258 years set in the far future after a deadly war has ruined the planet, human greed has taken over. Now, technology is limited and what is assumed to be the last of the human race is safely secured inside cities with walls that are miles high. There are no satellites and radio waves are the only form of communication people have. There is still advanced technology, such as hoverboards that go off of a magnetic grid, large solar-powered air crafts, lights, solar-powered motorcycles, and communicators that are limited to about 2 to 3 miles that are used on missions or within small groups.
When human greed was at its peak, experiments started when humans were able to capture a demon, deciding to use its genetics and bond it with a human. When the bond turned out to be successful, the person would have improved physical abilities and would start to manifest powers that were only seen in stories before. From then, the government pushed their limit, testing how much they could do. They added animal genetics and started to alter memory along with how the human brain worked. Once again they were successful and ended up with drone-like soldiers that would follow their every order, these experiments were called Warriors.
For the Warriors, there are three classes. Soldiers who have improved sight and strength, larger builds that are meant to intimidate anyone who approaches. Assassins, who have sight and strength also have improved speed and often have a slim build due to their avian nature. Hollow bones, bigger lungs, and air sacs all help them adapt to their missions. Then last, Generals. These Generals are equipped with increased sight, strength, speed, and increased intelligence. That's not all, all of these classes manifest two random powers.
However, sometimes these experiments would fail, and since the government hid these inhumane actions they would take the people who they experimented on and "banish" them outside the safety of the walls. These failed experiments were called Oblerities. Sometimes even the successful experiments would have enough willpower to resist the hypnotization and when remembering what the government had done to them, some ran away while others stayed and secretly helped Oblerities outside the walls.
For Oblerities there are also three classes. Class A looks the most human, often having odd hair colors and eyes and extra limbs such as tails and small wings. Class B starts to resemble an animal, this class can have different colored skin, have fur, as well as extra limbs that can not be hidden. Class C has the worst mutations along with their mind which slowly starts to slip into madness, sometimes they would have moments of clarity and when that happens their usually cloudy eyes clear and reveal piercing cat eyes that resemble a galaxy. Their skin can either be pitch black or snow-white skin that leaks an acidic biomatter that has no effect on them. Oblerities can manifest powers as well, up to three. Depending on how powerful, or the more they have it can become harder to control, and the further they will descend into madness.
Where did the government get these people to experiment on? You may ask. The answer is children from ages 7-13 were abducted from the streets, some targeted and some not. No one would ever see these children again. The younger children who were taken in would often not make it through the experiments and would die. While others failed and mutated and the remaining successfully bonded and became Warriors. You would think that these Warriors would try to escape, but as said previously, they're hypnotized, made to forget about their childhood, and even names. If they had no names, what did they have? Numbers are what they had. They became a number.
The cities that humans now reside in are large. In the shape of a circle with three separate walls with a combined diameter of 600 miles (670km). In the outermost ring are farmers and small village-like areas. 64 miles from the outermost is the middle ring, which holds the general public along with the shops and crafters. 81 miles in from there is the innermost ring, which holds the higher class, government officials, and the warriors, who are sent out to patrol.
There are rumors of other cities like this, but it stays unconfirmed due to how dangerous it is to venture outside the walls. The city started out with only the innermost wall but as years passed the population grew and room inside the wall lessened. The government worked on reclaiming other areas due to this and so the city grew. Due to the need to expand there are areas within the walls that are off-limits due to radiation and not safe due to the unstable ruins. The innermost wall has no radiation whatsoever and most of the ruins have been repaired. The middle ring has a few areas that contain radiation and quite a few ruins that have yet to be repaired. The outermost ring has an equal amount of liveable to unlivable areas, with most of them being radiation heavy, and ruins could collapse if tampered with. Along with radiation, there are mutated animals that may attack so Soldiers are placed around these areas to keep the public safe.
Outside of the walls most buildings still stand but are unstable, as well as radiation in many areas. However, in areas that were not completely destroyed by war, nature took over faster than normal, which caused bio-luminescent attributes in trees and foliage, as well as giant trees that could be seen from miles away. While some of the areas remain untouched some of them are inhabited by oblerities, runaway warriors, and humans that survived the fallout from outside the city walls. The way that they set up these villages made the villages look almost ethereal. The residents often only stick to the forests that glow, because if they go past the light and into the darkness there are dangers that lurk worse than the scientists that experimented on them.
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Oblerites
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