Doomsday Pillars

Chapter 12 - Power Up

Doomsday came with a disease. Even after 11 years, humankind still had no idea why and how it happened. We only knew what the aftermath did to us. About 80% of the world's population died. But actually, the whole 100% of the human race and even all living things in the world got infected. The ones who died with it returned to life as the walking dead, a zombie. The ones who lived were also affected, they mutated. Humans, animals, plants, all lifeforms slowly mutated into something else. For the human survivors, everyone also slowly mutated, we became stronger and faster.

Muscle strength, reaction speed, flesh and bone density, stamina, regeneration speed, all slowly increased. Later the Doomsday Pillars showed us that humans had the capability to break the boundaries of their bodies. It was separated into 4 realms. Each with its own 30 levels and divided into the low, middle and high stage. .

The first is the Mortal realms, normal humans start with the low stage, level 10 to level 15 can be the difference between an unfit person and a trained soldier. The middle stage are the specially trained human, they had the running speed of gold medal sprinters like Usain Bolt, the stamina of a professional mountain climber and muscle strength of a heavyweight boxer. The high stage is the limit of the human body, that is why it's called the Mortal Realm. They will have 3 times the strength, the speed, the endurance of the middle stage. When the body reached level 30, it turned into the peak of the Mortal Realm. It will reach a bottleneck and the only secret to upgrade the realm is within the Doomsday pillars. Hence the reasons that the pillars were the only hope of survival for humanity.

The next Realm is the Earth Realm, The Sky Realm and the Saint Realm. In his past life, Alex was at the low stage Sky realm, at that level he was already considered a leading figure to humankind. As for the Saint rank, they were humanities' greatest warriors. And they were very rare, Alex only knew a few of them.

The plague naturally changed every living thing, humans and beasts were gradually transformed, but each body had different reactions, sometimes it would take more than 5 years to reach the peak of the Mortal Realm naturally, some only required 1 year, and some rare lucky individuals even received special powers. The pillar named these individuals as the Evolve. They have the talent to improve not only as the body enhancers but also as spirit enhancers. Actually, spirit enhancer is not really an alien term, history has noted a few people around the world who successfully understood the foundation of a spirit enhancer. But around the world, they were known with other names, such as; Magic, Chakra, Dao, Psychic and many more. The mutation only made their talent in spirit become many times stronger. The greatest warriors Alex ever met in his past life was the Evolve Saint who could manipulate fire. But in the end, he also ended up perishing when surrounded by hundreds of mutated beast.

There are few ways to increase a person's level and reach their peak realm. One is by naturally with times of constant fighting, and the other was the faster way, by consuming spirit stones that sometimes could be salvaged from the bodies of mutated beasts or zombies.

At the moment, in Alex's hand, there were 50 pieces of white spirit stones. He's currently thinking what the best way to use them was. One is to recharge the Golem, it will make the Golem stronger and be able to be used longer. Or to consume and make himself and some other people stronger.

At the end of his past life, 50 pieces of white spirit stones actually were like a small change, it was the lowest grade spirit stones. In 10 years time, almost every monster already turned into a mutated beast so they were almost everywhere. But at the moment, these white spirit stones are the greatest treasure ever.

Alex actually already decided before he even came to this place. He already knew what he will find, and of course, he will choose the survival of his friends and family as a priority, so he already came prepared to share the spirit stones. But it was just when he saw the Golem that he got a bit swayed to give some of the stones to the Golem.

Finally, he decided to give just a few to the golem just enough to be his life-saving artifacts. Alex decided to give 10 of the stones to the golem.

"Damn, this is a rank 2 Golem, 10 white spirit stone only give him around 5% power."

With that amount of power, it will still only have the power of Rank 1 golem. Rank 1 golems have the same power as a peak stage Mortal realm, so at the moment it should be sufficient.

As for humans, one white spirit stone can elevate a person from low stage Mortal Realm into the middle stage. 5 of them to turns you into the high stage, and another 10 to the peak of the Mortal Realm.

"There is really no point to reaching peak Mortal realm right now, as I can't upgrade to the next realm until I have access to the doomsday pillar."

Alex decided to consume 6 of them right now.

The spirit stones are the essence of energy from living beings. When the living bodies mutated and consumed more energy, the spirit stones inside will also turn stronger and evolve. Alex took six of these energy essences right now. It will take a few hours for him to absorb all of them. The stones are only the size of a peanut and when they reached his stomach, they slowly dissolved into millions of particles and attached to his veins. Slowly the temperature of his body increased, sweat started running down all around his body. If observed closely, there was dark filth that could be seen pouring out together with the sweat. His body was removing all the negative essence bit by bit. After a few hours, he could feel all his muscles around his body contracting, and the warm essence slowly turned cool. He could feel the breeze until the tip of his finger. Alex opened his eyes, he felt that he could hear better and smell better. All of his 5 senses were enhanced. The feeling was exhilarating.

After a few hours Alex finally stood up, he felt so full of energy, he was now in the high stage of the Mortal Realm. From his past experience, he should be around level 25. He will not know exactly until he gets inside the Pillars. But at the moment he probably was the strongest human on earth. He tested his strength a little, he jumped up as high as he could, and he could touch the ceiling, which should be around 5 meters. He picked up a stone and pressed it hard on his arm, and "Crack" he broke it.

Alex was full of confidence right now, he stored the golem and the stones back into the storage ring, walked and dove back out of the lake. It was already noon outside, he spent more than 12 hours inside.

Alex walked back to the temple, took the car and drove back all the way to Bali main city to meet his family in the hotel. It seemed that they were having such a nice holiday that his family didn't really realize he had gone for 3 days.

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At a time like this, he wondered why did he try so hard...

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After dinner together, he then took a long night's sleep.