"The plan was to try and trigger an evolution of life on our respective worlds,particularly evolution of sentient life... The purpose of this evolution was to create beings with unlimited potential who would completely overcome their racial limitations and achieve an unprecedented level of strength that will contend with that of The Gatherers upon their re-emergence... We agreed to randomly select a particular number of babies born everyday on our respective worlds and channel the evolutionary code we invented , into the cells of their bodies . This led to the creation of what the beings on our respective worlds came to refer to as 'the awakened'..." She paused and shot me a gentle glance, as I tried to digest her words..
As though she could read my thoughts ,she spoke " You are probably thinking about the intricacies of the Awakening process right...let me explain then.
The evolutionary code we created would trigger a pilot mutation in the body of the particular baby randomly selected for the process, causing them to manifest a particular awakened ability owing to the varying uniqueness of the individual's cell constition compared to that of others ...
Depending on the uniqueness of the individual's cells, the Awakening of an affinity would naturally occur within the period of birth till the age of ten... Those who never awakened were simply not part of the randomly selected babies for the evolutionary process .... You were the only one who was randomly selected for the chanelling of the evolutionary code but failed to awaken an affinity even when you reached the age of ten.
I assumed it was because you had the most unique cell constitution compared to others and therefore your mutation process was more intricate ,leading to a delay in the manifestation of your affinity... My theorisation proved authentic ,as you manifested an extremely cheat and overpowered affinity at the late age of fifteen compared to others. Not only that, before your affinity manifested, we assumed the project of creating beings who could completely transcend their racial limitations and limitlessly evolve was impossible , and deemed it a nil possibility of succeeding at our project, as all the awakened on our respective worlds had their potential to evolve cement at some point... To be more plain, their talents or potential to evolve could be quantified as limited... There was no one with the potential to evolve without any limitation before you appeared... However your mutation proved you have the most unique cell constitution , as you have manifested such an affinity that permanently allows you to copy the skills and affinities of any being you come across, and at the same time you have an unlimited talent potential to evolve without a talent limit.. The classification of your talent as SSS class by the humans is an understatement... Your talent or evolution potential is unlimited and knows no bounds... It means you can limitlessly evolve and at a fast pace at that, as long as there is constant supply of ether to you in your environment.. You may be the one to lead the three worlds against the threat of the gatherers.... If only there were others on the human world and the other worlds just like you, however that is not currently possible... and has not been in the past ,as ,since we begun the creation of the awakened a thousand years ago , you are the first of your kind to ever appear... We can only pin the future of the three worlds on your shoulders, young one.. " She halted, giving me some time to digest her words....
Honestly ,I was at a loss for words.. I had always assumed sometimes that it was strange that I awakened a cheat affinity , at the late age of fifteen , and that I had a talent that could cause me to evolve at a very fast rate... However I did not give much chance to how all of it was possible...
I mean, as long as I could grow stronger, there was no know need for me to worry about how I was a dime in a dozen when it came to affinity and talent..
It turned out that the uniqueness of my cell constition , warranted to the fact that I manifested such a cheat affinity with a cheat and superb talent that gave me unlimited potential to evolve without any limitations ,unlike any other individual on the three worlds?...
Ridiculous!... Outstandingly ridiculous....!. Mindblowing....Did this not mean that my desire to grow strong would be a walk in the park...And now apart from my desire to grow outstandingly strong to protect my own fate, the worlds were now being threatened by some so called Gatherers and I was supposed to be the one meant to save the worlds from them?....
I hated being threathened and controlled by others...
These Gatherers ... they had to die.. I knew now, I would stand no chance against them... However, It seems I could no longer delay even the tiniest bit at growing stronger anymore..I had to hasten my plans... ..
I had not formed any extremely unbreakable bonds with anyone ,not even the friend I made recently, that would motivate me to lay down my life for others and protect the Gatherers from ending the human world... However , I was human, and I was no robot and sociopath, who would allow everyone on this planet to die when I knew I had the potential to grow strong enough to be able to do something about it...I had to try all I could to grow stronger... After all, unless The Gatherers were eliminated, my world would perish, along with myself too... Eliminating them also meant preserving my own life...
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"So I'm sort of protagonist meant to save the worlds from extinction..?... Why does this sound so cliche..." I sighed, as I mused to myself inwardly... however I knew she could read my thoughts..
"That's right... " She replied firmly ..
" So the creation of the awakened was actually some sort of project conducted by the World Wills of the three remaining worlds in an attempt to raise
people with unlimited talent like me in order to hold a candle against the Gatherers and prevent them from destroying the remaining worlds?... But however, the awakened created were not up to your expectations so you kept trying until your results yielded someone like myself right ?" I probed again .
"Affirmative "... She replied again...
" I see" I replied then proceeded to ask her another question " I have another question,since the odds of producing an awakened with unlimited potential for growth is nearly negligible, why did you select a target number of babies to channel the evolutionary code you created to, rather than selecting all babies born everyday for the process of the genetic evolution, who knows,maybe you could have landed others like me right?"