"Reborn!"
Hearing those words, Ethan couldn’t help but freeze for a second.
Could he have been too straightforward in his plans? Otherwise, how did she know?
His mind began to spin as he began to think of a way to dissuade Elena from this guess.
As for Christian, his eyebrows rose slightly at his daughter’s words, a hint of curiosity in them.
"Haha Sister, I didn’t know you were a webnovel fan with all your training and competition, but you’re wrong."
"It’s not that I’ve been reborn, but something else."
As he spoke, Ethan brought out a shining green crystal from the air.
"You see, with the advent of this change, all kinds of abilities will begin to manifest in humans around the world."
"And just like Marcus who awakened early, I have awakened an ability called the Library of the World!"
"Just like a library, it allows me to view information on anything and everything."
"Although there are some limitations because my current awakener rank is too low, it’s how I found knowledge on magic and the apocalypse."
"And as for this crystal in my hand, it can allow an ordinary person to awaken their abilities."
"So what do you think? Grandpa, Elena? Which one of you wants to try it?"
"..."
Silence...
Listening to Ethan’s words, everyone was at a loss for words.
Even Elena who had thought her brother was reborn couldn’t help but widen her eyes in disbelief.
You know she only mentioned rebirth as a joke, but who would have thought the reality was much more overpowered.
"Damn, brother! Are you actually the protagonist? Such power is unbelievable!"
"What rebirth! Isn’t this ability much stronger!"
Raising her voice, Elena’s eyes began to sparkle as she could already figure just how big of an advantage they were about to get with her brother’s abilities.
As for Christian and Alfred, hearing his words, both of them although quite shocked were more composed as Christian who was afraid Ethan had joined a shady group inwardly breathed a sigh of relief.
’Sigh... sorry you guys but I do not have such an amazing ability.’
’If I did, I would have known about Marcus before coming here,’ thought Ethan.
Although he didn’t want to lie to his family, things like rebirth, his true abilities, he had planned to keep them only to himself.
After all the apocalypse was a place where anything and everything could happen.
Just like he was reborn, who said another person couldn’t be reborn, or mind readers or even mind controllers?
If someone ends up being reborn and stealing his opportunities because he wasn’t cautious he would only be the one to blame.
However, although he thought this, a part of Ethan’s mind seemed to tell him that there were no other rebirths apart from him.
After all, something like the fate fruit should not be too common.
"Alright Ethan, this Grandfather of yours will believe you, after all, if I don’t trust you who will I trust? Hahaha!"
Laughing to the sky, Christian’s voice attracted everyone’s attention.
"But Ethan, we can’t sell everything, firstly considering what happened two weeks ago with Marcus any moves we make will attract massive attention."
"Those guys who came for my birthday, although all cowards, they’re pretty quick to smell blood."
"Once we make a move they’ll sense something is wrong and begin selling and buying too ruining our head start."
Saying this, he placed his hand on Ethan’s shoulder.
For this grandson of his, even though he was suddenly stronger than most humans.
When it came to management and plans like this, it seemed he still needed some guidance.
"To face what’s coming, we need supplies, shelter, and manpower."
"For the manpower, I still have contacts with a few retirees from my army days, most of their family members have undergone military training, we’ll use them."
"As for the buying of supplies and shelter constructions I’ll have to make a few calls and use a contact of mine to also begin with that."
"There’s an abandoned air raid shelter not far from here, I’ll call the city mayor and tell him the Smith family wants it and load our supplies and weapons there."
Saying each plan one by one, Christian began to think of everything he could.
There were only about twenty days left, he couldn’t afford to be slow.
’As expected of Grandpa, it was a good idea I decided to meet him first.’
’With him on the job, I don’t have to worry about the Smith family for a while when the apocalypse starts.’
’Next, I need to focus on gathering more information and abilities of awakeners and creating more spells.’
’I also need to see how to draw more circles as well as try the ten thousand time feedback with it!’
’After that, there’s also the subsequent planning of other realms of the mage system.’
’As the mage system can only be stronger not weaker than the awakening system if humanity wants a chance to survive.’
Recalling how even S classes in the future were not enough to change the situation.
Ethan knew he had to surpass that.
’However speaking of S classes, I still have to pick up that girl before the apocalypse started.’
’According to the information I have, she should be getting bullied at the nearby university right now before awakening her abilities,’ thought Ethan.
Unknowingly his mind began to remember a beautiful ice-cold figure who could freeze hundreds of kilometers with just a single wave of her fingers.
After he was done here, he had decided to head towards the university.
"By the way, Grandpa, Brother, this crystal, can you give it to me?"
"Watching you fight alone, do you know how much that hurt?"
"Brother even though I’m meant to be the strongest, I could only helplessly clench my fist back then."
Staring deep into Ethan’s eyes, Elena was firmer than ever before.
"Before we left for Grandpa’s party, you promised me you’d teach me how to get stronger, I hope you haven’t forgotten."
"Brother, Grandpa please give me this crystal I never want to feel helpless like that again."
Hearing these words, Ethan couldn’t help but frown.
Her words, her appearance, for a few seconds, she seemed to overlap with him in the past.
However, despite that he did not give in yet as he turned to look at his Grandpa.