CHAPTER 12 - AWAKENING CEREMONY ( 2 )

As they got down from their carriages, they saw other carriages parked there.

They looked at the Coliseum just standing there, it was a wonder to them how it was built and still standing despite its massive structure.

Walking towards the coliseum there was a crowd of people rushing to get in and an even bigger crowd at the gate, they were lucky we weren't passing there or they would have surely been delayed.

They entered through a hidden door on another side of the coliseum with someone waiting for us there.

"You guys are right on time, the ceremony is about to begin, just follow me…." she said.

As she talked Daniel was totally absent-minded, he was in shock as he hadn't seen this sheer amount of people all gathered in one place before.

They finally got inside the coliseum and were taken towards a special location that only they were in.

They could see everyone who was sitting and cheering as the city lord spoke.

"Today is the day for the awakening of our young ones, they are our hope. Let us not forget our roots, we aren't originally people of this land, we were betrayed, forced into slavery, and dumped here to die, but look at us we are flourishing, in those hard times we survived and had gotten stronger and denied their expectations" he said.

"AND ONE DAY WE WILL RETURN AND HAVE OUR REVENGE" As these words were spoken the crowd went mad with their cheering.

"SO LET THE AWAKENING CEREMONY BEGIN," he said as he walked back to his seat.

Some entertainers came on stage dancing, beating drums, and singing all this didn't faze Daniel his composure was at a hundred percent till a woman started singing.

I've seen the world.

Done it all.

Have my cake now.

Diamonds are brilliant.

And bel-air.

Hot summer night.

Mid-July.

When you and I were forever wild.

Crazy day.

City lights.

The way you play with me like I'm a child.

Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful?

Will you still love me when I have nothing but my aching soul?

I know you will

I know you will

I know you wiilllllllllll

Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful?

The song just calmed his heart, it made his mind enter a higher place than when he usually meditated.

He was at an all-time high, the song gave him many emotions, he remembered his parents used to sing him songs like this to bed.

His mind was totally clear, pure of impurities, his blood flow which he could barely see when meditating was now clear in front of him and he could barely control a drop of his blood, but of course that didn't increase his strength.

As the lady finished singing the whole coliseum which was empty due to her heavenly voice was filled with people cheering for her, some even crying because of what they just heard.

She left the stage with the cheers of thousands of people behind her with a smile.

When she left another lady entered the stage, "it's time for the children who came to get awakened to come to the stage their events are about to start" she said with a microphone.

We were led to the stage as the cheers of the crowd welcomed us.

I was feeling nervous a little, I hadn't been in front of a large crowd like this once in my life.

"The awakening competition would be divided into three parts for everyone, the warriors, the blacksmith, and the alchemist, the winners in those three departments would receive the top rewards and just know this is the best reward we have given out since the creation of the city." the lady said.

The rumors were true, so this year's winners would really be lucky if the rewards were true, murmurs ranged out from the crowd as they discussed what she just said.

So the competition will go like this, the blacksmithing completion first, then the alchemist, and lastly the warriors.

As these words were said some people carried blacksmithing tools into the arena and placed them separately from them.

The alchemist and warriors walked back to their site and the blacksmith just stood near their equipment, but something made Daniel, in the arena, Micheal was standing there next to a bunch of blacksmithing tools, wasn't he a warrior, when did he learn blacksmithing? Thoughts like this filled his head.

Micheal looked over to Daniel who looked confused and smiled at him, before focusing on the task ahead of him.

"So for the test, you all would be smelting a sword, the results would be judged by the quality of the sword and if two of the highest quality swords were made it'll depend on who submitted theirs first," she said as she looked at the anxious people around.

Most of them weren't even ready, during the whole break they were given they hadn't been practicing, and they didn't know that there would be a competition like this, although they could still get awakened they'd be weaker than their peers because of the low-class stimulant that'll be used on them.

So instead of stressing themselves on the task, two out of the four blacksmiths didn't even try to do anything and just stayed there and watched the others work.

Some people in the crowd were obviously angry at their behavior, they did nothing but get the chance to awaken, but those who worked their but off to get awakened couldn't be awakened because they hadn't done enough.

So they started booing at the participants, Micheal who noticed them sneered at them, they were basically cutting off their future paths because of this.

No one would want to work with someone who obviously behaved like that, the only way was for them to have a very good background which most of them didn't have.

He was focusing on his metal, it had turned to liquid in the furnace and he was about to bring it out and start smelting he was just waiting for the metal to get rid of some impurities.

He removed it from the furnace and poured it into a sword mold waiting for it to cool down a little, after some minutes it had solidified inside the mold.

After that, he carefully removed the sword from the mold, put it over the furnace, and began hitting.

Bang… bang… bang….

The sound of his hammer hitting the metal echoed through the coliseum.