Time soon passed, and night soon turned to day, and it had been several hours since Ethan had been reborn.
In these few hours, under the blessing of his max level comprehension, he had hundreds of novels, read tens of Daoist classics, read all kinds of internet theories and debates on the supernatural.
In this time, his eyes had long become bloodshot due to lack of sleep. However, in order to deal with the future, he persevered.
If he even could get even a sliver of an opportunity to change his fate, Ethan was more than willing.
"Damn it! Is it because my rank is too low? I feel like I’m almost there! Just a bit more!"
Clawing at his silver hair, he looked like a mad scientist alone in his bedroom.
Using this ability of his, his sparks of inspirations and deductions were currently racing through his mind.
Hundreds of possibilities were rapidly being deduced and eliminated in his mind.
Under the rapid influx of information, he was experiencing a state he had never even imagined.
"Ethan, think!"
"Currently the apocalypse doesn’t fully come until the new year, so it’s not like you can raise your rank."
Opening an article on human acupuncture and qi cultivation theory, his eyes suddenly lit up.
"First off, while cultivation can be brushed off after I don’t think things like the heavenly dao and dao exist, however some reference can be taken from there."
Muttering to himself, his blue eyes shined with a newfound light as an idea suddenly popped up in his mind.
"According to awakeners in my past life, with the apocalypse and awakeners, a new kind of energy was introduced into the world."
"It’s this same kind of energy that made monsters evolve and awakeners able to use their abilities, and although the apocalypse hasn’t fully descended, it’s already started permeating the blue star." As he said this, he pulled up his notes explaining cultivation and wizard systems from novels.
"In that case, unlike cultivators who store qi in their dantian, why don’t I do like mages in the novel and condense this in a circle around my heart?"
"In that way, not only would I be able to use my abilities easier, but it would be a step closer in understanding this energy!"
Saying this, he didn’t hesitate.
Unable to contain his excitement, Ethan sat cross-legged and began to focus.
Clearing his mind, he began to concentrate on his surroundings.
As an F rank awakener, although he had just awakened, his stats were already two times a regular human being and perhaps thanks to his rebirth his spirit was 3 times that, making him extremely sensitive to his surroundings.
Thanks to this, as he emptied his mind, he felt a strange cool energy around him. The same energy he had felt gather around his head whenever he activated his max level comprehension.
"This is it haha!"
"Yes, this is it!"
Laughing with joy, he felt like a kid who got all his questions right on a test.
Now that he felt this energy, what he needed to do was control it.
Focusing his mental power on it, he slowly began to imagine it being pulled towards his heart.
’Come on, don’t fail me here!’
’Success or not depends on this!’
Focusing his mind intently, veins began to bulge out the side of his head, his fist visibly clenched as even with his spirit being increased it was still an extreme task for him.
With every centimeter the energy moved, he felt like he was pulling a mountain.
However, Ethan didn’t give up, or rather he couldn’t give up.
’Come on Ethan, you can do this!’ he spoke to himself, trying to muster every bit of willpower he could.’
Fortunately his two lifetimes had made his willpower exceptionally strong, and after about an hour of trying, the energy finally made a bit of contact with his heart.
"Arghhh!! What the hell is this pain!"
"It hurts! Arghhh!"
Yelling out in agony, he clenched his chest as he felt like his heart was going to explode.
Under the pain, he had no choice but to stop his meditation and figure out what happened.
’Huff...huff...’
Taking a deep breath, he tried to regain his calm.
"What was that? If I didn’t stop, my heart would have probably exploded."
"Could it be that the heart and this energy are incompatible?"
"No no, that shouldn’t be it, awakeners have all sorts of abilities, even the immortal killer one of the five S ranks, rumour had it he could regenerate from even a drop of blood."
"In that case the energy would have had to have worked on his whole body for his ability to work."
"There’s definitely something I’m doing wrong."
Clawing his hair again, Ethan with bloodshot eyes couldn’t figure out where he was going wrong.
Although he knew creating something like this wouldn’t be easy, he didn’t expect it to be so hard.
’Ring...ring....’
Just as he was lost in thought, his phone suddenly rang, looking at the familiar name on it, he couldn’t help but unconsciously press answer.
It was none other than his older sister Elena Smith.
"Ethan Smith! Where the hell are you! Today is grandfather’s birthday party! Better come here and bring your gifts."
"Also hurry, the path to the family house is probably going to be filled up with guests and cars coming to see grandpa!"
Hearing these words from his sister, his mind seemed to explode.
In a trance, the final piece of the puzzle seemed to land.
’BOOM!’
"Paths! Paths! That’s it!"
"Be it wizards, cultivators. Mages! They all have their secret techniques to increase their strength!"
"What I’m missing is the path to form a circle around my heart!"
"Instead of haphazardly pulling the energy into my heart! I have to guide it in a way that works!"
"Haha I’m a genius! Thank you sis!"
Hanging up his phone without waiting for his sister to reply, Ethan once again sat down with pure excitement written on his face.
This time, he would succeed!