Illustris

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“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 flash of bright light and whatever had been the 'thing' that had made that sound must have caused something to happen to the drone because it suddenly stopped working.

"No! What happened! Why isn't it working?" Aster worriedly asked hating the fact that she had listened to them and sent that drone inside. Pushing at the buttons to give her commands to somehow bring the Drone back but nothing worked as the screen remained completely black.

No one paid mind to her though as they were more terrified at what laid ahead for them. Whatever it was something far beastly than they had till now encountered. But what could it be? The only thing they could pin down for it was that it was some sort of an animal that had been hiding so many layers under the earth.

That was the only explanation for no branded or unbranded was capable of making such a sound that they could shake an entire cave. Or at least that's what they had seen so far.

Chapter 72: Embers