In the apocalypse, not everyone can awaken superpowers; those with superpowers are estimated to account for less than 10% of the total.
However, the post-apocalyptic world still upholds the principle of might makes right.
Without awakening superpowers, one will become a weakling, and their life will likely be miserable.
Thus, awakening superpowers became an obsession for people in the apocalypse.
In an effort to awaken their superpowers, people tried various methods and eventually found two.
One is to directly devour the crystal core.
This method is very risky and could very likely result in the body exploding and dying.
Even if you are lucky enough to survive, you may still turn into a zombie.
If you're lucky and neither explode nor turn into a zombie, will you awaken superpowers?
No, they may also mutate into beastmen or vegetative state beings.
To give a simple example, if a person swallows the core of a mutated mouse, then after the mutation, their appearance will show some characteristics of the mutated mouse.
For example, it may grow mouse fur, a mouse tail, and mouse claws.
In more scientific terms, this person's genes were contaminated by the genes of a mutated mouse.
When genes are contaminated, a person's temperament can become animalistic or plant-like, making them more primitive and savage.
Not only will their lifespan be greatly shortened, but they will also go berserk at irregular intervals and attack those around them.
Therefore, these people are called berserkers.
In the apocalypse, berserkers are at the bottom of the social hierarchy, even lower in status than pure beasts or plants, and many will become slaves.
In short, the chance of awakening superpowers by consuming crystal cores is so low as to be negligible.
But in order to gain great power, people continue to try this method, just for that one in ten thousand chance.
The second method of awakening superpowers actually evolved from the first.
That is to use crystal cores as medicine to develop a drug that can awaken supernatural abilities in people.
The technology for producing power-awakening potions is now mature, but it is controlled by the Mu family, one of the five great families in the Aristocratic Alliance.
The Mu family has basically monopolized this business, and a single dose of basic ability awakening potion sells for as much as 10,000 crystal coins.
Many people could never save this much money in their entire lives.
They had no choice but to take the risk and directly devour the crystal core.
The cat-eared stall owner in front of me must have mutated from the crystal core of a cat-like beast.
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