Year 326 of the Earth Era...
Bright Moon Academy...
It was one of Bright Moon City's leading high schools...
At that moment, an atmosphere of nervous excitement filled the academy.
Today was graduation day for the seniors, as well as the day they would awaken their talents.
Students already packed Bright Moon Academy's square. Countless parents stood around its perimeter, watching their children with expectant eyes.
Ever since Earth entered its new era, students studied through their senior year and awakened their talents at eighteen, then chose their future paths based on those talents.
Those who awakened mental talents could pursue scientific research. Those with combat talents could cultivate to grow stronger and fight invaders on the Holy Light Continent. Those with vocational talents could choose a trade.
In short, anyone with a good talent could live comfortably in any industry. Those with poor talents could only occupy society's lowest rungs. After all, society needed plenty of workers at the bottom to keep running.
Perhaps earlier generations had awakened too many good talents. Even with Earth's spiritual energy restored, exceptional talents rarely appeared anymore.
"Madman, are you nervous?" a boy in the square asked quietly.
"A little."
Thinking of the expectant look in his father's eyes back home, Zhou Feng clenched his fists.
"What kind of talent do you want to awaken?"
"A combat talent, of course," Zhou Feng answered without hesitation.
"But with combat talents, unless yours is exceptional enough to get you into a top academy and receive its resources and training, getting stronger on your own is way too hard."
"We both come from ordinary families. We can't afford those expensive crystal stones, let alone equipment that costs tens of thousands."
"Yeah. Cultivating without crystal stones is just too slow," Zhou Feng said with a sigh.
But