The ceremony would be held in the very center of the village.
Normally, this space served as a market where traders haggled and farmers displayed their crops, but today, it would become something far more significant.
Nearly every teenager who would be participating was either trembling with anticipation or flushed with excitement.
It was impossible not to feel the heavy air of expectation that hung over the village.
For many of them, this day was the culmination of all their hopes. Their fates would soon be decided, their futures carved out by whatever class they awakened.
Some could hardly contain their enthusiasm, laughing and chattering endlessly about the great classes they dreamed of obtaining.
Others were quieter, their faces tight with anxiety as they thought about the uncertainty ahead.
For every single one of them, this ceremony would be a turning point in their lives.
