"Everyone please be quiet!"
"We will start calling you by names"
Head teacher shouted and looked at the excited crowd. He is hoping that this year there will be some good talents to be awakened and sent to mountains world. Otherwise they will not be able to get resources from the empire.
At this time one of the female students staring at everything with vigilance.
Her name is Su Yue, she is an orphan from slums yet because of awakening the ability to be able to go to the mountains world, she is accepted to the school. She doesn't have any relatives and friends. Although she is very beautiful, somehow she managed to hide herself from others. She always thought that she should protect herself since she has no backing nor family or relatives.
Her beauty was really a problem. In this world, society has rules but still not everyone will be subjected to these rules. In this world rules are in the hand of strong.
She thought that if one day she might be seen by those people with bad intensions, she will be miserable. She hidden herself and became ordinary, only coming to school and going back home.
Fortunately she has awakened mountain lord rune and today after awakening she will be able to go there. If lucky she will gain freedom and power, unlucky well...
In this wold people has supernatural powers called talents. Everyone other than mountain lords who has reached to the age of sixteen can awaken talents naturally. Talents are divided into nine grades.
First grade talents are weakest and ninth grade talents are strongest. It has been said that there are talents above ninth grade yet the empire where Su Yueli lived has not seen such talents. Even ninth grade talent has not appeared in Great Wu Empire, she only heard this is available to bigger empires. So in time people started to accept this talent system.
Talents can be several types. Elemental type, Rule type, Power type, summon type and unclassified talents.
People with unclassified talents cannot be calculated based on grades. Because these talents powers can be looking first grade at first but can explode with fifth grade or higher powers or they can be seventh grade looking yet only has first grade power. It can be good or it can be bad.
People with these kinds of talents are actually very rare. Because it is about same as seeing an eight or ninth grade talent.
Cultivation realms are also divided. Mainly stars three lower realms, moons middle three realms and suns upper three realms. These are Star gathering realm, Star master realm, Star lord realm, Moon ancestor Ream, Moon Monarch Realm, Moon Sovereign Realm, Sun Venerable Realm, Sun Saint Realm and Sun Emperor Realm.
Talent level decides your cultivation speed.
And mountain lords. They are the most elite kind. They have the ability to go to the mountains world.
Mountains world has been known for a hundred years and it has been discovered that this world is alive. It has a mind like an intelligent program and communicates with its residents like one.
A hundred years ago this mountains world opened a space channel to the Stars World and can only be accessible to the people who carries mountains rune.
Mountains rune given to people by mountains world and why these people are specifically chosen, it is still unknown.
People with mountains rune enters mountains world and try to survive, build their own mountain sects, cultivate their people and the most importantly hunt for treasures.
These treasures have various uses such as cultivation speed, longevity, beautifying etc. Aside from these, there are also treasures which can awaken secondary talents. Yet these are acquired talents which can reach highest fifth rank talent. Even third rank awakening treasure is priceless moreover fourth or fifth rank.
In Star World these resources are scarce and they have been long been excavated. Yet in mountains world these are abundant. This makes mountain lords advance very quickly.
There has been attempts to transfer rune from one person to another yet mountains world is very intelligent so these people eradicated when entering mountains world. Since that time everyone became honest.
At the age of sixteen mountain lords will not awaken their talents by themselves. They need to touch a talent steele. These talent steeles are given by mountains world and they are given to the people when they have more than fifty mountains world rune carrying peoples.
Because of this there are several human collectives made. Such as schools, sects, army etc. Aside from these orthodox human groups there are also gangs and like but these people are hunted by the empires.
Today is the awakening day of mountain lords' talents. Everyone is nervous because awakening a good talent will make their development faster and more stable. Bad talents generally won't last long.
A Mountain Lord must have strength to cope with various challenges. Firstly after invincibility period ends, their strength must enough to defeat monster invasion. If strength is not enough they will forcibly teleported out of mountains world just before dying and their mountains rune will be erased.
Secondly, after a year of stay, if they are killed in mountains world, they will literally die. There is no teleportation.
Thirdly, Mountains World is very cruel. Other mountain lords will challenge you after a year and will want to take over your mountain. If strength is not enough you can abandon mountain or death.
There are more reasons for the need of strength.
So today will determine their fate as mountain lords.
Generally mountain lords of first and second rank talents will give up after their one year period. These lords generally will make an agreement with several companies. The things they get on their stay will be given free of charge to company in exchange for mountain lord's cultivation to reach fifth rank star master realm.
Companies will send executives from mountains world and their protection will be guaranteed.
People with good talent will also be approached.
Just their treatment is different. They will be given contracts for joining alliances. They will also get resources for development and they just need to sell them when they need to sell something. Also they must follow the rules of the alliance.
This situation doesn't mean that if you don't join an alliance you will not survive. There are many people without an alliance and they survive better than those with alliance. This depend on their luck and strength. Because mountains world has endless possibilities.
"Wang Yuan, Zheng Fei, Wei Cui, Gu Yuan and Lin Yan. Come here" Head teacher read names.
First five students go to the testing place and put their hands on talent steeles. There are five in total for two hundred and fifty waiting mountain lords.
"Wang Yuan, flame eagle talent, fire element of third rank"
"Zheng Fei, Giant mammoth talent, Power type fifth rank"
"Wei Cui, Water snake talent, water element type second rank"
"Gu Yuan, Thunder Bird talent, thunder element type fourth rank"
"Lin Yan, plant growth speed increased %20, rule type second rank"
Zheng Fei is the most happy. Fifth rank talent is very rare in the city they live. It can be counted with one hands. Besides he is from a prominent family so his future is stable.
Lin Yan is also very happy. Even though he will not be a strong man in the future, everyone is sure that Lin Yan will get a good deal from companies. He might reach peak Star master or even star lord in a year.
This plant growth type rule talents are highly sought after by companies after all.
The worst one is Wei Cui. Second rank talent is not very good but at least better than first rank trash.
One by one names are continued to read and talents are awakened.
Most powerful one is from City Lords daughter Bai Xuebing. She has ice maiden of sixth rank talent. She is very beautiful yet has a cold temperament. She is very similar to Su Yue in this aspect. She has no friends.
Then it came to Su Yue's turn of testing.
"Ding Fei, Zhu Bai, Zhou Yu, Su Yue, Yun Zhang"
Five people including Su Yue came to testing platform and put their hands on talent steeles.
Immediately four of the fives show various colors yet Su Yue's didn't show any.
This made examiner very surprised.
This is interesting. There is an unidentified talent.
"Ding Fei, Earth Bear talent, earth element type of fourth rank"
"Zhu Bai, Dark Wood talent, dark plant special type of fifth rank"
"Zhou Yu, Light Bulb talent, Light type of first rank"
"Su Yue, unidentified talent, undefined rank"
"Yun Zhang, dragon soldier talent, power type of fifth rank"
Everyone stayed quiet. This situation is very rare. They took out their phones and started to take pictures. Even the first grade light bulb is forgotten to mock.
Unidentified talent. This is rare as phoenix feathers. This person is either doomed or take of. No one is sure.
Even companies won't bother this person. These people's talent sometimes can be self harming to themselves and the people close to them. Even though this situation rare amongst these rare people it can happen.
Some times they might awaken monster attracting or luck destroying talents. Then company staff may die.
So no one get close to Su Yue. Everyone stayed far away.
Su Yue's lips twitched.
Why this has to happen to her?
Even with weakest talent she can get some power to stay in this world.
Now she is literally alone.
One of the company employee is the most outrageous.
He shouted from afar "Miss Su if your talent is okay you can contact us after invincibility period. We can make a deal at that time based on your situation"
Su Yue said to herself 'Then why are you talking that far. Am I carrying some disease ?'
"Yes I will contact you based on situation." Still, Su Yue answered politely.
After that awakening continued and no one above fifth rank came.
"As expected of Miss Bai Xuebing. She is beautiful and very talented her future will be stable. I wonder who she will marry in the future."
"If City Lord is not an idiot she will marry in her Bai Family. This kind of talent won't be given to others."
"That Su Yue, I do not know what her talent will be. Maybe she will surpass Bai Xuebing. "
"I do not think so she has no family or any power to rely on. If even her talent isn't bad, it shouldn't be something too powerful. I think she will return after at most one year."
"Yes you are right. These unidentified people are maybe cursed. Just stay away. If she has a bad talent she wouldn't be able to live a normal life either."
"Yes it is better to stay away"
Su Yue and Bai Xuebing have became the most talked topic amongst the people.
"Now those who wanted to make contracts, You have one hour. Others can activate their runes and enter mountains world. After entering you can make yourselves familiar with environment. Mountain Lord test will start in two hours."
One third of people directly entered to mountain world.
Su Yue looked at other people o e last time and decided to enter too. Because she knows that she won't be getting any deal without knowing what her talent is.
After her rune activated it started to glow. And after a short pause she has been teleported to mountains world.
Su Yue felt like a hammer hit her in the head. She felt dizzy.
She tried to calm herself down and opened her eyes.
Even though she knows what she will see, she is still very shocked.
This world is too beautiful.
There are three suns in the sky and she can see two moons. Several bigger planets can also be seen i the sky. When you look down you will see endless mountain ranges in the distance with clouds covering on them. Even though they looked close Su yue knows that even with flight closest one is one day distance at least.
There are endless forests, several lakes can also be seen.
She thought that this place must be heaven.