Chapter 24: Two Subjects, One Mutation, Consequences

The voice was angry, then bitter, following with being resentful and finally determined.

‘I put my plan into motion, commencing with eradicating the little lizards whose evolution feasted on my energy’.

A series of images took shape in front of Zax’s eyes, the destructive end of the Prehistoric age, a number of Ice Ages, the dawn of the Homo sapiens.

‘Using myself as the mold, I urged the creation of intelligent beings that could shoulder the legacy’.

Time sped up; images of the Homo sapiens turn into the modern man have appeared.

‘I was running out of time by this point. My consciousness was slipping away more frequently, each time I regained my awareness too much have changed, but the progress I was waiting for was still remote. The new species, humanity and beasts, had too dull of a perception to take up cultivation of the three aspects, they were ineligible for the legacy’.

The peak of humanity, the Information Age. Humanity evolved a lot faster than beasts and was taking more and more steps into space.

‘Desperate measures for desperate times. My death of body and dispersion of spirit was imminent to occur before either species would be ready, another method had to be formulated before that!’

Earth splitting and rays of dark light erupted, approximately 5794 years ago. Black mist filled the earth, adding layer upon layer of new crust on it. New beings emerged, birthed, from the ground, the like of which neither humanity nor beast have ever seen before.

‘The Age of Catastrophe, I knew that is I bring for them, a threat of extinction. But it was necessary for further evolution, to which I left two roads for humanity and beasts. The first was to conquer the Earth from the new emerging Deformed Beings and discover from them the secret of Pure Core. The second, to immigrate to the sanctuary I constructed below the ground and take the time they need to slowly grow up from there’.

In a period of several years, groups of humanity and beasts kept converging in one location, “South America” back then, “Selivereb” today. Some arrived to discuss the prospect of immigration into the network of tunnels and giant caves, some still hoped to debate the reuse of nuclear weapons against the terrorizing odd beings. Finally humanity divided to a small group that has decided to stay and fight and another group, the majority of humanity world’s population who followed the beasts to below the ground.

‘Those who stayed behind were ignorant and brought their own annihilation. The rest proceeded toward the direction I desired they will go. I closed my eyes, at the moment of death I split a fragment of my empty soul, a clone, to administer the enchanting of humanity’s and beasts’ aptitude till a capable heir for the legacy would be found’.

The images stopped, a flood of information entered Zax’s sea of consciousness.

‘My clone cannot communicate; only follow the instruction I left for it. Hence, this would be my final word to the potential heir’.

‘Frankly, if I could trade your life for my own, I would have done so in a heartbeat ... but these are not the words I hope to end with, so listen carefully. Humanity or Beast, whoever you may be, in you, in all of you, there is my hereditary legacy. It may not equal the mightiest legacy I carried with me and left for the chosen heir, but nonetheless, it is a wealth of the Pinnacle of the Immortal path!’

The voice dimmed to complete silence.

Zax’s gradually regained his composure and control of himself.

He remembered everything, and knitted his brows as he felt a headache from the information flood entangled at every corner of his sea of consciousness.

Without thinking, Zax sat on the Inner Panorama and began to make sense of the information the Black Core’s owner delivered him.

‘Legacy ... Legacy ... Legacy... ‘ Zax repeated on and on, struggling to uncover what the expert had meant.

He could feel a sense of great importance tied to the hereditary legacy the expert mentioned, something very personal, yet not just for him.

He skimmed and rearranged the information flood in his sea of consciousness. There was not a lot to begin with, but it all was too confusing to effectively deduce in its mess of a state.

Five days later.

‘It’s finally organized fully!’

It was grueling. If had to make sense of this information before he broke through, Zax suspected that it would have taken him couple of months, at the earliest. The complexity its owner encrypted it demanded an extremely adapt soul, and Zax, Even after he broke through, it was still not enough and he was only able to divide what to what and simplified part of it.

‘Only two subjects ... the shortest one is related to the expert’s legacy and I nearly figured out all of it. In comparison, the other subject is about the mightiest legacy, and apart from the little of it that I understood, it seems that it would take me to break through the second realm of bodily cultivation to be eligible for further decryption’.

The mightiest legacy subject was like a locked door and a window to see what is on the other side beside it. The problem was that the glass of the window was bent; therefore all the shapes behind it looked distorted. To open the door, the owner of the expert left a brief description of what Zax may find on the other side and two instructions, with the crucial one crossing the threshold to the second realm of bodily cultivation.

Since it was unknown to Zax when he will break through, he concentrated on the first subject, before occupying himself with what little he has of the other subject.

‘Incredible!’ Zax exclaimed as he revised the information.

Questions humanity and beasts never even knew to ask, he obtained their answers!

The expert, whoever he may be, a godly creature, Zax was nearly certain that he was. He not only forced the evolution of humanity and beasts, but also passed his own knowledge to the two species with them being oblivious of the matter.