Well, it's been a few weeks since the incident with the soul jewel and I only have one thing to say.
Fate is a son of a bitch!
I know I made a mistake by using the powers of the soul jewel without thinking but damn, was it really necessary all this!?
When he said that the seal limited my skills, I thought it was just the jewel of the soul, but no, all my skills suffered some kind of weakening.
My skills like super strength and super speed were not much affected, they were weakened but remain almost the same. But otherwise, everything went to hell.
My regeneration became absurdly slow, my energy absorption can barely process a few volts of electricity and my skills with the jewel of the soul practically do not exist, I can still use it, but only within a radius of 5 meters.
I used to be able to fight with some rank B villain and have a certain chance to win, but now I can barely stand a rank C villain.
Fuck Fate, how do you want me to win against some supernatural entity with these child powers!?
That was my initial reaction, but after a few days of fear, I decided to reinvent my powers. When I say reinvent, I say learn to use them differently.
And with that, I started my new training routine. The first power I started to test was the jewel of the soul.
Even though I didn't have her full capabilities, she was still one of the most powerful artifacts on Marvel, so I could still do some things with her.
I learned to feel the presence of people through the soul. All beings who live and exist have a soul, so I just had to learn to feel these souls around me. I can also expand my range from 5 to 15 meters using my energy.
I also learned to read people's souls. This will be a little difficult to explain so pay attention: soul is the junction of someone's body, mind and spirit. A body does not exist without a soul and a soul does not exist without a body.
Every experience that the body or mind goes through is reflected in the soul. Every trauma, fear, memory or insecurity is deeply engraved in someone's soul. I read soul, I'm simply accessing these aspects recorded in the other's soul.
I can also read emotions, intentions and thoughts through this technique. But it requires a lot of concentration, so I can always use it.
And through this technique I can also connect my soul with someone else's soul, sharing thoughts, feelings and others. It's basically a more advanced form of telepathy.
I also learned to communicate with ghosts and spirits. This is also kind of difficult to explain.
Ghosts are human souls who, after the death of the body, could not ascend and were trapped in the mortal plane. Spirits are magical beings who have always existed outside the mortal plane or simply dead souls who transcended their limits and ascended to the position of spirits.
To communicate with them, I simply have to use my ability to feel souls and connect my soul with the soul of the ghost or spirit. Luckily for me, everyone I've met so far was peaceful and didn't want any harm to me.
That's all I can do with the soul jewel now. It's not much, but it's already something.
Now, my energy skills. There's something I discovered about the energy I produce after doing an in-depth study. It's not a simple energy that I generate and that's it, it's quantum energy.
The same energy that has always been present in the ant-man movies.
Even though my energy absorbing was impaired, I still generated energy normally and could control it perfectly. This gave me some ideas of what to do with my energy.
In the movies, everyone who had contact with energy developed some varied ability, such as Hank Pym's wife with her healing skills, Hank himself who used this energy in the creation of Pym particles or the Ghost with its ability to change phase. I used all these as a basis and developed some very interesting skills.
My first was physical fortification/improvement. Just as I could use my energy to expand my range with the soul jewel, I can use it to increase my physical attributes and improve the effects of some powers.
That's how I solved my problem with regeneration, I just have to focus a little energy on myself and my injuries begin to heal faster.
Invisibility. I can cover my body with energy and prevent my body from reflecting light particles, making me invisible.
Healing. I can supply quantum energy to other bodies and use it to heal other people's injuries.
Creation of objects. I can create objects with quantum energy, with them having the size and shape I want.
Because they are composed of quantum energy, they will always have a golden/yellow color, but if I focus enough, to change their color pattern.
I can create anything, including even people if I want, but they would just be empty that I would have to control to move. The things I create disappear over time, but I can make them permanent if I concentrate too much, but it spends a lot of energy.
Energy attacks. This is just a list of attacks that I can simulate using my energy. I can launch bursts of energy, eye rays, energy blows in the form of cuts, etc.
Improved senses. In the same way as fortification, I can use my energy to improve my senses at the superhuman level.
Another cool thing that I also learned to do was energy conversion, which basically allows me to transform any form of energy I absorb into quantum energy. Before, I just kept the energy the way it was, but after I found out, things got even easier for me.
To improve my energy absorption ability, I started going daily to the Metropolis power plant to absorb as much electricity as possible while converting electricity into quantum energy to improve both skills. I must say, I improved a lot.
And I also started to venture into magic too. Fate said that I would only be able to break the seal when I became a high-level magician, so even if I'm improving my skills a lot, one day I won't be able to grow anymore because of the seal.
But I don't know anything about magic, apart from the spell of opening portals, in this case passages, which I learned from the other.
Now, I can open portals that take me to any place I've ever been or that I have the location in mind and a visual reference to the place. I'm good, but I think it's impossible to miss a spell of opening portals.
I forbade myself from trying to open another loophole or to open passages to very distant places, because I don't want to cause another confusion. But that won't be enough.
Magic goes far beyond just opening. There are spells that manipulate entire galaxies and magicians capable of facing cosmic entities head-on, I'm just one more among the many untrained magicians in the world.
It would be much easier if I had a teacher or something like that, but since I don't know where the others are or if there are any willing to train me, I can just stay here in my corner.
I hope one of the people who comes to hunt me is a magician, so I can learn something before killing him.