Kai was an orphan who had never met his parents and had no knowledge of his past. His entire life was spent traveling from one place to the next as the orphanage he grew up in would do so in order to keep the children under their care safe and healthy.
He was never mistreated and was even given the same education as all of the other children, but he was always different and was never able to connect with the others.
One day, while playing hide and seek with his siblings, he was playing the role of seeker and found an area that the matron of the orphanage would often go into the woods. The area he found was an area that was usually off-limits to them, but Kai was never the best at following orders, and so, he wandered in the direction that the matron usually went and saw her kneeling before a strange rock.
The rock seemed to be a type of crystal or gemstone as it shimmered with an unnatural light.
The matron was looking into the crystal and chanting strange words that Kai couldn't understand, but he watched as she placed her hands upon the crystal and began to channel a strange, golden power into the crystal. The crystal absorbed the strange power and suddenly, the area around Kai seemed to be enveloped in a bright, golden light that made his head spin.
Kai woke up in his bed and felt as though the night was merely a dream, but he quickly realized that wasn't the case. The first thing he noticed was the strange screen floating in the air before him.
─ System Initializing...
─ Creating user profile...
─ Detecting Stats
─ Detecting Traits
─ Scanning for Skills
─ User Kai has been detected!
─ Welcome to the demon awakening system!
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As Kai read the text that appeared before him, he was shocked to learn that the world he had grown up in was not the world that he had once thought it to be. In his world, there were those who were gifted with the power of mana, but he had never heard of anything like the demon awakening system.
"What is the demon awakening system?" Kai asked out loud.
A new screen appeared before him, and the text upon it was the same monotonous text that was present on the other screens, but this time the text was accompanied by a moving image of a man transforming.
The man was a young man who wore a cloak that seemed to be made of leaves. The man was standing in a dark cave, with the sound of bats chirping overhead and the sight of stalactites and stalagmites forming a large column of natural stone.