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Getting on his feet Jason as usual picked a random direction to walk to, but his walk was cut short as he had found his ultimate target, or rather she found him, looking at the mantis queen, Jason went from relaxed to full alert immediately, as he slowly got into a fighting stance, who was the predator and who was the pray was still unclear but one thing was sure Jason was in for a good fight.

The mantis queen as usual was a quiet assassin as it made no unnecessary movements, its gaze was locked unto Jason as it stared at the mammal standing in front of it with a slightly tilted head, it was absolutely sure that it had killed it before, but why was it still alive.

Jason on the other hand was not as calm as he had already activated his bloodline ability, watching the mantis in front of him Jason was extra careful as he didn't dear to blink, the mantis had the advantage in both strength, stamina and agility.

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From F level-1 to F level-5 the stats of genetic warriors where no different from the stats of people at the students level, in fact they experienced no increase in strength stamina and agility at all, their body's had to first get used to genetic energy first you couldn't just have a sudden increase in strength and expect your body to get used to it immediately.

F level-5 was the turning point as after your body had finished getting used to genetic energy you would absorb it in to your bones and muscles for it to become part of you, note from level 1 to 4 your body was just like a bottle storing water but from 5 level you absorb the genetic energy to become part of you, the energy absorbed by your body cannot be used.

Note apart from the energy absorbed by the muscles during cultivation your body also has its own reserve of genetic energy flowing around it lying dormant and ready to be used at any time.

The ants where a weak race, having a body potential of about 35% and since the amount and quality of genetic energy one could hold was dependent on the body potential of the said being the ant also had a fairly weak genetic energy.

But their strength was not in their individual skills but in their number's, the mantises on the other hand had a body potential of about 60% making them have both a strong body and high quality genetic energy.

Jason on the other hand had a body potential of 100% which meant that the quality of his genetic energy had always been 100% and now that he had increased all his stats to the limit his strength was astonishing, the quantity of his genetic energy would increase the more he cultivated, or in his case the more he picked up genetic points.

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The mantis queen seemed to have examined Jason enough as she decided to attack, appearing behind Jason she swung her razor sharp claws at his neck obviously she intended to kill him with one hit, "Ting" the sound of a collision was heard as Jason was sent flying backwards.

With a strength attribute of about 360 the mantis obviously had the upper hand in strength, Using the force of the attack Jason performed a backflip as he was back on his feet, obviously a 100 points in agility was speaking for itself.

But could Jason really out match the mantis queen who had over 250 points in agility, the answer was obviously no, as the moment Jason landed on his feet the mantis queen disappeared, she was holding back Jason thought as his heart grew cold.

At the same time a shadow appeared behind him, swinging its claws towards his neck, feeling his neck grow cold Jason didn't hesitate as he activated both his gravity domain and burst simultaneously.

Leaning to the side, he dodged the attack by a hairs breath, and with a swift turn he struck back, but his attack only made a swoosh sound as his attack connected with nothing but air, the queen was gone.

This was her home ground, it would be difficult to kill her here, at the same time Jason was feeling the advantages of a true domain, his body felt incredibly light and as long as the mantis queen stepped a foot into his domain, he would know immediately.

But he couldn't do fancy tricks like lifting rocks or slowing the mantis queen down, his genetic energy consumption was already huge, and you expected him to add more burdens to himself, he would be dead the moment he ran out of genetic energy.

The mantis queen would attack Jason from time to time, always appearing behind him, it was as if she knew that Jason had a limited amount of genetic energy compared to her, and her plan was working as Jason was ultimately forced cancel his gravity domain.

Seeing this the mantis queen resumed attacking Jason up front, forcing him to defend as he wasn't fast enough to attack, Jason felt like crying, "this mantis is too cunning" he muttered to himself.

"Bam!" Jason blocked another attack as his arms felt numb, a small trail of blood could be seen on his lips as he had sustained some internal injuries, if this fight continued he would die, he knew that he wouldn't die in real life but something inside him was just unwilling to loose like this, "what can I do to win this fight," Jason thought to himself as he looked at his stats to find anything that might be of help.

Suddenly he saw something as a hopeful smile found its way to his lips, putting all 468 point of his blank attributes into it Jason was ready for a fight as he stood up from his lowered stance, his body seemed a little more free as he walked forward with a calm smile on his handsome face.

If it was another situation his calm and free attitude might have been well accepted, but not on the battle field, his demeanor only served as an invite to get killed as he was full of openings, he had absolutely no defense at all with a whoosh the mantis queen was in front of Jason once more, as she intended to end the life of this two legged mammal once and for all.

Jason nonchalantly waved his dagger to block the incoming attack, "Tang" the sound of another collision was heard, followed by a loud shriek, the mantis queen was injured, looking at the green blood leaking from the shell of the praying mantis Jason breathed out a sigh of relief as he rushed towards the mantis initiating an attack for the first time in the fight.

Jason might have initiated the attack but he was still full of openings as he ran forward, "shrrrrrriek" the mantis queen was not happy as she ran towards Jason, and with all her strength she slashed at him from the side.

"Tang" Jason used his dagger to block, feeling the force of the attack that would have totally flung him sideways Jason absorbed the force of the attack as he felt it move through his body like he was made of air [yin] and with a twist he unlashed all that force at once, adding all the genetic energy he had in reserve, his demeanor changing form the previous gentle and carefree to that of an angry beast giving his all to attack his opponent [yang] "Baaaaaaang!" and with a loud bang the Hugh body of mantis queen dropped dead.

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Looking at his arm which was completely mutilated Jason felt overwhelming pain as he laid on the ground, next to a floating green card, he was still shocked that he managed to kill the mantis queen, "that was a close call" Jason muttered to himself as he laid their looking at the card on the floor silently.

After sometime Jason raised his good arm to pick up the card but this time he didn't hear anything, as everywhere had gone quite, he felt a different energy than what he was used to forcefully invade his body, feeling this energy spread across his entire body Jason was shocked to find out that he couldn't move anymore, luckily after he killed the mantis queen, no other mantis seemed to come close to him again.

Feeling the energy move around his body Jason felt his body heat up, and was shocked to discover, "it's trying to improve my body potential," but Jason's body potential was already at the highest level of a hundred percent so it was impossible to increase it anymore.

But the foreign energy didn't seem to know that as Jason's body heated up even more, to the point of it being painful, but Jason had a considerably high pain resistance as he bit his lips and endured it, after a few hours of agonizing pain, the foreign energy seemed to notice that Jason's body potential was not going to increase anytime soon, so it found another attribute about him to increase going for his genetic and spiritual energy.

Feeling the pain in his body get lighter Jason let out a sigh of relief but that relief was short lived as another pang of pain soon followed, he felt the genetic and spiritual energy increasing at an extremely fast pace, followed by some shocking system notification that seemed louder than usual.

{Congratulations on your breakthrough to F-level 6}

{Congratulations on your breakthrough to controller- level 4}

{Enough energy has been accumulated for system update}

{Requirements met, bloodline progress 2%}

{Test in 5-4-3-2...}

Jason felt a little dizzy from all the system notifications he just got, as he closed his eyes, the only thing he understood was that he had a breakthrough in both his spiritual and genetic cultivation, feeling his surrounding get quiet all of a sudden Jason opened his eyes as his mood plummeted all the way to zero.

Looking at the familiar pitch black earth and the blood red sky Jason knew exactly where he was, "you don't look excited to see me" an ancient voice sounded out from behind him.

Turning to the devilishly handsome man behind him Jason said with a frown "what do you want," sitting on his black throne as usual the ancient man waved his hands healing all of Jason's injuries, "do you really think it would be that easy to receive the full inheritance," the ancient man said with a soft smile that would easily capture the hearts of anyone, but Jason wasn't fooled by his smile as he said, "let's get this over with, I have school tomorrow".

Nodding his head the ancient man continued "our kind where known for slaying god's when we were still mortal, breaking all laws and achieving overwhelming power, the odds would always be against us, death after death, massacre after massacre, you are made to walk the path of solitude to become the strongest, no friends no family only subordinates.

"But I don't see you walking down that path, of course you would become the strongest of your time like every one of us, but you are too dependent on your family and I fear you would not be able to handle it if you ever lose them."

After a short pause he continued, "You can go now" and with a whoosh Jason found himself back in his room, letting out a breath Jason looked at the time as he muttered to himself "that guy is so annoying, I'll get strong enough to stop anybody from threatening me or my family.

As he was about to look at his stats to see how much he had gained this time he heard a scream coming from his house, "Anna" Jason muttered as he ran to the living room, arriving there he saw something that came out from his worst nightmares, his mother Dalia was on the floor lying in a pool of blood.

His little sister was in the hands of two men armed with genetic weapons as she struggled to get free, seeing this Jason was in shock as a chill ran down his spine, tears burst out from his face as overwhelming anger and sadness came over him.

He mindlessly ran forward as he summoned his dagger attacking the masked man that had his sister in his arm totally ignoring the other one by their side, and with as whoosh the sound of another scream was heard.

All Jason could feel was the pain and sadness not even caring for the nasty wound on his neck as he feel to the ground, the bandit at the side who he had previously ignored had struck him with his blade, ironic isn't it Jason blade was killed by the blade.

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All Jason could feel was the pain and sadness not even caring for the nasty wound on his neck as he feel to the ground, the bandit at the side who he had previously ignored had struck him with his blade, ironic isn't it Jason blade was killed by the blade, his head felt fuzzy as he opened his eyes to a blood red sky, "am I in hell" was the first thought that came to his head but as he came back to his senses he recognized this place.

Suddenly a pang of laughter came from behind him, "Hahahaha, I thought you said you wanted to protect your family" the ancient man said as he looked at the previously lifeless eyes of Jason which quickly regained their color "it was a test right, tell me it was a test" Jason said as he pleaded with the ancient man "relax kid it was Just a simple illusion" the ancient man said to Jason who breathed out a long sigh of relief, after calming down he put his head down obviously he was disappointed in himself.

"Did you know what you did wrong," said the ancient man as he gazed at Jason who nodded his head, "I wasn't strong eno…." "WRONG" the ancient man shouted before Jason could even finish his sentence, "do you want to know how strong those two men where, F-level 9 and both without a domain, do you want to tell me that you would lose all sense of rationality Just because of the fear of losing your family.

"What if your mother was still alive huh, did you even use your discerning eyes to check, no you ran in mindlessly to save your sister, when they were hundreds of ways to solve that problem without losing anyone?

"Your fear weakens you, and today we are goanna change that, they are being out there that feed on your fear, some feed on your happiness some feed on your sorrow, by the time I'm done with you today you would learn how to control that stupid fear of yours."

Listening to all of this Jason said nothing as everything the ancient man said was completely true, lowering his head Jason said two simple words "teach me" and with a smile the ancient man said, "Your test has already begun.