Assion Ceremony.
What we tell about the said event?
Not much to be ho. One goes to a weird crystal ball, touch it, and sees if something happens.
"If you have magical energy dormant in your soul. Usually, you will uand how to use it, and it will be as if you are waking up from a long dream. So we call it Awakening to gain magical powers" said the teacher in charge of this event.
She looked like a woman in her forties, if Elizabeth didn't spend time with her mother and her friends she wouldn't notice her magical heritage either. If one paid attention it was easy to notice. The slightly pointed ears, the weird shine on her eyes...
The way her nose ointy without being out of pce...
"Psst...I think our teacher is a witch..." said the pink-haired girl to her left...
"What makes you think so?" asked the blonde girl, w whie of the points her friend had noticed. She was starting to doubt if she was indeed an airhead, and this was a good ce to test the waters.
"I mean, who else would dress in a long flowing robe and would use a pointed hat," said with all the fiden the world her new friend...
And just like that, all the reasons why her friend wasn't an airhead went out of the window "Yeah, you might be into something" was all that she could say.
"Oher hand," said the drill sergeant who was, iy, a crazy old man.
"If you have a special power hidden in your soul. Then you will feel like something is suddenly being turned on. So we call it a Trigger or 'Triggering' to said event. You will uand how ter it on' or 'Trigger it off' after experieng it. " She kinda thought it would have a more ih expnation.
But as her father said, you 't expin powers to a nonpowered individual, not even magical entities could uand the powers and their meics. They tried.
That art of the reason why powered men married magical girls after all. Or why Magical Guardians married pirls.
Not that they called themselves magical guardians, but most of the male magic users called themselves wizards or warlocks or something akin to that.
Like how ical girls called themselves witches and stopped using frilly dresses and used robes like that teacher.
She hoped Mother would do the same soon enough...
But in Mother's words...Only a magical girl without talent does that. If you could rejuvenate your skin and body. Why wouldn't you do so?
So most of the witches either didn't have the talent or couldn't afford to pay ical Girls to cast the spell...
"We will start calling you and you will gh the Assion Ceremony, you will get several ces to do this. So even if you don't get anything out of this trial. Don't despair, you could still awaken er without this ceremony," said the wit a sweet torying to dismiss the worried faces around.
She didn't succeed, ces ter would diminish with age (Without dao your life at least) and ces to Awaken would diminish faster (Unless you sold your soul to a demod that is).
After 20 years it was almost impossible to awaken a magical talent, and while you could trigger...No one wao intern under someone youhan themselves.
Sering after 20 meant going solo. And solo heroes...don't live long.
But this doesn't matter to Elizabeth!
Even if she awakened ered she would pretend that nothing happe all!
"Now if you Awaken, a magical circle will form on the wall, we will then give you your new badge and move you to the right csses" crap. Was there something like that?
What about privacy?
"We will not show your affinity nor i school of magic for privacy reasons, but we had to add this sine people cimed to have awakened before" Oh...Yeah, she kinda could see how that worked.
But it was still okay!
That only ruined half of her pns, now if she could secure a trigger event. Theend that nothing happened...
"And if yer, the thing will project a light. Depending oype of power, the emblem will reflect it. Sorry, but your type of power will be the csses you take, so even if we only showed a sword emblem everyone would know the type of power you have," added the sergeant from hell.
Ruining her hopes and dreams.
"It's okay Eli-Eli. I'm sure you will awaken! ...er!... Dunno what one you want, but you will make it!" said the pink-haired girl trying to soothe her worries.
To be ho she just wao get it over with...
"See you oher side!" said the pink haired before running away, it seemed that she had some social wits since she noticed how futile her attempts were and decided to run away.
Calm down Elizabeth Starbright. Let's think this through first.
The ces ering are way too low without a ic event or the threat of death. So ces ter aren't that high, to begin with.
ces to awaken are lower si depends mainly on one's ialent to either feel or manipute mana. So unless you make a tract with a magical entity to increase your mana manipution's you will never awaken, and even if you do, if you don't have the talent it's meaningless either way, since you he extra talent to deal with Mana.
That's why Magical users are a premium in the powered unity. While powered are more popur if they are a tinker css because they are even rarer as a powered with a specialization on crafting and advang teology, even if half the time their power is the one doing the heavy lifting on the creation.
Of course, you be a magical user without triggering, you only o make a deal with a magical user. Most of the sed geion of magical users in the world are in that category anyway.
"I DID IT!!!" came the scream from the crystal ball. Did someone mao awaken er?
"I DID IT ELI-ELI!" ....Of course, the pink-haired girl would awaken, the power of that pink head was a dreadful thing.
"YOU DO IT TOO ELI-ELI!" et tu Rosalina?
"Student Rosalina, calm down, your friend will e soon enough, go to reschedule the csses you will need," said the witch teacher trying to sound calm. Not much success on that, since she mao get a udent with the right type of magic it seems.
Since she didn't show aion to the other awakeners it seems her pink-haired friend had either the right type of attu or a higher-than-normal talent.
Judging by her pink hair and now pink eyes, it robably both.
"Elizabeth Starbright, it's your turn" Well...Time to get this out of the way...
What's the worst that happen?
Teach's POV
Not a bad batch overall, 1ered, 5% awakened and among them, one magical girl with an A-Grade talent wasn't a bad start.
The powers were weaker overall, but a B-Css Strength type was a good powerset. Easy to teach too, so John could have some fun with that.
Most of the kids were crapping their pants and that was fun to see. The pirl that got called out was aion to this though.
She looked calm, and he could swear she almost looked a her friend for singling her out. What was that about?
Her name was...Oh, she got marked by John as a promising cadet?
"Elizabeth Starbright, your tur's see how she deals with pressure.
For her part, the girl didn't bat a being called out.
So that's why John marked her huh?
Judging by the name she has some heavy powers behind her. A quick sear her file and...
S#it.
It's the daughter of those psychos...
Please be normal, please be normal, please be normal.
"Just rex, touch the crystal and it will be all automated" First time in my career as an educator that I don't advise this trial.
But you 't bme me!
No way in hell I will be responsible for teag the daughter of those psychos!
Last time someone eveiohe possibility of their sons being normals he disappeared!
At least this kid looks normal enough...Who am I kidding...
HOW IS THAT A NORMAL HIGH SCHOOL GIRL?
The girl walked like nothing and her poise was that of an experienced soldier!
She looked mesmerizing enough that half of the kids that were shitting their pants now were entranced with her looks!
If I didn't know her parents I would be too, to be ho...
"Will my parents know the result of this test?" asked the girl, she didn't look that nervous, but a kid is a kid in the end I guess?
"Yrade of awakening ering will be private, no o you will know it" And if it were someone else then the result itself would be private too. But her parents would know...It would be a surprise if they weren't watg right now.
"Good enough I guess..." said the girl and without a warning she pced her delicate hand on the crystal ball...
And then...All hell broke loose.
Back to normal POV...
Status
Name: Elizabeth Starbright
Title: The Ior of the Akashic Records
Alias: None
Level: 1
Health: 100%
Mana: 100%
Stamina: 100%
Stress: 30%
Strength: 8
stitution: 3
Agility: 7
Dexterity: 12
Intelligence: 15
Wisdom: 5
Charisma: 22
Magic in: Shadow Weaver
Magic Spells Slotted: 0/10
Magic Circles Slotted: 0/10
Skills:
- Status
- Identify
- Iory
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Well...That didn't go as pnned.
"Say... we nister this and pretend nothing happened?" asked the blonde girl while hopefully looking at the witd the crazy old man.
For their part, they also looked astounded somehow.
"I wish we could..." answered the witch.
"Yeah, not happening," said sternly the crazy old man.
"Had to try..." said our poonist, now why they weren't keen on keeping this hidden you ask?
If she were a betting girl then she would say that it might have something to do with the fact of what happened wheouched the ball...
If we dial the time a few seds into the past it would be easier.
When she came in front of the crystal sphere she nontly touched said ball, as soon as she did so she felt as if time slowed to a crawl, this was the first reasohought something was going really wrong. Then it all started to happen, all that her mother told her would happen if she ever got summoo another world and someone was one of those cursed existences...Protagonists...
First, the damned ball started shining as if it was the sed ing of the Messiah. That would mean she had triggered...And what a trigger am I right? It all would be normal enough, nothing that would qualify as a 'Protagonist event'... At least till the stupid crystal projected a magical circle above her head...And it was the most plex magical manda she had ever seen in her life... And she lived with one if not the first magical emissary in this world...
At least it was only projected for a few seds, same with the stupid shining ball, so she thought to herself 'Maybe no oiced and I say it was a fsh bang? ' but such thoughts were crushed when she looked to the witch...Who was looking straight at where the overly plex manda was. That was a no.
So she would pretend to be a magical girl...Or so she nning at least till she noticed how the crazy old man was looking to where her hand was h, looking at where the crystal used to be.
So both teachers knew she had the necessary skills for both of their courses...
Yeah...At least most of the students didn't look like they noticed the shining ball, so maybe they didn't notice?
"YOU DID IT ELI-ELI YOU ARE A MAGICAL GIRL!" screamed the bane of her existehe pink-haired girl.
"Yep, a totally new magical girl and nothing else here..." said the blonde girl deg to stick to only one side, poor Papa.
"e gotta adjust your schedule to add..." started say the crazy old man still somewhat fbbergasted.
"All the necessary magical css, true. I will look into it with my new and only teacher" said the blonde girl cutting the crazy old man. Sorry, but not going to study both courses.
"Oh...Right, and we o add..." said the witch...This bitch didn't catch up on her?
"Right, gotta add some normal csses in the pce of the powered csses I used to have, ch teach" Did she cat to it finally?
Judging by the someologizing look she was giving to the crazy old man that was looking down it seems she caught on to it.
Now...How do I deal with this ominous blue s that keeps h in front of me...
Sino oions it, it seems no one see it?
Did Mother mention something like this iories?
Ugh...Time to call Mama I guess.....
