However, what also surprised Shiller was how enthusiastically the ordinary human society was preparing for battle. As soon as they walked into the venue, SWORD employees handed them a stack of documents for registration.
Looking over, Shiller saw that the rows of seats at the registration area were all filled. Regardless of whether they were superheroes or mysterious beings, everyone sat obediently and began filling out forms.
Shiller and Stark took the forms, found two empty seats in the corner, and sat down. Only after taking a closer look at the form did they realize it was a superpower information registration form, listing in detail all the superpower options that needed to be registered.
Stark filled it out quickly since his superpowers were simple—being super wealthy and super smart. Shiller had more complications to consider.
First, under which identity should he go to the battlefield? In this cosmos, his Moon Knight abilities rely on Khonsu, who also needs the moon. Although taking the moon into battle wasn't impossible, the moon is a resource shared by all of humanity, and taking it away like that feels a bit uncivilized.
Furthermore, it's Khonsu who chooses who becomes Moon Knight. Even if Shiller doesn't become Moon Knight, Khonsu could still go into battle with Mark. Though he's now working as an agent, merely drinking coffee and eating donuts every day, he's dependable in critical moments because he is the legitimate Moon Knight, whereas Shiller is simply an impostor.
And his own identity doesn't have any usable superpowers. Even if he includes the made-up Mind Reading Technique, it would surely be inferior to what Professor X can do, having very little impact.
The reason to have significant impact is primarily because going to the frontline to watch the excitement is too tempting to miss. With so many superheroes clashing together, how could he miss out on the fun?
If he were only a psychiatrist, he could only stay in the rear and most likely be taken by Wanda to babysit her kids. As those little demons grow older, Shiller finds it increasingly difficult to handle. When he heard that Wanda wanted Billy to learn psychology, Shiller felt like the sky was falling.
Moon Knight was too much trouble, being a psychiatrist couldn't get him to the front lines, so after thinking it over, he concluded that the abilities of Gray mist were the most useful.
However, actually, Gray mist does not have a public identity. The fact that Shiller can become mist is known only to insiders. Aside from a few friends who are relatively close to Shiller, most people don't even know that Gray mist has an independent consciousness, mistakenly thinking it's just Shiller's superpower.
And then Shiller suddenly thought that he could completely participate in battle as a symbiont owner, like Eddie. Anyway, when the time comes, he'll just appear as a mass of mist, hiding his face. Who would know who he is?
Just like Eddie, as long as Venom is covering his face, his identity is Venom, not Eddie. In fact, many people only recognize Venom, not knowing or caring who his host is.
Remembering this, Shiller looked up and saw Eddie was filling out the form too. He went directly over, ready to copy, only to find Eddie and Venom arguing again—more accurately, Venom was complaining one-sidedly.
"It's clearly me going to battle, you should write my name down! Hurry up! Write Venom here!"
"What do you mean by peripheral equipment?! You actually think I'm your peripheral equipment?! My god, do you call your heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys peripheral equipment? Can they go work independently in Centaurus?!"
"How can you write it like this?! My appearance is not 'sticky black parasite'!! You bastard, fix it for me!!"
"Quiet down, Venom," Eddie said, "I can't write you too strong, or they'll assign me lots of combat tasks, leaving me no time for filming. Only when assigned to secondary roles can I have the chance to capture good photographs."
Seeing Shiller come over, Eddie looked up at him and said, "What's up? Have you finished filling it out, Doctor?"
"Not yet, I'm still hesitating about how to fill it out," Shiller sat down next to him and said, "I plan to go to the battlefield as Gray mist."
"Gray mist?" Eddie said, "Oh, yes, I've seen him, Venom's quite familiar with him too. So we're kind of in the same faction."
"Yes, but actually I don't want to expose Gray mist, so I plan to give myself another codename. What do you think sounds good?"
Eddie thought for a moment, then showed a nostalgic expression, saying, "Do you remember the 'Guest in the Fog' incident?"
Shiller also showed a nostalgic expression; that incident was indeed rather distant. After thinking it over, he said, "You think I could use this codename, Fog Guest?"
"Exactly, it sounds mysterious, doesn't it? And it matches Gray mist's appearance well. However, I think you better not reveal Gray mist's real abilities, write them weakly if possible, or it will be troublesome if they send you to fight Superman or others."
Shiller nodded. But he didn't intentionally write Gray mist as weak because even if Gray mist's abilities were recorded truthfully, they didn't seem very powerful—the highest rank of The Nameless Fog couldn't be reflected in this information.
Shiller wrote for a while and realized he just had one more function compared to other symbionts, the function of decomposition and storage of material, and was somewhat resistant to flames and sound waves. Although the defense capability was significantly stronger than other symbionts, since it's mist, the opponent couldn't hit him, but couldn't block anything either, so it was roughly equivalent to none.
Eddie first finished his own form and watched Shiller write. Once Shiller finished writing and turned it in, Eddie said, "With your abilities highlighted like this, you might be assigned to a logistics role."