Chapter 2

- DAY 2-

Zero decided to train his Trena amount today by using the method he found yesterday via over exhausting himself, he knew each time that his trena values were depleted he would gain a permanent 10% increase in his maximum capacity.

But doing this process is very time consuming, since its inefficient, he took 1 hour alone to completely use up all of his remaining capacity plus, he had and an extra thirty minutes to recover it all.

This issue could be solved by creating a possible trena absorber or meditating to create more 'trena cores'. By creating the trena absorber he could passively cultivate and boost his recovery by a significant degree but that was only in "theory", and the materials he would need to do so with isn't even close to his disposal.

'Trena cores' are created energy supplies that are made from either evolving or meditation. Evolution though rarely grants trena cores, with its percentage being a 3.5% success rate, so most combatants that exist use meditation to slowly cultivate themselves to create more cores, which would take weeks to accomplish successfully.

After quickly deciding the route he would eventually take which was meditation, he would still need a human like with actual meridians and pathways in his body to even do so, his current self was currently machine so he decided to start spending multiple hours of completely exhausting his trena supply, over and over again for half the day.

After resting, he quickly started to do human like workouts once more to strengthen his exoskeletal body. The same was with this process as well, giving a permanent 10% boost if he pushed himself hard enough through the physical stress, while increasing the weights each time they weren't enough.

- 1 WEEK LATER/ DAY 9-

After a week of constantly exhausting himself, and constantly pushing his mechanical body to the limit, he had grown by 2 centimeters, he was now 1.32 meters in height, it was due via pushing himself constantly. He had now grown tremendously over the weak, a passive 10% increase each day for both his trena and physique is very beneficial over time.

Not only that, he also increased his other stat areas, by a relatively significant degree as well. He then decided to check his status since he had just worked out...

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PL/POWER LEVEL: 232

NAME: ZERO

RACE: Android

EVOLUTION: 49%

HEALTH POINTS: 260/260 -- TRENA POINTS: 2923/2923

STR: 3001 KG (Post Exercising himself)

TRE: 22

VIT: 26

DEF: 16

AGI: 21

ABILITIES:

PASSIVES: Adaptive power increase, Evolution, Morphing lvl 1 (89.9%)

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After seeing his status he realised he could easily contend and challenge most tier 1 lurkers and have a guaranteed victory, he was now more powerful than them in physical strength alone.

He now realised he was strong enough to enter into the zones at which the monsters resided, but that was an issue in itself. Such zones were tightly guarded by security to ensure random civilians wouldn't head outside the city and lukers breaching inside. He knew that he had to operate at night, then to watch the guarding patterns, then to create an easy access within and an easy getaway route as well.

But easy said than done.

After waiting until near midnight, he quickly scanned the patterns of the guards, and navigating the the 100s of the most efficient ways to get in and out of the premises.

the guards were walking briskly and watching vigilantly to ensure nothing goes wrong. Zero then made a quick dash as fast and quietly as he could, the exact moment the guard turned his head, zero headed towards the wall and climbed them before the lights could even reach him.

After dodging the lights by a hair's length, zero jumped made it inside the zone. After landing safely, he quickly scanned his surroundings looking around using his night vision mode and sonar radar to sense nearby presences, only then realizing the barren and destroyed wasteland that was showing remnants of the old " new york city", noe filled with trees and wildlife lurking around.

If anyone saw zeros face, they would see the look of shock and possible even sadness, it was his first seeing something like this... even if he had the recordings of this place and then more, after staring off into the horizon more he felt something happening to him, a new strange emotion that was arising within his robotic mind, " sadness ", this 'feeling' was akin to sadness.

He felt somewhat 'sympathetic', or atleast what he thought it was, for what the humans had to go through... the children, families and lives had been lost during the breakout of the lurkers, killing them without mercy.

After realising how hard it must have been for the the humans. He quickly got back to his main objective at hand, quickly looking for lone rank 1 lurkers, scouring the bushes and grassland as well. after pushing aside a set of bushes in front of him, his raday finally spotted a lone lurker, 500m away from his current location.

He quickly made a dash towards the creature being south of him initially, while also being very quite as well, to not alert the beast he was going to fight. Then he finally reached within ten metres of it, witnessing the lurker which was easily 3 metres tall, devouring a creature, which was seemingly a bear.

After waiting for the lurker to be fully engrossed into its eating he would jump it, zero quickly pulled out a weapon which he created from himself, A nanobot blade, capable of devouring other inorganic or organic matter with self repairing properties and capable of even evolution as well. It was the perfect weapon, which was also somewhat sentient.

After quickly playing hundreds of simulations within his mind while utilizing slight precognition of where the monster would go and its weakest points, he then decided to quickly dash towards it... .

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