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Era: Dawn of the New Gods

Concise Synopsis: This is a post-apocalyptic story about the origins of various powerful figures that appeared after the apocalypse event. During the apocalypse monsters appeared possessing powers and constitution beyond the limits of human understanding. They ravaged the world and brought down all governments. The first part of the story follows Jade, a terrorist that was ravaging the world before the monsters arrived. ________________________________________ Dramatic Synopsis: The New Gods, the most feared and revered beings on the planet. They are forces capable of absolute destruction and creation. The Council of Branches Hayley, the Living Lie (if that is her real name) Chao Feng, the Prince of Stars Lara, the Mother of Heroes The Great City of Tver Gog, the Ever Losing War The Unkillable Freak Dave, the Flow Demon Avatari, (only the name is known) Satoshi, the Gentle Hurricane As Impactful as they are no one knew their origin, they are called the New Gods so there must be Old Gods. I and my colleagues dedicated our lives to finding their origins only to find out that the beings we fear and adore were once like us, average, mortal and weak... at least most of them were. ________________________________________ *It is a sort of 'reverse RPG' as no one knows anything either skills, abilities or how the system works but they find out on their own or develop their own skills or abilities. *The story has many protagonists and point of views but it paints a beautiful story of survival in a world of endless perils for both the humans and the monsters (some monsters are protagonists). *There is a system but it is very limited (not overpowered) and it treats everyone equally, monster or human. The system is very different from regular systems; no exp, levels and system items (it has similar concepts but they are not the same). *The story is a world building story where overall, the world is the true main character. The cover image photo is credited to Angel David https://www.freeimages.com/photographer/angelwave-57636

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Chapter 162: Evolution (Mira) 1

Mira woke up a day after she used Supernova. She thought 'This one is quite different' as she remembered the skill worked. The white flames, the fatigue she thought 'Even when I exhaust my energy I don't get so fatigued. It's like the skill used both stamina and energy to work'.

She got up from her bed and walked toward the door of her room; someone had brought her to her room. Her IP said 'You have killed a Rank 8 creature. You have killed a Rank 9 creature. You have killed a Rank 10 creature. You have completed the hidden quest'

[Kill a creature that has a kill en-code that is more than your maximum unattributed en-code – reward: Boundless title – status: complete]

[Title:

Boundless: You have proven that en-code is not enough to guide you growth. Any race you evolve to will become a boundless race, choose wisely.]

Mira chuckled when she finished reading the notification. She thought 'I guess it's the IP's way of saying I should just evolve already'. She went out of her room to the door of the room beside her own and knocked.

A blonde woman that looked to be in her twenties came out. She had red eyes and longer than normal canines which were fangs making her out to be a vampire. She and said "You woken up!" on seeing Mira. Mira nodded and said "Hi Liv! How long have I been asleep?" Liv answered "A day or so. A lot has happened"

Mira said "Can you give me a run down?" Liv nodded and invited Mira inside. Mira sat on a chair while Liv sat on her bed and said "Some really high Rank monsters and the Rank 20 King attacked platoon C. Charlotte came in time to rescue them and she even killed the monsters. It seems she can now control corpses, like undead, zombies, so their corpses guard this location.

It would seem that we were on a roll but some of the monsters that ran away after Charlotte's fight came back and pledged allegiance to us. They were few though; a lot of the monsters were afraid of us according to the Werewolf and ran to the territory of some neighboring King. So we can't go on raids until Samuel wakes up and uses King's word to ensure our safety so that we can raid the other Kings with the monsters. Samuel should be waking up today".

Mira nodded and went back to her room. She asked her IP 'Why didn't I get the reward for bringing all my stats to Pinnacle Rank?'. Her IP replied 'You did, the rewards were similar to the reward of the quest to get one stat to Transcendent so it wasn't worth announcing when you were in dangerous territory'.

Mira asked her IP 'How much en-code do I have'. Her IP showed her a screen:

[En-code State:

Strength: 1,000,000/1,000,000

Agility: 1,000,000/1,000,000

Stamina: 1,000,000/1,000,000

Durability: 10,000,000/10,000,000

Intelligence: 100,000,000/100,000,000

Senses: 1,000,000/1,000,000

Energy: 10,000/10,000

Unattributed: 114,010,000+/114,010,000]

Mira thought 'Should I exchange it for an evolution ticket? Can I even give evolution tickets?' Her IP said 'Evolution tickets cannot be transferred'. Mira thought 'Bummer'.

A few hours passed until it was announced on the radios that Samuel had woken up. Mira went to the underground warehouse where he stayed while evolving along with a few other people.

Kenny, Charlotte and Jake were also there along with the other people. Samuel didn't look so different but everyone's IP denoted him as a Rank 7 Original Vampire. Many people were congratulating him so Mira waited till they were done.

When she saw that he was free she approached him, ignoring her IP's notification of his new race, and hugged him while saying "I hope this will help you feel better about yourself". Samuel replied "It should. It's your turn now".

Mira broke the hug and said "Yup". When the pleasantries were done, Jake announced "Mira is going to be evolving next. She will be evolving to a Mythical grade race because she has a Transcendent stat. Although I'm quite sad that Samuel had to evolve to an Ancient grade, it was his choice. I hope everyone can also get a Transcendent stat one way or another so they can skip a grade"

He turned to Mira and said "Do you want to start now or do you have something to say". Mira said "No, I'll start then". She told her IP 'Let's evolve now'. He IP said 'Understood'.

Mira's vision darkened and her mind went into a trance as she fell backward to the floor, hitting her head on it. The poor floor was broken and Mira was unscathed while Jake noticed how weird it was that no one flinched at the fact that Mira just trust fell with no one to trust. He thought 'We stray farther from being human'.

In the darkened world her Mira's IP showed a screen.

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[Titles possessed: 1: Boundless (Legendary)

Hidden Quests completed: 1

Impossible Quests completed: All

Job Quests completed: 1: Hunter job

Evolution Quests completed: All

Evolution Tickets: 2/2

…Excess en-code detected. Exchanging the excess encode for an evolution ticket.

Evolution Tickets: 3/2

…Excess en-code detected. Moving on.

Number of Creatures killed: 106,245: ~99.99% monster; `0.01% Human; both humans and monsters have been killed.

…Processing battle information.

Combat Class: Superior Energy Pugilist

Transcendent stat: Energy

Energy form: Abstract construct: Diamonds in the sky; stars.

…Searching for additional Classes. None found.

…Assessing double evolution candidate.

Quest grade: S

Combat grade: SS

Additional grade: null

Total grade: S

Comment: Amazing performance. Good job Mira.

…Computing evolution options…]

Mira was quite shocked at what she was seeing. She never expected that so many things would be taken into consideration. She thought 'Samuel didn't say anything about this. Could it be that it only happens for people who are skipping a grade? Or am I going to forget what is happening here when it's done?'

[Comment: No this only happens to people who are getting to Mythical or Celestial Grade since you are the ones that will be making big decisions for the planet.]

Mira was shocked that she got a response. She asked 'Who are you?'

[Comment: You'll find out soon. It's not like knowing will help anything just focus on getting stronger like you've always done]

[Evolution options:]

[Human Elementalist (Carbon) – Summary: A human with mythical level stats that has the natural ability to control carbon]

[Mutant: Perfect Chimera/Gene Lord: A creature that can fuse with the dead parts of the creatures it kills and take their natural abilities.]

[Valkyrie: A semi-divine female human with advanced combat instincts and innate magic spells]

[You can request for further details of each race]

The details of the options will come in the next chapter but what do you think is the best option right off the bat.

Put your answers in the comments.

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