I Spread my Genes to Level Up in the Apocalypse

In the broad daylight, the serene environment persisted in the city, with the tall skyscrapers blocking the sunlight almost entirely.

However, in the sky, a faint shadow rapidly whizzed through the air, flying at a rapid pace across the sky.

"Mom, look up, it's a bird," a child who was on the ground licking his lollipop looked at the sky with eyes full of curiosity and excitement while tugging his mother's sleeve.

"A very big, big bird."

"How big can a bird be, son?" the mother chuckled with an amused smile on her face as she looked up in the sky. Then her body froze in place.

"It's not a bird, that's a human…"

Many people also noticed this scene and couldn't help but take pictures of it on their phones with excitement in their eyes.

The people in the skyscraper also started to notice and quickly took pictures, while some couldn't restrain their curiosity and immediately began to upload them on the internet.

From ancient times, humans have always been bound to the land. Sure, they could fly using planes or helicopters, but they couldn't fly on their own without any support from external gadgets.

Now, this was possible in front of their very eyes as a man flew across the sky completely free and unrestrained from all external things.

"Let's see what he looks like," a boy rubbed his hands as he was full of excitement.

"Buying that Universe S24 Ultra phone for this is well worth it."

As he zoomed the camera 50x to look at the man's face, he immediately froze in place.

"He is the leader of this city, fuck." the boy inadvertently shouted.

Those who knew immediately froze in place, hurriedly keeping their phones to themselves; even those who didn't know kept their phones hidden.

But the photos already uploaded to the internet can't be removed.

The figure in the sky moved wildly before quickly stopping at the tall walls and landing on them.

"Hmm?"

The guards around the area, almost dozing off, immediately woke up at the sound. Just as one was about to shout in anger, he saw Ray's face and froze in place.

His eyes widened, and his body trembled.

"Si- sir…"

"What's wrong? You look like you've seen a ghost," Ray said with a chuckle.

Of course, the figure flying madly was Ray himself.

"I- I…" he stammered.

"Don't worry," Ray reassuringly patted his shoulder while looking at the nameplate and gave a simple order, "don't come to guard duty from tomorrow."

"What!?"

"Did you not hear me?" Ray's voice was slightly cold in his expressionless face.

"Yes, sir." The guard immediately scurried away with a flustered expression while cursing his luck.

Ray stood in place with a calm and collected expression, the wind assailing his face and the noises from the crowd inside the city constantly ringing in his ears.

"Status."

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[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 III), Lightning Arts (Awakening III), Healer (Awakening III), Ice Magic (Awakening III), Mechanic (Awakening I), Genetic Synchronisation (Awakening III), Overlord of the Sky (Awakening III), Space Mastery (Awakening II), Totem Master (Awakening I)]

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Nothing had changed for his status or skill, but when he looked at the next panel, his eyes showed a look of confusion.

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[Life Level- Celestial]

-Strength: 1 ton- Gene Limit broken

-Speed: 596 Km/h (298 original)

-Stamina: 169 original

-Mental strength: 152

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"One ton of strength and I could already do this, huh," Ray muttered to himself. But he was more attracted to this life level thing more than his strength because the strength of one ton was actually the status only; this was his average, not the peak strength!

As Ray focused on this section, a new panel appeared in front of him.

[Life Level- Celestial]

-The host has broken through his Gene limit and now can infinitely increase your strength and speed as much as you want, successfully reaching the criteria for reaching the Celestial level from ordinary.

"Celestial, huh?" Ray looked at his hand and could feel the changes that were taking place in his body.

First, every muscle in his body was under his control, and he could precisely regulate his strength as much as he wanted. This is also the reason he was able to fly by dispersing his strength, and this was only the visible effect he could discern; there were many more.

"I wonder if I can easily kill that level three undead with my punch." Ray wasn't certain of his strength anymore before he could try it, but there was nothing for him to try it on.

"System, are there any higher life forms than Celestial?"

Ray wanted to question the system but forgot that it was not an intelligent being and could only respond to his will.

Then he started to fiddle with his system before finally getting the answer he wanted.

[Life Level- Normal, Celestial, Planetary, Universal]

After a long time of fiddling with the system, this was the normal Life Level ranking that Ray found. He didn't know if there was a higher level, but the system didn't have any information except for this.

Ray had reached the Celestial level where he could infinitely increase his strength and speed as much as he wanted to, and almost all his physicality was in sync with his will, reaching complete mastery.

"Luckily I have the system; otherwise, it might be very hard for me to break the Gene limit," he muttered with his eyes flashing with killing intent.

First, he experienced death itself in the simulation that his system had made, then he felt the torture of his body constantly breaking but never dying. If he were a normal person, he likely would have gone crazy already.

At that last moment, when he was about to punch that woman, that was him finally breaking his Gene limit, which instantly ended his simulation made by the system for him to break through.

Ray shot up from the gates to the sky almost immediately, his pace rapidly cutting through the air itself.

At this time, he was flying at an altitude where the plane flew, and he was rapidly making his way.

Suddenly, he seemed to have recalled something. When Ray was being bombed by the military, the aircraft was at a very low altitude, which was why he was able to reach it, but why would the aircraft be at a lower altitude?

At this time, his ears twitched as he heard some voices in his ears.

"Hmm?"

Ray looked up with his squinted eyes; even through the clouds, he could see the faint figure of thousands of birds.

With his Gene limit being broken, all his five senses had also been significantly enhanced, reaching new heights.

The most amazing thing about it was that he could control the five senses to have normal hearing or super hearing, and the same applied to his other senses as well.

He looked at the flock of birds, almost completely featherless with redskins and a dense amount of pattern on their bodies.

But what surprised Ray was that there was a "2" written on their heads, each and every single one of them, and they were measured in the hundreds.

"Is this why?" Ray looked, but his gaze was strangely calm, and his heart pulsed with excitement.

The countless level two undead birds finally revealed themselves in his vision.

"Blackbirds?"

Ray murmured as all the blackbirds looked at him with ferocious gaze, opening their beaks, and a loud sound echoed.

All these sounds, however, combined to form one whole shockwave, and it rapidly approached Ray at a terrifying speed.

Everything on the path of the shockwave was destroyed as it immediately came towards Ray rapidly.

The sky itself seemed to tremble under the might of the shockwave, even the void trembling.

But Ray stood calm and tall like an unmovable mountain.

Ray extended his hand forward, his muscles coiling with raw power, and tightened his fist into a punch. The surrounding mere act of tightening his fist caused a terrifying shockwave.

Boom!

In an instant, an even more powerful shockwave was produced that directly crashed into the other, causing a collision in the sky.

"They are weak," Ray muttered as he lightly punched them from far away.

In an instant, the world seemed to tremble with his force. The entire surrounding became discombobulated as faint appeared in the sky.

The wind grew violent, producing countless storms as Ray's punch landed on the flock of Level Two undead birds.

In front of his eyes, the world was instantly turned to shreds, and all the level two undead birds paused in the sky as if time itself had slowed down.

After a few seconds, the birds moved, only to turn into dust blown away by the wind.

Ray slowly retracted his fist, feeling the rapidly increased mutation energy in his body.

"Weaklings."

He left the word as he rapidly travelled in the sky, leaving the crumbled remains of the level two undead blackbirds behind.

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Mutation energy: 76,700

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