Illustris

Excerpt:
“An intruder has been detected.”
Was it talking about me? 
“The Branding System rejects this specimen for branding. The Subject must be eradicated.” The automated voice spoke again.  
What?
Panic rose within Aksel at once, he didn’t understand what was happening to him but he knew that in a few seconds he was going to be killed.
But why?
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It was the year 3022 and Earth had gone through a series of changes reaching new technological and metaphysical heights. Humans had generated into a superior level of beings where they were now classified into three categories based on their body structure and strength when they came upon the age of twenty. 
This could be achieved by a process called The Branding System which branded the humans under one of the three categories of Contrivos, Exters or Debilis making their body undergo a set of transformations respectively.
The world has lost its sense of equality and power is all that can help you survive and live a good life but when Aksel Bruwes is rejected by the system and remains unbranded, his life turns over completely.
How is he going to stay alive in this world where everyone is stronger than him and what is he going to do when he learns about the hideous truths about the System? 
Not to forget that the said System is after his life.
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DISCLAIMER: This is not the usual “SYSTEM” novels that you read where a MC is provided with a SYSTEM that trains him to make him overpowered by levelling up. Here, SYSTEM means an organized scheme or method.

The Branding System

The metal ladder steps that were fixed into the hard walls of the earth felt cold under Aksel's slightly sweaty palms. He occasionally rubbed it on the material of his pants while looking down at the utter darkness that was greeting him.


The mud and rock surrounding the 2-meter wide hole felt cooler as one went further down it. The opening above looked a mile away, where only a small circle of light from the dark sky and the moon that had thankfully been peeping through it were visible. The abyss had conjured up scenarios of every scary possibility that Aksel's imaginative brain could think of which only led to him feeling more and more desperate to feel the solid ground below his feet.


'Should I just jump down?' he wondered as he felt tired of the uncertainty of how much more longer did he have to do this monotonous exercise of lifting one booted leg down the other rod.


Chapter 28: Snatched