Tristan looked at the lines of floating text in shock. He hesitated for a long time before thinking in his mind."Absorb."
Soon the silky bead slowly disappeared and Tristan could feel a gentle and cold energy wash his insides as well clean his body and rejuvenate his cells.
Then he saw within his vision a few lines of text.
[Grat.i.tude of a Remnant Spirit has been absorbed.]
[Progress +10%]
Tristan thought for a bit. "Do I have some kind of digital system?" He contemplated for a while, before calling out a single word within his mind. "Status."
[Race: Human]
[Evolution Level - None]
[Progress - 10%]
"Evolution level...it seems like the silky bead progressed my path to evolving. Evolution... does this system help in allowing me to evolve? What does it mean to evolve?" Tristan was shocked by the turn of events.
Tristan walked back out to see Cory still heavily injured and unconscious. He wasn"t sure what he should do, when he remembered the business card the government official had given him earlier.
He called the contact number.
"...Tristan? Did something happen?" A voice spoke on the other line.
"I am at the temple ruin in ... area. There is a person here who was attacked by a paranormal event, I thought you could help." Tristan said calmly.
The government worker took in a breath. "I"m coming with a team, don"t do anything stupid in the mean time."
Half an hour later, a group of three individuals including the government official climbed up the stairs of the temple and saw Tristan camping there outside a tent, calmly. Lying beside him was an unconscious man who looked very ill and bleeding heavily.
One of the three immediately reached to the injured Cory and a pale white light was emitted from his hands, healing the injured. Tristan raised his eyes when he saw that.
The official looked at Tristan. "Can you explain what happened?" Tristan blinked.
"I have filed a report with the Vast Expanse already." Tristan said.
The government official raised his eyes in surprise. "You"ve already managed to find out about the Vast Expanse and join it? Aren"t you quick? Were you here on a mission?"
Tristan nodded. "I was here to investigate the rumors of this temple being haunted. Came here to camp for a couple of days, seeing how good the view is. Then this guy suddenly arrived, claiming he came here to exorcise an evil spirit."
The official nodded. "He is indeed a low level spirit detector registered with us. Go on."
Tristan continued. "He attacked the spirit with some kind of paper talisman which created lightning, but it only angered the spirit which retaliated and he was injured. The spirit didn"t have any hostile intentions towards me, details about the spirit and the process of its dissipation have already been submitted to the Vast Expanse."
The official nodded. "I will check the report from the guild later. But I must say, I didn"t expect you to decide to dig deeper into the Hidden World. You are too weak and have no ability of your own, I can only warn you for your own good. If you still want to enter this world... you can join our Strategic Defense Division of the government which deals with the hidden world."
Tristan shook his head. "Right now it is too early for me to decide. Thank you for your invitation."
Tristan decided to go home the next morning. "Mom, Dad, I"m back." Tristan yelled.
"How was your camping trip Tristan?" Tristan"s mom asked. Tristan replied. "I sent some pictures to the family group chat. It was a good place which was unexplored, very quiet."
His mom looked at the pictures. "Wow, this is a really nice place. Such a beautiful view of Coastal City and the sea as well. This is good, you should go out more, explore." His mom said with a smile.
Back in his room, Tristan visited the Vast Expanse website and had received a mail in his account.
"Congratulations ID: White Star, on successfully completing your first mission.
Reward : 10 credits + Bonus 50 credits for information on Remnant Spirit + Bonus 50 credits for solving the haunting."
Tristan was surprised at the results. He got 110 credits for completing a level 1 mission, which was out of the ordinary.
Credits were an internal currency within the vast expanse that could be used to purchase items, information and techniques and so on. Using credits, even a level 1 authority member could pay to access higher level information which would otherwise be locked to them.
Tristan searched about human evolution and found several bits of information which were locked. Without hesitating, he spent 50 credits to unlock the most basic verified information of level 4.
[Over the years, humans have developed many methods to grow stronger. Martial Arts, Cultivation, Magic, Shamanism, Faith and myriad other methods. However, these are all borrowed methods from different species within the foreign worlds.
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The human species has shown a trait of excellent adaptability. We can adapt the techniques of the other beings to make ourselves stronger and this is indeed our conventional way to get stronger and compete with these species and threats.
However, these are all foreign techniques. What about humanity"s own innate means to grow stronger? Are humans powerless? This is not the case. Humans do have an innate means of becoming stronger, which is to evolve.
To evolve means to enter a sublimation process where the human genes transform to create a new subspecies of the human race. This process is basically equivalent to developing an innate talent. Human"s with innate talents are not uncommon, and according to this theory, they are all humans who have sublimated to a new evolution or descendants of sublimated individuals.
Information from [Redacted] tells us that Innate Talent used to be the dominant power system in [Redacted]. However, the overall strength of these innate talents is quite weak compared to the techniques of our times and also very random.
Evolution is a very risky process and the outcome is not determinable beforehand, which means evolving is a gamble with fate.
Evolution can occur multiple times. The openly revealed record is 3 times. It is unknown if this is the limit, however, most people never evolve. Approximately 5% of the humans have the possibility of evolving of which less than 10% have been known to evolve a second time.
Several methods have been proposed to direct the direction and facilitate the evolution, and results show that cultivation of traditional techniques seems to play a role in directing the direction of evolution.]
When Tristan read this information, he had a dignified look on his face. Evolution is indeed a way to become stronger, but it appears to be exceedingly difficult, yet it seemed like his system might have made it easier.
"Absorbing treasures like that silky bead might lead to evolution progress. I wonder if the kind of evolution depends on the kind of treasure I absorbed." Tristan wondered to himself.