[Name: Ethan Smith]
[Title: The First Mage]
[Age: 23
Race: Human
Evolution Rank: F
Mage Rank: 1st-circle apprentice Mage
Strength: 20 Agility: 20 Vitality: 20 Spirit: 25
Evolution Energy: 0/100
Abilities: Max Level Comprehension, 10,000X Feedback
Skills: basic gun handling and control (grand master level), low-level body strengthening spell
Items: Map of Safety (x1), Elixir of Life (x1), Awakening Crystal (x1)]
Still unable to move an inch, Ethan stared at his property panel as he found it unbelievable that after about a decade of suffering, he finally awakened.
Although now in the past, but every few hours or so, the nightmares and torture he had experienced in his past life would pop up in his mind from time to time.
’However, all that is in the past now.’
’With these abilities, all that is going to change.’
He muttered, closing his eyes to meditate.
Yet before he could even close his eyes for a minute, a familiar grandiose laugh resounded through the room.
"What’s going to change haha!"
"Tell your grandpa about it, who knows, he can help you change it!"
Stroking his grey beard, Christian entered with a smile on his face, Elena and Alfred right behind him.
"Now then boy, don’t you have a lot of things to talk about?"
Staring into his Grandson’s eyes, Christian’s aged body seemed to carry a heavy aura.
........
[Blue Star, Smith Mansion]
Watching the three of them enter the room, Ethan wore a sly smile.
In fact, he had sensed them when they were outside, he deliberately said the words just now to interest them.
’Good, now that I can sense everyone’s curiosity, I might as well hit the nail on the head.’
Waving with a bright smile to Elena whose eyes were still red from crying not long ago, he began to speak.
"Elena, you know you told me not to carry on everything by myself!"
"Well, I have something to tell you, not just you but Grandpa and Uncle Alfred too!"
Taking a pause, he stared deep into everyone’s eyes one by one.
His grandfather Christian who cared the most for them in the family,
His butler Alfred who had taken care of them like a second father after their parents died.
And Elena, his sister, whom he had experienced most of life with.
All people who had died not long after the apocalypse started, leaving him to wander alone.
A fate which he vowed to change in this life.
’However, even if I want to do that, I have to be careful.’
Recalling the feeling of being stabbed for the fate fruit, his heart hurt a little.
As someone who had already experienced betrayal once, even though he knew he could trust the people in front of him,
Ethan still decided to keep some cards hidden.
"Alright kid, I understand."
"Alfred, go talk to the guard outside, make sure no matter what, even if it’s an emergency, no one must be in a two-room distance of this place."
"Also order the security to cut off all surveillance in or around here."
"For the next few minutes this room must be completely secured from any eavesdropping or outsiders," said Christian.
Luckily, for such situations, Alfred was already used to it, after a few minutes and making a few calls, the entire surroundings of where they were was airtight.
No living soul would be able to hear or tell what was going to be said.
And after confirming this, Christian gave Ethan a thumbs up, signaling for him to speak.
"Firstly Grandpa, I want to ask, do you believe in magic?" Ethan asked with a smirk on his face.
"Well, it doesn’t matter whether you believe it, because what I’m going to show you next will change your mind."
’System, use Elixir of Life!’
Muttering to himself, Ethan began to act. Although he could manually drink it.
But after studying the Awakener System by himself, Ethan found out that not only could it store items within it, but he could also directly use items from the system space.
According to his understanding, the current storage was about as big as a large traveling suitcase.
Not too big and not too small.
[Using Elixir of Life]
As the system’s prompt rang, Ethan began to feel a cool sensation run through his veins.
His bones that were broken rapidly began to heal and twitch.
The organs that were damaged self-repaired, and the skin that was torn healed.
In less than a few breaths, even the smallest scar on his body was gone, giving Ethan a feeling that strength was surging through his whole body.
Bang!
Using his strength, he tore open the bandages, revealing a chiseled up physique and a body so smooth that even the most expensive jade would hardly compare.
His physical body seemed to have gone through a whole rebirth process.
"Haha, shocked aren’t you? But this isn’t all."
Focusing mana into his palm, he grabbed the metal rest of the bed he was on and squashed it like a lump of clay.
"Everyone, I am here to tell you that not only is magic real, but just like you saw with Marcus, people with all kinds of abilities exist in the world."
"In less than a month from now, the world is going to change, an apocalypse unlike anything you can imagine will descend."
"And only by learning magic can the Smith family succeed and save its place in these perilous times."
"Not only that but to have a better stand in this cruel world, we need to sell all our wealth and change it for weapons and resources."
"Everything!"
Raising his voice, Ethan tried to increase his grandpa’s sense of urgency as he spoke.
After all, he knew that even if he had his current strength, if his grandpa said no then it would be impossible to mobilize the Smith family to prepare.
Unfortunately for him, it didn’t work as despite Ethan’s attempts Christian still remained calm.
After making sure Ethan was done speaking, he turned to look at Alfred with a nod.
Sure enough, just like what they had guessed, Ethan’s words didn’t sound much different.
Although they didn’t know anything about an apocalypse, they sensed the number of supernatural beings would increase.
Combined with Ethan’s words, an apocalypse didn’t sound too off.
"Indeed what you say makes sense after all we all witnessed the inhumane strength of you and Marcus that day."
"As well as your incredible way of healing just now, which is nothing short of magic or a miracle."
"But I have a question, how do you know this? And where did you learn magic from!?"
"Don’t tell me an owl gave you a letter invitation to a school at night?" asked Christian.
Yes, how did this grandson of his know all this?
Could he have joined some shady organization?
Considering the existence of abilities, he even began to worry if his grandson had been mind-controlled.
It wasn’t until Elena spoke out that both Ethan and Christian couldn’t help but be shocked.
"Hey, Grandpa can’t you see it? I’ve read this kind of novel."
"Sudden awakening of abilities, gather supplies before an apocalypse."
"Brother, it’s just that you didn’t awaken any space abilities, otherwise I would have said you were reborn!"