1 The Fusion Of All Things

The night was dark and gloomy. It was like an extremely terrifying ghost hand, firmly holding the world in its hand.

On the branch of a thick giant tree, Emerson Cole was sitting there quietly.

He was holding a pitch-black horn in his hand and gnawing on it.

Although the flesh of the Iron Horn Ant was dry and hard, Emerson Cole did not dislike it at all.

He had already been in the dark forest for 3 whole days. This was the only food he could find.

Although it was already late at night, Emerson Cole did not feel sleepy at all.

In other words, he did not dare to feel sleepy at all.

After all, this dark forest known as the forbidden ground for living humans.

Ever since the mutation of the Blue Planet, countless people had died in that man-eating dark forest.

Even the legendary genetic warrior might have died in this dark forest.

Year 2557 of the Blue Planet, a strange fog enveloped the entire planet.

Under the strange fog, the Blue Planet underwent huge changes.

The size of the Blue Planet expanded by 10 times, and many strange creatures crawled out from the fog.

These strange creatures were powerful. Human weapons could not deal with these strange creatures.

As such, the entire blue planet instantly turned into a living hell.

Along with the destruction of humanity's technological civilization, a new type of civilization was born.

Some humans slowly began to undergo mutations, possessing the power to fight against those strange creatures.

These mutated humans were collectively known as genetic warriors.

That was what Emerson Cole thought of genetic warriors. To be precise, he was a quasi-genetic warrior.

Generally, genetic warriors were born naturally.

When they were born, certain genes in their bodies were naturally much higher than normal people.

Some people had powerful strength, some had astonishing speed, and there were even some genetic warriors who were born with the ability to control some unique powers.

The current strongest warrior in Iron City, Grandpa Elrond, for example. He was a fire-type genetic warrior who was born with the ability to control fire-type powers.

The main reason why Iron City was able to stay close to the dark forest and not be invaded by the strange creatures was because of Grandpa Elrond's existence.

As for Emerson Cole, he was born as an ordinary person. He did not have the genes to be called a genetic warrior.

The reason why Emerson Cole was a quasi-genetic warrior was because he was a transmigrator.

He was bound to the system of a transmigrator.

His system was called the Myriad Fusion System.

He could improve his genetic power by fusing with different genes.

With that, he could become a qualified genetic warrior.

The main purpose of Emerson Cole's trip to the dark forest this time was to kill those strange creatures and fuse with their genes, so that he could become a qualified genetic warrior.

[Iron Horn Ant fusion. Strength Gene: +0.]

After biting off the horn of the Iron Horn Ant, the system's voice sounded in Emerson Cole's mind.

"It seems that it's impossible to improve my genes by fusing with 1 kind of creature. The only way to improve my genes is to fuse with more creatures."

Emerson Cole clapped his hands and said to himself.

It had been 3 days since he came to the dark forest, and he was still at the outermost edge of the dark forest.

It was not that he did not want to go deeper, but with his current strength, he simply could not enter the depths of the dark forest.

If he went deeper into the dark forest, there would only be 1 outcome - Death!

Although he had the system, he knew his limits.

[Name: Emerson Cole

Gender: Male

Age: 19

Height: 182

Strength Gene: 45

Agility Gene: 15

Physical Gene: 20

Elemental Gene: 0]

Looking at his attribute panel, Emerson Cole shook his head in dissatisfaction.

Through this period of understanding, as well as his understanding of the system.

A certain gene had to reach 50 before he could be called a genetic warrior.

His most likely genetic option to reach 50 was strength.

However, in this outermost region, only a creature like the Iron Horn Ant could give him an increase in Strength Gene.

Previously, he had already obtained strength genes by fusing with the Iron Horn Ant.

It was impossible for him to upgrade his Strength Gene by consuming Iron Horn Ant.

Hence, if he wanted to upgrade, he could only enter deeper into the dark forest.

However, going deeper into the forest meant he would meet more unknown dangers.

For a moment, Emerson Cole was in a dilemma.

Buzz... Buzz...

Just as Emerson Cole was in a dilemma, a soft sound suddenly sounded beside him.

It was followed by a faint burnt smell, as if something had been burnt.

Emerson Cole hurriedly lowered his head to look to the side.

Then, he saw a drop of black ink suddenly fall on a branch next to him.

As the black ink dripped, the branch was instantly melted and broke.

Emerson Cole subconsciously looked up.

Hiss!

When Emerson Cold saw what was above him, he suddenly widened his eyes.

He felt a chill down his spine and cold sweat instantly soaked his back.

It was a head!

A head the size of a basin!