Talent? Zone?

In this world Mutations are things that are constantly contested. The main question is how it occurs and why.

The other biggest question is 'why do animals easily 'mutation' or 'adapt' to their surroundings on a biological level but humans have pretty much stagnated genetically.'

This was a question left unanswered but not because it had no answer but because there was no need for it.

In the distant past , almost as if something happened to humanity, children all over the world began to awaken powers. foresight, superspeed, super strength and all such mutations all appeared. As time passed, even adults awakened them.

The event was called 'The Talent Awakening'. Countless varied abilities appeared in many people all of which are from comic books and cartoons.

In a short time genetic tests were done on thousands of people and they were found to have had a very similar bundle of DNA that was unlocked.

The genetic strand has areas that are easy to open and copy and others that are too tightly bound so it is regularly randomly built up.

Something in the body caused dozens of these sections to unwind and because they were random, the mutations were all different.

Another side effect that came with it is that the previous human strength limit changed greatly. Even someone without super strength powers could train their bodies to superhuman levels.

The first few years were in a state of tension because it was all so unknown but during that time, the powers grew more and the people adapted.

That's where disorganized youths form their own Gangs that soon turn violent and run rampant across the city in the world, humanity was once on the brink of extinction in these unforgiving lands when the world suddenly changed.

At that time, a person rose to power from a humble background and fended off the rampage alone.

His name was Edward Nitemere. He was a human, who had awakened a powerful talent to erase all Talents in his field of vision.

With his power, he beat up the delinquents easily like chickens and erected the Great Basketball Court with the government, establishing the Global Basketball Association with the duty to guard the people from future fights.

The people worshiped his feats and capability and refer to him as the first Hero who promote the Basketball, Edward Nitemere.

The Global Basketball Association is a professional basketball league, its headquarters was made in America after they adapted the sports to resolve future conflicts, at first they only gathered talented players on their country, coaching them on their own and arrange a match against other teams.

As the Association that defends humanity against the conflicts, the GBA had enjoyed a yearly tribute of massive fortune from their neighboring country.

The accumulated wealth and centralization of power in the country allowed it to develop rapidly, entering a new era. It's been hundreds of years since the start of the Human Restoration Era, when hope was restored to humanity after the Great Court was built. The Great Court was the symbol of humanity's hope.

The other country has also adopted the system since then. The basketball craze has already acknowledge by many country as their national sport including the Japan, where the Japanese Kobo Daishi hailed from but that story wil be for another time. And the basketball has already became part of the people daily lives.

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As Belial read the article related to special talent and awakening, he came to recognize a few things. First is that, there really is a wide array of abilities that was discovered in recent times. From normal sounding like Increased Vertical Jump to a weird sound name like Sticky Finger.

Second is the fact that in order for people in this world to access their full potential or maybe even surpass it, they have to first get access to the illusive state known as the [Zone].

Zone is a term referring to a players state when they reach their maximum potential. It is the state of extreme concentration and focus, all unnecessary though disappear and the athletes becomes absorb in their play.

Only those who have practice and practice earn the right to stand before the door, and it only opens unpredictably. It is the ultimate domain, open only to the chosen. The condition to enter this state vary from each person.

One fundamental requirements to enter The Zone is to have the extreme passion towards the game. There is even the rumor that even when they are not chosen they can still access it the Zone-like state, although it is noted to be only 90% of their potential that it is being drawn out, a step before the Zone. It was named as the [Pseudo Zone] state.

Further research on this topic has led the people to believe that it is only a possibility, the conclusion was it is very hard to enter that door. If there hypothesis is correct, the key to awakening is their latent potential awakening that is unique to that player, and entering a so called 'The Chosen Gate'.

After thinking about this thoughts, Belial just put this in the back of his mind and no longer bother about it. He should focus at the moment.

Well whatever, I should worry about this when I get there for now, I should get to her house and try to convince her to train me.

After deciding about some things Belial walked towards the house of his childhood friend Aria. It is time for some training.

(A/N: This is influenced based on the fanfiction A Reincarnator's story: He can't resist Basketball Charm. I searched and search but I think this is the appropriate time for info dump and thankfully I read this. I like the story btw. )