Health, strength, and funds. These were the three main things she needed to get before the apocalypse and maintain after it started.
She looked at her own arms, thin and weak. She definitely wouldn't be able to slap a random gangster, let alone an alien that can cut a car in half with a swing of its raptorial foreleg.
She needed to start with a training plan as soon as possible. Her powers were not strong. Even this newfound power was mostly auxiliary, not like Kael's highly aggressive power.
Besides, during the first two years or so after the fall, there wouldn't be aliens at all. Their greatest enemy…was nature itself. Other survivors might not be friendly, either.
The younger generation learned about these disasters in a class the base held. They were as detailed as they could be, though with some natural limitations, but they were enough to make detailed preparations.
For the purpose of an overall view, she just summarized it in her head for now.
First, happening approximately three months from now was a meteor shower. There were three large meteorites falling at specific parts of the globe.
On top of the three 'big ones', because the meteorites' entry to the atmosphere wasn't smooth, the meteorites would lose portions of their mass to create smaller meteors, landing in random places.
They were considered small in the grand scheme of things, but, in reality, a single one could easily decimate a town.
All these immediately scarred the planet, but not enough to end it outright.
The impact caused massive earthquakes and tsunamis throughout the globe. For those too near fault lines, every structure could fall on top of their head. Those at sea would be killed by a massive wall of water from the sea. Even at distant coasts, the wall of water was tens of meters high—still very lethal.
The impact awakened the world beneath the crust, and volcanoes erupted in cascading waves, hurling ash and debris high into the atmosphere.
Sunlight would fade and, after the storm that could blow anything away passed, a cold period would grip the planet.
It was too short to be called an ice age, but more like a cryogenic shock.
This extreme cold would last more than a year, even longer in certain parts of the globe.
This was then followed by a rapid rebound warming which caused extreme heat waves, rains, and worldwide floods. The Extreme Heat also lasted around a year, depending on where you were.
Then all that ended. Death and destruction were all the world knew for more than two years, and those who survived were relieved that it was finally over.
Only to find out that it was, literally, just the beginning.
After that, unusual smoke spread out, originating from the site of the meteor crash.
From there, a portion of the people who had inhaled the smoke would turn into monsters, a hybrid between the bipedal humans and the insects. Their instinct was to eat humans, take their nutrients, and then send them back to the 'main ship'.
They were very sturdy and required strong weapons to defeat. However, when the aliens themselves awoke, the humans could not do anything anymore.
They were incredibly powerful, and normal weapons had no use against them. Even guns didn't work. They had to at least be bazooka-level weapons.
A country had even nuked a city filled with them, but there were still a lot that survived and procreated. They simply destroyed what remained of their own environment, so the act was not worth it.
The aliens literally needed life force to empower themselves. The natural disasters were one way to grab the newly recovered life force of millions of people who died in a disaster.
When they were hibernating, it was easier to grab the energy of the newly perished, which was why they triggered disasters at all. When they awoke, they hunted for the 'live' ones.
When the final battle happened, the aliens just wanted to take the 'last meal' before abandoning the planet they had destroyed.
She had wondered how it would've been if the humans had been more prepared….if more people had awakened earlier on, but sadly it wasn't that straightforward.
People did not just awaken. She might be the exception because she carried over some abilities to this world, but that wouldn't be the case for others.
The conditions for awakening were quite complicated and required the presence of the aliens themselves. They needed the energy core condensed inside the aliens' bodies to stimulate the body's evolution.
After all, typical evolution happened over a long period of time, and humans did not have that luxury.
So…was there really no way to awaken before those buggers appeared?
This was a problem that needed time to solve. For now, she needed to survive the initial onslaught of the disasters; she needed money. A lot of money.
Though a bit incomprehensible to her, whose definition of 'valuable resource' was completely different, she knew she needed a lot of the currency of this world.
She looked at the old man's house. It was not nearly as big as the mansion of Nadia's family, but it was still very well off. From memory, it seemed like this old man also had a lot of land and got a lot of rent and lease from them.
She narrowed her eyes. She should put those to good use, right?