Free Web NovelChapter 1: The Worst Awakening in History
The Awakening Hall was silent.
Thousands of students nervously watched the massive black doors at the far end of the hall while magical symbols glowed across the marble floor.
It was the most important day of their lives.
The day that would decide who would rule the world... and who would be trampled by it.
In this world, everything revolved around summonings.
The powerful awakened:
Dragons,
Heroic Spirits,
Divine Beasts,
Demon Kings.
The weak...
Ended up working until they died in mana mines.
"Next!" an instructor shouted.
A blond boy walked trembling toward the crystal altar.
The sphere began to glow.
A roar shook the hall.
Behind the student appeared a massive wolf covered in blue flames.
The crowd erupted.
"A Rank A Spirit Beast!!"
"Incredible!"
"That’s Cedric Ashbourne!"
"The Ashbourne family will rise again!"
Cedric smiled proudly as he received the applause.
Kael Veyron watched silently from the back of the line.
His uniform was worn out. His shoes were broken. And his hands were covered in small scars.
Unlike the nobles present, Kael didn’t have a powerful family backing him.
He only had his little sister.
And a promise.
To get out of the slums.
No matter what.
"Kael..."
A small hand tugged at his sleeve.
Luna looked at him nervously from the stands.
"You’re going to make it... right?"
Kael smiled softly.
"Of course."
Though inside, he wasn’t so sure.
He had trained his whole life for this moment.
If he failed today...
everything would be over.
Then—
"Kael Veyron!"
The instructor said his name with obvious disinterest.
Several people began to murmur.
"Isn’t that the kid from the slums?"
"The scholarship student?"
"I heard he works at night."
"How pathetic."
Kael ignored the laughter and walked toward the altar.
He took a deep breath.
Then he placed his hand on the sphere.
The world turned white.
An unbearable pressure shot through his body. freёwebnoѵel.com
Thousands of distorted voices echoed inside his head.
And then—
Darkness.
.
.
.
An empty place.
No sky. No ground. No sound.
Kael slowly opened his eyes.
In front of him floated a black screen covered in strange symbols.
Symbols that seemed... absurd.
Deformed faces. Pixelated figures. Incomprehensible text.
Suddenly—
A voice spoke.
[Compatibility detected.]
Kael stepped back.
"What...?"
[Analyzing user.]
[Poor.]
[Traumatized.]
[Mentally unstable.]
"What kind of analysis is that!?"
The voice continued ignoring him.
[No talent.]
[No bloodline.]
[No luck.]
Kael felt like his soul had just been insulted.
Then the screen changed.
And giant words appeared.
[LOL SYSTEM]
Kael blinked.
"...LOL System?"
[Synchronization complete.]
[You have obtained the exclusive class:]
[MEME SUMMONER]
Silence.
Kael waited a few seconds.
"...That’s it?"
Nothing happened.
No dragon appeared.
No legendary sword.
Not even a magical rat.
Just absolute silence.
"I’m dead..."
[Initial access unlocked.]
[First Legendary Meme available.]
[Would you like to summon?]
Kael sighed.
"I don’t think it can get any worse..."
[Summoning initiated.]
The void began to tremble.
Purple energy exploded around Kael.
And slowly...
a silhouette appeared before him.
Small. Round. Furry.
Kael slowly opened his eyes.
"No..."
The creature landed softly in front of him.
It was...
A fat cat.
Very fat.
With an expression of absolute contempt for existence itself.
The cat stared at him for a few seconds.
Then it yawned.
[Legendary Meme Summoned.]
[Cat of Absolute Contempt]
[Rank: ???]
Kael felt an instant headache.
"I’m going to ruin my life with this..."
The cat stared at him.
And then—
It slapped him.
.
.
.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
The entire hall exploded with laughter.
Kael had returned to the real world.
And behind him...
was the cat.
Sitting.
Licking its paw.
The nobles could barely breathe from laughing.
"Is that his summon!?"
"It’s literally a stray cat!"
"It doesn’t even have mana!"
"The perfect junk class for a commoner!"
The instructor was wiping tears of laughter from his eyes.
"Class registered: ’Meme Summoner.’"
The entire hall fell silent.
"...What the hell is that?"
"I’ve never heard of anything like that."
"Memes?"
"Is that some kind of disease?"
Kael wanted to disappear.
Luna watched him worriedly from the stands.
"Big brother..."
Then—
The giant doors of the hall exploded.
BOOOOOOM.
A monstrous creature burst through the main wall.
Four meters tall.
Red eyes.
Giant claws.
The magical pressure made several students collapse to the ground.
"AN ABYSSAL BEAST!!"
"HOW DID IT GET IN HERE!?"
"PROTECT THE STUDENTS!!"
The monster roared violently.
A teacher tried to cast magic.
The beast crushed him with one blow.
Blood covered the floor.
Chaos erupted instantly.
Screams. Panic. People running. freewebnovёl.ƈom
Kael felt the monster lock its eyes on Luna.
No.
No.
NO.
The beast charged straight toward the stands.
"LUNA!!"
Kael ran desperately.
Too slow.
He wasn’t going to make it.
Then he heard a voice in his head.
[The Legendary Meme feels contempt.]
"What?"
The cat sighed.
And slowly got to its feet.
Then it made its way toward the monster with the most exaggerated laziness in the world, then stopped — apparently, it wasn’t worth its time to walk all the way there, so it just got its attention.
"Meow meow... meow meow meow..."
The monster looked at the cat with simple contempt and indifference, and brought down its giant claws to crush it like a fly.
The cat raised a paw.
And slapped it.
Absolute silence.
The Abyssal Beast’s head exploded instantly.
BOOOOOOOOM.
The entire body went flying, smashing through three walls of the hall.
Everyone froze.
No one breathed.
No one understood what had just happened.
The cat sat back down calmly.
As if nothing had occurred.
And then—
A voice echoed inside Kael’s mind.
[First entity stabilized.]
[Synchronization with the Ancient Internet: 0.01%]
[Reality has begun to corrupt.]
