The Gene Gamer

"Puchi"

"One down" Cylius said as he wiped his blood off his mouth and looked at the pieces of meat on the ground. No emotion was clear within his eyes, rather only void remained of him, looking lank just like a puppet.

...

Four hours before, on the plains. 

Cylius was sitting in a meditating position as he silently breathed and absorbed the surrounding energy. His heart as still as a lake, he was silently absorbing the energy within the surroundings. 

In his chest, a little ball of energy had been created floating within the area peacefully. The surrounding muscle and meat had been shifted to make space for the ball, creating a perfectly circular space with no air and only the single floating sphere within it.

Occasionally, little strings of energy could be seen passing through the walls of muscles and entering the little sphere. As it absorbed energy, the little sphere's aura and size constantly changed becoming more abnormal and larger. 

As it had become fist sized, the strings suddenly stopped coming in as the muscles tightly restricted them from coming in. The core also vibrated and closed off as if it didn't want any energy strings to enter it.

He took a long breath while standing up as he stretched his body and then exhaled. 

With gray hair and pale skin that had a shade of gray, and eyes that seemed to be never endingly rotating and analyzing the surroundings, Cylius had a slight smile on his face. 

With a height of 1.9meters, he had a dominant aura around him that made other people fearful and sick. 

Looking at the sword he was holding, he struck his arm completely severing it. With no emotion on his face, he just stood there as the scarlet red blood gushed out of his arm. but before it could even reach the ground, where he plants have already stretched their bodies, trying to touch it, it was caught in the air. 

The blood had frozen in place as it just floated there with no motion. After 1 hour of floating in place it slowly moved backwards, towards the place it had come out from, my arm.

As I slowly watched this amount of blood entering through my own arm and veins again, my severed arm also slowly floated back into its place. It connected to the place where it had been, nerve by nerve and vein by vein, it was a success. 

There wasn't even any scars or any clue that led to the arm being severed in the past, it looked perfectly normal as if it had never been severed before. 

But due to the blood, it had attracted the attention of surrounding creatures, gathering three monsters.

This was the mini challenge placed by him, either he survives or he dies. To reach the apex, he had to go through countless challenges and toughen his will otherwise he would once again be dangered by the threat of being polluted again. 

The first monster was a monster that had tentacles used as a leg and a snake upper body with wings stretching out from its back. It had a dark green color, with scales covering its whole body. 

The second monster was a small one. It had the body of an ant with two extra legs coming out of its middle part, and its mandibles were especially long and thin, reaching almost three times its size. It looked like it completely lost its purpose as it had a sharp gleam within it, it was a deadly battle weapon. 

The third monster had a large build. With the height of five meters, it had the body shape of a monkey. With a long tail coming out from its back, it curled itself. Except from the tail, the only notable part of this monster was its misty red eyes, slightly blurred, it was hard to see anything from it. The instincts of him were also reminding him that it was the monkey's most dangerous weapon. 

They came from three sides, the snake came from the river, the ant came from the ground while the monkey came from the mist filled place. 

Looking at the three of them, Cylius's eyes flashed with runes as they shined in the dark night. 

Cylius once again tried to inhale but the ant didn't give him any chance as it disappeared within place and appeared at his arm. The mandibles of the ant suddenly moved as it delicately cut into his arm and without him knowing, his arm was severed. 

It directly disappeared afterwards, and when it was seen again, it was already on the neck of the snake.

The severed arm didn't drop as little strings seemed to come out from the skin of Cylius's arm as they connected with each other. After some time, the arms were fully healed.

He had noticed the tactic of the ant, it seemed to want to remove other competitors before enjoying his meal so it directly charged to the snake afterwards. Clearly, it didn't have a mind of itself due to the long years of pollution of runes. 

Due to its beastly instincts, it desired more strength which resulted in it being polluted deeper and now it only operated on its instincts. He could see this information due to the contact they had before. 

Now. only a slight touch was needed for all information of existences below third-tier to come out and reveal itself to him. 

Not just the ant, the other two also may be in the same state as this ant monster, not thinking logically and in a state of chaos. A monster who only functioned on their basic instincts.

He even knew where the weak point of this monster was, so there was no danger or need to be afraid of him. 

The snake was fighting with the ant currently so only him and the monkey monster were left. The one who came out from ant and the snake would fight with the winner between the monkey and him. 

With no time to waste, he directly charged forwards as the ground beneath him broke from the pressure alone. 

The monkey raised its own arms in defense as the hair of him instantly hardened and sharpened. From how it looked, it might even be able to cut metal as easy as a hot knife through butter. 

Charging to the monkey, he swung his saber at it, as two more tentacles came out of his back to strike at the monkey. With saliva being spread to everywhere, the monkey gave out a loud roar that seemed to be contained within a barrier blocking off the sound.

As the tentacles along with the saber met the fur of the giant monkey, the saber cut into it for about 2cm before breaking and shattering into two parts, while the tentacles cut air as they turned to the two arms of the monkey catching it in making it motionless.

The tentacles, with some weird symbols flashing around it, held the monkey as they lifted him off the ground. Roaring the monkey struggled furiously, trying to get rid of the annoying thing that held him, its eyes flashed with blue light, immediately making the symbols dim down. 

But the tentacles still tenaciously held on, not letting the monkey go away. 

Grabbing the chance, another four tentacles came out of Cylius's back as his hands also turned into tentacles of their own. With this chance there was no way Cyliu would let go of it so he immediately closed in on the monkey, reaching one meter of it. 

The eyes of the monkey narrowed as just a moment later, a large and furry tail of a monkey came closing to him. With no choice, Cylius disappeared in place before appearing right behind the neck. 

Sharpening the tentacles, he said "Dimensional Collapse" and struck the neck. Like a piece of tofu, it cut the whole neck of the monkey, as blood got sprayed everywhere. 

Covered in blood, Cylius watched calmly as he saw the head of the monkey fall down with a "tud". 

The grass around immediately went up to absorb the nutrition but Cylius didn't give them a chance and teleported the head right beside him. 

With tentacles spreading from his mouth, he sucked up the whole head with a length of 2 meters up his throat. The large head got covered by the tentacles as they twirled around him and sucked him in. 

Right now, the mouth of Cylius looked just like Cthulhu's mouth with tentacles spreading around. 

Although he would've looked ugly and scary to people right now, for ascension any form and any means was fine. Only the weak and the idiotic ones would stick to their morals, dignity and looks only to realize they would have immense disappointment later in life. 

For ascension, morals and such are only restrains that would prison you in a pit where the more you try to get rid of, the more you fall deep in. 

As long as he tried, he would be satisfied even if he dies right now!

In the end, what he was going for was satisfaction, and he would only feel satisfaction through trying and accomplishing his goal. Even if thousands of people wailed in front of him, he would still continue with confidence regardless of how much pain and misery they felt. 

People are independent existences, independent minds and own personal consciousness, there was no need to feel pity or sorry for other people. 

...

The battle between him and the monkey ended quickly mostly because of his experience and the monkey's inexperience in battle. The monkey had a powerful body and immense power, but due to it not competing with any people, it didn't have much experience in battle where he had already fought many battles and simulated thousands in his head. 

The ant and the snake still hadn't even entered its peak stage so what he could do right now was hiding himself and then absorb the energy of the monkey to become stronger. 

With a woosh, he disappeared in place.

...

On the other side, the ant and the snake was having a hard time, but right here in this dimension pocket, nothing could disturb Cylius. 

The body of the monkey floated in place as it was placed right beside him. The most prized possession of the monkey, its eye would be digested later at the end. As for its head and body, he didn't really care much about him but since they had been in this environment for long, they were sure to have developed an abnormally strong body. 

He would be trying to absorb the good things from it and strengthening his own body. 

First, he was almost sure that the monkey have developed a resistance against the air or runic energy after a long time of adaptation in it, and also due to how much it absorbed. 

Just like when a medicine of the same type gets taken everyday after some time it loses its effects, the body of the monkey may have absorbed and got strengthened too much that it had developed a resistance to it. 

This was what he was going for, to strengthen his body through the body and make it so powerful that weak things like diluted runic energy won't even be able to hurt him. 

This would be increasing the quality so that quantity won't be able to overpower it no matter how many are thrown towards it. No matter how many army of first-tier geneticians came, they wouldn't be able to leave a single damage or cause an injury to him.

The number overwhelming tactic won't ever work on him as his quality had already become far higher than theirs' that no matter how are thrown towards him, they still wouldn't be able to overpower or win against him.

This was the act of ascending from a mortal to an immortal!