Chapter 55: 55
King gazed at the pool in which he spawned from with a frown . As with every entity that gained sentience without any guidance from peers or organisms similar to itself, he began to question the nature of his birth .
He knew why he had been born and who he was . What he had no clue about though, was how .
His memories began when he forced himself out of that seed . Before that, he had been running on autonomous instinct . He had emerged from this very pool, but all he could see was a clear lake .
There were no caves or holes he could see from here . He had been debating on whether to submerge himself and investigate, but he was unsure .
Just because he was aware, did not mean he was knowledgeable . All he knew was what was imprinted on him, as well as those few skills and instincts that he gained from the animals he consumed .
To submerge himself in water without any knowledge on swimming or staying afloat… wouldn't that be playing with death?
King walked around the bank of the small lake slowly, like a prospector taking in the sight of a property . His sharp eyes and budding intelligence analyzed the facts and the scenario in front of him with terrible speed and accuracy .
For that matter, King was only about the height and general visage of a teenager fresh into puberty, yet his brain could outpace some computers .
He folded his arms once he had made a slow lap around the pool, noticing that his patience was growing thin . Before gaining cognizance, he was an unthinking and unfeeling entity that lived solely on instinct .
Now however, he had logical reasoning and awareness . Still, with such boons came detriments, which were flaws and emotions . Despite being an Ultima Sunt, he could not escape this limitation .
King's greatest flaw was his race's in-built arrogance . They believed they were superior to all and that was somewhat true .
He knew that an Ultima Sunt was . They were a race of genetically engineered beings by the Gods that went beyond their expectations, so they had to be purged .
Ultima Sunts were the Ultimate Lifeforms . They could assimilate anything of every living thing and grow in power with no limit . Whatever cap existed for all living entities, they could surpass .
Since even the Gods counted as living entities, it could be understood why they purged this race as quickly as they could .
But here he was, alive and unpunished . King wasn't too knowledgeable about the world, but the thing with logic was that sometimes, not all the facts were needed to reach a conclusion .
Exceptionally clever people could read and understand various things because they could take a bunch of facts and merge them together to reach a conclusion that was accurate more often than not .
King realized that there was no way the Gods would allow him to exist . Since they had omnipotence and omniscience over the world - which was some of the little he could glean from his racial inheritance - they should easily be able to locate him and smite him .
But they hadn't .
That made King ponder and he pondered very hard .
His conclusion: The Gods are either dead, gone or my birth is special and allows me to escape the God's purview .
Even though he was accurate, he still had too many other less suitable conclusions in mind, but he was on the right track .
King bent over the pool and stared at his reflection . For some reason, his current look made him feel intrigued . Was this how all Ultima Sunts looked or was it his own personal visage?
King wanted more knowledge . His mind was burning with questions and he was dying for answers .
He turned to stare at the small forest where he had raised himself from a seedling to what he was now . The animals in there were not suitable for his growth . He had spent a few hours going through it and had only found small critters as well as boars .
At his current stage, he would need to eat hundreds of them to grow further .
Once an organism had been consumed for the first time, subsequent consumptions only gave King 0 . 1% of the mass he got the first time . He had no idea why this flaw existed, but it limited his ability to grow .
Maybe that was why he was unnoticed by the Gods?
He returned his sight to the pool and was surprised to see something in there . It was a peculiar animal that was oval in shape and swished its tail to propel itself forward .
That's right, King was looking at a fish . It wasn't a huge fish, but just a level 1 Carp .
King stared at it curiously for a bit, before kneeling down close to the shore of the lake . He couldn't enter the water to capture the animal, so he planned to wait for it to come closer to the shore .
Of course, he could tell that such an animal had evolved in a way to be able to breathe underwater . This was a trait he needed urgently, so he had to pull all the stops to capture it and acquire such a feature .
As he knelt there, King had a bizarre feeling . A human would describe it as an epiphany, but King had no idea what such a thing was .
He saw a hazy vision, in which a taller and much more defined Ultima Sunt stood before a humongous Earth Dragon . The Ultima Sunt looked very similar to himself, King noted, but his skin was much more vibrant and his orbs were deep blue instead of green .
The Ultima Sunt stared at the huge Dragon callously, even though the powerful serpent roared at him with anger . It leapt at the Ultima Sunt, but stopped just when its claw was about to rend him .
The Dragon stayed like that for a few seconds before lowering its claw and dropping onto its paunches . Its eyes were murky and seemed glazed over .
The Ultima Sunt finally moved, walking right up to the Dragon, plunging his hand into its neck and ripping out a bunch of muscles . After stuffing the meat down his throat, he continued to consume it in such a manner .
The terrifying part was that the Earth Dragon just lay there, not even reacting to itself being consumed .
King came out of his epiphany with a shake of his head . His mind felt clearer and his existence felt more… solid .
「Congratulations on awakening: Bloodline Inheritance level 1
Reward:
Classification」
Classification?
When King thought about that, a screen popped up before him .
「Name: King - Rank 1 Ultima Sunt
Level: 1
Growth: 0%
MON Str: 50
MON Dex: 50
MON End: 50
MON Int: 50
MON Spr: 50
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