***

The white beam came and took Sophie and Jack away, they found themselves on a gigantic platform with millions of other people around but what shocked them most was that they could see the earth from there, they were on the moon.

Sophie spoke to Jack "what is happening? Where are we?", she was quite scared and so was everybody around, there were many people and even more angels around, the angels varied by the number of wings, some had a white ring made of light above their heads, some had wings and head of lions.

A heated discussion took a place but ended quickly as the air began to vibrate and a hologram of an angel with huge six pairs of wings and ring from the light above his head appeared, the angel was a young man with blonde hair and blue eyes, as the angel appeared feelings of tranquility and peacefulness overcame everyone here.

"Hello everyone, I am Michaele and I am here to guide you on your way, now listen to my explanation, your world was until now cut off from source energy or mana as you call it by a mysterious barrier, and when the mana finally made it through and came in contact with Earth it began to change everything including you, you evolved to angels thanks to your admirable character and affinity for mana, if you didn't have either of these two you wouldn't evolve, this event is never before seen, nowhere in the galaxy is a place without mana"

"sadly, the demon faction noticed this event as well and this is why your world is going to war, we have been forced to accept an agreement between our faction and the demon faction to prevent the destruction of earth and other planets in the galaxy, this is why our faction took every child to the safety of our worlds... this is most we can do for those unfortunate souls to spare them of suffering, we will prepare them here for what´s yet to come and when they turn 16 we will return them to you through an outpost of their choosing in the semi-annual intervals"

"each faction can provide support, but we can´t directly intervene, we can provide you with items, spells, and methods to form them, also with techniques and information on monsters and demons, we will also provide you with techniques that help humans to form their center of power so you can guide them"

"what we want in exchange is for you to look out for the humans in your world, and also sadly you need to kill every demon you can, for killing demons or their subordinates, guiding humans or just helping them, completing missions that will be provided to you here you will acquire these crystals" Michael showed holograms of different crystals and their value.

Michael "you will be able to get here thanks to these devices" Michael showed them crystal´s a very similar function to the ones the demons got, even the limitations were the same.

Michael "you will also get a book with basic information and dictionary for angel´s language that is necessary for trading here and will help you greatly in creating spells. And for your ultimate mission, you must retrieve the remains of the being that created the barrier or artifact he left behind, if they get inside the hands of the demon faction it will spell the end of not only this world but many more. I wish you the best of luck, goodbye"

When Michael ended his speech, the hologram disappeared, and everyone was returned by the white beam.

When Sophie and Jack returned many people were standing in the room from which they disappeared and began to shout in surprise and relief.

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Sophie looked around and found Eric and Marie, she quickly went to them and said "we must kill him now, he is a demon send here to kill us all" while she said that she completely ignored Jack who only stared at her and didn't even try to stop her.

***

John Edberg finished the adjusted recipe and started experimenting, with a spark the powder in the closed-up room lit up and began to burn with crimson fire. "another failure, reproducing the gunpowder is proving to be a bigger challenge than we initially thought"

Several scientists got into a discussion and talked about alternatives they could use, John stared at the cup that was floating before him.

John mutated as well but he was neither normal awakened, demon or angel. John´s brain enlarged to ridiculous size, his head was now about three times bigger than before, he could instinctively use the raw mana to move objects, and could it use to great extend, he could even lift around a hundred kilograms of weight with the raw mana alone but on the other side... his body degenerated quite a bit, he was now having troubles even standing for extended periods of time but it was well worth it.

John never felt soberer, his thinking speed increased by several folds and his brain was more like a computer now, he could store and access any information in his brain and memorize them completely, he could visualize any 3D model and even if he didn't focus the model would stay almost vivid.

And yet despite all that he was incredibly bored, he worked in a research center that was located in Germany, and on the second day after the mana came army secured the area and began to defend them, well army was a strong word.

After that several days passed and John mutated, some scientists awakened centers of power, but no one mutated to his extend, they feared him and almost locked him away but luckily they were all men of science so reason won against fear.

John now spends his days experimenting with the few resources they got and despite the majority of experiments failing there were some that did succeed.

John already reinvented the calculator, all of its conduct were from gold and it was powered by mana from the user, it was a breaking discovery that showed the modern devices can be brought back.

***

In the Vatican the pope sat on his bed while thinking about the future, many of the people from the Vatican evolved into angels and while it was a great shame for him, some priest turned to vicious demons that vent on a killing spree.

The future looked bleak, but he didn't despair and that was because he and other high-ranking priests gained divine power even though they haven´t evolved to angels or awakened.

It came from the prayers of people that believed in the same god from one religion and it allowed him to perform miracles, he could heal those that were hurt or even crippled, he could fire arrows made from this divine power that was powerful enough to kill any beast he met, and by using almost most of the power he could collect in a day he even managed to resurrect dead.

They were chosen by God and this was his test they must undergo.

***

James Smith was sitting at the table where various delicates were laid and was savoring their taste, he didn't even bother and made the food float right in his mouth.

James was different from most of the people and mostly because he could use telekinesis even before the mana came, before he could at most flip pages of an already open book but now, he could tear beasts apart just with his thoughts despite not awakening any center of power or having any mutation, he was simply incredibly attuned with the raw mana which collected itself around him and completed any of his thoughts.

James stared at the pretty girls that were around him while thinking ´yes, I am the protagonist here, first I will conquer Phoenix and build here my base of operation, also a man like me should have more than this crap, and dozens of women should take care of me´

James came from a rich family and with his good look, his whole life was more like a fairytale. He never bothered to put much effort into anything and just went with the flow, after all, things worked out for him most of the time, now that he gained power that could overcome even the ones that mutated into angels or demons many people gathered under him, that only increased his already high ego.