The Gene Gamer

Looking at the dragon behind the man, she felt a cold shiver going down her spine. Although she was confronted with such auras it was the first time she witnessed this kind of aura showing hostility to her and it made her scared. 

However, she was still a person who had comprehended her family martial arts to the stage three at the age of 11. She wouldn't falter at such things. 

After some time of being exposed to the aura, she slowly calmed down as she now stared blankly at Farold, seeing what he is going to do. 

"Aren't you going to kill me"

"No" 

"Why?"

"I won't hurt a woman who didn't intend to kill me" 

...

Silence ensued but after a while, Velin opened her mouth to say something. "Even though I didn't intend to kill you, I was going to cut off your limb. You killing me would be justified. You lose, you get killed. You win, you kill." 

"Even so, you didn't intend to kill me" seeing the stubborn nature of this person, Velin couldn't help but sigh. 

'If he was going to act dumb, let him be. Surviving with my life is better anyways' with this thought in mind she called out to surrender. But just as she was going to complete the word, she suddenly backed up and asked "What's you name? If we have fate, we might meet each other." 

"Farold. What's your name?" after hearing his reply, she seemed to be satisfied so she called out to surrender, not thinking about telling her name at all. 

"I surrender" 

"Beep. Participant number 000003 surrenders the fight. Winner - 002937" the bot called out to declare the fight. 

As the figure of Veil disappeared, following, Farold also disappeared.

...

The matches that came were easy as Cylius was easily able to kill them off. The same happened to the others and now, it was the final match of 1000. 

This was the time when the media would stream the fight and get it to the outside world. From here on, the many academy's skilled professionals would also place attention and pick out the good seedlings for their school. 

From here on, it would also be an immediate disqualification from the competition meaning if they lose even one match, they wouldn't fight again. Later, their place would be ranked according to their record of previous matches. 

After the people dwindle up to 125, the system will pick the people that are from 126 to 150 and make them participate in the final battle. In the final battle, they would be grouped 3 by 3, and then transported to one platform and then fight against each other. 

The 3 matches he was going to participate in was different. He can't just show all his strength and then instantly kill them, it would attract attention. What he didn't want to do was attract attention. Just stay low and then surrender halfway through the final 150. 

The media wouldn't care but the academies would be interested somehow because they knew from the report of the spaceship that he was a second-tier and that he had insta killed the people he encountered before. 

With the record of this competition, he will slip into a top grade school and continue as a low profile student before mastering alchemy and having a little reputation enough for the school was protect him. 

Just right for his path. 

... 

The first match. 

Opposite Cylius, there stood a person covered in black. He had an unusual aura around him but this kind of aura was common in the final 1000. 

As he was observing him, the person opposite was also doing the same. Cylius's aura now had become that of a peak first-tier that was close to breaking through with a bit of darkness surrounding him. 

"Start: after counting to zero, the system stated that the match had begun. 

Soon as the match started, two pairs of dark blue wings grew from the opponent's clothes as he got a long sniper out of his space compressor. After doing that, he immediately tried to fly high into the sky but Cylius wouldn't give him that opportunity. 

Immediately running to the opponent, many black tentacles emerged from his body as they all attacked. The combined force of all the tentacles attacking created pressure as it made his opponent feel nervous for a moment.

Although it was gone in a flash, it was enough for Cylius to take advantage and tear one wing, and heavily injure another along with his main body. But with the price of that, the opponent managed to get high into the air. 

Now, things were sure to get troublesome. 

He held a sniper meaning he was proficient in long range attacks, although he also had a sniper within his space compressor, the opponent had the height advantage. 

Taking his sniper out, he aimed at the person. Within the sight range, he tried to aim at the person but it failed as he was constantly changing places. 

Cylius with his current capability, he couldn't do that so he could only try to shield himself with his tentacles and then try guessing the pattern and then attacking. It would be better if the opponent was just attacking too. 

As the bullet became closer, it hit his tentacle before dispersing into energy. The tentacles were overlapped with each other, so bypassing this defense would be hard. 

The only chance of bypassing this would be if the opponent continuously hit his tentacle in the same spot and then finally pierce through it or if he took the chance when Cylius was just aiming to get the bullet through that hole. 

The bullets by the sniper of the opponent were energy bullets with modifications that could help them change shapes meaning, it could become a net or some other thing before hitting him. 

If it was used well, it could even possibly form a formation with continuous bullets flung off right after the previous one. Although it was impossible for a weak gun, seeing that this man who only focused on movement and no offense genes, it was likely that the gun he purchased wasn't weak.

Formations could be said to be a technique where with the use of the right control, energy, and place, one could perform a specific function. For example, it might be gathering energy from the surroundings or creating an attack that was very powerful. It was used for many situations and was very helpful.

As he guessed, right after realizing that there were no other choice than forcefully piercing and skillfully slipping it in, the opponent decided to create a fromation. 

Continuous bullets were shot right after the another and soon it had created two squares crossing each other. One vertical and the other horizontal. 

The formation's range was large and it covered himself along with his defense barrier. 

But creating this formation had taken the full attention of the opponent so Cylius immediately took the chance and fired off 3 bullets. 

The three was concentrated on the head, chest, and the stomach of the opponent. He had no way to escape this. 

Only after completing the formation did the opponent realize, but it was already too late for him to dodge or defend.

He could only look at these bullets as they pierced his brain, almost killing him. But there wasn't any energy imbued within t hat bullet, just an ordinary one so the opponent could survive although he was severely injured and might need a day or two to heal. 

As for Cylius, he got out with coughing blood. 

"Winner - 928044" 

...

The media had recorded all of the battle. Although it was considered good, the fight wasn't that much exciting so it didn't attract much attention. 

After the first match had ended for all the people, the second match would begin 5 minutes later. Now 500 people remain. 

Fortunately, with the help of the medicines, he was able to completely heal before the second match began.

Entering the next match, he encountered a person made out of liquid substance. It almost felt like its whole body had converted into water. But before one became a third-tier, one can't change into an elemental lifeform. There's got to be a hard core in it that was its weakness. 

Although it was hard locating it, after he found it, the match quickly became a lot easier. 

Just taking cover and then shooting at it with his sniper would do the trick.

The opponent's attack strength was good and it dealt quite some damage to him but he was able to destroy its core and severely wound it before it did. 

For the third match, it was a rather easy one as it was a person who focused on defense which ended up getting thrashed by him. Cylius was a person who focused on the offense so with repeated attacks, he was able to penetrate the defense of the opponent and make him surrender. 

Now, 125 people are left but with the people who ranked 126 to 150 added up, it was 150 people that were participating in the final match.

...

Now the final match was going to begin. First, by grouping with 2 other people, there would be 50 teams. After grouping them together, they would be thrown into a huge fighting arena where they would have to have a battle royale until only one team or person is left standing.

If it's one team that is left, they would fight against each other and determine the winner while if it's one person, that person would immediately become the victor.

Cylius was thinking of after eliminating some people, he would intentionally lose and get disqualified. 

The two teammates of him weren't any special either, just ordinary people. They wouldn't attract attention towards him. 

"My name is Duke. I focus on defense"

"My name is June. I have a movement gene along with a force type earth gene. I focus on movement and attack"

"My name is Cylius. I focus on offense" they introduced themselves to each other. All of the team members were males. 

If said, Cylius and a few other people were abnormalities due to them only focusing on their innate genes. The usual setting of the genetician world was that people could refine multiple genes to have a good battle capability. 

Some would be all round, like both healing, movement, offense, and defense while some would only concentrate on one part. 

June seemed to have two genes on himself, which as as he had stated, movement and a force type. For Duke, he already had his three spaces for the first-tier filled up.

He chose one healing and two defense. One of his defense was creating a rock hard skin while the other was attracting elementals from the nearby into creating a barrier that protected him. 

Although the first wasn't much, the second had huge potential. As for his healing gene, it was repelling any dangerous foreign substance that came into his body. For example, he might be injected with poison but with this gene, as long as the poison isn't too deadly, he could repel or nullify it.