A young man looking at the lonely sky, contemplating about his life.
"So this is how it is, after working hard failing every time, I transmigrated." Roman scoffed at himself.
He had been an ambitious young man in his previous life, but the world never gave him justice—it only took the time he had.
One day, while investing a huge capital in the stock market, he saw the market crash. After that, apart from watching the world become a blur, he couldn't remember anything."Even though I had a million dollars in the bank, I still died out of shock," Roman cursed his bad luck.
In just a week earlier he transmigrated in this world. First thought he has that he was in a parallel world or time traveled to future but in just a day he figured out how wrong he was.
This world is called Astram, a colonized heaven in the Ares solar system. Here, human civilization has advanced to the point of controlling galaxies. Although there is no sole ruler of the humans currently, various ruler are purely united through various political agenda and common hatred with existence of other race.
Thousand years ago internet evolved or changed to Starlink until the first sentients are discovered in Origin World, Through unknown means, they began to corrupt the worlds after that Starlink could only be used as product for one star system at the uncorrupted places.
That's why communication with other solar system be only be made by every 10 years.
With such void of rule, various star government start to defy the rule of their central government and Lords.
Creating a unstable political situation with conflict of civil war. Astram was the same, Its governor want to declare himself as King of Ares. Defying the thousand years developed democracy and communist political rule in here.
Now, man and the woman under seventeen had to train for war, At 18 they had to train in the place called Origin World, same place where sentients ruled supreme.
Origin world is a interesting place, which could be accessible by various species in the universe along with that, it could evolved any species with mysterious power called mana.
Upon contracting origin world energy, human could awake various talent along with mysterious status screen panel.
Only the Elite among elite, are supposed to know about it and be trained to fine soldiers. But being in the verge of war with central government, Governor of Ares make it mandatory for every individual to be trained as soldiers and be a fine warrior trained in Origin world.
But not everyone could enter origin world, you need to be born with origin key. Only some lucky individual would be born with it, and only one in hundred could survive.
That's also why other Star civilization wouldn't spend their money to normal humans.
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"Roman lets go toward auditorium, Awakening ceremony would start soon." Lily said looking at the absent minded Roman.
"Coming" Roman replied a sense of deja vu, Everything feel so familiar yet so much strange. All he could understand is his soul was merged with his predecessors soul, his predecessor way of thinking, life value, emotions still cling with Roman.
Even after familiarize with the body for a week he still couldn't shake off this lingering feelings.
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Lily is an orphan; both of her parents died on the battlefield when she was only two. After that, along with other orphaned children, she was moved to Astram from Astram II. That's why her complexion is cyan-colored compared to that of normal humans in Astram.
It could be said that Roman and Lily have been childhood friends, both learning and training in the Academy since the age of five.
The auditorium was full of students waiting eagerly for the Awakening Ceremony. Some were scared, some were excited, but if you looked closely, most of the people with a military background were on the left, while the commoners were on the right—divided by an unknown power structure created by a fifty-year war.
As someone from a military background, Roman and Lily both sat with the military students. Most of their friends were there. The military students had been studying since the age of five, whereas commoners were only trained for a mere five years.Sitting beside the commoner students would be an insult for the military heirs—or so most of the Youngstars thought.
"Is this Class 12's last year at Athkar School?" a teacher with green hair called out into the mic, to which the class captain replied with an affirmation. Backstage, people were pushing a huge, hexagon-like cube into the auditorium.
"It's called the Source Cube! Just like what you read in your textbook, this thing stores Origin energy in it," the green-haired teacher said again through the speaker.
Suddenly, a figure appeared, floating in the air in front of the Source Cube. At that, the green-haired teacher looked a little annoyed.
"Isn't that our District Leader?!"
"You're right! That's our very own District Leader, Leo!"
"He's scary... Is this what an Origin Warrior feels like?"
The man who had just appeared, with a serious face—once the military head of Awaken soldiers and now District Governor Leo Ray—stood before them.Rumor has it that he was once just a poor orphan living on governor support.
He had a rough life, but on his Awakening Day, he awakened his Origin power: Flame Synergy, a C-rank talent.With such a common power, it's quite hard to climb up in rank, but he created a technique that not only used his flames efficiently but also made his body stronger. That, however, is not how he turned into the commander of the Awaken group.
Cronos I is a cold moon of the gas giant J-30, infected by Zyphorid, an alien creature from Origin World whose only mission is to reproduce. It is said that Leo Ray killed one Carnifex—one of the leaders of the Zyphorid Hive—with only the destructive force of his talent. The level of his challenge was impossible, although not as awesome as Marine of the Old Emperor. Killing one Carnifex and all of its follower earned him a position as squad leader of the experienced Awaken soldiers.
That's how he became role models for many students specially the struggling ones.
Now that he self retired, He became District governor of Athkar City.