In a remote jungle, nestled between the scarlet city and Coventloo city, a thin, skinny figure could be seen kneeling amidst five huge, bulky figures in uniforms. This figure belonged to a seventeen-year-old boy. Aside from his unusually pale face, the boy had fairly common features. His clothes were loose-fitting and tattered from heavy beatings, and his entire body was covered in bruise marks.

Thwak! A leg landed on his stomach.

"I told you never to show your face before me, didn't I, you pathetic..." A tall, bulky young man in a school uniform smirked, landing another kick on the skinny teenager. The boy groaned in pain, coughing up more blood on the ground and breathing heavily.

"Paine, this should be enough. We're not here to kill him anyway, so this should serve as a big lesson..." another bulky figure suggested.

"Says who? I've given him a chance already, but he lost it. He deserves a fate worse than death. Even if I don't kill him here, he'll die somewhere else anyway... So if you feel so generous by doing him a favor killing him here, no one will care." The tall, bulky figure known as Paine snapped, coating his leg in flames. He landed a final kick on the seemingly dead boy. 'Pucchhiii' The boy's stomach busted open as blood splashed everywhere, and his body fell. "He's dead, Paine... What are we going to do?" one of the figures voiced out, panicking as his bracelet rang. It was his mom; he was too scared to speak.

"Ha ha, didn't think it was going to be this easy... Never mind, we'll leave it to the beast to cover up the evidence," Paine said, relieving the tense atmosphere. As they were leaving, Paine turned back one last time with a smile on his face.

"Even in your next life, when you hear the name Paine, you'll flee, he he," he laughed, walking to join the rest as they chatted casually amongst themselves as if nothing happened.

Hours passed as the sun began to set.

Oliver Twist lay down, still and lifeless. It wasn't because he was scared of the beating or anything else; it was because he was dead.

Remembering his past, he was an orphan who didn't even know who his birth parents were, nor did he have a friend. Nobody wanted to associate with a useless being, which was what Oliver was known to be due to his weak ability that could only make him shrink. His ability was considered useless because it couldn't even go against a common grade F mixedblood rat, the lowest tier beast on Earth. Because of that, his schoolmates began to pick on him and beat him almost every day of his life, making his life miserable. Even his juniors would beat him up sometimes if he tried correcting them. He had no one to run to, including his teachers, who would tell him it was allowed for students to beat each other to a pulp. They twisted the rules because of him, because the natural rule stated that a student had to issue a challenge before beating each other up. But it was the opposite he was told... so he had no choice but to endure it.

It had been centuries since humanity last fought. According to the book of history, in the year 2051, a hundred years ago, a strange life form from an unknown planet, known as the Destroyed, invaded Earth. It was like a nightmare when they appeared. Guns, barrels, missiles, and nuclear bombs all became useless, but not entirely useless. They were at least able to kill the weakest ones among them after a lot of effort.

After a month of invading Earth, they took control of everything humanity had ever worked for. In this process, humans weren't so stupid; they learned everything the Destroyed knew, such as how they evolved, their technology, and other intel.

Meanwhile, secretly, a great scientist, Daniel Culosso, created a secret solution under the Destroyed's nose and released it airborne, causing a genetic mutation in every living creature all over the world. This granted humans, plants, and animals the ability to evolve, turning them into mixedbloods.

Years passed as humans began to grow stronger and stronger day by day as they evolved. Then, all of a sudden, war broke out between the Destroyed and humans. Humans took this opportunity to gain freedom as they began to fight back with the help of the mysterious Daniel Culosso, chasing the Destroyed off the planet. 'Who said they'll return to destroy Earth and even the universe?'

Ever since then, humans began to rule the galaxies...

Daniel Culosso, on the other hand, who fought for humanity, was nowhere to be found. Some said he died on the battlefield; some said he went into hiding, while most researchers said he vanished, but his work kept appearing out of nowhere, which was considered suspicious and kind of mysterious.

Back to the present...

In the woods, a body could be seen lying on the ground lifeless. Buzz buzz buzz... as his bracelet rang, but it was invalid; he didn't pick it up. On the body's neck, a green pendant in the form of a drop of blood shape began to shine, covering the entire vicinity. It went through into the dead teen's stomach, healing him in the process. The lifeless body's finger moved slightly as life slowly seeped into him.

Luckily for him, Oliver, he was given a second chance. All his life, he had never been lucky and had gone through only pain and agony, even though he was used to it. He couldn't complain to anyone... he had no parents to tell about how he was being treated. Even in his neighborhood, some people were quite hostile to him, while some treated him with slight care despite his being himself.

Oliver's lifeless body began to show signs of recovery as life slowly seeped into him. He coughed up black blood, opening his eyes and picking himself up from the ground. His body was still unstable as he moved like a drunkard.

"I've been revived, how?" he thought, staring at his bruised body, which had already healed up.

'Or did Paine take pity on me and gave me a high-grade healing pill?' he wondered, when a voice suddenly shouted in his head.

"You dumbass, I healed you, you... little ingrate."

It was then he remembered he had missed a notification that appeared in his face.

Ding Ding Ding

[Restoring_host]

[Host_Restoration has been deemed Successful]

[System_integration_with_host...10%...20%...40%...60%...80%...100%]

[System_integration_with_host - Success]

"Wha... what are you? How did you get in my head?"

[ "Is that your own way of saying thank you... runt?" ]

Oliver "..."