Chương 7: Another Two Months (Again!)
We all know what's going on. It's been another 2 months. Only four more months until I have to take the entrance exam.
Honestly things haven't gone that well. I published Undertale last time and I had a lot of high hopes but I guess it broke the mold too much since people weren't buying. Which seems crazy to me since it's such a good game. I had a small community of 20 players who really enjoyed the game. I mean, I was getting great reviews but it seemed like they had to really search through the Steam store to even find the game since it wasn't being promoted.
I guess this is a thing that happens sometimes. It'll just be a hidden gem. I'd try to do something but I'm getting wary with the entrance exam coming.
I had made a lot of progress with my quirk cultivation. This would be happy news in any other case but right now I wasn't happy. It was about a month ago when disaster struck.
It was right after school and I was feeling lazy that day and had decided to skip the usual visit to the park. That laziness might have saved my life.
Looking through the Surveillance quirk I saw a bright flash of light and a swirling sphere of fire, almost like a miniature sun, exist for a couple of seconds before fizzling out. A chunk of the park was just missing.
WTF!?
What just happened?!
I rush out of my apartment building and sprint towards the park. Garnering looks from passerbys as I shoot by them.
In just a couple minutes, after running as fast as I could, I'd entered the park and surveyed the scene of destruction.
Though it's less a scene of destruction and more a scene of complete incineration as there wasn't even any evidence left of whatever had happened.
There was just a perfect sphere in the middle of the forested park where everything was just gone, as if someone had decided that this specific part of reality displeased them and just removed it from existence. In the middle of the missing sphere lay a passed out squirrel. Most likely it had passed out from quirk exhaustion.
I focus on the blazing white orb in the middle of its chest.
[Solar Core: The user becomes completely immune to all forms of fire and heat. They can generate a sphere of intensely concentrated fire around their body, resembling a miniature sun, that incinerates anything within its radius.]
I stare at the quirk with more than a little shock. Then I steal it, obviously. I couldn't just let the squirrel hold onto it.
It had already incinerated all the squirrels that were in its radius. There were only a few that hadn't been near it and only one of those had the Tinder quirk. Thank god for that or I would have lost the Tinder quirk line entirely.
Obviously I had pushed the Tinder quirk as far as it could go at this point. There really wasn't any point in continuing with it. It was already powerful and anything more might lead to another event like this. I was lucky this time but that may not be the case next time.
I take the last existing Tinder quirk left from the squirrels and turn to leave. Then a thought worms its way into my head.
Solar Core is powerful. Extremely so. The only reason I don't think it caused more damage was because the squirrel that had it was a newborn. Maybe the fact that it was a tiny animal meant it couldn't use it to its full potential?
I could experiment on Solar Core with my quirk manipulation but I risked losing it if I mess up. It had happened with other quirks. I had gone too far with them and they just fell apart and disappeared. Not that it was an issue when that happened since I had many more copies of those. But I didn't have a copy of Solar Core.
I'd rather have a copy of it just in case. I don't plan on ever using it but it could be useful in the case I had an enemy that I wanted to take out and if I didn't care about the collateral damage it would cause. Plus being immune to all fire would be great.
So I decided to make a copy. I gave it back to the albino squirrel and had it breed with the few remaining female squirrels left in the park until one of them birthed a copy.
And then I yoinked them both.
Man, thinking about it more, I'm lucky the trees didn't catch on fire.
Anyway, that all happened a month ago. In the past month I had focused entirely on cultivating my mothers quirk.
And now I have completed my magnum opus.
Within my arms I held a baby kitten. It came from one of the many stray cats that I had in the park. Resting within its chest was a pulsating green sphere.
[Telekinesis: The user can move, lift, and manipulate objects with their mind.]
It was perfect. Nobody could deny just how powerful Telekinesis was. And I felt that it was logical that Attraction of Small Objects could evolve into this. I had time to try and cultivate this more, but I also wanted to practice with it. Maybe even reveal it to my family and get it in the quirk registry before the entrance exam.
I stole the quirk from the kitten and held it within my palm. A metaphysical green orb held in the palm of my hand that only I could see.
I bring forth the duplicate of Solar Core, or at least that's what it used to be. I had managed to manipulate the quirk to the point that it was just aimless energy now. A quirk without any function or use. If someone had it they wouldn't be able to use it since it didn't even do anything anymore. All aspects of what it was before were gone.
It was perfect for what I had planned.
I push the two orbs together, the blazing white of Solar Core thinning into a blazing sliver. A pulse of heat and cold ran up my arm. The green sphere devoured the white sliver, its glow intensifying until it felt like I was holding a star. The air around me crackled, and when it finally settled, the newly turned emerald orb hummed with raw, untapped power.
[Psychokinesis: Grants the user unparalleled telekinetic abilities, allowing them to manipulate objects and forces with their mind. The user can lift, move, and control massive objects with ease, as well as create powerful psychic barriers and project destructive telekinetic blasts.]
Perfection.
It took a lot of dedication to learn how to do this. At first I wanted to merge two quirks together but I just wasn't skilled enough to do that. I know in my heart that it must be possible, but I just couldn't do it yet.
But, I was able to empower a quirk. If I stripped a quirk of its function I could turn it into pure energy and merge that energy with a different quirk and essentially upgrade it.
Not worth it in most cases but Solar core was so powerful that it actually became worth it.
And it was worth it. Months of work went into this moment. With the functionless Solar Core gone, all I had left in my hand was the evolved form of Telekinesis.
I bring Psychokinesis into my chest and it settles into place with a metaphorical click.
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