After releasing each other from the embrace they took in each other’s appearance for some time. Logan said “Hey how come you have muscles? Did you start learning martial arts?”

“Surprise! I wanted to become strong like you so even I started to learn Kung-Fu. Sadly I don’t have aptitude for Ki” said harry with a sad look.

“It’s ok harry one of us has Ki so you need not worry!” Logan said the embarrassing line with a slight blush.

“Heh. Anyway practicing Kung-Fu gave me muscles and now I am starting to attract the attention of girls!” replied harry with an impish expression.

“Have you woken up to your lesbian tendencies??” voiced Logan sounding incredulous.

“Hey when you spend all day everyday around beautiful women saying you like women, you start to actually like women. And being a woman myself I am completely aware of how awesome women are!” justified harry.

“Ugh, I can’t deal with this right now. So how do you like having a male body?” asked Logan.

“I like it! Though I like having the extra strength and the hassle free peeing with no monthly troubles, I do miss having breasts and ability to have men drooling whenever I want” said harry with a smug look.

“That is true, but women have it tough generally. I think it’s good you have a male body, in a survival point of view” explained Logan.

“Meh, everything as pluses and minuses. Forget that tell me how is the game? Your mom said that you were playing it!” asked harry.

“The game is simply incredible. I’ve only played for about 15 hours in game in which I was asleep for 4 hours, but I am simply enjoying it! You have to definitely start playing” demanded Logan.

“I will play but it won’t be until after I finish meeting with the various heads of other organizations that I have to work with in the future. Now what’s this about you sleeping for four hours?” asked harry.

“I’ll tell you all about it. But first lets go up!” said Logan and started running towards the concrete pillar nearby.

The cylindrical pillar was originally meant to be a communications tower but then abandoned halfway because the politician who approved the project was corrupt and he got caught. Now all that was remaining was a concrete pillar that was 7 stories high and overlooked the nearby neighborhood.

“Wait up!” shouted harry and took off after Logan. They both climbed the pillar and sat with their backs to each other.

They started talking about mundane things and spent time till it was 3 in the morning.

“I have to leave now. If I don’t go to sleep now I fear I’ll sleep during the meeting. I’ll call you later ok” said harry.

“Ok, good luck with your meetings and see you soon!” Logan bid him farewell, for now.

Logan quickly returned home and stealthily entered his house so that his parents wouldn’t wake up. He

climbed up to his room on the first floor and fell asleep after keeping an alarm at 7. Even if he wouldn’t get much sleep he wanted to catch his father before he went to work.

Logan slept peacefully until the alarm notifications blared in his mind. He shut it off with a thought and went downstairs after washing up. He found his parents getting ready to have their breakfast.

Logan went to his father and gave him an awkward, manly, half-hug and said” Long time no see dad. How are you?”

“I’m good son. It’s good to see you after a long time. I see that it took harry to get you come home” said Robert in an accusing tone.

“Dad you know I’ve been upset about uncle going missing and so I didn’t wanna come home. But it’s been so long since I saw harry so I didn’t even think of not coming” said Logan.

“He knows that Logan, he is just teasing you” explained Lucy.

“Speaking of which how is the game coming along?” Logan quickly changed the topic.

Logan’s parents were very sharp and had already deduced the circumstances of Claire’s conversion. When Claire announced that she was changing her sex, Logan acted shocked, which fooled everyone else but not his parents.

It looked like he knew beforehand that this was going to happen. They did a little digging and found out about her family’s situation.

They also recalled that even if Claire acted male, most of her mannerisms were very similar to Logan. People credited this to spending too much time around Logan.

But his parents knew better. They realized that Logan must have helped her these years to learn to be a man and that’s why he was not truly surprised.

But they also knew that Logan had started having special feeling towards Claire and feeling bad for him for being stuck in such a situation. They knew that he wanted to bury those feelings now but it was not so easy.

That is why they let the topic about Harry drop and started talking about the game.

“This game has gotten an unprecedented level of success not seen in any games before! The number of people logging in was in the number of millions in this country alone!” said his father excitedly.

“There were a few bugs and glitches that were found but they were small and fixed without much issue. Speaking of bugs, I found out what was wrong with your character.” Said Lucy.

“Something wrong? What happened to his character?” asked Robert.

“Did you know that he reached level ten yesterday in below 10 hours? He passed the graduation test in the training centers after unlocking Ki” said Lucy.

“Heh that’s my son for you!” exclaimed Robert.

“That was not your son you idiot that was due to a bug. I don’t think you are supposed to know this yet but you will find out anyway so I’ll tell you.

When a person unlocks a type of energy that he wants to use the stamina and energy pools along with their regens all combine together to form a single large pool with high regen.

This is the most common case. For example someone who wants to use magic has to first unlock mana. When he unlocks mana his stamina and energy pools are combined with the mana pool. So he can only use techniques that use mana.

A pure fighter will unlock another pool of energy and they will get combined. A pure human who unlocked Ki will also have his stamina, energy and Ki combined. But a mutated human has the chance to do this manually.

It seems that because there was no person in the beta test that used Ki, a certain bug was left out. If a mutated human unlocked Ki, then before merging the pools, the stamina pool will not go below 1. You stop being able to move only after your stamina hits 0.

Since you still had 1 stamina you could fight for hours together. We already fixed it” explained Lucy.

“Then how do I combine the pools? And you talked as if doing it manually was advantageous.” Inquired Logan.

“I’ll tell you about that. You see for everyone else, it just adds the amount and regens also are calculated using a formula. This is default.

But for you, you can manually combine the pools in the DNA editor menu. I designed it personally and I know that you will love it. By doing it manually you can optimize the body. And I’m not talking about only the energy pools, if you know what I mean” said Robert while winking at Logan.

“Oh that’s cool” said Logan while contemplating the uses of this information.

“Well then we have to go Logan. We will be home by 6 in the evening if nothing comes up.” Said Lucy while getting up from the table.

Logan saw his parents off to work and sat down to eat breakfast himself.

“If the DNA editor is designed by father it might be similar to the one used in real world and works on the same principle as in DNA engineering.

It might be a good idea to take a look at the wolf and humming bird DNA in real life before I head into the game” said Logan out loud to himself.

That said Logan started looking through his father’s DNA database that was accessible only to Robert, Logan and Lucy.

It was Robert’s personal collection of information on various DNAs and was much more detailed than the regular ones found online.

Logan took note of the DNA information on wolf and humming bird in his mind and went to shower. After which he proceeded to link up with the HIVE in his room and log-in to the game.

After logging in Logan found himself in the same bed as before. In game almost 3 days had passed since he logged in. Just then he got a notification.

Attention Player, it has been determined that your previous actions were possible because of a system bug.

As you were not aware of the bug during the said actions and later reported it, your level has been reset to one and your stats all returned to what they were before the said actions.

As compensation you are allowed to keep your skills and title but the skills proficiencies have been reset to 1.

Thank you

Logan knew this was going to happen but that did not stop him from punching the wall beside him in anger.

He wanted to beat the shit out of something and before he could go on a property destruction spree, he remembered his father’s words and decided to check out the DNA editor.

He looked at the menu and the DNA editor was neatly hidden away in the customization tab. He entered the menu and found himself standing in a white room similar to character creation room.

In front of him he could see the various DNA strands intermingling with each other in a complex web that would confuse anybody.

But Logan had worked with DNA since he was a kid and knew what to do. Even the device was a technologically more advanced version of what they had in reality.

That is why he knew what to do.

He gave the command to separate the DNA strands according to species and he could now see 3 separate columns with the picture of a human, a wolf and a bird above each of them.

He zoomed in on the DNA strands and saw blocks that represented the various properties that it affected.

The blocks were interlinked with each other in a complex web. Logan knew that the block that was directly attached to another block would have greater effect than the one that was attached though another. He also knew that not all DNA were compatible with each other.

The wolf and humming bird DNA were not compatible but were also not incompatible. This gave only average results.

The Wolf was linked to the human and the humming bird was linked to the wolf.

Logan separated the humming bird from the wolf and attached it directly to human from the other side.

This made the order as humming bird-human-wolf. The human DNA had all the energy pools but the animals affected the regen rate.

The humming bird had highest energy regen so after linking the respective energy pools Logan linked then to the humming bird’s regen block first and then human and wolf through the humming bird. This gave maximum regen rate.

Then he closely observed the humming bird DNA. It seemed to have some loose ends. This meant that the DNA he had was not complete and that there was something that could be added to this, possibly improving it.

That’s when he remembered his mom’s slip of tongue about up-gradable mutations. He decided to look into it later. He noticed the part about cosmetic influence and set the value to 0. He did the same to the wolf, so now he would look the same even during combat.

After reviewing the changes, he hit save and exited the editor. He felt the changes instantly. He felt more in-tune with his body then before. Just then notifications alerted him to the changes.

Through manual manipulations you have combined your stamina, energy and Ki pools and have achieved maximum regeneration rate possible for the configurationKi+200.

You can only use Ki techniques hence forth.

Racial abilities have been changed to use Ki

Tinkering with your DNA has given good results. Now you can harness the abilities of your mutations more easilyInstant step’s range has increased to 8 meters. You gave gained complete vision.

Able to visualize the sounds and smells in the environment to differentiate between them and find out the source

Logan as ecstatic after reading this! He got extra Ki and his favorite ability’s range had increased by 3 meters.

And true vision would be valuable while tracking something/someone.

He decided to take a look at his status table.

Name: LOGANLevel: 1Race: Mutated human( Wolf, Humming bird)Class: N/AHP: 210 Regen: 1/15 secsKi: 1630 Regen 1/secStrength: 20Agility: 20Intelligence: 21Wisdom: 21Dexterity: 20Spirit: 20Vitality: 20Defense:20Mind: 20Luck: 20Title: Broken Add +10 to all StatsPassive EffectsWay of the wolf:Night vision: Ability to see in the dark

Complete Vision:Able to visualize the sounds and smells in the environment to differentiate between them and find out the source

Enhanced reactions: 50% increase to movement speed and reaction speedWay of the humming bird:Air step: Step on a platform of air to change directions in mid-air at the cost of 50 energy

Instant step: Move 8 meters at high speed in any direction at the cost of 50 energy

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