Particle Practice (1)

The path of the Stellar Era was opened for humanity when David Ollins heard his father say him that one phrase.

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Industrial Era

The mortality rate of the world's population has decreased by a huge amount due to increased health consciousness, increased effectiveness of medicines and the rise of social awareness.

Even though humanity found various ways to increase their lifespan to achieve as much as possible, the bitter truth of death always managed to get hold of them.

During the Industrial Era, many people even formed cults related to the concept of the Death.

After all, Death is the only part of this world that didn't differentiate between poor, rich, healthy, old, male, female, handicapped, famous celebrity or a strong politician.

Death is fair to everybody. Even though the humans go through the different treatment that led them to their death, the concept of death was fair in itself and eventually reaps away the life of unfortunate souls.

The same thing happened to David Ollins' mother. She was a beautiful woman. She took care of the Ollins household and always made David feel a strange warmth. Even though he didn't know what the feeling he felt during his contacts with his mother was, he did know one thing and that is, his mother made him feel wanted, appreciated and comfortable.

Similar to many humans, David's mother also succumbed to her death because of an unfortunate car accident. His father felt distraught and fell into the vicious circle of drugs and alcohol, giving David an extremely hard time.

David didn't say anything about the harsh treatment he received because he could feel his father's sadness. After all, his mother was something more to his father. He kept enduring his father's beatings silently and one day, his father gave up on himself too.

"David, sorry. Remember, you are not like me. You are a light of hope that I and your mother are leaving in this place. You will reach the heights that we both couldn't. Never forget-

Your capabilities are endless."

David looked at his father's face in a confused manner. He wasn't a grown up and didn't know that this would be his father's parting words for him.

He looked at his father's face– Extremely pale with a lot of unkempt facial hairs. Dark bags hung beneath his drug-crazed, red eyes. He looked at his father's beautiful (maniacal) smile as he walked up to a hoop made of rope and hung himself right in front of his eyes.

His world immediately crumbled apart and only his father's crazed expression remained inside his mind.

"Your capabilities are endless."

This phrase kept on repeating inside his mind and this unfortunate and irrelevant incident that took place in one of the greed and desire filled part of the so-called modern society.

***

"Please welcome David Ollins for his lecture on Particle Practice with a round of big applause."

David Ollins is invited a lot of times to lecture the group of brightest students and particle practitioners about the concept of the particle practice. Usually, David would decline such invitations but he decided to accept this one. It wasn't only this invitation, he planned to accept all the lecture invitation and lure as many promising youths he can.

The auditorium wasn't that huge and only held an area of ten square kilometres. The exterior of the auditorium looked like a white dome with many holographic lights placed on the top of the ceiling. The dome was built using the powder obtained by crushing the white golem's body into dust. The whole material allowed the structure to be sturdy and also allowed the interior to remain warm and comfortable because of its qualities.

The auditorium held almost five hundred students that were given their own personal study room. The whole area of ten square kilometres was separated by many small rooms that ranged up to 1300. These rooms were built specifically to help the students attending the lecture to remain focused by taking care of their needs.

The interior of the room was painted light blue and a holographic projector was placed in front of the desk of the student. To the right side of the box like projector was a small bot that was attached to the desk. On the foot of the bot were three buttons- Inquiry, Suggestion, Answer.

At this moment, almost 500 rooms were occupied.

Most of the students came from influential families and many of their families even funded David's research in past.

"Hello. I am thankful for the Jedli Institute for inviting me to communicate with such talented youths. I will start with the lecture and all the questions will be held until I am finished."

A holographic image of David popped up from the black coloured, cubical holographic projector.

He took a moment to collect his thoughts and started his lecture. In the auditorium, alongside many students, all of the teachers were present. This lecture was something even they didn't want to miss.

"As you may all know, my research emerged from a single phrase– A Human's body holds endless capabilities."

"My research took a different road and became a training routine of some sorts to explore those endless capabilities. The particle practice is the journey that led me to find my point of origin and make changes to that very point to enhance the capabilities of my body."

"The point of origin I discovered through my research allowed me to make basic adjustments to my body such as increased mental ability and increased body strength and stuff like that. These adjustments allowed me to dive further into my research and led to the early stages of the Gene enhancers. Since this lecture is for particle practice, I won't be diving into the topic of genetic modifications. Before I start the core points of my lectures, does anybody have any questions."

One of the students pressed the inquiry button.

"Yes, room 134. Is there anything I can help you with. Please keep your questions regarding the topic we spoke."

A cute and childlike voice was transmitted to David and all others listening to the lecture.

"Professor David, is this true that a Human has endless capabilities even if its point of origin is damaged?"

A lot of people listening to the question shook their heads while some sneered. The projection of David smiled warmly instead.

"Please be patient with me. This is also one of the topics that I will cover during my lecture."

His sentence not only shocked the child who asked the question, but it also made many of the students listening to the lecture feel overjoyed and left many teachers overwhelmed.

***

"Sigh, this feeling of finding your true self is really awesome. I am really fortunate to have a second chance to find a particle that truly resonates with me."

Arav was sitting on his bed with a satisfied expression. Even though his bed was otherworldly that provided him with great benefits, he felt satisfied because of a whole different reason.

Right now, his eyes were closed as he sat cross-legged in a meditative stance. He was entering the realm of meditation to find the point of origin aka Base Particle.

"The misconceptions of there being a single point of origin is something only we both found out. There is no rush to optimise her practice right now. All I need to do is to focus on getting myself stronger before Ollins play his move."

Arav muttered as he tried to look 'inside' his body.

"Even though I know how to enter my consciousness, it is still difficult during the first try."

He wasn't willing to practice the methods of particle enhancement around his parents. Even though his parents told that they were going away for a day, their trip would extend because of the sudden move of David.

"Even the biography of David didn't speak of the reasons about his obsession with human beings having limitless capabilities. That is just a dream. Humans are a weak and petty creature. We use everything we have to accomplish something and the same is the case with the particle practice. We use various gene enhancers to optimise the particle to enhance ourselves and still proclaim that it is our body that has limitless capabilities. Laughable."

"Human body is like a spatial realm with its own constellations. It has boundaries. It only depends on oneself regarding the base particle we choose and amount of foundation particles we can produce."

As Arav started speaking about the particle practice that he modified, his mind slowly calmed down and he was able to enter the realm of his consciousness.