The Hibernating Beast

Since Kale Roman was born with unusual eyes, which allow him to see everything in the world through a variety of distinct runes, he inherited the family's ancestral craft and has since become an expert in the art of creating charms for clients. His economic acumen was so strong that many influential people frequented him. However, once time he crossed the street, he passed away.

He was unable to recall the details of the accident; all he knew was that his soul was absorbed into the runestone, which then transported him around the cosmos.

This seems to be very impressive.

However, it was a memory Kale Roman didn't want to dwell on. He had spent four thousand years in a vast, dark, and dreadful universe. Death was only a trivial thing compared to that loneliness, which had no beginning and no end. He was imprisoned inside the rune stone, passively awake and sensing time, quietly observing the innumerable, unfathomably dreadful energies at work in the depths of the cosmos, watching them clash, consume, and entwine into a variety of intricate rune patterns. This process was repeated several times, and Kale Roman was too boring with them.

The rune stones were gone when he awoke again, and he had arrived on an unfamiliar planet. His eyesight was better than ever because of his experience traveling among the stars and witnessing the boundless energy of the deep universe.

He started life with a new identity.

Kale Roman recently turned seventeen; without a guardian, he is ineligible to work in Hatfield City until he is eighteen; Fortunately, Frank Webb recommended him to this establishment as a temporary bartender.

A blue flame appeared from the martini glass's mouth as Kale Roman played with the mixer while he was seated at the bar. He pushed the glass in front of Frank Webb as the flame gradually built up, turned a little blue, dipped into the center of the glass, and then briefly took on a golden halo reminiscent of the universe's ever-present starlight.

Kale Roman discovered that the runes he had seen had a rational explanation after arriving here. It was a metaphor for source energy, which experts refer to as source patterns, also known as rule patterns.

According to the explanation in Endless Science, a magazine, since source energy was produced when the cosmos first began, it differs from all other types of energy. Source energy is made up of every energy element and life force in the universe. According to theory, source energy has an unlimited circulation and never runs out. Source technology has developed into a new discipline as a result.

Inequality was ingrained in the genes two hundred years ago as a result of the development of human genetic modification technology, which made the class divide into an unbridgeable abyss. Thus, it is inevitable that bitterness, hopelessness, and other depressing feelings will arise. When some of the people whose genes had been altered and edited subsequently suffered odd genetic disorders, they panicked and decided to modify and strengthen their genes once more. However, this strategy caused genetic sickness to spread across human society like a tumor that could not be removed. Human has been caught in a bizarre web of mishandled boosting and modifying genes.

Those with malevolent intentions waited for a chance to launch a battle that quickly spread and involved everyone. Civilization was entirely devastated during the seventeen-year war. To resolve the conflict, the governments of the four planets eventually allied. Subsequently, they passed several new laws, among them a ban on "artificial editing to enhance human genes" and the establishment of a very strict audit system for biological science technology energy sources.

Intelligent robots are now widely used in people's everyday lives. Based on source technology, humans have created two new planets above the stars where one billion people live and two giant ecological circulation systems. Beyond the new planets, there are immeasurably vast military outposts in the stars.

Even if technology has advanced significantly, the world is now richer, more stable, and has a full legal system, the genetic sickness has not been cured by the end of the conflict. The distance between two planets, which can even be decreased to hours, is the source of space travel, yet there has yet to be a significant advancement in the treatment of genetic diseases.

The social class separation tends to stabilize over time. The genetic loser was the precise moniker given to those among them who had genetic illnesses.

Frank Webb was one of them, a genetic loser.

"Are you truly going to enroll in Schwartz Academy?" Frank Webb waived his hand after three consecutive glasses of alcohol.

Kale Roman nodded: "Yes."

Frank Webb shook his head in disgust: "It is challenging to get into institutions that specialize in energy sources. For years, every adolescent has desired to be on it. Although everyone understands that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, not everyone will be a suitable fit. Particularly you. It would be difficult for you even if you were accepted."

The genetic failure is the greatest source of suffering for all losers; no one wants to be pointed out. The genetic losers who are teenage, suffer the most damaging effects. They are labeled losers from birth, and as they mature, they either learn to accept this label or learn to fight for their rights. Since then, though, none of those fighters have succeeded.

Although Kale Roman is a genetic loser like Frank Webb, Kale Roman has a unique skill that allows him to see other people's progress bars, even though he isn't entirely sure what they mean after spending 4,000 years circling in the galaxy. Kale Roman's progress meter was just 14% missing, as opposed to Frank Webb's, which was almost completely broken. Kale Roman is only vaguely aware of this power, yet he still thinks he will perish at any moment if he cannot discover what the remaining 14% is. In some stages, intuition is crucial, and the intuition of a 4,000-year-old like Kale Roman cannot be underestimated.