'Current Status - Dormant (Activation in 00:00:02)

Genesis Catalyst is fusing with nature; bear witness to the first rain of life and evolution. Awaken souls who have been lying dormant.'

Silas sighed, and his attention moved above his head at the rapidly forming, glowing clouds that can be seen even in the night as they were literally glowing instead of covering the light of the moon in the skies.

The loud thunders filled the clouds; it was the coming of the storm as the simple, soothing wind started to grow strong, and so did the loud thunders in the skies, painting myth with lightning and announcing new genesis with the loud thunders. From the space, it seemed like the whole globe had been covered in glowing blue clouds; the Blue Planet was truly shining in the colour of a sapphire in the dark space, standing in front of the red sun and blue moon.

As Silas's gaze observed all the changes, just one piece of data continuously rang inside his mind.

'Genesis Catalyst ------> Ase'

"Ase has arrived..." Silas muttered with his eyes staring over the skies; as a drop of rain fell right over his pupils, he instinctively closed his eyes with a sensation of pain, but along with pain, a strange sensation enveloped his body and mind.

He was standing there like a lifeless puppet as more and more drops of Ase and water started to fall over his face and entire body; the little droplets became heavy thunderstorms and hail in seemingly an instant.

"Get in the cover! Fast!" Silas's father shouted, covering his wife; both fled into cover on the roof, and others in the surrounding area did the same, but Silas alone was standing in the middle of the roof, enduring the sharp rainfall like a stone statue.

"Silas?" his father uttered with worried eyes, "Silas? What are you doing, boy! Get into cover!" His mother shouted in worry, but Silas didn't respond, not even a flinch.

"Boy?" His father felt something was wrong, and in worry, he immediately rushed near Silas, shaking him up to snap him out of that daze, but he was like a stone statue at the moment.

"Boy?! What happened?!" The father, dying of worry, screamed right over the ears, and that loud scream truly awoke him out of the daze he was feeling due to the strange sensation.

"Oh? Nothing? Nothing happened?" stepping out of his daze, Silas replied with a chuckle and looked into the worried eyes of his parents, "It's nothing... I just wanted to feel the rain."

Silas chuckled and slowly opened his eyes, revealing a momentary blue spark inside his pupils that vanished without a trace right next instant.

"It's not rain; it's a storm, boy. Get into cover!" His mother scolded with worried eyes, but Silas just laughed it off and tightly grabbed the shoulders of his parents in the middle of rainfall. "If you are always in cover, when will you experience life? Enjoy the rain, Mum! Enjoy the life!!!"

Silas sniggered, and avoiding all resistance from his parents, just pushed them further into the rain along with himself.

"Damn nature lovers..." Silas's father scoffed but didn't protest seriously, and after a moment he just placed his glasses into his pockets, enjoying the rain alongside his son.

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"Family of madmen..." his mother also sighed, joining in the pleasure of rain, and it was one, then both came to a surprised realisation.

"It's surprisingly soft, isn't it? I thought rain in a storm would hurt, but it's quite warm. And calm? Even shower water hits harder?" His father muttered in surprise as he experienced the rain; it was like a shower of cottons and not hard raindrops and ice, which hurt like pebbles.

"How weird..."

They seemed both confused, but Silas was just relieved, and, arriving over a corner of the roof, he closed his eyes again, accepting this strange feeling and the energy that came along with the rain.

'So this is Ase, huh...' he thought as he experienced it, the feeling of that strange warm yet chaotic energy that was entering his body with drops of water that fell over his skin.

Along the water in rain, the 'Ase' had fused into everything in nature, be it air, water, or land; living creatures or some stone or concrete; Ase had mixed and fused with everything on earth.

Be it the creatures on the surface of the earth or the creatures at the bottom of the ocean, all it took was a mere moment for that dimensional energy to spread across the globe in an instant like some sort of invisible and intangible explosion, and the only eyes that seemed capable enough to see it all were those of Silas.

'It's huge...' he thought as his eyes looked around him; he could feel that invisible and intangible form of energy, like blue mist sparkling like stars everywhere in the surrounding area, like a tsunami in the ocean spreading everywhere across the globe, and his body was like a black hole, swirling all energy around and absorbing it within himself.

'Relax... Spread my awareness into my surroundings as much as possible, let the physical body expand as much as it can without any force, imagine tendrils made up of my will spread into the surrounding and grab those particles of Ase and absorb them inside my body.

A gentle absorption: consume the energy and release the impurities through my breath, let the absorbed Ase become part of me, let it familiarise itself with my body, let it flow like my flesh and blood inside me...'

Silas let his body loose; with all the heavy rainfall, it was difficult to see, but he was covered in thin sparkles and blue sparks all around his body, and the glow around him was constantly growing stronger, and a black smoke-like thing was being constantly released outside through his nose with each breath. He had long stopped taking the breath inside; instead, he was constantly releasing the bad impurities through his nose.

At that moment he didn't seem to have any need of oxygen at all; all his physical needs were being fulfilled by Ase released into his body, and it was rapidly increasing as time went by.

In just a few seconds, Silas was already in a state of trance with a whole new level of sensation spreading inside his body; if people could see what he was, they would be watching infinite threads of red light spreading out of Silas and constantly gently absorbing particles of Ase inside his body.

If watched from a distance, he was like the core of a swirling black hole, absorbing everything around himself at a monstrous pace, terrifying to the point of scaring nightmares.

For hours he was just standing like that on the roof with no thought in mind and no awareness of his surroundings; the time passed, and the rain continued until it was time for the morning itself, and with the first ray of sun touching his head from dispersing empty clouds, Silas opened his eyes, charging with hard and powerful blue thunder sparks in his pupils.

"... Enough, I guess," he muttered, seemingly lost in a daze, and his eyes fell over his parents, just sleeping while sitting alongside one another on the roof.

'Name - Miguel Bianchi

Age: 48

Race: Human

Title - High Awakened

Beast - 0

Skill - Sharp Psychology (Tier 1)'

'Name - Shane Bianchi

Age: 47

Race: Human

Title - Mid Awakened

Beast - 0

Skill - Serene Aura (Tier 1)'

"They awakened too, huh..." Silas muttered as he observed his parents; there was a thick layer of strange auras surrounding them. Silas's aura was already concealed, but he could still see others'.

Silas sighed, and his gaze moved over others in the surrounding crowd; in a crowd of thousands, Silas could barely see just a few with such a strange aura surrounding them. Aside from visual senses, Silas could now somewhat feel the presence of others without utilising his 5 senses.

"Not everyone awakened..." Silas observed and took a note of that; finally, his gaze moved over towards the real issue on hand. The gaze moving over towards the woods beyond the sloped cliff beside their hill residence

An entire area of miles and miles covered with trees that also experienced a meteor crash last night followed by a forest fire and now in the morning. Silas could finally see the condition of the whole region.

The place where the meteorite fell was strangely empty, a few hundred meters around that completely burnt into ashes, but beyond that was where true chaos was hiding.

The whole region was in ruins; trees were lying uprooted all over the place, and gigantic holes were dug out in several places. It was a scene that seemed to look like a battlefield of gigantic creatures, with one particular trace standing out the most.

"As expected, it was not just humans who awakened; the beasts did too..." Silas muttered with a frown, and grabbing the binoculars, his eyes locked into one particular pile of shed skin lying all over the region.

'Skin and Scales shedded by Green Grade Beast—Giant Pearl Serpent, a creature known to be 500 meters long and 5 meters thick, known for living underground the earth and toying with its prey with a gigantic body before devouring them.

"Talk about the nightmare of a reality to wake up to."