Inside a slightly lit underground room, a long-haired young man was sitting cross-legged on the floor and on his lap was a fist sized glowing stone, his upper body was naked and he looked like he was meditating.
Looking at him intently people would have the illusion that some air flow was constantly being attracted to his body.
This young man was of course Allen, after reaching the first transition of feeling the energy particles that are existing around, he immediately began to try absorbing them and began to strive for the first level of body enhancement.
In this period of time, two and half a weak already passed, and day after day the date of the catastrophe is approaching like a doom countdown.
Allen went out many times to stroll around the village or to buy some things, he didn’t want to raise suspicions by living like a monk.
Looking at the peaceful and honest people in the village, Allen mind was filled with complex thoughts, these people are unaware that a few days from now maybe they will not be able to see the world again.
Allen was full of sympathy but he also knows that he is not a saint nor he is a hero, don’t look at all those superheroes in the movies, reality is very harsh, true heroes are all dead or constantly crushed by the pressure of the burdens that are weighting on their shoulders and he didn’t want to experience that life.
He already lost what is most precious to him , his mentality already changed , it may be very well selfish of him but now he only thinks about himself, not to mention that even in the case that he warns people or publish the news on the net , he not only would be seen as a lunatic , he probably would even attract troublesome people eyes and ears.
So, he can only bury the secret deep inside, but these days of looking at the news and internet, he gradually felt intrigued, he noticed that some news points toward some clues about what will happen, the question is: do governments know what will happen in the future?
If its true, then he probably isn’t the only one who found ancient ruins, maybe countries know many secrets and deliberately choose not to disclose the truth.
But why? why are they not warning people? interests? survival? Selfishness or complete disregard to ordinary people?
Allen didn’t know, and he didn’t want to know, his only goal is to survive and become stronger, in that case it would not matter what he would face in the future, with his own power he would be fearless.
Feeling the energy on the stone, slowly a flocks of energy light strings were escaping and little by little were absorbed through the pores of Allen skin.
The first feeling was like being tickled by something then a hot current swimming throughout all parts of his body, like a crowd of crazy supporters, all the cells of his body was cheering and absorbing the hot currents.
It almost was like the cultivators in the Chinese novels, maybe its not as simple as a legend, maybe there are some truth and people in ancient china knew some secrets, because there is no smoke without fire, an information will become a rumour , a rumour will become a legend and a legend will become a myth.
Many things maybe far too complicated than people would think, I mean let’s be honest Allen himself never believed that an energy existed all around and that people could absorb it to become stronger and more intelligent, it’s almost like a spiritual thing, no it is spiritual…
After absorbing those hot currents, the cells began to multiply and renew themselves at a rate visible to the naked eye, Allen was constantly sweating, this is the body expelling the dead and damaged cells outside.
Time was passing, and Allen was sweating more and more, if someone would look closely at his skin, he would be surprised to find that it became more compact and tighter, it’s looked like loose stacked construction bricks were glued more tightly than before.
Not only that but his skin became more delicate and whiter than before, his muscles became more prominent and compressed and even his hair colour became more vibrant, the roots more solid and thicker.
It is just amazing a veritable miracle for ordinary people, it’s like a complete change, externally and internally, because if we could look at the organs of Allen body, we would notice that they became healthier and the blood flow was stronger than before.
The phenomenon lasted for three hours before the cells were saturated and couldn’t absorb more, Allen opened his eyes, a trace of light flashed within making his gaze sharper and deeper.
Allen felt his body is full of strength, he felt refreshed like bathing in the hot springs, but the smell of all that sweat made him feel nauseated so he quickly entered the bathroom to wash all the filth.
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After cleaning himself Allen found that his body changed, his body was already fit, but now it became more solid and looked more pleasing like a work of art.
He didn’t look burly, in fact he looked thin, but everyone who looks at him will never think he is weak, on the contrary he would feel like he was facing a beast.
Feeling quite contented with the result Allen returned to the underground room, he was eager to test his new power.
He should have reached the first level of physical enhancement , in the past his bench press record was of 180 kilos meaning 396 pounds , but now he found that he can easily lift 300 hundred kilos , we know that the world record for bench press is 335 kilos , and Allen just easily lifted what is the current world record , testing his limit he found that he could lift 425 kilos which is insane in today words and going by his body proportionalities.
If Allen now demonstrate what he just had done in front of people he would be seen as a veritable freak.
Next is punching power and kicking power , the world heaviest punch that is made public is of Mike Tyson , the famous world champion boxer , and its approximatively 1,600 pounds of power meaning 725 kilos of punching power which is close to inhuman , in the past Allen punching power was quite remarkable , at least 400 kilos(880 pounds) or slightly more , but now he has at least 900 kilos(2000 pounds) of punching power and nearly 1800 kilos (3000 pounds) of kicking power knowing that the muscle power of the leg is double of the arm.
He already crossed the boundaries of what the normal human power can achieve, Allen was filled with extasy.
“it’s a freaking good feeling !!”
Humans always dreamed of two things, superpowers and flying in space, now Allen really felt what could power be, at least the tip of the iceberg emerged.
The stone laid on the floor continued to glow, but Allen noticed that the intensity of the glow decreased by at least half the initial state.
He only has the three stones and the first level enhancement consumed half a stone, and to reach the second level it will probably consume double the amount or maybe triple the amount of energy.
It could be deduced now how difficult to advance in levels without the stones and by solely relying on natural energy knowing that each realm has ten levels one could imagine the difficulty.
But all in all, Allen was satisfied, he made the first important step that opened a new door to his existence what he should do now is continuously working hard to improve his strength.
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Meanwhile, inside a large conference room in the USA, many dignified looking people were seated around a large round table and behind them many large screens filled with various information’s about the world.
Some people were from the military, it could be seen as they were wearing military clothes and lots of military symbols of ranks were hang on their chests and shoulders.
Some people were wearing suits but looked equally important and powerful and lastly people wearing white coats, probably scientific leaders.
“so, what you are saying is that a comet of approximatively a hundred of kilometres of diameters was ejected from the space and is heading toward earth?”
A middle-aged military black man asked the question with a grim expression on his face.
“Yes and no Major Carlton, the good news is that its not the comet itself who will impact the earth otherwise even the earth would be destroyed , the bad news are that a fragment of 12.52 kilometres of diameter detached from the initial body and is heading toward us , we can conclude that its point of impact is on the Antarctica continent and we even calculated the coordinates, we know that this comet came from the Kuiper belt just like we know the origin of the comet that also hit Antarctica more than 10 000 years ago”
Hearing what the scientist said and looking at the satellite images on the screens, all the people inside the room became silent, a feeling of gloom and depression enveloped the place.
“what are the damages expected, is there a possibility of missiles shots or other methods to change its trajectory?”
Another high-ranking military general asked.
“I’m very sad to inform you that we can in no way alter its course , a nuclear missile shot would be stupid and bad idea, because the explosion zone distance would be too short making the level 3 cosmic object fragmented and create even more points of impacts and that would be a complete disaster , and we can not alternate its trajectory because it is already near us it’s too late.”
Bang!
One man in a suit slapped suddenly the table in the room and made the people startled.
“then what !!!? are we only going to watch as it impacts earth, speak what are the consequences of the impact?”
“the major consequences would be, a huge deflagration that will wipe everything in several thousands of kilometres , making hundreds of kilometres of ice sheet melt and evaporate , raising sea levels by at least 100 meters and a short global warming followed by days and days of rain that will further cause the raise of sea levels , every thing near the coasts will be submerged , and finally the return of the ice age”
The people who listened became desolate and deflated, they felt vulnerable and weak, some renowned scientist one day said that cosmos doesn’t give a fuck about humans, it just happens and could wipe us all and we could do nothing about it, it seems that there is some truth now.
“how many people would be affected?”
“We calculated that at least 2 billion people will die first because of the impact and more than three billion following the changes in climate and environment”
Everybody in the room began to whisper and think of a way to save as many people.
This scene was played in most of the important countries, Russia, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, everyone felt powerless.
In the end they secretly launched a secret programme to save most of the important people and to hide in underground shelters that were built for possible nuclear wars and catastrophes.
Time is limited, hour after hour, minute after minute, the comet is approaching steadily, harbinger of death and doom, but they don’t know that the comet will be the least of their problems, no one would have expected how the world will become in the future except one lucky individual.
That individual was locking himself in an underground room under a plain house waiting for the knew era…
To be continued.