Three months later

" Bang! Bang!!"

Within an abandoned warehouse, a young man in a baggy blue sweatsuit was fighting against two robotic entities. The young man wore a silver piece of cloth that covered his his eyes all the way to his forehead which spiked up his short silver hair. The part of the blindfold that covered his left eye was pushed up to his forehead, revealing a completely silver pupil that glittered like a diamond.

The young man wasnt particularly fast, however his insane reaction speed and reflexes made up for his overall speed as he dodged the attacks of the robots with both hands in his pockets. It was just like he was dancing. None of the attacks of the robots could even touch him.

" Bang!" A robot fired a missile from its palm towards him. Standing a few meters away from it, he closed his left eyelid and opened it again.

The incoming missile immediately stopped a few meters from his face, and with a flick of his finger, he sent it blasting towards the robot. " Boom!" The robot was blasted to pieces immediately sending a shockwave.

The other robot, taking advantage of the seemingly distracted young man, leapt towards him at fast speed. However just as it was about to fiercely punch him, it stopped in its tracks, being held in the air by a Psionic force. With a glance, the robots body crumbled like a sheet of paper and fell to the ground.

" Ares are these the strongest robots I've made so far? What a disappointment." The young man sat on a table and spoke with a sigh. " Well Sir, the robots are designed to be able to take on any Arcanist below the 3rd level. It's not that they're weak, but you've grown stronger Sir, if I may add." A monotonous voice answered to him.

.... Arcane cultivation levels were divided into 13 realms/levels with each realm having a sub division of 3 minor realms. After three months, Silver had managed to reach the early stage of the second level and was close to the third.

" I can't believe I became so overpowered." He sighed. Silver had become extremely strong, in fact a bit too strong that he estimated that, he was invincible within his level. What made him say was absolute confidence in his overpowered abilities. The first thing that granted him such confidence wasn't even his Arcana, but rather his enhanced intelligence and the new ability his eyes had granted him.

Yeah that's right, after the accident, he found out that his eyes had evolved and had granted him an ability. Firstly his left eye, which he named the eye of Horus, granted him the ability to see everything within a 50km radius down to subatomic levels. Not just that, it allowed him to detect emotions and also granted him increased reaction speed and even faster reflexes. This was part of the main reason why he had to keep them covered all the time. The influx of information wasn't something he could deal with at his level.

An all seeing ability coupled with super enhanced reflexes and reaction speed made him sort of untouchable by those in his realm. Also his right eye which he named the eye of Chronos gave him quite the peculiar ability. It provided him with the ability to swap positions with anything, however he couldn't use it for too long.

It would've been an ordinary ability, a rip off teleportation skill, however with the ability of the eye of Horus that allowed him to see things down to sub atomic levels, he could even learn to swap his body himself with any and every atom or molecule he could see.

His progress with his arcana however had been the slowest. The moment he reached level one, the only thing he could do with the arcana was to distort light to create illusions. However upon reaching level two, he gained access to Psionic energies. Using the ability of distortion, he could pull and push any matter he wanted to himself, though he couldn't really distort extremely heavy things. His limit was around 70 tons of weight.

" Sir, your energy levels hasn't increased anymore since the last breakthrough, however your most massive improvement is your ability to manipulate mana down to its atoms." The AI spoke.

" I know that Ares. I know. " He chuckled as he took off the blindfold and put on his dark tinted glasses. He knew better than everyone else that he had one of the most hax abilities probably in this whole world. His eye of Horus even allowed him to see mana down to its atomic levels, and coupled with his incredible intelligence, his manipulation of the energy was now close to perfect.

He picked up a custom made watch and earpiece from the table he sat on and put them on. These were electronic gadgets he had made that connected him to his computer systems database and AI. Hence no mater where he went, he could still communicate with Ares.

Walking out of the warehouse, he mingled with the ordinary people. After walking for a bit, he immediately entered a restaurant where he sat down to eat.

" Good day Sir, what can we offer you?" A waiter immediately came to his table and asked him to order. Silver looked around. This place was nice and all, but compared to the fancy restaurants in the middle of the city which had robotic waiters and all, it wasn't really much.

" Can I see the menu?" He asked, as the waiter smiled and gave him a small booklet.

" Tier 1 direbeast, mountain boar- 250 dollars.

Teir 1 direbeast, blue horned viper-350 dollars...

Seeing the menu, he was taken aback. " Ares, send me information on direbeasts." He whispered.

" Hello. Please give me a piece of the mountain boar meat and a glass of wine." He called out to the waiter who immediately arrived and ordered.

" Well Sir, direbeasts are evolved versions of the animals who existed before the apocalypse. Just like Arcanists they also have special abilities, hence their classification as direbeasts. They can also cultivate and continuously evolve from a level one direbeast being the lowest to a level 13 direbeast ." Ares gave a comprehensive information which Damien immediately understood.

" Ares give me intel on the two fierce looking men; 10 o'clock." Silver said without turning as he sensed malicious intentions coming from two people to his left.

" The man with the scar is Anton Lewis, a former mercernary now turned criminal. Strength type level two Arcanist. The other man is Johan Lee, a former direbeast hunter, an elemental type level 2 Arcanist ." Ares' monotonous voice spoke.

" Thank you." With a nod, Silver thanked the waiter and in a few minutes, a whole thigh of a mountain boar, enough to feed 3 people was gone, along with a glass of fresh wine.

" Okay time to leave." Silver paid immediately and left the restaurant. A few seconds after he left, the two fierce looking men smiled maliciously and followed him. Unbeknownst to them, a man dressed in beggars clothes sitting at the edge of the restaurant immediately spotted them and followed with a sigh.

" Sigh. How tiring ." Silver sighed as he walked through dark alleys, avoiding public places. Seeing the two men following, he sighed and stopped a few moments later.

" Hehehe. Smart kid. Almost left us in the dust." The man with a scar spoke with a sneer as he eyed Silver from head to toe.

"Alright kid, hand over your belongings." The other man spoke, as flames began to burn on his palms.

Silver didn't speak a word, however he had a confident smile on his face.

Without speaking, the two men both rushed together at Silver using a pincer attack formation, going towards his left and right flanks. A few meters away from him, the man with a scar threw a punch forward, that sent massive shockwaves all over.

" Bang!!!" The huge fist smashed into Silvers body only for it to blast apart into motes of light. " Fuck!!!" He tricked us" The other man roared in anger as flames burst out of his body.....

" Hehehe." A few blocks away, Silver was standing on a rooftop with a smile. " Sometimes casting illusions is just so convenient." He laughed. Distorted light to create illusions was one of the many applications of distortion manipulation.

" Okay, now that that's out of the way, will the senior in hiding please reveal himself? I don't believe it's appropriate to be hiding from a junior such as myself." Immediately he turned around, Silver laughed and spoke.

" Smart brat." A few seconds later, an old man appeared in ragged clothes. "Why are you following me old man." Silver asked as he lowered his glasses, ready to engage.

" Calm down brat. I'm not here to fight you. I'm David, but you can call me old man Dave. I'm here to invite you to the Arcanist School of evolution on full scholarship." The old man spoke as he pushed a card to Silver.