Awakening

[Rich woman!]

[If possible, I hope there is a rich woman who will let me live off her!]

[--45th Epoch, October 1st, Year 211.]

[Rich woman!!]

[Oh yeah!!]

[I will definitely have a beautiful rich woman!!!]

[--45th Epoch, October 24th, Year 211.]

[Rich woman!!!]

[Hooray!!!]

[I feel like I could totally have many very beautiful rich women!!!!]

[--45th Epoch, November 8th, Year 211.]

"As expected of me, my thoughts are firm; I am a person of perseverance."

"At a glance, one can tell I am destined for greatness!"

Time.

10:40 PM, November 9th, 45th Epoch, Year 211.

Location.

Eastern Ying Nation--Tokyo City--Arakawa District.

Ever since it was developed 577 years ago, the overall environment here has remained a relatively ordinary residential area for civilians.

The housing prices are relatively civilian, the public safety is relatively civilian, the economy is relatively civilian, and even the people living here are very civilian; there are few notable dignitaries to speak of.

In short.

It can be said to be a place where ordinary wage earners are highly concentrated.

Its greatest advantage is that the transportation is quite convenient.

No matter which bustling district one goes to for work, it is never too far.

Furthermore, when returning home late at night, one doesn't have to worry too much about being stabbed for money while walking on the street.

At this moment.

Under the illumination of the moonlight.

Inside a cheap apartment building that looks old just by its exterior.

A boy with a young appearance, looking about sixteen or seventeen years old, is examining his diary.

His attire is very simple.

The black trousers are clearly cheap goods.

The yellow shirt on his body is even washed to the point of fading.

The most prominent feature of his entire ensemble is the word "poverty."

However, none of this affects his appearance score; being extremely handsome, even if his dress and style look very poor, his foundation as a top-tier host prospect remains as solid as ever.

It gives one the reasonable feeling that he could go to work on Host Street at any time.

At this time.

While looking at the diary in front of him with great satisfaction and finishing his appreciation of its incredibly sincere content.

He even pulled open his waistband to take a look at the DLC information within.

Instantly.

He couldn't help but nod repeatedly.

"Very good and very healthy."

"Not only do I harbor great ambitions!"

"But I also hide great equipment!"

"Damn it, who else could possibly stop me??"

"Just thinking about it makes me a bit excited..."

[Xi Shenlian].

This is his name in this life.

As a [Reincarnator].

One day in his previous life, while walking down the street, Xi Shenlian suddenly felt as if the sky were collapsing and the earth sinking, and then everything went black.

And then.

By the time he fully regained consciousness, he had already been living here for over a decade.

Living as an orphan who had been abandoned since childhood.

Furthermore, he was the type whose brain was more or less not quite right, occasionally spouting nonsense that others could not understand.

In this regard.

The moment he fully woke up, or perhaps it should be said, the moment he awakened his past wisdom, realized his previous life, and stepped out of his Perceptual Obstruction, was precisely today.

It was... a very strange feeling.

In the morning.

Upon waking up.

He felt as if he had understood something.

But he was still somewhat dazed.

He only instinctively understood certain profound principles.

And as time passed, once evening arrived.

He finally realized everything about his past and present lives.

His brain, which had been inexplicably muddled for years, suddenly became clearer than ever before.

At the same time.

He could also clearly feel the difference in himself.

A certain trait that had slowly emerged on his body half a month ago was now surging forth at an extremely rapid speed.

At a speed far exceeding the past...

It was the trait known in this world as [Awakened], [Chosen One], [Innate Aristocrat]...

The trait belonging to a transcendent.

For Xi Shenlian.

In his previous life, that original world might have possessed some kind of transcendent power.

But he had never come into contact with it, nor had he clearly heard of it.

At most, there were only some hearsay legends.

But in this life.

The existence of transcendent power was truly and undeniably a definite thing!

The kind that was beyond doubt.

It had already been clearly recorded in the earliest historical records of human civilization, revered as a divine power that ordinary people could not defy.

Moreover, this power, commonly referred to as [Awakened] in modern times, was by no means something hidden.

Throughout history, it had been influencing the entire course of human civilization to the fullest extent.

Including, but not limited to, leading human civilization forward and destroying it.

Take the form of historical records in this world, for example.

The so-called [Epoch].

That historical unit which ranks above [Year], [Month], and [Day].

Actually refers to the occurrence of some massive upheaval.

A massive upheaval sufficient to affect the entire human civilization!

Every time such a massive upheaval is weathered.

The historical era name enters the next [Epoch] the following year.

And that kind of massive upheaval usually refers to one thing.

A man-made disaster that swept the entire world, a super war--[World War].

Therefore.

As of the [45th Epoch] where Xi Shenlian currently resides.

The entire world has already erupted in at least forty-five rounds of World War-level man-made upheavals.

At least!!

As far as Xi Shenlian knows.

Various historical records have vaguely mentioned that in the even more distant past, there was actually a very long history, and that overly remote history is called the super-ancient history.

And the boundary between that vague super-ancient history and the ancient history, which is the [1st Epoch], was a major event that almost caused a break in the history of human civilization.

[The Day of the Sinking of the Atlantis Continent--The Origin of Human Civilization]!

In the various textbooks Xi Shenlian had studied in this life, the recorded myths all described the Atlantis Continent as the most fertile and vast landmass on the entire planet, the shining pearl among the seven continents of that era.

Its sinking not only led to the destruction of the vast majority of the Prehistoric Human civilization and a great technological regression, but also left only a few lucky survivors who migrated to remote continents.

It further triggered global climatic reactions and environmental changes.

For instance, rising sea levels and frequent storms caused the raging torrents of the sea to submerge large portions of the other six continents.

However, even so.

Right now, the Earth of this world still possesses a surface land area of approximately 3.5 billion square kilometers.

That is more than twenty times larger than in his previous life.

And this land area accounts for a mere seventeen percent of the planet's total surface area.

Even with over forty billion Modern Humans living on it, there remain vast amounts of undeveloped and unexplored regions, more than enough to accommodate a much larger population.

From this, one can slightly imagine just how gargantuan Atlantis must have been as the largest continent on the entire planet!

As for how Atlantis actually sank?

That brings us back to the essence of the question...

In what form do Awakened influence the historical progression of human civilization?

It is said that Atlantis was sunk by a group of Awakened, representing the most violent and extremely negative form of influence among all the various types...

PS: In this book, the protagonist's moral standard is roughly 666 times that of the protagonist from the previous book, Alsaga. Don't ask me what that level specifically is, I don't know either; anyway, it's the kind of level that can only be placed in the Japan of a Parallel World...