Jacques opened the window, felt the wind blowing across his face, and remembered a word: "Eight winds of source energy".

Jacques's thoughts went back to Mr. Lamy's basic course on source energy when he first entered the public school a few years ago: "The eight winds of source energy are said to be as common as the wind in our world, and the source energy has eight attributes, fire, water, air, earth, nature, light, darkness, and chaos, everyone can perceive the source energy like the wind, and animals and plants will too."

The eight attributes are combined to form Source Energy, the Awakened and the Shaper can use one-eighth of one source energy if they master one of the source energy, and the grandmaster who masters two source energy attributes can use a quarter of the source energy. Animals and plants that awaken the source energy attribute are called alien beasts and spirit plants. ”

"Hey, teacher, I'm sorry for you, I caused you to lose money in yesterday's gambling game. Jacques felt a hint of guilt.

After the establishment of the empire, Western Sahara established public schools in various cities and towns, where the children of the common people could learn literacy, mathematics, and the basics of energy at a very low fee. Universal education gave the children of the common people a greater chance of becoming extraordinary, while the aristocratic families and wealthy classes would opt for private teachers or private schools.

The most important day of the year in every city with an obelisk is Awakening Day on September 1, when all 12-year-olds in and around the city can be tested in front of the obelisk. Those who pass the test will have the right to enter the obelisk to participate in the Awakening Ritual, awaken the Source Energy attribute, and enter the transcendent first stage: the Awakened.

The children of the nobility do not need to take the test, they can directly participate in the Awakening Ritual with the recommended quota that the family has enjoyed for generations. The nobility could give the children of their servants as an incentive or sell them to the wealthy nouveau riche.

A teenager who becomes an Awakened through the ritual will be eligible for admission to the Source Energy Academy. The content taught in the Source Energy Academy is the skills, knowledge, and combat methods of the transcendental, whether it is a noble, a wealthy class, or a commoner, the Awakened are all promoted to the realm of the Shaper through the education of the Academy.

Jacques Leno has always been a top student in Docklands public schools with his lovely smile, bright mind and strong physique.

The teachers believed that Jacques's talent would be eligible to participate in the Awakening Ritual at the age of 12 and become transcendent. If he was born into a noble family, maybe the family would have found a way to inspire him to awaken before the age of ten, and the nobles have a lot of secret skills about the source energy in addition to the family heirloom source energy skills.

But the teachers didn't know which source energy attribute he would awaken. For this reason, the teaching director sat in the bank, and several young teachers who were source energy awakeners opened a gambling game with a gambling amount of up to two silver coins.

After some careful calculations, Lao Cheng's math teacher said: "In view of the fact that little Jacques has not shown any attribute traits, Old Renault is an ordinary person who has not awakened the source energy attribute, so in addition to the chaos system, he may awaken the other seven series of source energy attributes." One in seven probability!I won't risk my two silver coins!500 riel, I can only press so much!" He placed five notes on the long table in the faculty room. "500 liel, which is equivalent to half a silver coin, I will suppress the source energy attribute of the little Jacques Awakening Qi system!"

Jacques collapsed into the seat of the steam car, reminiscing about the long yesterday in the bumpy car.

Yesterday, September 1st, it was finally time for the annual Source Energy Awakening Ceremony.

At 10 a.m., boys and girls over the age of 12 in Musayi City and the surrounding area gathered at the Mirror Square. Much shorter than the Imperial Capital Obelisk, the Port Mousse Obelisk towers in the middle of the Square of Mirrors.

The Obelisk is the tallest building in Port Mousse, standing in the heart of the inner city, around which the Earl's Palace, the Guild of the Transcendents, the Academy, the Barracks, the Houses of the Country Nobility, and the Residences of the Wealthy are all built.

More than 700 students from the public schools in the docklands lined up in a phalanx in the designated area, and Jacques stood on tiptoe to look at the towering obelisk, where the fate of tens of thousands of teenagers from civilian families would be decided.

After the city lord, Count Baptiste, had completed a long and boring routine, and the transcendents of the obelisk opened the passage in front of the obelisk entrance, and two source energy light gates that maintained the formation with precious source stones lined up in front of the entrance.

The teenagers had to pass through two successive one-person gates to enter the obelisk to participate in the Awakening Ritual, and a winding procession appeared in the Mirror Square.

It is a thousand-year-old tradition that is said to have been invented by the Founding Emperor Cesara the Great, and it is possible to select potential people to participate in the Obelisk's Source Energy Awakening Ceremony to avoid precious opportunities being wasted by the incompetent.

The first red source energy light gate is called the potential gate, and those who lack potential cannot pass it, and more than sixty percent of the testers are blocked by invisible forces every year. 12 years old is the most suitable age for awakening, and the older you are, the more you will be judged by the potential gate as lacking potential.

A teenager who has passed the potential gate, even if he does not participate in the awakening ceremony of the obelisk, can go through a few years of cultivation or take expensive breakthrough secret medicine, and the awakening attribute will enter the extraordinary. Relying on accumulation to slowly break through will miss the years of the fastest progress, and it is much behind the teenager who has gone through the ritual awakening.

Wealthy people will choose a more secure way to buy the Awakening Slot of the Obelisk instead of breaking through the elixir. Generally speaking, people with insufficient potential cannot awaken to become extraordinary in this life, and can only be an ordinary person.

The passers continued to line up, and Jacques, who easily passed through the potential gate, slowly followed the line. The loser who stood in the way cried and was taken from the side and returned to the area where they began to wait.

In front is the second source energy light gate, this blue light gate is called the ritual door, no one knows what conditions Emperor Xisara set in the ritual door, those who can pass are eligible to enter the obelisk to participate in the source energy attribute awakening ceremony, and after awakening, they will be qualified to enter the source energy academy.

Jacques once again successfully passed the test of the ceremonial gate, and given that Count Baptiste ruled Port Mousse only had one higher source energy academy, Eve Academy, Jacques was about to become a student of Eve Academy.

Fewer than 50 of the teenagers from the Wharf District public school passed through the ceremonial gate, and Jacques entered the obelisk with his classmates.

The teenagers who passed through the Potential Gate but failed to pass the Ritual Gate did not return to Mirror Square, they were taken to the Transcendental Guild next to the Obelisk to try to pass another path, Contract Awakening, and obtain the qualification to participate in the ceremony, but they lost the opportunity to enter the Academy.

In the guild hall, the teenagers are asked to fill out a resume about their family situation, school grades, and intended career. After collecting resumes, the deacons of the guild arranged for the teenagers to go into different rooms for interviews, and the interviewers were from the nouveau riche class such as factory owners, traders, and ship owners.

After the two parties reached an agreement, they signed a contract in the presence of the guild deacon, and the employer paid a sum of silver coins to the Transcendental Guild to purchase the qualification of the hired teenager to participate in the awakening ceremony, after which the teenager would work for the hired person for several years at a lower salary, and the Transcendent Guild would act as an overseer of the contract in the transaction.

For potential children from civilian families, although they cannot enter the academy for better development, they can immediately become transcendents and change the fate of the whole family. On the other hand, this deal is also a good deal for the nouveau riche class, which is much cheaper than directly hiring a young transcendent, and if the low-cost employee grows into a plastic energy during the employment period, it will be even more profitable, and if the relationship between the two parties gets along well, it may become a long-term employee or collaborator.

The Guild of the Transcendents is as noisy as a market at this time, and the contract must be signed before the ceremony begins. The closer to the start of the two p.m. ceremony, the more demanding the conditions proposed by the employer. Pretty girls, strong boys, and children who showed certain specialties were snatched up as early as the first round, and the children with the letters of introduction they got at home were also signed by the employers who issued the letters of introduction.

The remaining juveniles faced even harsher contractual conditions. Jacques' neighbour, Sammy Gillette, was among them, and he wanted to be a seaman, but none of the shipowners were willing to sign a standard 15-year contract with him, and Sammy was reluctant to sign a deed of sale for a longer period or lower salary.

While Sammy was still anxiously waiting for his share of the contract in the Transcendental Guild, Jacques was sitting cross-legged in the hall on the first floor of the Obelisk, closing his eyes and meditating.

As soon as he enters the obelisk, Jacques feels an abundance of energy surrounding him, stimulating his skin and entering his body with his breath. Jacques thought to himself, such a good environment can't be wasted, let's make more preparations. Jacques then adjusted his mood, closed his eyes and sat cross-legged, using the basic methods learned in public school to feel the eight winds of source energy.

The hall on the first floor of the obelisk was unusually large, and countless colored points of light hung overhead like stars, illuminating the entire hall. The walls and ceiling were black, as high as the night sky, except for the white stone floor, which stretched out like colored stars hanging from the sky to illuminate the white earth beneath their feet. Thousands of boys and girls stood and sat in this strange hall, waiting for the ceremony to begin.

"Brother Jacques!" a crisp girlish voice interrupted Jacques's quiet thoughts, and when he opened his eyes, he saw a small girl squeezing out of the crowd and running towards him.

The girl's long maroon hair was tied into two strands on the left and right, dressed in a beige cloth skirt and small black leather shoes, and ran to Jacques, her delicate little face was full of joy, and said, "Brother Jacques, I have also passed the test!" The girl took a deep breath to calm down, and looked up at Jacques, her big blue eyes flashing.

"I can go to school with Jacques brother again. The girl became shy, and fiddled with her hands to put on the light blue lace.