“Why were you sleeping on history class?”

Asked the old teacher.

“eeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhh......”

Our protagonist didn’t know what to answer, as his brain was still waking up and drol was falling of his mouth. Meanwhile, the teacher was starting to get a ``bit´´ angry.

“Aster, answer me now.”

He said with an aura that could scare even the manliest man. Aster felt a chill go down his back, as he fastly got up and said “SORRY!! Lately I can’t sleep that well and I was getting a bit tired, so I decided to take a nap...”

The teacher was standing there staring at him, menacingly.

“ You’ve been sleeping 30 minutes exactly, I was waiting for you to wake up by yourself, you are alredy 16 years old, you should take responsibility of the consequences for not listening”

“But to actually start snoring and disturb the class, that was unacceptable”

As the teacher was talking, the class was giggling.

‘ugh, please stop’

Aster was feeling shameful, but it was his fault so he couldn’t do anything.

“now sit down and don’t sleep”

*ehem* “Let’s continue the class”

As astel sat down again, he had to force his brain for another hour to don’t fall asleep.

“thats enough for today”

As the teacher said that, everyone started to leave the class with their bacpacks, as Aster was grabbing his backpack someone got close to him by the side.

“So, having problems sleeping, right?”

As Aster looked to his side, he saw his friend.

“yo Zale, how are you? Having a good day?”

“Don’t change the subject Aster, I know you’ve been playing all night.”

“how...?”

“I know it because your soccial account says it, idiot”

“oops, forgot to turn it off” said aster with a little smile.

*sigh* “Anyway, you should really pay attention to classes, you should know that it will be very useful in the future”

“yeah yeah, right now we are doing pretty well as far as I know”

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“...but you should still be carefull” Zale said with a preoccupied face.

“I know I knoooow my dear friend, and we should start going home, everyone is alredy gone here”

*sigh* “yeah you are right”

“also, you should stop sighing so much, I heard that every time someone sighs they lose a year of life” Aster said with a mockingly preoccupied face to Zale.

“if that were true then I would have been dead years ago, and it would have been absolutely your fault”

After Zale grabbed his things, he went away with Aster. After some walking they reached the train station.

“train A is alredy here, see you tomorrow Aster”

“train D is not here yet so i’ll have to wait, see ya tomorrow Zale”

While Aster was saying goodbye Zale was alredy getting on train A, and he went away.

*sigh* ‘And now I’m alone, when will that train get here?’

As Aster was waiting for his train, he was listening to the public TV of the train station. And as he waited train D finally appeared.

As Aster hopped onto the train he passed his identity card over the escaner.

“thank you for using rift trains, the fastest way to go to your home inside a rift”

A mechanical voice sounded while passing the card. *yawn* ‘Man, I can’t wait to take a nap at home’

As he got on an empty seat he observed the view outside of the train. Large buildings, vehicles with mana motors and sometimes even flying people.

‘Flying people.... mmmh, what power would I get once I awaken? Well I still have 2 more years’

As time pased on the train he was still thinking ‘the three kings found out that people with or over 18 years old were able to easily awaken any of the three powers, they just had to stay on a room injected with that kind of energy’

‘of course, depending on the results of some experiments they made they would know what affinity one had with those three energys, so it would mean 1/3 probability to get the power they want’

‘And what do I want? Being a sorcerer sounds cool, being able to use mythical spells and energy auras, but I would have to study a lot of theory and that sounds boring’

‘a special ability? I could get an ability that could make me kill myself on use and having to live without using it or a power that changed how I usually am.’

‘and the system it’s so time comsuming, having to kill monsters all day, but I could also choose a cool class like spatial mage or weapon master.... only if I also get lucky with it’

‘meh, even if I think about it I can’t choose, only the beautiful lady luck will tell my fate’

As he was thinking, he noticed that he reached his destination. As he got off the train, he started walking towards Rift C, the place where his home was.

As he was walking towards the security entrance, he noticed something in the alleyway between two buildings. Because he didn’t have anything to do, he went to see what it was.

And as he got closer, he found out something..... "A RIFT???!!!"

‘WAIT WAIIIIIIIT CALM DOWN calm down’

As he observed the ‘Rift?’ he found out that... it’s strangely small? It’s very different from the other rifts he saw in books and photos.

‘ok, first of all, rifts in citys are uncommon but it still happens, what i gotta do is warn the authoritys about this’

As he said that, he started running towards the security from the entrance Rift C. As he reached the security post, he said calmly “SIR SIR SIR I SAW A RIFT A RIFT COME HERE FAST!!!!”

Fastly the midly old officer stood up and said with a hoarse voice “where did you find it”

“COME FOLLOW ME!!!” Aster said with a calm voice as he was running to the alleyway where the rift was.

As they reached the alleyway they found... nothing.

“...”

“...”

They were both silent.

“kid, you can’t make jokes with Rifts, they are serious matter” said the officer with a cold look.

“bu-but I really saw it...”

The officer looked at the young boy and said “I will tell the higher ups to at least search energy fluctuations around here, now go home, kid”

*sigh* “ok sir...”

As Aster sighed he turned around and went home. ‘Man, what the hell was that? I really saw a rift, but it was so different from the other ones’

*siiiiiiiiiigh* “I’ll just go home” as he said that he started speeding up to get home faster.

“heh, I will really die young if I keep sighing like that”