"Wake up Liam !!"
No, let me sleep for a bit more.
"LIAM ! HURRY OR WE WILL BE LATE!!"
What do you mean by that, we are in an orphanage girl, the only thing we have to do is cleaning all day, there's nothing here to be late for.
"If you don't wake up, we will seriously leave you behind for the blessing ceremony!!"
Wait... Blessing? Oh fu- "ck naaaa !!"
"Whaaa?!" Mira exclaimed as she stepped back from my bed as I jumped out of my bed.
"WHAT TIME IS IT?!" I asked urgently as I looked at Mira and... "The carriage will leave in half and half so get ready qui-" Before she could finish tho, Liam was gone... "-ckly"
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"Thankfully, I made it on time." I said as I walked out of the orphanage, there were around 40 kids there, most around my age, but around a fourth were like 10 year olds.
Meaning that almost all those that are going to receive the blessing have arrived and... "Brother, I wanna come too, I-I don't wanna stay alone?" Alex said to me as I was boarding my carriage.
To be honest, I really want to bring him with me and not leave him back at orphanage alone but... "No," I said looking at him. "Its against the rules Alex." I said as I rubbed his hairs again, I kinda like doing it.
"Maybe next time," I said as he signed lightly, "Okay," Alex said, a bit dejected as he looked down while I looked at the locket around his neck.
"I will bring you something good again..."
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"Hey Liam, what kind of blessings you wanna recieve?" Mira asked me, as I raised an eyebrow.
"Well, I will be happy with probably anything, I guess?" I said as she pouted, "Boring..." She said, "Anyways, I want to receive all four element blessings but... I guess I will be okay with even 2? I will get atleast that right, I mean, everyone says god prefer good people of bad?"
Well, I guess she kinda right but... "Do you want be a mage?" I asked as I raised an eyebrow and she proudly puffer her chest, "Of course I want to!! I wanna be a mage so I can become rich too,vthey say every mage is rich!!!"
I see, so that's the reason huh... I thought as I looked at Jay beside us, there were others in the carriage too but I wasn't particularly close to them.
"Me?" He said, as if understanding what I meant while I nods, "Well, I want to be a magic swordsman," He said and... "Damn, don't you need blessings of Sword for that?!" Mira said, jumping in our conversation.
"Yes..." Jay said as both of them kept talking about each other.
There are a total of 6 gods in this world, 4 elemental gods of Water, Earth, Wind and Fire... With God of War and Weapons as fifth god and lastly, God of Craft and forging.
Normally, the God of Crafting doesn't bless a human except sometimes in a few decades due to reasons unknown but all other gods are quite fair to all... humans or not.
When you turn 5, you can recieve blessings from all these gods, if they deem you fit, there is no limit to the blessings you can recieve but no one have received more than 5 in the history.
In this era, there are only around 20 people on human continent who have 4 blessings, and 3 with 5... All top of the human hierarchy.
Anyways, this is all for the first blessings, but when you turn 10 and decide on if you want to be a mage, swordsman or so on, you can try recieving your second blessing which the god can either reject or not.
An example of this is, if you have Water, Fire and Sword blessings and you want to be a dual magic swordsman, you can try to recieve that blessing and the gods can strengthen your blessings as such.
Like, god of Weapons and Water can bless you again, strengthen that blessing and tie them together but God of fire rejected that... You will still able to use fire mana but it will never be able to cross beginner level nor will you able to use it in your sword art with is deeply tied with Water.
Lastly, Blessings are divided in 3 levels, Low, High and Apostle... Most people receive Low at 5 which can be made High when you turn 10.
Through if you get High as your First Blessing, there's a chance that you can get Apostle Level Blessing...
Of course that's just blessing as you are not really a god's Apostle, the rank was just what human made to give the cheat like blessing a different status.
That's all about the blessings and how they work and...
"Oh, we are here!" Someone in the carriage said while looking out of the window as I too looked outside... It was massive.
Easily the biggest building I had ever seen. The cathedral looked like something straight out of a dream or a fantasy book.
It was a tall monument, almost touching the sky like it didn't care about the rules of this world.
White stone walls, shining in the sunlight, stretched endlessly to the sides and giant towers that rise from each corner, with golden tips that sparkled like stars.
The main gate alone was bigger than our whole orphanage, carved with detailed drawings of angels, swords, and wings. Some of them looked so real, I felt like they might move any second.
The garden around it was full of white flowers, with stone paths, clean fountains, and statues of saints. Everything looked so clean, so perfect, as if even the air itself is pure.
"Its beautiful," I muttered as I stepped out of the carriage followed by Jay, "It really is..." He said equally in awe as me and as for mira? Well, she was so memorized that she didn't even open her mouth.
"So you kids are here at last," The director said, as he slowly approached us as I looked down, my memory of that day and even the day after are a bit blurry, but from few bits and pieces of what I remember, I know it's a good thing.
'I hate him,' I thought to myself, the hatred was so much that even I was suprised, as how could someone hate a person so much, fighting every second against the urge to just jump on him, and stick a knife down his throat.
'I shouldn't,' I thought, shaking out the disturbing thoughts that appeared in my mind.
I should focus on other things to distract myself, maybe that will help.
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