"Is this for real? Do I really have the cultivation game as my golden finger in this new world? Damn!", a smiled appeared on Alex's face
Alex recalled his memory again. In this world, everyone would go to the ascension tower after turning fifteen years old.
The ascension tower decided the fate of the person.
There were one hundred stairs in the tower. The higher one climbed, the higher the talent would be. There were other benefits too. But that thought could wait.
The people who could go past the first stair could awaken a talent and would be called martial artists.
There were eight martial realms in the world.
"Martial Warrior
Martial Master
Martial Grandmaster
Martial Lord
Martial King
Martial Monarch
Martial Saint
and finally Martial Emperor."
Martial Emperors were existences who could destroy a continent with a punch. They were the ultimate powerhouses of mankind in this apocalyptic martial world.
And Alex was the heir of such a family whose ancestor was a Martial Emperor. The pinnacle existence of the world.
But for some reason, they were not in their house right now. It was his mother's family they were in.
This family was a Saint family, though not as powerful as his own family, but still was tremendously influential and powerful.
He did not think much. He would ask his mother what happened.
Alex first stretched his body a little to get used to it. After all, his body did not move for two whole years.
Instantly, many cracking sounds came out from his body.
"Ouch! My bones and joints were jammed," Alex murmured for a while.
He now fully merged with the emotions and memories of this body.
So he knew one thing, he did not have much time left.
He looked at the date. It was July 7th, 534 in the Apocalypse calendar. And the last memories he had were from the year 532.
That was not the main case. In the year 532, he was already thirteen years old.
So now he was almost fifteen years old. Only twenty five days left before his fifteenth birthday.
And he lost his precious two years of training.
To ascend the tower and gain a powerful talent, everyone would start training from the age of eight or less.
They would learn external martial arts to make their body tough. They would do rigorous training to make their will even tougher.
Only then would they be able to climb higher.
Before collapsing, Alex was a prodigy. He learned many external martial arts like sword arts, body movement, and so on.
Everyone was almost too sure that he would climb up to at least over sixty stairs, which was the realm of S rank talent.
But then everything fell apart.
"Let's go to Mom to know what happened in these two years. Besides, I need to know if Mom has a top grade cosmic crystal or not."
He went outside of his room. He vaguely remembered the structure of this house of his maternal grandparents. He came here when he was very little.
But as soon as he went outside, two maids immediately came in front of him and bowed.
"Young master, you should rest more. You have just woken up. Your body still needs more time to adjust."
"Do not worry. Do you know where my mom's room is?" Alex asked lightly.
"Yes, please follow us, sir."
Alex followed them to a room and knocked on the door.
"Mother, can I come in?"
Elizabeth was crying on her bed with a picture in her hand. It was her husband, Alex's father.
He had vanished one year ago to find out a cure for Alex and never returned. After that, the Moriarty family started treating her badly. Even they cut out the medication bill from Alex.
So she left the Moriarty family with her comatose son and came to her own family. It was located in the Western Continent of the Light Domain.
She was now crying to share her happiness and sadness with her husband's picture.
Then she heard the knock on the door. Her son was calling her.
She wiped off the tear and went to open the door.
"Why are you up? Did not I say I would visit you soon?" she asked with light scold. She was afraid that Alex might collapse again if he did not take proper rest.
"Mother, I am alright. Can you tell me what happened in these two years? Besides, I also need something from you."
"What do you need? Tell me first. The story can wait," Elizabeth said with a worried tone.
"It is nothing important. I would like to listen first," Alex insisted on knowing what happened.
Elizabeth sighed and told him what happened.
A drop of tear fell from his eyes when he learned that his father went missing because of him.
He did not feel much after hearing the treatment of the Moriarty family, though. It was human nature, and he knew this very well.
Alex did not know what to say in this situation, so he skipped the topic.
"Mother, do you have a top grade cosmic crystal?"
Elizabeth was surprised when she heard that Alex wanted a top grade cosmic crystal.
But she still nodded her head.
"Yes, I do have them. Why do you need them for?"
"You see, I am very weak right now. In twenty five days, I will become fifteen years old and would have to climb the Tower of Ascension. But with my current power, I do not think I will be able to go past the first stair.
I dreamt a while ago that putting a top grade cosmic crystal in my hand would help me recover my strength. Who knows? Maybe it might help?" Alex replied slowly.
Elizabeth felt a pang in her heart when she heard her son's words. Just thinking about her son being bullied in society for not having a powerful talent and bloodline in the future, she could not control her tears again.
She took out a cosmic crystal and handed it to him. Though she knew it would not help him at all,but she would give anything and everything her son demanded from now on. It did not matter why her son asked them for.
"Thank you, Mom. I will go to my room, bye.And please don't cry again. Your pretty face doesn't suit crying eyes.", Alex said with a sweet smile before leaving the room.
Elizabeth couldn't help but smile lightly after hearing her son's words.
Alex went to his room with the crystal. He wanted to know if that gaming panel was really his golden finger or not.
When he was walking from the hall toward his room.
Many people saw him. They had different emotions in their eyes. Sympathy, jealousy, ridicule amd all kinds of emotions.
The younger generation had jealousy and ridicule in their eyes.
Alex was a waste, but still, a lot of resources had been pouring into him for the last one year.
He was the son of Elizabeth Aurelion, who was the most beloved granddaughter of the ancestor of the family.
Now that he was awakened from the coma, they were sure that more resources would be allocated for him.
"Why should the trash of the Moriarty family be nurtured by us? What if we attract the wrath of the Moriarty family?" said one young man who was Alex's cousin, the son of his eldest uncle.
Alex did not even look at them. He directly went inside his room. He did not have time for this nonsense. He had many things to do.
After closing the door,
Alex put the crystal on his hand.
And pressed the "Cultivate" button in the interface.
Instantly, the crystal vanished from his hand.
[Name: Alex Moriarty]
[Cultivation talent: Pseudo]
[Cultivation Level: Mortal]
[Cultivation Base: 3/1000]
[Energy absorption: 1/s]
It really started cultivating automatically. Now he needed to wait to see the result.
He sat on his bed, closed his eyes. He was watching the increment of his cultivation base every passing second.
"What about this pseudo cultivation talent? Is it because I have not climbed the tower yet and that is why the talent is not a proper talent?"
Sixteen minutes later.
[961/1000]
...
[999/1000]
[1000/1000]
"Breakthrough"
An option appeared right in front of the character.
Alex immediately pressed the option.
"Kacha"
Alex felt something had broken through in his body, and he felt all the weakness in his body had vanished instantly, and he was now brimming with energy.
He looked at his panel again.
[Name: Alex Moriarty]
[Cultivation talent: Pseudo]
[Cultivation Level: 1]
[Cultivation Base: 1006/5000]
[Energy absorption: 2/s]
"Damn! I have really broken through into something at least. I do not know if now I have power similar to a Martial Warrior level 1 or not."