"Your name is Amon? Right?" Elder Yin asked
"Eh? Yeah" Amon snapped out of his thought, he was thinking about something after hearing Elder Red's words.
"No Surname?"
"I don't have one, I am an orphan" said Amon.
"Oh…" Elder Yin nodded
"I think you understand what does it meant to awoken seven stars… no one knew about it, I don't think anyone in this world had awoken that before, and we don't know much about other worlds," the Elder who sat beside him said, he was already thinking something.
Other Elders nodded as Amon was silent.
"Tell us your background," asked Elder Red
"My background? As I said, I am just from an orphanage. Good in fighting and killing, I like few others too, but those are not important"
"Killing?" they looked at him, they knew anyone who would come to awakening would be between 12 to 16.
"What is your age?"
"13," said Amon
"…"
"Amon… I think I heard this name from my disciple before, you are the one who helped King Leo conquer the Great Yin Domain, right?" Elder Vakira remembered hearing his name before.
"Yes, he was my friend"
"Can you tell us something about it?" Elders asked him, they wanted to know a few things about him so they could decide what to do with him.
Amon was silent, he was thinking of something
"Since Elders asked I will say, my orphanage is not too far from King Diabalo Palace. Diabalo Leo used to sneak out to the orphanage to play with us when we were kids. As we grew together, he once said he wanted to become king and conquer the whole Great Yin Domain, Diabalo Kingdom is just a part of the Great Yin Domain, so he wanted to rule all of it…
It happened when I was 8 years old and when I didn't have any dream or anything, so I took his dream as mine and decided to help him, since that day we both worked harder. Not physically, but mentally, we controlled all Sons and Daughters of King Diabalo and his wives except Leo's mother and his sister. When I reached 9 years old, we took over the military, high priests, and all the big ones in the kingdom.
One day we took over thrown by imprisoning king… the story continues like this, one by one we took over the Great Yin Domain in 2 years, I trained my small body to its limit, and it was a point it even break the limit, that was why I was able to kill the most enemies in war, in 2 years I was in 70 wars. Killed over two hundred thousand people" said Amon like he was telling them a story, but it was his life before 2 years. He took 2 years to break from everything and came to Awakening Tower to awaken his stars.
"That is… not bad," Elders said, they didn't expect this kid would do something like this when he was just 8 years old? What if he learned Soul Focus… Star Essenes… Healing Power… he did all those things relying on his own brain and brutally training his body.
"I got it… let's talk about the symbol that appeared behind you now," Elder Red said and took out the paper and placed it in the middle of the table.
Amon came a little forward and looked at the symbol, he couldn't see it before, he only knew there were seven stars.
"What a complex symbol, it has too many lines, circles, and all, it is almost like it had all kinds of shapes in it" Elder Lin Feng said after looking at it for a long time.
"Indeed" they agreed, they saw circles, triangles, hexagons, etc. In just a single symbol… or think of it as a diagram.
"I…" Elder Yin who was in front of Amon closed his eyes, he felt something inside his body started to change after looking at the diagram for a long time.
"What happened?" other Elders and Amon looked at him.
Elder Yin was silent…
"He is cultivating now?"
Amon was shocked too, he never heard someone could cultivate this easy and anywhere!
"Let's wait for him, I don't think he would take much time, this place won't have any Star Essence" Elder Lin Feng said, she was not worried about anything.
"Looks like not only Elder Yin, Elder Red has also entered enlightenment" they looked at the Elder Red, her eyes were also closed.
Elder Vakira took his stick out from his personal space.
"I will try to gain enlightenment too, this drawing has some magic in it," he said and stood up, even though he was old and all, he was far from dying.
"Yeah, I will try too" other two Elders also nodded and placed their hopes on the symbol, enlightenment was not something everyone would get, once a person could only enter enlightenment once or a maximum of 3 times in their lifetime.
Amon looked at them doing what they want, the Elder Vakira placed his stick on the drawing and started to chant a mantra...
Elder Lin Feng sat cross-legged in the middle of the air and was picturing the diagram in her mind.
And the last Elder who was sitting beside Amon just looking at the diagram without blinking.
'What are there guys doing… should I do something too?' Amon thought and looked at the diagram, but even after staring at it for 5 minutes, he didn't feel anything.
"Oof" he sighed and looked at the Elders who already entered that so called enlightenment. All five of them.
'Why I can't do it… well, I think I shouldn't compare myself with them yet. I first need to cultivate' Amon closed his eyes and tried to remember how to cultivate.
'Everyone who awoken the star can cultivate since I had awoken them, I can cultivate too… but that is very hard, and wait…. Elder Lin Feng said there is no Star Essence to cultivate'
Cultivation was not that easy, the important thing to cultivate first was Star Essence, which was also known as World Energy. Cultivating means taking the world's energy and making it your own. However, Star Essence was hard to find, it exists in the air, and no one could see it or touch it, but not everywhere in the world, Great Yin Domain didn't have Star Essence, it was A Domain filled with mortals and people with Stars on their limbs.