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

"It might look like it is blood but in reality it is a sea weed that provides it with that color," Aster said removing her dipped hand from the red river. It didn't leave any stains on her hand like blood would have and that was a relief to all the other four who had been waiting for her judgment.

Once they had been close enough the red plants were easy to make out but letting her investigate once was what they thought right.

"But I do think that something is odd about this river, for some reason I think that this river has no organisms living in it," She said as she motioned Yve to help her wash her hand with the fresh water that they had been carrying with themselves.

"Do you think that this river is poisonous?" Aksel asked noting how thoroughly she washed her hand.

"That could be a high possibility," she said as she then wiped her hand and sanitized it with some alcohol that she had.

Chapter 83: Poisonous?