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

Panic struck them at the sudden appearance of the light rapidly getting closer to them.

"Do you think it has sensed us?" Yve asked slightly scared of the unknown that had been lurking under the water. It was difficult to identify what it could have been but it had sparked a sense of fear in all of them.

"Hurry, put out the fire first!" Aster said as she herself moved to step on the fire that had been blazing till now.

"What are you trying to do?" Renee asked slightly panicked that if the light would be put away then they would have even less of a chance to be saved from this unknown anomaly that they had never seen before.

"Just trust me!" Aster shouted, a little pissed that she had been questioning her even now when their lives were at stakes, "I have a feeling that it can sense warmth. The birds must have been its target for that reason."

Chapter 105: Lamp