Shocked by the sudden information he just received, John slowly walked out of his father's office accompanied by maids. The four stages of the core and the different talent levels were all information that he had just received.
Walking back into his room, John was still fiercely thinking about the information revealed by his father while being dressed by the maids. After comparing the characteristics of his core to the ones described by his father he realized that he had started off at a lower level but by shaping his core to be more efficient he had unknowingly made his core level up in a way.
"Wait…" recalling his past observations of the core, John realized that at the beginning when he had first transmigrated faint bits of aether that were converging and being sucked up by his core were actually slowly transforming the core, which was why the Head Mage had reported to his father that he had advanced into a Brilliant Core, something he didn't know at the time.
"Well, I certainly just learned a lot today," thought John happily, "After awakening, I will finally be able to be taught aether magic, hmmm, I also may be able to finally unlock access to the library…" Thinking about all the possibilities John couldn't wait to begin the ceremony which was, according to the maid his father sent to him, one hour later.
One hour later.
Excited John followed the maid's out the mansion. Whoosh, suddenly a maid beside John stepped up and held up her hand, John sensed large amounts of aether rushing out and enveloping the maid and himself. Observing with his eyes, John saw a thin wind bubble surround himself and the maid before he was abruptly lifted up into the air.
"Woah," exclaimed John, pretending to be slightly shocked and frightened. Barely stabilizing himself using his already superhuman levels of strength, John pretended to be shocked to see that the maid beside him had barely moved.
"Sorry about the turbulence Young Lord, I will take care of it," said the maid before a sudden wisp of aether wrapped itself around John stabilizing him. Quickly moving through the air, John observed as they moved down the mountain towards the endless clouds that drifted below. Looking forward, John quickly located a great platform with a stadium on top of it in the distance.
"So this must be where the ceremony will be hosted," thought John as he and the maid descended. Looking down at the stadium, John saw it filled to the brim with people on each side, with 5 boxes, standing out from the sea of people.
"Young Lord, as you already know from the Lord, today is the awakening ceremony, where your talent will be revealed and you will awaken your core. I will explain some basic things and introduce you to influential figures that you are bound to interact with in the future."
"This awakening ceremony is not exclusive to the Verrien Family is a joint ceremony held by the four Ducal families of the Celeste Kingdom. Every few years, the Ducal families wait until a few of their successors all are about to awaken their cores and then host this awakening ceremony. This year it was our Verrien territories turn to host the awakening ceremony. The ceremony is an opportunity for vassals to borrow the power of the awakening ritual to increase the strength of their successors awakened core, as well as a way for the Duca families to compete and show off their successors strength. If you look towards the five boxes, you will see that four of them bear the emblems of Ducal families, with your father, Lord Verrien, being in the one to the southwest."
"The awakening ceremony will be extremely valuable for you, Young Lord, as the four Ducal families pour out a great number of resources and aetherstones to borrow power from the natural Ley Line(the root source of all aether, something that John had learned from asking Scholar Evans on a day) to increase the strength and potential of the awakened core. "
Walking towards his father's box, John continued listening to the maid's explanation while observing the people around the stadium. Looking around John observed that all the people were clustered around, all of them in big groups. "These are all most likely vassals of the Four Ducal Families," thought John.
"Anyways, if you look over to the last box, Young Lord, you will be able to see the box where the Crown occupies. Usually the King sends an envoy, but for this awakening ceremony I believe that the King has personally come to attend the ceremony."
Looking up at the box, John tried to make out the King, but even with his superhuman eyes he was unable to find the King. "Hmm," thought John, continuing to listen to the maid, "The king doesn't usually come but he's come today for my awakening ceremony, huh?" Recalling the killing intent expressed by the Court Mage who had visited him in his earlier years when checking his core, John believed that the King was probably here due to the presence of a high talent personnel.
"He's either here to check for people who are too talented to end them, or intimidate the Ducal families to stop them from harboring any ideas," thought John, analyzing the situation.
"Now Young Lord, let me introduce you to some of the other successors…." Soon John and the maid arrived at his father's box.
"My Son!" a booming voice was heard in the box, "Come Over and sit next to me." Obeying his father, John sat next to his father. "I know you are excited son, but wait for just another few minutes then I use aether magic to send you to the middle of the stadium for the awakening. Don't be nervous, after all most of the people watching are vassals lower than you."
"Alright father," said John before settling down and observing the crowd. Perking up his ears, John circulated more aether through them. While experimenting the effects of aether recently, he had discovered that circulating a large number of aether could increase effects of an organ temporarily.
Listening for any pieces of knowledge or information, John quickly overheard some mid ranked nobles talking. "Did you hear about the impending invasion from the Ignis Empire?"
Introduced to the noble house, some vassals, as well as the crown. John uses his hearing to overhear some top secret info, confirming his suspicions, the Crown is very wary of him, but because of a war with a neighbouring country they need new fresh talent.
Core awakens, john's core automatically uses breathing technique, this difference between commoners and mages
John is given a name, John, totally coincidental, and is notified of his imminent departure to academy.