When Tyler look at the mirror he hopes he saw his own face instead of a monster, what is the feeling of being born in your second life, complicated is the best word to describe it, he had a lot of problems and sometime he felt, he was still trapped inside his nightmare.
He once asked his mother. "Mom is it weird I never had a dream."
His mother who did notice this strangeness said.
"The doctor said it was peculiar condition but there's been nothing harmful because of it, so no honey, you are perfect as you are."
Tyler would be relieved with his mother word except in his last life he always had dreaming and all his dreams come as a nightmare. The amount of effort he done to solve this problem was huge, he had try all kind of method until he give up and accept the nightmare as the effect of a boy with hyper imagination.
There are many thing that made Tyler doubt about his new life but he has his own memory until adulthood and his new parent are real, his new world are real, he wasn't so degraded that he couldn't tell the difference between fantasy and reality.
His memory are useful in many aspects but that doesn't he like it memory. Merely because it prevents him from growing up normal, he tried his best, from acquiring friends, to listening to every wish of his parent, he hypnotized himself that the memories were just the imagination of a child, keeping deep inside his mind but it still fails.
The memories had influenced him even if he forget about it, he still couldn't grow as normal child.
To make a friend one need to be genuine, he has the mind of an adult and the experience of one, which means he could not fit in with his mate. The only thing he could do was to love his parent and as shitty as it sounds like, he successfully cultivates real love because they are better than his last parent.
The sun was high in the sky, and he was wearing a singlet and loose pant, his foot was touching the warm grass, sweat falling off his brow as he stabs his spear into the stake. He lives in nice suburbs, both of his parents are office worker with a good wage and when they heard their son want to be warriors and both of them protest.
At first, Tyler agrees to play along he still didn't want to rely on other in this dangerous world but the school became harder and harder to get trough and his parent, bless them, pretty understandable and sign him up into homeschooling where he would exercise and train to wield a spear.
After that Tyler and his parent, both came to an understanding, his parent never stops him from his wish and he tried his best to be the son they want even if he fails it very hard.
Today he was stabbing the stake like usual, converging all his power into one stab, his shoulder tensed, his leg glued to the earth and stab perfectly in the stake. Clang, the sound was ringing in his ear and the stake was vibrating so hard he could feel it with his leg.
He grasps his spear once again return to gathering all the force in his body then hearing his mother step behind but oddly she stops right in the door and didn't even greet him.
Tyler frown then follows his instinct and saw a big head with a sharp long beak staring at him, the monster was very similar to a pterodactyl, he could guess why the beast attracted to him but now he quickly changes his spear into a steel-tipped one and calculate the position of the pterodactyl wing and stab, he feels his spear stab trough the fence then thin muscle and he knew the beast didn't have the sky advantage anymore.
Still barefoot he jumped out his fence and run into the street and he could already hear the sound of battle, the monster comes from space crack that first appeared one hundred years ago, unfortunately, the earth heritage was too poor compared with another world, their path is technology path but they are too young making humanity fall into the bottom food chain again.
Tyler roll on the ground to avoid the one-meter beak that stabs in the road.
"Ringggggg." Tyler quickly move his body and stab the monster eye while it still lifting his head, he sighs in relief and almost rolls his eye at the legendary late alarm, they are never on time at reminding everyone when monsters came and it was never told if a computer or a real person who sound it so the citizen never knew where to throw their complaint.
"Are you okay son?"
"Yes, sigh, never mind." He said looking at his mother who was peeking at the door, she was a medium-tall woman, with clear skin that rarely sees the sun, her hair was short and dyed and he wonders which Aunt was whispering to her ear.
He looked down at his shoulder and saw a long line wound, and when he was fighting he didn't this wound but it was clear he didn't avoid the beak completely, after all, what you expect from a boy with no teacher and only saw some training in his Internet.
He sits down on the porch of his house and saw his mother start cleaning his wound and covering it with a bandage. After that she gets inside the house and locks the door, if it was in the previous world, he would spit blood by her mother action but in this world, it was kind of common sense.
The monster is invaders, they come to the earth to search for food and their best food of course the one with high energy which is the warriors. Tyler hasn't stepped into this realm but his physical energy was much more than any civilian.
He stares at the dead carcass of the beast, it looks like a pterodactyl, its eye was destroyed but most of its body was intact, it had blue fur on its back, the wing had a span of one meter and the beak take the third part of the body.
He counts on his head how much money he got and it was around 500 Unit, the Unit is the new currency of the world, it spoke how much human was beaten down that they forget all their grievance and truly united in these troubled time.
Five units equal one bread that could be eaten for a day, after all, the low-level beast getting more and more plentiful, all of their use had been found and they only worth their meat and bonus merit for the warriors who kill them.
He saw the neighbourhood guard come to take the carcass after their battle and told him, his money would be sent to his account.
"Good luck on your awakening, we would welcome you to the mechanical guild." Said the guard, she was a thirty-year-old woman with a prosthetic leg and exoskeleton armour giving him a business card to the guild.
"No little brother, your sixteen birthday near right, our Martial Hall are more suitable for you." One of the big uncles also gives him a businesses card that he accepts.
Under the blessings of Earth will everyone in their sixteen will awaken their embryo of supernatural power, it was once called superpowers but it had become an outdated term.
Human in this world like the mutant in x-men, it was random like in the comic and the use was also as basic as the mutant, you control fire shoot it like a fireball, you control ice shoot icicles but thanks to the great uncle Hammer everything had changed, one man with his huge hammer convinced everyone to pool their resources and grow together.
After all, they're human not a monkey who could only use a stick as a weapon, at the first appearance of the portal and the superpower was in the year of 2012, everyone had a huge ego, suddenly from an ordinary person to demigod who can control elements no one wants to get back to their ordinary life especially with the coming of F and S rating the Warriors at that time only make them more arrogant until Uncle Hammer came to do the impossible, use science to boost his power.
With his great hammer, he forces the majority of people to create a guild, an organization with people of the same power to create coherent and cohesive power systems in their own genre, like the elemental guild, the martial guild, the sea fare guild, summoning guild, ect.
After ten years Uncle Hammer name was praised by the mass because an incredible fact was discovered, every junior that was trained in the guild would one hundred percent awakened their respective guild power systems.
Like an apprentice in elementalist guild would awaken an elemental embryo, so was the martial hall they would awaken an embryo that suits their martial genre.
It was said that if uncle Hammer didn't take action there was a great chance the society would become a strong eat the weak world, where the class will be divided by talent rating.
Tyler looked at the card and sigh, there are pro and con joining the guild, the pro was he would get stronger and the cons were his parent never openly supported his decision and it was pricey to be trained with the guild and unless you have real relationships you probably become their cannon fodder.
At least if you join after you awakened you would get more right.
"Come here, mommy had made cookies for you." Said his mother who had changed into a dress and put a glass of milk and plate of cookie.
"Thanks, mom." He feels he was too old for such treatment but he takes the plate and the milk in front of the TV and while he digest his experience fighting the monster, pointing his flaw and create several options where he could do better especially avoiding injuries.
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