At the Awakening Stone Stele Square, a series of short dramas were unfolding.
Some were indifferent to the awakening, others showed bitterness on their faces, and still, others wailed and cursed in anguish. In short, the sorrows and joys of humanity were manifold and different.
An hour passed, and the first seven classes had finished their tests.
Apart from the twenty-six young boys and girls with Emblems inherited from their parents, two commoners had awakened — this number was significantly higher compared to the third middle school.
Feeling his heartbeat gradually accelerate, Lin Ke couldn't help but mock himself. Although he felt that he had adjusted his mindset over the years, and was very calm this morning, how could he not be nervous at this moment?
Claiming to be calm was nothing but a lie!
Emblems, transcendents, flying to the sky and burrowing into the ground, who wouldn't want that? Although the awakened ones have an obligation to defend humanity and fight against beasts, who wouldn't have expectations for the world of the divine pattern users?
Not to mention Lin Ke, even Wang Yan, who had been non-stop talking since the start, gradually became quiet.
Soon, it was the ninth class's turn.
The first student in the ninth class was named Situ Bo, who was also the class president.
Since the first year of high school, Situ Bo had been a prominent figure in the second middle school! The Situ family in Yunzhou state was a Emblem family with a king-level (eighth-order, Level 80+) powerhouse. Although Situ Bo's family had branched off as a collateral family hundreds of years ago, his surname, Situ, still held boundless power.
According to authoritative media reports, the Situ family mastered the most famous plant series Emblem Marks "Grass Mower" engraving method, which could grant the divine pattern users a terrifying attack amplification when inscribed on the divine patterns.
As everyone expected, a white light emanated from beneath Situ Bo, and a pale red light orbited him three times.
A third grade Emblem!
"Awesome." Wang Yan murmured enviously, "A third-grade Emblem hasn't appeared in our Yue City for several years, right? If the class president gets good attribute distribution in his Emblem Markss, will he be directly taken back for cultivation by the Situ main family?"
Situ Bo's awakening caused a small stir.
If it wasn't for the strict confidentiality rules, the uncle from Yuecheng University probably would have pulled Situ Bo aside for a lengthy discussion, interrogating him on the attributes of the divine seals within his fourth-order divine patterns.
A few minutes later, a girl named Tang Yuhan from the ninth class also awakened a sixth-grade Emblem Tang Yuhan's mother worked as a therapist in Yue City's Emblem Hospital; it seemed that Tang Yuhan inherited her Emblem from her mother.
To everyone's surprise in the ninth class, the sports committee member, usually called the Big Dragon by everyone, Zhang Long did not awaken any Emblems.
Standing under the awakening stone, Zhang Long's face turned ashen, and the classmates below were also shocked by this outcome.
"How could this happen, both of Dragon's parents have Emblems, the probability of awakening should be over ninety percent!"
"You just said over ninety percent, doesn't that still leave a less than ten percent chance of failure?"
"Am I the only one who thinks this is retribution? He was so arrogant, always bullying classmates, it's karma, haha."
"This really is... what to say, quite regrettable~"
"No way, no way, there can't really be people who think Zhang Long is pitiable, right?"
The surrounding voices could be summarized in one phrase — all being quite sarcastic.
Perhaps it was because Zhang Long had indeed been quite arrogant, offending many people. Originally, classmates dared not offend him thinking he would become a transcendent in the future, but now seeing his failure, they couldn't help but kick him while he was down.
But no one dared to provoke him openly. Even if Zhang Long failed to awaken, his parents were transcendents. If things escalated to a fatal point, there might be reservations, but teaching a lesson to ordinary people provoking him would be no difficulty.
Wang Yan was next in line after Zhang Long, belonging to the category of those who stepped onto the awakening stage while eating melon (being a spectator), then hurriedly came down to continue doing so.
"Ah, as expected, I'm not a child of destiny." Perhaps because Zhang Long's example was before him, Wang Yan quickly adjusted after failing to awaken.
After a few more people, it was Lin Ke's turn to go on stage.
Lin Ke slightly slowed his pace as he walked under the Awakening Stone Stele — if nothing unexpected happened, this would be his only close encounter with this mysterious stone stele in his lifetime.
It was a pity that mobile phones were not allowed on stage, otherwise, he really wanted to take a picture.
The mid-age man sent by Yue City University to assist with the awakenings signaled Lin Ke to stand in the middle position. After Lin Ke stood still, he was told not to move.
As the man chanted the spell for the nth time that day, the stone behind began to glow with a green light again.
The first flicker, nothing happened.
The second flicker, nothing happened.
Eight seconds passed just like that, and the light behind the stone stele was still green. There was no light enveloping Lin Ke's body, nor any red light rising.
As Lin Ke sighed softly in his heart, a sudden fluctuation occurred.
By the third flicker, Lin Ke suddenly felt a warmth in his chest. Before he could react, a white light illuminated from beneath his feet.
"I awakened an Emblem?"
"Holy shit!"
Next, a faint red light circled around Lin Ke seven times.
Seventh-grade Emblem!
"Young man, are both of your parents ordinary people?" The uncle asked after the flickering of the stele ended, to which Lin Ke nodded blankly.
"Not bad, welcome to apply to Yuecheng Emblem University next year."
It was only after he returned to where class 9 was located and faced countless eyes filled with various emotions that Lin Ke fully recovered from his initial shock.
"Ke boss, you are awesome!" Wang Yan exclaimed excitedly, seemingly a hundred times happier than Lin Ke.
Class president Situ Bo also came over and said with a smile, "Let's work hard together for the next year. Congratulations!"
Even Tang Yuhan, who rarely interacted with Lin Ke, greeted, "Congratulations."
Lin Ke scratched the back of his head, and all kinds of emotions and thousands of words converged into one sentence.
"It's, quite abrupt~"
After a round of warm and thoughtful greetings, Lin Ke finally had time to look at the Emblem, something that had frequently appeared on TV and in books before. The moment he awakened, he gained a lot of knowledge in his mind, mostly basic knowledge about controlling the Emblem.
At least he now knew how to "sink his consciousness into his mind," something profound and abstruse.
As his consciousness shifted, Lin Ke saw something in his mind.
It was a white sphere, with a few light purple scratches in the middle.
At the same time, Lin Ke received the information transmitted to him by the Emblem.
[Emblem Grade]: Seventh
[Emblem Attribute]: Thunder
[Emblem Level]: Level 10
[Innate Skill]: Activate "Heart Eye" for one minute after activating the Emblem, with a cooldown of one hour.
Synchronized with the awakening of the Emblem was information about the Emblem Marks that practitioners could engrave on the divine pattern. According to official news, every time an Emblem user's realm increased by one order, they could engrave an Emblem Mark.
[Available Emblem Mark Slots]: One
[Unopened Emblem Mark Slots]: Eight
The last part of the information was an explanation of the seventh-grade. The grade of the Emblem was related to the attribute restrictions of each engravable Emblem Mark; the lower the restriction, the higher the grade.
A seventh-order divine pattern has two unrestricted Emblem Mark slots and seven attribute-restricted Emblem Mark slots.
[Emblem Mark·Engraving Slot·One]: Thunder attribute
[Emblem Mark·Engraving Slot·Two]: Time attribute
[Emblem Mark·Engraving Slot·Three]: Steel attribute
[Emblem Mark·Engraving Slot·Four]: No attribute
[Emblem Mark·Engraving Slot·Five]: Water attribute
[Emblem Mark·Engraving Slot·Six]: No attribute
[Emblem Mark·Engraving Slot·Seven]: Thunder attribute
[Emblem Mark·Engraving Slot·Eight]: Thunder attribute
[Emblem Mark·Engraving Slot·Nine]: Time attribute
"What a quite mixed attributes!"