2026-09-15 07:56:44At that moment Damien stared at the notification without blinking.
Another line of text appeared beneath it. [STARTER ATTRIBUTES HAVE BEEN UNLOCKED.] [1. UNLIMITED SYSTEM STORAGE.] [2. UNLIMITED SYSTEM FARMLAND.] [3. SYSTEM TIME DIFFERENCE.] [ONE MINUTE INSIDE THE SYSTEM EQUALS ONE DAY OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM.] Damien's eyes widened as he read the next line. [ONE HOUR INSIDE THE SYSTEM EQUALS SIXTY DAYS OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM.] He quickly began calculating in his head. One day inside the system had twenty-four hours, and every hour held sixty minutes, which meant one day inside the system contained one thousand four hundred and forty minutes. If one thousand four hundred and forty days in the system world would equal one day in real words That was almost four years in the system word. Damien's lips slowly parted. He had sixty days before the apocalypse, but inside the system, he could spend over 240 years and still gain the same amount of outside time before the disaster arrived. With that much time, he could grow food, store supplies, build shelter, prepare medicine, and make plans that nobody in this world could even imagine. The next notification appeared. [4. PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTE SYSTEM: ACTIVATED.] [THE HOST MAY UPGRADE PHYSICAL STRENGTH, SPEED, ENDURANCE, DEFENSE, RECOVERY, AND COMBAT ABILITY.] [5. ELEMENTAL ATTRIBUTES: LOCKED.] [AVAILABLE ELEMENTS INCLUDE FIRE, FREEZING, CREATION, BUILDING, AND OTHER ELEMENTS THAT MAY BE UNLOCKED THROUGH SYSTEM PROGRESSION.] Damien stared at the word creation for a long moment. The system could help him create things that were not there before, including buildings, tools, potions, medicine, weapons, and other items needed for survival, but that ability was not available to him yet. A new notification appeared. [CREATION AND BUILDING ABILITIES WILL UNLOCK AT SYSTEM LEVEL 50.] [LEVEL 50 REQUIREMENT: COMPLETE TEN SYSTEM MISSIONS.] [CURRENT SYSTEM MISSIONS COMPLETED: 0/10.] Damien clenched his fists. He needed to complete ten missions before he could reach level fifty and use the creation and building abilities, which meant he could not simply imagine a shelter or a medicine and make it appear right away. He would have to work for it, That did not bother him. He had already spent three years working for people who betrayed him. He could spend sixty days working for himself. The system continued to display his rewards. [6. SYSTEM HARVEST POINTS.] [EACH SUCCESSFUL CROP HARVEST WILL REWARD THE HOST WITH ONE SYSTEM POINT.] [1,000 SYSTEM POINTS MAY BE USED TO UPGRADE ONE ATTRIBUTE.] [UPGRADEABLE ATTRIBUTES INCLUDE PHYSICAL STRENGTH, COMBAT ABILITY, FIRE CONTROL, FREEZING CONTROL, CREATION, BUILDING, AND OTHER UNLOCKED ATTRIBUTES.] [FIRE ELEMENT PROGRESSION: NORMAL FIRE, BLUE FIRE, BLACK FIRE, AND HIGHER LEVELS TO BE UNLOCKED.] Damien's heart began beating faster as he read the details. If he harvested enough crops, he could strengthen himself. If he gained enough points, he could improve his fighting ability and unlock stronger fire abilities. He could control normal fire first, then blue fire, then black fire, along with other forms that the system would reveal as he grew stronger. The next notification appeared. [7. SYSTEM TRADE FUNCTION: ACTIVATED.] [ALL ITEMS SOLD THROUGH THE SYSTEM WILL RETURN TWO TIMES THEIR ORIGINAL VALUE.] [EXAMPLE: AN ITEM SOLD FOR $100 WILL REWARD THE HOST WITH $200.] [STARTING SYSTEM FUNDS: $10,000.] At that moment Damian stood silently in the middle of his room as the last notification faded away. Unlimited storage, Unlimited farmland. four years inside the system equaled one days outside. Ten missions before level fifty, One system point for every crop harvest. One thousand points for one attribute upgrade. And every item he sold would give him twice the money. A sum of ten thousand dollars had also been placed inside his system account to help him begin. Damien slowly raised his head and looked at the empty space where the system screen had been. "No way," he whispered. A smile began to form on his face, but this was not the smile of the foolish young man he had once been, the man who believed promises without checking the truth behind them. This was the smile of someone who had been given one more chance after losing everything. "No way this is possible." He thought about the frozen apocalypse he had already experienced, the years of fear, hunger, pain, and death, and the people who had treated him as if his life meant nothing. He remembered the Whitmore family. He remembered Clara. He remembered his mother dying because they sold the fire ring that could have saved her. He remembered being thrown into the frozen pit after giving them the medicine formula that would have made them rich. His smile slowly disappeared, leaving only a cold and determined expression behind. "That godforsaken apocalypse," Damien said quietly. "I will never go through it the same way again." This time, he would not beg anyone for protection. This time, he would not depend on any powerful family. This time, he would not allow the world to decide who deserved to live and who deserved to die. With the system, he could grow enough food to feed people. He could store enough supplies to protect them. He could create medicine, build shelter, control fire, use freezing powers, and develop everything needed to survive the coming disaster. If he reached level fifty, he could even create an entire safe place from nothing. A heaven, a city, maybe even a country. A place where no one would be abandoned because they came from a weak family, a place where no one would be mocked or treated as useless because they had not awakened a powerful ability, a place where people would not be judged by their bloodline or forced to kneel before those born with strength. Damien looked at his hands again, and his eyes grew firm. "This is my chance," he said. "My chance to correct every mistake, my chance to protect the people I failed, and my chance to right every wrong." He had sixty days until the frozen apocalypse began. And he would make sure people survived, and not just survived, people does not have to die.
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Chapter 10
At that exact moment, Damien felt his entire body go rigid with shock, and it was not the shock of receiving another system mission that froze him in place, it was the single word attached to that mission, a name that struck something deep and painful inside him the second it registered in his mind.Whitmore.That name alone was enough to send a cold shiver crawling up his spine, a name he had never once expected to hear again so soon, a name that belonged to the very family who had destroyed everything he once loved in the life he had already lived through. Clara, his wife in that frozen future, the woman who stood over him with a bat in her hands and broke every bone in his body without a flicker of guilt on her face, her family name had been Whitmore. That could only mean one thing, and the realization hit him like a punch to the gut, this woman lying on the ground bleeding out in front of him, this Megan Whitmore, had to be connected somehow to that same bloodline, to that same r
Chapter 9
At that moment, Damien could not stop himself from smiling.The smile slowly spread across his face, deep and full of hope, because one thing was clear in his mind now: he was not going to make the same mistake again.He would not trust the Whitmore family.He would not wait for someone else to save him.He would not waste the second chance he had been given.Before he could say anything else, another notification appeared in front of him, and the system screen that had been floating in the air suddenly changed.[SYSTEM MISSION COUNTDOWN ACTIVATED.][TIME REMAINING BEFORE THE FIRST SYSTEM MISSION IS RELEASED: 01:00:00.][THE FIRST SYSTEM MISSION WILL BE ACTIVATED IN ONE HOUR.]Damien stared at the countdown as the numbers began to move.[00:59:59.]His heart started beating faster.He had one hour before the system gave him his first mission, one hour before he found out what he needed to do to begin gaining experience, system points, and rewards, and even though he had no idea what k
Chapter 8
At that moment Damien stared at the notification without blinking.Another line of text appeared beneath it.[STARTER ATTRIBUTES HAVE BEEN UNLOCKED.][1. UNLIMITED SYSTEM STORAGE.][2. UNLIMITED SYSTEM FARMLAND.][3. SYSTEM TIME DIFFERENCE.][ONE MINUTE INSIDE THE SYSTEM EQUALS ONE DAY OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM.]Damien's eyes widened as he read the next line.[ONE HOUR INSIDE THE SYSTEM EQUALS SIXTY DAYS OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM.]He quickly began calculating in his head.One day inside the system had twenty-four hours, and every hour held sixty minutes, which meant one day inside the system contained one thousand four hundred and forty minutes.If one thousand four hundred and forty days in the system world would equal one day in real words That was almost four years in the system word.Damien's lips slowly parted.He had sixty days before the apocalypse, but inside the system, he could spend over 240 years and still gain the same amount of outside time before the disaster arrived.With that mu
Chapter 7
The moment Damien heard his mother’s voice and saw her standing alive in front of him, he could no longer control himself.He rushed forward and pulled her into his arms.His movement was so sudden that his mother stumbled back, her eyes widening as she stared at him in complete shock, but Damien held her tightly against his chest as though she might disappear the moment he let go.For two years, he had watched her suffer.For two years, he had listened to her weak breathing and seen the cold slowly take her life while the Whitmore family kept the fire ring that could have saved her.For two years, he had blamed himself for not being able to protect her.Now she was standing in front of him again, warm, healthy, and confused, and Damien could not stop the tears from filling his eyes."What the hell is going on?" his mother asked, her voice filled with worry. "Why are you doing this? Damien, are you okay? What happened to you?"Damien did not answer her.He only held her tighter while
Chapter 6
Damien lay there in the frozen pit with his broken body sinking deeper into the ice and garbage, with the cold wrapping tighter around his chest like invisible hands squeezing the last bits of warmth out of him, and somewhere in the fog of pain and exhaustion his mind started drifting toward his mother."I'm sorry," he whispered, his voice so weak it barely made a sound, so thin it almost disappeared into the frozen air around him. "I'm so sorry, Mother, I failed you."The words came out broken and slow because his throat was closing up from the cold, because his lungs were struggling to pull in air, because every part of him was shutting down piece by piece."I failed you," he said again, and tears started sliding down his frozen cheeks. "I was so foolish, I believed them, I believed every single word those good-for-nothing bastards told me, I thought if I just worked hard enough, if I just did what they asked, they would keep their promise, they would give me the ring, they would le
Chapter 5
Then she moved to his left arm and did the same thing.Damien lay on the floor with both legs broken and both arms broken and blood pouring from his mouth and his nose and cuts all over his face, he could not move, he could barely breathe, every inch of him was on fire with pain so intense that his body kept trying to shut down just to escape it.Clara handed the bat back to the guard and smoothed her dress with both hands like she had just finished something ordinary."Good," she said quietly. "Now I can forgive you for wasting my time."Damien stared at her through the haze of pain and shock and he could not believe this was real, could not believe this was the woman he had been married to for four years, the woman he thought he knew.How did he let them trick him like this?How did he not see it coming?He was so angry, so devastated, so destroyed that he could not even form words anymore, all he could do was lie there and shake and bleed and wait for whatever came next.Richard lo
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