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Chapter 5 - The Beginning

It was a day before the apocalypse as Felix began preparing everything he needed for the apocalypse.

But there wasn't much to prepare, there weren't any ways to get his hands on firearms easily in his country nor is there a way to get cold weapons. Even if he had sword, when the rank 2 creatures will appear it will be useless thus Felix didn't even bother to search for a way to get his hands on one.

In his apartement he had a whetstone so he used it to sharpen one of his knives in the kitchen that was decent sized of about 30 centimeters long.

He also had some leather gloves, he didn't even know he had them but it was a good thing as he could give this to Kate who rather use her fists and legs instead of weapons.

Then he gathered some water bottles, bought canned food and bought more water bottles and some sacks of rice. You might ask why he bought sacks of rice that will hinder their journey greatly, but that is because the landscape in the apocalypse will greatly change.

Earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis and eruptions will occur all over the world that caused fear in the peoples's minds. but that wasn't the thing that shocked people compared to the fact that no one got any injuries from these 'natural' disasters.

Even if you got flattened by a boulder shot out from the volcano, you will be fine without any injuries.

After that some time people concluded that those disasters won't cause any harm to anyone but when they checked their surroundings new landscapes appeared, mountains fell and rose, islands appeared all over the world, the continents splitted into more lands at the speed visible to the naked eye.

And around 2 days walking distance including all the obstacles they will encounter from his apartement will be a giant cave appearing with some valuable crystals.

Felix isn't really worried that it might be already occupied by beasts or people because it was pretty good hidden covered by thick vines and tall grass.

When he got there with his sister the previous lifetime it was empty but they were kicked out of it because some people followed them and stole their place. He and Kate couldn't do anything because they had 3 people in the initial stage of rank 3 while Kate was only at the initial stage of rank 2.

And he was an ordinary man without any fighting experience neither did he had fighting techniques at the time.

Felix then stuffed everything in a bag and held the sacks of rice and a map. Though the map may be useless, it could give a very rough direction where he needed to go.

Felix grabbed his phone and called Kate.

''Come to my apartement'' Said Felix.

''Why? The apocalypse should happen tomorrow right?'' Asked Kate confused.

''Precisely at 12 AM, thus around 5 hours''

''Are you kidding me!? Couldn't you said that earlier?! I could eat more desserts if I knew that'' Screamed Kate with sorrow.

''You can buy some at the city we are going to at a 7/11 store.'' Said Felix a bit impatiently.

''N-no, I mean those fancy desserts in restaurants or something like that, anyways I am coming'' Kate quickly hung up and sprinted towards Felix's apartement that was only 20 minutes walking distance from her student dorms.

After arriving at Felix's apartement she saw him at his car waving at her indicating for her to hurry up and sit in the car.

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After Felix saw that Kate was sitting in his car, he immediately drove to city B where the giant cave was located somewhere. At first he was planning that they would be running and walking towards the cave but remembered that they still had some time left so he could drive their directly with his car without any effort.

''You didn't left any stuff behind right?'' Asked Felix for the last time.

''No, just brought some water bottles and thats it.'' Kate couldn't remember any valuable stuff she had left behind and thus was just sitting here looking at her phone the whole time as she heard that she won't be able access her phone anymore for some time, only after some guys called elementalists will recharge it for her.

She didn't know what her brother meant but she didn't focus her attention on that and just continued staring at her phone playing some games.

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Felix and Kate arrived at City B with no accidents, though Felix didn't have much left of the money, it was still enough to buy Kate some desserts that she wanted to eat before the apocalypse will begin.

After that, Felix parked the car around the edge of the city where a quite big forest nearby was.

Felix looked at his phone and saw that it was 11: 58 PM, meaning that they had 2 minutes left until the apocalypse.

Kate putted her phone in her pocket as the battery just died, she picked up the leather gloves and wore it with a statisfied expression when she discovered that it fitted her nicely.

Felix had his sharpened knife that he sharpened in the kitchen around his belt and the bag full of the food and drinks they prepared.

Felix exhaled air and after that he immediately the ground shaking, not only he but Kate and the few people around them too.

The shaking quickly escalted as buildings began cracking freaking most people out, screams were basically everywhere after 2 minutes.

A hurricane was also coming from the distance that once again, scared the people who are running in the direction where the hurricane is coming from.

The earth beneath the roads began to get teared by an unknown force resulting in the surface to break apart.

Felix still stood at the same spot where he was with an iron grip, while Kate was hugging him tightly scared what was happening.

'Oh, yeah. Forgot to tell her that this would happen' Thought Felix without any guilt. He looked at the direction where the giant cave should be as he thought 'I think it would be done after the 'natural disasters' so about 20 minutes?'

Felix again looked at the direction of the city where chaos and screams were basically everywhere. ''Sigh~'' He then moved away from his spot walking casually towards the location of the giant cave where he thought it would be with Kate still hugging him very tightly getting dragged away.