"System, only show S-Tier talent: Call of The Shadows." [Hiding other abilities]
"Now im ready" Jay grinned
He walked into another awakening room with that familiar crystal ball. "Please put your hand on the crystal ball" asked the girl who was currently operating the crystal ball. Jay looked puzzled at the crystal ball, he had never seen any ball like that. "Never seen this before?" she laughed,
"This is an association crystal ball, it allows us to get a more acurate reading and will not make an errors" Jay nodded and placed his hand on the ball. It took a while for it to begin glowing. It started off as gray but soon grew more brightly and changed colors until it was flashing and glowing golden.
"Oh my….. an S-Tier talent!" The girl exclaimed. Jay could begin to see many heads peer into the room.
"I have to tell the association!" The girl yelled running off " Jay only stood there, waiting to see what would happen next.
The girl returned with some men in black suits, holding a golden badge. "Here is your S-Tier certificate! This will show that you are an S-Tier awakener and will allow you to go into restricted areas."
The power of the S-Class is leagues stronger than any old world goverment, making them unrestricted by the goverment. Some S-Class use their powers for destruction, forming a contract with the demon god, destroying their morality but greatly increasing their strength, with some rivaling national level awakeners.
These rogue humans, nicknamed; Demonic Humans have made their own base deep in the chaos world, assisting monster invasions and sabotaging the other humans. They are the scourge of humanity and one of them was Jay's first target.
Jay's awakening as an S-Tier attracted a lot of media attention, many reporters pestered him with questions about himself but Jay never disclosed any information about himself other than his nickname.
When the reporters asked what he was going to fo next, Jay stood silent, he had already decided on his first action but he had to keep it a secret, he left no comment, using his ability to melt into the shadows and dissapear.
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As Jay was walking home, he got another call from Grayson, "Jay! Have you heard! There has been a new S-Tier awakener in this country!" Jay, feigning shock, replied "Really! Well that will be a big boon for us! As long as he dosen't become a demonic human!" "I will have to hang up on you, my father is training me to be his successor and my break time is running out." "See you later" James replied, hanging up the phone.
"It's time to get down to business" Jay thought to himself. His first target would be the B-Tier demonic human; Flaming Terror, a demonic human currently running around in the city of London, burning innocent civilians and destroying important buildings. The goverment has tried to halt him but none of the S-Tier awakeners heeded their call and did their own thing.
"I must purge this world of the demons before I move on to the Chaos World" Jay murmered. He notified everyone he knew that he was just going to London for a good oppurtunity and then took a reinforced train to the city. Because of the initial invasion of the monsters, humanity had been slow to react, allowing numerous monsters to stay and inhabit the wilderness. Planes has become innefficient due to constant monster attacks.
Trains had become the new form of transportation but many rich magnates has began to use teleportation runes casted by S-Tier rune mages. Jay knew that he would eventually gain that power and he didn't have money, ruling out this option.
These trains were crafted of the lowest Quality Starstones, frequently found in the chaos world and dungeons. The higher quality Starstones were used to forge gear/equipment, leading to the lower quality Starstones being put to use in the industry.
The train took 2 days to reach the big city which gave Jay plenty of time to formulate a plan to take down his target. "The Flaming Terror is only acting during the night where he is harder to be caught but If I can reach where he is before he can flee, I can take him down." As the train approached the big city, Jay looked up in awe. "I never could have thought that the big city could be this grand" he remarked, his face shocked.
Passing through the crowded streets, Jay saw many awakeners enter a multitude of different shops. While awakeners cannot increase their own talent after awakening, their are many items, drugs, and medicines they can take to increase their strengths, gear also played a heavy role in determining an awakeners strength.
Jay, coming from a small city, had a relatively low amount of money and it was here that he could become rich. He bought some low-level temporary stat boost medicine and made his way to the hotel he had booked.
Because of the money he spent on the potions, Jay could only afford the lowest price hotel, coming in at 30 credit points a night. After the invasion of the monsters, the entire world cast aside all differences and united. They all agreed on a main global currency called the credit point which is worth around 1 dollar per coin.
It was already night time and though he was tired, Jay began preparing to kill the demonic human. Jay slipped on his Ouroboros bracelet and took the medicine he had recently bought, temporarely increasing his strength and other stats.
Jay then turned invisible with his ability and exited the hotel to begin patrolling the city. He began to listen for crackling sounds and screams, they would be the main indicators that the Flaming Terror has arrived.
Soon, Jay began to hear the crackling of a wild a fire and grimaced "Its on the other side of the city! He quickly rushed to the area but when he had arrived he saw a gruesome scene.