It's been six months since Eldryn have awakened his fire affinity,his daily life during these six months were full of training the battle skills ,cultivation and on spare time taking care of the star petal seeds,he have also learned talisman from his aunt,as he is not having much talent in array compared to talisman he have decided to focus on talisman alone , meanwhile Nathan failed both in array and talisman.
As for the result in cultivation he have advanced to rank 1 star warrior in fire affinity but the time and space have not made much progress.
Year of EE 960051 , July month.
Today everyone in the villa walked towards the awakening arena as it's an ideal age for Amelia ,so Amelia can try to awaken her affinity seed through the affinity crystal.
The one overseeing the awakening this time was still Grey.
The awakening platform still had 3 sets of people grouped by age .
As they waited in Arena for the awakening of Amelia, Grey's voice echoed through the arena " Next , Amelia"
As Amelia walked towards the affinity crystal and placed her hands on top the star power stired slightly before Grey's voice echoed once again "Successful in awakening, Metal affinity"
"Congratulations, Amelia" said Eldryn, Nathan and their parents .
"Mom can we go and check whether the same merchant is their this time,so that we can buy those seeds"Eldryn asked his mother, as the seed he have planted before will start to bloom in two days.
"Yes, aunt I can also buy a gift for Amelia if there are any"Nathan said,as the town is very remote the awakening street during the awakening ceremony is the only thing that had the lot of stall which sells the items related to star warriors and a period where the town is full of energy,eventhough he is an 9th mercnary he only accept tasks inside the Town posted by rank 4 or rank 3 warriors .
After searching around the street, Eldryn saw the merchant who sold the seed and bought the seed of blaze, stoneheart, aqua, titanium and oakheart petal 25 each for 5 gold coins which is almost his allowance of these six months .
As Eldryn and Andrea walked towards their meeting point Amelia, Nathan, Emily and Andrew and Jonathan where waiting for them.
"Nathan what gift you bought Amelia that you have selected it with in 15 minutes"Eldryn asked Nathan as it might have taken less than 15 minutes for him and Andrea to buy the seed from the merchant and return here.
"Cough ,cough ,that.. it is we have came across a stall selling these seeds "As Nathan said he took out five types of seed and a scroll.
Nathan continued"You see I just had 20 gold coins remaining and buying gifts for Amelia with these small amount is really not possible, these are selected by Amelia not me "
Eldryn looked at Amelia who said with a smile" Cousin, this is the only thing that we can buy with 20 gold coins also these are 8th rank blaze, aqua, titanium, oakheart, stoneheart petal,So I thought this will be useful "
Eldryn looked at Nathan for a moment before he smiled at Nathan and took the seed and scroll"Fine since you have bought it I will help you plant them,oh right Nathan my 10 gold coins will be cleared"
"This .why not"Nathan tried to argue but
" then you can try to cultivate it" Eldryn said bluntly
"Ok" Nathan said with unwillingness
"Ha,ha,ha Eldryn this is how you should do business"Andrew said cheerfully and patted Eldryn shoulder.
Nathan looked at his father who is enjoying his misfortune and silently cursed him.
"Andrew you should change your habit, or else no one can save you from sister -in -law"Andrea said with a mischievous smile at Andrew who was enjoying at the misfortune of his son.
"Eldryn, Amelia we should go and register you guys in the mercnary hall, let's go " Seeing Emily who is staring at him Andrew changed the topic.
"Yes, we should go and register them in the mercnary hall and complete the procedure of joining, after that we should have special dinner for Amelia's awakening at our villa as I have captured a rank 2 star beast"Jonathan tried to shift topic .
"Uncle which rank 2 star beast it is " Nathan asked with a glee.
"It is wildfire rabbit"Jonathan replied
" Let's go, we should go early and prepare for dinner" Nathan excitement grew after learning it was wildfire rabbit.
As the group walked towards the main street where the mercnary hall is located.
"You guys can register in the front desk we will go and meet a friend and look if we can find any suitable tasks, Nathan help with the the registration of Eldryn and your sister and if it gets late for us to get out , you can also show them the mission board and find tasks suitable for you"Jonathan said as they turned to leave inside an inner hall .
The mercnary hall in the Seastone Town is divided into outer hall and inner hall and only rank 6 and above mercanries are allowed inside.
"Ok uncle " Nathan replied and said to Eldryn and Amelia "let's go "
As soon as they entered the front desk they were greeted by a professional female attendant "Welcome, how shall I help you"
Nathan pointed at Eldryn, Amelia and said"They need to register in the mercnary hall"
The attendant seeing Eldryn and Amelia was less than 5 years old took a grey crystal,if one wish to register in the mercnary hall one should have either awakened his/her affinity seed or should be above 10 years of age.
"You can place your hand on the crystal"the attendant said to Eldryn and Amelia.
Seeing the confusion in Eldryn and Amelia's face the attendant clarified " don't worry it will only show whether you have a affinity seed it won't show the number of elements and type"
After hearing this Amelia placed her hand on it which confirmed she has an affinity seed and following that Eldryn too was confirmed for having affinity seed.
"Can you please tell your full name" the attendant asked with a smile.
"Eldryn Emberheart"
"Amelia Thornfield"
"Ok , you can wait for 5 minutes till your Card gets ready before you can accept the tasks"
The attendant said after waiting for around 5 minutes the two where given a bronze token with number 9 and name at the front and 0 merit and 0 balance in the back.
Eldryn and Amelia looked at the token,Before the attendant could clarify Nathan said " The front side of the token shows your name and your mercnary rank as for the back side it will show the merits earned and merit remaining.
The merits earned will be displayed in the balance and once you have used your merit for resources or other things then it will decrease but the merits earned will not decrease."
"And once you have gathered 5000 merit points you can be promoted to rank 8 mercnary, you know what I have already gathered 3800 merit points " Nathan said with a proud .
Eldryn looked at the attendant for confirmation of Nathan's word who nodded and replied with a smile"Yes, what this young brother said is right, but to access it have to bind it with your blood and it can only be accessed by you through your star power."
Eldryn thought of something and asked " then what about mortal mercanries ?"
As the mercnary hall accepted the mortal 's then how will they access the token if it's only accessible using star power.
The attendant visibly suprised by his question said with a smile " of course we have different token for them, they where given two token with mother token kept in the mercnary hall, whereas the child token will be with the mercnary,and if he had an accident the merits will be given to his/her family "
Eldryn nodded and binded with the token after which the token turned completely white and after injecting little star power into the token it turned back to bronze , displaying his name and rank and after one minutes it turned back to white again.
"Thankyou" Eldryn thanked the attendant before they moved towards the mission board.
"Amelia, you can start to practice tomorrow , and we can come once you are able to control the star power and able to access the token and select a mission next week "Eldryn said to Amelia as he saw she was distracted since getting the token.
"Yes,yes Amelia you see Eldryn have waited 6 months to get the mercnary token, what does 1 week matter,and once your brother reaches rank 8 mercnary I will help you become rank8 mercnary before Eldryn " Nathan comforted Amelia as he looked towards Eldryn with a smile.
"Thank you Cousin, Thankyou brother " Amelia said.
"Right, Eldryn you can ask your Big brother for help if you can't complete your mission " Nathan said to Eldryn with a smile as he started dreaming about Eldryn calling him big brother.
"Nathan, can you Stop talking nonsense and take to the mission desk before our parents come from the inner hall"Eldryn said as he completely ignored Nathan's words.
Nathan with a defeated expression took Eldryn and Amelia to the mission board.