Another 2 years passed by. That's time, it goes fast before you know it.

Little Jhon now is 5 years old. Little Mike started attending the kids training 1 year ago.

Nothing much change in little Jhon's schedule, except he now he can keep up with the 8 years old kids training.

This made him famous as the village's genius. At 5 years old he do what the 8 to 10 years old kids daily exercise.

What the villagers don't know, is he have extra training secretly.

Of course little Mike is also ahead of the other kids in their age.

One time, little Jhon visited the shaman to inquire about his wooden ring but got no answer.

He also ask his father for some swordsmanship training, by got rejected saying he's still too young, maybe later after his awakening ceremony.

Jhon along with little Mike and their parents are walking the village dock. Today is the day little John and Mike are going to awaken their magic viens.

There are already more than 20 people in the village dock waiting for the city delegates.

The village chief is one of them and their others are from different villages.

The neighboring villages don't have a dock in their villages because of many rifts so they can only attend the awakening ceremony on Greenleaf village.

This year only little John and little Mike are the kids from Greenleaf village.

Both kids are excited for this day specially little John who really wanted to participate last year.

When he was 4 years old he was already stronger than the 5 year old kids, but the village chief still refuses little John's request to participate the awakening ceremony.

After waiting for half an hour, the boat they are waiting for arrived.

Around seven meters long and three meters wide, it's big to be called a boat and too small for a ship.

The whole boat is made if wood and their are strange writings along its side. This boat is clearly more than 5 years old since the wood is already colored black from age.

When the boat docked, 2 old men with expensive looking robes. One of them is only around 5',5" tall with a shaven face smiling at the taller one with long white beard.

The village chief immediately greeted them and exchange some pleasant words.

Then the village chief called all the kids to line up in front of the boat.

Both little John and Mike are near the front of the line.

The chief introduced the smaller old man as the delegate from magic school called sir Gagat, while the other one is a guest who wants to observe.

The first kid was called to the deck where he is told to remove his upper cloth and sit on the strange chair.

Little John remember the electric chair for death convicts in movies when he saw that chair.

Sir Gagat talked to the kid while putting those cuffs with wires on the kids arm and feet. The old man also put a leather like shirt with some wires on the kids body.

After a while little John saw the kid nod to the old Gagat then Jhon saw Gagat did something under the chair and he saw something light up under the chair.

From this distance, little John don't see where that light came from, but he along with all the other people in the dock is looking at the kid on the strange chair.

After a couple if minute, the light stop and sir Gagap remove those cuffs and shirt from the kid.

The kid sadly return to his father, and the next kid boarded the boat.

Little Mike is the fourth kid in the line and its now his turn.

Unfortunately, little Mike return with sad face same with all the kids before him.

This shows how rare it is to awaken a magic vien, it can be called lucky if a village have one in ten years.

Greenleaf village never have a kid awaken magic vien after big brother Matt 5 years ago.

Its now little John's turn and after boarding the boat, he now see that under the chair are some weird metal instrument with blue gem.

On his instrument attached the wires that is connected to the cuff and shirt.

After sitting down, the old man Gagap, told little John that thus won't hurt so he just need to relax.

Little John is curious about everything and he knows that his super weapon will work so he try.

With the cutest smile he can he asked

"Grandpa Gagap, what's this thing are for?"

This smile he has practiced in front of water when no one is looking, always worked when he uses except for that old shaman.

Old man Gagap laugh and the other old man smiles when they heard the kids question.

The taller old man whose name little John don't know, told little John that this cuffs and shirt is where mana will travel.

The human magic viens will only open when exposed to high density of mana for they are blocked since birth.

High density mana will flood the human skin and will try to enter the phores which is the entrance to the magic viens.

For the ceremony to be called a success, a least one magic vien must be opened.

Of course its better if there are more, but its OK even if only one.

Because you can use this one vien to feel and control mana in the surrounding to open the other magic viens.

This may take some time but still better than nothing.

Old man Gagap then told little John that he must try to feel his body and its good if he feel pain because it means that the mana is destroying the blockade in his magic vien.

Then when old man Gagap ask little John if he's ready he nods and the old man activate the machine under the chair.

At first little John feel like their is wind inside the cuffs brushing against his skin, it became itchy a first but a sudden pain came from his arm chest.

'Relax it won't hurt he says? This Gagap must be getting senile.'

Little John of course was happy since he knows that he just need to insure and the magic path is opening for him.

But the pain is too much that in his mind he shouted STOP!!

To little John's surprised, all the mana in his body stopped moving.

He don't know what happened and its going to be bad if the mana don't continue their job if opening his magic viens.

He even shouted in his mind Continue!!! But nothing happened.

In this desperate times John know that he must calm down first and observe what went wrong.

A couple of seconds of thinking he knows its his stop that cause this.

Then he noticed something about the mana inside his body, he tried to imagine them moving and they really move!

He remember what the taller old man said, a least one magic vien must be opened so he focus on one magic vien in his right arm.

He pushed the mana in that vien until they stop for there are something blocking the way.

The mana won't move but John just gather more and more mana then push strongly.

Like a flood rolling against sand castle, the blockade was run over and the mana continue on its way.

The mana is pushed to his head and when the last blockade was open it flows to a large place.

The large amount of mana flows inside that place but they are like a drop to a water tank.

Now John is sure that he opened one magic vien, so he stop the mana flow.

He then tried another magic vien, the one on his left arm. Both his left and right arm have 3 magic vien and he already opened one on his right so he want one on his left this time.

He already experienced this, so from the start he gather a large amount if mana and pushed all the way.

He feel pain but its better than before when too many vien are openings at the same time.

He don't know how much time he has left so he tried to open as many as possible magic viens.

Unknown to little John, both the old men was surprised to see lights lighten up one at a time in the cuffs and shirt John is wearing.

Its already good if one light up before the 2 minutes are up but little John take 30 second on the first then only 10 seconds to light up the next.

After the fourth light, the gem in the instrument under the hairt started to dim, the taller old man passed another one to old mab Gagap.

Old Gagap was shocked and just stare at the taller man.

He knows the value of the gem after all. Its called mana stone and the magic school gave him only one cause its expensive.

One mana stone can awaken three to five kids after all and its not even sure if he can awaken one during his every trip.

Now it only takes one kid to finish that mana stone and he even take a little more than a minute.

Now he is holding a higher level mana stone, one you can't buy even in Lett city. So he can't be sure if its alright to waste this treasure on a villager, he already awakened some magic viens so why waste this one?