Not to mention his unique talent and system, he is only an E-Rank. If he cultivates normally, he naturally can't surpass people like Mantle, Mac, Lucas, Luke. Not to mention, he is already two years late.
So his last option would be awakening his unique talent. But that doesn't mean he won't cultivate normally.
After all, even if it is an E-Rank talent, he can still train to improve his body. Innate Abilities are nothing more than a superpower. It doesn't make one immortal, it doesn't make one invincible, but it does make humans unique.
About superpowers, people generally think of them as an ability that can make a person superhero instantly. But what they do not know is the cost of being superhuman. It's not about morals, it's not about ideas. It's about your own body.
No one can become a superhero just because they have good morals or ideas, in the end, it all comes to their own body. If a person can't even use his superpower properly, there is no use of good morals or anything, especially when he is fighting for his life.
Mike has watched a lot of superhero movies and he has a pretty good idea of what a superpower represents. Training your body! It is the only thing that is common in most of the superhero movies he had watched. This is why humanity lost so much during the war against Alkiwon.
At that time, they vigorously used their superpower but in the end, they forget the basic need for a person to hold a superpower. Even if they had motives, even if they had willpower, nothing matters if you passed out in the middle of the fight.
This is why later, humanity slowly develop cultivation realms, learned more from the Alkiwon race about cultivation, and started the best way to use superpower. Since it's kind of a power given from birth, it has been called Innate Ability.
So Mike has basic knowledge of cultivation. Improving stamina and endurance is much more important than improving superpowers. But just when he was about to cultivate, Mike remembered something and suddenly stood up.
"I am now awakened and I need resources because of my talent. There is only one way to earn resources; Dungeons. It takes around eight hours to get registered. There are still fifteen days until Academic Registration begins until then I must improve my strength on my own."
"If I register as a hunter now, until tomorrow verification would be complete and I can directly get a chance to enter the dungeon," Mike murmured while he walked to his computer. Opening his computer, he went to Hunter's Guild Site and began to register.
In the vast universe, humans and Alkiwon aren't the only race that exists. There are countless other races, some of them are exactly from the myths such as Elves, Dwarfs, Dragon, Phoenixes, and so on. But unlike Alkiwon, these races can't enter this solar system.
So these races used a secret portal to come into the earth. Naturally, strong ones can't come because mutated earth doesn't allow it and strong ones won't even have an interest in the earth, so the ones who enter the portals are pretty weak among those races.
But even so, they are considered powerful compared to most humans. Hunter Guild is the main powerhouse that controls these dungeon's activities. These races have a core known as beast core which can improve the cultivation. Since these races slaughter humans as if they are enjoying doing so, they are called monster beasts by humans, no matter whether they are dragons or elves.
Not including core, the bodies of these monster beasts are very precious for any purpose. So why is registration needed? Not only because hunter guild has to manage them but also because of 'Ascending to Godhood'.
Since the monster race wants to kill humans, humans gave them a surprise by creating a virtual reality where the impact of fights between humans and monsters doesn't affect the earth and its people. Naturally, he doesn't know much about it.
So after he registered, he began to look for information about the 'Ascension to Godhood'. After half an hour minutes of constant scrolling, he got pretty good information about it.
Ascension to Godhood was the latest invention of humanity after the latest war that happened fifty years ago. At that time, dungeons began to appear and humanity had to fight back. Although humanity didn't suffer as much as the war against the Alkiwon, the economic condition of every continent dropped significantly.
Of course, many peoples died too. And this led to humans understand the cruelty of the war. Naturally, many people didn't care. But there were people, righteous people who care about the death of common people, people who wanted to live a normal life.
So, they gathered brains and superpowers from all over the world and finally created 'Ascension to Godhood'. Whenever portals appear, instead of walking into the earth, monsters were teleported to the virtual world.
It took ten years to complete but there was a certain problem. Now that monsters were sent to the virtual world, nobody wanted to go and provoke them for fun. Even though they understood the virtual world won't hold an enormous amount of monsters for a long time, nobody wanted to throw away their life.
So, those righteous people made another feature to this virtual world. Game experience, although people will die in this world, they can still earn EXP if they kill the monster. For higher talent people, it didn't matter but for those with lower talent, it gives them a forceful motive to enter the virtual world.
The only reason it was called virtual world was because of its current features, otherwise, it was no different than a different spatial dimension. After all, life and death are the things that make the real world truly real.
So, only when the game feature was launched, it looked more like a virtual world. Killing monsters, gaining experience and wealth, buying equipment and potions, everything was just a game in here. Of course, killing monsters, one can't take away those beast cores and beast bodies, they will only gain wealth and experience points.
But to enter the dungeon, you must find a quest. Quests are available randomly or in the Task Hall. But this game wasn't possible alone by human technologies. During those ten years to twenty years, humanity has sent thousands of King Realm powerhouses to steal technologies from Alkiwon.
After all, that race has been top in terms of technology. Unlike humans, Alkiwon or any other races are simply categorized in seven ranks, just like the core of the humans; F, E, D, C, B, A, and S. Each rank had five tiers; Low tier, Middle tier, High tier, Top tier, and Peak tier.
Normally, humanity has never faced S-Rank monsters or Alkiwon. They have only once faced A-Rank monsters, and it took ten emperor rank to take that monster down. It was also during the war fifty years ago.
When he read all those, he felt unreal for a moment. From countless novels and comics that he had read, he knows human hearts. For personal benefits, humans are willing to betray even their brothers and parents especially when it comes to power.
So when he read these facts, he was left stunned for a while.
'It seems, it is not about the race rather the individual. People tend to hurt others for benefits but that doesn't mean others will do the same. Mike, you have to remember this is not a novel or actions movies. I don't know why I get such a beautiful chance of transmigration but I am going to use this chance to its fullest.'
'Since I have a system that means I must be unique, so I must get powerful. After all, people like me tend to invite trouble for themselves.' Making up his mind, Mike turned off his computer and stood up. Now, he doesn't have a motive to cultivate rather he wanted to finish his exercise.
'What should I do first? Hmm! considering my current stamina, I could barely finish a hundred pushes and with the help of brute only. So, the best option would be masturbation. But..... but????'
'Fuck! This is killing me. I don't even dare to start. The system will never be incorrect but I still remember my death clearly. Alright mike, be a man! And shoot like a man!' Mike felt his heart conflicted, it was hard for him to decide whether he should do it or not.
'I must give it a try.' Saying that himself, he went to the bathroom.