I Spread my Genes to Level Up in the Apocalypse

After getting out of the shower, Ray returned to his room and immediately collapsed onto his comfy bed.

With his eyes barely able to stay open, he closed them and fell asleep instantly.

Even with the boost the totem master had given him, Ray had been pushing his body to the brink of destruction. If not for his insane stamina, physique, and vitality stats, he would likely be in the realm of the dead by now.

That was how intense his training had become.

After sinking into the bed for about four hours, Ray slowly opened his eyes, a warm smile gracing his lips.

The first thing he saw was Yuna's cute face, cuddled up next to him.

"She's really addicted to cuddling with me now," Ray thought to himself, still smiling.

Freya was also leaning against him, with Vanessa and the others all in their positions around him.

Ray gently got up and woke the other girls.

"You can't all cuddle like this: Vanessa, Freya, Grace, and Evelyn," Ray said, his expression turning stern.

"Why does Yuna get to cuddle with you then?" Freya asked, pouting cutely.

"It's because you're seven months pregnant, and she isn't," Ray replied with a sigh, pointing at her belly. "I'm just worried about our baby. If something were to happen, I don't know how I'd handle it. I just don't want to risk anything."

"It's fine, Ray," Freya said softly, a reassuring smile on her face.

"Thank you," Ray smiled in return. "Let's go eat lunch first."

With that, they all left the room together.

However, Ray was still contemplating. There were still two months before his firstborn could be born. During that time, he could very well reach a physique and vitality of 100 to break through his body's limit.

This was his end goal because even if he opened the system shop at that time, it wouldn't mean that he would automatically be able to break his body's limit; it was likely a shortcut to breaking it.

But if he broke it like that, Ray didn't believe that there would be no repercussions, so all he focused on was breaking his body's limit to have a qualitative advantage.

Only then would he have the confidence to take on every S-class Awakener out there when he does break his limits and dismantle whatever organisation was behind it even if there was a hundred S-class Awakener standing in front of him.

The only thing that gives one confidence is one's own strength. Even without this apocalypse, all things are meaningless if you don't have the skills for it.

Although the general acted of his own free will, that organisation played the key role in Aurora's death. As for the general, he was only going with the flow.

"Status."

—-

-Mutation energy: 1896

—-

Ray had hunted some undead previously; however, he wasn't as lucky as he had expected.

There were only a few undead beings, and even level one undead were hard to find. So, Ray's mutation energy had basically only increased by two hundred in this month, and that was it.

"By the way, Ray, Shelly, your secretary, was saying that something strange is going around the undead lately, so she wanted to inform you about it," Freya suddenly spoke while eating breakfast.

Ray paused for a moment before nonchalantly nodding his head.

"Let's talk about that later."

"Okay." Freya nodded, and everyone ate silently.

It was already a golden rule to eat silently when you are eating something. It was better for peace of mind instead of discussing and nagging.

After Ray washed his hands, he sat back at the front, and all his women also silently sat back after washing their hands.

"You are right. I have also noticed that rarely a level one undead is found, and level two undead basically have disappeared," Ray said calmly.

Although he has definitely killed a lot of undead, the number of his kills has not even crossed ten thousand.

There were around ten billion people before the war. Even after the war, the most people it has killed was at most one percent of it. However, after the apocalypse, the world has changed.

Even the internet was vacant most of the time because of so few people. You can imagine the number of undead and how they could evolve over time by killing each other.

That's why Ray hadn't gone on a killing spree, because no matter how many he could kill, even if he killed a million undead, billions of them would still be left. He would only be exhausted to death instead. Besides, he couldn't find them recently anyway.

Billions. This might seem like just a number to some people; however, if it is calculated according to the number of undead, it was…

Ray could only feel his back sweat profusely.

"Maybe a higher level undead has evolved," suddenly an inspiration flashed in his mind.

There was no other reason for the strange movement for the undead if not for this.

"So what do you think, Ray?" Freya called out.

Ray snapped out of his thoughts and looked at all of them.

"There are three assumptions I have made about why almost all the high-level undead disappear: Either there is a uniquely evolved level two undead calling upon all those undead, or they are attracted to a certain thing and are following. Then my third assumption is…" Ray hesitated slightly.

"Ray, tell it," Freya tugged at his sleeves.

"Fine, there is a higher level, likely level three undead in this land."

"Level three!?" Her eyes immediately widened as she became entirely shut.

The others were the same as well, the atmosphere being extremely depressing.

Any normal person could tell the scale.

If a normal undead could be killed by a normal human, then a level one undead needed at least an Awakener to deal with it.

A level two undead could even beat an entire country. Then the scale of power for level three undead must be even more terrifying, country-destroying at least.

"I'll take care of it, even if a level three undead shows up," Ray said firmly, lightening the mood of the room.

"All you ladies have to do is give me a football team so I can play with my kids," he added with a smirk, casting a meaningful glance at them all.

"I don't know if I could manage that, Ray," Freya teased.

"Don't worry, you will," Ray replied with a chuckle, enjoying the playful banter while spending quality time with them.

After a while, Yuna managed to pull him aside, and the two spent a passionate two hours together, humping and thrusting like wild animals.

Afterward, Ray rested briefly before rejoining the others, spending more time with all his women.

Over the past month, he had been so focused on the gym that some of the women were getting a bit restless, thinking Ray had abandoned them.

Of course, Ray wouldn't abandon them. They were his precious women who would bear children for him.

After some time, Ray went to his training room again with a calm expression.

"There is definitely something brewing among these undead, and I need to increase my strength fast."

As Ray settled, stood tall, and back straight, a sense of urgency brewed in his mind.

"Status."

—--

[Name: Ray Crownwell]

[Status: Awakened (S-class)]

[Skill: Body Strengthening (Awakening IV), Necromancer (Awakening III), Analyser (Awakening I), Weapon Master (Awakening I), Fire Magic (Awakening II), Lightning Arts (Awakening II), Healer (Awakening III), Ice Magic (Awakening I), Mechanic (Awakening I), Genetic Synchronisation (Awakening III), Overlord of the Sky (Awakening III), Space Mastery (Awakening II), Totem Master (Awakening I)]

—--

These were all his skills.

"Let's advance some of these skills; this could definitely help me to reach a hundred in Physique and Vitality."

With that thought, Ray started to upgrade all his skills. First, Weapon Master and Mechanic were F-class skills and thus couldn't be advanced. As for body strengthening, it has already been maxed out.

Analyzer, although a B-class skill, couldn't be advanced either; while for Necromancer, he didn't have enough mutation energy for it.

Then Ray looked at the Fire Magic skill and started to advance his skill systematically as much as his current mutation energy could allow.

[Fire Magic (Awakening III)]

[Lightning Arts (Awakening III)]

[Ice Magic (Awakening III)]

He advanced his first two skills by one level and the last Ice Magic by two levels.

Ray could feel the warm energy coursing through his body.

When he looked at his stats again.

—

-Physique and Vitality: 84 original

—

"It's better than nothing," Ray thought bitterly in his heart. It had barely increased by three points, mainly the strengthening came from the Lightning Magic, but it was still an improvement.

Then Ray resumed his rigorous training by setting up the totems again. He even invited Elsha and made her set up totems for more effective training.

Whenever Ray got tired, he would cast Self Heal on himself, so he was working out non-stop like a well-oiled machine, constantly pumping his muscles to the limit.

Finally, after a month of rigorous training, Ray paused his training as the red panel flashed in front of him.

[Ding! The host has reached a hundred points in Physique and Vitality. Would you like to break your body's limit?]