I Spread my Genes to Level Up in the Apocalypse

Silence.

The silence in the room was deafening, causing Ray to cough slightly in embarrassment.

"I guess I need to fiddle with the system again," Ray thought, manipulating the status screen in front of him with his will. Soon, a neat text appeared before his eyes in all its glory:

[For the host to break through the limit of your body, you would need to have a hundred times the strength of an ordinary male physique to be qualified to even have the chance to break it.]

Ray almost cursed when he saw this. Looking at the 30 physique points he had, a bitter smile crept up his lips.

"Forget it, I will first advance my Overlord of the Sky skill to Awakening III before I try to figure out the way."

He thought to himself and looked at his mutation energy, which was still a sizable chunk.

Ray focused on his skill, Overlord of the Sky, and another prompt immediately appeared in front of him:

[Do you wish to spend 1000 mutation energy to advance the skill: Overlord of the Sky from Awakening II to Awakening III?]

"Hmm?" Ray quickly skimmed through the information he had just received from Awakening II, and a hint of satisfaction crossed his lips.

The greatest change from this skill wasn\'t in his physique but in his abilities.

Now Ray had more power in the sky, even granting him a boost in strength and speed as long as he didn\'t touch the ground, making him twice as strong and fast.

Not only that, he had gained a unique ability similar to his Rejuvenation skill: Telekinesis.

This unique ability was truly terrifying. Ray could survive a bombing from an aeroplane and retain all his combat power simply because of this ability.

It wasn\'t entirely dependent on it, but this unique ability massively helped him.

Now he had one more unique ability: Telekinesis. As the name suggests, he could control any object with just his mind.

[Telekinesis: Controls objects. The power of Telekinesis depends on the mental power of the Awakener]

"Not bad, really not bad. Even better than King\'s telekinesis," Ray said, rubbing his hands together.

Even King had numerous limitations on his telekinesis, such as having to make a clawing motion and only being able to manipulate things naturally produced by nature; otherwise, he wouldn\'t have used such simple objects to attack Ray.

Of course, the small meteorites were a different case.

Besides, King\'s biggest weakness was his sensitivity to sound waves.

That\'s why he became so deaf with just a roar from Ray\'s undead, which likely played a major part in his defeat. It was a little ironic he had the ability to manipulate sound waves at the same time it was his weakness because of sensitivity to it.

Even S-class Awakeners have limitations or weaknesses.

That\'s why Ray considered himself a monster. If he could develop his abilities and gain even more skills, he could essentially eliminate all his weaknesses.

Maybe one day, Ray could acquire all the skills available from mutation energy, but until then, he still had to rely on himself.

"Yes."

Ray confirmed the prompt in front of him, and the mutation energy in his body rapidly dissipated, replaced by a warm, flowing energy that made his entire cells vibrant.

Ahhhh—

Ray cried out loud as he fell to the ground, veins bulging across his body as his clothes were torn apart. The sound of bones cracking echoed intermittently, which felt oddly satisfying.

However, for Ray, this was the most excruciating pain he had ever experienced physically.

"Damn it."

Ray clutched his head and writhed on the ground, rolling around the entire place.

The bone-cracking sounds intensified as the changes in Ray\'s body progressed.

"Self-Heal!"

Ray shouted with almost all his energy, creating a slight shockwave in the air.

Immediately, his mutation energy was expended, and Ray felt a slight reduction in pain.

"But it still hurts like hell…"

Ray was in an extremely miserable state. His clothes were in tatters, and even the sparse hair on his body that had barely begun to grow back was now gone.

His height had definitely increased, and his skeletal structure had expanded, but the excruciating pain was overwhelming.

When the pain reaches such an extreme level, all you feel is a numbing sensation, and that\'s exactly what Ray was experiencing.

With vacant eyes, Ray stared at the ceiling.

After an hour or so, he slowly stood up from the ground, looking at the puddle of sweat on the floor. His height had increased dramatically, nearing almost 210 cm, and power surged through his veins.

His skeletal structure had become even more robust, with the density of his bones significantly increased.

The first thought that crossed his mind was:

"Have I broken my body\'s limit?"

He then summoned his system by simply saying, "Status."

The first thing he checked was the Physique and Vitality section.

"It has only increased by this much?" Ray frowned immediately.

—

-Physique and Vitality: 50 original (Cleansing: 1)

—

This was much lower than he expected, actually much, much lower than he had anticipated.

"Fifty, huh…" Ray had a thoughtful expression on his face.

He then reviewed the information he had gained in his mind.

This wasn\'t from the system; almost anyone who has Awakened any skill would gain such an advantage.

"Really feels more and more like a game," Ray scowled with knotted brows.

Of course, since his mental power was so high, he didn\'t need to rely on instinct to use this information.

For most people, gaining the ability would require relying on their instincts because they simply couldn\'t infer the information. Ray, on the other hand, could do so easily simply due to his high stats.

"Hmm, the advancement feels a little weak compared to II," Ray muttered.

His body had definitely undergone vast changes, and his power had noticeably increased.

If Ray punched out again, he might even be able to reach at least five tons of strength if he used the boost from the previous advancement while in the sky.

But other than that, there were almost no changes to his skill. The most it had upgraded was his control in the sky.

His weather control ability improved significantly, but beyond that, there was no substantial change.

"It\'s as if it\'s preparing me for the next advancement," Ray muttered, shaking his head.

This 20-point increase in his Physique and Vitality was already a significant boon.

While thinking about this, Ray walked up to the mirror and was immediately dazzled.

"Is this me?" He touched the mirror, confusion clouding his eyes.

He had no hair, eyebrows, and his clothes were in tatters. Most importantly, his skin had become incredibly smooth, almost shining like a newborn\'s with no impurities.

Ray had been handsome before, but he had now reached male-god standards, enough to make any young girl\'s heart flutter.

"So this is the effect of cleansing, huh? But I\'ve gone bald again." Ray looked at his shining head reflecting the light and almost wanted to curse, his hair had grown naturally overtime but now he was this bald head again.

"Status."

Ray wanted to advance his Overlord of the Sky skill again, but he almost flipped out when he saw there was no advancement available.

"You mean to say that I cannot advance with almost three thousand five hundred mutation energy?"

Ray sighed and decided to train in the gym to feel the effect of normal exercise. As expected, there was no pump in his muscles.

Even after an hour of training—doing push-ups, pull-ups, planks, leg workouts—he couldn\'t feel a thing. He even broke almost all the equipment accidentally.

Ray looked at the broken gym and walked out of the room while leaving a word: "Useless."

All the women were swarming the place with worried looks on their faces.

"What are you all doing here?" he asked.

"We heard the scream coming from your personal training room, so we came to help if you needed it." Vanessa was the first to reply without looking, but when she glanced at Ray, her body immediately froze in place.

"Oh," Ray nodded his head. "I thought the room had noise-cancellation."

"We could still hear it through the soundproofing; that\'s how loud your scream was."

Vanessa looked Ray up and down with a strange expression. "How did you become taller again, and your skin…"

She touched his hand and started rubbing it repeatedly.

"You." Ray\'s lips twitched.

"Forget it. Wanna see magic?"

Vanessa paused and looked at him suspiciously. "What magic?"

Ray smiled mysteriously. "Let me show you." He pointed towards the sky and tightened his fist.

The weather had been clear and sunny, with the warm rays of the sun casting a golden hue over the city.

But as soon as Ray tightened his fist, the entire sky changed abruptly..

In mere moments, the entire city was enveloped by a dense shroud of clouds within a ten-kilometre radius, and in the blink of an eye, rain began to fall, drenching the entire city.

"Eh, eh."

Almost all the women looked at the scene with utter confusion in their eyes.

"Ray… Ray, have you become an omnipotent being?" Yuna was the first to speak, her voice trembling as she looked at Ray with a sense of awe.

"I don\'t know about that." Ray coughed.