[Subject: Mark]
[Species: Synthetic Apex Hybrid]
[Evolution Tier: Omega Class]
[Genome Saturation Index: 0.00%]
[Stored Genetic Templates Identified:]
[Enteroctopus dofleini (Base)… Gigantopithecus Titanus (Ape Titan Kong)]
[Current Evolution Benefits:]
[Hyper-adaptive Regeneration Core (Lv 1) (Fusion): Enables near-instant regeneration of limbs, organs, and tissues, with drastically accelerated healing when fuelled by stored radiation or internal energy reserves. Can regenerate self from a small part of the whole on the user's command]
[Pathogen & Toxin Nullification (Lv 1) (Fusion): Grants complete resistance to all poisons, infections, and chemicals, adapting rapidly to neutralize any threat as long as rest and energy are available.]
[Neural Singularity Matrix (Lv 1) (Fusion): Grants a distributed consciousness across all cells, ensuring survival even if nearly destroyed, while providing unparalleled control, coordination, and reflexive mastery over every part of the body.]
[Omni-Sensory Grid (Lv 1) (Fusion): Grants comprehensive sensory awareness through light, heat, electrical signals, and radiation, allowing near-omniscient environmental perception even in extreme or obscured conditions of the surrounding environment.]
[Toxicomancer Core (Lv 1) (Fusion): Grants the ability to weaponize a wide spectrum of toxins and neurotoxins through precise filament-based delivery or wide-area dispersal, enabling strategic biochemical assaults that disrupt, disable, or kill even highly resistant organisms.]
[Hadopelagic Vital Engine (Lv 1) (Fusion): Allows seamless respiratory function across all environments; land, sea, or oxygen-deprived zones, through hybridized lung-gill exchange, pressure-immune metabolism, and anaerobic oxygen synthesis, enabling indefinite survival in the harshest depths or atmospheres without fatigue or suffocation.]
[Adaptive Apex Exoshell (Lv 1) (Fusion): Grants an ultra-dense, flexible external armour system capable of dynamically shifting texture, hardness, and form in response to external threats, delivering maximum defence against blunt force, piercing, and elemental damage while maintaining full mobility and impact dispersion across critical points, including cranial zones.]
[Thermal Extremophile Core (Lv 1) (Fusion): Enables full biological functionality and combat efficiency in both sub-zero and extreme heat conditions by regulating internal systems and cell membranes, granting resistance to thermal-based attacks and environmental extremes without loss of stamina or metabolic stability.]
[Reactive Thermo-Muscular Drive (Lv 1) (Fusion): Grants advanced internal cooling via both water-based and self-circulated systems, allowing continuous peak muscular output without overheating, while specialized glands discharge heat in bursts to prevent tissue damage, enabling sudden surges of explosive strength through tightly coiled muscle fibres.]
[Hyperkinetic Apex Arsenal (Lv 1) (Fusion): Grants overwhelming offensive capability through ultra-dense musculature, precision tentacle control, explosive kinetic build-up, and bone-shattering bite force, enabling devastating bursts of physical destruction with unmatched control and fluidity in both close-quarters and high-momentum strikes.]
[Terrestrial Combat Dominance (Lv 1) (Fusion): Grants supreme stability, instinctive balance, terrain adaptability, and predictive combat movement on land, enabling flawless manoeuvrability, grip, and positional control even across unstable or vertical surfaces during high-speed or high-impact engagements.]
[Hyperdense Musculoskeletal Frame (Lv 1) (Fusion): Provides an ultra-compacted muscular and internal support structure, drastically increasing strength, impact resistance, and physical output while maintaining flexibility and integrity even under extreme forces or rapid movement.]
[Cephalopocalyptic Armament System (Lv 1) (Fusion): Enables deployment of hyper-pressurized, armour-piercing barbed quills from reinforced suction appendages capable of extreme force manipulation, while simultaneously releasing high-density neurotoxic ink clouds that obscure vision, impair senses, and corrode tissue; optimized for devastating ambushes and multidirectional suppression across all environments.]
[Predatory Maw Configuration (Lv 1) (Fusion): Grants a highly adaptable, extendable tri-jaw system with forward-projecting secondary mandibles and tusk-lined beak capable of piercing armour and anchoring prey, allowing for high-speed feeding, internal evisceration, and control over struggling targets during combat.]
[Radiotropic Apex Core (Lv 1) (Fusion): Enables full-scale biological conversion of absorbed radiation into adaptive growth energy, accelerating ability advancement, bodily repair, and potential future trait fusion rates beyond natural thresholds.]
[Eternal Genomorph Propagation (Lv 1) (Fusion): Grants the ability to reproduce asexually through cellular division, creating genetic descendants that inherit the original consciousness and abilities; if the primary body is destroyed, any matured descendant may serve as a vessel for rebirth, ensuring practical immortality through continuity of mind and power.]
[Osteovoric Ensnarement Membrane (Lv 1) (Fusion): Contact with the user's external tissue results in rapid adhesion and the secretion of bone-dissolving enzymes, allowing ensnared prey to be broken down at the skeletal level while being restrained.]
Having completed the first phase of his grand evolution, Mark now floated in the depths of the Pacific Ocean in complete silence, yet his thoughts burned with intensity as his mind evaluated the progress of his transformation.
His flesh tingled from the afterglow of the nuclear radiation still surging through him, fuelling every cell with energy beyond comprehension.
However, it was not enough. Not for what was coming.
With a mental command to the system, he reviewed the status of his Genome Saturation Index—an absurdly low number blinked back at him: 0.00%.
He narrowed all twelve of his armoured eyes, each of them covered with the same MUTO-hardened shielding that now encased his body. The fusion had been monumental, but it was only the beginning.
He needed more. More radiation. More energy. More saturation. With a ripple of his limbs and a whip of his coiled muscles, Mark surged toward the western seaboard of the United States, diving through the darkness like a predator forged from the abyss.
His destination was clear; the next nuclear cache. If his assumptions were correct, and his new radiation-sensing abilities were now heightened to near perfection, then he had already locked onto the pulse of another warhead buried deep in a heavily fortified silo near the Californian coast.
He would claim it. And he would ascend again.
…
Meanwhile, thousands of miles away and far beyond the oceanic currents Mark churned through, inside a frozen, ancient fortress of jagged ice, a different story was unfolding.
The snow that had fallen for millennia around the Antarctic containment facility was beginning to melt; not from any climate anomaly, but from a carefully orchestrated detonation orchestrated by a group whose motives were shrouded in blood, belief, and madness.
A black-clad mercenary lifted a gloved hand to his comm unit, "Charges placed and counting. This will wake it up."
Behind him, a woman stepped forward, her expression calm and unblinking, her presence as cold as the glacier around her.
"Let it come," she whispered, her voice lost in the swirling wind, "Let the king fall. Let the old gods rise again."
A thunderous detonation tore through the ice, shaking the foundations of the earth. White smoke billowed into the sky as the ancient walls of the ice prison shattered, exploding outward in a blinding eruption of frost and yellow light.
The creature beneath had waited; dormant, coiled in nightmare, wings folded like the ruins of a collapsed cathedral, and now, it stirred. Massive talons carved through the fractured remains of the tomb.
A shrieking cry, louder than any storm, echoed across the wastelands of the continent. The sky dimmed. The wind howled. Lightning gathered unnaturally in the clouds above, as though paying homage to a being whose very existence defied the laws of the planet.
Monster Zero had awoken.
And the world would soon know chaos once more.