After a few more seconds of thinking Leon went to the bathroom to freshen up. Upon entering the bathroom Leon gazed into the mirror, his light brown skin radiated a quiet strength, complementing his well-defined, slim, packed muscles that granted him an air of elegance.
Standing at a height of 5'10", Leon possessed the face of an above-average boy, his features forming a captivating harmony. His chin-length silky blond hair cascaded like liquid gold, framing his countenance with a touch of enigmatic allure. Yet, it was his dark black abyss-like eyes that held an undeniable magnetism, pulling anyone who dared to gaze into them for too long.
Looking at his appearance in the mirror and seeing the same face as his two lives before he was now sure that this version of him was definitely more handsome than his original face. He from the first life was the true definition of an average person from face to height which was 5'8.
Feeling satisfied with his new above average appearance, he started to freshen up for the breakfast as he knew his cute mother's real anger, thinking about her mother Leon eyes shown with warmth, he was not unknow to her struggle of raising two children alone. Leon didn't know much about his father before as according to his mother he died in an accident few weeks after getting the news that she was having Amy.
But because of that novel he had an idea of who his father really was, and he will be using that information to the fullest for his benefit. Thinking about future events an evil smirk couldn't help but come on his face.
After drying off his hair and body, Leon went to wardrobe and wore a casual white T-shirt and a black trouser. After dressing up he went to the kitchen for breakfast.
Leon POV:
Just as I entered the kitchen I was hit with a wave of nostalgia, seeing my mother making breakfast and my sister helping her while wearing a cute apron with a cartoon panda printed on it. A small warm smile came on my face after seeing this scene that I wanted to see again so much for past 20 some years.
I sat at the dining table and started looking around, seeing the surroundings I couldn't help but became surprised as everything was the same as my past life. Furniture, kitchen even the apartment was same. The apartment had three rooms, two washrooms and a drawing room just in front of the kitchen counter. Although it might look big, it was the only thing that was owned by my family, supposedly left by my father. After looking around for a minute, I turned on the T.V and saw a breaking news.
"Breaking news! We just got an information confirming that the SS Ranker Philip Morgan is announced dead. This tragedy took place during the clearing of a recently manifested Rank A gate." Said the news anchor.
Hearing this I thought 'so today is the day huh'. I wasn't surprised by the news as I knew that this was going to happen and that it was the same day when the result of the World Rankers Academy would be announced.
This world here is also called Earth with same geography but some difference. After the FIRST COLLISION 43 years ago on 1 January 1980, Earth was invaded by the OPPOSERS, OPPOSERS were monsters that invaded Earth through gates but that wasn't the only thing that invaded Earth.
With gates came an energy or maybe those gates trigger that already existing energy around the world which enable earth's inhabitants to use this energy to fight OPPOSERS and conquer gates. There was a very huge debate about what this energy was, scientist was sure that it was Dark matter or Dark energy, the very building block of the universe. But due to the awakeners it was called Mana.
After clearing various gates and conquering many dungeons, Rankers found various evidences that these gates and dungeons were likely a part of another world with intelligent species that were broken off and then these parts collided with our earth.
People who were able to wield this energy were called Awakeners. They were divided in ranks from F to SSS according to their stats, where F was the lowest rank and SSS was the highest.
Every awakened person was able to see their basic stats through a status screen, where they were able to see their Name, Age, Strength, Agility, Constitution, Mana, Skills, Arts. 10 was limit for a normal human for every stat other than mana which will be 0 until awaken, minimum addition 10 point was needed in mana every time to rank up, a single person can only accumulate the maximum of 50 points per rank up but most of the normal awakeners usually only accumulate around 20 to 25 because it took a lot of time, money, and effort to reach the limit of mana for every rank.
Due to the sudden invasion, humans lost six continents to the monsters outflowing from the gate and dungeons, from the population of 4.1 billion to 2.2 billion in four years. Every human from North America, South America, Africa, Australia, Europe and Antarctica retreated to Asia to regroup and fight back the monsters. Every country was disbanded, and a world government was created. New currency was introduced World Coin (1 WC = $1).
After 4 years of clearing and conquering, Humans became more organized and stronger rank awakeners started creating Guild to issue task easily to their members and these guilds were associated with the Awakener Association which created rules and guidelines and became an organization that took care of everything related to gates, dungeons and guilds.
Clearing dungeons and gates usually gives many rewards from artifacts, weapons to skill books, art books, herbs and many more. All these rewards are also ranked from F to SSS, where knowing the rank of the skill and art was impossible before using these books it all depends on luck, skill books and art books are usually rarer than others.
Just when humans were starting to adapt to their new reality something big happened in 1985, on 7 March 1985 a loud paper tearing voice was heard by every living being on the planet, 5 minutes after that voice, the earth started to expand.
Yes, expand.
Earth became 5 times of its original size but that was not all after expanding there emerge 8 huge tower like structure around the globe, on each 7 continents and one above the Indian ocean on a floating continent the newest continent of earth.
Everyone was afraid of this new development because they knew what had happened before because of the unexpected. The Awakeners Association and some top ranker Guild masters created a search team and went to investigate the newly stretched Asia continent and the tower of the Asia, they came upon 10 days timer same as gates have in front of Tower.
World government, Awakeners Association and Guilds started making preparation to kill any danger that would come out after the timer. But on the 10th day nothing happened, or so they thought. Three days after this incident some shocking photos from six other continents were released by the Awakeners Association. Each photo other then Asia showed how towers of different continents front space was filled with new creatures and they seemed intelligent, each continent with different race. Nothing came out of the tower from Asia.
Humans send envois to every continent in an attempt to communicate and know their intensions.
Which was successful, as they came know that these new guest were remaining of their race and that their world was destroyer one day without and warning and that they were the only one who survived by going through the portal with the hope of survival that opened just after the starting of destruction of their world. And thing to note was that this was the only thing that all these different species had in common.
New species were divided as-
North and south America had race name Vampires and Werewolves
Australia had Elves.
Europe had Dwarfs.
Africa had beastmens and new animal species.
Antarctica had fairies, Nymphs and some other nature related creatures.
As for the new floating island above the Indian oceans, there was no news related to it.
After various meetings between race leaders and World government, they came to a decision. Every other race decided to join the world government, one leader of every race became a seated member of the council of world government, there were many mana oaths taken by various leaders of all races to show integrity and determination. Beside humans every other race followed the monarchy system so the kings and queens of all new race became the seated member of World government.
Other races had almost the same high rank awakeners as humans, but they were more attuned to mana and had more knowledge about various uses of mana in different new professions and during negotiation humans make them agree to share this knowledge but with condition that this knowledge will be shared to everyone through a joint race academy and after getting knowledge from there, humans were free to uses or teach as they see fit. Humans agreed to this and then the world government started planning to create a world academy that would teach the best of all races.
They planned a strike to conquer the floating island as it was the best place to create an academy of that much important. All the races sent their best rankers for this raid but what they found was an empty island with just trees and some exotic herbs. No monsters, no new race, nothing but a huge tower. They named it Unity Island and headquarters of World government and Awakeners association were created there along side with the academy. It became a common area for all races.
The World Rankers Academy was created in 1990.
As I was going through the basic information about this world through my memories, I heard my mother's voice.
[A/N: This is my first time trying a character's POV, please let me know if it lack something.]