A world where everyone gains abilities at a young age. Different races fought against each other for land and supremacy. After 1000 years of war, 15 powerful individual divided the world to 15 different empires. The strongest became the rulers and those who wish to be the new rulers had to either prove their worth to the current ruler or take it from them using force.
The academy of Manifesting And Generating Individuals' Capabilities, or MAGIC, is the largest academy in the empire of the 13th ruler. The youth with powerful backgrounds come here to manifest their abilities and the strongest who retire their dungeon hunting career come here to teach the next generation.
At the age of 15, the youth gets invited to MAGIC to awaken their powers and get recruited to MAGIC or other academies. If you manifest an ability strong enough, you would be recruited to MAGIC. Those who didn't reach that level, or have average abilities, are recruited by other academies. Finally, the useless abilities return from where they came from to live normal lives.
Reivion, one of the students who are at the MAGIC to go through awakening, is waiting in the crowd for his turn while looking at the center of the stage where there is a large gravestone with glowing letters in a unknown language.
The gravestone is called "Hero's Sacrifice". The name was given because that was suppose to be the grave of the hero who fought and contributed to our current peace. The reason it is here instead of a cemetery is because the Hero asked for this. Before he died he collected his last energy, and using his ability, created a orb that glowed dark gray. He then gave it to his closest friend and said to place it in his grave.
It was not on purpose but due to this, the grave had an unknown ability to awaken someone's ability earlier than what was natural. This also had the ability to awaken people who may never know had one or didn't have one in the beginning.
"Jessica Bradford!"
People got called one at a time and brought down to the grave to awaken their ability.
"Your ability is Ice Haven. An ability that can fully control ice to create a safe haven for you and your people. Next!"
The teacher who called the student aided them to awaken their ability and then would tell the student that awaken their ability's name and description, but only to the student. Some do not want to reveal their abilities, so the name stay between the academy and the student.
"Reivion... Um... No last name!"
"Oh! I'm next!"
I got up and quickly made my way down.
"Place your hand on the grave and try to sense the orb in the grave", said the teacher
I did what he said and placed my hand on the grave. I closed my hand and tried to sense the orb. Immediately, I felt a power surge in me.
'My ability is awakening!', I shouted in my head.
Then I opened my eyes, but it was pitch black still. Then I realized I was floating in space. Surrounded by twinkling stars and galaxies far away.
'What? Is this my ability?'
I sensed it. A feeling of connection between me and everything. I stretched my hands toward a twinkling star and closed my fist. I felt it. I collapsed the star I was reaching at, but I could not see because it was too far away. So I sped up time. And then I saw it. The star blew up and shone brighter than ever, then it shrunk and shrunk and shrunk, until it collapsed on itself and became a black hole.
"Reality"
That was my ability. I could change everything around me to whatever I want.
'What a terrifying power and it seems I am not even tired. Did my ability transformed me to adapt to this ability? No. Reality just change for me to become capable.'
Then I opened my eyes again. I was back in MAGIC.
"Your ability is Imagination. An ability that permits your imagination to create or destroy your surroundings. The only limit is your imagination and your amount of mana. Congrats. Next!"
I then left the stage and sat back down. I purposely hid my ability. Don't want to call unwanted attention from the academy. Well, not too much. Imagination was a good substitute. Similar abilities but a tad weaker. Imagination depends on the owners intelligence and knowledge and mana. Reality does not even depends on the laws of reality. Instead, it is an ability that changes to the laws of the universe.
'Guess this is the beginning of something fun.'
I said while I used my ability to create another ability: Eyes of the arrival. An ability that can see what is to come, the future. I saw what was to come and though I didn't see much details, cause I want it to be a surprise to a certain extent, I saw something that if anyone else would know, would fear for humanities survival.
'Guess what happened 1000 years ago was just a precursor to what is to come.'