I awoke to find myself in the dirt covered in bruises behind a building probably a school by the look of it looking at myself I realized I don't recognize these hands before I could process anything else a headache that feels like someone stuck a branding iron into my brain occurred and all the memories of the previous owner flooded into my mind apparently my name is Hector sixteen years old I live in a poor sector of the city attending a low grade school but none of that was really important.
What did matter was the fact that this world had heros, villains and monsters that doesn't even include all the other crazy shit that exist in this world there are various ways to have power some have advanced technology others mutant abilities even martial artists control sectors through brute force but I don't think there are any real cultivators in this world as martial artists gain their power not only through martial arts but special elixirs that cleanse and improve the body so that they can use internal energy.
Apparently it was discovered that humanity couldn't cultivate naturally because of the generations of processed foods and products creating immovable toxins preventing natural energy from flowing into the body so when natural energy reawakened in the world almost all life evolved causing an apocalypse even ancient corpses began to awaken as they didn't possess the same toxins as modern humans, humanity was forced into walled cities to survive for a time eventually someone figured out how to create an elixir to cleanse the body which allowed humans to gain the gift of natural energy but even these weren't perfect and had various grades and it still didn't guarantee you could gain anything as most lived without powers.
Unfortunately my household was too poor to afford it, that wasn't exactly true his mother and father were dead I was currently living in a one bedroom one bathroom apartment under the guardianship of my uncle who stole my inheritance and lives in a nicer safer district on the other side of the city with a personal radiant energy system in his home to keep him and his family safe from monsters and other abominations while just yesterday the public radiant energy system in my neighborhood was knocked out and one family was torn to shreds with everyone in the neighborhood wondering if they were next.
Clearly my life needed alot of of changes if I didn't want to suffer for the rest of my very unlikely long life with that I followed my new memories to my new home it had an unnatural cold that wasn't because of the temperature as it was was quite warm although an ordinary individual wouldn't be able to distinguish these facts but Hector was a reincarnated demonic cultivator that specializes in such matters clearly the radiant energy system hadn't been repaired yet as he could feel the dark energy slowly begin to gather.
Rather than stepping into the trap that this creature has set up Hector carefully maneuvered his way through the room to retrieve the life savings of the original Hector who had been working different part-time jobs scrimping and saving in order to buy cleansing liquid it was also the reason he was covered in bruises now apparently some of the local bullies found out about his savings and wanted to rob him fortunately or unfortunately depending how you look at Hector didn't have any money on him as he was getting ready to leave school for his next shift and didn't like carrying any money fearing exactly this scenario the bullies were pissed that he didn't have any money and beat Hector to death without even realizing it.
The reason I am here risking my new lease on life for what is most likely a paltry sum was two reasons first it originally belonged to Hector and now I am Hector second those bullies were following me most likely to break in and steal it so I planned to confront them but since there is a creature with malicious intent hiding here I'll just let both groups meet while sneak away with the prize.
Just as I suspected one of those gutter rats was following me I saw his face when I finally left the school grounds he was one of the bullies that regularly harass people like Hector he had a malicious smile as he followed me as soon as he confirmed where I lived he ran back to get his friends I hid near by to watch the show as those assholes cost me an easy job Hector got the job from the old man that owned the store but his son didn't like Hector and looked for excuses to fire him constantly finding fault with Hector even if the owner's son knew that he was late because of he was attacked he would still fire Hector for being late.