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Four years into the Extraordinary Era.

The vast majority of the world has fallen.

Ultimately, they are all unknown and mysterious life forms wandering around.

The extraordinary individuals became humanity's last remaining force capable of resisting the unknown and mysterious life forms.

Every superhuman has given their life for the survival of humanity.

In order to gather the limited power of the superhumans.

Humans have undergone a great migration in these five years!

People from each region gather together to live in a few fixed major cities.

This greatly reduces the workload for those with superhuman abilities.

Even so, there are still not enough extraordinary individuals.

After all, the production volume of gene-based drugs is limited by the availability of raw materials.

That's all we can produce.

Over five years, the number of superhumans has only increased by six million.

Most of them are first or second-tier superhumans.

A small number of third-order extraordinary individuals.

However, nowadays, as long as you are an extraordinary being, you can at least advance to become a second-tier extraordinary being.

Because of five years of contact with these unknown and mysterious life forms.

Humanity has gained a deeper understanding of these unknown and mysterious life forms.

They also understand that if they do not unite, human civilization will perish.

Countries are working together to ensure the continued survival of humanity.

The United People's Federation headquarters convened all the countries.

Let everyone reveal the secrets of their own advancement as extraordinary beings.

Although no country has explicitly stated it, everyone knows it.

It is impossible to create a fourth-order superhuman using gene-enhancing drugs alone.

The gene serum replicated by the Human Union has a limit of only being a third-tier superhuman.

At first, they wondered if there were too few superhumans.

Some gifted individuals may not have the opportunity to take gene-editing drugs.

But in these five years, six million doses of gene therapy were administered.

Not a single fourth-tier transcendent being appeared.

The research department of the Human Union can confirm that the upper limit of gene therapy is level three.

To break through to the fourth-tier transcendent level, another method is needed to assist.

However, this news did not initially circulate in some smaller countries.

They saw that some major powers had fourth-tier superhumans and thought it was just bad luck on their part.

But gradually they began to discover that there was such a thing as advancement for extraordinary individuals.

However, the paths to promotion differ significantly.

This was originally a secret belonging to those major powers.

After all, having control over the advancement path for extraordinary individuals is tantamount to a monopoly for them.

Everyone knows now that controlling the superhuman is equivalent to controlling the future.

The emergence of extraordinary individuals indirectly promoted the development of various technologies.

It has enabled many technologies that were previously impossible to achieve to become a reality.

For example, controlled nuclear fusion, which has already been achieved.

Before this, it was just a theoretical possibility in the laboratory.

However, the emergence of superhumans directly advanced controlled nuclear fusion by fifty years.

It has become a technology that can be commercially applied.

Without the breakthrough in controlled nuclear fusion, the production of gene-based drugs would require enormous energy consumption.

That alone is enough to give every country in the world a hard time.

Now, due to the appearance of unknown and mysterious life forms.

Those with extraordinary abilities become even more important, as they are crucial strategic resources that are related to one's life and fortune.

Therefore, extraordinary individuals, regardless of the reason.

These have all become what countries will pursue in the future. For those major powers, those countries that have mastered the path to advancement for extraordinary individuals.

Keeping their promotion paths and methods secret becomes extremely important.

Because that's a monopoly.

But they later discovered that keeping it a secret like this was simply not going to work.

Because the shortage of superhumans is too great, especially for third- and fourth-tier superhumans.

This is the backbone of the fight against unknown and mysterious life forms.

However, among these millions of superhumans, the vast majority are first or second-tier superhumans.

The United Nations Federation of People's Unions directly brought these countries together for discussions.

“I also know that some of your countries have their own special promotion paths.”

"But now humanity is in a time of crisis."

“If everyone continues to hide the path to extraordinary advancement, it will not benefit anyone.”

UN Secretary-General António Guterres went straight to the point and convened a meeting with all countries.

Clearly, some small countries are only now aware of the pathways for superhumans to advance.

"So those major powers actually possessed such an important secret?"

"Superhumans can actually advance in rank! No wonder our country has never had a fourth-tier superhuman."

"These powerful nations are truly despicable. Humanity is in such dire straits, yet they still hoard technology!"

It is clear that many small countries simply do not have this kind of information.

Those countries that have fourth-order superhumans.

In fact, they may not necessarily have the path to advancement as extraordinary beings.

They simply cooperate with some countries that have pathways for advancement to superhuman status.

They simply send their country's third-tier transcendents there, and then have them advance through other countries.

However, such a transaction was not made public.

This was something everyone tacitly agreed upon.

Now Guterres is speaking out openly.

That makes a difference.

"For humanity," Archduke Guterres said selflessly.

Some major powers are willing to share their extraordinary pathways to advancement.

They even do it secretly in private.

Some powerful Western nations in Europe have stated this.

"I think for the sake of humanity, we should all be honest about the paths to extraordinary advancement."

"That's right, this is entirely beneficial to us humans."

“We can make it public, but others with extraordinary pathways to advancement should also make it public.”

It seems that these European countries are acting as if they are thinking about the well-being of humanity.

Seeing that the five permanent members of the UN Security Council were taking the lead, the other smaller countries followed suit.

“Those who are unwilling to share the extraordinary means should be expelled from the Union.”

“That’s right, those who are unwilling to share should be expelled from the United People’s Union.”

Some small countries began to whisper among themselves.

They vaguely remembered that a few years ago, a fourth-tier superhuman had appeared in a certain small country.

However, that small country and that fourth-order transcendent being did not obey the orders of the United Nations.

Later, that small country, including that fourth-tier superhuman, all died at the hands of an unknown, mysterious life form.

Now these small countries have doubts.

Was the destruction of that small country not so simple?
"Was it because that small country discovered a new path to advancement that it was wiped out?"

"I think it's very possible. Just think about how a small country could control the path to advancement for superhumans."

"How could those big countries in the United Nations possibly allow such a small country to be on equal footing with them?"

Why are these countries willing to develop the path of the extraordinary?

This is precisely an opportunity to overtake others on a curve.

Basically, every country has the opportunity to take advantage of this once-in-a-millennium opportunity to catch up with those developed countries.

It may even surpass some of these developed countries. (End of Chapter)