Funmi met up with Bella and unlike other people she recognized Mira even though she looked like a completely different person and said “Mira! Long time!” Funmi wasn’t surprised since this wasn’t the first time Bella recognized someone that had evolved.

Mira though, was surprised and said “How do you know it’s me? And who are you?” Bella smiled and said “It’s me Bella. I can recognize your psyche”. Mira smiled and said “Bella! The annoying girl. How are you doing? Are you blind? Why are your eyes closed”.

Bella said “I’m fine. Looking at my eyes has adverse effects on the mind. I still can’t control it”. Mira said “When Lara said many people died I imagined worse”. Bella went quiet for a while and the grief she felt was palpable. Mira was surprised and said “I’m sorry”.

Bella said “It’s ok I’m supposed to try to get used to it”. Funmi shook her head and said with a psychic message ‘You shouldn’t from my own perspective’. Bella sighed and said “I want to overcome it, this evolution makes my emotions too strong. If I don’t learn control I’ll be a mad woman… technically I’m not even a woman”. Bella faced Mira and said “I’ll tell you what happened during the Event”.

Mira nodded and Bella began “After the Event began we were attacked by a Rank 7 monster, the Alpha Fenrir” Mira winced when she heard that, she knew that creatures at Rank 7 were far beyond Rank 6 creatures. Bella smiled softly and continued “As expected it easily beat us on its own and started a killing spree. We thought we would be able to hold it back so that we could escape but it was stronger than we anticipated. It killed Anita and Lanre before I could stop it by controlling its mind.

It wasn’t anything amazing really. I was just inhibiting the flow of psychic energy which caused it to be unable to think clearly. Of course being a Rank 5 at the time doing that cost me a ton of energy but Deji came through with the members of his department and supplied me with energy stones charged by them.

Everyone else went to kill the spawns of the Fenrir and the stray spawns that had left the monsters that made them. Everyone gave me en-code to put into my intelligence which made it easier for me to control the Fenrir. Eventually I reached Transcendent intelligence and I rewrote the mind of the Fenrir, wiped out its memories and put in new memories that made it loyal to me. In essence I made it a new person.

This took about 3 months in which others were fighting to get en-code for me so everyone was really nerfed but it saved us in the end. I used the Fenrir to kill spawns and since it was under my control the IPs always gave me a portion of the en-code it got from kills and even made me Rank 6 when it killed a Rank 6 monster.

I wanted it to get en-code to pay back everyone but they said that I should get all the en-code to fill my stats and evolve into a Mythical grade race, with that I would be able to easily kill higher Ranked monsters. I did it but when I was done evolving all the Rank 7 and 8 monsters I anticipated killing where dead. Funmi should explain this part”

Funmi nodded and said with a psychic message ‘All of other settlements lost their will to fight within the first week to the attack so they pledged to serve Lara and became part of Terrania.The only exceptions were us and the one other settlement. This left the monsters that were fighting them with nothing to kill. So they searched for more prey but Lara had her children hold them back and even kill some of them. But after 3 months they let them go to attack us.

It might have seemed like a dick move and in a way it was since a lot of people died when the 4 remaining Rank 7 monsters and 2 remaining Rank 8 monsters attacked a day after Funmi started evolving. But I guess it helped since many of us got super powerful.

The only other settlement that didn’t go under Lara was as you would expect; the High Nomads. They joined us two months into the event, while Funmi was still controlling the Alpha Fenrir's mind. They also faced a large number of deaths but the only reason they could manage was because of the most unexpected person. Care to guess?’

Mira thought and when she saw the slightly annoyed expression on Bella’s face her eyes widened and she said “Could it be the guy with the human pet?… I forgot his name…”

Funmi chuckled, which didn’t sound like a chuckle but more like a series of grenade explosions, and said “IT WAS JIMOH, THE LEADER OF THE VENURI KINGDOM!”

She switched back to psychic communication and said ‘He thought the aura users some new technique that allowed them give effects to their aura depending on their personality. This new skill really helped the High Nomads so they accepted him.

I know what you’re thinking; didn’t he have the Venuri Kingdom? Apparently he handed the Kingdom over to Lara after the first day of the Event and went out fighting monsters on his own. Badass right? But I guess it doesn’t remove the first impression he made on you guys’

Mira shook her head and said “He was a little annoying but I wasn’t so annoyed by what he did. Bella knows”. Bella, still with a light frown, nodded.

Funmi continued ‘Long story short, Maduro, Bola, Mistura, Demola and a host of other people died fighting such opponents for 3 days straight but I killed the Rank 8 monster, Deji, Jola and Gbenga killed their own Rank 7s. I became a Hunter and evolved to an incarnation of lightning as you can see and they also evolved too.

Deji became a [Hero: Peak Human (Solomon)]

Jola became a [Hero: Peak Human (David)]

Gbenga became a [Hero: Peak Human (Samson)]

You might be wondering why they picked human species and not a half human but a full 100% human species when we all picked nonhumans but the answer is simple; they had that option. I, Bella and I’m guessing you, didn’t have that option.

You know why I say that, it’s because for some reason, the human races get really busted at Mythical Grades, they don’t have to learn to talk with a body made of just electrons or always close their eyes and they have many advantages.

On the High Nomad side Semilore killed the remaining Rank 7 and Jimoh killed the remaining Rank 8. They also evolved too.

Semilore became a [Hero: Demigod (Hercules)]

Jimoh became a [Conceptual Being: Sin (Wrath)]

From then on we had it good, no one died and after the Rank 7 and 8s evolved and we started freeing other states other people evolved. Some to Mythical Grades some to Ancient Grades.’

Funmi looked at Mira expectantly after finishing the story. Mira was confused and said “Do you want something?”

Funmi sighed, which sounded, as you would expect, like roaring lion, and said “DON’T YOU THINK ITS WEIRD THAT ALL THE GUYS ON OUR SIDE GOT HEROES THAT ARE FROM THE BIBLE?”

Mira’s eyes widened and she said “What’s a bible?” Funmi said “YOU, DID YOU LIVE UNDER A LITERAL ROCK YOUR WHOLE LIFE? WHO DOESN’T KNOW THE BIBLE?!”

Mira said “I was sold to some guy and made a prostitute so I didn’t really learn much about stuff outside of games”.

Funmi sighed and said with a mental message ‘Sorry for opening that wound. As you know Deji and Jola had the Overcomer title like me. But although I didn’t get the Peak Human race having the Overcomer title was one of the requirements for getting a biblical race along with a host of other things like being someone with firm principles, morals and some other nonsense’.

Mira asked “Are the races that great?” Funmi answered “DUDE! THEY ARE IMMUNE TO MAGIC, ALL OF THEM BIBLE HEROES. NOT THAT SHOOTING A FIRE BALL HAS NO EFFECT ON THEM OR ANYTHING BUT LIKE YOU CAN’T CONTROL ENERGY OR MATTER THAT IS INSIDE THEIR BODY OR MIND OR ANYTHING THAT REPRESENTS THEIR BEING. YOU KNOW WHAT THAT TRANSLATES TO? BELLA CAN’T CONTROL THEIR MINDS NO MATTER WHAT SHE DOES; SHE CAN ONLY ATTACK THEIR MINDS EXTERNALLY”.

Bella shed some light on the topic for Mira who was still confused “Most races have trump card abilities. Most of them take effect or have a greater effect when done in the body or mind of someone of with a body part of someone. Those abilities don’t work on Deji, Jola and Gbenga”.

Mira thought ‘Wait doesn’t this mean I can’t copy their genes? I need a body part and if my fusing requires me to control the energy or matter in the body part I’m fusing with it won’t work on them at all… Wait’.

Mira noted “But Gbenga was not an Overcomer”. Funmi nodded and said ‘That’s a thing also. Since Deji and Jola had to meet that requirement I’m sure he had to meet the same requirement but he never told anyone but his sweet lover here’ she pointed at Bella and continued ‘how he did it. He said it won’t help anyone else’.

Mira looked at Bella and she looked away, not willing to shed more light on what they were talking about. Mira said “So now you guys just go around liberation people from monsters?”

Bella said “Yes, it’s mostly to bring people into our city which is doing great. The High Sanctuary and the High Nomads have united to form APT (All People’s Territory). We get the people out from under the thumb of the remaining monsters and send them back to Nigeria where they choose between joining Terrania, APT or the Glass Empire”.

Mira said “Glass Empire?”