ch 21 : gene awakening of side character

The eager audience became even more excited with the entry of Green Hat, or Turtle Boy, into the radiation chamber. The reason was simple; Green Hat, who had made a distant return to the same arena a year ago, returned with an explosively surprising entrance.

He returned with the gene power of the Great Turtle family from the Great Sea Empire. But what was even more surprisingly was that he was going to awaken his gene for the second time. In the entire history of the Light Empire, only 28,370 people had achieved this feat in the past. Now, everyone was eagerly waiting for this rare event to occur.

Green Turtle, who entered the radiation chamber, didn't flinch for a second as hundreds of syringes pierced his body.

"I can feel the new power breaking inside my cells. Look, all of you useless individuals!

A year ago, you all made fun of me and disgusted me because my mother is from an enemy empire. Now, witness my true power with both of your eyes!" Green Hat's hidden resentment was only audible to those with sharp ears.

Suddenly, everyone felt a change in the atmosphere. What attracted more attention was that the king's body started to emit a golden glow in the air.

"Ha-ha, well done, my son. I knew it! How could I have stolen a woman from my enemy to give birth to such a useless son? Congratulations to my empire; a new light is born!" The Golden Underwear laughed and celebrated Green Hat's awakening event.

The gate of the radiation chamber opened, and a man with bulging muscles emerged. His hair and eyes had turned into a shining gold color, making him look otherworldly.

"Very good. I'm pleased with your transformation. Show me what you've got," Green Hat nodded in response to his father's command and circulated radiant power in the air. He crossed his arms toward his chest, activating his gene power.

"The great Light attribute, 'Unbreakable Gaps of Shield'."

All the light energy around him began to gather from the surroundings. Within seconds, the light energy manifested in the shape of a buckminsterfullerene ball shield. The process didn't stop there, as one layer after another, three more layers manifested.

"Nice, four layers for your first time awakening. I appreciate your effort. Attributes awakener might not be as special as elemental awakener, but the Light attribute is on another level compared to other gene powers."

Green Hat then offered a brief explanation, "Let me give you a little guidance.

See the true strength of the Light attribute, 'Unbreakable Gaps of Shield'." As he spoke, a buckminsterfullerene-shaped light shield manifested, but this time, its single layer was gigantic.

"Be ready, child. Attributes are good, but when facing elemental awakens, they are like ants." He clicked his fingers, and a spherical shield with thorny lines on its surface appeared. The shield grew larger and larger until it collided with the buckminsterfullerene shield. In front of the giant thorny ball, Green Hat's defenses were like a balloon, and his shield layers burst one by one. All his shield layers crumbled like thin glass layers hit by a wrecking ball.

"Thank you for your guidance, father. I understand the meaning behind your words," Green Hat knelt before the shadow of the dominating man.

Indeed, legendary light element power is otherworldly. Rare light attribute only hero children have the chance to awaken because the gene is passed down to their DNA. For ordinary people, it's just a dream.

That's why all noble families, whenever an extraordinary gene Awakener appears, try to capture them for their family. In this world, it's not rare to find noble ladies having taboo relationships with servants, sometimes even promoting it for the sake of a new generation with awakened extraordinary genes.

Even within the previous empire, taboo relationships are considered pretty normal, since royalty cherishes their gene lineage the most. That's why royal families are not prohibited from marrying within the family, like lion prides, not letting their valuable genes be lost.

"Nice, you understand. Remember, a recessive attribute gene only allows a person to manifest special skills, but they have limitations. Compared to those who awaken elemental powers and can manipulate corresponding elements according to their will." As he spoke, he demonstrated bending a ray and forming a thread from it.

"Yes, I am grateful to receive guidance from my hero Father."

"No need to be polite in front of me. Since you're going to become one of my students, there's no need to be ashamed of your weaknesses," the man said as he took out a golden stone embedded with golden threads and placed it on Green Hat.

"Thank you, father, I mean, master."

"Ding, congratulations, host, you've caught another hero of destiny. It's very faint, but I can feel traces of a seal on him," the Golden Underwear smiled wickedly, reading the hidden message from the system.

"The hundredth son of the hero, 'Zen Warlord' from the Great Night Walker family, has entered the radiation chamber," a voice announced, and when Zen stepped forward, the audience was in awe.

"When he enters the chamber, this is a total disrespect for Her Majesty's presence. How can he enter when the load is with the ninety-fourth son?" Some whispered conversations took place among the people.

Inside the chamber, Zen's eyes observed the heavy machinery that had helped thousands of youths awaken to their new heights.

"If you ask me, I am nervous. The answer is yes, but more than that, I am confused about my existence in this world. Let's see if I'm a protagonist or an antagonist; it all depends on this awakening." He relaxed his muscles and allowed the pointed syringe to pierce through his skin until it reached the bone.

"Ah, now I understand why everyone was begging like cry-babies. That evil woman with her IQ could have made the awakening process painless, but she intentionally didn't do it," Zen read the words of the lady on top of the tower, who had an evil smile on her cute face as she watched the radiation chamber.

From her expression, it was clear that she enjoyed the famous cries and begging of others.

Inside the chamber, at the center, a radioactive stone rotated with the help of four antigravity belts, pouring in all its radiations as it passed through a transparent vessel, mixing with a translucent material fluid that was injected into every cell of the awakener.

With each passing second, Zen could feel the fluid swelling his cells. The increasing pressure on the cell walls made his whole body feel like a tightly inflated balloon on the verge of bursting. But despite all these sensations, his mind remained present and conscious. His subconscious took him on a new journey where he became translucent molecules, unhampered by any obstacles, and reached his targets on the DNA strand.

In a journey of just 2 cm, he combined with a specific group of nucleosides. As they communicated with each other, it felt like an earthquake inside the entire cell, from the DNA to the tiny organelles, as everything began to terraform for their new beginnings.

Ordinary human cells contain nuclei at the center and functional cell organelles.

The first stage of awakening when an ordinary person breaks boundaries and limits becomes an awakened warrior. The significance of this step is the forming of another nucleus (magic core) inside the cytopltoplasm.

Soon, another nucleus holding the encryption of genetic magic-casting power synthesized near the primitive genome.

Ten minutes later, the gate of the chamber opened, and a young boy with an aesthetic physique caught the attention of the women. He hadn't gained any physical transformations like Green Hat, who had turned from a green turtle into a golden one.

The Golden Underwear raised his eyebrows as he saw Zen coming out. "Nice, you succeeded in your awakening. Let me see what you can do." It was clear from his words that he was more curious about Zen's powers.

When Zen met his father's eyes, there was nervousness, but he concealed it. Meeting someone from another world, who was also his father in this world, was quite a unique experience.

Without saying anything, Zen nodded and closed his eyes. He began to circulate gene energy flow within his blood.

For a normal person, just after awakening their power, this would be an impossible feat. But in the case of a royal child, who had been blessed with the guidance of hundreds of teachers, it became possible.

"Awaken gene power: 'Hundreds Fold of Heal'."

His eyes turned green, and his skin emitted a matching glow. "Even if you wanted to become a soldier in the army, the basic requirement is a superior-grade attribute, while an intermediate-grade attribute recessive gene is considered inferior shit," someone mocked from a tower.

The Golden Underwear smiled as he observed Zen's powers, and all his worries disappeared. "Turns out he's just a regular guy, not some special character.

"Get ready," he said, pointing his finger towards Zen.

Gene attack: "Incineration ray."

A golden light with hints of red directly shot towards Zen. The moment it touched him, it vaporized his skin. However, Zen's unique abilities allowed him to recover faster and faster. Each time his skin burned, his healing power made it recover again. Zen, on the other hand, was gritting his teeth. While his power enabled him to recover from all the burns, it didn't come without a price - excruciating pain.

But eventually, he reached his limit, and in order to prevent more burns, he threw his body out of the range of the light.

"I'm sorry; I forgot that it's just an intermediate-grade skill.

'Hundreds Fold of Heal' is an amazing attribute that allows its user to recover at an incredible rate. However, as the name suggests, its use is limited to a few hundred times, after which the person requires a week of rest to use their power again. And Hundreds Fold Heal is quite an effective skill, but its use is limited to hundreds; now you only have 99 times.

Once it's used for a hundred times, you become just a regular guy, pity. But compared to others, you are quite lucky to be born in a royal family. So just try to live a low profile. Your brothers are heroes who protect you."

"I understand," Zen, who was on the ground in burning pain, could now clearly see the difference in power.

Zen, inside: "You, underwear head, if you're aware I can only use this power for a limited number of times, why purposely made me use that power?

Frustration of reality clear on his face. Hundreds Fold Heal is an incredible healing power. It's like having hundreds of lives. However, not more than that, it's just a passive skill. A strong enemy would kill him a thousand times in a second.

"What would I do if exhausted all hundreds times? I will become an ordinary person with not even a 0.01% chance to survive in a world of danger at every step."