Scott and Sid soon reached to a shared apartment house. As Scott said, his home wasn’t anything special. With just two rooms and a bathroom, it was a very small place but still good enough for a single person to live in. As Sid was only a kid, it wouldn’t be much problem for him to live here. 

“Well, as you can see, this is my little castle. Now, come on in.” When Scott and Sid finally reached Scott’s home, he excitedly pulled him inside, ignoring the troubled expression on Sid’s face. 

“Well, make yourself home. I’m going to whip up something quick and healthy for you to eat. As you just got out of the hospital it won’t be good for you to eat something heavy,” Scott said this, and went to the kitchen. Although Sid had completely recovered from his injuries, he couldn’t just tell Scott about it. He wasn’t even sure whether he could completely trust him or not. 

Soon, Scott came in with a bowl of rice porridge, some sandwiches, and tea. It was a very plain meal but good enough for a patient. 

“Alright, eat kid. I’m sure you are hungry,” Scott said while laughing. 

“Well, then I will help myself ” Sid said his thanks, and started digging in. Scott quietly watched him eat and sighed inwardly. Although he never asked him about what had happened that day, he was still troubled about it. But asking something which can possibly traumatize Sid, he was hesitating. Although he very much wanted to know, he knew this was not the right time to ask such a thing as he was just discharged from hospital. So he decided to talk about something else, “So, what is your ‘special ability’, kid?” Scott asked curiously. Nowadays, everyone was born with a special ability. There were strong ones and weak ones. But every single person was born with it on planet Earth in this era. 

Sid suddenly stopped when he heard this. When Scott saw this, he asked, “What is it? Is something wrong?” 

Sid suddenly brought his hand up, and flower pot on the window suddenly came flying in. 

“Telekinesis. Well that’s quite a useful ability you got there,” Scott said while looking at the floating flower vase.

“What’s so good about it, if it was before the Great Nuclear War, it might have been an extremely useful. But now, it’s just one of the most useless abilities ” Sid said calmly, but Scott could still see some sadness in his eyes.

‘The Great Nuclear War, huh.’ Scott sighed to himself as he thought about it. Although it was 500 years ago, it was still something that every single person on Earth knew about. As long as a child was able to understand things, he was first told about the greatest destruction and mistake caused by humanity. 

The 3rd world war, also known as the ‘Great Nuclear War’ was the biggest tragedy in the history of humanity. The peaceful society was completely destroyed and this cruel world rose up from it. That war wiped out about 60% of the entire earth’s population. At that time, everyone on Earth accepted their fate. Because of the radiation, many people died, lands became infertile, and rivers were gone. That, truly was the end of the Earth, or so everyone thought. But for some reason, instead of dying out, the remaining people on Earth started evolving. They developed various kinds of abilities like controlling the elements, super strength, the ability to soar through the sky, and many other useful abilities that came into existence. But not all of them were useful. Some of the abilities like Telekinesis, which were the only known ability before the Great War were deemed useless.

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Although humanity evolved, the true nightmare began after that. Because of the war, there was only chaos everywhere. Because of radiation, there was extreme shortage of food and water. So people with stronger abilities started stealing and monopolizing everything around them. There was chaos everywhere. From rape, theft, murder, people did whatever they wanted. As there was no government to control them like in the past, this was just a paradise to them. 

Soon enough, different organizations and guilds came into existence. They started to recruit people with strong abilities and started to rule areas around them. This once again started wars over the control for this New Earth. Because of the existence of these organizations, things started to get a bit orderly, but things like murder, stealing and rape were something that became a very normal thing. Until, the appearance of ‘The Savior of Humanity.’ 

No one knew where he came from, or who he was. He just appeared one day with an exceptional ability to command nature. He slaughtered the evil cults and organizations all over the world and used his ability to restore the Asian continent on Earth. 

He transferred people from all over the world to Asia. As Asia was the biggest landmass on Earth, the remaining population on Earth was able to survive on it.

After that, he established his own organization known as “The Great Alliance”. After the Alliance came into existence, the chaos ended. For the next 100 years, the savior of humanity continually guarded over the earth.But after that, he disappeared. News of his disappearance caused a huge commotion throughout the world. People once again became afraid of the chaos that would follow after his disappearance. But contrary to everyone’s expectations, nothing happened. The Great Alliance still functioned as before and maintained the order throughout the world.

Nowadays he is Known as the ‘Son of God’. As he was the savior of earth, his statues can be seen everywhere on the continent. There are even some places where he is formally worshipped as a god.

‘It’s already been 500 years since then.’ Scott sighed as he was thinking this. He once again looked at Sid, who was eating quietly, with pity in his eyes. Although he praised his ability, he knew that it would be very difficult for him to live in the cruel world if he was not strong enough.

Scott himself was born with super strength. Although the rank of his ability was not strong, he was still able to live his life quietly.

When he was thinking this, Sid suddenly turned to him and said, “There is no need to pity me. Although my ability is useless, one day I will become the strongest man in this world.” He spoke with such firm determination in his eyes. 

“I hope your dream comes true.” Although Scott said this, he knew it was impossible. No matter how much you polished telekinesis, it would be an ‘E’ ranked ability at best. It wouldn’t be possible to progress any further.

“Well, you can just rest in my room tonight, kid. I will be going for a walk. See you later.” Scott went out of the house while saying this.