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Henry was listening silently when his phone suddenly rang. He saw the name 'Edward' and immediately excused himself.

"I'll just take this call."

The two nodded their heads. He smiled at them before leaving the room.

"Hello. Ed? Why did you call?" his voice was light since he was very happy today.

[It's regarding that organization that cause trouble in the beast area. ]

This statement made him cold almost immediately. "Have you found out who those bastards are?"

Edward is a friend of him from Milan Academy. They graduated together but Edward is an S-rank Hero working in the Hero Association. He was one of the tasked members to investigate about what happened in the beast area.

[We caught a low-ranked member named Ryan Baker. I'll send his info to you.] Edward said.

Henry immediately received an email containing a file. He immediately opened it.

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Name: Ryan Baker

Age: 35

Occupation: Mercenary

Martial Status: Single

Birthdate: October 12, 2XXX

Place of Birth: Freah City

...

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The file contain the person's basic information. Henry called Edward back. Edward didn't wait for him to asked and quickly told him what he knew.

[The name of the organization was 'Transgressor Revolution'. Based from the information he provide, the group wants a change in the world's system. There are a lot of rumors about the leader but no one knows the truth. It was said that only the leader's right-hand man has seen the leader's face. As of now, we don't have a lead about their main headquarters since but we've tracked a couple of their hideout. The branch he joined has a total of atleast 300 members and above. It seems large.]

Henry was surprised. Such a large organization has only been found out now? His eyes narrowed. At first he only wanted to find out the culprit because of his sin but hearing this now... it seems like he'll need to do some cleaning in his territory.

"Do you need any help?" he asked.

Edward was silent for a moment. [If you caught a member, call me. That's all.]

Henry nodded. "I will."

***

Three months ago...

Inside a large mansion, a woman sleeping inside a pink bedroom suddenly opened her eyes. She sat up and look around warily. There was confusion in her eyes before sudden realization came over her.

I really came back...?

She took her phone in the bed side table and check the date. Her face brightened after confirming that she had indeed gone back to the past, five months before the entrance exam.

It was the time where she had the argument with his father because he block her application to the academy.

The girl opened her status window.

Name: Lorelei Regine Williams

Age: 16

Rank: E

[Status Window]

Strength: E+

Agility: E

Stamina: E

Mana: E-

=Authority=

[Sword God of Heavens]

Skills:

>Absolute Swordmanship [SSS]

Users have reached the pinnacle of swordsmanship, possessing proficiency, capabilities and knowledge in swords at a maximum and limitless level. Allow sword wielding to become godly in nature, each sword movement possessing otherworldly beauty. Users excel in melee attacks with swords on absolute levels. Users are able to perform counters, techniques and combination strikes with such skill, speed, and prowess that absolutely surpasses all other counterparts. Since the user's combative prowess are absolute, they are able to pull off feats that are seemingly impossible for even the most skilled fighters that try to comprehend the user's foreign skill.

>Motion Concentration [SSS]

User can concentrate/focus their bodies acceleration/inertia/motion/speed to any point of their bodies, such as arms, hands, feet, legs, fingers, etc. This allows them complete and sudden acceleration from any point on their body, which lets them attack or dodge anything without warning or time to react, this also grants them perfect reflexes.

>Zenith [SSS]

The user is able to ascend/evolve/transcend their condition, powers and abilities to the highest level allowing them to obtain unparalleled might, becoming an unstoppable force. The user also gains access to the ultimate level of power that is capable of transcending the boundaries of their own species. Most importantly, zenith can be obtained by those who possess full mastery of their own powers or ones with the utmost potential

She was overjoyed but her happiness was cut off when she saw a man sitting on one of the couch inside her room.

Her body tensed up and she unconsciously shy away from that intense gaze that seem to look straight at her soul.

"How long have you been there?"

The man didn't answer but stood up instead. His face has a mocking grin as he spoke.

"Instead of wasting time sitting on your bed, why don't you immediately go train?"

Lorelei gulped at the question. "I just woke up."

She just came back and besides she still have time. There are villains and beasts in the world but there was no major incident before. There was no need to hurry.

The man seem to read her mind. He sneer before pouring cold water on her.

"There was ten people who know the future like you."

"What?!" she jolted up.

"Five of them came before you and five of them will come after you woke up."

Lorelei have a bad premonition.

The man smirked as he slowly asked. "I wonder... how many of them will be on your side?"

She understand her words and immediately turned pale. 'There are now variables! Shit!'

The man calmly smiled as he stood up and walked towards the door. He didn't even look back as he closed the door behind him, leaving the frightened Lorelei.

"This world has no use of a useless hero..." he muttered those words with a stoic face as his figure slowly disappear in the hallway.

***

The Morris twins woke up three days after Liam woke up. He visited the two and chatted with them. Although they spoke casually and joked around, the three were traumatized about what happened.

Anton was the first one to wake up among them and was already discharge by the time Liam woke up but he still visit here and then.

After two weeks, Liam were discharged. In those two weeks, Liam finished memorizing all the textbooks he bought. He now felt like a genius after studying with his sister and answering all her questions perfectly.

"Rest for atleast a week before you continue your training."

Lian originally didn't want him to train for atleast a month but seeing Liam worked hard studying in the hospital, she wasn't that cold-hearted as to stop her son from what he want to do.

Liam smiled at his worried mother.

"Thank you mom." he didn't mention anything but Lian understand his meaning.

"Anything for my baby." she spoke jokingly before planting a kiss on Liam's head.

"Mom love you, okay?" she said lovingly.

Liam nodded his head. "Me too."

The mother and son chatted for awhile before Lian left the room for Liam to rest. He just got out of the hospital so his body should still be stiff fromnot moving for a long time.

This should be the normal case. However, Liam have the Mana Breathing Technique that can not only relieve his stiff muscles, it can also strengthened it.

Liam opened his status window to check his improvements. After all, he had been using the Mana Breathing Technique this past two week.

Name: Liam Austine Terron

Age: 16

[Status Window]

Rank: G+

Strength: F-

Agility: G+

Stamina: G

Mana: F-

=Authority=

[Boulder Slasher]

Skills:

>Sword aura [A]

It gives you the ability to transform your mana to a sword aura that have the attribute of 'Slash'.

>Boulder Shell [B]

When activated, your skin will be as tough as a boulder, neutralizing attacks.

[Knowledge Extractor]

Skills:

>Record [S]

When activated, you'll be able to record anything that you see, hear, smell, taste or feel.

>River of Memories [SSS]

With the help of this skill, you'll be able to see someone's memories as long as you know their name and use a 'keyword' as a trigger.

>Gifted Eye [SSS]

It gives you the ability to look through someone else status window. Provide enhanced eyesight and x-ray vision.

His mana improved and finally brokethrough the F-rank. He'll definitely be able to breakthrough the F-rank before the entrance exam.

When he first woke up in here, there's still two months left. But he met an accident and even got into a coma. He had already wasted a month worth of training. If he can't improve his rank to F+ then he should atleast train his sword skills.

In the beast area, he had hones his battle instincts and was much better than before. Anton was good at training them and knew their weak points and strengths. There was different battles that occur. He had been surrounded, fought one on one with a beast that has the same strength as him and encounter intelligent beasts. So even though they met an accident in the beast area, he didn't regret coming there.

But now that everything is fine, he suddenly thought it was strange. There was definitely no such large accident at this time. But so suddenly, there was a beast attack?

This must be cause by people like him! The more think about it, the more sure he is and the more solemn he become.

It seems like starting from now on, he need to be extra careful. He expected some light changes but this kind of big move wasn't in his expectations.

In his point of view, changing the novel meant an unknown future. This is the reason why he's reluctant to do anything at first and only thought of preserving his life.

This only change after he found out that there's already some small changes in this world. That's why he became bolder as to try to climb the ranks and make contact with the main characters.

Even so, he wasn't gonna try to make big changes or give big help to solve the issues the main characters would face. He wasn't willing.

Because an unknown future meant danger. He would always instinctively choose the safer path than a thorny road. But right now, he'll revise his plan once again.

There's a few group of people who is strong and can help the main characters when the time comes. But they unfortunately died.

He'll try to save as many as possible then dump them all to Lorelei. He's sure that she'll handle it just fine.

Liam doesn't want to become a babysitter once again.

***