The Shapeshifter

"This concludes the Awakening this year."

The old man looked around and only saw 2 colored mana crystals. Both of it has the same green color which signifies the Wood element.

Even though both of them had the same element, they were quite different. The first one was a girl that awakened at the 5th minute while the other was the young man he talked to yesterday, the young man barely made it out and awakened at the final minute.

There was quite a difference in the color of their mana crystals, the girl had a pale green, while the young man had a bright green this shows their talent towards their elemental affinity. The brighter it is, the more talented they are in that element.

Alex was completely rooted at his place like the tall tree he was. But he was just dumbly, staring ahead.

'W-what!? The system awakened!?'

He had mixed feelings regarding the awakening of the system. At the first few minutes of the awakening, he thought that he wasn't good enough to be a mage. He didn't feel like there were some sort of awakening happening inside him.

He continued to wait until he heard the beeping sound inside his head. Then he caught a glimpse of a forest and felt he was it.

Finally he heard the old man concluding the awakening.

"You will be given an hour to familiarize yourself with the spells you have just awakened in."

They all knew what comes next after an hour. It will be the round-robin tournament. This had always been a part of the tradition; that everyone who had awakened will be sent to compete against each other.

In this one hour of break, Alex familiarize with the system. He willed for the character information to show up, and it did. He had 3 unassigned stat points and quickly added 1 to INT, 1 to END and 1 to PHY.

He didn't want to die early after obtaining the system, so he distributed his stats towards the would-be core of himself.

[Character Information]

Name: Alex Title: Newly Awakened Race: Human

Level: 1 Class: Mage

[Personal Attributes]

HP – 70/70 -> 80/80

MP – 190/190 -> 200/200

STR – 2

DEX – 4

INT – 14 -> 15

END – 2 -> 3

PHY – 2 -> 3

Stat Points Available – 0

[Invariable Attributes]

CHARM – 2

LUCK – 1

[Skills]

[Active Skills]

[Take Root] [Level 1] – Summons any part of tree within a range of 3 meters. Consumes 10 MP. 1 second cooldown.

[Passive Skills]

[Iron Will] – Unlocking the invariable attribute of Perseverance/PER.

[Gaia's Blessing] – Increases INT by 10 points. Increases INT by another 10 if user is inside a forest.

Skill Points Available – 0

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Looking at his stats, he didn't know if it was up to par with the other. But he knew that his INT stat will probably be one of the best among every newly awakened mage.

First of all, no one should kill, because humanity really needs a saving right now and can only hope for someone in the younger generation therefore killing was banned.

No humiliating of opponents. Since they were quite young, kids will definitely be short-tempered and will harbor deep grudges which will then be disastrous.

This was just a mini tournament in the village so there was really no need for killing and humiliations.

The first match as between Alex and the bulky Earth Mage, Von. As he was walking towards the arena he heard a familiar ding sound and quickly looked at the interface; It was a Quest!

*DING*

[Quests] – Defeat an Earth Mage. Reward – 10 EXP.

– Defeat a Water Elemental Mage. Reward – 10 EXP.

– Defeat a Wood Elemental Mage. Reward – 10 EXP.

– Defeat a Metal Elemental Mage. Reward – 10 EXP.

– Win the Tournament. Reward – 50 EXP and 1 Stat Point.

'Woah! QUESTS! EXP! Haha! There is no way I'm going to lose these matches. They're just kids anyway. And I, played RPGs in the past as a mage. Hopefully I won't get hit by them.'

Alex greeted his opponent with a sight bow while placing his left hand above his closed right fist. Von returned the greeting by doing the same.

They quickly separated 5 meters away from each other. The old man acted as a referee since he was probably the strongest in this village. After confirming that the kids were ready, he started the match.

Alex quickly rushed towards his opponent because he knew that his skills won't reach Von.

Upon seeing Alex rushing towards him, Von stomped the ground and conjured a small boulder, and was hoping to send his opponent flying.

Alex hastily dodged the boulder as he knew that most mages tend to invoke offensive spells once an opponent rush to them.

He took the chance to get near when he saw Von's shocked face. He estimated that Von was already in range of his skill. He activated his skills [Take Root] as a trunk emerged from the ground in front of Von.

Von reacted quickly and erected an [Earthen Wall] to block the attack. He heard a loud thud and thought he could still win. When he saw roots trying to break apart the wall he frowned.

The next thing he knew was he was flying, and his sides hurt.

The old man declared as the winner. Alex was smiling from ear to ear, he was really happy. He looked towards his mother and saw her smiling at him and Mari was even waving her tiny fist as a celebration.

*DING*

[Quest] – Defeat an Earth Mage. Completed! Reward – 10 EXP Received.

*DING*

[User has leveled up]

He distributed the 3 stat points to his core stats, 1 to INT, 1 to END and another 1 to PHY. (A/N: DJ KHALED!)

With the free skill point he got upon leveling up, he upgraded his only active skill to level 2 since passive skills cannot be upgraded.

[Take Root] [Level 2] – Summons any part of tree within a range of 3.5 meters. Consumes 11 MP. 1.2 second cooldown.