The Ultimate Awakener

Unable To Detect Attribute

A man was standing in front of the incubator device as Jordan opened his eyes, and after confirming he was still alive, the man spoke. “Well done boy, you did a good job. Proceed to the attribute section where you will be tested and the choice to join the hunter academy will be given to you.”

After the man said this, he stepped forward and helped Elion out from the incubation dream piercer.

Elion walked to the section he was directed to go, and along the path, he was the only one walking. Different dream piercer machines stood side by side, at his end, already open, and this startled him, meaning he is the last to wake up of the dream piercer machines.

He could have died, but somehow he survived. There is a specific time fixed on the device, that if one couldn’t wake up within that frame, he or she will be proclaimed dead, but somehow Elion did the impossible; he woke up after about twenty minutes of the time which ideally was fixed for all dreamers to wake up.

The soldier who had opened the incubator for him to come out wasn’t even expecting any human to be inside; it was when the device began to beep before he could notice that there was somebody there, and that was when he rushed and opened the incubator for Elion to step out.

The soldier looks a little bit old; he was holding an apple in his hands. He stares at Elion as he made his way to the section, and this left the old man startled, questions plunging into his mind on how the kid had survived after twenty minutes of time duration passed, and he wished he could get an answer, but all that was beside him was silence and the massive room filled with dream piercer devices.

“Never have I seen anything like this throughout my twenty years of working in this chamber…” the man mumbled with disbelief, his face still pale, but he casually bit the apple he was holding from his hands before shrugging his shoulders then adding, “Anyways, I don’t care what had intervened, all I have to do is make sure that I do my job perfectly well and get paid.”

Reaching a specific section of the massive hall, Elion saw people like him who had emerged from the dream piercer alive, lined up in rows; thus, everyone who had undergone the dream piercer awakening process survived, and there are no casualties recorded this time.

The line they were on was straight, and at the front was a machine, tall enough for a single person to go in. The machine was built mechanically with a transparent screen where, if one goes in, he or she could be seen. Inside the machine was a specific part where one could place his or her hands, and if the person awakened, the machine will immediately detect it and as well identify what kind of attribute the person had awakened.

The first kid went in, and the woman before him nodded; she urged him to place his hands within the frame of the transparent screen, and the moment the boy did, a holographic image appears within a displayed screen beside the woman, showing if the boy has been awakened or not and also adding which attribute he had awakened.

“Loading details for current awakener,” a mechanical voice sounded immediately. The text stretched around the screen beside the woman who was in charge.

[Awakened. Attribute type: water element.]

After this text came through and the mechanical voice sounded with a confirmation, the woman who is in charge looked down at the boy, then nodded with a smile. “Congratulations boy, you have a powerful attribute. Over there is the part where you will choose if you want to enroll in the vanguard hunters academy or not.”

The boy was happy at hearing that; he nodded with a smile then stepped out of the transparent glass machine he had gone in, then gladly made his way to another section where the woman had directed him to go for the registration.

Awakening is complex; one can awaken anything. Some could awaken elements, some could awaken unimaginable strength, some could even awaken magic and would be known as mages.

Apart from awakening, it is still necessary to be able to harness what one had awakened. Some will have attributes but they won’t be able to conjure it into action, and some could awaken and their attribute will be weak. But the primary main purpose of the awakening was to cure out the spell sickness, which was immediately done once one comes out of the dream piercer alive.

The next person went into the dream attribute detector machine and did exactly what he was told by the woman, and his attribute was luckily lightning, which is one of the rarest.

After he was told his attribute, he ran out of the machine like a madman, not even hearing what the woman had said next, which is apparently to go to the second section where he will agree to be a hunter or not; it was obvious that the boy definitely wanted to be a hunter.

The woman chuckled with a grin. “Kids these days are so desperate to rush toward their death, unlike us at our time, where we see something like joining the vanguard hunters as a horror one could never wake up from.”

Thus these words sounded in mumbled form from her mouth, and what she had said was the truth; in their era, they were forced to all join the vanguard armies, not giving them the choice.

Soon after, it was Elion’s turn. He stood in front of the woman, and she glanced at him from head to toe. He is the only older boy among all the people that had come forward and this startled her, and firmly she asked, “How old are you, please?”

Elion doesn’t want to reply because he knew what would come next, but on the other hand, he knows disobeying a high-ranking hunter like her wouldn’t be of any good to him.

Elion forced a smile from his lips before replying. “I’m sixteen.”

“Huh!” The woman’s eyes widened immediately; she had thought that the boy must have grown so tall and big out of healthy nutrition, but to her realization, he was older than the other kids that had come forward.

In order not to waste her time, she allowed Elion to go into the glass device because he was apparently the only one remaining for the attribute test.

When Elion placed his palms on the screen, the machine took time to give out a response, and when it did, the message appeared to be printed an error.

[Unable to detect awakener attributes. Please try again]