Hours have passed since the ceremony. I walk down the alleyway to my small two-story apartment, the old man that lives next door to me said something about condensing a skill before anything else after Awakening. I wasn't really paying attention to him, but I have heard skill from my old teachers and how rare they are to get from Awakening.

Not having anything better to do for now I knock on the old coot's door. I've tried asking his name before but always called himself a "nobody" or "lost soul" what ever that means.

I knock again this time louder. "Yeah yeah, I hear ya! Keep your pants on!" A deep almost scratchy voice calls out before he opens his door. "Well look who it is!" Before me stands what I can only describe as a sentient scare crow. "I assume you've successfully gone through the ceremony child?"

I mearly nod in response to his question. He stands to the side letting me in. The inside of his apartment is a cluttered mess of the various so called treasures he amassed from the gates.

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"The fact you're here means you payed enough attention to my rants, take a seat and I'll dig up the skill fragments for you.

"Right." I find a relatively clean place to sit before he returns with a trey of nine crystals and a small orb.

"Alright before i help you with your first skill place your hands on the sphere and show me your path." I do as he asked and the image of a small pond fills the orb. "A path of water huh? No wait." Just as the pond pulls itself into the shape of sphere."Oh now this is very good, a path mutation and for water no less! You lucked out here Cherry."

"What do you mean by that exactly? I know you talked about it before and that they could be good or bad?" I asked

"Hmm right, it really depends on how you develop your power, but if you're able to climb passed asc------." His voice cuts out, he sighs "damned rules, anyways what you received is something that is often seen as thick water, but is so much more than that. Hold on I was going to craft you one of three basic skills but I've been holding on to something for such an event."