Chapter 4- Answers
Zero reached out with his right hand and touched his left hand. As his fingertips touched his skin nothing happened, 'Nothing happened? But it's too early to say that it's because I can't evolve myself. Maybe what I need to do is to try and recreate what I did yesterday. I'll empty my mind and focus solely on what I want to accomplish.' Once he thought this, he closed his eyes and focused solely on trying to recreate what happened yesterday. He cleared his mind and regulated his breath. Deep inhales and longer exhales. Once he had reached a calm state of mind, he pictured the stats screen and retouched himself.
As soon as his fingers touched his skin a familiar sensation arose inside of him. It was as if he was connecting with whatever he touched, in this case, he was connecting with himself. He understood so much more about himself than ever did before. As an orphan, Zero always wanted to know where he came from and what genes he had. All his life he had heard things like, my family has French, Dutch and German roots and when they asked him what his origin was, he could never answer... He didn't know where he came from or who his people were. He did not know if his bloodline was prone to heart attacks or diabetes. The only way he knew a bit about himself was because people told him he looked similar to East Africans. Yet, for him, it wasn't as good as knowing for sure.
That is why when he felt the familiar feeling he felt yesterday, a grin appeared on his face. In this state of mind, he could feel somewhat connected to his roots. He could feel a weak link to his Egyptian blood, a semi response from his Euroasian bloodline and strong response from his Kushite blood. From this, he knew for sure that despite being born and raised in South Africa, he was definitely from East Africa. A smile emerged from his face as he finally knew where he was from. A huge weight fell from his shoulders as answers he yearned for were received.
That's when the stats screen popped up again.
NAME: Zero RACE: Human
MAGIC: 0 DEFENCE: 15
WISDOM: 70 INTELLIGENCE: 80
STRENGTH: 50
POTENTIAL: S
EVOLUTION▼ EQUIPMENT▼ SKILLS▼ TITLES▼
Zero looked at his stats and was shocked to see that his magic value was at Zero. 'Is what I am doing not a form of magic?' But clearly, it wasn't thus he concluded that it had to be something similar to a skill. He also looked at his potential and just like Azaleigh the rank was S. He wondered what potential meant... Was there perhaps a limit to how much times a species could be evolved and thus the potential of said creature determined the amount of evolves it had or perhaps there was another reason.
Zero took a deep breath, 'The answers will be revealed in due time. No need to rush things as of yet. For now we at least now that it's possible to evolve myself. Therefore even if I don't have magic, I can make myself stronger by splicing beneficial DNA sequences from other species and adding them to myself. At least that's what I hope I can do given that I didn't get the option to have Azaleigh retain some of her wolf characteristics. All I could do was change her from one species to another. There is still so much I don't know!'
Zero shook his head then he clicked on the arrow by [Titles] he wanted to see what titles he himself had. He also wanted to see if he could add titles to himself that he did not have equipped already. As he clicked the page changed again. Now he had a large number of titles written down before him. However, just like before almost all of them were locked. The only titles that weren't unlocked were the titles Alpha and Omega. Zero knew about the title Alpha as it was the one he had seen from Azaleigh but Omega was a new one.
He also knew the fact that he was only seeing it now meant that it was a title that belonged to him specifically and was one that could not be given away to someone else. Or that Azaleigh did not meet the conditions to have said title transferred to her. Nonetheless, it piqued his interest. He already surmised that the title had something to do with his abilities but without proof, he wasn't fully set on his idea. What he did know was that the title Alpha would prove beneficial to him thus he added it to his list of equipped titles.
After that, Zero moved on to skills. If he could add skills to his name than he could make himself stronger so without further ado, Zero began adding skills to his name. He added wolf communication, weapon affinity, magic affinity, cloud step, wind scythe, leadership, night vision and weapon transmutation. Once that was done, he clicked on Evolution.
NAME: Zero SPECIES: Human▼
HEIGHT: 187 cm RACE: African▼
HAIR COLOUR: Black SKIN TONE: Amber▼
WALKING TYPE: Bipedal GENDER: Male▼
EYE COLOUR: Black
STATS▼ EQUIPMENT▼ SKILLS▼ TITLES▼
Just like with Azaleigh, he saw that there were so many things he could alter. If he wanted to be taller he could change his height. He could change his race, his gender, anything he wanted to change he could as long as it was in the confines of what made a human a human. Zero liked the way he was, however, he did always wish that his eyes always looked how it did when he looked into the sun. Thus he changed his eye colour from black to hazel brown.
Once this was done, Zero had done everything he could and wanted to do, thus he exited bringing time back to motion. Immediately, a cold wind swept through the cave, Zero shivered in response as his teeth chattered. He looked at the thick fur on the wolves and a sinister thought lept into his mind, but he shook his head of it. Killing one of his own wolves for a coat would not only make Azaleigh angry but would also betray everything he stood for.
As a child Zero didn't have a family, thus one of his biggest goals in life was to be financially stable, marry a girl and have children. To be the father he didn't have. He thought that if he didn't have one, he would make one, he would be the first of his name. However, here in another world, he had the perfect chance to create a large family. Although he planned to lead them as more of a King than a father it was still a good feeling to know that it was possible.
Zero stood up from the hard rocks and looked towards the wolves who were sleeping. Wolves are nocturnal thus in the night they are awake and asleep during the day time. However, this didn't matter to him, having someone to protect you at night was a lot more important to him. Zero then walked out of the cave into a massive plain of treeless grass. You had to walk seven meters ahead before you could stand next to a tree. There was also nothing behind the cave as the cave was inside a mountain that stretched so high you couldn't see the end of it.
Zero took in his surrounding then took a deep breath, he wanted to calm himself so that he could try his new skills. He had just equipped the skills Wind scythe, cloud step and weapon transmutation. Unlike the others, these were active skills, not passive skills. He wasn't sure he would be able to perform them given that his magical ability was at 0 rendering magic affinity useless. For even if it boosted his magic by 50%. 50 per cent of 0 is still 0.
Zero shook his pessimistic thoughts and took a leap of faith, he closed his eyes and tried.