I walked in the middle of a group of other children along the street heading towards the central part of the village.

“Wow!” exclaimed a larger girl named Sima next to me. “Look, there are people from the Order there, this means that today we will finally open our Gift.” -Sima said practically letting stars out of her eyes.

-Hmmm...I guess. - I said. Looking where Sima was pointing.

-ah...okay, this is such an event, we will open our Gift. - said Sima, looking not quite directly into Lyova’s dark green eyes. -Aren’t you really excited about everything?

“I will be excited depending on the Gift I received,” I said to Sima, looking at her out of the corner of my eye.

“Well, okay...” Sima said, pouting at me and turning to continue looking at the people from the order.

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Sima and I stood in line for the opening of the Gift. Sima stood in front of me, and there were still about thirteen children ahead.

-Dar...yes. - I muttered to myself on the tray.

They say that after opening the gift, we will see our so-called own status and will be able to receive our first class and develop our skills. Classes are completely different and depend on the person or creature himself. As you know, you can only get 9 classes, although there are legends that there is a 10th class.

As a rule, each class can have from 5 to 10 skills, and each skill can be improved to 10 or 15, depending on the rarity of the class, and up to level 20.

While I was thinking about the Gift, Sima’s turn came.

-Good luck. - I tried to cheer up Sima.

Sima turned and waved at me. “Thank you,” she said and without wasting a second, she entered the buildings where the gift was unveiled. The building itself looked like a small square barn, completely without windows and unlike the local wooden houses, it, like the wall, was made of pure white brick.

About half an hour later, Sima came out all brightly beaming with happiness. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if she got her first class related to whatever the radiance is.

“Hello... how’s it going?” I asked, looking at Sima, who happily jumped up on the rock.

“Oh!...this is great, I’ll tell you everything later,” she said grinning at me. - now it’s your turn. - Sima said pushing me in front and I not quite confidently entered the building.

There was a spacious room on the floor of which there was some kind of circle, with some kind of signs on the floor, which I don’t know exactly, and a little further away stood a slender woman in a blue and white order uniform.

-Well, girl, come here, stand in the middle of this circle with symbols. - the woman commanded, and I obeyed.

I stood in the middle of the circle with symbols, which the woman pointed out to me, and the circle lit up with a bright light and I plunged into darkness.