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Another two years has gone by for John and his coming of age ceremony is close approaching. With this his martial arts lvl will be recorded and according to his talent he will then decide which guild He wants to join. Since he has the armor creation skill and he is almost broke through into the body refiner stage he could go into two or three guilds. The third would be the assassins true guild. Since he has so many skills and he has worked on making money for his mother he has saved up enough money for his mother to live off of for a long time. He plans on getting into the assassins guild since when he is tested it will show his sneak skill which has reached rank B,awareness skill ranked C, and he finally got the assassinate skill that's only ranked D. Although he enjoyed teasing his mother a bit he found no true attachment to her and was ready to move on with his life. The only reason he waited to reach body refinement stage was due to him not wanting to stand out too much. As they say envy in men's heart will cause one to lose their life. On his missions he has killed plenty of people simply due to another man's envy for his position, power, women, or money. The only requirement John has for his jobs is that the person he kills deserves death. He was even targeted once by a different assassins guild, which he later found out was because other craftsmen were mad at his crafting skills at such a young age.

“ John are you read Yb for by our ceremony?” - Amy

“... Yes mother.” - john

Since he never five he decided to talk every now and then or else life would be more difficult for him. Though he still barely speaks and only says things when needed. His assassin now now is silent terror, because no matter how much you insult him he will not speak. That's only when someone is lucky enough to speak to him. He tries his best to kill without being seen or heard. Sadly life isn't that simple and occasionally he will be injured during his mission. Through this he became a regular with his villages head pill refiner. Afterwards he would stock up on healing pills and energy pills. On another note let's talk about a surprise he found a week before his ceremony.

During a coming of age ceremony one will have be “gifted” a spirit beast. These beast that are summoned will match your soul. So depending on what your souls is you may Acquire a tiger, dragon, turtle, salamander, or many other smaller less noteworthy pets. These beasts will grow and evolve with you as you grow stronger and usually have certain skill sets that will help you. Once one reaches the ki refining stage your pet may take on a human like form. This form makes them weaker, but allows them to use certain skills and allows them to speak to others.

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Day of coming of age ceremony.

“Today all those at the age of 6 will be given their awakening. We will call out your name where you will step into the formation to awaken. Then you will put your hand on this globe, it will tell us your skills and your martial arts level. Afterwards depending on your skills these three gentlemen will invite you to join their guild. Now then for those who aren't familiar with the three guilds I will tell you that they are the warriors guild, craftsmen guild and the merchants guild. Now let us begin” -village head

Coming from a craftsmen village most children were either craftsmen guild or merchants guild. Very few children made the requirement to join the warrior guild. Some children didn't have and talent and we're given mediocre spirit beast. Those children were not invited to any and we're mostly depressed. Surprisingly one kid had the blacksmithing skill [weapon creation C] which was welcomed gladly by the craftsmen guild. Finally john's name was called out.

“ John age 6, son of Amy please step forward” -village head

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As John stepped forward and entered the awakening formation his body felt numb. A bright light flashed before him and then a rabbit warrior stood before him. Rabbit warriors were very rare and their skills were in speed and assassinations. It was around 5 feet tall and had a black Katina on its back with a iron mask on its face. It kneeled before him showing its loyalty the jumped and disappeared into the shadows. Seeing this sight the warrior who had been silent this entire time stood up with a shine in his eyes. The rest of the crowd were stun seeing this displayed and didn't know what to say. Finally the village head gathered his wits and began to speak.

“ John please place your hand on the globe.” - village head

John nodded and placed his hand on the globe which shined for a moment then a list appeared before everyone's eyes.

John; age 6; nature:assassin, warrior, craftsmen.

Skills :

[ sneak B,]

[Awareness C]

[Weapon creation C]

[ leatherworking C]

[ assassinate D]

Martial skill level: Body refiner rank 1.

Those who were stunned before were even more surprised seeing his results. Even John was a little surprised by seeing his nature's showing up. He thought he'd only have the assassins nature. The already excited warrior looked like he was about to pounce on John once he saw the results. If he could recruit those kid he could definitely be rewarded highly. Just as he was about to invite John, John looked at him and released a deadly killing intent. This killing intent was not made, but obtained from killing at least a hundred people. This caused the warrior to be stunned and at lost for what he did wrong. Just as he was about to speak up suddenly John threw a dagger at a shadow with a smirk on his face. From the shadow stood a tall figure wrapped in black holding the dagger in his hands.

“ oh so even though your awareness isn't that high you could sense me that's interesting” - black cloaked figure

“... I could smell you killing intent and I was expecting you, so I had my spirit beast watching. His sense are a little better than mine.” - john

After he said that his rabbit warrior appeared behind the black cloaked man with his Katina against his throat. The eyes of the unknown man couldn't hide the shock in his eyes. Then he nodded his head as if if agreeing with something in his head.

“ pretty good, pretty good. My name is David Zhou from the assassins guild I'm here to invite you to our guild and family. We are one of the main families who have a ki emperor as an ancestor. If you decide to join us you will go through hellish training and have to participate in the yearly competition. If you fall behind you will be either forced to serve under another or in your case you can become one of our craftsmen. Though I doubt you'll have a hard time seeing as you're already a body refiner at such a young age and have High ranked skills. Well now that's all I had to say will you accept? Know that you may lose your life in competitions and nothing is guaranteed like other guilds.” - David

John thought for a moment then nodded his head. To become stronger one needed to be pushed to the edge of death and survive. Not only that, but this family was also a strong family whom he could use to learn better techniques and grow stronger. After he nodded his rabbit warrior jumped and returned to his side. Afterwards he smiled and whispered something to village head who then nodded. He looked at his mother who had a pained expression. He smiled at her then disappeared with David and his rabbit warrior.