Reilo did his best to calm himself.
As he tried to stop An Liya from falling apart, he went over to the super-nanomicroscope. After skimming An Liya's notes, his expression grew increasingly grave and incredulous.
Then he snatched up the T-Gene Engineering Blueprint from the other side of the lab bench and held his breath as he studied it.
It existed only as a genetic imprint.
Yet this imprint was embedded inside every living thing in this world.
Every creature in this world bore traces of it within its body. Even humans, who were outsiders, had gradually absorbed it into their cellular genes through long-term adaptation after eating the world's native creatures.
They had made it part of their very essence, passing it down from generation to generation.
It was the mark of the end of the previous era.
A meteorite called Nine Nether had drifted through space for who knew how many ages. In the cold void, it was so tiny that it attracted no attention.
Until one day.
Drawn by gravity, it skimmed past the edge of this world, so full of life. As it blazed through the atmosphere, it fell into the vast ocean.
The Star Curtain World of old had been made up of countless plants and energy elves.
These creatures had no habit of preying on or slaughtering one another. They relied on war to weed out excessive species and maintain balance within the world.
Until Nine Nether appeared!
Deep beneath the sea.
A tiny single-celled organism awoke inside the shattered meteorite. It had been dormant for countless years. As an invader, it greedily discovered that this was paradise—a dream world with no competition!
At first, it was weak and could only feed on algae in the ocean, and even then, very slowly.
Even those