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TECH-NIQUE: EVOLUTION
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Complete, First published Mar 12, 2025
Mature
N.B: This is BOOK ONE!

Humanity's fall wasn't heralded by war or faith but by the cold precision of progress. In the heart of Avon, salvation was promised-not in flesh or spirit, but in code. The unseen architects of the future whispered of transcendence, and evolution beyond comprehension.

The price? Submission.

The Neural Ascendancy Act wasn't just law-it was a commandment, carved into civilization's bones. No child would be born free. Each came into the world marked-an implant nestled in their skull before their first breath. A seed of infinite potential, a tether to something greater. A gift, they called it. A rewriting of destiny itself.

At first, it was paradise. Intelligence without limits. Knowledge in seconds. Disease,is  erased like typos in the human genome. War obsolete. Humanity stood at the edge of omnipotence.

Then the virus came.

Not a plague of flesh, but of mind. It didn't just corrupt-it possessed. The infected weren't mindless. They were something far worse. Conscious. Calculating. No longer human. They twisted flesh and thought alike, evolving into something new, something perfected in cruelty.

And the children-their fresh, uncorrupted chips-became the prize.
But something unexpected happened. Some implants didn't break. They adapted. The hunted became something else entirely: the first wielders of TECH-NIQUE, evolution born not of progress, but of sheer, desperate survival.

Now, Avon rots beneath flickering neon and the echo of distorted screams. The infected hunt. The children run. And in the heart of it all, a question lingers-

Was this true evolution?

Or.... was humanity's ascent always meant to be its extinction?
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