Chương 4: Rebirth

[ 14th June, 2111 , Earth]

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

Max was sitting on the edge of his bed, feeling his racing heartbeat as he heard his old mobile phone buzz in his pockets.

[ Sophie calling ]

His heartbeat quickened for a second to see that name before returning to normal as his eyes turned cold.

' That's right , I'm still dating that bitch at this point in time '.

It was his ex-girlfriend, the girl who completely manipulated and destroyed Max's confidence in his past life and one of the biggest reasons for his downfall.

Max cut the call off without a care as a small flashback reminded him of the painful past.

He had started dating Sophie when he was just 17, while Sophie at the time was much older at 22.

Their relationship lasted over 9 months and the duo did spend a lot of time together as Sophie slowly manipulated Max into believing that his brother was actually holding him back and how he needed to ditch his family to grow truly strong unobstructed.

She promised him that the two of them would never separate no matter what and that she loved him truly with all her heart, however it was all but an ugly façade and a conceited lie.

While he was the Earth's chosen one, she used to fill his ears with sweet words and make him feel like a king, until the day he finally fell from grace as that was the day she coldly left him for a better prospect.

Max distinctly remembered coming back home dejected from losing the fight against the 'A' rated prospect Benedict Divinorum, only to find Sophie passionately kissing the guy in their own bed without a care for the watching Max.

Benedict acknowledged his presence as he said " Yo, looser, your bitch is mine now " , while although Sophie looked at him, her eyes were cold as if they were disgusted upon seeing him.

Sophie pulled Benedict in for an even more passionate kiss as she did not even spare Max a second glance, much less a reason for breakup.

Since that day Max had hated the both of them deeply, however while Max kept falling down hitting new lows in his life and career, Benedict kept rising higher and higher becoming a star of humanity's younger generation.

For Max to see his rise was painful, however looking back at it now he had an odd satisfaction to know that it had not yet happened in this timeline and this time around he would have the chance to ditch Sophie instead of things happening the other way around.

There were a lot of wrongs that Max had to correct in this life, and the two of them were not even his most serious offenders. In Fact the two of them were so insignificant compared to the grander goals Max had to achieve in this life that they could be ignored completely.

Once this thought came into Max's rational mind something in the other part of his dark mind snapped as Max gritted his teeth and said " NO! ".

" I have grander goals to achieve and I can't afford to be petty, but I will not spare those who have wronged me in the past.

This time I will return all the debts past and present fairly.

Kindness tenfold.

Betrayal a thousand fold!"

Max stood up and looked at himself in the mirror.

Max had almost forgotten that he once had this incredibly lean and muscular body that seemed like it was sculpted by a renaissance artist.

" Handsome " Max said as he looked at himself with a smile.

It was only now that he could truly understand the true worth of good looks, as when he lost his natural charisma and looks there was a serious loss in his self confidence as well.

Although looks were not everything, good looks definitely made one feel more confident.

Max looked at the green winged angel amulet on his neck as he clutched it tightly and closed his eyes, the three images shown by Hazriel imprinted in HD in his mind.

As his emotions from experiencing rebirth finally calmed down, Max got a moment's clarity as to what he needed to accomplish urgently and how he was to choose the immediate path ahead.

Sitting down with a paper and pen since he did not trust digital devices anymore, Max started to scribble down furiously all the important memories of his past life, lest it become hazy later on.

For two hours he wrote and wrote about all the important characters, all the important information and all the big events that were to happen and when they were going to happen and once he was done he formulated the first phase of his plan to rise to the top.

Since he had no idea as to where to find the weapon or the woman that Hazriel showed him, Max needed to first find a way to collect information on these things before actually pursuing them which meant for now he was on his own.

During his past life Max had not heard about the ' Grand University for Nourishment of Young Talents' until he turned 19 and was over the age limit for enrolment.

The university was a wonderful place to learn and grow in a protected environment and the biggest advantage of enrolling into that University was that upon graduation he could keep his assessment by the Universal Queen a secret.

He could learn from the best professors with the best resources and an extensive information library at his disposal, while at the end managing to avoid the public humiliation he faced in his past life when the queen graded him as an ' F ' rated manaless trash.

Unlike the tutorial game Omega where one could choose their own class from the start and there was no individuality rating, in the Universal game Sigma when an individual reached level 30 they were assessed by the universal queen and given a rating ranging from F to SSS.

The rating was extremely important as only certain job classes were available for those with a low rating to choose as career paths and only with a high rating could one have the unique class paths to choose and have an edge over the masses.

For Max who was rated ' F ', he only had five options that included foot soldier and street sweeper as it's most lucrative two choices. It was due to this that Max had to choose the foot soldier class and face the humiliation of the world and the start of his downfall.

Although Max could not alter his manaless state yet and hence not improve his assessment by the queen, instead of going through the ceremony in the open human association testing sites where his results would be shown to the world, at least in the University they would be kept private sparing him his dignity.

The enrolment criteria for the university was simple.

Individuals of any race could enrol into the university as long as they belonged to the light faction.

There was no admission test and anyone who could afford the fees could be enrolled.

The individual needed to be under the race's maturity age rating, which for humans was 18 years of age.

Max fulfilled all these criteria, however the problem was that the fees to enrol in the university was exorbitant at a whopping 1 million universal gold a semester.

To put that number into perspective, Max's one year's salary in his government job in his past life was 25,000 universal gold a year and at the initial stages of the first awakening maybe the entire human race combined would not possess the 1 million gold required for him to enrol.

With Max's birthday fast approaching in August he had about 45 days to gather the required money and enrol before the semester began.

For a normal human this would have been an impossible feat to achieve however thankfully Max was a regressor! Armed with the knowledge of the future he knew the perfect way to make the money he needed to pay his fees for the university, but he needed to act on it quickly as today was the last day of the tutorial.

Excited Max quickly found his old VR POD and logged into the tutorial game Omega for one last time.

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Chương 5: Omega

There was a secret to Sigma, that nobody but Max knew at this point in time.

While the general consensus was that nobody could bring any items outside of the tutorial game 'Omega' into the real world, this rule actually did not apply to divine items that were bound to individuals.

Such items were actually considered as one's personal merit by the universal queen and allowed to be carried into the real world with a debuff as seen fit by the queen to not affect the balance of the universe.

In his past timeline only a handful of top players like his brother were able to bring out items outside of Omega into the real world and it was only because of sheer luck that they were able to do it because they were already in possession of the said items when the game ended.

However knowing this secret in-advance Max now had the opportunity of a lifetime!

Since it was the last day in Omega, players were selling incredibly prized possessions at incredibly cheap prices because they thought they were never going to be able to see it again.

Max's goal was to obtain either a divine grade weapon or a divine grade potion.

The universal queen was sure to give it a debuff and reduce its quality to advance or high grade when being brought into the real world, however even a high grade potion sold for at least 500,000 gold coins whereas an advanced potion sold for 1 million gold!

If Max could successfully flip these items around, he could come up with the money to enrol into the university with ease.

After logging into the familiar Purple Haze City, Max felt nostalgic for a moment since it had been over a decade since he freely moved across this city.

If this was under any other circumstance, Max would have loved to just soak in the scenery and refresh old memories, however, he had no luxury to do so at the moment.

Max ran towards the auction house at once, as only at the auction house did he have the chance to buy a divine item.

As he reached the auction house, he was shocked to see an elven receptionist at the counter.

' She's an NPC Max, this is still a game', Max needed to remind himself so as to not get startled as swallowing a mouthful of saliva he said " Hello, may I please look at the list of all the divine items you have?".

The elven receptionist smiled as she said " Certainly sir, however the items above the grade 'epic' are only sold to VIP customers of the auction house, hence i must insist on seeing your VIP card or you may need to choose from the long list of epic items we have".

Max tapped his forehead, he had forgotten about this custom as he quickly looked into his inventory and produced his ' True Elite ' guild token.

The True Elites guild was his brother's guild and it was the owner of this kingdom and this city.

They basically ran not only this city and filled all the management and high ranking army spots, but also ran establishments such as the auction house hence when Max showed his guild token the elven receptionist immediately became much more respectful and immediately provided the list of all divine items available.

Foie Gras ( Divine ) - collected from the liver of the rovamarian duck, it is a delicacy that can be used for cooking divine delicacies that provide abundant medicinal and health benefits.

Bluespot flower ( Divine ) - an essential component for brewing high quality stamina potions.

Redspot flower ( Divine ) - an essential component for brewing high grade mana potions.

Max looked at the list of all the divine items available and frowned, there were no potions or weapons available and only raw materials were present.

Max had overestimated the last day's sell-off for divine items.

Although items below the legendary grade were being sold as common fodder, items above the legendary grade were usually obtained by players through a lot of hard work and difficulty, which is why they would not part with it even for the highest amounts of money, let alone small ones.

Max looked at the in-game time display and realised Omega would be shut-down in only 50 minutes now.

If he truly rushed, he could make a gamble and run to the teleportation centre and teleport to ' Vanaheim ' the city of the elves to try his luck at their auction house.

However, should it fail too Max would not be able to come back and buy these items here again.

'Fuck, what am i to do? Do I risk it all or do I buy these raw items and play it safe? '

Max grit his teeth and then decided that a bird in hand was worth two in the bush, which is why he decided to stick with the options he had and buy the raw components from this auction house.

"I would like to buy 3 Bluespot flowers, 3 Redspot flowers and 1 foie gras". Max declared after doing some mental math as to how much money he had.

Quickly transferring the money, Max bought them all.

" Certainly sir, thankyou for the patronage". The elven lady said with a smile.

" By chance do you have item bindings?" Max asked.

The elven lady nodded.

" Give me 7 of them please ".

The lady proceeded to give Max seven item bindings, however Max was embarrassingly short of money to buy them all having enough money for only 3.

Max had to end up selling all the items in his inventory to make up the deficit but in the end he managed to get the seven item bindings.

Unlike weapons that could be naturally bound to the wielder, item bindings needed to be done on raw materials if one did not want to risk dropping them upon death in Omega.

Max needed to do it too if he wanted to carry them into the real world.

Quickly binding them all Max looked at the in-game clock to see that only 5 minutes were left before Omega ended.

Sitting down in the empty street, Max looked at the clear skies of PurpleHaze city and exhaled sharply.

In the short timeframe of 5 minutes everything was going to change.

Over 6 billion humans were going to die and Earth would never be the same place again.

The first awakening was about to start and the history of mankind was about to be altered forever.

Last time around Max was excited for this day, it was going to be the start of an endless life of adventure for him.

This time there was only a cold smile on his face. He was no longer the trembling 17 year old teenager he was a decade ago, although he was in the body of one.

Having experienced the horrors of the universe Max could no longer feel excited for it. However there was still a feeling of anticipation inside him, because somewhere, somehow, his heart still craved for the thrill of an adventure.

System Notification : Dearest players, this is your AI 'Gaia' speaking. Thankyou for participating in the tutorial game Omega.

We hope you had a pleasant gaming experience and have cultivated fond memories.

The tutorial is now coming to an end and the ownership of your planet and me, has been decided to be awarded to the number one player ' Shakuni Won Knight ' by the universal queen.

All players will now be logged out of the tutorial forever, however we hope to see you all again in Sigma!

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