"January 5, 2021, a strange event occurs on Earth. A great explosion from the core of the Earth affects the entire planet, taking with it the lives of countless people who could not support the energy that this explosion released.
Humanity quickly fell into chaos, but the governments of each country were able to arrive on time and manage to calm the situation of their population. With the debris from the explosion still in the crust of the planet, an investigation by mankind was carried out that lasted many years. An answer was never found as to what was the meaning or function of this released energy.
Time passed and people completely forgot about this existence, or just ignored it most of the time. Although it couldn't be seen with the naked eye, it could still be felt. With society slowly returning to what it was, all was peace until a certain day came.
February 18, 2122, an extraterrestrial species invades planet Earth for no apparent reason, leading the latter to a great war against invaders. These invaders would later become known as "Mukars"
Humans with no other way than to defend themselves using nuclear bombs to counter the Mukars, lose all hope of winning this war. But amid all the chaos, a miracle occurs that managed to turn the balance in this fight. Humans searching for all possible ways to fight the invaders, completely forgot about the existence of the unknown energy that was discovered dozens of years ago.
During their war, they were unconsciously constantly absorbing this mysterious energy into their bodies, specifically their soul. Humans could not realize this, but their invaders could. They increased their level of attack on humanity, but with all their efforts they managed to defend each attack, at the cost of many lives.
In the thirty-sixth attack of the Mukars, the humans broke the limits of their existence, awakening their hidden potentials with which they could defend themselves and attack the Mukars. With this, they managed to end this continuing war. " Joseph finished his speech.
"Very good, Joseph. We will end the class, you can go home. Remember to prepare for your awakening tomorrow and do not forget to prepare for your next school "said the teacher of the class.
With that said, all the students excitedly left the room and went home. Except for Joseph and a boy who was still sitting in the corner of the room.
This kid was 14 year old Ethan, he looks normal. Black hair, black eyes and a normal face, neither ugly nor pretty. If he were in public he would not attract attention, unlike Joseph. A handsome boy, with blond hair and eyes as blue as the sky.
Seeing that no one was in the room, Joseph with a pleasant smile on his face, slowly approached Ethan's seat. Once beside Ethan, he sat down at his table and spoke into his ear.
"You know, we won't see each other for a long time. I was looking forward to giving you one last unforgettable gift, would you like to see it? " Joseph said, speaking to Ethan. Of course, still keeping that smile on his face.
Ethan hearing this, simply fell silent and continued sitting in his seat. His black eyes, although they were conscious, gave no sign of wanting to stay alive. Joseph seeing this, his smile widened and he slowly got off Ethan's table. He stepped to the side of Ethan, grabbed his shirt and threw him to one of the walls of the room.
* PAM *
Ethan's body was heard slamming into the wall, followed by spewing some blood on the floor. Ethan's body was very thin, he suffered a bit from malnutrition, so that kind of blow did too much damage to his body.
Seeing some blood vomit, Joseph scoffed. "So weak, you gross me out, garbage. I don't know what kind of parents you had, but they must be trash just like you, hahaha "
When Ethan heard this, in his dead eyes, a hint of fury and killing intent could be seen. But it was for a short moment and he was already gone. Joseph, not seeing this, continued to tease Ethan, but he continued to sit on the ground and ignore him. He didn't even try to wipe the little bits of blood in his mouth.
Being ignored by Ethan, Joseph got angry and prepared to hit Ethan. But before his beating could begin, a school announcement rang out.
"The school doors will close at 7 PM. Students who are still in the building are asked to leave. "
"Tsk, you were saved, bug" Joseph insulted and left the room in the direction of his house. Time passed and Ethan slowly rose from the ground as he wiped the blood from him. Body weak and reluctant, he left the living room and went to his house. On the way out of the school, he could only avoid the look of contempt from the students close to him.
Once out of school, he went home, which more than home was an apartment near his school. When he was outside the apartments, he couldn't help but frown upon seeing the building, specifically his apartment.
There, he could see a man putting a warning message on his stall, which read as follows: "For sale"
Observing this, he could only sigh for the injustices of society. He entered the building and climbed floor by floor. On the way, he passed the man who had put that sign on his door, but he just ignored him. He couldn't do anything, he didn't have the strength or the money to fight the tenant, just like Ethan's neighbors.
That man was the owner of the apartments, when he needed money, he went from department to department putting a "For Sale" sign on the doors, although they had already paid him for the month, he still did. There was once a neighbor who complained about this, but the next day he was seriously injured and thrown out of his apartment. Since then, nobody said anything and they paid every time the sign was put on their doors.
Although the poster was put up in every department, ninety percent of the time, it was put up in Ethan's apartment. He was obviously angry and frustrated by this situation. He wanted to leave, but he couldn't, since for that he would have to have more money and the other hotels were too expensive for Ethan, therefore, he had no choice but to stay here.
Once inside his apartment, he went to the corner of it and took out a small book along with a pencil that were hidden. He sat on his bed and began to write.
"Year 5, Day 246. Dad, Mom, I miss you so much. You don't know how difficult it is to live without you… "Ethan was writing in her notebook, but suddenly she stopped and tears began to fall from her eyes into the notebook.
Although humans have managed to win the war against the Mukars after their first awakening, with the expansion of humanity in the universe, they eventually continued to fight them. During their fight five years ago, Ethan's parents were called to war, which left Ethan too sad, who was only nine years old at the time.
One day after returning from his school, he was greeted at his old home by a soldier with a message in his hands that was delivered to Ethan.
The message stated that, during the fight, Ethan's parents were kidnapped by the Mukars during a surprise attack and no more was heard from them. Faced with such an announcement, little Ethan could only cry every day for the kidnapping of his parents, he stopped going to school and spent most of the day crying at home. From time to time he would go out to buy food with the money his parents left behind.
At the age of twelve when he finally went to school, unaware of the time he had spent inside his house, he realized that he was far behind in his education. His school, without wanting to waste time and effort for an orphan, decided to continue with his class, which by now was well advanced. Which led to him becoming an object of ridicule from his peers for being "dumb" or "stupid", although Ethan was very intelligent and a fast learner.
The teasing was just the beginning, as the kids who were frustrated by school decided to make Ethan their prey. Beating him and leaving him with injuries constantly at school, there were times when he tried to ask for help from his teachers, but this simply told him things like "Do not disturb", "I do not care" etc.
Since then, he lost all his will to live and hid all his emotions, an invisible mask of seriousness fell on his face, although he continued to go to his school. Over time, his money slowly depleted, to the point where he had no choice but to sell his parents' house, which was intentionally bought by his uncles, who at no time gave him any help.
With money from his old home, he rented an apartment near his school. Two years have passed since then, he is now fourteen. Because of the money he made from selling his house, he refrained from buying food, and because of that, he now suffered from malnutrition.
But he didn't care, with all his events, he lost all hope of staying alive. He decided to give his awakening one last chance, which would happen tomorrow, and if it didn't work, he would commit suicide.
The awakening would occur early tomorrow at the entrance of his school, if one managed to awaken a useful potential, he would have infinite opportunities to be successful in his future. If a person awakened a potential trash, they would become the lower class of society, although they would still have more opportunities than the unawakened.
The unawakened were the people, who, as their name suggests, failed to awaken their potential. Without their awakened potential, they were categorized worse than the lower class, they were similar to slaves or ants. If you didn't have a middle or upper class family, it was difficult for you to survive in society.
The unawakened generally had two options. One, serve in the army for five years and then enlist in war, or sell yourself as a slave to a renowned family.
The second option would be that you would also sell yourself as a slave to a renowned family, but there were few people who have chosen this option.
Since as you well know, they were similar to slaves, so if they directly followed the second option, they would be overexploited and taken to the limit of their body, which would imminently kill them.
There were three types of awakened, namely; Inanimate, magical, and empowering. Each of these was separated by different ranges, which would be the following: S, A, B, C, D, E and F.
Inanimate awakened objects were those that simply did not contain life and had to be used manually. Although in their next evolutions they managed to develop life, they could not make decisions for themselves and could only engage in small conversations with their carriers.
Magic items were those that could use their host's mana to perform spells, which could be used as attack, defense, aid, etc. These contained some life and if they reached C rank, they could generate some intelligence, managing to move and making independent decisions.
Enhancers were those that inserted different types of energies into their body to improve themselves, achieving superhuman speeds or enormous forces. Depending on where in your body you exert that energy, you would have different results.
Each awakened human being could awaken any type, but what made them different from the others, were their ranks. Each awakened potential was separated into two ranges.
Ranges of growth and power. For example, if a person awakens the inanimate type, and it is a wooden sword, it would immediately be classified in rank F, one of the lowest due to its power. But if it managed to achieve a growth rank S, it could evolve six times until it reached rank S where its power would be incredible. Improving its durability and strength.
Although all potentials could reach the S rank of power, depending on their growth range, it would cost more or less resources to reach. But not everything was with respect to rank, since you had to have patience and enough resources for their potentials, something that few could achieve. And depending on the type of potential that you have awakened, it will cost you different types of resources.
Ethan once stopped crying. He ate all that was left in his fridge, which was a few fruits and some water. He sat on his bed and began to feed.
His room was too small, being three meters square. Even if it was not enough for what he paid, it was enough for him, since he only needed light, a bathroom, a bed and a desk.
The snowfall he had was one of the few things his uncles managed to give him when they bought his house. Finishing his little feast and looking out his window that the day was coming to an end. He took a short shower, got dressed, and went to sleep.
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The warm morning light came through Ethan's window and crashed into his face, waking him up. Opening his eyes slowly, he fixed his gaze on the sunlight and could deduce that it was between seven thirty, and eight.
He got up, took off his pajamas, and dressed in his dirty uniform. Sighing at his poor presentation, he withdrew from his apartment and headed to his school.
Again ignoring the gaze of the people on the street, he was able to make it to the school, which at this point was full of people due to waking up today.
Eyes dead, he joined the line at the entrance after showing his ID to his school guard.
As he formed, he couldn't help leaning a bit to the side to see ahead, but before he could see who was ahead, a tall guy blocked his vision.
Ethan a little irritated, looked up at the big boy and could see him smiling with a face of contempt. Angry, he just ignored it and waited for his turn to come. Which came after an hour had passed.
At this time the sun had already risen in all its splendor, making the students who were still in the middle of the line and at the end sweat, including Ethan.
When he arrived in front, he could see a person dressed in a black formal suit and white shirt, on his chest he had the government insignia, which was the image of planet Earth and a rocket on top of it. In front of this person was a table and on top of it was a blue crystal. This blue crystal was a means to insert mana into the body of the person, so that it could stimulate their potential and wake up.
This could only be achieved by those who have awakened the magic type and managed to reach rank D.
"Get both hands on the ball, kid," the guy in uniform said to Ethan.
Ethan listened to what he said and put both hands on the ball. The child seeing this, nodded and did the same. The two pairs of hands were on either side of the crystal ball, the guy in uniform started to insert mana into the crystal which was then sent to Ethan's body.
The latter, feeling the mysterious energy enter his body, frowned a little. Unconsciously he closed his eyes and began to concentrate.
He entered a mystical state and managed to see his mind. Everything was blue like the sea, the space seemed infinite. He felt relaxed and happy, suddenly, he heard the voice of the boy in uniform again.
"What can you see?" asked the boy.
"Blue, an infinite blue" Ethan replied. Hearing this, the boy raised his eyebrows a little surprised, but did not interrupt his work.
"What else?" asked the boy.
"Just that, nothing more" Ethan replied even with his eyes closed. Hearing this, the guy stopped transmitting mana and Ethan's mystical state was immediately shut off. Ethan slowly opened his eyes and could see the look full of contempt on the boy's face.
"So you're not awake," the guy said to Ethan dismissively.
Ethan hearing this, felt something in his heart break. He already knew what this was, his last hope. All of this happened inside him, he showed nothing on his face and just nodded to the officer and stepped out of line.
As he slowly walked away, he could see the students behind Ethan at that moment, being searched. Some were happy, some were sad, and some indifferent weirdos like Ethan. But inside they showed their true emotions.
As the line advanced, he could see that it was his goon Joseph's turn. When he was examined, Ethan could hear the examiner yell in surprise and some joy.
"Awakened magic type and B-rank growth, woah, you have a great future, boy!" yelled the examiner.
The students that were nearby were shocked and began to mutter among themselves.
Ethan could only make a wry smile at this, apparently good things happen to bad people. With sadness in his heart, he headed home.
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