"Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in."
This was the first statement of the first human to alter his DNA to produce evolution points by consuming the flesh of dead beast said.
He was a legend that is rumored to have been immortalized, literally! According to various experts and baseless research theory proved his body evolving to a point where he couldn't evolve any longer, instantly turning him to an immortal!
In a world of genetic alteration and diverse evolution, immortality was just a legend which was why others presume him dead.
The last time anyone saw him was during the World's Evolution, Geneticist Andrew had been buried alive when the earth was been reshuffled as the continents shifted and collided.
All of his research containing genetic engineering, DNA Editing and Genome structural change were used to empower humanity.
A couple of centuries later, various types of abilities began to emerge in this era of turmoil ike ants. Some of these abilities were quite stable, some were shrift-lived with short durations, and there were some that brought about fatal results such as death.
Moreover, those that lived in the affected areas, under constant exposure to radiation, began to show all types of abilities even without any artificial recombination serums.
Through classifying, summarizing, as well a series of disputes, the various abilities were clearly defined.
The abilities that were stable were categorized into the five Origins of power: Combat Origin, Temperal Origin, Sensory Origin, Psionic Origin, and Chaos Origin.
Temperal Originis a collective breed of various abilities that manipulate energy. As a way to commemorate the Progenitor that had been obsessed with energy manipulation, the earliest discovered domain of ability was coined the Temperal Class.
As for Combat Origin, they are equipped with all types of offensive, defensive, as well as movement abilities.
Psionic Origin, as the name implied, included the ability to predict and make complex calculations the speed of a computer.
The Perception Origin is made up of all abilities relating to the sense of smell, hearing, and the ability to see from linf distances. This is the most popular and often seen and used type of ability as it involves weapon operation. This included the basic operation of regular weapons, ordinary firearms, sniping, all the way to the manipulation of complex weapon systems.
Finally, there was the Chaos. This is a domain that includes all types of abilities of little value or interest. Any vague abilities that could not be classified could be thrown in. Within the Chaos Field, the most representative ability was luck, all types of it. However, those that have invested large amounts of evolution points into the Chaos Field often times never received the fortune that they imagined. They did not discover any rare and precious resources, nor did they receive any great wealth or any type of exceptional ability. Those that died by violence were not any less than those that selected the other domains of abilities. In the past, there really was someone that discovered a precious deposit of ore, but in the end, he was chopped into minced meat by a greedy mob. Over time, those that decided to invest in the Mysterious Fields grew fewer and fewer.
Of course, the differentiation between the various domain was no longer that clear cut now. As time flowed on, more and more abilities continuously emerged. There were many newly emerged abilities that were not so easily categorized into a certain ability domain. There were even some abilities that had to be matched with another ability domain before they would emerge.
At this moment, the once 'mad doctor' Rosheda became the father of abilities domains. The doctor had opened up a great gate, a bargaining chip for survival in this bitter world. However, even now, no one knew whether this 'gate' of his lead to the paradise of heaven or the depths of the underworld.
When the people living within the various bases gradually woke up from the awe of their abilities, they were shocked to find that nothing in this world was forever stable, including the genes of all creatures.
All creatures, excluding humans, were quickly changing. The evolution and mutation process that had taken seemingly endless years to complete was compressed into a few short years in the new age.
The knowledge humans had accumulated created the artificial recombination serum. But the evolution of beasts and other organisms weren't standing still. In fact, they seem to be evolving even further!
For example, looking at the figure inside the wire cage, it was a red-eyed, docile-natured rabbit that was depending on its speed to avoid its natural predators. However, no one could be sure what this creature whose current speed was already faster than that of a leopard would be like next year.
It was because this brand new era had become an era of turmoil.
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"How much does the Red-eyed rabbit costs?"
"3000 meta or anything of equivalent!"
The trader responded instinctively but then he glanced at Lucifer for a second and immediately recognized him. He swiftly waved his hands angrily. "Don't disturb me this late, brat. Shoo! You are blocking real customers from buying from me!"
He had been buying catfish from lucifer for a while, at first, he was making profit from Lucifer, buying it for quarter the price of a regular level-1 savage beast but it wasn't long when be realized there was little to no evolution potential in the flesh, he felt as though he had been cheated and made up his mind never to buy anything from Lucifer any longer.
As a petty trader, he would never allow himself take a lose but Lucifer had actually deceived him. Till this day, he was still very much angry about it!
Lucifer remained expressionless and reached into the polyester bag he was holding, grabbing a stinking head of a cat-fish, dropping it directly on the table.
"Take a very careful look at this."