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 city had been protected by massive walls like any other branding city would but for some reason these walls looked older in comparison to the others. These tall standing masses of gray had been festered with cracks running from the top to the bottom.

The sky above looked just as grey now that they had landed below and in all the vibe that the city gave them hadn't been like any other they had felt before.

"It's still a little too quiet," Renee muttered breaking the silence as she brought her gaze to her members and said, "Let's go in then."

Moving forward Aksel wondered what was the security measures that this particular city might have taken as he tried to touch the old walls and found a layer of dust accumulate on his fingertips at once. It wasn't a holographic wall like in Aquilo and neither did it seem like it would have any security at the gate like Novus had.

Chapter 68: Ghost City