Reincarnated Yet Got Isekai

First Phase: The beginning of the end

11:27 AM—General Santos City, Mindanao, Philippines

A busy city whether it was day time or the nighttime people can be seen walking out the streets.

Curfew was implemented and got ignored. Uncivilized teenagers behaving like hooligans roams the streets and alleyways. Police and public servant's captured such individuals, but the end only got a warning.

Buildings small and large is everywhere wherever one looked at, except for those sky-high skyscrapers that's nowhere to been seen. Showing how poor this countryside City is.

Overall, it's just like any other normal countryside city in the world, where people have a smile or a grumpy expression on them. Unfortunately, this day, everyone's peaceful repeated everyday routine was severely disturbed.

Different sounds of sirens echoed throughout the large city. Mysterious unknown cracks started opening up above the skies, followed by a continuous earthquake and other disasters.

These disasters begun occurring at the same time devastating the place.

This unforeseen event didn't just occur in this city, the mysterious catastrophe is happening all around the world. Each second, hundreds of thousands, innocent lives got swallowed in this unexplainable catastrophe.

The proud showcase of sky-high skyscrapers and marvelous monuments that mankind have built started collapsing one after another.

The state off devastation and destruction could be seen wherever one look, the unknown catastrophe event started changing the entire world.

Slaughtering millions of lives in the process.

*****

Eighteen years had already passed when I finally came to my sense. What was interesting was that the memories of my past and present life remained clear.

I had started to stare into the sky more often now, reminiscing on the experience my past self the hardships and suffering I had been through. Everything felt like a dream.

In that world where I possessed power to reigning and be known to an entire continent, regarding both swords and magic, I mastered both in a level close to reaching the heavens.

Such stories that were nothing but fantasies here in Earth.

It's been 20 years since got reincarnated to this world. Two years since my memories return.

I don't have much recollection back to my past life. Everything involving my past life is nothing but slaughter and destruction, that is a world of entire chaos.

Not that a hated my past life I consider that life as memories of a great person. However, in compare to that past life, this life is more of a wholesome one?

I have family and friend people that I wanted to treasure and protect. Having fun loving and laughing together.

I woke up, welcome by the bright sunlight from the window. Arranging the room, I stood up, heading straight for the CR to let out some steam.

---Kent get down here, it's time to eat.

The voice was soft and kind my mother noticed that I have already woken up, so she called out. Leaving the CR after releasing some steam, someone suddenly ambushed me.

---Brother, I caught you." A small cute girl jump to me, she immediately hug me tightly.

---Yeah… yeah ah… I forgot to wash my hand." I then hug her teasing tightly.

---Yuck, brother… ewe, you grouse. Mother brother is dirty, he touched my face he's smelly hand" the little kitten started complaining as I tease here.

Life feels blessed, peace is wonderful. I never thought that peace would be this great, back in my past life no such thing as peace existed. I never once had someone to rely on or to laugh around.

Being born as an orphan and got sell into a slave since childhood. I work hard day and night just to be able to have a piece of bread, to be stolen by someone stronger instead.

Being weak in that world is a sin, the same thing applied in this world. However, compare to this world, that world back then is far more worse?

I work hard to overcome my weakness. Then a sudden event unfounded seems like the goddess luck is found of me a sudden extreme purifying mana storm washed over the mountains where I am working as a miner.

The slave mark on my shoulder together with other slaves disappear and were freed. A riot arise many had died I am one of the few that manage to escape, I successfully escape thanks to the passage ways I discovered.

Since then my life had change. I became a mercenary my slave life turned into a bloody life where everyday without break blood would spill on my hand.

There's no certain law in such world where the laws of the jungle prevails. Survival of the fittest, where the strong devour the weak.

---Finish your meal, eat all the vegetables."

---but mom, I hate vegetables."

---Do you know! Wasting food is improper, other kids out there is working hard just to have bread. So, they can fill their stomachs with something.

---If you don't eat vegetables, you wouldn't be strong like you wanted to. You'll be ugly, no one would like you.

---I don't need to go strong… brother is always here to protect me."

---Then how about me, your father."

---Father is lame… brother is much cooler."

---No vegetables, no anime."

---Ok, mother is such a meanie."

---By the way Kent how's your days in school. You're working too hard, you need to relax a bit. Your grades are already too high.

My father asked me. He isn't concerned about the school matters but about me who seemed to be working too hard to have a high grade.

But in truth that isn't the case, I don't need to work too hard to have a good grade, my intelligence is far higher and superior compare to any human in Earth.

Mathematics, science, and technology such things were far to underrated compare to the things I studied back in my past life.

Mathematics is only one of the basic principles of magic in that world. Science or to be precise alchemy had reached the realm where potions that can instantly recover a severed limb, restoring it like nothing had happened. Technology aside is on another level, where both magic and technology are applied with one another, traversing thousands of miles can be done instantly using a transfer gate.

My family thought I've been working too hard to have a better grade, but in truth I'm just fooling around on my phone or hanging out with my idiot friends.

We finished the meal, mother head straight to the door preparing to leave for work while father grab his bag and car keys. They left for work, while my sister, and I was left alone because it's weekends.

---Brother, I'm going to watch anime on the TV.

---Ok, no problem, there are snacks on the fridge if you want.

I returned inside the room I grab my phone but suddenly. I accidentally dropped the phone, the screen broke because it's not as strong as [Nokia]

I sense something. Something familiar yet unfamiliar to me, something that seemed to be missing.

---How can this be this, isn't this mana? How can mana exist in a world where arcane doesn't exist? Don't tell me!'

Just as I thought of these things, mana begun to spread out to the atmosphere. I froze at the spot, my Soul begun absorbing the mana scattered in the atmosphere. Like a vortex, mana started begun being sucked inside my chest as my soul begun behaving like a hungry wild beast.

I didn't resist the suction process, without a thought, I was able to enter my subconscious where my soul resides. Inside my subconscious I witness something unbelievable, a magic array that I don't have a knowledge of hammered in my soul.

Such things shouldn't have been possible, things that are related to soul is too dangerous, one mistake could cause for the individual to disappear from existence. So, a magic array formation hammered to the soul in a perfect, sturdy manner is something even a god can't do.

The unknown magic formula is a powerful array specialized for absorbing energy from the surroundings, purifying them at the same time, without limits. It can let someone breakthrough the limits in a much faster phase 2.5 time to that of a normal one.

Example is a sword master need to breakthrough becoming a grand sword master would take years that result will be divided by 2.5 decreasing the years one need to gather the right amount of energy to breakthrough. However, energy isn't the only requirement to breakthrough technique, skills, abilities, and wisdom is also a necessary thing for one to breakthrough.

---If that were the case I can't possibly let such an opportunity slip me gasp.'

Now that mana existed, chances that this world would change is as high as the sky. I can't possibly let the chance to gain power slip in my watch.

I started writing incantations in the wide space of my subconscious, combining astral runic patterns and a void array formation into one.

[Primal Void Spirit Array] Divine Rank

A fusion of both magic and spiritual array and runic formation that I developed after gaining the two inheritances. A one and only personal runic array formation that had reached the rank of Divine.

The formula can increase the power output by 50% for Tier 1 existence and 25% every breakthrough in Tier. It also decreases the power consumption thanks to its perfect auto consumption control together in the formation.

More importantly, all elemental attributes compatibility and control had increased significantly.

---A technique that desired by the many back in my past life and one of the cause of the many reasons for my death.'

---This intense mana surging from who knows where reminds me that of a mana burst from the extreme mana region. However, comparing the two aside, the mana burst from the extreme mana region, this mana is too easy to hands like it is intended to be absorbed in the first place.'

A new multi layered array formation took shape. I forcefully fused this array formation to the formation that been hammered in the soul.

Just as it touches the previous unknown array formation, the two collided as they fused with each other, becoming one.

Using the hammered magic array formation as the foundation, adding the [Primal Void Spirit Array] using it as a support and a boost at the same time enhancing the power of the arrays at the same time.

The [Primal Void Spirit Array] is an array formation that can be fused with any other formation without many restrictions.

So fusing it with the already hammered array formation didn't have much problem.

In the next instant, the absorption progress got multiplied. The previous count of 2.5 outputs turned into 12.5 an additional of 10 volumes got added.

---I need to balance the power output to insure safety, too much power is dangerous for this body that has yet to touch mana since birth.'

The 2.5 output volume is the highest safety zone for absorbing mana. Now that I had turned the output into 12.5 there's a danger of my body exploding from too much power.

I have begun manipulating the absurd energy charge creating an artificial energy core beside the Soul, inserting the excess energy to it the output return to its stable phase.

I left the subconscious as energy begun to be sucked into the artificial cores I made. Using the now mana available to be used, energy begun to gather around, my vision tuned blurry. The scene in front change, I saw myself inside a library.

[Wisdom Archive]

The place where all the wisdom I possessed got stored, because of me, having a body that doesn't possess mana I was forced to store the information in my soul to an archive space.

I was supposed to be buried in time, cause the only way to open this section of my subconscious is with the use of mana that didn't exist in Earth before. Regardless, now that mana existed, I can finally open these space and try a breakthrough.