Super Gene Immortal Chapter 20

The training ended up being pretty repetitive. Lux had looked up the tutorials and everything for preparation and [Machine Learning] had done the rest. The simulators for piloting a starfighter were interesting. The warframes/mechs were more physically demanding about response times and predictive capabilities, but the simulated missions were pretty damn easy. Information was easy as breathing for Lux. After looking over the manuals and maintenance specifications for all the equipment he could basically be a professional repair man at this point. After the training was done, Qin Xuan had Lux take a practice test that simulated the entrance exams for Blackhawk and he scored a perfect 100% on it. With that done, Lux was dismissed and told that he was exempt from any more training in the station. Qin Xuan and Yang Manli both seemed to want Lux in the station as little as possible.

 Admissions to Blackhawk would be held in exactly two weeks. Qin Xuan said that he should go hunting but make sure that he made it back on time. Lux decided to stay home instead of going out to hunt. Not to be lazy, but to get as many lessons as possible on as many martial arts as possible from the Old Devil. As well as practice his Jadeskin Sutra to the small success stage. He was so close already that he just needed a little more dedicated practice.

 On top of the Sutra and martial arts practice, Lux also dedicated a few hours a day to creating another game that had been super popular. CoC. Clash of Clans. As far as he could tell there was basically no game similar to it in the app store which just felt wrong. His first games didn't take off to an extreme right away. But they were definitely building up steam and the reviews were mostly positive. So, his wallet was experiencing a steady stream of income now.

 For most people Lux's schedule would be utterly useless, training in five new styles of martial arts every day would really accomplish nothing for any normal human. [Machine Learning] made it so that Lux was benefiting to a tremendous degree.

 Between everything that Lux was doing time passed quickly. And almost too soon, he found himself packing up to head to planet Hawk for admissions to Blackhawk Academy. The one thing that he truly wished that he had was a freaking inventory of some sort. It was incredibly annoying that he had to carry so much stuff with him. Sure he could easily haul around thousands of pounds of stuff at this point. But carrying bulky packs and bags was annoying no matter how strong one got. Lux's hunting pack for instance was loaded dozens of useful items to start fires, cook, straws, ropes, and bunch more odds and ends that absolutely could be useful in the wild. Didn't mean that Lux liked carrying it around all the time.

 A good bit of news was that the Shrieky Beast had become a Sacred-Blood creature. The thing was delicious. Lux swore that the higher on the ranks a creature got the more delicious they became. Every Sacred-Blood creature that he had eaten was almost mind numbingly delicious even when eaten raw. With the small size of the Shrieky Beast, Lux had managed to consume it in only a few days. Lux had also frowned after killing the creature, he hadn't gotten its beast soul. It was rare that he didn't get one, not that he was truly upset about it. It was just a bit odd. The Shrieky Beast ended up yielding the seven Geno points to Lux though which was definitely awesome. He was sitting pretty at 59 Sacred-Blood Geno points now.

 Lux replaced the creature with a Quartz Scorpion that he retrieved from the caves where they were native. With all of that done, Lux had ventured over to the swamp to hunt for some mutant creatures for a day but had come away empty handed due to the average size of the mutant creatures that he found. They were far too large to be worth his time hunting at this point. Like multiple tons of weight, that Lux just didn't want to spend the effort on. But during that excursion, Lux managed to kill tons of creatures and hand over their beast souls to Qin Xuan.

 Perhaps the most important things that had occurred during the time leading up to Lux's departure for the was that he had reached the small success stage of Jadeskin Sutra. And he had gotten through the first phase of the Heresy Sutra. The results were a little scary actually. Lux was much stronger than he had been even a minute before he'd reached that point. The breakthroughs had put Lux well into territory of fitness that was not supposed to be achieved by humans within the first sanctuary and he actually had to make sure to control himself once he got to the admissions test because performing like only an evolver could, would be sure to set off alarm bells.

 With the small success stage of the Jadeskin Sutra, Lux found that he could now actually control his pheromone emission. Meaning that he was no longer just passively causing women that he passed by in the streets get all hot and bothered. Which was a useful thing in his mind, with the ability to control when he was a delicious snack that made the buff even more useful. Lux moved his practice over to the 72 Earthly Transformations Sutra. He was fit enough to start it, and the benefits of practicing this particular Sutra would be many fold.

 Lux had only just started practicing the 72 Earthly Transformations Sutra a few days before it was time to head out to board the spacecraft that would take him to planet Hawk for the admissions test. But already he could feel it changing him. The practice of the technique was very difficult. The poses, the movements, and the chants of the Sutra made his body feel all sorts of ways as he practiced.

 The final thing that he did before he stepped out the door to head off was to publish a few more Sutras freely across the Skynet. The Atomic Standard Sutra, Manifest Destiny Sutra, and The Courtesans Way Sutra.

 Atomic Standard was a combo of jadeskin and atomic physique. It was probably going to be the most popular and widely practiced. Low start threshold of 5.0 on the fitness scale and had impressive benefits even before the small success stage.

 Manifest Destiny Sutra was a direct rip off of the Falsified Sky Sutra that required one to have human blood instead of the other way around. Literally that was the only thing that was different about it. It had all of the same benefits of the Falsified Sky Sutra but required a human to practice it. This was an incredibly powerful Sutra and Lux had no doubt that it would change the face of human society over the next several years.

 The Courtesans Way Sutra was essentially the opposite of the Wedding Dress Sutra. The wedding dress sutra required one to remain celibate or lose out on all of their gains in the sutra. The Courtesans Way Sutra was the sutra of hoes. Its practice benefited from sleeping around. Especially for women who practiced it, and progress was rapid. The Courtesans Way Sutra worked best for a dedicated harem structure of relationship though. Designating one person as the focal point of the practices would boost its functionality significantly, and the more individuals focused on that one person the better. This worked both ways. A woman could have a large harem of men and gain a lot, or a man could have a large harem of women and gain a lot. But exclusivity was not a requirement in the Sutra. Just highly encouraged because it really would boost the techniques, and that wasn't because it was designed that way, it was because the energies of a single person became more familiar, and the Sutra adapted to them and made better use of the energy. It was honestly the most complex Sutra that Lux had made.

 Lux was pretty sure that he had just started a sexual revolution in the culture of the Alliance. It may or may not be a good thing. But only time would tell that tale. He made his way to the spaceport and waited for his ship boarding time.

 On the new that was being broadcast at the terminal, Lux almost cracked up as the anchors talked about the new Sutras that the mysterious hacker released to the public. Almost all of the focus was on the Courtesans Way Sutra and how it was going to corrupt the youth and so on. Lux was happy that he was pissing off the people in power with his releasing of new and incredibly powerful Sutra that they couldn't control the dissemination of. The results were going to be incredible in just a few years as people started to surpass the previous generations in total power.

 Lux was low key giddy about his first time being on a spaceship. Not only that, it was an interstellar spaceship capable of FTLT(Faster Than Light Travel). Lux had looked into exactly how FTL drives worked, and it was a fascinating subject. He hoped that someday he would have the time and resources to create his own ship. Obviously, he would at some point, but right now it was only a dream.

 The process of boarding the interstellar flight was basically the same as boarding a flight back on earth had been. But Lux didn't bring any bags along. He had used his room in the Steel Armor Shelter since the teleporter from planet hawk would just place him in the same place in the sanctuary that was a good life hack for traveling.

 What was not the same was that this was going to be a 48-hour journey, and the spaceship had a lot of accommodations for its passengers. There was a full gym, complete with gravity control that could allow even a surpasser to get a good workout. A full bar, restaurant, and even a massage parlor. Lux thought about getting a massage but decided against it. He basically went up to the observation deck and looked out into the void. Passing the time by playing the Hand of God game on his commlink.

 Hand of God was a game that Lux wanted to create his own version of. It was perfect for creating his own beat-saber knockoff. As it stood, Hand of God was actually quite good for training and maintaining one's reflexes. Throughout the Alliance it was probably the most popular and competitive game played. The military academies even had professional setups to play the game. Some people took it super seriously. Lux was stuck on the Evolver 7 level, which was hard as shit. But his skill in the game was literally unfair and didn't reflect his actual fitness rating. [Machine Learning] had made the game almost trivially easy unless he was playing at a setting that was meant to be hard for people well above his rank. Lux had tried a bit of the competitive online mode of Hand of God as well which was kind of like beat saber with an opponent actively interfering and stealing your points. But playing against people of the unevolved rank was too easy and the competitiveness at the evolver rank was on par with the sweaty neckbeards who played CoD 29 hours a day. It lost its fun at that elo.

 Lux was walking through one of the hallways, headed for the restaurant on the ship on the second day of the transit when he froze in place as he spotted a woman headed past him on the ship. She looked to be around his age, but there was just something utterly magnetic about her. The way she moved, her perfect skin, her perfect shape. He actually found himself utterly stunned into just stopping and staring. Objectively she wasn't the most gorgeous woman he had ever seen. But for some reason it was like his soul itself reacted to the sight of her and demanded that he pay attention.

 Lux didn't ever remember feeling like this about just seeing someone. Ever. He felt like he absolutely had to talk to her. But at the same time, it felt like a horrible idea. He shook his head, diverted his eyes and decided that he should absolutely avoid whoever that was. Any women that had the power to just make his mind go blank like a discombobulator grenade had gone off behind his eyelids was to be avoided. Poor decisions tended to be made around that sort of woman.

 Casting the woman from his mind, Lux beelined it for the restaurant and sat at the bar, ordering a trey of finger foods. His mind wandering back to that woman in the hallway as he ate before he shook it off again and decided to go to the gym. There was still about eight hours left on this trip and he needed to distract himself.

 Lux had in some ear buds and was listening to what passed for death metal in this culture as he pumped the heaviest weights he could handle in the gym. He didn't care about the lyrics of the music; it was the raw aggression in the music that Lux was feeding off as he lifted. While he went, he filled in the time between sets with practicing the 72 Earthly Transformations. The intensity of the workout was keeping him from really thinking about anything other than what he was doing.

 Finishing off his workout, Lux took a quick shower and started heading for the compartments where people needed to be for landing procedures. It was still a few hours away, but Lux was planning to just sit there and play a little Hand of God as he waited.

 Lux managed to chill in the compartment for all of thirty minutes before he was interrupted from his game by the woman he had been trying to avoid walked in and decided that sitting directly across from him was the move. Lux focused hard to avoid losing the round that he was playing. Honestly, it might have been the best round he had ever played of Hand of God. But he was almost to stressed to realize that he had just passed the level that he had been stuck on for a while now.

 "Are you already an evolver?" The woman asked, seeing that he had just finished a round in the Evolver settings of Hand of God. Lux was obviously young, and most people didn't reach Evolver status until at least around 20 to 25 years old.

 "No, I'm close to making all of my Geno points out though." Lux blurted out.

 "That was level 7 right? I haven't gotten past level 2. Are you cheating?" She asked.

 Lux chuckled, "How exactly does one cheat at Hand of God?"

 "I don't know. But I've heard of cheaters in the online competitive arena."

 "Pretty sure they consider it cheating when someone who should be in a higher bracket plays against people of lower bracket. The only way that I could think of to actually cheat would be visibly obvious to anyone watching and it would take any enjoyment out of actually playing. It would just be a light show at that point." Lux waved off her statement, "I'm Han Sen by the way. Headed to Planet Hawk to enter Blackhawk under the archery scholarship program."

 "Ji Yanran." She said with a smile, "Nice to meet you cheater."

 Lux placed a hand over his heart as if he had just been shot, "You wound me fair maiden! I am a noble knight of the round table, I won't argue that Sir Lancelot would not stoop so low as to cheat, scoundrel that he is. But I am a man of great integrity upon which you shall find no stain."

 Lux was just talking, kind of rambling. He didn't have this problem normally. He understood why the original Han Sen had married this woman though. Something deep within him wanted to latch onto her and never let her go. It was kind of freaking him out and making him ramble.

 Apparently rambling and referencing ancient historical fiction that he wasn't sure was a part of this world was not the play if he wanted to avoid this chick who was causing all sorts of problems for his physiology right now. Because not only did the little ramble get a smile, but it also got a full on laugh from her that made his heart quake.

 'Fuck what is wrong with me?' Lux was wondering. He was usually so confident and unfazed. Right now, he was feeling all jittery. He did not like what was happening right now at all. Was fate trying to mess with his plans? Was he predestined to walk the same path as Han Sen from the novel? That thought actually made Lux's racing heart calm down. No, he couldn't afford to allow himself to just go down a predestined path. He hadn't made the Harem King Sutra for nothing after all. Though that one was his own little secret. He didn't want to get trapped by just one woman. And honestly, he didn't want to even contemplate the meaning behind being immortal… Lux took a deep breath and controlled his spiraling thoughts. Now was not the time to have a panic attack.

 After that initial exchange the two of them talked until the ship set down and separated as Lux headed for Blackhawk to the admissions building.