Chapter 1

As Ankh stared at the monstrosity of a dragon in front of him, all he could do was curse his fate, as he was destined to die here at this time. There is no possible way he can escape from an SSS-Class dragon with his weak power that merely gives him the ability to make his body less visible, not even fully invisible.

'Ah, so this is how I die after all of these years of struggling...' Ankh thought to himself as he stared at the massive wave of fire being spat towards him from the dragon's mouth. Strangely enough, he didn't even feel scared or angry at his soon to be death, he merely felt... Calm.

It might be because he would finally be free from this suffering? Or it might be because he doesn't care anymore? Either way, he is calm in the face of death, which would be an admirable thing if he was around anybody else.

Finally, the breath of fire completely swallowed his broken and fragile body, burning it into nothingness. What was surprising was that after his body was burnt to ashes, it actually rebuilt itself again! Just that instead of being a solid body, it is more of a ghostly body, but naturally Ankh cannot notice this as his mind has already shutdown.

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Inside of a rundown and somewhat broken house in the slums of an unknown country, Ankh slowly opens his eyes which house confusion, which is to be understood. After all, he knows for a fact that he had just died from that fire breath, so why is he in his old rundown house from 7 years ago?

"Am I dreaming? No, this isn't a dream, it just feels too... Real." Ankh said to himself as he stood up to look around. As he walked past a mirror that stands near his bed, he noticed instantly that he seems to be much younger than he remembered, such as back when the cataclysm just began!

Hurriedly, Ankh grabs his old cellphone off of his desk and quickly turns it on, and lets out a shcoked gasp as he sees the date, [May 19th, 2053]. He died on [September 3rd, 2060], so why does it say [May 19th, 2053]?!

"What the heck... Did I go back in time or something? Wait... You have to be kidding me!" Ankh exclaims in shock as he stares at his left hand. Sitting atop his left hand is a small inconspicuous black lotus, which appeared a few months after the cataclysm began when he obtained his powers from a D-Class beast he ate some flesh from, so how is it possibly here now?!

"What the heck is going on... I can tell this is truly my power, since I can feel it clearly inside of my body, but how in the world did I go back in time like this? And why do I still have my powers? I certainly don't have any type of treasure or power that could send me back in time..." Ankh was beyond confused, but he was much more ecstatic! After all, he just went back in time, 3 months before the cataclysm began!

When the cataclysm began in his last life, he barely managed to keep his life but it was exchanged with him obtaining a ghastly scar on his chest when he was attacked by a E-Class wasp after it popped out of a nearby portal.

"Eh, what the heck is this?" Ankh exclaims as he swats at the air in front of him, as if trying to hit a fly away, but instead of a fly, it is instead a transparent screen that is in front of him.

[Name: Ankh Bram

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Age: 26

Strength: F-Class

Agility: F-Class

Dexterity: F-Class

Endurance: F-Class

Magic: ?

Powers: Fallen Angel Inheritance(Sealed)[+](Power to turn body slightly invisible available through seal)]

"What in the world is this? This was certainly not something from my last life... It seems to be all of my information? Strength, Agility, Dexterity, Endurance and Magic were the commonly used terms for power levels after the cataclysm... But what does it mean my power is a Fallen Angel Inheritance? How is it possible that a D-Class monster would let me obtain this as my power by eating it's flesh? It makes no sense... Not to mention it is sealed, so how would I even use it? Well, I guess that is where my crappy invisible power came from though..." Ankh said to himself as he looked at the transparent screen in front of him that displays all of his information. He might of been surprised at the beginning, but since he lived through the cataclysm for 7 years, he was able to calm himself down quickly.

"Eh, what is this plus mark beside the sealed Fallen Angel Inheritance? Whatever, let's touch it and see if it does anything." Ankh said to himself as he lifted his right hand and pressed his index finger right onto the plus mark, causing a new page of words to pop up.

[Fallen Angel Inheritance(Sealed): The Fallen Angel is classified as an SSS-Class monster due to it's extreme affinity to dark magic and crazy temperament along with the ability to fly. This particular Inheritance is currently sealed and the only way to unseal it is to give up something equivalent in exchange. [Options to exchange for unsealed Inheritance: Heart.]]

Ankh's mouth was wide open after he read this new screen that appeared, mainly due to the fact that the Fallen Angel is classified as an SSS-Class monster like the dragon that killed him before, and the other reason is that to unseal his Fallen Angel Inheritance, he needs to exchange his heart for it.

"What is the point in unsealing the Inheritance when I would die after by exchanging my heart? I wouldn't even be able to live to experience it when it is unsealed!" Ankh mumbled to himself in depression for a few minutes before another screen appeared while replacing the last one.

[Would [Ankh Bram] like to exchange his Heart to unseal his Fallen Angel Inheritance? Doing so will remove your Heart from your body, but in exchange you will obtain a Core which will replace your Heart, allowing you to live. It will function exactly as a normal Heart would, along with some other bonuses. Y/N]

"What the hell!" Ankh screams to himself as he read the new screen that appeared, because it means he can actually live after unsealing the Inheritance! Ankh was slightly hesitant, but decided to agree to it anyways. After all, he already died once, so he might as well take the risk to obtain enough power to survive in the soon to be hellish world or die trying! Ankh determinedly pressed the Yes option on the screen, causing it to disappear.

A second later, Ankh felt his heart being directly ripped out of his chest, which it was! A huge hole appeared directly where his heart was, along with it being slowly pulled out of his chest! Ankh was in so much pain that he wanted to faint, but he just couldn't, as something was stopping him from doing so.

As soon as his heart was fully removed from his body, it was swallowed by a black tear in space and replaced with a black orb that seems to be made of fog that soon took the lace of his heart inside of his chest, closing the hole afterwards leaving behind nothing but a large scar across his left chest.

"Hah~ Hah~ Hah~" Ankh panted as he fell to the ground while grasping tightly onto his chest, his body covered in cold sweat. The pain he just felt was something he never felt before, not even during the 7 years he lived in the cataclysm!

The pain was so bad that Ankh would have torn his own head off if he would of been allowed so to end it! Thankfully or not, the pain finally stopped and Ankh had control over his body once again.

He did nothing but grasp tightly onto his chest for an hour while cold sweat covered his entire body, being the aftermath of the intense pain he just felt for the first time in his life. Finally, after a bit over an hour, Ankh came back to it and snapped out of his blank state.

"That... Was intense... Thankfully it worked... Or else I really wouldn't know what to do..." Ankh mumbled to himself as he took deep breaths to calm himself down, which worked enough for him to be able to function normally.

"I feel much stronger than before, and it is like my power evolved from an ant to the moon... Speaking of which, how do I bring up that page that showed my information from earlier? I want to see if it changed from me becoming stronger like this." Ankh said as he recalled the screen that showed all of his information from before.

[If [Ankh Bram] wishes to see his information, merely think of it and it will appear.]

"... I have no idea what this screen really is but whatever, just show me my information so I can see if anything changed." Ankh sighed after he spoke to the screen in front of himself, making it bring up his information once again.

[Name: Ankh Bram

Gender: Male

Race: Human > Fallen Angel

Age: 26

Strength: F-Class > D-Class

Agility: F-Class > E-Class

Dexterity: F-Class > D-Class

Endurance: F-Class > C-Class

Magic: A-Class

Powers: Fallen Angel Inheritance(SSS-Class)[+]]

"Well then... My race changed to Fallen Angel which I expected, and all of my stats increased like I thought. I am nearly at the power level I had in my past life already, and if I add in the magic stat that was nonexistent in my last life, I am already stronger. Ah, there is another plus sign, it might tell me what the Inheritance really does." Ankh says in faint excitement as he looked at his new information while pressing onto the plus sign again.

[Fallen Angel Inheritance(SSS-Class): Current Powers: Summon Wings, Dark Bolt, Dark Cage. To unlock more powers, increase all base stats besides Magic to B-Class.]

"Huh, I can actually get more powers once all my stats get to B-Class besides magic? That is interesting. But still, Summon Wings, Dark Bolt and Dark Cage, huh. Dark Bolt and Dark Cage were uncommon powers in my last life, but those few who had them were very strong. I remember someone using a single Dark Bolt to instantly kill a C-Class monster before. Well, he was very strong at that time so it's not like I can do it. As for Dark Cage, that was used to trap an A-Class monster for 3 minutes by someone who only had A-Class magic. As for Summon Wings, it probably creates wings for me to fly with if anything." Ankh said to himself as he recalled the strong people who used his current powers in his last life.

He was extremely satisfied with his current powers, not to mention the fact that he can actually get even more powers the stronger he gets, which was unheard of in his last life, as everybody would only have the powers they got even though they can strengthen them over time.

"Still, this screen in indeed very useful. In my last life, if you wanted to know your information like this you would have to find a mage with SS-Class magic to scan you to find out, and that was not cheap." Ankh sighs as he is thankful for this weird transparent screen which would save him a load of money in the future.

"Wait, can I use it on other people?" Ankh suddenly thought in excitement. If he could use this screen to scan other people's information, wouldn't that allow him to see those who would become very strong?

As he thinks of this, Ankh gets really excited because he remembers there were those few people who had very strong powers or stats in his last life who were emerging 5 years into the cataclysm in his last life.

That would mean if he could find those who would become strong in the future with the screen, he could rope them in and create himself a small group of elites that would shock the world! Naturally, that would only happen if he could scan other people with the screen.

"Well, as much as I want to go and see if it works or not right now, I am much too exhausted from everything that happened in the recent hours, not to mention it is already late. I might as well just rest to recover my bodies stamina so I am not exhausted." Ankh sighs to himself as he checked his bodies condition.

Shaking his head, Ankh simply lay down on his bed and closed his eyes, taking a while to fall asleep because he was so excited to test his theory out tomorrow and see if his idea was plausible or not.