I have returned to the time, where I activated my power for the first time. It was my third time to experience going back through the time. It should be a bit over a month after the apocalypse has started.

My head turned to the left and right, realizing that I was standing on top of a building.

"This building..."

I remembered it. This was a mall and everyone was rushing inside to secure food and weapon for themselves. My family also went in together and after a while, a gunfight started to take place. People died and we went hiding while panicked inside a storage room in the basement. It only had clothes and several bottles of water. After a week, we couldn’t stand any longer and dad started to explore the upper level.

Afterward, I followed behind and saw that he got himself killed by a bandit. I panicked and ran back inside the storage room. From the room, there was a small black stained-glasses window. When I heard the bandits have left with their cars, I told mom and little brother to stay inside the storage room as I sneaked around and got food for them.

That time, I was still frustrated that I couldn’t save my dad but I knew that he wouldn’t want me to get revenge for him. He wanted to save his family as much as he possibly could. I closed my eyes and clasped my wristwatch on my left hand.

"Don’t worry dad, I will protect your treasure for you."

Tears streaked down to my cheek even though I tried to restrain it. I wiped the tears and looked down the building to the road. What I saw was, aberrants. They were slow and look weak.

They had a different color of skin to determine their strength. The weakest, for now, would have red and brownish skin color while the strongest, for now, would have a beaming copper skin.

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Having identified their number, I went down the stairs. I remembered the blueprint of this place. There was nothing on top of the building except for some broken pole and electric wires.

I felt confident as I climbed down the stairs. The power that I have was the power of Tree Life. In the past, it was a hidden treasure behind the disguise that made people think we were weak.

Even though for the first few stages, I needed some seed or plant to mediate with my abilities, I would be strong enough after I fought the aberrants. Around this time, the aberrants were still dumb, deaf, blind and slow. Also, if they ate something, they would need time to digest it and get stronger afterward.

Hence, I was not worried while going down the stairs.

【F3】

Floor 3, the gaming center and cinema. As I sneakily open the emergency door and saw a few aberrants walking around the corridor while some were sitting on the bench.

Having lived for the third life, I experienced many things. Including being killed as an aberrant. Being an aberrant was the most suffocating experience ever. You had a consciousness but you couldn’t control what you think or what you do. You only know, hunger and kill.

Being aberrant did not mean dying but killed by someone who was alive did kills you.

"Fuu..."

I took a deep breath and walked toward the gaming center which on the left side while most aberrant was at the right. 

There was no weapon as to be expected but what I want was still available.

Inside, the chairs were broken and just perfect for me. I sneaked in and took a few steel rod from the broken chairs and put them behind my back as I held one in each hand.

After I took another breath and calmed down the adrenaline in my blood. I ran toward an aberrant that was standing nearby. My muscle was not trained yet, thus I ran slower than expected and I made noises while running. The aberrant took notice and started to walk toward me.