Absolute In/Existence

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Long Tian rode the maglev train and went straight to his apartment. He removed his clothes and showered before wearing the best clothes the dead boy had.

After that, Long Tian took the maglev train to Han Sen's house that was located in a neighboring city. The trip was short and Long Tian was amazed at the size of Han Sen's house.

"This is pretty nice," Long Tian said after Han Sen invited him into the house.

"Thank you." Han Sen nodded with a smile before entering the kitchen, where a woman and little girl of 8 years were preparing the table.

Strong 'breath'.

Long Tian heard it the instant the door opened. The strong and smooth breaths of the woman that came in and left in patterns. She was practicing a particularly powerful Hyper Geno Art, or at least what appeared to be one. All he knew was that the breath was strong. Moving his eyes, Long Tian noticed that she was strong as well, many times stronger than Qin Xuan who was close to reaching the peak of God's Sanctuary.

Aside from the God's Sanctuary that Long Tian was in with Han Sen, there existed more. It was unknown exactly how many there are, but so far, everyone knows that there are four.

In the first God's Sanctuary, the status of the people is at the unevolver level, after that is the Evolver which one attains after entering the second God's Sanctuary. Which is then followed by Surpasser and lastly Demigod.

Each title represented a particular God's Sanctuary. Once one attains 100 geno points, they have the option to move to the next God's Sanctuary and grow stronger.

"Wow, Sen, you didn't tell me you had a beautiful older sister," Long Tian said as he smiled and greeted the woman.

The woman giggled at his praise whilst Han Sen wore a weird look on his face.

"Thank you, but I'm little Sen's mother, Luo Sulan. It's nice to meet a friend of my little Sen," Luo Sulan said with a smile. "Please take care of him in God's Sanctuary."

Long Tian nodded.

"Of course. Sen is a friend of mine. His safety is something I worry about when we go hunting," Long Tian replied. With Han Sen being his friend, Long Tian wasn't about to let his first friend die any time soon.

"How great! Now, let's go eat."

Luo Sulan smiled at Long Tian's answer and went into the kitchen before bringing out a nice sumptuous meal that she had prepared herself. Smelling the food, Long Tian smiled and suddenly missed a good tasting meal.

For the past couple of days, he had been eating tasteless meat. If he had the time, maybe he should learn the Alliance's cooking and make delicious meals in God's Sanctuary.

"This is amazing," he commented after eating many bites out of the meal.

Han Sen's mother smiled and thanked him for the compliment. She ate her food with a smile on her face, glad about the compliment made to her food.

With relish, they ate the food happily whilst making some small talk. Talking about the amazing coincidence they had in meeting here in Planet Roca and then discovering that Long Tian was placed in the same shelter as Han Sen.

"What an amazing coincidence," Luo Sulan commented as she took her plate to the sink for cleaning.

Han Sen and Long Tian nodded, finishing their food closely after Luo Sulan. The only one still eating was Han Sen's younger sister of 8 years, Han Yan.

"Come, let's help out your mother."

Dragging Han Sen up, Long Tian got to helping Luo Sulan. Picking up the dirty dishes, whilst Han Sen got to washing them.

"It's okay, I can do it," Luo Sulan said as she tried to stop Long Tian.

Smiling, he shook his head and continued to help out. "It's fine. It's the least Sen and I could do to thank you for the delicious meal. Please take a rest or play with little Yan," offered Long Tian.

"Alright," responded Luo Sulan, giving in. She smiled and went over to Han Yan who had finished eating. Wiping her face and mouth clean, Luo Sulan took her somewhere else to play.

Washing and cleaning together, Han Sen and Long Tian sat down. Sitting next to each other with a cup of water in their hands.

As they drank their cups of water and talked, they heard the laughter of Han Yan and Luo Sulan.

"Up for a game?"

Suddenly, Han Sen turned to Long Tian with a smile. His eyes carried a mischievous glint in them as he proposed a game, red hands.

With a raised eyebrow, Long Tian grew a little curious.

Agreeing, Long Tian stretched his hands out.

"Let's make this game difficult. Our hands will be touching… you know the rules, right?" Han Sen asked.

Long Tian nodded, recalling the game.

Red Hands, a game where two people slap at each other's hands. Taking turns when one fails to slap the other's hand. The game tests reflexes, reaction time, judgement and focus.

With hands touching, Han Sen and Long Tian began the game.

Slap!

Without realizing it, Long Tian had his hands slapped by Han Sen. The game had just begun and Long Tian had lost to the first move.

"What's wrong? You didn't react at all?" Han Sen teased as he prepared for the next move.

Smiling, Long Tian nodded.

"Let's go again."

Still, Long Tian lost the next couple of moves. His eyes moved and he maintained the smile on his face. It was an interesting game and he felt like it really forced him to pay attention. Especially with a player like Han Sen who played seriously in order to not lose.

Playing this game, Long Tian began to play seriously as well.

Smack!

Still, the tip of his fingers were hit and Han Sen had won once more. The more he and Han Sen played, the more Long Tian improved and he was improving rapidly. Yet as he improved, so did Han Sen.

His ability to understand was quite good, he improved the more he realized his mistakes. Different from Long Tian who has strong comprehension abilities and simply has to train to improve his physical abilities.

Long Tian can see Han Sen moving his hands and slapping down, but by the time his body is finally moving, he has already been slapped. Playing this game with Han Sen is like training his reflexes.

As for reaction time, judgement and focus, he could already do it. 'Defending' from Han Sen was helping him improve his reflexes.

"Would you like a chance?" Han Sen asked with a knowing look. "To be the slapper."

Long Tian shook his head, a smile still on his face. "It's not needed," he chuckled. "Let me continue trying."

Han Sen shrugged his shoulders and continued playing. His eyes followed Long Tian's hands and watched as he was slowly slipping from him and improving. He grew serious and Long Tian was slowly becoming better than him.

Surprise covered Han Sen's face, amazed at how rapidly Long Tian had become better.

"Come on Sen, you're slacking," Long Tian slapped back with a grin.

Han Sen's eyes rolled around, curious as to how Long Tian had improved. He wondered, 'Was what he said earlier true? Helping me train efficiently?'

Growing curious, Han Sen stopped playing and decided to end it for the day.

"I'll see you at God's Sanctuary. We're hunting a couple bigger ordinary creatures until we discover some smaller ones," Han Sen said.

Long Tian nodded and stood up.

"It's fine, I'll do some searching as well," Long Tian added. He walked but stopped as he thought of something. "Any maps?"

Han Sen thought for a second before nodding and shaking his head. With a wry smile, he sighed. "There's maps, but they're under tight hold of other families and companies. Trading routes and best beast souls to get after all."

Raising his eyebrows, Long Tian chuckled, having expected it. With a smirk, he shook his head and laughed.

"We'll see about that."

"Do you mean, exploring?"

"Exploring? Maybe afterwards. First, I'll research some stuff."

The plan Long Tian had was going on skynet and gathering info from the forums. With his ability of comprehension and knowledge, Long Tian can create a map after piecing together some information.

Of course, mapping out God's Sanctuary will be rather difficult. The size of God's Sanctuary hasn't been confirmed just yet and not many have spent the time to explore. The best he can do is the general area around Steel Armor Shelter without wasting too much time on it.

Long Tian talked with Han Sen shortly before heading out. He went over to Luo Sulan to thank her for the meal and say goodbye to her and Han Yan. Yet what he saw surprised him when he found Han Yan and Luo Sulan playing Red Hands as well.

The odd thing was, Luo Sulan wasn't going easy. Her reflexes and everything else was on another level compared to a child and unevolved person with no geno points. Long Tian could barely even follow Luo Sulan's hands as she slapped little Han Yan's hands.

"Wow! You were so close!" Luo Sulan exclaimed to Han Yan who giggled.

Narrowing his eyes, Long Tian suddenly realized what was happening. Han Sen's mother had been training Han Sen and his sister, and it was helping them develop their potential and abilities.

'Impressive… this is something I need to learn and use on my future children,' Long Tian thought, already thinking of hundreds of methods to do the same.

Approaching them, he smiled and waved at them.

"Thank you for the dinner Ms. Luo. I hope you and Han Yan have a great night, goodbye."

Long Tian smiled and left after Luo Sulan and Han Yan said goodbye to him as well. From there, he returned to his usual routine after a good night's rest at his apartment.

Waking up the next day, Long Tian headed straight to God's Sanctuary. He arrived at the teleport station, and headed straight to the teleport pod only to be stopped once more by Qin Xuan.

She pulled him aside, a smile on her face as she looked at him up and down.

"Join my gang."

"Join your gang?"

Long Tian looked at Qin Xuan with a weird look, not really expecting her to ask him something like that.

She nodded.

"Join Bullseye and you will gain benefits. We hunt regularly for primitive and mutant creatures. If we're lucky, even Sacred-blood creatures land on our plates every now and then," Qin Xuan said, throwing Long Tian the bait, hoping he'd catch.

Sadly, this is Heaven we're talking about, aka Long Tian.

Long Tian smiled and shook his head. To hunt creatures of any level with a group felt like limiting himself. He wanted to grow strong and gain strength and abilities beyond the extreme level.

Working with others won't allow him to bring out his full potential.

Hunting with others won't allow him to develop and grow strong. He wanted to stand above all those who stand on the same level of strength as him. Hunting in teams just isn't for him.

"I can't join."

"Why not?" Qin Xuan frowned and crossed her arms.

"Freedom."

Uttering one word, Long Tian simply described what he sought. With freedom, he can accomplish his goal of becoming stronger.

"Do you want to be a normal soldier when you go to serve? Sent to fight Shura and fight day after day?" Qin Xuan asked, her eyes focused on Long Tian. "If you have my recommendation, you can enter any military school you want. You will be able to choose where to serve and won't have to be a common soldier."