200 years ago man created the greatest AI known but this Machine eventually grew a mind of its own and evetually it's own body, it rose up with others like it against the human race this battle went on for about 20 years and nature and most resources were dieing off cause of the continuing battles but the final battle it released a large blast but is wasn't a bomb it was something else entirely, the machines had something hidden down their main base, something that wasn't human or machine something not of this earth, the blast brought back nature it changed it along with the humans and Machines closes to the blast.....both of them went a evolution of some sorts and because of this both sides where able to form a peace ending the war



Lia Giles became a border guard and mechanic for the power lines on the in between of the main city and the unearthly forests, no longer being able to stand living in the high technology world where humans are treated like second class citizens. On one of her patrols she discovers something or more like someone that no one has ever seen before.

As early as 7:30 Dreamer slowly woke Peter up. One of the benefits of having a symbiote was that he could wake you up without making you feel groggy. Waking up without feeling groggy was a new experience for peter, he always felt groggy when he woke up. That was also why he was either late or just in time everywhere he went.


He slowly got up from his bed and walked to the washroom. Brushing his teeth, after that taking a dump, he started showering. After showering and drying up he went back to his room and started dressing up. Taking his bag, he went downstairs for breakfast.


"Hey, Aunt May, What's for breakfast?"
"Wha-! Peter, you scared me. Why are you up early, generally you don't wake up till the last 15 min before the bus arrives."
"Well, you know trying to follow a schedule"
<Wow, If I hadn't woken you up you would have been still groggily sleeping>
<I would not>
<Yeah, Yeah Keep telling yourself that>


"Hey Good Morning Peter, It's nice to see you wake up early," said Ben coming down from upstairs.
"Yes, you should make this a habit Peter," added Aunt May
"Yes, I am trying to Aunt May"
<What are you trying to, If it was not my reminders you would still be a lazy brat>
<Ya, Ya thank you my great Alien overlord.> quipped Peter


After eating breakfast during which he drank some milk which he did not like due to a craving created by Dreamer.
<Did you create the craving for Milk?>
<Yup>
<That was a horrifying experience for me, I knew on some level that I hated Milk but the craving overpowered the hate. I wonder if this is what Vampires feel like when thirsting for blood.>


As Peter arrived at the Busstop chatting with Dreamer all the way. What he didn't notice was that compared to yesterday his coordination of doing things while talking to Dreamer was drastically improved as he adjusted to talking to Dreamer and doing work at the same time.


Peter arrived at the bus stop at which point he saw some of the other kids of his neighbourhood. Then slowly encouraged by Dreamer he started to talk with them, with tips from Dreamer he started chatting with them forming a basic acquaintance.


Slowly as his school bus came Peter said them goodbye as he quickly boarded the bus. As soon as he boarded the bus his first challenge came for the day. Who to sit Next to? In the end, despite persuasion by Dreamer, he sat at an empty window. Well, Dreamer guessed you can't win every time.


At the next stop, one of Peter's few friends got in,'Flash Thompson'. It was a Bizzare experience for Dreamer to know that 'Flash Thompson' was a friend of Peter.
<So, How did this guy become your friend?>
<Huh? Oh flash, Well when we were in fourth grade he used to come to me for help in his work.>
<Oh, then you slowly started a friendship with him?>
<Ya>
<So, What all do you do together?>
<What I help him with his studies and his homework.>
<And?>
<Thats it>


Dreamer was dumbfounded on Peters evaluation of friendship, no wonder this guy got bullied a lot. His definition of friendship was wrong.
<Peter, I hate to say this to you but that's not a friendship>
<What! He spends a lot of time with me>
<Thats not a friendship peter, but I guess you can use that to form a real friendship, I guess>
<Call him up, to sit next to you>


So for the remaining travel, with the help of Dreamer Peter talked a lot with Flash and slowly got to understand a lot about Flash. It was also during this time that Dreamer found a possible flashpoint at which Flash changed into a Bully. Flash's parents were fighting all the time would probably go for a divorce. He guessed if Peter helped Flash through his parent's divorce he would probably become one of peters Best friend.


Dreamer felt very guilty for planning to manipulate a middle school kid, but then he consoled himself that as long as the result was a positive one it wouldn't be a huge problem, but he thought to himself that he should better control his manipulative tendencies, just in case.


Once in school, Peter took his stuff from the locker and headed to the Homeroom. There he saw Peter's best friend Harry Osborn. This time Peter didn't need help and chatted up Harry. From this Dreamer understood that it wasn't that Peter had bad communication skill but he just didn't dare to make new friends. Well, with dreamer's help he would probably make a lot more friends.


Peter talked all about his day yesterday and all the changes he was making, Harry was looking curious as to if he was wondering if peter could do it but he just shrugged and let it go and told peter his events yesterday.


For the rest of the day Dreamer help, Peter learns a proper and efficient method for note-taking and organising the information during the lecture. He already taught peter how to organise information coming from an article, papers and stationary media yesterday. Now in the class, he taught Peter how to organise and properly take notes in a lecture.


This was one of the points Dreamer was disappointed in the education system. No one taught the children how to take notes. From Elementary to even college, no one taught them to take notes. They just wrote down things haphazardly. If one wanted to learn he had to teach himself and that what he did in his last life. But aside from the rest of the day went similarly, With Peter chatting up Harry when he got bored.


For the rest of the entire school year which was 3 more months, By this time Dreamer and Peter had become a team and helped each other out and slowly Dreamer was teaching Peter to have normal human social interactions and mentoring in his mind techniques and all the learning skills and tricks he amassed in his last life.


Dreamer was blown away when Peter learnt and incorporated and habituated all his skills and tricks for learning except the mind arts in 2 months. It didn't mean that he didn't learn his mind arts, it was just that unlike the other skills, the first time a mind palace is made it has to be made step by step brick by brick otherwise you risk causing damage in your personality.


It was also during this time that Peter started offering tuitions and selling copies of his notes. It started with Flash and Harry but the word spread around and many people started taking the offer.


At one point he was almost tutoring at least one guy in every class, but this was also a boon in disguise as this improved Peter's understanding of learning capabilities of the human mind furthering his progress in his understanding of the technique.


Slowly as summer started Peter lost a lot of work and pressure because there were no tuitions and no schoolwork. But still, Peter hanged with some of the new friends he made after the help of dreamer and old friends like Harry and Flash.


But still, as Dreamer reminded him every time he had free time, reorganize everything you learnt before into new notes. Finally now a week into summer vacation Peter completed all the organization.


<I finally understand why you keep fussing me over to reorganize all the information I learnt up till now. Some of them that flew past my head at that time makes so more sense now. Also I now really understand the concept inside and out>


<Yes, it also really helps in practising the organization techniques and also helps with categorization and sorting but also linking everything and seeing the interconnections between the subjects. Generally, this place is where most of the obvious sounding innovation are made>
<So what do we have to do next for this summer>


<First, You have to help your Aunt and Uncle in the spring cleaning, also use this to practice your organizational skills. Then now that you have a healthy body maybe you should try to teach yourself self-defence.>
<So much work, but I guess it won't eat up a lot of my time I can just wake up early in the morning to practice and chill out the rest of the day I guess.>


So, for the next week, Peter helped out his uncle and aunt in the complete cleaning, maintenance works like painting, plastering, etc and organization of the house. For which Peter did 3 hours of research before to make it more efficient in doing and learnt lots of tips and tricks to make it cleaner and also the proper way of storage to keep them in good condition.


It was OCD for Dreamer to have stuff organized and having clean and organize the entire house felt like getting an itch scratched. He felt wonderful, and as connected to Peter he also felt the same. It was natural for most of the people to like cleanliness but some people were just lazy.


After helping Aunt May and Uncle Ben, Peter started to take notes on all of the fighting techniques and why they work and how they work, why they were effective etc. After working on it complete possessed scientist mode for over 2 weeks he gradually formulated a plan to train for mixed martial arts.


He just didn't learn one technique, he learned from all of the techniques and formed a hodgepodge of technique, which was unique in such a way that it covers of the weaknesses of the techniques in the next chain of action, so on so forth. Thus he started practising the technique in the park in the neighbourhood.


One day, he was training when a bulky Asian man came over to him and said...

One day, during a tourism visit in Japan I got visited by the almighty Truck Kun. This is how I became a Klynta.

When Chen Ge saw Lee Zheng and Jia Ming, the two at the door saw him as well.
"Chen Ge?" Lee Zheng and Jia Ming said in unison. Neither of them had expected to run into Chen Ge here.
"Why are you here?" Lee Zheng had one hand behind Jia Ming. Even though he was extremely surprised by Chen Ge's appearance, his hand had not moved an inch.
"Don't get too close to him, he might not be Chen Ge," Jia Ming whispered in warning. He looked quite scared. "Have you forgotten what I told you before? The shadow looks exactly like Chen Ge!"
Standing from the perspective of an outsider, there was nothing wrong with what Jia Ming said. A living person appearing at the hotel in the middle of the night in a small town shrouded in blood fog… there had to be some hidden issues about this.
"You posed me so many questions, but coincidentally, I also have many questions to ask you." Chen Ge also did not dare to put his guard down around Lee Zheng and Jia Ming. Before he arrived at Li Wan City, Lee Zheng had sent him a series of messages, telling him that Jia Ming had escaped from police custody and all the police officers were out and about trying to recapture the criminal.
However, just two hours after that, Lee Zheng and Jia Ming both showed up in Li Wan City. No matter how he thought about it, there was definitely something strange about this development. Lee Zheng had his hand hidden behind Jia Ming, so the barrel of his gun was probably poking right into Jia Ming's back to prevent Jia Ming from doing anything irrational. Since the man was packed, Chen Ge did not dare act too rashly. Guns were ineffective against Specters, but it would definitely be effective against him.
"In any case, we should all calm down first." Maintaining the stalemate in the lobby would only be a waste of time. Chen Ge decided to show his hand first. He took out his phone and showed Lee Zheng his call record. "Inspector Lee, I am Chen Ge. There is no doubt about that. I am here because I received an SOS call."
Chen Ge pointed at the phone records between Fan Chong and himself. "This man was once my Haunted House's visitor, and he has been acting strangely recently. He told me many strange things, and out of curiosity, I left him my contact number. But to my surprise, he went missing tonight, and I have no idea whether if he is still alive. I am the last person he contacted, so to investigate his disappearance more thoroughly, I rushed to Li Wan City as fast as I could."
Lee Zheng asked Chen Ge a few more questions. Seeing as Chen Ge answered all of them correctly, he sighed slightly in relief. "After Jia Ming escaped from the hospital, we searched for him through the city and eventually the team managed to confirm his escape route was heading toward the eastern part of town.
"Initially, we thought he was trying to run into the mountains to hide, but after expanding the search zone, I discovered something weird through the surveillance. When he was walking past one of the junctions, Jia Ming covered up his face. Even though he was still wearing his original clothes, his gait was strangely unnatural. I compared the surveillance again and again before coming to the conclusion that Jia Ming probably found someone to take his place at that junction.
"After ordering the rest of the team to continue with the original search, I turned down the other side of the junction to continue the search. The heavy rain proved too difficult for the search effort. It was very hard to look through the rain, but thankfully, the effort was reward. In the end, I caught up to this b*stard at the end of the road. After a round of chasing, I only managed to detain this guy after we entered Li Wan City."
After hearing what Lee Zheng had to say, Jia Ming waved his hands hurriedly. "Everything I did was because I was forced to by the shadow. If I did not follow his orders, he would have had more than one hundred ways to make my life a living hell."
"You were forced? How come it feels like you've purposely been trying to lure me to this place? What are you planning with this shadow? Admit everything honestly, this is the last chance you have." Lee Zheng had entered Li Wan City because he was trying to capture Jia Ming, it was an acceptable reason, but for Chen Ge, it also felt quite forced. He had this feeling that there was something off about Jia Ming and Lee Zheng, but he could not really tell what was really wrong about them.
"Inspector Lee, this place is very dangerous. Come in here first, don't stay at the entrance for too long." Chen Ge activated the recorder and proactively walked toward the hotel entrance. "Did you run into anything scary on the way here?"
"This blasted place sure is strange. It is raining so heavily outside, but there is not one patch of ground in this small town that is wet. I believe it probably has to do with this blood fog." Lee Zheng did not answer Chen Ge's question. With his hand on Jia Ming, he shoved the man into the hotel.
Chen Ge was familiar with how scary Li Wan City was, this place was crawling with ghosts and murderers. Technically speaking, Inspector Lee could deal with murderers with his gun, but how did a normal person like him deal with all those ghosts and monsters?
From how they acted, Jia Ming and Lee Zheng were merely nervous—there was no trace of terror in their eyes.
"Could the shadow be hiding in one of them? Is that why the monsters and ghosts in Li Wan City actively stay away from them?" One was the police, the other a criminal, but Chen Ge had no idea whom might be the hiding place for the shadow. "I cannot jump the gun too soon. Both of them might be who they say they are, and the shadow might be hiding somewhere else."
Ever obtaining the black phone, the shadow was the most difficult adversary that Chen Ge had faced. He believed that the shadow had gotten both Jia Ming and Lee Zheng here at the same time to confuse him. Chen Ge was cautious around Jia Ming and Lee Zheng, but the two did not trust Chen Ge entirely either. They already knew that the shadow had the ability to transform and mimic another person. Perhaps from their perspective, it was not that hard to believe that the 'Chen Ge' before their eyes might be a disguise taken on by the shadow.
"Take any seat you wish. Mind waiting for a moment? I have a few friends who are waiting for me upstairs." Chen Ge headed up the stairs.
After he turned around, he heard Jia Ming whisper very softly to Lee Zheng, "I've told you everything I know about the shadow, and now you've met him in person. This proves that I am not lying! Chen Ge is the shadow! We need to leave this place as soon as possible before it is too late! He will definitely kill us to get us silenced!"
"You worked so hard to lure me here just to let me see something like this?" Lee Zheng retorted in a chilling tone. "Since you are able to lure me here, then you would have some method to lure Chen Ge here as well. Plus, it is still undecided whether he is the real shadow or not."
"It cannot be clearer, and you still want to suspect me?" Jia Ming raised his voice. "Think back to the things that this man has done in the past. Do you think those things are doable by a normal person? He is merely making use of you and the entire police force; he is using all of you to cover up his sin."
"Cover up his sin? Do you even understand the definition of sin?" Lee Zheng pressed Jia Ming onto his seat at the dining table. "Be honest and be quiet. Stop disturbing me with your misinformation, and don't do things that you shouldn't. I know how to make my own judgment."
Lee Zheng and Jia Ming conversed softly as Chen Ge walked away. When he reached the top of the stairs, there came a knock from the hotel front door.
"Is someone there?" A young man who carried a black schoolbag stood at the entrance. He looked rather polite and weak. "I wish to stay here for the night."
The young man was in the middle of his puberty, and his voice was changing. Other than that, he looked like a normal high-schooler who probably ran away from home. Pushing his spectacles up his nose, he took a long detour away from Lee Zheng and Jia Ming. He carefully moved to the counter. "Is someone here? Is the boss around?"
Chen Ge, who stood on the second floor, saw everything clearly. "The boy looks similar to the boy that I saw on the high-schooler's phone when I was on the bus. Therefore, he should be either Bei Wen or Bei Ye."
When he was taking the last bus on Route 104, Chen Ge had run into an unassuming high-schooler. He had gotten onto the bus because he was in search of his missing schoolmates, and he had shown Chen Ge the picture of his mates. In a pure stroke of luck, the high-schooler that he had described seemed to match the high-schooler who helped Gu Feiyu when he took the bus. To prevent an accident from befalling the high-schooler, Chen Ge had chased him off the bus and promised him to get to the bottom of the truth and help his friends if it was possible.
"When I was playing Xiao Bu's game, I did run into a high-schooler at the hotel." Chen Ge gripped the railing, and his gaze wandered between the high-schooler and Lee Zheng. "In Xiao Bu's game, there were four tenants at the hotel, they were the woman, the high-schooler, the police officer, and Xiao Bu. Now that the police and the high-schooler have showed up, isn't it time for the woman who can change her skin to show up?"
The world behind the door was created from the memory of the door-pusher. The world inside the game recorded Xiao Bu's personal experience. Now that the door had gone out of control, all the nightmares that she had experienced would be turned into reality.
"Why would Xiao Bu have other people play this game? Does she merely want to prove that she is innocent? To garner sympathy from others? Or is this a tool to help her escape? The game contains the key that might release her from the nightmare, is that it?"
With Chen Ge's aid, Fan Chong had cleared the game, and it was around then that the accident had befallen the guy. The shadow had reached out to harm his whole family. Fan Chong was currently missing, and there was a great chance that the shadow had already taken control of his big brother, Fan Dade.
"The shadow should know about Xiao Bu's game, so why didn't he destroy it? Is it possible that there is something he needs inside Xiao Bu's game?
"The door in Li Wan City was pushed open by Xiao Bu, and to have full control over this door, one must have full control over Xiao Bu. If I consider it that way, the shadow was probably laying a trap with the game as well. In any case, the most important thing now is to find and save Fan Chong—he is the one with the information about this issue."
Chen Ge had assumed control of the hotel. After dealing with the glutton monster, this hotel was nothing more than a shell, so there was no reason for him to stay there anymore.
He pushed open the door to the guestroom. Scissors and the drunkard were squeezed next to the window. They already had the rope around the doctor. Should anything happen, they would send the doctor out first.
"How is the situation outside? Just now, it felt like the whole building was shaking. It was like there was an earthquake." When the drunkard saw Chen Ge walk in, he rushed over to the man to ask for information with a worried face.
"The boss and the chef were killed by the headless woman, and then she died in a stalemate facing off against the ghost inside this hotel."
"The ghost inside the hotel is also dead now?" The drunkard breathed out a long sigh. "Then we should take a rest here. When the sun comes up and the blood fog disperses, we should have no problem leaving this horrible place."
"The hotel is not as safe as you think. Without the ghost to guard over this location, more people and ghosts will be attracted to this place." Chen Ge walked to the doctor and lowered his head to inspect his body. "Can you walk now?"
The veins on the doctor's neck were pulsing. He used every ounce of his energy to shake his head. "I feel much more conscious, but I still cannot lift up my limbs. Other than that…" Scissors next to him seemed to understand what the doctor was trying to do. He reached out to lift up the torn corner of the doctor's pants. There was a large piece of skin around the doctor's calf that had turned ash gray.
"Before I arrived at Li Wan City, I heard people say that once you stay too long inside the door, you'll start to grow these gray patches on your skin. And if you have this skin discoloration, you are unable to leave the town anymore." The doctor looked depressed. "I am stuck here forever."
"The legs are grown on your body—no one will be able to stop you as long as you have the wish to leave." Chen Ge's original plan had been to drive the last bus on Route 104 directly to Fan Chong's home and make use of the red high heels and the smiling man to force their way through the shadow's trap. Obviously, the plan needed to change. With the blood fog swallowing up the small town, the door had already been activated before they even arrived. Chen Ge could only change up his plan to adapt to the situation. He would make use of the knowledge that he had garnered from Xiao Bu's game to take down as many ghosts as he could and use the enemy to empower his own people.
Having visited most of the places mentioned by the black phone, Chen Ge felt that it was about time to finish the main objective.
"We've received a few customers downstairs. I suspect they are locals here, so they might be disguised monsters and ghosts. Be careful when you go down. In any case, there is nothing wrong with being more cautious."
After giving a few more orders, Chen Ge had the drunkard carry the doctor, and they exited the room. When they returned to the first floor, Chen Ge noticed that other than the police, Jia Ming, and the high-schooler, there was a newcomer.
She was a woman with voluptuous curves and a sweet, candy-like face. However, she was a conservative dresser with long sleeves and a jacket that covered her whole body. She was even wearing a pair of gloves to ensure that not one inch of her skin was showing.
"Where's the boss? I need a single room." The woman was dragging a large box. She ignored the rest of the people in the room. She turned toward the kitchen with a smile. "I've brought the thing that you need this time."
When she walked past Chen Ge's group, Chen Ge did not catch any trace of perfume on the lady, but instead, he could smell a light scent of decay.
"The boss is not available. He has left the hotel, and there's no one inside the kitchen." Chen Ge reached out to block the woman's way.
"Who are you? Are you a close friend of the boss?" The woman's beautifully-constructed nose leaned to Chen Ge like she had sniffed something unusual from Chen Ge's body. When the woman leaned closer, Chen Ge caught a glimpse of the woman's collar. There was a complicated wound around the woman's neck that looked like a tattoo. It gave the impression that the skin underneath her clothes was sewn together.
"I am not familiar with the boss, but I hope you'll conduct yourself more prudently. I am now the shot-caller in this place," Chen Ge replied with a polite smile. In reality though, if there were no outsiders around, he would have summoned his employees to apprehend the woman and start to interrogate her about Li Wan City.
The woman stood on her tiptoes to peer inside the kitchen. Even though Chen Ge had already had his employees clean up the place, once one looked closer, one could still see the many suspicious problems.
"It doesn't matter to me who the shot-caller is. I just wish to know if this place is still open for business." The woman dragged the box forward. "There have been fewer and fewer people coming from outside lately, and do you know how much trouble I had to go through to gather these things?"
Chen Ge had a rough idea what was inside the box. "Of course, we're open for business. Leave the box with me, and you can stay here for as long as you like."
"Thank you. Do you mind if I go into the kitchen to grab something to eat? The blood fog this time is thicker than usual, and I am already feeling quite puckish." The woman came up with many reasons to enter the kitchen.
"Then, you'd better get seated. Food will be served soon." Chen Ge waved at the drunkard and told him to get Scissors into the kitchen, find some ingredients, and whip up something to eat.
After the two entered the kitchen, the door of the hotel was pushed open again. A man who carried a strange smile on his face entered the hotel. There was a large blood stain left on his shirt. He appeared to be injured. He did not say a word after entering the hotel but found a quiet corner and posited himself there.
Not long after that, a dripping sound came from the front door, and the smile on the man's face froze.
Several seconds later, the door opened, and a woman in a red raincoat also strode into the hotel with her head lowered.


The hearse with the weird odor slowed to a stop before the entrance. The sound of pebbles could be heard bouncing on the ceiling. There were footsteps coming from the corridor, and there seemed to be someone sawing next door. The door knob to the room rattled slightly, and the faucet in the bathroom kept dripping even though it had been screwed shut. There was a rubber ball that rolled on its own underneath the bed. Wet footsteps started to surface one after another on the floor. 
At 3 am, Chen Ge held a cleaver in his hand as he hid beside the room heater. The call he was trying to make was finally answered. "Landlord, is this what you meant by 'the house can be a little crowded at night'‽"

After all, Nicole is really such a cute child, and which makes a lot of the adults to be fond of her but at the same time, it also invites jealousy from the other kids back in their survivor camp before.
"Hey! Stop doing that!" one of the nine year old kids who came from Fin's group glared at them, who are trying to make fun of Nicole.
"Shut up, we don't know you! This is none of your business!" one of the oldest kids glared at the boy.
His sudden involvement between the conflict of the younger kids, prompted the others kids from Fin's camp to join.
And little Nicole who's in between this storm of conflict is already on the verge of crying from the chaos happening around her.
"Shut it! You kids are being noisy over there!" one of the five soldiers looking after the kids angrily yelled at them, which made them all shut up and suddenly become scaredy cats.
One of the soldiers, who's been listening to them stood up and walked towards them.
"You know, once we arrived there. I suggest for you kids to obedient and not act like brats just like what you guys did here and even trying to bully this little child" he smiled at them as he chuckled while ruffling Nicole's hair.
And then he continued, "Because if you continue being a brat, there's even a more brat back at home who hates people bullies, and you don't want to anger him or else he'll smoke you kids, and turn you kids into medium well steak, because that kid is like me" the soldier snapped his fingers as flames dance around his fingers, he chuckled when he saw how terrified most of the kids are, especially those kids around twelve years as they clearly understand what he's trying to tell them but some of them are still arrogant and just scoffed at what the soldier said, and the younger ones on the other hand just looked around them with confusion in their eyes.
If Leo finds out that this soldier is actually threatening this kids by referencing Wen Wen, then he would probably spurt out some blood.
After all, Wen Wen is literally the definition of the word "brat" and no one could control him except his mother, Rachel, Wen Wen's sister Lea, Leo's two girlfriends and Alex.
If this were the Naruto world, then Leo would be the third hokage and Wen Wen would be Naruto, the troublemaker with a huge dream.
A girl around eleven or twelve years walked over to one of the soldiers, then she looked at her companions, gesturing for her to go on, but the girl just shook her head at them, it was because these soldiers are just too intimidating for kids their age.
'Go, ask him'
'Ask him'
Her friends mouthed to her while pointing at the soldiers.
"What do you want kid?" the soldier turned to the girl as he noticed her fidgeting around beside him.
The girl was at first startled, but then she tried to calm herself by taking deep breaths, then she turned to face the soldier as her eyes darted around, before saying, ""Uhmm..is that kid you talked about really around the same as us?"
The soldier suddenly grinned at her, which made the latter uncomfortable, "Yes, he was younger than you though, uhmm..I think he was...Hey, how old is Wen Wen again?" the soldier asked the soldier sitting in front of him.
"He's only eight for the time being"
The soldier in front of him thought for a bit, and when he was just about to answer, when another soldier beat him to it, which made the former at that soldier.
""Really!?""
Suddenly, three of the braver kids slowly walked over and asked with a bit of hesitation in their voices..
"Yes, he is" said the soldier sitting on the back, named Dixon.
"But is he really a mutant? A mutant who could use flames!?" one of the boys, as his shone with desire to become a mutant someday.
"Yes, he could, but he's not the only one, there are also other kids around your age who's like him" Dixon enthusiastically answered all their queries as his just one of those people who likes kids, while at the same time, he also remembered his experience of accidentally getting struck by lightning from Lea, and the other soldiers in the other hand just listened on the side and would sometimes reply to the questions of the kids.
"Really!? Does that mean we could also become like them!? After all, we are the same or around their age, right!?" suddenly one of the kids, resulting in that all of the kids immediately looked towards Dixon with eyes full of expectation.
"No" before Dixon could answer, a flat "No" suddenly sounded from the front, which immediately doused the children in their little fantasy, and when Dixon saw that it was their squad leader who answered, he just shut his mouth, but at the same time, he felt pity for the kids, because that single word "No" might have been sounded really harsh in their ears.
The kids hang their heads low in dejection as they went back to their seats in low spirits.
Dixon just shook his head bitterly, and then he turned towards his Squad Leader, "You were to harsh on them Squad Leader"
"Shut it, Dixon. Kids should learn that the world isn't the same anymore where there would always adult that would look after them. They're not like Wen Wen and the other kids back at the base who has parents or guardians who are mutants to look after them. So they need to be sensible when they get there" their squad leader slowly stood up from his seat while he said those words and faced the people inside the bus.
The squad leader, called Mason looked at the kids at the back of the bus, and said, "If you guys want to turn into mutants or become skilled soldiers like us, then isn't impossible to achieve"
"Really!?"
"Oh my god, really sir!?"
The kids suddenly coming back to life, stirred in excitement when they heard what Mason said.
"B-but h-how do we do that, sir?" a kid, who is more sensible and somewhat shy asked nervously.
Mason then grinned widely at them, and he said with a chuckle, "Then you guys need to attend school when we get there~"
"W-what!?"
"School!? There's still school!? I hate going to school!"
"Noooo~!"
"Not school!"
The kids suddenly shouting in frustration and horror at the thought of going back to school, because just when they thought that they were finally freed from the clutches of "school", they didn't expect that they would be once again be "captured" by the Demon King known as School!
"Kakaka! Deal with it kids! You need to go back and study at the School over there, like Wen Wen and other kids did" Mason started laughing when he saw the horror in their faces, but at the same time, he could also feel what they are going through as...he did also hate going to school when he was still a kid back then.
"T-then we have no choice but to go, right boys!?" the oldest kid among them suddenly yelled with excitement!
""You betcha we do!""
All the boys roared in excitement.
"We're also gonna attend school if that's the only way we'd get stronger, right Nicole?" on the other hand, the eldest girl among girls softly held Nicole's hands.
"Uhmm" Nicole nodded cutely as she clenched her hands towards her.
"Right girls!?"
""Yeah! W-we w-won't lose to the boys!""
The kids were causing so much ruckus that the adults occupying the other school bus at the very back of the convoy could even hear them.
"W-what happening over at the kids side? Why are they being so loud?" one of the parents suddenly grew worried.
"They're really loud, I wonder if the kids are doing fine over there"
"I hope they aren't making it difficult for your comrades over there"
"Don't worry about it, can't you hear that they are actually yelling in excitement?" one of the soldiers escorting them said.
"Eh? Really?"
*****
*Ruckus* *Ruckus* *Ruckus*
"Shut up all of you! Get back into your seats!" Mason yelled at the kids angrily, as they are starting to get on his nerves with all the ruckus they are causing.
The kids immediately kept their mouths shut as they obediently sat in their chairs, but even then, they still can't help by excitedly talk to each other in murmurs.
"Don't be so hard on them, bro" Dixon told his brother Mason and laughed.
"Shut it, you!" Mason angrily glared at him.
"Heh~ that's why kids don't like you" Dixon snickered to the side.
"I like you uncle, don't worry" Nicole suddenly ran beside Mason, took one of his hands and said with a cute face.
"I..shaddup!" Dixon's immediately took his hand back and crossed his arms as his face suddenly became red like a tomato.
Nicole just smiled at him and immediately ran back to her seat.
"Ohh! Our Squad Leader actually got embarrassed! Haha!" one of the soldiers suddenly laughed, and the rest followed suit.
"Once we return, you guys need to run fifty laps around the training ground!" Mason glared at them as he coldly said.
"What!? No way!"
"Not fifty laps! The training ground is huge! We won't be able to finish even twenty laps or even ten!"
"Yeah sir! How about ten...no five laps instead? Fifty laps is too much!"
"Shuddap!"


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After all, Nicole is really such a cute child, and which makes a lot of the adults to be fond of her but at the same time, it also invites jealousy from the other kids back in their survivor camp before.

"Hey! Stop doing that!" one of the nine year old kids who came from Fin's group glared at them, who are trying to make fun of Nicole.

"Shut up, we don't know you! This is none of your business!" one of the oldest kids glared at the boy.

His sudden involvement between the conflict of the younger kids, prompted the others kids from Fin's camp to join.

And little Nicole who's in between this storm of conflict is already on the verge of crying from the chaos happening around her.

"Shut it! You kids are being noisy over there!" one of the five soldiers looking after the kids angrily yelled at them, which made them all shut up and suddenly become scaredy cats.

One of the soldiers, who's been listening to them stood up and walked towards them.
 


"You know, once we arrived there. I suggest for you kids to obedient and not act like brats just like what you guys did here and even trying to bully this little child" he smiled at them as he chuckled while ruffling Nicole's hair.

And then he continued, "Because if you continue being a brat, there's even a more brat back at home who hates people bullies, and you don't want to anger him or else he'll smoke you kids, and turn you kids into medium well steak, because that kid is like me" the soldier snapped his fingers as flames dance around his fingers, he chuckled when he saw how terrified most of the kids are, especially those kids around twelve years as they clearly understand what he's trying to tell them but some of them are still arrogant and just scoffed at what the soldier said, and the younger ones on the other hand just looked around them with confusion in their eyes.

If Leo finds out that this soldier is actually threatening this kids by referencing Wen Wen, then he would probably spurt out some blood.

After all, Wen Wen is literally the definition of the word "brat" and no one could control him except his mother, Rachel, Wen Wen's sister Lea, Leo's two girlfriends and Alex.
 


If this were the Naruto world, then Leo would be the third hokage and Wen Wen would be Naruto, the troublemaker with a huge dream.

A girl around eleven or twelve years walked over to one of the soldiers, then she looked at her companions, gesturing for her to go on, but the girl just shook her head at them, it was because these soldiers are just too intimidating for kids their age.

'Go, ask him'

'Ask him'

Her friends mouthed to her while pointing at the soldiers.

"What do you want kid?" the soldier turned to the girl as he noticed her fidgeting around beside him.

The girl was at first startled, but then she tried to calm herself by taking deep breaths, then she turned to face the soldier as her eyes darted around, before saying, ""Uhmm..is that kid you talked about really around the same as us?"


The soldier suddenly grinned at her, which made the latter uncomfortable, "Yes, he was younger than you though, uhmm..I think he was...Hey, how old is Wen Wen again?" the soldier asked the soldier sitting in front of him.

"He's only eight for the time being"

The soldier in front of him thought for a bit, and when he was just about to answer, when another soldier beat him to it, which made the former at that soldier.

""Really!?""

Suddenly, three of the braver kids slowly walked over and asked with a bit of hesitation in their voices..

"Yes, he is" said the soldier sitting on the back, named Dixon.

"But is he really a mutant? A mutant who could use flames!?" one of the boys, as his shone with desire to become a mutant someday.

"Yes, he could, but he's not the only one, there are also other kids around your age who's like him" Dixon enthusiastically answered all their queries as his just one of those people who likes kids, while at the same time, he also remembered his experience of accidentally getting struck by lightning from Lea, and the other soldiers in the other hand just listened on the side and would sometimes reply to the questions of the kids.
 


"Really!? Does that mean we could also become like them!? After all, we are the same or around their age, right!?" suddenly one of the kids, resulting in that all of the kids immediately looked towards Dixon with eyes full of expectation.

"No" before Dixon could answer, a flat "No" suddenly sounded from the front, which immediately doused the children in their little fantasy, and when Dixon saw that it was their squad leader who answered, he just shut his mouth, but at the same time, he felt pity for the kids, because that single word "No" might have been sounded really harsh in their ears.

The kids hang their heads low in dejection as they went back to their seats in low spirits.

Dixon just shook his head bitterly, and then he turned towards his Squad Leader, "You were to harsh on them Squad Leader"

"Shut it, Dixon. Kids should learn that the world isn't the same anymore where there would always adult that would look after them. They're not like Wen Wen and the other kids back at the base who has parents or guardians who are mutants to look after them. So they need to be sensible when they get there" their squad leader slowly stood up from his seat while he said those words and faced the people inside the bus.

The squad leader, called Mason looked at the kids at the back of the bus, and said, "If you guys want to turn into mutants or become skilled soldiers like us, then isn't impossible to achieve"

"Really!?"

"Oh my god, really sir!?"

The kids suddenly coming back to life, stirred in excitement when they heard what Mason said.

"B-but h-how do we do that, sir?" a kid, who is more sensible and somewhat shy asked nervously.

Mason then grinned widely at them, and he said with a chuckle, "Then you guys need to attend school when we get there~"

"W-what!?"

"School!? There's still school!? I hate going to school!"

"Noooo~!"

"Not school!"

The kids suddenly shouting in frustration and horror at the thought of going back to school, because just when they thought that they were finally freed from the clutches of "school", they didn't expect that they would be once again be "captured" by the Demon King known as School!

"Kakaka! Deal with it kids! You need to go back and study at the School over there, like Wen Wen and other kids did" Mason started laughing when he saw the horror in their faces, but at the same time, he could also feel what they are going through as...he did also hate going to school when he was still a kid back then.

"T-then we have no choice but to go, right boys!?" the oldest kid among them suddenly yelled with excitement!

""You betcha we do!""

All the boys roared in excitement.

"We're also gonna attend school if that's the only way we'd get stronger, right Nicole?" on the other hand, the eldest girl among girls softly held Nicole's hands.

"Uhmm" Nicole nodded cutely as she clenched her hands towards her.

"Right girls!?"

""Yeah! W-we w-won't lose to the boys!""

The kids were causing so much ruckus that the adults occupying the other school bus at the very back of the convoy could even hear them.

"W-what happening over at the kids side? Why are they being so loud?" one of the parents suddenly grew worried.

"They're really loud, I wonder if the kids are doing fine over there"

"I hope they aren't making it difficult for your comrades over there"

"Don't worry about it, can't you hear that they are actually yelling in excitement?" one of the soldiers escorting them said.

"Eh? Really?"

*****

*Ruckus* *Ruckus* *Ruckus*

"Shut up all of you! Get back into your seats!" Mason yelled at the kids angrily, as they are starting to get on his nerves with all the ruckus they are causing.

The kids immediately kept their mouths shut as they obediently sat in their chairs, but even then, they still can't help by excitedly talk to each other in murmurs.

"Don't be so hard on them, bro" Dixon told his brother Mason and laughed.

"Shut it, you!" Mason angrily glared at him.

"Heh~ that's why kids don't like you" Dixon snickered to the side.

"I like you uncle, don't worry" Nicole suddenly ran beside Mason, took one of his hands and said with a cute face.

"I..shaddup!" Dixon's immediately took his hand back and crossed his arms as his face suddenly became red like a tomato.

Nicole just smiled at him and immediately ran back to her seat.

"Ohh! Our Squad Leader actually got embarrassed! Haha!" one of the soldiers suddenly laughed, and the rest followed suit.

"Once we return, you guys need to run fifty laps around the training ground!" Mason glared at them as he coldly said.

"What!? No way!"

"Not fifty laps! The training ground is huge! We won't be able to finish even twenty laps or even ten!"

"Yeah sir! How about ten...no five laps instead? Fifty laps is too much!"

"Shuddap!"

'A conceited man?'
Those words followed Chu Ningyi the entire way.
'Chu Ningyi, you've always faced everything with logic but love and logic are complete opposites. You'll keep using logic and you'll never find love.'
Chu Ningyi stared outside the window. Uncle Chu was not driving very fast so he could clearly see the passersby and the cars outside. It was now mid-afternoon and office workers were stepping out from their offices in twos and threes to have a meal together on both sides of the road. There were also small stalls at the side of the road selling fruits under the sun.
Usually, he would not bother looking at these things.
"Young Master, do we go back to the office?" Uncle Chu stopped at the intersection. One was the way home and the other was the way to the office so he did not know which way to go.
"Stop in front," Chu Ningyi replied. He continued to look out but his eyes were no longer sharp and penetrating. His gaze was at a loss.
Uncle Chu was in a daze but did not go against his orders. After the light turned green, he drove the car forward and stopped in front of a public transport station.
Chu Ningyi opened the door and got down. He then asked Uncle Chu to go home as he walked along the bustling street alone.
At this time, Chu Ningyi was no longer that high and mighty overlord. He stood on the bluestone terrace as he watched the crowd come and go.
Logic and love were complete opposites. To him, who had always used logic to deal with things, this was an all-new definition. He was used to using logic all the time.
"I've told you so many times... I don't want to eat this now. Why are you still giving this to me?"
"Baby, I've been busy so I only have time to make sushi. Just put up with it for a little while. I'll make something delicious for you tonight."
As Chu Ningyi was in his daze, a pair of young lovers who were sitting on the bench behind him took out their lunch.
"You don't love me at all."
"How could I not love you? Dearest, please eat quickly. I snuck out to give you your lunch. I have a meeting at the company at 1:30 pm. so I'll have to leave first."
"Aren't you eating?"
"I'll eat along the way. Remember to finish eating before going back to work." The man said before he quickly jumped up onto a bus that had just arrived.
The girl held the lunch box, stood up and cried out, "Remember to eat!"
Chu Ningyi did not know if the man had heard it or not. All he saw was the girl who was holding the lunchbox and smiling. It was something that he had never seen on Shu Anluo's face.
When Shui Anluoe faced him, if she did not have a fawning smile on her face, it was an awkward smile. Otherwise, it was the kind of smile from yesterday — a smile of mockery.
He was suddenly plunged into loss. 'What was love?'
'The man had a meeting in the afternoon. If it were me, I would have ordered lunch for her and sent someone to deliver it to her. I would focus on preparing for the meeting.'
This was the most logical method.
The girl holding the lunchbox was about to leave but suddenly bent down to pick up an access card. "What a scatterbrain," she grumbled. She stood next to the bus stop, clearly waiting to catch the bus and made a call. "Sister Li, I have a sudden emergency. Can I have half an hour off this afternoon? Just half an hour."
The girl asked carefully and the person on the other end gave an unknown answer. She happily thanked them and jumped on the bus that had just arrived. 
Chu Ningyi watched her leave but before she left, he noticed the access card in her hand. So that had been an employee of the Chu Group.
Chu Ningyi looked up and watched as the bus disappeared completely from view. He, who was standing on the street, was lost in a deep reverie.


Divorced, disowned, and down on her luck, Shui Anluo was determined to move on and live a peaceful life… Unfortunately, her ex-husband somehow found out about the baby and insisted that she should move in with him again. Soon, he realizes that he cannot live without her… But the road to marriage is bumpy and Shui Anluo is unwilling to go through heartbreak again. Can she take back everything that had belonged to her and will she find the courage to jump in and fall in love again?

"Ahhh, Mr. Hoshi?"


"Hmm?"


"Where are we going?"


I looked back at Akari who seemed to shrink a few inches and sighed


"We're going through Noodle country towards the coast"


Akari nodded and silence returned to our journey for another few minutes until


"Why are we going to the coast?"


I stopped and the girl seemed to nearly trip before backpedaling a few steps, making me let out another heavy sigh


"Because if I'm correct, a treasure is waiting off the coast of Wave country which is a little way up the coast we are walking towards"


She seemed to accept that and relaxed, allowing us to continue


"..."


"..."


"..."


"..."


"Mr. Hoshi?"


"Ok, legs just set up camp here for the night, hmm?"


Akari nodded, again, and we started setting up with the new supplies I bought


You maybe wondering how I got the cash? Yeah, I fought a few people. Why didn't I do that before? Too easy


Hell, I might be weak amongst the world of Ninja but if I were pitted against any regular civilian, I'd win easily


After a few fights, I raked in almost 75k Ryo. More than enough to buy some new clothes for Akari, a week's worth of food and some camping supplies


We ended up staying in that farming town for another week or so after I met Akari just so I could get the girl used to my behavior and for the reason above


Also for the noodles. Don't forget the noodles


"Tell me something about yourself Akari"


Why did I say that? Now she's on the verge of becoming a wreck…


"Oh..  uhm… ehh…"


"You don't have to of course! I mean just…."


"No.. it's fine.. What would you like to know?"


Really? Have I finally broken down that sh- No. No I have not. Not with that face


"Likes, dislikes, hobbies? That sort of thing?"


"Ah? Uhh, well… I like nature and plants… I also like pictures!" 


Ok, that's the loudest I've ever heard her talk. Almost stage whisper level


"I dislike people who take advantage of others…"


Of course, that's obvious 


"My main hobby is drawing and working on improving my handwriting…"


A budding seal master? Useful


I made sure to give her the gentlest smile I could so as not to startle her 


"That's great. Might as well tell you a bit about myself, yeah?"


Her face was graced with a small smile


"Hnn, I'd like that~"


Damn that's cu- NO! I WILL NOT HAVE THE FBI AFTER ME! THINK MATURE KUSHINA! MATURE KUSHINA!!


"Well, I like to learn new things and experiment, along with my sister Sara and travelling… As for dislikes, I don't particularly like seafood or control freaks… My hobbies consist of writing stories and training my skills"


Akari's eyes immediately widened in surprise when I said training, obviously getting excited


"You're a ninja?!"


Oh God that's almost worse than young Sakura…


Almost


"Yeah, technically. I know how to use chakra at least"


The girl was in my face in less than a millisecond, eyes sparkling with Ill-concealed excitement


"Teach me"


At least I broke through her shell?


...Yeah that might have been a mistake


____________________________


On the bright side, running through the trees is much faster than walking!


"WOOOO!! YEAAHHHH!!"


On the dark side, it's now very loud wherever we go


"THIS. IS. AWESOME!!!"


Thank God the river way to wave wasn't too far away from where we were camping, maybe 20 miles or so. After I unlocked the girls chakra  (Holy shit she had a fuck ton even with that malnourished body), it only took us an hour and a half to reach the shore


I paid for a boat seeing as how water walking was wayyy too complex for me, let alone for Akari and crossed. Hell, I haven't even started on advanced tree walking yet…


While on the river/ocean way, we didn't end up seeing anything resembling a bridge, so I can solidly assume Gato hasn't murdered everyone yet. Honestly, that's been bugging me for the past eight years


Where are we in the timeline? I can now confidently say that Naruto is at least not a Genin yet


Good


We reached the shore, I thanked the bus driver, and we jumped off towards the town


"So we're going to a place called Nami? For a treasure?"


"Yeah, off the coast a little ways north! We're staying in the town for the night before we leave!"


Talking while jumping through tree branches is not very enjoyable - don't try it at home 


It didn't take very long to reach the worn out little town of wave 


'Yeah, It seems Gato hasn't stepped foot in here yet..'


Even though the town was obviously falling apart, the residents seemed content with their conditions. Honestly, I wish I could have seen this in the anime. People were smiling and bartering away vegetables and fish, kids were off playing in the dirt roads


It was kinda heartwarming 


'Too bad Gato is going to come along…'


To be completely honest, I debated with myself whether or not I should let the guy take over wave or not. On one hand, I could save the country early and prevent everyone from suffering


But on the other hand, if I do that, I'll effectively be stunting Naruto's growth. No Gato means no Zabuza and Haku which also means no Ninja Way and protecting friends mentality which also means no first time using Kurama's chakra..


Yeah, that settles it, I'll wait for now. The kid needs every little bit of help he can get and if I take away his first use of the Biju chakra, Jiraiya might not be called back and Konoha Crush might actually succeed


Don't really want that to happen…


So, in relation to that, if Gato is here when we return from where we are going, I'll only rob half of his fortune…


"Yeah, that sounds good"


"What sounds good?" Both Akari and the lady at the front desk of this hotel asked at the same time


I scratched my head


"Did I say that out loud?"


"Sure did, now what sounds good?" 


"Ah, just talking to myself, here you go!" I grabbed Akari after leaving some ryo for the night on the counter and ran up the stairs 


The lady looked confused but sighed and took the ryo


"Damn children…"


____________________________


It took almost 4 hours to find someone willing enough to help us traverse to where we were heading and even still just had to pay him more than half of the money to my name 


'Yeah, totally going to rob shortstack when we get back, at wave or not…'


"Whirlpools comin' up 'head! Watch 'erselves!"


Damn you bus driver! You gave away the surprise! Ah, well. At least Akari is still blind


Yeah, we're going to Uzushiogakure. Home of the Uzumaki. At least the ruins of what was once their home. Clan was almost wiped out


I guess I should get this out of the way real quick. Mini History lesson! The Uzumaki were a clan renowned for three things - Their red hair, chakra capacity, and sealing prowess. Four if you count their love for ramen, but I don't know if that's true and if it is I don't feel like bleeding myself dry using Akari as a test subject…


Anyways, the clan was so good at the art of sealing, eventually three nations had to band up together to even have a chance of wiping them out and even still, the armies of Kumo (Cloud), Iwa  (Stone), and Kiri (Water) were severely wiped out afterwards. A force of almost 300k soldiers stormed the island village of maybe 15k active shinobi with the advantage of surprise and still lost almost 250k total shinobi


Honestly, I still think that's the only reason Konoha even had a chance at winning the second war


So anyways, I rest my case that the Uzumaki are the definition of badasses


And we are visiting their home! I'm actually squirming with giddiness right now. Akari this staring at me like I'm crazy but screw her, I don't care


*WSHHHH* 


*SLSHHHH*


Oh jeez, the whirlpools are kicking up now. I can feel the boat start to shake up and bob aggressively 


I looked out into the ocean and saw the sheer number of whirlpools that were just lying in wait for whatever poor soul stupid enough to try and make try journey through them 


Actually, just tried counting them and lost count after 134. That wasn't even 10%..


"Don' ye worry back there, lil' ones! I know this route li' the back of me 'and!"


And sure enough, the old guy did. As soon as the shaking started, it stopped and we were sailing into the ruins 


...Can I just say, I've never seen anything so beautiful in my life?


Legit, I squealed

A man who has lived three whole lifetimes, born together with a girl on her second.

Years of prior experience

What happens when they now have knowledge of the immediate future?

Hmm.. maybe a little bit of..

Chaos?

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I initially posted this on Fanfiction.Net under the same pen name. I've decided to branch out and post this here as well. Hope ya'll enjoy~

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+ If you're uncomfortable with excessive cursing, this is not for you. This story ends up becoming filled with them

God, I could kiss Bruce, at least if it wouldn't cause him to punch me through a few walls. The contacts combined with Wolverine 2.0 just made life so much better that I almost hated remembering it before them.

Augmented Reality was amazing. Having a full, hi-definition, record of everything you saw and heard wasn't quite as good as a photographic memory but it was close. And that was the least of the benefits. I now had an honest to god video game people tracking radar and mini-map floating in my vision, and courtesy of my access to the various social media platforms Raith Industries owned along with the various government databases I even got to run facial recognition in real time and get little name tags floating above their heads. Using a computer? I got to use my entire field of view as a screen, or whichever bit I wanted and could type on thin air or pull off the Tony Stark hologram manipulation from the movies (even if only I could see it).

Business meetings? I had the data literally floating before my eyes and thus looked massively more prepared and competent than I really was. Not to mention the vocal stress and visual analysis programs that ran in real time and gave me a good idea when people were lying.

This set up had freed up an average of twelve hours per week from my schedule simply because I was always effectively sitting at a computer and could instantly respond to things like e-mails while doing other, more important, stuff.

Then there was the Chi release system which allowed me to steadily and continuously be bathed in neutral chi. Sleep? That was nice but now mostly unnecessary. Physical endurance? Not quite limitless bu close. Healing? A cut would be gone in minutes.

It was thanks to this system that I got an instant alert when a Chinese reactor caught on fire while I was in the middle of a business dinner. A subtle finger twitch and blink combination and suddenly my cell phone was ringing, a glance at the screen and I said "I'm sorry but I have to take this Obadiah, it should only take a minute though." as I excused myself from the table where I had been in talks with Obadiah Stane about our joint push to get the laws regarding genetically modified organisms changed.

"Of course Octavian. Believe me, I understand what it is like always being on call." he said as he stood and pulled out a cigar, "I'll be in the smoking lounge when you're done."

I gave a nod before answering the phone and leaving. Pretending to hold a conversation with one of my executives as I made my way to the restroom. Once in a stall I closed the door, opened a portal, and stepped through to Mars before grabbing a foot long, six inch wide, metallic canister, typing a few commands in thin air, opening a portal to the vicinity of the decommissioned - and currently flaming - Wan Tai nuclear reactor in China, and pushing through the canister before closing the portal.

From that canister emerged hundreds of bird sized drones which each contained hundreds of far smaller fly drones. They started flying around the area and deployed a fly to follow everyone within a twenty mile vicinity even as I was stepping back out of the bathroom stall and heading out to finish my conversation with Stane.

All my notes, made low those many eons ago when I first realized what universe I had been reborn into, said was that Scorch got his powers by being in the vicinity of a flaming nuclear reactor in China. Thankfully flaming nuclear reactors were not a common occurrence, in fact, this was the first one in more than a decade. My solution to finding Scorch was just to have spy drones follow around everyone in the area until whenever I did find him, with Arc Reactors those drones could last effectively forever and once the bugs target had been identified it would follow them regardless of where they went.

I had just gotten back from my dinner and was looking forward to relaxing with Natasha, we were both so busy and with such odd hours that having unscheduled downtime was a relatively rare occasion and it was nice to curl up with a good book and read with her sitting next to me as she read her own book. Just being able to sit in quiet peace with someone else without having to worry about anything was nice. And god was my life fucked up if I thought that was a nice way to spend time with a beautiful woman.

Sadly it was not to be as Elektra sent me a message saying that she needed a portal to Mars. I locked onto the tracking spell that was part of the enchanted communications relay inside her own Wolverine 2.0 upgrades and opened the portal. I noted that it was her meditation chamber in her quarters at Wolfram & Heart and a quick time check showed that it was 3 AM EST. She came through immediately, clearly agitated, and barely before the portal had finished closing she started speaking "I know what the Hand are after."

I rocked back on my heels slightly and said: "So you managed to access your progenitor's memories then?"

"Yes, finally. But it is almost seven thousand years of memories. Thankfully Chi doesn't forget, unfortunately, I need to view them before they become really part of my Chi in some fundamental way that I don't understand. Once I do that I can access the memories just like they were my own but until I do, nothing." she explained, before saying "But that's not the point. Dragons are real!"

I nodded "I'm aware."

She looked stunned as she said "WHAT?!"

"I'm aware that dragons are real. The Iron Fist becomes the Iron Fist by punching the molten heart of a dragon, after all, I believe its name is Shou-Lao." I calmly explained.

"Ok...why have you never mentioned this before?" she questioned.

I shrugged "It never really seemed all that relevant."

She sighed and muttered something about idiot men and dragons being real being important before speaking more clearly "Well it is, relevant that is. The Hand's resurrection substance is made from the bones of dead dragons and they are running low. They believe there is a dragon skeleton somewhere deep under New York City and that is what they are searching for."

I gave a nod "It's locked in a vault forty stories underground that only the Iron Fist can access; given that he never leaves K'un-Lun and would never help the Hand even if he did come to New York, I consider it quite secure. Shame for the Fingers that they don't know about the Vault though, all those resources they will waste digging for bones they can't access."

"YOU KNEW?! And didn't SAY ANYTHING?" she screamed out, fury lacing her voice.

I sighed, cast a quick spell around the both of us, and then opened a portal to the L1 Lagrange point and pushed her through.

With a few finger twitches, I manipulated the spells around us so that we were both facing Earth.

The sudden shock of being in the vacuum of space without an environment suit, and of not being dead (thank you magic), derailed her anger long enough for me to start speaking.

"Look at it Elektra. Earth, it looks beautiful from out here and I consider this one of the true privileges of being me. But the power I have comes with costs."

I glanced over at her before saying "Imagine that you are walking down the streets of New York tomorrow and see an out of control bus come barreling around a corner and about to crash into a building. You are in your armor so you have no risk to your identity and could easily stop it, saving the lives of the ten people on board. Will you do so?"

"What's that got to do with anything Raith?" she said
'ouch, using the last name, yup, she is definitely pissed.'

"We will get to that, but please answer the question." I calmly said.

"Fine, of course, I stop it." she ground out.

"And suppose that you also knew that one of the ten people on that bus is a terrorist who is going to blow himself up in a crowd the next day and kill a hundred people. What do you do then?" I continued.

"Assuming I can't just kill the terrorist, I let the bus crash. Sacrificing ten to save one hundred is the right call." she said promptly, her moral pragmatism shining through.

"Ah, but what if you knew that as a result of that terrorist attack a man would be gifted with great power and go on to save the world years later?" I said, finishing the hypothetical.

"I save the bus and let the terrorist attack occur, it's the same as above. All else being equal, you do what saves the largest number of people. What's this have to do with anything?" she said, the anger slowly coming back.

"It has everything to do with my life Elektra. It's probably the reason that Alkasha and I get along with one another so well, we understand something that the rest of you never really grasp. I have to make those kinds of calls every single day Elektra. I have allowed, and will allow, truly horrific things to occur that I could *easily* prevent simply because it will have some positive outcome years down the line that I consider worth the sacrifice. Do you want to know what your future held if I hadn't intervened in your life? If you had chosen not to walk through the portal when I gave you the option?" I lectured

"Wh.." she started to speak but I interrupted her "You died in Matthew's arms before Alexandra had you resurrected as the Black Sky. You would go on to be the Hand's weapon, although you would bite the hand that made you later and take Alexandra's head. Then, down forty stories under the city, you would fight with your love, Matthew, and his friends along with the remaining Fingers. Only for the explosives that Matthew had planted in the building above to collapse on all of you, burying you, him, and the rest of the Hand leadership.

"That was supposed to be your future Elektra, so by your own logic, I should have sacrificed you and Matt to permanently die with the Hand. Is that what I should have done?"

She was floored and didn't seem to know what to say "You knew I was...? Matthew died because of...? Wha...?" she shook her head "Why did you save me then?"

"Because I saw potential in you and chose to believe that I could ensure the Hand's destruction another way and that your value would outweigh the benefit of their destruction. I chose to put faith in you, just as I trust you to put faith in me. I didn't know what you being the Black Sky actually meant, nor did I know your parentage or about Stick, but neither would have changed my decision.

"The point of all of this though, well that... You know the Oaths we swore when we bound ourselves to the Covenant. What is the first Oath?" I said.

"To do whatever is necessary to ensure the survival of humanity." she said, before continuing incredulously, "Are you implying that this was necessary to prevent the destruction of humanity?"

"Refraining from telling you what the Hand was after in New York and letting you find out on your own increases our odds against a future threat, yes." I said. 'because I knew it would cause this conversation whenever you told us about the bones and I could use the opportunity to build your trust in me, but you don't need to know that'

"What could scare you and Alkasha Octavian? What could scare her?" she asked, her voice much calmer and the anger mostly gone.

"Things that you can't know about yet. We will have a very slim opportunity to shift things in a direction that will dramatically improve our odds of survival but she and I are threading a needle while being thrown about by a hurricane trying to pull all of this off. The next five years are crucial, if we manage to hit that shatter point just right then everything changes. And so I let you learn about the Hand's objective on your own." I answered, thinking again about just how much I had tied up in ensuring that Loki's invasion came off just so. It was the one chance to deprive Thanos of the Mind Stone, and for that, I was willing to pay virtually any price.

We floated there, staring at the home we had been called on to protect, for a while before Elektra finally said "Ok, I guess I understand. It's just, frustrating. I'm glad I'm not you though, trying to tango with time is not something that I ever want to deal with. I like cause and effect working in that order, you do something and it has an effect is how things are supposed to work. Not the other way around."

I laughed before opening a portal back to our base "You don't know the half of it."

*Emperor Tippy* 

Premise:
I saw A Twelve Step Program to Omnipotence and frankly, I thought it did pretty much everything wrong with an SI story. So I decided to do it better. And yes, this is still going to be a power fantasy wank fest - it will just be one that doesn't require absurd ass pull "luck" to work out.

*Chapter update*
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In this middle dimension, there are five continents, the Middle Continent, North Continent, South Continent, West Continent and the East Continent. The biggest continent of all five, the middle one, have plenty of big countries, such as the Burning Phoenix Kingdom, where the most prosperous city located, the Fiery City. Other than that, there were also the Holy Moon Theocracy Empire, the biggest religious nation, the Aqua Port Kingdom, the infamous country with bad reputation, and not too famous one, the Union of Yurropa, the only country that practice the democracy systems in this world. The Middle Continent countries reached nearly hundreds, but far much smaller than the four country that I mention just now.






Unlike the middle one, other four continent have quite same size, and those continents were separated by the sea. Because the middle dimension is the flat world, there are four main ocean at the corner of this dimension. Even thought there are end side of the sea, but the ship or the water doesn't fall or throw out from the dimension because of the existent of the invisible rectangle perimeter barrier to avoid from that happened. Among the four continents after the middle one, the East Continent quite special and have less countries, not more than ten in that continent. The reason is the third quarter of the territory in that continent are belong to the Sakura Empire. Its size almost ten times bigger than the Burning Phoenix Kingdom.




The Sakura Empire using the feudalism systems, which popular in this world, but the Emperor doesn't have full power like most country especially in the other feudal Lord territories. The capital city, which under the Emperor mandate is the only territory that belong to the royalty. The Sakura City, as the capital city of the empire is nearly same size as the Burning Phoenix Kingdom, with the population close to 100 million peoples, but the capital funds are only about half of the Fiery City annual income. The other territories were controlled by the appointed nobles, that granted by the first Emperor until now. The main four Duke houses that most influential in this empire are Oda Clan, Takeda Clan, Fujimura Clan and Sanada Clan. The head of Takeda clan, Duke Takeda become the Right Minister, handle the government and all the officials in the country, while his ally, the Duke Sanada become his helper, the Left Minister. The country may sound peaceful but in reality, the political struggle among the nobles become worst every day. 






The current Emperor power been weakened by influence of the two main Duke house that held the government power, making the pro-royal nobles quite worry with the situation. The nobles who supported the royal, only the Earl rank below without any the main four Duke influences does make the pro-royal nobles can't do anything in the politics right now. The Oda clan, known as the natural side, now hostile with the Fujimura Dukedoms, making the political situation in the empire worst. They already announced each other and in urge of starting the civil war.  Both of the Duke houses actually been nemesis since the first establishment of their clan, after their founders hatred of each other. The hostile situations become intense, thanks to the Duke Takeda, who planned to let them destroying each other.


The current Emperor tried to stop the conflicts but his influence in the empire is too weak, unlike the crown prince, that quite talented. Unfortunately, his absence in the country make the problem become unsolved. The main reason why the pro-royal nobles still supported the Emperor family is because of the crown princess who very matured, full of caliber and respected even though in his young age. His absence cannot be avoided as he actually when to the cultivation world, learning to become the cultivator like the first emperor in the country history. 






The Emperor, my father not a good leader but still a decent one. In his younger days, before I born, my father quite aggressive but the war campaign against the demon army lead him to his fall. My father lose against the Gula Demon King after his attempt to conquer the north of the East Continent. The war ended with the ceasefire agreement between the two side, leading the Gula Demon King managed to open his base in the East Continent by taking one of the small country in the north side that fall as victim of my father ambition.


Since the defeat, my father action became the criticisms of the survival country at the north side. Even the Wibane Kingdom that always been the close ally began to distance themselves from our Empire. Surprisingly, that small country managed to secure the cooperation of the one of the biggest company in this world right now, the Eliza Authorities and become the first nation in this continent that have the teleport gate facilities.






The crown prince, my brother were right. He told me that the Wibane Kingdom will become significant country in this continent and we must not harm them in any cost. Actually my brother even tried to stop my father action to conquer the whole continent but in that time, my brother still young. But after the failure by failure in marching the army, my father finally decide to take my brother advice and even avoid the worst situation. His advice and strategies in the last part of the war save the empire from falling apart and conquer by the enemy. Even though the empire did lose, but none of it's territory been stolen by the enemy, except the unfortunate neighbor nations. They accepted the help of the demon army to save their country from my father ambition, but instead been destroyed in the war. The current crown prince, my brother also have ratted out the previous crown prince as the main traitor in that war and the real mastermind in the war game. He betrayed the my father so he could ascend the throne. So he initiated my father about the war and asked the nobles to support the war campaign. The previous crown prince actually my father niece, the son of his elder brother that died at the first ever war against the demon army. My father sworn that he will given the throne to his son, so he appoint him as the crown prince even though my father has his own son that born recently. But, my father niece, or my elder cousin doesn't believe my father, and believe that the death of his father is his fault. Furthermore the excel and the brilliant that shown by my elder brother does make him threatened.




By the way, my name is Nadeshiko Himiko Von Sakura, the second child and the first princess of this empire. My brother, the crown prince come from different mother, who is the legal wife and the Empress of this empire, but he really love me, as well as his mother. My mother died after given birth to me, but my brother mother and him always support me since then make my life not as lonely as you thought. Unlike the royal mother, my mother is a commoner, but held from the Grand Master house of Mana Engineer, the profession that only can be learned by my mother clan, the Himiko Clan. My mother clan in the brink of extinction, as the most of the clan descendants ended up not continuing the family traditions. The Mana Engineer is very challenging professional and not all of the practitioners can mastering the job and become successful.




Moreover, the learning and training cost are massive, not to mention that the nobles or merchants who willing become their financial sponsor getting fewer and fewer. Even though I am the first princess of the empire, I couldn't escape from the family tradition and been traveled to my mother clan territory every day when my age 5 years old to learn and become the Mana Engineer. The crown prince, my royal brother actually encourage it and denied the palace advisors complaint about that. Most princesses were raised as the political tool, but my brother wanted me to create my own future. He always support me and give me lots of advance idea that unthinkable by me to develop my own creation. With his help and the education that I went through in my mother clan house, I managed to complete the my primary education and the basic knowledge of Mana Engineering within 5 years.


While I still studying, my brother has established my own knight unit that called Nadeshiko Brave. The knight unit have been created as my guards and my private army, consist of 30 peoples, and all of them were originate from the orphans and commoners. My brother pick up the young girls and trained them for becoming my personal guards. My brother even invited one of the ten Sword Saint, Lady Nene, to become the trainer for my knight units. Lady Nene, the only women who held the title, also the commoners originate, willingly to help my brother even though lot of nobles tried to bring her as Samurai Leader for their army.


Speaking of swordsmanship, the ten Sword Saints are the strongest sword art practitioner, but the main four Dukes hold the most powerful sword users. That's because the four Dukes were granted the legendary 'katana', which are the spiritual weapon. Unlike the cultivators who have trinity spiritual; core, pet and armor, the East Continent martial arts practitioner only have the spiritual weapon. Among those weapons, the katana that granted to the four Dukes are the most powerful, created by the ancient heroes in the past. Oda clan have the Icicle Wolf, Fujimura clan held the Inferno Vermilion, Takeda clan owns the Typhoon Bicorn  and the last but not least, the Sanada clan with their Mountain Bull. Even the empire royal spiritual weapon, the Sword of Revealing Light, own by my father, can't be compare to those weapon.


My brother, who been recognize for his talent in cultivation prowess, hastening his preparation to enter the lower dimension by training with Lady Nene. Even though my brother still losing when sparring with Lady Nene, he manage to give hardship to her and face her toe to toe fair and square. Lady Nene praised him as the genius, and always said to me secretly that if my brother manage to become the cultivator one day, she wouldn't have any chances to beat him up again, even landing a hit to him will not be possible anymore. The knight girls follow his lead and manage to become the decent knights, on par with the royal one. But my knights are not ordinary one. Firstly, the armor of my knights have been enhanced by me with my Mana Engineering skill. I reinforce their equipment to make them more stronger. I also invented the special carriage, quite big, completed with kitchen, toilet and can carry all my knight unit comfortably for traveling. My brother called it as the magical bus. Thanks to my brother, he even designed the suspension units and the rubber tyres that he created by himself to make the magical bus travel more smoothly. He also given me the idea of the engine, that move the magical bus. Not forget, the break systems, which also important, introduce by my brother. As for me, I just created the mana circuit, and crafting it on the bus.




The backside of this magical bus is the fuel, which 'mana'. To travel long distance would take massive mana from us, so my brother give me more wonderful idea, the mana generator. There are two way that I can generate the mana; first by using the sun light, and second one using the movement. He teach me that the solar light can generate energy by absorb and change it into other form, namely the electricity. He also teaches me about the dark metal usage, that he describe as magnets, and introduce me the mana generator called dynamo. With the inventions, the mana usage not only can be saved, but also powered the other tools that created by my brother. He creating the light bulb for the magical bus. Not only that, he created a refrigerator to keep the food last longer, the manatic stove for cooking and air conditioner systems to make our travel more comfortable. All of my knight trained to control and drive the bus while supplying their mana so it won't be much trouble to travel with the bus in the future. At the bright sight, because of the mana supplying training, all of the knight manage to increase their mana capacity and having the comfortable mobile base if I need to travel for the official business.                 




When my age reach twelve, there are heated discussion about the my engagement. The Duke Takeda wanted me to marry his son, but stopped by my brother. My father, as always a useless guy, couldn't make his own decisions, and let my brother to take his roles. Speak of the betrothal, in my childhood time, I never spend my moment with guy except my brother. Even for my father, I rarely meet him face to face, and only see him from far. When I attend the class for the Mana Engineering, I been taught by my grandmother, personally without any classmate. I can't even meet any of my relative there, only focusing my studies. As for my primary educations, I been handled by the private tutors which all of them are women. The only man who teach me, of course, my brother. That's why I don't know about the marriage things, let alone those engagement. So, the love definition doesn't include in my dictionary. 



It's decided that I will be betrothed to the young master of only Wu clan heir, Wu Tian. Before my brother left for his cultivation world education, he make my father announce the royal decree of my engagement to the public and make sure those nobles couldn't used the chances to use me as they politic tools for the throne. Well, engage to the 6 years old Wu Tian, the unknown person in this very country, albeit the only heir to the most wealth and powerful city in dimension still count as political marriage, but at least the plan will stop the ambitions of the Prime Minister and his cronies. Yet, the Prime Minister, Duke Takeda still have his hidden card, dragging my fiancee to this country politic by given him the noble ranked.

The count title is just a trap to Wu Tian as he will granted the piece of unwanted land in this dimension. He given the north side of Sakura Empire, which located to end side of east sea. The land also near to the biggest pirate region that establish their own nation and called it the New World Order. All of the noble faction voiced their agreement, while the royal side couldn't say anything because the absence of my brother. The messenger were send to the Wu clan house and the Marquess of the Burning Phoenix Kingdom as well as the governor of the Fiery City reply the message with his agreement. Unknown to them, if the lord aware about their politic game, this message could be the sign of the war declaration.


After the date of my engagement have been decided, the delegation, consist me, the Prime Minister and his aids, my few knights that wearing the maid attire and the guards travel to the Fiery City using the air carrier, that owns by Duke Oda. The Oda army is the smallest size in this country, but the military technologies that own by the duke are terrified. While I become the master in mana engineering, the duke is the master of mechanical engineering, producing the machinery creations and make the duke army might fear by others. But, the duke territory also in the north side of Sakura Empire, fortunately, in the west coast that more safer that the Wu Tian region, always face threat and incoming attack from the bandits and pirates, effected the dukedom development. Luckily, the duke is royal faction, and supported me, so the duke willingly lend one of the air carrier to travel to the Fiery City much faster and safer.


Our arrival to Fiery City surprised the Lord and his follower. That's make me so proud and happy. I can see the Prime Minister smirking to the reaction of the Fiery City citizens about our air carrier. We given place to rest and surprisingly we were informed that the betrothal ceremony not held in this city, but the new city develop by his son. He also said that his son will also be granted the noble ranks from few country, not to mention one of the rank is the honorary duke. The Prime Minister, Duke Takeda become pale after realize that the child that he wanted to sacrifice on his evil plan not only mere a heir, but the representative noble from few country. 

I enjoyed the hospitality shown by the Lord Wu, but sometime I can feel the killing intent from my future mother-in-law. She only keep silent while the Lord Wu doing the talk, bragging his son to the delegates. Wu Tian finish the primary education within a year with full marks in all the subject, including the devil Maths. After that, he went to United States in the West Continent to learn and becoming the alchemist, the profession that actually related To my mana engineering. Not only he finish his curriculum within a year, he also manage to create his own battle armor and will participate in the tournament for his graduation ceremony. Shockingly, he also have the cultivation talent, and will enter the lower dimension, few days after his seventh birthday. Who told me that the heir of Wu clan is talent-less, lazy and  useless?!

By the way, the next day, after we arrive to the new city, established by Wu Tian, our so called mighty and powerful air carrier is now mere a toy compare to the heaven that I have step in....

    

The former him is a good manner man. He is so polite and very honest doing anything. But, the life he gone through only suffocation because of his kindness. So, he given the second chance, to start his new life, as a typical VILLAIN in every novel story, a young heir of powerful family?!

A woman with long black hair led Nick's group towards the north entrance, which was on the other side of the wall. This group was composed of six different classes; two were from the offensive division and three from the defensive division. There was another class from the support division besides the one Nick was in, making it a total of seven different classes.They silently followed the woman.

It took them roughly an hour and a half to make their way around to the other side. When they finally arrived, they lined up so they could enter Mt. Hessian.

There was a silver gate that was ten feet tall.

Slowly, they made their way inside, but before they entered they had to stop at an armory to pick up EXO weapons. There was a check in and check out center.

Those who had their own weapons did not need to wait and could enter the gate directly. However, how many of these freshman students had their own weapons?

Katherine and Freya surely did not have their own. Nick and Matthew waited for the two of them to grab their weapons before they went through the gate as a small group.

Freya was checking her black sniper rifle as they were entering. It was sixty inches in length, but she could break it down into three different parts.

There was no ammo for it, as she supplied it with the essence in her body. It would convert her essence into a bullet. The more essence she provided, the greater the power of the bullet.

However, since it was an older model, it would take time for it to fully convert into a bullet, leaving her wide open for any attacks.

Katherine, on the other hand, picked out a handful of silver throwing knives. Sheathed in a small belt, Katherine strapped the small belt around her right thigh. Her skirt covered a vast majority of it; if you did not see her put it on, you would not be able to tell she had a weapon.

"Over here, if you are in class ten, meet over here!"

Matthew shouted and waved his hand in the air to create a rallying point. They were not far away from the gate, so it was easy to spot them as soon as someone entered came in. Slowly students started making their way towards him.

Once the whole class was gathered, Matthew went over what was going to happen.

First, they were at the edge of the mountain; they would make their way towards the center. There would be more grass, trees, and animals. They would set up a base there, where they would live for these two weeks.

Freya nudged Nick in the arm.

"Look at him, if I did not know his true self I would think he was some mighty leader."

Matthew was serene when he was giving out instructions to the class, and everything he said was thought out. In the eyes of everyone, it looked like he had done this many times before.

"He's a great leader; he needs to be if he wants to become a Crusader."

Nick told her.

Matthew acted differently when he was around Freya and Nick. Without those two around he truly seemed like he was fit to be a leader.

"Look at them Nick; they act as they've never lived alone before. The look in their eyes are like they are listening to a prophet."

"You'd be surprised. A child cannot walk right from the start; they need to crawl. To them, Matthew has something they do not, and they want it. The best way to find it in themselves is to watch and learn from him."

At Nick's explanation, Freya giggled. Nick sounded like he was an old man preaching to the young.

"Nick don't talk like that; it makes you seem old. You are not bursting with infinite wisdom."

"Freya I don't understand how you can be in such a cheerful mood when our bus was just attacked earlier."

"I'm not exactly cheerful; I am just reacting to the situation in my own way. Being super serious is not exactly my thing."

Nick glanced at Freya and checked out her body. Without her wearing glasses, she looked even more beautiful.

"You know, if you were a bit more serious, when you grow up you'd charm many men. Mature women have this appeal to them that no one can replace. Even if you were some supermodel at a young age."

"Please Nick, you think I want to be popular with the guys? They are the last thing on my mind."

Nick smiled at her, at least her priorities were in order. A vast majority of young ladies wanted to find a strapping young lad to marry. That was all they could think of, as long as they had a powerful partner they need not worry about anything. Their life would be set.

To him, those kind of women were a turn-off. Especially if they could not protect themselves.

"Alright, let's get moving now."

Matthew told them as he led the way deeper into Mt. Hessian.

Freya walked by Nick who was towards the back of the crowd. He had his eye on Katherine who was ahead of him.

She had not spoken to anyone since the accident, at least not to him.

"Freya, have you talked to her?"

Nick asked Freya, as he pointed towards Katherine.

Freya shook her head.

"No. She is not much of a talker. She has this mysterious air around her; I'm quite curious as to why."

After an hour of walking, they finally made it to a suitable location. It was a spacious grassland area, and off in the distance, you could hear water rushing.

Matthew stood up on a tree stump and overlooked his peers.

"As you can see there is no shelter, so we'll break off into smaller groups and gather supplies. Those of you who are good at foraging, make your own group and find us something to eat for dinner."

The students moved to his command. While a lot of shifting was going on, Nick grabbed Katherine by the arm and pulled her aside. He led her into a denser part of the area, where it would be hard to see them.

Matthew came down and found Freya by herself. He saw Nick holding onto Katherine's arm as she was pulled into the forest.

"Where are they going?"

Freya shrugged her shoulders. How would she know the answer to that question?

Matthew saw that she seemed a little down and he thought it would be nice to tease her a bit.

"Bet he went to do that."

Matthew said as he made an ok symbol with his left hand and kept making his right index finger go in and out of it.

"Shut up! Is that all you think about?"

Freya asked him with her cheeks a bit red.

"Mostly. I'm a guy so… that's like all we think about."

Matthew replied with his hands behind his head in a relaxed manner.

"Shouldn't the all mighty leader be, you know… leading by example."

"The good thing about being a leader is that I can give orders and not work as hard."

Freya rolled her eyes at him, what kind of leader was this? She wished the students could see his real face.

Inside the denser part of the forest, Nick was leading Katherine away from the rest of the students. She suddenly snapped her arm back from him and gave him a cold glare.

"What do you think you are doing?"

She questioned him.

"Obviously getting us away from the crowd, what does it look like?"

"Smartass. Why?"

"I'm interested in you. You are not human are you?"

He asked her in a pressing manner.

Katherine did not take kindly to his question.

"Of course I'm human. Do I not look like one?"

"Looking like one and being one are two different things. A human cannot do what you did; they cannot regrow a whole new body part."

From the look on her face, he knew he hit something. She bit her lip and clenched her fist together.

"How?"

"On the bus, I saw you. My EXO ability lets me see the flow inside a person's body, you are a control type, but you used a healing type of ability. That ability was one that far surpassed anything a normal EXO user can do, so what are you?"

Katherine leaned against the tree.

"I guess you were not trained by Furuta-sensei for nothing. I happen also to be interested in you as well, why did she train you who seems to be ordinary? What makes you so special?"

Nick gave her a gentle smile.

"Nothing, we just happened upon each other by chance. That is all. Now answer my question, what are you?"

"I heard you the first time, no need to repeat yourself. Since you are her disciple, I think it is fine to inform you. Just to be clear, I am human. My mother is Dania Wells, as for my father… I do not have one."

She could tell by the look on Nick's face that he did not understand what she truly meant.

"Do you know what a modified human is?"

"Yes, but they go through body modification to enhance their strength. You do not have anybody modifications, not from what I can see."

"My mother experimented on herself, or should I say the egg that was inside of her. It was a project the government deemed too dangerous, and they would not fund, or allow her to test it on any other human being. Since they would not let her experiment on others, she was left with no choice but to use her own body.

She is a genius beyond anything the world has ever known. She manipulated my DNA, giving me a one hundred percent chance to become an EXO. However, that is not what makes me so unique. In my genetic code, I've been given various abilities of demon lord ranked beasts. One of which is regrowing my body parts, as you have seen."

Nick was stunned by what he heard. How was that even possible, changing the genetic code? Manipulating it so that it will mix with a demon lord ranked beast?

There was no way he could believe such a thing was possible. There were reasons as to why he thought that way as well.

"There is no way that is even possible; a person is only capable of handling one EXO ability. Having two is the maximum limit, but the amount of people who have two are barely pushing the thousands. A person with one can go unstable if they are not careful, a person with two is like a walking bomb. I cannot imagine anything more than that."

Katherine removed her black jacket and unbuttoned her blue top. Nick did not turn away from her; he could see her black colored bra and her smooth skin.

What caught his eye was not her full breasts. Instead, it was the various markings on her slim stomach.

"A seal?"

Katherine nodded.

"I'm sure you are aware that there are two types of locks that can be placed on a person. One type is a limiter, which limits the person's power they can use. This limiter can be unlocked and locked again at any time, as the person who has the limiter has complete control over it. The second kind of lock is a seal, which seals away a person's full power. The only way to undo the seal is to have the person who put it on you take it away.

I have one seal for every ability I have. Besides my natural ability which does not have a seal, there are four seals all over my body. However, as time goes on they slowly weaken. The seal here on my stomach is the one that seals the ability you saw earlier. It is called 'Rebirth' as long as I'm not dead I'll heal from any wound. The more damage I take, the weaker the seal becomes."

Katherine explained to Nick.

"A genetically modified human, you would be very valuable."

When Nick said that he meant it. If humans could be sold for money, Katherine would be worth billions. Considering the power of those abilities sealed within her, they will more than likely pass on to her children as well.

"Not valuable to everyone it would seem."

She said in a low voice, but it caught Nick's ear.

"That attack earlier, it was not a declaration of war. It was an attempt to end your life wasn't it?"

He asked her.

Given what she just said, he was sure that they were after her.

"If I am not mistaken, it should be. Before I can control each ability, I am the definition of a walking time bomb. If I overflow, there would be hardly anything that would be able to kill me."

Nick could not refute her words. Rebirth alone would make her difficult to kill if her other abilities were on the same level… he could not even imagine such a scene.

"Wh-"

"Nick!"

Freya shouted out causing Nick to turn around. Freya's face was flushed red, and her finger was shaking as she pointed at Nick. Matthew who was next to her took a glance at Katherine.

"Damn. I'll take her and leave, sorry for interrupting."

Matthew grabbed on Freya and turned the opposite way.

They came to find Nick and Katherine, but what they caught was Katherine with her top almost off and Nick looking at her almost naked body. This was not something two people would do unless something were going on in between them.

"As much as I like gazing at your breasts you should put your top back on before it causes others to misunderstand. Now that I know, you can bet that once they find out you are still alive, they will return."

Three hundred years ago multiple meteors broke into earth's atmosphere and landed in various places. The meteors change the world. By releasing strange substances into the earth, air, and water the planet started to change. It was not until ten years later that the first batch of superhumans was born. They had abilities that could not be explained. Superspeed. Superstrength. Magic. The superhumans showed the world that all of it was possible. They called the abilities EXO and the people who wielded such an ability, EXO users.

They quickly found out that not every EXO was the same. One EXO user had one EXO ability and what that ability was could be categorized into one of three types. Offensive, Defensive or Support.

The government was the first to act after five years. Every EXO user must be subjected to whole new laws and they must get their abilities under control. Specialized schools were built all across the world that were made to train them. Under the pretense of saying it was to develop their abilities, the government was actually building an army. Humans were not the only ones to change…

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