Hearing the question he asked, Lily suddenly felt a pang of disappointment well up within her heart, which baffled her a little.
She didn't understand why, but it was just there, but at the same time, she also couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.
"Young master, it's currently the year 2076, and we are in the month of early July". As soon as he heard those words, Ethan felt like he had been struck by lightning as he stiffened a little. If what she was saying is true, then something inconceivable had happened to him.
"Young master, why are you so stiff? Furthermore, why are you asking such questions?" Lily said as she found it weird after further analysis.
"Oh! Don't worry about it, it's fine. I think I got a headache, so I forgot, anyway, am fine". He replied with a wry smile as his body suddenly loosened up.
Lily sighed in relief that nothing was wrong with him.
"Hey lily! What's today's date?" He asked another question. "Oh, it's Friday, young master. Oh! And also, it's national Awakened day, so you aren't supposed to go to school today!" She replied as she didn't find anything off about the question.
"National Awakened day, huh!?" He mumbled as in deep thought.
"In that case, then I am going to sleep in for the day. I think I need to rest a bit". He said, as he took in a sleeping position. Seeing this, Lily nodded and left, as she wanted to avoid disturbing him. Although he was acting weird, she didn't think too much about it and just attributed it to the problems he was facing.
Besides, he never really left the house due to his condition
She closed the door and left Ethan to sleep. However, Ethan currently wasn't sleeping at all. He just sat there and stared towards the ceiling, even though he couldn't see anything.
What was he doing? Well…. He was pondering.
"If what is happening is really what I think it is, then... Things will be somewhat tricky". He had two theories about what was happening.
Theory one, there was either a psycho guy who wanted to get revenge on him for stealing his woman or something.
And he trapped inside some kind of illusion or some crazy lady who was also doing the same thing to satisfy some kind of fetish.
Or the more crazy theory, he had time travelled or transmigrated..... Or whatever words were used for his kind of situation..... Wasn't if…. Um…. Reincarnation! Yes, that's the word!
If he still remembered right, he was currently in early July 5th, National Awakened day. This was a holiday created after the world's first awakened appeared and saved the whole world from falling into a disaster.
However, that wasn't the thing he was thinking about, and that topic is a story for another day.
Logically speaking, his final exams were coming up soon, which means that he would be going through his awakening.
In this world, one would undergo an awakening ceremony as soon as they turned 18 to determine if they had talent to become either Newborns or Beastmasters.
One could also judge whether they had martial arts talent or not. Coupled with the exam scores, it would serve as the springboard to get into a top-tier University institution.
In his past life, he had been at a severe disadvantage because of his inability to see.
Therefore, his grades weren't good enough, adding his natural disability as well as the fact that he didn't awaken and possessed zero martial arts talent, he was rejected from almost every university institution in the nation.
Lily had to forgo her university choice and follow him to some backwater university despite her remarkably high grades.
Followed by the hardships of the family business, his monthly allowance grew lesser and lesser. Presently, his male classmates looked at him with disdain, while the females looked at him with disgust and pity. He was frequently bullied whenever he came to the university, and Lily suffered harassment.
At the end, Lily was raped to death.
He laid in his bed and reminisced about the old life and how he would possibly have to go through all that suffering and torment again. He had reincarnated precisely 15 years back into the past, however, there wasn't really much he could change.
At this point, he felt his eyelids brimming with tears. Was he really so unlucky that fate just had to bring him to reexperience his past suffering all over again?
The only thing that he really could change was probably his fate with Reverb.
However, the global release of the Virtual reality game 'Reverb' wouldn't commence for another week from today.
Last time, his mother had suffered because the family was lacking and owing multiple debts, and she had caved in under the stress.
Currently, just like in his past life, his family was going through financial problems. In the business world, competition between the various Noble families and clans were fierce.
When a Noble family or clan started showing signs of declining, then the other families would definitely seize the chance to hammer them into the ground.
Although the world had changed, and giant monsters roamed everywhere, the concept of business had not been forgotten.
In fact, it was no exaggeration to say that it had blossomed instead. The need for materials such as medicinal pills, high-quality weapons, equipment and many other necessities were now as high as food and water.
When the game was released, the competition grew worse and his family was left in the dust.
This was one of the reasons why the past him had decided to return home because he was worried about his mother's condition.
What the Wilde family faced in the past was absolute suppression from the other noble families.
"Mom!" Ethan felt agitated. He wanted to quickly get up from his bed and walk to find his mother and confirm she was still alive.
However, he realized that he was facing the same goddamn problem. He was blind!
He wasn't born blind, but for some reason he couldn't figure out, he lost his sight when he was twelve years old.
No matter what his mother did, regardless of which hospital or alchemist she took him to, it was always reported that there was no hope.
Ever since he turned blind, Ethan never saw his mother's face again. Overtime, he had gradually forgotten what his mother looked like.
No surprise there, he was only twelve years old, and his memory wasn't that good. When he got his sight back, his mother was long dead and buried.
"No! It's definitely not happening again".
Ethan said to himself, his gaze resolute. He would undoubtedly not allow what happened previously to repeat itself again. He had lost too many loved ones, and he wasn't willing to go through that pain again.
"Since am still blind, then I guess I can only play the game and change my fate from there". He smiled bitterly.
He still remembered that, during his past life, it was only after more than half a year that he officially started playing.
At that time, he had been left far behind by the others with top players already reaching Level 5 officially making them Rank 1 Experts.
The top ten had already reached level 10 and had long since passed Rank 2.
After failing to attend university, he had finally decided to play the game.
He didn't have any other options, since even the lowest level institutions had rejected giving him entry.
Plus, with the Wilde family's degrading status, they didn't have to fear offending a powerful force.
From there, he slowly but surely made his way up the ladder and after a couple of years, he reached level 18 as a Rank 2 Ace Assassin.
If he had were given enough time, he would have been able to reach Rank 3.
In Reverb, it was extremely hard to gain levels. The strength of a regular level 5 player was equivalent to a full Rank 1 Adept realm Martial artist or Novice tier newborn in real life.
From there, he received an invitation and joined the upper ranks of Sky reapers early millions of dollars every month.
However, since he had reincarnated, he naturally had an edge over everyone else in the world. Unless there were others that had reincarnated with him, even those beta testers who had played the game before wouldn't be able to match up with him.
And now, he definitely wouldn't be joining Sky reapers anymore after they treated him like no good trash. Instead, he would become an expert level player in the game and change the tragic fates of those close to him.
Then, after playing the game for a while, he would just patiently wait for Sky reapers to find the heaven level treasure in a dungeon gate and buy it at an astronomical price.
Or he could figure out his ways to get it when it appears in the future. Then make preparations for him and his loved ones to hideout before the Apocalypse arrived.
Since he had reincarnated, he also knew the dangerous secret of Reverb that no one would ever realize in the early stages of the game.
This was the main event that had caused the opening of Multiple S rank dimensional gates on the world.
"Well, I guess this is better than nothing. It will be a lot of work and very dangerous. But it will still be very fun". He thought to himself with a smirk.
<< Default time completed. Reincarnation successful >>
<< System default, System Activated >>