I Spread my Genes to Level Up in the Apocalypse

In the middle of the parted clouds, Ray's figure slowly materialised, revealing his chiselled, tall body in full glory.

He looked around the sky with a satisfied expression, and this satisfaction increased by a height when he sensed the mutation energy that had already accumulated in his body flowing in a steady stream.

"Really not bad."

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Mutation Energy: 130,524,245

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Ray nodded his head; this was even greater than the mutation energy he gained from wiping out the entire continent.

Then he looked at the other continent and silently went there.

In just an hour, Ray had already completely destroyed the undead of a single continent, and then the other continent became even easier. In the blink of an eye, he had completely destroyed all the undeads from every single continent.

The mutation energy in his body has increased so much that it feels vast, like a bottomless ocean without a depth to it.

"So are you sure you guys are going to follow me?" Ray asked as he turned back, looking at the people who were silently floating behind him.

There were numerous people, amounting to millions, who were all floating in the sky as if defying gravity itself completely unaffected, but they were strangely silent with none daring to speak with an open mouth.

"Yes, we are going to follow you, Lord Ray."

The six people that were closest to him said it in unison.

Two of them were women and three of them were men, but there was one thing that was common in their eyes: a sense of fear and reverence at the same time.

Ray casually nodded his head while looking forward again, then he slowly floated into his own continent and the other floated following behind him.

For the current Ray, it was simply a glance of an eye to completely make them levitate; it was like carrying cells in your body.

Even with the human body containing more than thirty trillion cells, they don't carry much weight, just like Ray, who didn't feel much at all.

Soon Ray returned back to his continent, and these people started to settle in the place.

They were immediately fascinated by the technological advancements in the city.

The shock spread through the crowd and a hint of envy.

While they were living in such a dystopian place while risking their lives every day just trying to get their dine in, these people not only didn't have to care about the undead but were living in such a comfortable way.

Large skyscrapers filled the sky, and people were riding in air vehicles; there was even traffic. There were even robots just to greet them.

These robots looked eerily similar to humans in a way; if it were a dystopian future film genre, then there would already be a three-hour film of how the robots would take over the world, but Ray, who had watched this film after gaining the knowledge, felt funny.

Even if there was a terrifying advancement of AI, it would still allow electricity to operate, and for complex tasks, the electricity power increases by more than a few times.

So AI couldn't actually do tasks that are unfathomable to humans, even if with the sources they are still things that can be completely controlled.

Reality was much, much different from fiction most of the time.

After Ray settled these people, he flew into the sly again.

"It's finally time to go to the ocean; I wonder what mystery lies behind it."

Ray glanced at his red panel again:

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Mutation Energy: 510,200,145

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"Not bad."

He nodded his head almost immediately. Ray was close to reaching half a billion mutation energy.

To be honest, he thought he would have more with the six continents. He would have hoped to have at least six hundred million mutations, but it looks like such a thing was a little impossible for him to accomplish.

This was the limit he could drain out of all those undead.

"I hope I can reach at least a billion mutation energies in the oceans or even more."

The water was an unexplored territory on this earth. While many researchers might have done some sort of search in it, we have truly not covered the entire mystery of this place.

"There could be millions of creatures, and they could have all mutated then." Ray smiled but knew that was unlikely to be the case.

Animals have a much lesser chance of becoming undead than humans, as for awakening, that was basically impossible for these animals.

"I wonder what our human gene holds mystery to, to have so many secrets?"

Ray felt like there was a secret he couldn't pinpoint but was related to the Apocalypse.

"Mother Earth may have started it, but there might be other schemes related to it." He narrowed his eyes in contemplation; thinking it through, he felt like there was definitely a possibility of such a thing happening.

A bigger, much higher scheme; if not, then he wouldn't have gained such power from his very own genes.

Remember all the power from his system came from his gene itself?

All the information was transferred from the very own gene.

If this was a thing that Mother Earth could do, then he would completely not believe such bullshit!

Her power was waning, and this would soon be the end of her. How could she have such power to hide this terrifying power in the genes of the entire human race that she wanted to wipe out so admittedly? And why would she even do that?

Thinking about this, Ray went into deep contemplation, looking up at the sky.

"Somewhere, something is scheming, and we are just pawns in their chess board being played at their own will."

Ray shook his head and left the place entirely, diving into the ocean.

These were unnecessary thoughts; all he needed to care about for now was to get stronger, strong enough to kill the planetary being of Mars as well as take care of Mother Earth.

As he dived into the ocean, he was met with fish that was entirely black with numerous patterns in it.

"First kill."

Ray casually swatted the fish, killing it in almost an instant.

The mutation energy in his body slightly increased.

"Hmm?" Ray tilted his head.

"Wasn't this just a normal undead? Why did it give me ten mutation energy?" Thinking of this, Ray casually started his slaughter of all the undead in this water.

They were after all an undead, completely losing all their rationality and filled with nothing but destruction; this was the same no matter how high their tiers were and the wisdom they had.

They were corrupted beings, zombies of some sort in a way.

Ray felt that it was easy for him to navigate this ocean because he had the Water Arts skill, which could help to have more of an understanding of the water and also increase his affinity.

While Ray travelled, it felt like he was the born creature of the ocean, completely able to move freely through the ocean.

Then he started to easily kill the undead here, and as he speculated for some reason, he was able to gain ten times more mutation energy from the same undead in the land.

"Why is it?" He squinted his eyes as he dove deeper and deeper.

At the same time, as he dived deeper, the pressure in his body gradually increased to the point that even his clothes started to become torn.

"Interesting." Ray wasn't deterred in the slightest.

He dove even deeper for this pressure; he would only scoff at it. Even if he was in a high-temperature lava, he would still not be able to even put a dent on his ski.

Ray has become this powerful as he grew stronger and stronger; his strength was something that even he was entirely unaware of.

"Let's take a peek."

He has looked down until now because he didn't bother to completely scan the place, but now that this ocean was so vast and he needed a few minutes to navigate this place, he grew bored. He still had the job of spreading his gene to accomplish, so looking through the entire ocean, he wasn't interested in such a thing.

So Ray casually looked around, and the first thing he saw was a giant squid level three, which he casually crushed by making a water sword at.

"Holy…. Fuck."

Ray froze on the spot, his pupils reflecting a giant white belly of a whale; even with his eyes, he had to refocus just to see the entire whale that was almost the size of the continent.

"This… this…" He was left speechless and didn't know what to do for a moment, completely stunned and silent.

The blue whale only had a "2" engraving on it but was already the size of the continent.

"If he grows, can his big figure cover the ocean? The earth?"

Many questions curiously appeared in Ray's mind.