Chapter 2

How does it feel to find out that the end of the world is less than 10 years away?

How can people who have just recovered from a disaster and are starting to get used to a new life feel?

Everyone was terrified, including Idan.

The current head of the Federation's Associations, a middle—aged man, spoke on the big screen. He personally delivered this terrible news.

After taking a short pause to give people time to recover, he continued. According to him, the disaster that occurred a few months ago was not the last and that even greater trials await their world.

The information that the world is waiting for the end of the world in 10 years became known after several people received revelations on the "Blackout Day" when all the inhabitants of the Earth lost consciousness.

At first, many people were skeptical about this information, but when several more people contacted the government with their visions, it became clear that the revelations were true.

Over the next ten years, the world will face ten disasters, each of which will occur with an interval of one year. The latest disaster will be a harbinger of the end of the world.

Initially, the government was unwilling to share this information, fearing that knowledge of the impending death would cause panic and despair. However, the situation changed when people appeared who received a different revelation.

Their information carried not prophecies about the end of the world, but the hope of saving the world. The revelation said that salvation could be found in another world, completely different from ours. In a world where other races rule and monsters live.

In addition, they received information about how to get into this world. The head of the United Federation confirmed that they had managed to find a way, and all this time the government had been actively dealing with this issue. And now they are finally ready to share this information with the world.

Only young people who are not yet 20 years old can enter another world. However, not everyone under 20 is able to do this. To get there, young people must go through the process of awakening and discover the power that will help them overcome the boundary of worlds.

This is exactly what the Government of the United Federation has been doing in recent months. It was looking for young people who could awaken after administering the awakening serum.

The composition and method of preparation of the serum were discovered by one of the people who experienced the revelation.

The serum can only be administered to people under 20 years of age, as it becomes a deadly poison for more adults. However, its effect does not apply to all young people, but only to those who are destined to save this world.

After that, the head of the United Federation introduced a hundred young people who became the first awakened superhumans. They gained the power and the opportunity to enter another world.

What the head of the Federation said came as a real shock to them. A hundred young people who had just recently returned from another world after the so-called awakening brought with them invaluable information about it and became even more powerful. Today they were proclaimed Heroes of the Federation.

Idan was especially surprised to see his older sister among them, who had not been heard from in recent months.

On that day, the world learned about the impending catastrophe, but also witnessed the birth of hope — defenders, heroes of humanity.

Idan and his mother were pleasantly surprised to have such a hero in their family. Like many young people who received the serum but were unable to awaken, Idan envied these heroes.

Who wouldn't want to gain power and become famous?

The only thing that comforted them was the opportunity to get a second injection of the serum a year later and try to awaken again. One person can receive a maximum of three serums in their lifetime.

It also became known from the revelation that those who have already received the serum can accidentally awakening at any moment. However, the chances of this happening were extremely slim.

So far, there has not been a single case of anyone awakening in this way.

As time passed, all the young people who were shown on TV became celebrities, including Idan's older sister.

A month after that performance, she returned to them and, having become awakened, moved her mother and brother to the capital of the Federation. Idan did not resist his sister's actions and followed his mother.

His sister had acquired a large house compared to their previous small room. Everyone has their own room and all the necessary things for everyday life.

His sister persuaded mother not to go to work, but just to enjoy life. She also tried to persuade Idan, but he flatly refused. He didn't want to depend on his sister all his life. He wanted to stand up for his own life. His sister had to accept it and leave Idan alone.

When Idan asked his sister about the other world, she didn't share any information with him, not even about her newly acquired power. She explained that she had signed a non-disclosure agreement with the Government of the United Federation and had no right to disclose these secrets.

However, she promised that soon the government itself would share with them knowledge about the other world. In addition, she warned that she would disappear again soon, as she would go there.

The Federation capital had everything Idan considered lost after the disaster: communication, food, technology, and entertainment. He felt the same way here as before the cataclysm.

Idan had just graduated from high school and did not have a college degree, so in the early days it was difficult for him to find a decent job. He had only small and dirty tasks at his disposal.

But soon he faced a new problem. People began to recognize him and persistently tried to attract him to themselves. Idan immediately tried to avoid such employers. Only later did he realize that he was recognized as the younger brother of one of the heroes of mankind, and this became a source of constant concern for him.

Everywhere he went, he was recognized and pointed at. Such popularity was unpleasant to him. The situation was aggravated by the fact that his sister, as the deadline for the first disaster approached, became more and more famous. And the more famous she became, the more he felt like a loser.

Not only her looks, but also the strength she possessed set her apart from the rest of the heroes. All the media in the capital discussed the abilities of the heroes and compiled a list of the strongest, where his sister was in the top ten.

Over time, even his own mother started comparing him to her sister, and he began to feel more and more hurt. This infuriated him, and he became very irritable. Eventually, he locked himself in his room, started drinking out of boredom, and rarely left the house.

On the day when the world faced the first of ten disasters, he was lying in his room in a state of heavy intoxication, unaware of what was happening around him.

It wasn't until a few days later that he was woken up by a cold shower that his older sister gave him, looking at him with disapproval.