Serums.

Chapter Eight, Serums.

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With his tank top equipped, and underwear in hand, Everett exited the washroom, having finished drying their clothes.

Luther followed, his underwear on as well.

"Where's Freya!" Everett asked, making Noah turn his head as the two entered.

"The couch, sleeping." He replied, not paying much attention to them, and returning to his little artwork.

Everett looked over towards the living room, seeing a small head of grey hair peaking over the couch.

Luther strode over to the kitchen, opening the fridge and peaking inside.

Everett went the opposite direction, approaching the couch.

He looked over, seeing the completely unconscious Freya. Her mouth was wide open, and she was leant against the chair like a dead body.

Looking down at her face, Everett sighed. He had hoped to spar with her as they had the most similar body types.

It was only normal to have a training room in the lower levels, right?

"Open Roulette." Everett whispered, maneuvering around the couch and sitting near Freya's corpse.

{Roulette}

-Lottery Tickets: 10

-[Spin]-

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Clicking the spin button, another screen popped up. 

"Quality or quantity huh..." The panel asked, Everett doing the logical thing, and picking quality.

[Spinning...]

A loading panel appeared, Everett tapping his chin as he waited.

[Congratulations! You have received the following...]

[Item: Andrekelite Ore]

[Skill: Dream Manipulation]

[Item: Perfected Super Soldier Serum]

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"HOLY FUCKING FUCK." Everett shouted, leaning forward instantly.

There was commotion all over the house, Freya bouncing up like she was in trouble, Noah swinging his body around confused, Luther slowly turning with a bewildered expression on his face.

Thankfully it was their mother's rest day, so hopefully she was sound asleep in her room.

Maren on the other hand was in the lab beneath the house, so she didn't hear anything either.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Freya asked, crawling over and putting her face right next to Everett's.

"Do you wanna fight? You woke me up from my sleep you anus!" She grumbled, Everett turning to look at her.

"My sincerest apologies little sister. I've just had the greatest revelation! I actually have to get going, I have matters to attend to with Maren." Everett replied, rather happy, confusing the ever living shit out of Freya.

"Then I'll come with you." She said as Everett stood up.

"No you wont. It's a surprise, you'll all understand soon enough." Everett stepped away, doing a light jog towards the wall beneath the stairs.

With a touch of a few buttons, the wall transformed, revealing an elevator.

"Do tell when you return!" Luther shouted as Everett stepped inside.

He took a deep breath, calming his nerves.

"Maren's one of the smartest people on this planet, if she can replicate it then..."

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The highly advanced technology controlling the lower layers was shocking. It was like a secret underground government base or something.

The door automatically pulled to the side, letting Everett into the room.

"What do you have for me littlest brother?" Maren asked upon his entry, making him turn his head to the side.

She was sitting at a table with a pile of useless junk.

Well, useless junk to Everett.

Stepping closer, he could see a bunch of wires and metal constructs. Amidst the mess, was a metal hand, one that seemed to perfectly replicate a normal hand.

The only difference was that it was black. Truly if it was painted the right color, the only thing that would give it away would be the wires sticking out at it's wrist portion.

"What do you mean?" Everett asked, peering over her shoulder.

"I watched on the cameras. You took the elevator and darted straight here. You obviously have something I would be interested in." Maren glanced back, looking at Everett.

"And coming into the lab with not even any underwear? What a way to show off your goodies! Make sure not to knock anything over though, you know you're more fragile than all of us." With those words, there was a hand on Maren's shoulder.

"Touching me while I'm working on stuff? You've gotten quite ballsy Everett..." She chuckled, taking the weird goggles off of her face and swiveling in her chair to face him.

She placed her hands in her lap, looking up at her brother.

Everett examined her face and body. She had short black hair like him, and the same yellow eyes. Her face was more... compact than his. With a smaller chin and small lips. Her nose wasn't very sharp, and her eyebrows were rather thin. Noticeably, her features were the most Asian out of the siblings. She had tattoos all along her left arm and left leg, most of which were flowers. But of course they held significance. The one's on her arm being a tribute to their mother, and the ones on her leg a tribute to their father.

But, those on her legs weren't really a tribute, just a reminder. It was a flower that was known to coveted by many people for it's beauty. She had it as a reminder that, even if you are special and have things that many look for, you can't let them have it.

Her father didn't abide by this, and now, he had willingly become a Guinea pig for the world powers, producing technology and drugs for their military, doing as they wished.

"So... Are you gonna spit it out?" Maren laughed, taking off the lab coat she wore.

Now she only had a baggy shirt and short shorts on, sandals on her sockless feet.

"Yeah. I..." Everett started.

"First, you can't ask me how I got it. Where I got it. Or if I can get you any more, because I won't tell you." He smiled, looking off to his left and grabbing a stray rolling chair.

"How cryptic of you..." Maren smirked, but now he had drawn her attention.

"Okay." She replied, crossing her fingers together in her lap.

Reaching behind his back, Everett pulled two vials from his inventory, bringing them forward and brandishing them to Maren.

Well, one was a vial, and one was a syringe.

"To analyze their components you don't need to remove them from their containers do you?" He asked, Maren reaching for the two objects.

He handed them to her, watching as she lifted them up to her eyes.

"No, I can use the analyzer and that should suffice. What are these? What do they do?" She stood up, walking over to a different part of the room.

 Everett followed behind, scratching the back of his neck.

He intently inspected, hoping that would help him in his explanation.

-[Bloodline Enhancer Serum]

-[Analysis]: A mixture of chemicals and resources that have the ability to bring forth and amplify the hidden genetic traits within a person's DNA. It's a chemical solution created by the system mixing some of the rarest ingredients with the most common. It activates hidden genetic properties, and physically enhances the user. The activated genetic properties are stimulated to evolve at a rapid rate to accommodate for the lack of development throughout life.

+5 to all base attributes, potential skill and enhancement releaser. Potential species modification allowing for increased, or decreased benefits.

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-[Perfected Super Soldier Serum]

-[Analysis]: The serum's general effect is to enhance and perfect the recipient physiology as well as emphasizing key personality traits, which can be a liability if the recipient has negative psychological traits. It causes immediate cellular change and increases cell division and cell density through synthetic proteins complex, enhance the subject's metabolic processes at a rate four times that of an average person, and augment the effects of the dopamine, testosterone, adrenaline, various other endorphins and hormones, to further amplify physical and mental performances, healing abilities in addition to a greater resistance to toxins and pathogens. Effectively granting an enhanced and perfected physiology with superhuman physical abilities and enhanced mental processes. This variant of the serum has been irradiated with Vita radiation, making the injection process smoother and more controlled, not requiring a Vita-Ray Chamber.

+15 to all base attributes, potential skill and enhancement releaser. Passive attribute growth will be a guarantee, the amount solely depending on the starting point of the user.

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Looking at the two screens that popped up before him, Everett took a deep breath.

He watched as Maren put the two concoctions into separate machines, robotic claws taking them as holographic rays started analyzing the products.

"The rainbow vial amplifies your hidden genetic talents, and causes them to evolve at a rapid rate." He pointed, making Maren quickly turn backwards.

"The blue serum... The simplest way I can explain it is to say that it amplifies your overall characteristics by many times. It makes what's good about you even better, and what's bad even worse." He said, rubbing his chin.

"I need you to inject the blue one into my major muscle groups, but before you did that, I was hoping you would be able to analyze it for potential recreation." Everett stepped forward, hinging forward as the machines rapidly inspected the liquids.

"Oh, and, I want you to take note of my physical and mental prowess before and after I consume both of these serums." Everett shot a beaming smile at the utterly confused Maren.

Their golden eyes were locked, one of the two lost in thought, and the other excited for what was to come.

"I-I'll see what I can do."