Re-Awakening: I Ascend with a Legendary class

In the year 2025, a cataclysm known as World Break struck planet Earthart, changing everything. The world was plunged into chaos as humans were forced into the deadly challenge of the Grand Abyss Labyrinth.

This marked the dawn of a new era—the Age of Adventurers.

Twenty-five years later, Earthart was no longer a home but a battlefield. Monsters spilled into the world, unleashed by catastrophic Dungeon Breaks.

Humanity had advanced with magic tech, supernatural powers, and newfound resources from the Labyrinth and Dungeons that made them formidable, but it wasn't enough.

Thousands of Dungeon Breaks ravaged the land due to failure to clear the Labyrinth's 30th floor in time, where even the mightiest adventurers had fallen.

Selfishness and cowardice overtook the remaining powerful few, who fled in magi-tech spaceships as millions escaped while leaving billions to die on the planet they once called home.

Among those left behind was Almond Crowshade.

As the world crumbled, he stood alone deep in the heart of the Labyrinth, facing the impossible—the floor boss of the Grand Abyss Labyrinth's 30th Floor.

In a frozen, desolate world of blue and black flames, he squared off against a towering beast of godly might: Algeran, the Blackflame Terror. A colossal being of over 500 meters, with shimmering blue crystal fangs, spiraling horns, and black fur lined with flamy aura that oozed out from it.

It had crushed every challenger before. And now, it mocked Almond.

"Human, your tenacity is impressive, and your persistence is something I haven't seen. You lost against me so many times, yet you escaped each time and still challenge me, kakakaka! It's fun!"

Algeran's voice boomed with cruel laughter. 

"But I am bored now!"

"And you lack the power to defeat me, so this shall be your last attempt!"

Almond, battered and bloodied, stood unconscious, but his body moved as it obeyed his undaunted will.

"Kill...you..."

Looking at Almond, who was already unconscious as his body acted purely due to his stubborn will, Algeran thought, 'Pitiful kid. If only you were a bit luckier and born earlier, you might have been able to change this fate.'

But suddenly, the beast's pupils shrank upon seeing dreamy golden particles oozing out from Almond.

Almond's grip tightened around his black sword.

He could barely form a thought, yet he had not surrendered. The will to fight—his tenacity—drove him as he stabbed the sword forward and slashed it diagonally.

Without warning, golden particles began to swirl around him, like sparks of some strange power. The beast's mocking expression faltered as its icy gaze locked onto the mysterious glow.

Almond's voice echoed, his eyes whitened, without focus.

"…Scatter… away…"

A torrent of golden-red energy erupted, far beyond anything a mere adventurer should have wielded. It was as if trillions of thin yet sharpest blades streamed like a raging river! The world itself cracked and shuddered.

'W-What?! How can he wield this power when he is just a mer-'

The power Almond unleashed from his stab and swing motion drowned the dreadful Floor Boss that nobody could defeat. The Mythical-rank level 300 Floor Boss just got shredded till it turned into mist and scattered.

A rain of blood formed, painting the landscape red.

Almond fell, exhausted and unconscious.

Shortly, a blurred figure appeared, a silhouette barely discernible, but with the elegance of a woman, her long hair cascading in a haze of mystery. 

"My, my… this is a surprise," she whispered, her tone curious, almost amused. "You… you are an interesting one."

The woman gazed upon Almond, who had collapsed in exhaustion, his consciousness had already faded as he was in slumber. Her eyes narrowed, scanning him closely as something unseen caught her attention. 

[Trait discovered: Tenacity (X)]

"An X-rank trait?" The figure's voice cracked in shock.

Her eyes showed excitement and amusement as she muttered, "An X-rank trait signifies limitless potential…So that's how he broke the limits and wielded that which should not be available on the first layer."

"This is too precious and fun of a toy to let it rot here," the woman's eyes glinted, her finger caressing her lips as she looked at Almond with cheeks red, and the grin wide. 

'Let's see...there's one more planet on which Grimworld's Tutorial will descend. Yes, there. You will go there, on a planet Earth just like this one.'

As the last vestiges of energy drained from Almond's body, he fell into a deep unconsciousness.

'What happened? I lost?'

'...I won? But....nobody is alive...'

He had won… yet all he felt was an all-consuming frustration.

As darkness enveloped him, he screamed a raw, primal cry of rage that echoed through this abyss of darkness around him.

'It's over…'

Almond thought he died, but then, in the silence that followed, a mechanical and cold voice echoed in his mind.

[Transfer to another world commencing...]

[Your memories will be sealed, and you will reincarnate in another world where Grimworld's tutorial awaits. Each floor cleared will unlock your past memories until the 10th Floor upon which you will regain your entire memory of this life.]

'Transfer… Reincarnate? And what does it mean by Grimworld's tutorial?! And I have to clear the floors in another world to unlock memories… does this mean I'm not dead yet?!'

[Good luck.]