"You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice."
It is a quote often associated with the famous Jamaican songwriter and singer, Bob Marley.
Currently, humanity also does not know its true strength, and it will never realize it until it is forced to understand it. And then, being strong will be the only choice left in our hands.
Or we will just die trying.
Science, which we all used to revere, became something useless on this planet.
Our famous nuclear warheads and weapons all turned useless in the face of a calamity.
A calamity that brought with it change.
A calamity that will reshape the future of humanity.
The future of all the realms.
A future that will be written by a single person.
A future where humanity will stand at the epitome of strength—
A place is desolate of any enemies.
An era that is currently far beyond the reach of mankind.
Humanity, once on the brink of destruction, will rise.
Will struggle.
Will battle.
Blood will be shed, for we will rise once again to fight against our disasters.
This is the story of a young man—
A man who started as a failure, but a single opportunity was all he needed to start his journey through this era of time.
He will be revered by the weak.
He will be feared by the strong.
He will sit on the throne—
A throne that will watch over all.
...
On the Planet Earth,
Currently in the City of Tokyo,
All of the phones, devices, and other electronic devices that had internet connections available, or the television Wires were connected currently, showed only one thing.
"High Alert! High Alert! An Immense magnitude of Earthquake is detected from Earth's Core for unknown reasons! Everyone is advised to evacuate and save their lives by finding an open space or area."
Meanwhile, the whole public was in panic.
Not only in Tokyo, but also in Other metropolitan cities and towns like NYC, Paris, Singapore, Delhi, etc., also had this news.
Most of the news channels had pressed their emergency buttons to display the earthquake evacuation news, while they all evacuated as well.
Soon, the ground started to shake all around the world. Huge Tsunamis Formed due to an Earthquake of Magnitude more than 9 started to happen. The buildings, towers, and other structures also started to fall like a deck of cards.
At this moment, Every Single Adult between the ages of 15 to the age of 50 heard a sound in their heads.
And a screen popped up on their heads.
[Planet Restructuring Notification]
Currently, the planet Earth, along with the whole universe, is receiving a restructuring. The Universe has provided you with two options.]
[1. Enter the Trials of Evolution (click here)
[2. Try your best to survive (click here)
[Time left to choose: 5 Minutes]
"Is this a joke? WHO WILL EVEN BELIEVE THIS?!", shouted a man on the streets.
"WHAT IS EVEN THIS? A SYSTEM SCREEN? SO THE END OF HUMANITY WILL BE WITH A FUCKING JOKE HUH?"
The man shouted, but everyone tried their best to listen to him.
'We do not have a choice anyway...', a girl who was 18 thought as she looked to the side.
There, a colossal Shadow was coming towards them with an astonishing speed. It could probably be around in a few seconds.
It was a Tsunami. A Tsunami, so Powerful, so big, that it had enough strength to wipe out the entire city, along with the whole of Japan.
After all, the Tsunami's Length did not seem to have an end as she tried to look for.
Leaving no choice, she clicked on the first option.
Immediately after clicking, she started glowing, and s she vanished from that place, it looked as if she disintegrated into small particles of light.
Immediately after her, almost everyone started to choose their options. Even the man who was initially shouting chose the first option.
Sadly, a few will die as they click on the second option by mistake.
Every single Human between the ages of 15 to 50 vanished.
...
Currently, in a dim room that barely had light, there were thousands of people standing in it.
If someone were standing in such a room, they might get ill and feel suffocated; nasty things could happen to women as well, but here, it was not happening.
Everyone was quiet. The place had pin-drop silence, no one dared to speak a single word, after all, they were in a place where they did not even think for a second that they would be left alive.
The same was the case for thousands upon thousands of such rooms, which housed more than 4.5 Billion People.
After a few minutes of silence.
A colossal, Holographic, blurry image appeared in front of them. It was probably 3 Times the Height of the Statue of Liberty. Soon, the rooms lit up.
They found themself in a Giant Cinema-like Room, there were also two statues. These two statues were the same size as the Hologram, and they were real. These statues wore a Full Plate Armor with a Helmet, along with a Spear and a Shield.
These two statues were placed on the Stage-like platform, side by side, with the hologram in between, a few distances ahead.
Soon, the Hologram was Visualized into a Figure. It was the Figure of a Man, he had no face. He had no eyes, he had no hair. He was just a blue hologram of a figure. No details whatsoever.
It then spoke. The voice resounded in the ears of every single man.
"Welcome, Dear Citizens of The Planet Earth.", said the Figure.
As it was said, several small hologram figures also appeared in front of every single human present.
"Welcome, Mr./Mrs. ajan&&AS2n", it spoke the names of every single person. Or we can say, they spoke the names of every person they were talking to.
Not surprisingly, one person cannot hear the voice of someone else or the Figure that someone else is talking to.
"This is the Trial of Evolution", the figure spoke as it added more:
"This is a tower, a tower with many floors, for in this tower lies an opportunity. An opportunity for your race to survive. For your race to thrive. For you to become stronger, for you to evolve, into a higher existence."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"Kain.." someone spoke in a blurry voice.
"Kain....Kain!", came the voice of a Lady as she spoke again.
Then Suddenly.
*Smack*
"Ouch! Ouch! Madam Alice, I told you that you are too old for me to go on a date with you!", the boy who was hit by a chalk spoke up.
*silence* *silence*
The boy realized what he said and became embarrassed. He added, "Sorry..." trying to fix the situation as he sat back on his chair.
The teacher Alice, who had a body with a condition better than Teens, but still looked mature, coughed.
"Cough! Cough! Mr. Kain, I will not try to date a young man like you even if I wanted to.", replied Teacher Alice.
"You do know that the World Guild Commission does not allow people who are of age 200 or above to date with people less than the age of 200? And the youngsters who are under the age of 200 are only allowed to date youngsters of the same criteria?"
"I am sorry ma'am, I will try my best not to sleep in classes from now on.", said Kain.
"From now on? Today is the last day of the classes, so I am here to give a brief overview of our history, along with preparing you all for your coming-of-age Celebration.", said Teacher Alice.
The World Guild Commission (WGC) was an organization created by all the guilds in this world together to form a set of rules and regulations for all the guilds that will lay the foundation of Humanity.
"You do know that the coming of age ceremony always happens at the age of 18, at 3:00 PM on New Year's every year? Make sure to come on time.", said the teacher.
"Yma'am mam.", replied everyone in the class.
The Teacher nodded as she left.
At that moment, a Shadow of someone suddenly came from behind, the shadow's hands quickly closed in around Kain's neck, and then...
*Pfft*
"Dude! Hahahaha!" A laughing sound came from Kain's behind as a young man, the same age as Kain, held Kain's shoulders as he shook them forward and backward.
"I do not want to date Miss Alice, that is what you said, right?" he laughed as he held his stomach.
"Eren, are you also going to make fun of me? Wasn't it enough that we are already jokes in this school?", asked Kain as he eyed Eren.
"boo, cheh! Did you have to use this old technique of yours to save yourself from complete Embarrassment?" said Eren as he pulled out a chair from the desk on the right, where he sat, putting it in front of Kain's desk as he put his head down on the desk.
"What technique? Isn't that the truth?" replied Kain.
"Hmph! So what if we do not have talent? Even if we work hard, we can reach the level of those experts!", said Eren as he humphed.
"Yeah, yeah, theoretically we might be able to, but how many years would it take? 400 Years? 500 Years?", asked Kain as he added, "The level you are telling us to reach is something which takes experts at most 100 Years and for us? If we even reached it in 300 Years, I would say that it is a miracle."
Eren's face turned gloomy. Kain tried to cheer him up as he said, "Do not worry, Eren, as long as we stay together, we will surely be able to cross any hurdles."
"Yeah, yeah. We live in the same apartment anyway."
"Haha," they both laughed as they went home.
Eren and Kain were both orphans. The orphanage that Kain lived in initially used to send Kain to school. In school, Kain made a very good friend, Eren.
Eren was someone who used to live alone, and his uncles used to check up on him at times. Due to his loneliness, Kain decided to live with Eren. Eren's parents died when he was 11. And he lived up to the age of 13, all alone. After that, Kain joined in, and they have been living in the same house ever since. They were so close that they could practically be called brothers, and no one would retort.
They both did not have any Surnames as they were both orphans.
In this world, everyone at the coming-of-age ceremony awakens. They can choose between three Paths that they can choose from. Now these paths cannot be given to those who do not have any relations with them.
So the World decided to 'choose' which path to offer to the other.
Hence, based on the user's lifestyle, the System will decide which path People will walk upon.
After a Path is chosen, the people will have a high affinity with the jobs of that path.
Now, for a combat path, someone could decide to be a swordsman, someone could decide to be a mage, someone could decide to be a Shield tanker or any other Job. After the user gains enough Proficiency in that Path,
The System will award the user with a 'class'. Now here comes the power of talent, the people who have high talent can choose up to 4 Different classes. And people with the poorest talents could choose only 1 class for their lifetime.
Now, this created a barrier in Society. People who could have higher talents could be better at their jobs than people with poor talent, along with having more Versatile Cards with them.
Both Eren and Kain fell under the 'Poor' talent category, after all, they both had the bottom two ranks in the whole school. Both of them used to get the same marks; it's just that Eren had an 'E' in his name, so he got a higher ranking than Kain.
It is Funny how Eren was even proud that Kain would 'Never' be able to pass him until he scored higher than Eren, which felt impossible to both of them.
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