the changes in his body…
He is the first Awakened so he felt quite different in this awakening.
[ Kaiden ]
[ 1st Gift: Dark Arts ]
[ First-Tier Abilities: Night Vision, Light Absorption, Create: Shadow Soldier ]
[ 2nd Gift: Transformation Arts ]
[ First-Tier Abilities: Shapeshift ]
It is extremely simple as he doesn't have many abilities yet.
However, Kaiden was still very happy as he received 2 powers from his Awakening…
"I need to find my comrades… They need to quickly get stronger…"
Kaiden muttered as he now has the confidence of traveling afar with his newfound skills.
"Arial should be the nearest but meeting him would cause a lot of trouble… I should find Raizen and Reese first…"
The twin brothers helped him master his Shapeshifting abilities so he wanted to repay them during their early days as well...
"How about the medallion? Should I just take it with me?"
Kaiden recalled the medallion being hidden within their house. It has life-saving magic within and it would also be an extremely important item to control a few important treasures within the kingdom.
Although he didn't have to worry about other people using the medallion, it might be better to take it with him since he already has the ability to protect himself.
"Only the descendants of the royal family can manifest the power hidden within the Medalion… It would be a waste to just let it gather some dust here."
Kaiden thought for a moment as he decided to tell his mother that he discovered that item while cleaning the floor...
Two more years and the Players would start baring their fangs against the southern nations, the two years weren't that long considering that he still had to teach his friends about the Mana Body Cultivation.
On the other hand, he can't teach it to his parents yet since he's planning to send his family to the safest place somewhere in the northern part of the continent.
If they got Awakened now and got stronger, they might foolishly decide to fight for the kingdom or something.
He didn't want that to happen. Instead, once he managed to send them far away, he would leave behind the method of Awakening to them just enough for them to survive in case they encounter some beasts in the northern continent…
After making his plans clear, he decided to speak with his mother.
***
While Kaiden was busy with his preparations for the future.
The Oberi Kingdom received another prophecy from the Priestess. Inside one of the rooms within the King's castle, a group of high-ranking nobles gathered around a table.
The meeting is being led by a Marquis and as soon as he heard the Priestess's prophecy, he frowned…
"Lord Zachary, the Priestess wanted to mobilize the Knights to fight against the foreigners from the south."
One of the nobles in the room reported to Marquis Zachary.
"Hmph… Instead of worrying about the foreigners far from our kingdom, she should help us resolve the drought in the west!"
"You said it right..."
"I wonder what she saw... She's getting too worried about them these days..."
"Sigh~ It doesn't matter. Those Players were not a threat. I got a full report about their combat prowess from the neighboring countries and the reports are the same, they are quite weak."
The eight other nobles heard Zachary's complaint and they nodded in agreement.
They can easily overrule the command of the Priestess as long as 10 or more high-ranking nobles disagreed on it.
The foreigners or the Players were said to be capable but they are not extremely strong. As a matter of fact, their strength was below that of a normal Knight so they shouldn't be worrying that much.
Since their kingdom's knights were perhaps more than 10 times the number of the Players in the south, then they shouldn't be panicking even if the Players decided to attack their kingdom directly.
They couldn't understand why the Priestess was too worried about them…
In the end, they ignored her warnings and discussed the drought in the western region instead.
Providing supply in that region must be done as quickly as possible.