New Beginning 1

"Well I took longer than I was given. What's going to happen to you?"

I practically have every single thing that can be looted in that place. They were given to me by A-9, it's been nice being with him.

"well… There are 10 emergency fuses for the core of this place… they're all used over this century."

My eyes widened, is this the true reason he's desperate?

"Thank you… thank you for having enough time being with me, especially for rescuing this child.

"auu… "

A-9 and I looked at the baby boy, we decided to name him Ezekiel.

Ezekiel's tiny hands are reaching out to A-9, A-9 has this blank expression on his face. He blinked a few times then reached out his finger to Ezekiel.

Ezekiel wrapped A-9's finger with warmth as he held it. I wouldn't be able to see this anywhere but here, as A-9 couldn't help but smile affectionately to Ezekiel.

"Uuwaah~!"

"Haha..Haha… sometimes I wish I was a human, if I am, in this moment I would cry…"

I couldn't help but have a sour expression on my face, it's time to say goodbye, I couldn't help but think of A-9 as an old man instead of a robot.

With a smile on his face A-9 with a happy tone on his stitched voice said.

"You better get going, I hope that mechanical tiger could help you in the future."

"thank you again A-9"

"you too… thank you"

I held both babies in my hand, one was Ezekiel and the other was Elizian, the baby girl.

Elizian has white hair and green eyes. Her noticeable feature is her shark teeth. I couldn't help but be amazed, it's a transformation since birth.

Ezekiel was born with black hair and green eyes, he was pale white and considerably adorable.

A-9 walked back inside Naia, I'm the only one who knows his story. And this is probably our last meeting.

I couldn't help it though, I can't fix him. Unlike the mechanical tiger there are no other versions of him anymore. He doesn't work like a computer since he's an AI with human emotions he didn't have a memory log.

His head was filled with these chemicals that run accordingly, just like the human brain. He was truly made to mimic human emotions.

"Let's go"

I said to the mechanical tiger, it took me extra 2 days past my scheduled hike as me and A-9 was fixing it.

There were a lot of decommissioned parts somewhere in the facility. I have to reuse parts and with the guide of A-9 fix it.

Walking inside the compartment of the tiger it was comfortable. I could fit even with the babies with me, somehow it has air conditioning inside.

This tiger is massive actually. If I had to describe it. It would be 2 metres tall and 4.5 meters in length.

My height was no more than 122cm. The inside was very spacious for me. Therefore comfy for me and my newfound siblings.

In front of me was a screen where I could see what the tiger was seeing, the sides of the screen were only showing statistics and other information.

I wouldn't need that for now though. I felt a slight tug, same when an elevator is going up I felt it like a car moving. The Tiger started running.

The way it maneuvers in the forest was swift and amazing, I couldn't help but watch in awe.

It only took a few hours compared to my day-long hike. I made the tiger stop at the entrance of the forest.

Getting off the compartment as the entrance to it opened I told the mechanical tiger to stay in the forest.

"OS call Dookin Mills, by his given number from my smart watch"

[Understood]

I tried calling Serge just in case the tiger caused a mass panic by its appearance.

–Hello?

"uhm… Serge?"

His voice changed, it was cold. I felt the anger in him as I broke the one thing I shouldn't.

I was taught discipline while being in the military, and now I couldn't follow it i'm sure there is going to be punishment.

–What is it?

"Can you… uhm… pick me up? I'm in the Northern District as I told you a week prior. But uh… I'm carrying something else."

–And what's that?

"uhm… "

Thankfully Elizian yawned

"I have a twin baby with me…"

Since Elizian and Ezekiel are born in the same week, might as well label them as twins.

His cold voice turned to surprise and worry, he might have misunderstood something if I don't explain this.

–What?!

"Err.. The mother died in the forest… injured, so uhm… can I have some help?"

The call ended quickly, I did a lot of things in a single week. It was filled with dangers as adventures requested it.

A Zenite encounter, a lost tech and a lot of items abandoned for years.

Minutes later, on the gravel road I saw a Jeep cruising like it's on a track field.

He could see me holding babies in my six year old arms. Though it wasn't tiring, this is something that shouldn't happen.

"Damian what is this?!"

"Uh… well… I have a lot to explain."

I explained what I had prepared beforehand, it was that I fell in a dungeon, got out, then saw a dying woman in the forest.

"They also have names which is Elizian and Ezekiel, twins"

"alright but where… where is that woman's corpse?"

"I think… it was already eaten by beasts, I only got their name after all.. "

He just sighed at that point. Looking at my eyes.

"Wait here, I'll buy some baby sits"

I managed to hide my eyes… albeit subtle, the skill I got from making a new one… it hid the transformation in my eyes.

Serge left with the jeep for a moment, then came back afterwards after having two babysits on the back of the jeep.

…

That was 6 years ago.

"ELI I SWEAR TO GOD COME HERE!"

"wah! Haha haha!"

Elizian grew up as a brat, Ezekiel is much more tame than Elizian but when they're together it's utter chaos.

As I grabbed Elizian and lifted her up like I'm handling a cat I faced her towards me.

But of course, as her brother I know her weakness.

"No candy"

"Wah! No!"

"Too late"

I grabbed the candies in her hand. And hid them in my pockets. I then proceed to wrap this silly cat with a blanket and turn her into a burrito.

"Bro… I'm done using the bathroom."

"Okay, Ezekiel guard your sister."

"Ezekiel! Help me!"

"... Long live the king"

That was the last thing I heard before closing the door to the bathroom. I guess I gave them a good childhood.

As the shower was hot the evidence of that place was showing. Black marks in the form of a rose started appearing in my body.

"Arsenal… huh"

There are a few things I received from A-9.

I was lucky when A-9 and I made this Skill, the transformation are heated tattoos, it would only show when my body is hot.

The Skill orbs were made of pure mana, mana overcharge is also called Mana poisoning, I was lucky I didn't go over that as I was successful with my new Skill.

To make that skill I have to embed my will unto it, the skill I wanted the most. The same feeling of wanting to live when I'm dying.

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[{D}Arsenal][active]

–Storage space for Guns, throwables, potions, ammo and Melee weapons specifically in the guise of a tattoo.

►Items stored [1,813/20,000]

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Thanks to A-9 I also have one more thing. The earpiece was also a storage space. But for misc items and pretty much I want to store.

It carried all the loot out of Naia, thanks to this earpiece I have left none.

Since I also don't want to unnecessary stand out I have these tinted Sunglasses that makes my presence smaller, and also make me insignificant to others eyes.

It was a good artifact.

As I finished reminiscing on the thoughts I changed the temp of the shower to cold. It's too early to reveal it.

Finishing my showers I changed clothes in the bathroom. As I left the bathroom with my hair still slightly wet, the first thing that greeted me was Ezekiel and Elizian wrestling.

"You will never win against me Ezekiel!"

"Oh yeah?!"

Ezekiel proceeded to tickle Elizian's foot and she lost grip and started pulling her feet away

"Wahahaha!!"

Since Elizian lost her grip on Ezekiel, he proceeded to put Elizian on a submission hold.

"huh…"

I looked at them both with a blank expression, ever since they learned that they were siblings they started fighting like this.

"B-bro! Help me!!!"

"That's your fight Eli, win it"

I coldly said to her.

"Aaaargh!"

"And also Ezekiel you just got out of the bath, stop getting sweaty."

Ezekiel lets go of Elizian's leg and sneers at her.

"okay."

"Also prepare yourselves, you're training with me later."

Seemingly excited they both stopped what they're doing and started fixing the bed.

When we got home back then, Serge did the paperwork to register these two on the census. They got registered as my siblings.

I wanted to take care of them so much I dismantled the bunker bed, and laid it on the floor, making a bigger bed with bigger surface area.

So I could sleep with both of them. Since I know that day, 6 years ago. I would be going to academy, I wouldn't be able to talk to them as much as I do now.

Once I went to the academy I would be living in the dorms, I would need to adapt to the hierarchy of this academy.

And since that's going to happen I still trained and trained in this military checkpoint.

Even sometimes going out the wild with the Mechanical tiger to 'hike'. With that said, I looked at my status.

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Name: Damian Cassanova

Rank: [-E]

Affinity:[Light, Earth]

Attributes:[Metal]

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Strength: [-E]

Speed: [-E]

Dexterity: [F]

Agility: [-E]

Stamina: [-E]

Mana pool: [E]

Mental power: [D-]

Int: [D-]

Luck: [C-]

Charm: [F]

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There's a few things that changed within my journey. For example my ranking. It raised so much. From F- to E- I ranked up thrice in the past 6 years.

I couldn't help but feel amazed, with this I have more chance of survival when the 3rd dimensional rift comes.

I walked out the door and as I did I saw the bonsai tree that I have grown sitting on a table at the corner of the room.. It was the same bonsai tree but smaller where I found Elizian.

There were three seeds from that fruit. I planted one and with thanks to my hard work and efforts it has grown into a textbook perfect bonsai.

Thinking back, everytime I could remember those female zenite. I couldn't help but be sad, she probably held on dear life so she could just safely give birth to Elizian.

I sighed as I walked down the hall of the barracks and went outside.

I glanced at the gate that goes to Jask. That city is going to be claimed today.

I read the news on my phone, they're trying to reclaim the city back.

Checking all the old news about the city, it seems like they found out it was full of herbs and natural resources.

If I didn't get my memories of my past life I wouldn't have known that, And over the past few years I still went on 'hiking'. It's also the reason why I have a lot of Survivor's token rising up my luck.

Since the city has three gate overflows I was almost placed in a life or death situation multiple times.

"Oh well"

"I have like 8 tokens. How many times have I been grounded in the past 6 years…? "

I gathered a lot of herbs and natural resources, using them to rank myself up. Right now I'm -E rank. Though it was very pricey, it was worth it.

While some other factors can be trained without herbs most of the time there is a limit.

I'm rising my rank very fast but when I got properly assessed by the government Hall I can't help but smile wryly.

I was assessed to only reach B- rank. Far from the rank of my mother, I guess my father's were the reason, look at my Charm, he surely must be a reason.

Even though I know items from my novel I am still helpless since I don't know where the majority of them are.

My memories of the past are getting blurry too, so I made sure to write every single thing in my notes in OS. It works like a phone anyways.

The novel is going to start soon, as the orphan, Kain Maxwell. The protagonist of my story is going to help with the reclamation of City Jask.

The reward he'll get with his system would be a nanobot, that thing is powerful as it merges with blood and easily heals wounds. It's a lot more powerful as I wrote it.

"Hmm… "

Since I was bored I went to an open area, went to a corner and started dismantling my gun and building it again.

'OS, Check notes named 'City Jask' reclamation'

[Understood]

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March 23, 2512

City Jask Reclamation, Is also the time where the Protagonist: Kain was going for a mission with a reward.

The mission award was a Nano-bot, S-tier Item.

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I want to witness the fight but I'm grounded right now, the last hike was disastrous and I'm already going to an academy.

Previously I asked Serge which Academy I'm attending and it was Insidious High. The academy is located in Ceath.

The Academy the Protagonists and his comrades are in the academy located to the border of the three nations Humanity have.

As Humanity got united by the world mass sticking together. It really didn't get United at all. We decided on three nations within the human domain.

The nation's being, Khan Wu, States of Union or SOU, And Hunberg.

Khan wu is mostly populated by the descendants of Asians and some middle eastern people. SOU are populated by the descendants of North and South American people. And Hunberg are mostly European, but they are very mixed, from Asian to African people.

These Three nations made an academy where the top notch talents could be found and recruited.

But of course, it's illegal to recruit until graduation.

The academy is located in a city called New Woodlock, all in the the end of the nation's borders.

It was made with the idea of making students compete. Ranking and all.

The entire Human race takes 30% of the entire continent. 50% goes to the other races and the remaining 20 are riddles with Zenites.

The Elves, Dwarves and Dragonborns are fighting against the full descent of the Zenite whilst we catch up to them.

As the author of such a book I am aware of behind the scenes. While it is true that the other races are impressed that we defend ourselves from zenites that didn't completely make them like us.

The more they spent time with us the moment they knew that we were weak. Weaker than most of them.

Well unlike them humans took a long time to completely assimilate mana to their bodies.

And the reason why it took 500 years for the zenite to invade again is because of the other races completely pushing them back.

Now that we're at the 500th year mana has completely bonded with humans. To the point we started doing the wildest of experiments with it.

Imperium. Humanity's greatest academy was created to make talents so they could stop the invasion of zenites along with the other races. And now that humanity has completely assimilated with mana, working with the other races would be possible.

Every city within a nation had their own Academy, and whenever one shows great talent has the chance to go to Imperium.

Well there are other ways to get in though.

"High School huh.. "

Well that's fine, I could contact Dimitri in another way, right now I don't want to stand out, and I don't want to be next to the protagonist.

After all, there's trouble wherever he goes.

I have two goals right now, one. Obstruct Nexus as much as possible. And the other, save Dimitri from his fate.

As I finished dismantling and building my gun I looked at the time. It's 3:30pm. They're probably ready by now.

Since there are training facilities here in the outpost I might as well use them, now that I think of it I have a schedule to meet.

"bro!"

"You're here!"

Ezekiel and Elizian are waiting for me, and it seems they've already warmed up their muscles.

"Alright, let's get into training straight away?"

Both nodded, Elizian with her Unique skill she released webs all over her arms, and like she commanded them they formed into a weapon, a glaive.

She dual wields and she's pretty good at it, just like me she can be counted as a prodigy already.

Ezekiel on the other hand made a small cut on his wrist and his blood turned into a katana. He's watching too much anime.

"Alright come to me with what you got."

I had another Martial manual, One I personally got from the soldiers in this military outpost.

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[Mixed Martial Arts][Major-Realm]

–Cover your weakness with another strength. Mixing arts will give you a stronger chance to win in a fight.

►martial arts:Judo, Boxing, Muay Thai, Karate, Jujutsu, grappling and Kali.

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This art is used by the military as it can be easily given out to everyone. You can choose what art to learn too and it would stack with it.

Thus saving one from the trouble of learning several guides.

Also Humans aren't the only ones who assimilated with mana, objects too. Such as martial arts books.

When I got this martial guide I was excited at first, but then Serge drilled it to me.

These little critters ain't goin to stand a chance. I was taught not to hold back then I'd do the same.