Super Gene Ascension Chapter 19 (Patreon)

The scent of blood and gore filled the air as the dead and dying filled the windy plains with their stench of piss of fear of death... And the smell of shit in things that already died with their bowels letting loose.

"What clan are you from?" Yang Manli spoke quietly as I sat across from a large bonfire I was using to cook up the corpses of the unfortunately humanoid minotaurs into steaks I could force down my gullet for Sacred Blood Geno Points.

"Not part of a clan." I said bluntly before I tore off a chunk of meat from a minotaur's rib I had been cooking.

Yang Manli snorted and waved at the dozens of dead across the way. "Bullshit. You HAVE to be from some fallen clan, or military family. No normal human without powerful geno martial arts can fight a half dozen other Sacred Blood creatures in straight physical combat." 

Then she added rather bluntly. "More importantly... The simple fact of how much meat you can eat at once. No normal human without systematic training born from centuries of research and backing has the digestive methods to allow an evolver who hasn't reached the Second Sanctuary to control their stomachs."

I had no explanation besides being 'honest' as I just said bluntly before I ate another large mouthful of meat. "I am an orphan. I have zero such backing, and my current state is a result of my hard work. You know that just as well don't you?" 

She gave me a long look before she nodded with a tsking noise. "I was hoping you would make it convenient... I watched your training from the gym you went to with Mio so I have seen your growth curve over the last month indeed."

The black haired, voluptuous beauty shook her head with a frown as she said helplessly. "Still... Although this expedition was a success, with how many of the backline were separated from the ant colony. We faced alot more casualties than we hoped." 

I nodded before I said quietly. "Out of the close to a hundred, like what. Thirty dead?"

Yang Manli looked aside to see if anyone could hear before she said helplessly. "Forty-five dead, six had to be... Put to rest with the lethal injuries that would claim them before we could get them back home. Another thirty are still heavily injured. Even Qin Xuan has a cracked hip from one of them clipping her in the side with a charge."

I could only shrug as I said helplessly. "We hunted a tribe of close to thirty Sacred Blood Creatures. It's lucky they didn't have elemental attacks and only raw might to tear us apart in melee."

I then looked to Yang Manli and asked. "So, did you get a Transformation Beast Soul like I did?"

To which Yang Manli made a noise of annoyance before she snorted at me as she said flatly. "No... I only got an oversized axe, and a pair of boxing gloves that both increase my strength. But also uses more stamina."

My face twitched as those would be perfect for me. And the worst kind of Beast Souls for Yang Manli herself. As she was an assassin who used poisoned daggers, throwing knives, and extreme speed to kill targets quickly.

I brushed my hands together and said a bit sheepishly. "Heeeeyyyy. Wanna trade those two for a Sacred Blood Dagger and armor set?"

Her head whipped around at me, and she hissed. "What! You have a Sacred Blood dagger and armor set just sitting around?!"

To which... I just nodded innocently, with her face twitching as she snapped out. "You... Little bastard! If you put that in the guild store, I would have had Qin Xuan give you a B, maybe even A rank Geno Martial Art!"

I tilted my head to the side and asked bluntly. "Would you give me an S rank Geno art?" 

Her face pinched before she flushed, and I just snorted as she gave me a light kick as she snapped. "Screw you! Do you think S rank geno martial arts are just cabbages to be picked up on the side of the road!?"

Yang Manli's amused annoyance died off before she said helplessly. "But no, no I couldn't... And even though Qin Xuan has access to the Qin family's library, which has a couple dozen S rank Geno arts within it. She cannot share them unless the person has done something insane for the Qin family... Or married into it." 

I solemnly nodded as I looked over to the silver-haired beauty in Qin Xuan before I looked back to Yang Manli and I said. "I understand what you mean."

Yang Manli just snorted knowing I was teasing before she said idly. "Oh? Now you are thinking of Qin Xuan, huh? You are going to make Mio cry huh?"

I paused as I didn't think Mio was THAT into me yet. Still, she was hot, had a good drive for strength, which in this Universe filled with hostile xenos and needing to be a murder hobo in the sanctuary was important.

So, to sum things up. I wasn't against taking my relationship with Mio to another level.

"She talked about me?" I asked casually with Yang Manli looking at me with a knowing smile./

That she wore with smug pride as she said idly. "Oh... We girls have our own group chats and you have come up a couple times from here."

And with that Yang Manli got up with a light hiss of pain from her still sore shoulder before she said. "Anyway, I need to go prepare and cook my own kills. I will be riding with your mount back if thats alright, however?"

I just tsked as I said flatly. "Wow... Teasing me about a girl who may or may not like me. And you still are shameless enough to mooch a ride home."

And my face just twitched as she tossed her hair back and said, with her backside swaying as she walked away. "The privilege of a beautiful woman, I suppose." 

'Fucking tease... I am going to smack that fantastic peach next time she plays with me.' I muttered mentally, even as the Sanctuary system pinged out another alert of gaining a Sacred Blood Geno point.

I then pulled up my 'status' screen in my mental space to check how my progress was.

[Ordinary,100Primitive,100Mutated,100Sacred Blood,32Super tier 0]

[Obsidian Scale Macuahuitl -Sacred Blood TierHorn Bolt -Mutated TierDesert Scorpion Spear -Sacred Blood TierSoldier Ant Armor -Sacred Blood TierSabertooth Dagger -Sacred Blood TierLocust Leaping Armor Sacred Blood tierSacred Blood Tier- Wood Eater Buffalo- Pet/Mount]

I exhaled in annoyance as I stared at that damned Sacred Blood points meter that was once empty a few hours ago.

I looked at the chunk of minotaur of meat in my hand before tossing it aside as I muttered. "I got all I can out of the minotaur meat. I need different monsters' geno points in their meat to get more points at this point."

But even with the minotaur meat not being capable of giving me any more geno points after eating too much of its species. The thirty geno points, as well as finally finishing my mutant geno points, were a massive leap in strength for me.

A clench of my fist brought my armament Haki to cover my fist a good bit easier. Though I knew that my next major leap in strength would be when my body tasted the essence that was Super genes.

Which left the question. How would I go about finding, and most importantly... Killing a Super tier monster so that I could eat it and gain its strength.

'My best bet was to find the eggs or 'fawns' of super-tier races and eat them before they hatched/became strong. But that still relied on me finding the hyper dangerous monsters.

A relaxed sigh left me, as in reality I was doing very... Very well with my growth in power. I woudn't be drafted into humanity's armed forces like most adults were who didn't go into college.

As I was going to use this upcoming 'Youth' tournament to show my talent and strength. So that I could be recruited by a college... Or hell, maybe even I would just join a noble family.

This universe was Dragon Ball Z levels of bullshit at the peak power levels. Just working my way up from the bottom of a normal human to a galaxy-smashing god would be far harder without any form of support or background.

And the biggest point was that my enemies weren't humanity if I showed myself off as super talented. The noble families' higher members wouldn't try to kill me just for being talented... After all.

The Sanctuaries were infinite in size. Supporting normal humans, all the way up to solar system-level gods who could alter fate and shatter planets with a whim.

And our xeno enemies? Were matches for our strongest War Gods.

So whether it be joining a college, or... Just eating some soft rice and marrying into a huge, powerful clan. I wasn't against it at all.

My idle thoughts on the future were cut off as Qin Xuan spoke out loudly. "You all got one hour to seal up, smoke the meat, or otherwise put it away! In one hour we march back to the Steel Shelter!"

Grumbles rang out from the other hunters, but they got to work as I saw Yang Manli herself quickly cutting as much meat as she could into thin strips to quickly smoke them to eat later.

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Our thoroughly more ragged group, when Yang Manli blew the marching whistle, got moving without much to note as our group very specifically detoured well and away from the giant Ant nest in particular.

But as we passed by like a mile away from the ant nest in particular, I couldn't hope a thought. 'Ants determine each other's places in their colony via pheromones and such. With my Sacred Blood ant armor, couldn't I just slather myself in the pheremones and sneak into the colony to kill the queen?'

Because. I had a strong feeling that the queen of that giant colony, with her elite guards being acid-spitting Sacred Blood creatures. It might very easily be a Super-tier creature.

The thought woudn't leave me, but I didn't act on it. Just yet, as Yang Manli was riding beside me atop Woody's back as we made our way back. 

And the ride itself was well worth the patience as Woody wasn't exactly a steady ride, being a giant, elephant-sized water buffalo. So I got to watch Yang Manli's tits bounce all the way home.

Totally a wonderful ride I tell you as even Yang Manli knew I was throwing glances with her just huffing in amused annoyance.

And with our smaller group, that all had their own mounts or pets to ride. We actually got hom back to the Black Steel Shelter as night was falling, and I couldn't help a groan as my legs and muscles were stiff from riding Woody the majority of the previous day.

After Yang Manli got off Woody, I dismissed him to go back into the Beast Soul Space before I said flatly. "Alright, I am heading straight for the showers and then to bed in the Shelter's apartments."

And she just nodded before she paused and said carefully. "Jake, be careful of Son of Heaven... A humanoid Sacred Blood transformation Beast Soul is something he has been trying to get for more than a year now. And dozens of people have died in his attempts to get one."

My face pinched at the reminder of the true shitty young master of Black Steel Shelter. Who treated the lives of his goons like very disposable pawns, even if he paid them very well. And offered chances at low-level Geno martial arts.

"I will keep that in mind. Good luck with the rest." I said with a nod as I quickly made my way back into the Shelter's apartment are,a and I got to my own designated one that was protected by the rules of the Shelter.

I gave the teleporter a quick look... Before I shook my head as I honestly was too damned mentally exhausted to go back to reality, sign out at the teleport center, and then ride a bus home.

"Nope, just gonna relax here, I guess." I muttered with a shrug before I went and took a nice hot shower, and I went to bed.

Waking up the next day I quickly got dressed and ate a simple breakfast of random meat jerky before I got into the teleporter to see if I had any messages.

While in the Sanctuary, I obviously couldn't get any reception or use electronics.

A loud buzzing rang out as several messages came through my phone, and I perked up, seeing that the three stacked redheads in Runeas, Rias, and Mio had all texted me a good bit.

While Mio was rather direct and asked me if I wanted to hang out before the youth tournament started and so she could watch me in action at the tournament in three days.

"Hmm... Should I try to infiltrate that ant nest before the youth tournament starts?" I muttered thoughtfully with a frown.

It was a fucking stupid and almost suicidal idea, obviously. But I otherwise had literally zero idea where I could find a super-tier monster besides that map that Mio showed me of especially dangerous monsters and places.

With a shrug, I finally said idly. "You know what... worst-case scenario. I just go full minotaur, and just Galaxy Smash the ceiling to collapse the nest onto myself and just try to dig my way out."