Beggalor City
First lights of dawn were just peeking over the horizon, when Azilya's sleep was cut short by the lights hitting his face.
Azilya felt groggy, he hadn't drunk that much last night. Why was he feeling so hungover. He felt as if his brain was about to split and his whole body felt exhausted, had he played too much yesterday.
He opened his eyes and blinked them a few times to get his vision back. Strangely his exhaustion seemed to subside by a lot.
What I wouldn't give to be young again, evenhough I am a martial artist its not the same as before I just feel the time catching up with me.
His vision became clearer and he became extremely confused.
Had he drunk too much yesterday, because he was sure this wasn't his home, the ceiling was nothing alike. Oh no what had he done, he got up from the bed to get dresses and bounce.
The moment he looked around he stopped trying to escape, this was his house from when he was 18, to be more precise from 18 to 23 but there were some things that indicated it was from the year he moved in, there was a patch of the wall without any paint, which he only got redone when he was 19 almost turning 20.
He looked for his phone and found it on the nightstand, it was 3rd of December 2324.
It was that day, the day humanity lost its one light, where everything started going wrong. The day Aibar left the world.
Also the day that college acceptences would be decided and made public.
Just as he was thinking about these issues he heard an explosion, he looked up to see a huge hole in the space, where there was supposed to be the blue of the atmoshphere there was just a black crack circling the whole earth
This was known as the Aibar singularity and was taught to the children as the day humanity lost its light. This was how Aibar left their world, he was known to not have any space talent but due to the immense power he had, he had managed to deal with space in such a major scale. He was just that powerful.
With this stimulation in space, the shadow beasts guessed Aibar left, they couldn't be sure but they could send some scouts to test the waters.
That was exactly what happened in the past, wait or in the future.
In the future's past…
Some powerful people dealt with the scouts as well as they could but there were some that leaked through the nets, and information traveled quickly to the higher ups of the shadow beasts. And another conquest started. Azilya attended university where he double majored in mecho-runic engineering and martial arts.
He ended up working as an engineer for a prestigious company designing mechanical and runic weapons. At one point he became well known in his field and someone tried to assasinate him. He luckily survived but then lost all will to continue on this path and became a full on martial artist, not as in doing aikido but as in protectors of the world.
Martial arts didn't just mean physical attacks in this day and age it also meant magical abilities. Some people said cultivator sounded better but the governments seemed happy with martial arts and martial artists.
Just as he was contemplating what to do now that he was back in this day, suddenly a blue screen popped up.
"Stat Shuffling System Unlocked"
What the hell does that even mean…
After a few seconds the box disappeared and he was faced with stat points as if he was in a game, the old game from 300 years ago had stats and game like mechanics but those things went away when everything came to the real world what the hell was going on.
Why did he come back to this time, he had just broken through to the saint tier, he would have to do all of that again. He couldn't remember any of his previous techniques, and they didn't show in the "system" either.
He knew the world would get turbulent in a few years, he had to get strong quick, last time he had started training too late. This time he would be on time.
Luckily he didn't have anyone that he had to protect, he came from a mortally f'ed up family. His earliest memory was his mother beating him near to death because he had cried too much.
This kind of issue kept happening until he was 9 when he was taken by the child protective services, because a neighbor took a video and let the authorities know, after that he had been taken in by a foster family after about 4 months of wait. They had been real nice with him and helped him immensely, teaching him decent hygiene, giving him a warm bed and as much food as he could get on top of all the love and parenting.
Sadly they perished untimely in a car crash, their car was hit by a drunk driver head on and both of them were killed before the paramedics could come.
They had left Azilya with everything they owned, which was quite a lot, a house and approximately 2.5 million $ worth other assets. His assets had been placed on hold until he turned 18, and he was placed with a guardian, a relative of his foster family, the guardian moved into his foster family's home.
The relative would take the monthly checks from the inheritance and tried to give the absolute minimum to him, the minute he reached 18 years of age, he left the house taking the whole 2.2 million $ worth of assets and cash and sold the house after kicking the relative out. He now had around five million but then he bought his current apartment and went back down to 4 million.
He was living in Beggalor city now, and this time he didn't want to become an engineer and fall behind his peers. Rather he would major in martial arts, he might minor in other areas but his focus would be to get as powerful as possible.