As the two slowly recovered from their injuries Shinji gets up and started examining the sniper rifle as they chit chat about how are they gonna design there suit perfectly for their roles as gunslinger and sniper Everett spoke "well I'll get going now I'll see you later Shinji and also I heard there's a leakage near here and I wanna invite you to go dungeon hunting" in a excited tone as Shinji about walk up to him and nodded but a clan member of theirs reported a news about the leakage and said "my lords I have terrible news the leakage are getting more frequent we can't raid it without proper gears and weapons" a tone of fear Shinji and Everett suited up in their prototype suits and went on one of the high the high radiation of Adaptatsiya is affecting the near by forest Everett prepaid his gun and Shinji is used his skill creator arsenal and created a boots with sonic booms to keep up with Everett increasing speed.
As they were about to reach it a giant figure landed in front of them and they immediately take stance and the huge figure roared and spoke "who dares to enter my domain I am meridi a god of hunger" said in a arrogant tone Everett started shooting and dodging as Everett was about to reach mid stage energy he didn't expect a second one emerged from the ground and started laughing "Nobody can get to mid stage when I am here you mortals are always so weak and fragi–" as he was about to finish his sentence Shinji fired a bullet and it pierced through its head and collapsed "you're no God IF YOU REALLY ARE A GOD WHAT'S THE TERM USE FOR THEIR NAME!!?" meridi started stuttering Everett got and started learning the patterns again but this time manage to maintain the mid stage "Headshot baby" as Everett shot him right in the heart at the right angle he manage to disrupt the the energy core of meridi and right when meridi was ready to retreat, Shinji used his creator arsenal to create gauntlets with flames and air and combine with Banka de Punces and started rapid punching meridi as he continues Shinji feeling his energy increasing and decreasing at the same time it's confusing but he didn't let that get to him as he lands the final blow and crushes his core even more they all disappeared Shinji and Everett deactivated everything they used to recover Adaptatsiya.
As they began to go closer to the leakage they suddenly sense the dragons inside the reacting to it and decide to try to atleast take a sample but the closer they go the more energy the dragons emit it almost like it's getting ready to evolve as they absorbed more and more they notice there skin becoming more dragon like scale and then suddenly huge amount Adaptatsiya begins to wrap around them becoming more larger as they clung right below the leakage the dragon energy kept getting denser and their clan recognized the 2 energy they rushed towards it and found 2 dense 200 meters and 590 meters big the bigger one seems to be Raiden energy for the reason Raiden is greedy when it comes to energy and Ganglion is the opposite even though he has a small pool of it it's denser than Raiden but Raiden has more to overclock the evolution the clan members immediately building a structure near it to keep it stable as weeks goes by they enclose they closed the structure because the vessel are almost complete to negate it they managed it by using limited archaian to overclock it high risk but if it successfully evolved there clan would reach top 1 when they break this news to everyone.
The first ball exploded destroyed half of the structure the members check and saw Shinji fully developed wings, tail and long curve spikes on his wrist about 3 spike each wrist they transfer him to the medical bay but Raiden's ball is still there but this time it's getting denser and smaller almost like Raiden fully accepted Everett will unlike Ganglion who is still deciding but accepted anyways but he used the brutal way he made it explode to literally make him reset his adapting process.
As the ball got denser of Raiden it made a figure of Everett and popped normally Everett stands up normally and got out of the shrine and saw his members shocked and immediately started swarming him with questions but Everett refused and flies away
Shinji immediately blitz through the air to catch up and started exchanging information but the clan leader was enrage that they were the ones that got chosen by high Adaptatsiya tier dragons and the clan members just obeyed and continue their jobs and Shinji parted ways with Everett and the reason because they'll part ways to train their dragon forms and they splits with their materials, currencies and and their roles, weapons as they flies away the clans are shocked that they left.
(Focusing on Everett)
As Everett was flying in a huge city filled with cultivators with monster and Everett landed near the entrance and paid the entrance fee and almost immediately getting attention as he was walking around searching for a good place to stay for the night and immediately stayed at a shrine and slept at the top of the roof
The next day..
Everett woke up and immediately took a citizen test 6 blocks away from the shrine as he started finishing his information and passed and now a official citizen of qin shan and he was walking around the city and found a school of cultivation called
Lunario, and decided to enroll examiner spoke "I am ze huang your examiner and I will teach you how to cultivate your cores and even having
Therian type pets and basically beast pets and if u have any questions you may talk now" in a very serious tone but nobody asked and the bell starts and all students starts answering the sheet of paper and hours pass by 117 pass out of a 500 and Everett barely passed at a 26/60 but his examiner gave him a passing grade and left to report to the principal to enrolled again and finally accepted and he immediately celebrated by eating alot in a tavern and caught the attention of some people and a local gang went towards him and their captain spoke "Hey there this is my seat" Everett just ignores him and continues eating his the gang is baffled and immediately punches his head and Everett immediately enraged stands up towering over him and then roars so loud it launch them and screams "I DO.. NOT... HAVE TIME FOR WEAKLINGS LIKE YOU!!!!" Raiden voice spoke and sent some people flying and paid for his meal and as he was about to leave the gang leader screams at him "this is not over between us i own this town and I'll get you out of here" Everett just ignored it and left now Everett left and goes to a Therian shop to buy or to ask for some recommendations as the staff showing him some B tier Therians Raiden spoke in his head "pick the one with the Rock element i sense something dormant in it" in a relax tone Everett spoke to the staff "miss can I get this Therian."points at the Rock element Therian as the staff spoke "this sir is a Geo type rock and this species is known as Minfit they eat Geo for evolution." she spoke in a convincing tone Raiden spoke in his mind "don't trust her I can sense they eat dragon scales and golden core fragments and if you pick it then we'll have a strong ally" in a confident voice Everett nods at the staff and as the staff gave Everett the contract paper for the "Minfit" as Everett made it official of owning the tiny rock Everett named it Rost and carried him back to the school to present his Therian and presented as a Rock type first tier and got an 79% out of 100% and other students started celebrating for their succession of their class selection and Everett bump into a girl with red eyes, lightish gray long hair with a half scar on her right eye "oh my god I'm so sorry" in a worried tone and immediately help out Everett "sorry for that again my name Le Sheng Hua" extended her hand and Everett shook it as they were walking and chatting while going to their class Everett was shock that he was choose to be in section 1B-A the top 2 class in their school and Everett learnt that Le is one of the dangerous and most intelligent cultivator in their section their are 3 different section 1st Quartz is the lowest and one of the most populated cultivators but have the weakest link D-C tier Therian, 2nd which is where Everett was chosen and their tier is B-A and the name is Link Steel and the top tier class is Spirit Cores and their tier is S the strongest there is as Everett entered their class and immediately told Raiden to scan for some possible allies to improve on their Therian but Raiden immediately said "just go with fucking Le Sheng Hua she is one of the most reliable one here and the most compotent for Therian knowledge if we manage actually get her as our ally we can literally cultivate Rost faster than we expected as long as we can get her as our ally" as his voice disappeared again Everett spoke "fine I'll find a way to recruit her as our ally and partner for this class" in a exhausted tone as he sat down next to her and started preparing himself for a first day long lecture about Adaptatsiya and their professor walks in its professor Jun he is a A tier Therian called Mad flame titan.
Professor Jun started lecturing them "This is not the flashy qi blaze of a thunder tribulation, nor the gentle harmony of wood-element nurturing arts. No... Adaptatsiya is quieter. More ruthless. It is the energy born from the simple, merciless truth: the universe does not wait for you to be ready. It changes. And if you do not change faster... you cease."
He raises one wrinkled hand. A faint, translucent aura flickers around his fingers—shifting blues and silvers that morph subtly, mirroring unseen patterns.
"Observe. Learn. Evolve. That is the core. Every unfamiliar blade form, every shifting illusion array, every poison vein in an alchemical beast—your body and soul begin to drink it in without permission. The deeper you comprehend, the more Adaptatsiya floods your meridians. Master a pattern in moments instead of minutes, and your dantian replenishes at double speed.
Your strikes borrow the enemy's own timing. Your dodges arrive before the blow is conceived."
A soft murmur ripples through the disciples. Professor Jun's eyes narrow slightly, silencing it without a word.
"But do not mistake this for a gift. It cannot be purchased with spirit stones, forced with forbidden elixirs, or begged from ancestors. It awakens only when you surrender arrogance. When you admit—in the marrow of your bones—that you know nothing."
He gestures to three glowing orbs that manifest in the air beside him, each pulsing with different light.
"Kelvin."
The first orb is dark, almost black, rimmed in frost-like cracks. Cold vapor drifts from it.
"The void. Absolute stagnation. The moment you enter unknown territory, this is where you begin. Energy crawls. Reactions dull. This is the universe's way of saying: Watch. Wait. Or perish."
The orb brightens slightly.
"Intesiya."
The second glows warm amber, sparks dancing within like embers waking.
"The awakening. Patterns begin to emerge. You glimpse the telegraph of a fist, the tremor before an array collapses. Energy returns—slow, then steadier. Partial successes grant bursts of power. Many reach this stage and grow complacent, believing they have 'mastered' what they have only tasted."
Finally, the third orb ignites—brilliant silver-blue, swirling with perfect, endless fractals.
"Adaptatsiya."
His voice drops to a near-whisper, yet it fills the hall.
"The Great Harmony. When you and the flow become one. Prediction is flawless. Energy surges without limit. Forbidden techniques unfold as naturally as breath. You do not defeat your foe... you become the inevitable answer to their existence."
He lets the orbs fade slowly.
"Yet this peak is not eternal indulgence. Slip—repeat a folly, ignore an evolution—and the flow recoils.
Ten heartbeats of emptiness. Twenty percent weakness in related arts. A reminder: stagnation is the only true death."
Professor Jun steps forward, leaning slightly over the podium. His gaze sweeps every face, lingering just long enough to make each disciple feel seen.
"But the most profound truth? Once grasped... the knowledge never fully leaves you. Variants may dull its edge temporarily, but re-adapting is swifter. Repeated trials raise what you carry forward—from forty percent to seventy. Over lifetimes, you build an unseen archive of mastered realities. Others call it prodigious talent. We call it persistence."
He straightens, folding his hands behind his back.
"So I ask you—not as your professor, but as one who has knelt in Kelvin's frost many times:When the next unknown bares its teeth—be it sword, heavenly lightning, betrayal, or the indifferent stars—will you remain frozen? Will you linger in half-light and call it insight? Or will you chase that singular instant when reality itself leans close and murmurs: You understand. Now... become more."
Silence falls again, heavier this time.
"Questions." His tone returns to crisp command. "Speak. Or adapt in silence, as the world will force you to do eventually."
As Everett was writing it and summarizing it in his notebook he tries to do it as simple as possible he couldn't believe learning there main source of power was this hard as he is about to write it down Le passed him notebook of the core energy and a note written "don't write it down it isn't important if you know it already ¦D" as Everett looked at her and nodded the bell dismissed them to their break time as Everett was heading towards the cafeteria he spotted a school material shop specifically for Therian Everett curiosity got the better of him and went inside and saw the price of these are like A 50% off in the official shop he browse on the Rock elemental section and saw dragon scales of the juvenile fire dragon and lower grade gold core Everett found this very amusing but he didn't even unlock his system yet without his system he can't evolve it as his only goal now is to learn how to unlock their cultivation system as he left the school shop he walked to the cafeteria when he got there he didn't care about anyone since Raiden is guiding him to proper allies or peers perfectly for their goal of becoming a strong Therian owner and learn system.