Blood Assimilation

At this point, most people lost all hope when they saw how humanity was killed ruthlessly by the monsters and beasts that they had never seen before in their lives.

However, there were still others who were able to contend against the otherworldly creatures, and they became known as heroes.

These heroes awakened to powers that were beyond human understanding or common sense. Even when compared to the other powers awakened by others, their awakened powers were simply too powerful.

Some had impregnable defenses, others wield elements as if they were part of their limps, one controlled gravity itself, and there was even a man who had the power to wield any weapon that he told hold of— he became known as the weapon master.

With these powerful heroes, humanity was able to fight against the creatures that poured out of the dimensional rifts.

They fought back up until many people had awakened their powers, thereby increasing the number of people that could fight against the otherworldly creature, and eventually, the forces behind humanity were enough to usher in the next step.

Humanity's forces eventually numbered in the thousands after days of fighting. And with that many people, they decided to split their forces, one protecting the citizens from the monsters and beasts, and other forces went on an expedition into the mysterious cubic-shaped objects that the mysterious and otherworldly voice told them to challenge.

At this point, they had no choice but to heed the voices as they could not bear to see more corpses of humans pile up.

With that decided, the selected people touched the floating cubes, and afterward, those people were instantly teleported inside the cube.

They were instantly surprised that the interior of this cube was like a different world, seeing the giant trees that were everywhere.

Throughout their expedition, they met aggressive monsters and beasts by which they had no choice but to engage in a bloody battle where many lives were lost.

However, the survivors came back stronger than before, and they even brought back some crystals and minerals that seemed valuable.

Sure enough, one of the awakened, an alchemist with crafting ability, quickly recognized the materials the people brought back from within the cube.

And using the ability that he awakened, that person was able to craft high-ranking weapons using the carcasses of the defeated monsters and beasts along with the minerals that they brought back.

Using the crafted weapons, which were highly advanced, the warriors were able to defeat the monsters and beasts with less effort compared to before when they only relied on their previous weapons that did not last long against the otherworldly creatures' tough skin.

With this change in pace, humanity eventually realized the significance of the cube-shaped thing that hovered above the ground.

And just like that, years went by with many victories and many losses on both sides.

At some point, the planet they had lived on for so long even started showing some unusual changes. The visible changes caused some tectonic plates below sea level to rise to the surface above ground.

And not only that, but it seemed like the planet itself was getting bigger.

This shocked many people who saw this change with their own eyes. However, they would come to know later that their planet's core— the origin core of the planet itself had undergone mutation from all the different energies that permeated into it's core.

With the gradual mutation of the planet's origin core, the size of the planet itself had expanded.

And eventually, new lands were now available for humanity to explore.

However, the new lands are now mostly occupied by some of the most terrifying monsters and beasts that humanity could not defeat at the time.

Even the normal preexisting wild animals before the era of the apocalypse that had been exposed to the energies from both the dimensional rifts and the planet's origin core's energy had mutated.

And those mutated wild animals had also gained their very own special abilities depending on their bloodline or other factors.

With the changes that came about because of their planet's origin core, humanity also grew stronger in response and thus, was able to establish themselves once again by relocating and rebuilding their utopia—  a safe place where they would not have to worry about the invasion of otherworldly creatures.

Eventually, new organizations were also born after the rebuilding. However, there are two groups of people after the rebuilding.

The first group of people wanted nothing to do with the monsters or beasts, in other words, the normal citizens, and the second group of people wanted to venture out of the districts to seek money or fame by hunting beasts and monsters.

The normal citizens stayed within the districts and lived normal lives, and those that wished for more in terms of power created things like clans, guilds, and sects that solely focus on hunting the otherworldly creature and selling their parts and cores for money.

And thus, the hunter association also came to be established within all four districts.

It was an organization created by the governments to look after the people who had awakened with abilities.

Their main goal is to purchase the goods from the hunters who venture out to dimensional prisons to hunt otherworldly creatures or negotiate with the intelligent lifeforms found in them.

The hunters also venture outside the district and hunt the monsters and beasts that still lurked outside or threatened their protected districts.

Though this matter is unrelated, the dimensional prisons which were those cubes that appeared along with that mysterious voice later became known as dimensional dungeons or simply dungeons after many debates.

Just like that, 99 years have passed with a new civilization born from the previously destroyed civilization.

Over the years, a group of people came to be, they were people who were daredevils dared to venture into the dimensional rifts for personal reasons, and some of them came back with good news, and others came back with bad news or did not come at all.

This particular group of people became known as seekers, simply because they are a group of people who seek to find something that could change their lives in this cruel world. The main reason why they made such risky decisions was due to many clans, sects, guilds, and other prominent families discriminating against a group of people like them who did not have a background.

Most seekers were usually poor or unfortunate people who decided to throw their lives away by jumping into dimensional rifts but ultimately came back strong with resources or artifacts.

Either that or they end up dying in the other world. There was also another possibility that some might still be alive but chose to stay over there regardless. In any case, nobody can confirm that without going to the specific world themselves.

Even though the chances were very slim, there existed a group of people who could not awaken their ability, no matter how much time had passed after their birth.

These people, just like Randy, get looked down on for their whole lives. However, to change their fates, these people would be forced to take risky chances like rushing standing in front of newly appeared dimensional rifts.

That was because the dimensional rifts usually carry over various energies from the other world. Therefore, there was a slight chance for someone to awaken if they were suddenly exposed to the surge of energy that would hit their body at that moment.

At that time, either those people awaken right away or lose their life to the monsters or beasts that might come out of the dimensional rift shortly after.

If one gets exposed to more than enough dimensional energy, there is a slight chance that person would die from the exposure to the type of dimensional energy.

After all, the dimensional energy might not be compatible with the person who dared to stand in front of it, and intaking too much would cause damage to their body.

Due to this, the government had prohibited people from taking those risks.

And eventually, the awakening center with a method to awaken was established, meaning everyone could awaken as long they had money.

Despite experiencing the awakening process from the awakening center, Randy could not awaken his ability, and eventually, his parents started showing different attitudes towards him.

These subsequent events broke something inside of him, but he still believed that if he somehow awakened his innate ability someday, everything would go back to normal, just the way it was before.

But after awakening his innate ability, honestly, he was not sure what to expect from his parents, whether they would be happy and change their attitudes towards him or whether he would even like something like that in the first place.

With his thoughts clouded at the time, he could only use the excuse of surprising his parents to prolong telling them about it.

On the other hand, he did not have any qualms about telling his best friend, who stuck by him throughout his ups and downs— that was how much he trusted him over his estranged parents.