Gold wake up panicked his mind was a mess he just made a dream but it was feeling like the whole reality was crumbling into nothingness it feel soul shaking it was disturbing. He take a moment to calm down taking a deep breath before he quickly enter the bathroom to fill the bathtub with cold water.

He plunge inside head first letting the cold sipping into his body before his exit the water.

He exit the bathtub before he proceed to remove the drenched cloth and go back to get some new one after finishing he sit on his bed feeling a bit more awake than few minutes ago still a bit shaken by that weird dream.

After taking a moment to put his mind in order he stand up before he start finishing to prepare for the day.

Weird dream or not it was still an important day after finishing dressing up he start heading toward the clan plaza. Today was the ritual of awakening waiting for his fifteen anniversary was feeling like eternity but the wait was finally over.

He walk toward the plaza the majority of the living quarter of the clan was really calm compare to usual constant buzzing activity. It was not bad he like the calm but it don’t last long has he was getting closer of the plaza.

At the moment he step into the plaza he see the sea of people walking between the row of food shop and others ephemeral business. He smile the calm was nice but sometime being in such lively place was better.

He start walking toward the centre of the plaza where the ceremony will take place grandpa has say to meet him there.

Slowly walking toward his destination stopping from time to time to look at the numerous weird and interesting trinket and the many exotic food taking the time to buy a few snacks he finally reach the centre of the plaza where a titanic statue of a dragon made of golden crystal standing in the perfect centre of it.

Grandpa was with the other elders preparing for the ritual of awakening, grandpa see him when he start walking closer of them. Grandpa was still looking good for someone who will soon reach his 150 years.

He look at me :

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“Ready to go eat before the great moment ?”

Without waiting for me answer he started walking between the shops toward one of the only proper buildings installed for the event. He calmly follow him has they quickly reach their destination the heavenly shrimp restaurant it’s a tradition for grandpa and him to come eat here every year at the day of the awakening ritual.

He cross the door he see that he has not waited for him to sit he quickly join him on the other side of the table before they start ordering the food.

After he finish ordering he turn toward him :

“So ready for the great day…”

Before he can finish the server come with our drinks after he take a sip he continue :

“I know you waited a long time for today but you shouldn’t stress too much whatever you get it will be as good as everyone else the heaven laws put everyone on the same starting line.”

To be honest even he say that he was still stress even if every heavenly path has prospect of growth but the type of path was a bit more random some get pretty normal thing like the sword path where you need to swing around your sword around until it do stuff.

But others path where much weirder like that guy who needed to make a cult around potato or another one who needed to imitate a tree all day long. But it get worse when you get what people call evil path the type where you kill people and stuff like that grandpa always say when talk about them that heaven don’t care about moral.

Be honest heaven is an asshole who want people running around killing each others that really dumb.

He nod before they continue to talk about everyday things after an hour eating and talking they finally finish and exit the restaurant.

After exiting his grandpa say to follow him they slowly walk toward the edge of the plaza that side was mainly for rare items to help with cultivation but the number of cultivators are really low so not a lot of peoples where on that side.

He started to feel curious to why they were here his grandpa has yet to reach the stage allowing to cultivate so it was strange for them to be here after walking a few more minutes they reach the extreme edge of the plaza.

Walking in front of him he start to walk toward a small tent with a small wooden sign with the name of the shop “Mythical Beasts Shop” written on it.

He enter and see the interior was full of beasts the owner was probably pretty wealthy because inside the tent all the beasts where roaming freely that probably mean he has some mystical way of keeping the beasts inside and that type of method was not cheap.

The beasts where mostly small a lot of dogs like creatures, cats and a surprising number of birds and insects too. They had some bigger one like a tiger he can see sleeping on the edge of the tent.

He turn back his attention toward his grandpa he was talking with a strange bald old man with an unnaturally swirly beard and crow like wings on his back he was probably the owner.

After a few seconds the owner turn toward him and start to walk in his direction without saying anything he start to inspect every bit of his body before he say :

“Good I know what will fit a young man like you.”

After saying that he go into the back of the shop and come back with two little kittens...