In the small town of Wavemeet, in a small side street, in a small dusty apartment which looks like it could fall anytime, in the small 1BHK apartment, sitting on an expensive gaming chair is a young adult of age 18.
He is 5.9, with a fair complexion, if you disregard his dark bags due to gaming all night and a skinny body due to imbalance diet and his dusty and ruffled dark hair and his soulless emerald eyes, he is quite handsome, sharp eye brows, a light mustache, sharp and beautiful row of sharp white teeth.
His name is Alex Backway…an orphan, his parents died by a truck accident which occurred when he was 15 yrs old, when during a festival, he went to get something to drink while his parents were crossing a road, the driver being drunk during festival, fell asleep while driving causing the truck to run over his parents.
His aunt or uncle, nobody wanted to adopt him. His father is from a rich family but had zero talent in any field so he was mostly forsaken by grandpa…and as nobody wanted to take care on an extra burden, they gave him some money and threw him out.
He left the High school right after the incident and now lives on the money, inherited by him from his father.
Sitting up from chair, Polaris shuts down his trusty gaming laptop and packs it up, he starts winding up his messy room, filled with plastic leftover noodles cups, tissues, and Vaseline bottles…
Alex goes to his washroom to take a bath after 4 days…he turns on the shower and, " Owh! Feels really good!" and as his hands reach for the shampoo, his fingertips touch nothing but air.
"Oh, yeah right…I forgot it's the end of month, I will have to do a monthly grocery shopping. Sigh!"
He walks out of the shower and tidies up, wears a black plain hoodie and a plain cotton pants and checks his wallet, "Hmm, should be enough for 1 or 2 months more I guess if I keep my budget to only a 150$ per week, worse case I will sell my family's house."
He puts on his slippers and walks towards a small grocery store across the street, it looks quite like a place where most shady business happens, dim light, couple kids smoking in back alleys, rats running and mostly expired shit on the cupboards and a fat, stench full, bare-chested, middle aged man sitting at the counter.
The middle-aged man glanced at Alex and went back on smoking his old class big cigar and started coughing…similarly Alex disregarding the aged man went straight to the ramen aisle and started searching for maruchan noodles, though not the best was cheap and easily available, he gets 12 cups of it and 4 energy drink and 2 packets of 1 litre bottle and pays total of 29.23$ and walks out holding a bunch of stuff.
He walks towards his apartment, enters it and drops it on the sofa and stretches his back and looks at his phone and sighs, "Maybe I should get a screen replacement" but quickly discarded that thought seeing his money issues right now.
He picks up a cup of a noodle and starts boiling water, he pours it in the cup and sits on the bed and closes his eye.
Suddenly, "Arghhhhh!" he screams with hoarse voice, his throat suddenly starts burning, he clutches it and tries to crawl towards the glass of water on the table, his eyes start changing from emerald to red to blue to emerald, his skin starts stretching and collapsing, it starts tearing as he is crawling, slowly by slowly nothing remains by the time he reaches the glass of water and painfully picks up the glass and pours it in his mouth only to shout again with another painful scream, hot steam escapes out of his mouth... he grunts and lies down slowly closing his eyes. You could see his muscles all exposed and his body releasing immense steam!
His scream reached and far wide on the street and the apartment some good hearted man must have thought somebody is injured and need medical assistance so calls for ambulance.
*Dash* *Dash* *sirens*
Alex falls unconscious...
"Alex…."
"Come Here…"
"You are my Last hope…"
"Accept my gift!"
Alex looks around him only to discover that he is in a totally dark room except there is a small glimmer of light opposite to him calling him in a old hoarse voice.
"Accept my inheritance, that's the only way you could survive in what is going to come to your world soon."
A ring comes out the shinning corridor.
"I have no time left anymore, you have to continue my legacy, all the things you will need to know are in here, just promise me that you will do me a favor, this ring will tell you what you need!"
Alex was first stunned and then he grew excited, "Yes! I promise! I promise!" without asking anything he promises, he thought it was one of those of wuxia cliché of an elder giving him almighty good stuff or it may just be a dream so, cough cough no harm in trying right?
"Good child, now take it and survive!", oblivious to his inner thought the ring flew and went into this index finger.
He observed the ring, it was a normal platinum ring with an emerald shine to it, if sold will be worth at least a couple tens of thousand dollars.
"Hello, Mr. Alex, are you awake?" said a soft voice.
Alex grunted and slowly opened his eyes, "Where am I?"
"In Wavemeet hospital" said the soft voice again.
Alex opened his eyes only to see a white wall and a door and middle-aged women in the coat of doctor standing beside his bed.
"What happened to me? Why am I here?" asked Alexwhile slowly trying to sit up.
"You had a huge mental collapse and were unconscious, The CT scans gave nothing!" said the doctor looking at him curiously waiting for explanation.
"I don't know, I don't remember" Alex looks at his left hand's index finger and notices his ring finger…and grins internally but shows a confused expression outside.
"Can I go home?" asked Alex with a tired expression.
"Sure, just pay the bill at the front counter" said the doctor indifferently.
Alex stands up and shakingly walks to dressing room to get his clothes.
The doctor gazes at him for a while before saying, "You have beautiful eyes" and leaves.
Alex just stares say, "Thanks I guess." Before walking away too.
While walking home Alex looks at his wallet and thinks, "Nowadays the hospitals know how to scam you more professionally than actual scammers, for just a bottle of glucose and a day stay they charged me 800$, there goes my 1 month of groceries and games, tsk but whatever." he stares at his ring in the index finger and thinks "So I guess the dream like scenario actually happened."
Alex tries to take the ring out of his index finger but he couldn't as its almost like somebody stitched it into his bones. After trying to take it out for 20 minutes with heavy breathing he finally gives up and thinks, "This ring is not made up of platinum at all! This is truly one of those magical rings said in novel…I remember the old voice was saying something about surviving in the apocalypse?" while thinking and walking suddenly-
[Good afternoon, host! My name is System, I am your personal assistant to help you survive your ordeal to become one the pillar of humanity!]
[My sole purpose of creation is to lead the chosen one! You are the chosen one host!]
Alex hearing this, has his jaw drop a status panel opens in front of him!
[ Name: Alex Backway ]
[Age: 18]
[Sex: Male]
[ Attributes :
Strength: 8(10)
Agility: 9(10)
Stamina: 10(10)
Dexterity:11(10)
Vitality:10(10)
Intelligence: 12(10)
Talents : No talents currently. ]
Alex just stood there for a couple of second with glimmer in his eyes and mouth agape…Its all real!