A feeling of foreboding and DeJa'Vu wash through Enki's body as he waits below the platform. The tall instructor beckons him forward up to the podium and to the crystal testing device. He gently pulls his sleeves back and places his hands onto the crystal ball, a warm feeling spreads through his hands and up into his arms. It continues on up into his heart and from there cycles into every part of his body, it feels like a warm gentle massage and his muscles and bones groan in ecstasy from the gentle current of mana flowing through them.
He looks below his hands, and the ball is lit up yellow which he doesn't know what that could possibly mean as he stopped his studies at the age of ten. "You have a standard level spirit root. In the future you should be able to reach the realm of a Warrior or with ridiculously challenging work the realm of a Knight is possible. No sect leaders rushed forward to claim him as in his dream and as with the boy before him.
He would have to wait until the end of the awakening when the sects would pick lots to determine who would select disciples and in what order as well. Slowly as time went by it was already several hours later than when he had arrived. Shortly after testing he had met a handful of people who introduced themselves to him, but he failed to remember their names. If he needed to remember them in the future, he would but for now he could care less. All of them ate at the food stands in the city center.
Finally, an announcement was made from the podium, everyone turned to look at the seven major sects as well as all the other minor sects gathered around several newly created sects were present as well giving the lower spirit root cultivators hope! "Attention, Attention, all newly awakened return to the podium for the sect selection process!" The announcement was repeated two more times over a five-minute period.
Once everyone was lined up around the podium the sect leaders gazed out at the crowd ready to pick their newest disciples. However, one sect leader Ran Botan noticed something strange about one of the others. "Tang Bao, when did your cultivation advance? You've been stuck at the tenth level of the Prism realm yet suddenly you're at the first level of the Ascension realm! Did you have a fated encounter?" Sect leader Tang Bao grins wickedly at him with his sharp teeth. "I suppose you can say that." He didn't add anything else to this statement.
Several disciples had already been selected by other sects and it was quickly their turn to select them, as leaders of two the largest sects, they had to choose cultivators with strong spiritual roots! Needless to say, someone like Enki would never even fall on their radar. They quickly select from the cream of the crop disciples, all of the other sects continue to select disciples except for one…
In a corner of the podium the newly founded Dragon Buster sect stood silently watching the selection. As a new sect they could only select once the first four hundred out of five were selected and they could only choose one disciple to invest their time and resources of the sect into. Soon more than three hundred and seventy of the boys had been selected and still no one had even taken a second glance at Enki with his standard grade spirit root not to mention he was homeless, and his family had abandon him so he had no backing to speak of.