In the apartment where Evan was staying, he was sitting in front of the desktop he had just bought. Only after completing the setup, did he start to access the internet and enter' web and was searching the information he hadn't taken before in his past lives.
"So let me get down to basics, I guess," he told himself as he searched for information about the beginning.
He found posts from high-ranking guild leaders and other executives who had lived through these events and started reading every single one of them.
In one such post by
For a few days, nothing really changed, but people started to feel the difference as time passed. People noticed changes in the atmosphere, and many individuals' figures began to alter. Some people became full of vigor and strength, and in many hospitals, patients started to cure themselves.
As people began to feel that it was a good change, their perspectives shifted from negative to positive.
As time passed, some people began to awaken for unknown reasons, gaining immense strength, elemental powers, psychic abilities, or the power to grow plants, among others.
This led to a global change as those who awakened began to lose control, with some committing crimes worldwide., the army to handle effectively, keeping everything under control.
One day, real terror began after the next message appeared, stating that our world had reached the required mana levels to undergo changes. The wrath of the planet descended upon people and animals, causing many fissures and rifts to appear around the world.
From these rifts and fissures, many monsters from fantasy appeared, ravaging the world and killing many people. The human population started to decrease rapidly, but the awakened individuals began to resist, although their numbers were small.
There is a saying that after a dark night, a bright morning always appears. This happened to humans on the brink of extinction, as they started to awaken and gain the system to grow beyond human limits. The monsters were strong, with the ratio of people levels to monster levels being 10:1.
A ten-level human was equivalent in strength to a one-level monster, but the good part was that they gave massive amounts of experience to humans, allowing them to grow rapidly.
Just as things were improving, another catastrophe struck with the third notification, which people called the arrival of hell.
The Ceruleth started to evolve and expand. The land began to expand, destroying many human monuments, and mountains emerged from nowhere.
New lands emerged, new oceans began to form, and many new forests appeared where monsters began to inhabit. The ones who suffered the most damage were humans, who lost their lands, homes, and even their lives, living obviously as if walking on a tight rope, not knowing when they might fall. One day, a group of awakeners, by a stroke of luck, managed to defeat a Level 10 monster, which was equivalent to a Level 100 field-type boss for humans. They obtained an item called "Territory Deployment."
This marked a turning point for human civilization, as word spread, and many civilians and awakeners began to transmigrate toward it. The first human-controlled land was established, triggering a chain reaction as people continued to acquire territories. Only within these human-controlled lands did people find relief.
The progression of humans began anew, as they learned that monsters could not be harmed by their guns and modern weapons, a fact previously known only to the awakened. Civilians began to hunt using techniques and weapons made from stones and wood, giving rise to the term "hunter," which became popularized.
Among the remaining people, a few were quite strong due to their powerful abilities, planting the seed of hierarchy. The strong began to rule over the weak, forming groups now known as guilds, which, despite different images, function similarly. Many of the top guilds today were formed during this era and still stand firm like abyss.
Humans began to thrive as their power grew. More people gained abilities each day, taking lands occupied by monsters. Territories expanded, turning into villages and eventually towns, as the human race steadily progressed.
And that's how the countries of this era were formed.
As many years passed, people grew stronger day by day until a state stalemate occurred. During this time, neither monsters nor humans were able to conquer each other's lands. Human defenses were strong enough, and monster's adept at utilizing their surroundings, making it difficult hunters to reclaim more land. This posed a significant issue for humans. Following this, the fourth and final message of Hell's arrival appeared, which was neither bad nor good. It conveyed that Ceruleth had completed his evolution, and its mass had increased over ten from its previous size, indicating that it might evolve again after meeting certain requirements.
The lords of the lands received information about the extent of human territory which further demotivate them. The land they now governed was a mere 0.89% of what they once ruled, a stark contrast to the eighty to ninety percent they once controlled, which was truly pathetic.
In response, humans began to motivate themselves to reclaim their lands. For many years, they hunted and claimed territories, but only managed to regain a mere ten percent, which was barely sufficient.
Once again, a new challenge arose before the people, known as ...
-< To be Continued>-