Cylius. He was a person that had incredible instincts from birth.
Ever since he was born, his instincts had never said a lie. It was always right and led to the better conclusion. It had already saved his life two times. One when someone was plotting to kill him and another when he had just been on the verge of getting caught by the officials in the orphanage, which would've resulted in his death.
So since it was right, he always believed it. And he trusted it a lot. And now, this instinct of his was telling that this person, whoever he may be, was very strange.
Very strange and also very special.
Now, it was telling him to also not mess with this guy. It was saying the him now wasn't enough to mess with him.
It told this, and he believed it.
...
"Put your hand on the stone" said the dwarf harshly.
"Yes!" replied back the boy.
Then, he continued on and touched it. And just as miraculously, the stone revealed a blinding light. It wasn't the kind of dim light that lit up on Cylius. Instead, it was a blinding white light.
For a moment, even the large room had been filled by this light. That's the degree of light it was radiating.
Then, afterwards, another light emerged. This time, it was dark and black. It was strange considering 'black' and 'dark' was the definition of there being no light. However, it spread just like the normal light, getting the whole room engulfed by darkness.
However, there were many strange things ever since the monster universe had invaded ours so it wasn't particularly surprising.
Maybe it was just that the light was actively getting devoured or this light was some other kind that was not perceivable to the normal eyes.
Whatever the reason, the two light that had reached the extremes meant this boy was someone special.
...
The ignorant could not understand, but he, Sandrick, a guide, how could he not understand?
He fully understood what this meant and he was also overjoyed at the fact.
Laughing, the dwarf patted the boy's back and gave him a c grade card and said
"Haha, young man! You're indeed blessed by the heavens for you to have such astonishing inner genes! Never have I thought that I would witness the birth of two genes in my life! Everyone who had dual genes left their mark in history. I'm sure you can too. Just accept this card, boy. Think of it as a favor from 'Sandrick'. What's your name?"
During his speech, he empathized on the words - 'favor' and 'Sandrick' the most.
It was obvious he was planting favor from the start, intending to get it back later on.
"Hehe, elder, I'm Farold. Thank you very much for the gift" the boy didn't reject the favor and said while smiling.
Looking at him, Cylius couldn't help but sharpen his eyes.
The probabilities was too much for him to not acknowledge that this person - Farold was a protagonist.
He was definitely like a protagonist straight out of fairytales.
But then, that led to another thought. Did he have luck and plot armor on his side? Since he already had the talent, he was curious whether this boy had other qualities those protagonists in fiction possessed.
His instincts told him not to mess with him, but it also said this guy was dangerous and had to be removed early on. Otherwise, it said that he might just develop to become a problem.
So it was plausible that he could have the plot armor and luck.
Then, he looked towards Garen, who was standing next to him. He was curious whether this fellow would have any interest in Farold.
And not so surprisingly, Garen was indeed interested in him.
How fortunate.
Looking at Garen walking towards Farold and trying to strike up a conversation with him, a sense of relief rose in Cylius' heart.
'That's one problem solved'
...
After a ten-minute walk, they arrived at an inconspicuous room that was brightly lit.
It was well taken care of, but, it didn't have any items noteworthy.
It was plain old simple. Gray walls and just that. Nothing else except the bright light that he can't find the source of.
There on the spot, the dwarf gave each of them a little stone and instructed them to direct the essence of the stone into their body. If the essence could be directed into their body, they won't have to worry anymore.
The essence and their body would go do the rest without them having to do anything. Heck, they could even sleep during the time, although they might not be able to.
So it says that this essence was a very nutritious thing that was usually very reactive to the innate genes of humans.
So when they direct it, their innate gene should absorb it and then show their ability.
Considering he was special, the dwarf obviously gave better treatment to Farold. He gave him two of the stones, which was considered fair enough since Farold possessed two innate genes, and along with that, he also gave him another stone that looked slightly special.
And lastly, he himself was personally overseeing Farold, giving instructions.
Not paying any attention to Farold and the dwarf, Cylius started directing the essence to himself. He did as the instructions told and soon, the stone had disintegrated into something he didn't know.
Along with the disintegration, he also lost their location and didn't know what they are currently doing now.
Who knows, it might just be a deadly poison to kill him or a heavenly medicine to help restructure his body. He for sure didn't know what they were for but he still allowed it to enter his body because he trusted the spaceship.
Trusted that they won't deliberately poison him since he was just so insignificant.
Well, right now, he was just like a livestock right now. Livestock that can only obey its master's words even if it knew its master was trying to kill him.
It was because he wasn't strong enough. Not that it bothered Cylius though.
1 minute later.
'Noisy' this was the only thought inside Cylius' head.
Right now, he was hearing things he shouldn't be. Every sound, even one that was hundreds of meters away, sounded very loud to him. So loud that he wanted to just end all of it.
His pupils had shrunk to the maximum and sweat and even blood was leaking out from every pore of his body.
He felt as if his sanity had been challenged.
Not just normal sounds like the beatings of a heart or the sound of walking, he was also hearing things he shouldn't.
The anguished screams of the people and all of the vengeful spirits looking at him made him close to insanity.
Those eyes, those eyes... THOSE EYES!
It was at this moment that also all of them returned to normal.
He heard a sound.
'I'll take it from here otherwise, we all will fall. I don't want to welcome the existence of another' he didn't know the origin of this sound but this sound was very clear to him.
At the voice of this sound, his reaction was strange. It felt as if he was desperately wanting to resist that voice, yet, it also seemed like he was accepting this.
He had no time to care for other people however.
He was already caught up in his own dilemma, but outside him, others were also caught up int heir own problems. Each and every person here had an inner gene. This was a fact. When awakening the innate gene, the extraordinary abnormal powers within oneself, one would obviously go through some strange and abnormal phenomenons.
Cylius was sure that everyone was going through their own 'dream' right now. The inheritance left behind by their innate genes.
Innate genes passed down from person to person. Therefore, they would also sometimes have the quality of containing dreams or memories of their ancestor.
The dwarf had warned them to be mentally prepared exactly for this.
There were even some cases where the person went crazy - he said.
However, unlike most people, Cylius didn't receive a dream. It was just the state of being pushed to insanity by his hearing. Hearing of materialistic and also spiritual things.
But just at this moment, a sound that preceded others came out. It was a very low roar, yet everyone had heard it. And when they heard it, they were caught with immense fear along with the will to surrender to the owner of this roar.
Cylius was no exception, but, it seemed like he wasn't that much affected to it compared to others.
So, he pushed himself to see the origin of this sound only to be encountered with Farold's body and the dwarf that was shaking next to him.
Only god knows whether he was shaking out of fear or out of excitement.
Then, after that, he saw Farold's body changing suddenly.
Red scales, giant horns and a large pair of wings that seemed to be the embodiment of majesty and power itself. He was absorbed in Farold's change. This was inevitable, who wouldn't be?
Any normal person would in front of Farold unless they themselves were protagonists like Farold.
'What power contained in such small body' this was everyone's thought now.
"The legendary dragon..." then, he heard the muttering of the dwarf. The dwarf seemed to be especially shocked as he looked towards Farold.
However, more than shock, there was greed within his eyes. Uncontainable greed that seemed to devour Farold whole.
Well, in the end, the dwarf still didn't do anything to Farold. He just sighed before calling the robots and taking him away.
Just then, Garen came to him.
"Cylius bro, what do you think of this guy? I think he's pretty annoying. Showing off all the time and what is even about that two gene thing. Didn't the supervisor say that if there were multiple genes the weakest would awaken first? Then what about that roar and transformation from earlier?" he said with a blank face.
Then his expression quickly regained back to normal before he said "Heh, so what. I just think he will just explode from all of that genes piled together, heh! Anyways bro what did you get, did you see mine, I got this fucking flame controlling ability, isn't it awesome"
It was indeed as Garen said. When he looked at him earlier, it seemed that flames were spewing off of him. It was probably a force type ability.
"Enhanced senses"