The Gene Gamer

3 months later. 

Floating above Cylius' hand, the 10 beads were radiating powerful auras. They were surrounded by a black fog, which made the originally invisible 8 beds visible. 

Just by being there, they were affecting reality and influencing their surroundings. Cylius was sure that if they weren't restrained, their auras would clash with each other and create powerful disasters. 

These were the eight rune cores. He had obtained this from four different planetary systems, all of them led by powerful stars with several solar masses. 

It turned out that stars really didn't like their planets getting destroyed. When he had destroyed three, the star from before appeared and almost killed him. If not for him being a student of the academy, they would've killed him for sure. 

If he had guessed right, the stars seemed to be in a mutually beneficial relationship with each other. It seemed that both of them needed something from the other. And with a mutually beneficial relationship, they advanced in power. 

The stars didn't have the ability to generate runes but they were still powerful. And from why they needed the planets, they must need runes from them. 

He didn't absorb these rune cores at all. He would absorb them later to save time. the first time he tried was to get a rough view of what they could do and how much he would need. 

He would take seven for himself and give three to Fey. It would need it in cultivation. Since it had the strange absorb rune, it should be able to absorb it. 

He was thinking of selling two of them for a high price and absorbing the leftover five. Three for his dimensional rune and two for his death rune. 

Since there were still three months left and he was already on the planet he was initially dropped, he will enter secluded cultivation once again. 

From the ten beads circling above his hand, three of them suddenly flew right next to Fey. Although it was asleep just until now, due to the sudden movement, it was awoken. 

And couldn't help but hiss in satisfaction upon seeing the three beads. 

His master's intention was obvious; it was for himself. 

.....

Three weeks later. 

Cylius and Fey had awakened. They had both improved tremendously. 

He had absorbed two, due to his experience and one another factor. Both of them were for the dimensional runes and now, he had reached the second-tier peak by getting to 90%.

Improving further than this will be hard. It would take two other rune cores to just to fill in the gap. 

As for Fey, it had reached the semi convert realm. Due to its innate ability, it had devoured two cores and improved tremendously. It reached the semi convert realm in both of its spiritual energy rune and the absorb rune. 

It seemed that burning the energy within the core was more beneficial to Fey making it advance much more than Cylius did in two rune cores. 

Well, it didn't matter right now because today was the day the spaceship will come to get them. They needed to be prepared; not much to prepare anyway. 

Their mission items would be submitted into the spaceship that will be coming to get them. Depending on the performance, they will decide whether they will be given privilege. 

And here it comes, the spaceship. 

Just being in space, he could see the massive black spaceship coming towards him. Although not the size of a planet, it was definitely at least as big as the moon of earth. 

Its power was as powerful as its size. Just depending on technology alone, it would be able to handle three second-stage third-tier creatures and along with the forces on board, it would be able to handle fourth-tier domain existences.

It was even said that there was a fourth-tier lord in charge of it and that the spaceship was alive! 

Although it wasn't the greatest invention of the academy, it was one of the greatest out there. Considering the history of genetic technology only went as far as a millennium ago, this feat was astonishing. 

With a few more millennia, the peak of technology could surely rival domain existences. 

Closing in with his small spaceship, it lookest just like dust in front of it. 

Sending the signal, he steered the spaceship towards the bigger one. After a while, he had found its entrance. 

It was a massive spaceship parking lot. There, he could already see that many students have returned from their mission. Picking an empty spot, he placed his spaceship there before heading in. 

As soon as he had parked the spaceship, a robot soon came flying to him. 

"Welcome to the spaceship Chelonia, student. Please follow me to the mission completion hall and if you have any needs during the time, please say it so I could fulfill your needs" Hearing that, Cylius nodded his head. 

It didn't check Fey meaning that it allowed pets and companions within the ship. 

After passing through various spots, they arrived at the supposed hall where they needed to submit their mission items. As Cylius arrived there, the robot also went back.

"Screen" a blue screen popped up in front of him. 

This was a hologram they could use to complete their needs. It came from the guiding core the academy first gave to them. It had currently combined with the spaceship's main system and was displaying these extra options. 

If a student didn't have it with them, they would give a new one; which in his case, since he had it, the robot didn't give him one.

After it opened up, it asked to examine his token, which he did as it told. After examining his token, his profile popped up. It was simple. 

Name: Cylius 

Status: First stage student. 

Mentor: Rein Portin

Credit: 500

There were many options within the screen so he skimmed through it before picking the 'Academy Mission' option. 

After analyzing his mission objective, which were 100 grams for each of the elemental essences, a force suddenly appeared as it took them away. 

[Mission objective clear] 

[+1500 credits]

His mission that had lasted for a year was done. 

Now, he could enjoy the moment. 

...

'How comfortable' laying on the white bed, he thought. 

Now that his mission was done, what should he do? There was still a month left before they arrived to the Quintamore academy During the time, he could do lots of things. 

The thing was, it didn't actually require a whole month to go back to the academy. If they wished, they could go back in just one week. However, the academy seemed to be intentionally making the journey back a month long. He didn't know why, maybe they wanted to organize something within the meantime. 

One thing's for sure though. He can't absorb the rune cores. He didn't want to suffer because of the excessive use of it. Even he would be affected if he used it consecutively. Therefore, he will do it later. During vacation maybe. 

There are a lot of facilities for entertainment purposes here within this ship. Brothels, shows, shops... There were many. 

With his credits in hand, he could do most of them. 

Most of them were free anyway. It was kind of like a reward from them completing their missions. 

He heard that they would finish picking up the students by tomorrow and that there will be a tournament going on the day after tomorrow. 

Should he participate in it? Maybe. He will decide it later. 

For a start, he will go to the water park. Fey would surely like it there. 

.....

Within the water park. 

The water park was massive. With no feeling of being in space, it looked just as if they were on earth. Giant water slides, wave pools and such. Almost everything was here. 

And in it, there were also many people. Giant animals and creatures just playing well with people. It was populated.

It was one of the largest facilities in the ship after all. 

In the pool, Fey was now the size of two to three elephants, just playing around. 

Sometimes, it would splash water on Cylius and sometimes, it would be creating water balls in the air, just to shoot them at the water. Within this massive water park, it was surely attracting attention.

After all, it was still a second-tier beast. Although its aura of a semi convert wasn't easily detectable, its powerful aura gave other people not so good feeling.

As its owner, he was also attracting much attention. 

He wasn't hiding his identity though. His reason was simple. He was having a comfortable time here. 

The reason he chose to hide his strength was so that he would be comfortable later and now that he was having comfort, why would he do such a thing as intentionally ruining the mood? 

It was like one comfort compared to another. 

He wouldn't give up because he was prioritizing the other. Well, it was indeed true that it will bring him annoying troubles later but it wouldn't be out of his capability. He was strong; not weak enough to be troubled by those troubles. 

Even if they did bring him troubles later on, he practically didn't care much about it. 

Emotions were impermanent. For example, they would change. They wouldn't always be the same, just like everything. One won't be angry forever, at one point in time, it would change to happiness, sorrow, or regret. 

What was the use of staying true to or being affected by such a thing? 

He had understood this point early in life. The main reason was because of his intelligence and other personalities. 

Having experienced many different emotions, he could be said to grow numb to it. After growing numb to it, however, he sought the reason; reason why they existed. 

And he found the reason. The reason was 'everything is impermanent'. 

Things change and so would your emotions later on. So there was no need to be affected the slightest bit by it. 

This discovery was made by 'rationality'. Having been rational, his thinking wasn't affected by emotions. Therefore, it was quite easy to grasp this concept. This discovery was an important point in winning the other personalities and becoming the main personality. 

Everything is meaningless. 

It says that in Buddhism, you need to realize this point to become enlightened. So after you realize this point, you would have to have to goal to save all beings from suffering. All living things. Whether animal or human, they would have the goal to save them all.

It says that it was the only meaningful thing. 

Of course, he didn't care about that. What he was feeling right now was important. He didn't care about other's suffering. As long as he's fulfilled, he won't care about things he does.