Chapter X: The Day the World Answered Me
I always thought silence was empty.
That day, I learned silence was waiting.
When the red warning faded from the college sky, the ground beneath my feet felt different. Not cracked. Not broken. Just… awake. Like the world had been holding its breath for years and finally decided to inhale.
Students around me were screaming, crying, laughing like lunatics. Power bloomed in the air—heat, frost, pressure, sound. Some fell to their knees the moment it happened. Others stood frozen, unable to understand what their bodies were becoming.
I looked at my hands.
Nothing.
No glow. No system voice. No sudden strength screaming inside my veins.
For a moment, I wondered if I had been left behind.
Then my vision flickered.
Not like dizziness.
Like a screen refreshing.
And for half a second, I felt it—something deep, buried so far inside me that even I didn't know it existed. It didn't wake up.
It noticed me.
"Remain calm," the principal's voice echoed across the