Ascension Ceremony.
What can we tell about the said event?
Not much to be honest. One goes to a weird crystal ball, touch it, and sees if something happens.
"If you have magical energy dormant in your soul. Usually, you will understand how to use it, and it will be as if you are waking up from a long dream. So we call it Awakening to gain magical powers" said the teacher in charge of this event.
She looked like a woman in her forties, if Elizabeth didn't spend time with her mother and her friends she wouldn't notice her magical heritage either. If one paid attention it was easy to notice. The slightly pointed ears, the weird shine on her eyes...
The way her nose was pointy without being out of place...
"Psst...I think our teacher is a witch..." said the pink-haired girl to her left...
"What makes you think so?" asked the blonde girl, wondering which one of the points her friend had noticed. She was starting to doubt if she was indeed an airhead, and this was a good chance to test the waters.
"I mean, who else would dress in a long flowing robe and would use a pointed hat," said with all the confidence in the world her new friend...
And just like that, all the reasons why her friend wasn't an airhead went out of the window "Yeah, you might be into something" was all that she could say.
"On the other hand," said the drill sergeant who was, in reality, a crazy old man.
"If you have a special power hidden in your soul. Then you will feel like something is suddenly being turned on. So we call it a Trigger or 'Triggering' to said event. You will understand how to 'Trigger it on' or 'Trigger it off' after experiencing it. " She kinda thought it would have a more in-depth explanation.
But as her father said, you can't explain powers to a nonpowered individual, not even magical entities could understand the powers and their mechanics. They tried.
That was part of the reason why powered men married magical girls after all. Or why Magical Guardians married powered girls.
Not that they called themselves magical guardians, but most of the male magic users called themselves wizards or warlocks or something akin to that.
Like how older magical girls called themselves witches and stopped using frilly dresses and used robes like that teacher.
She hoped Mother would do the same soon enough...
But in Mother's words...Only a magical girl without talent does that. If you could rejuvenate your skin and body. Why wouldn't you do so?
So most of the witches either didn't have the talent or couldn't afford to pay other Magical Girls to cast the spell...
"We will start calling you and you will go through the Ascension Ceremony, you will get several chances to do this. So even if you don't get anything out of this trial. Don't despair, you could still awaken or trigger without this ceremony," said the witch in a sweet tone, trying to dismiss the worried faces around.
She didn't succeed, chances to trigger would diminish with age (Without danger to your life at least) and chances to Awaken would diminish faster (Unless you sold your soul to a demon or a god that is).
After 20 years it was almost impossible to awaken a magical talent, and while you could trigger...No one wanted to intern under someone younger than themselves.
So triggering after 20 meant going solo. And solo heroes...don't t live long.
But this doesn't matter to Elizabeth!
