What can I say? Excellent! Hahaha—I never thought I'd have powers like Spider-Man. Now all I need is spider-sense and web-shooters, and I'm set. That's OP as hell.
But this energy value… it's pretty high for a starting point. I just need to find a way to increase it ….maybe I can find some Ancient Chinese Breathing manual online.
Now that I've got this power, my first thought was to head straight to New York.
No. No, no, no. Going there with just this power is basically asking to die.
With the U.S. government's paranoia, they wouldn't hesitate to capture and experiment on me. Hell, in some universes they've actually managed to turn all the heroes into tools—and succeeded, at least partly.
First, I need to master my strength. Then I'll carefully plan my next moves.
Alright… let's try absorbing energy from the outside world first.
I closed my eyes and started meditating, sitting cross-legged and trying to sense the natural energy around me. It was hard. I was easily distracted,too much thought going through my head.After about five minutes, I began to feel tiny blue dots of energy floating everywhere—thousands of them.
I didn't have a manual and had no idea how to actually absorb this stuff, so I just tried a method I read about in some web novel. I focused on one of the blue dots and tried to pull it toward me. After a few seconds, it began moving—slowly. It took forever, but eventually it reached my forehead and sank inside.
A warm energy flowed from my forehead through my entire body. The feeling only lasted two seconds before fading. When I opened my eyes and checked the time—holy crap—it had taken thirty whole minutes just to absorb one dot.
Natural energy absorption? Checked.
Next, I figured if I sat in one spot for three hours straight, I'd be able to control my strength better.
I stood up and did some simple jumps. Yup—my control had improved, maybe thanks to that one blue energy dot.
Now, about my house… well, it's already wrecked thanks to me. I grabbed my phone and called Kyle, telling her to find me a temporary apartment.
Oh, it's already 7 p.m. I still need to check my old restaurant. But wait—how am I supposed to explain suddenly becoming so handsome and strong overnight?
Whatever. Still on the call with Kyle I told her I'm shutting down the restaurant. She's in charge of my businesses, so I needed to at least inform her. She didn't have a problem with it—perfect.
I threw on some casual clothes, went downstairs with a whiteboard, and stuck it on the restaurant door.
It read: "We are closed for an unknown amount of time."
Yeah… My handwriting sucks.
Now, time to plan my next moves. Since I have power now, I want more. Honestly, just Hulk or Thor could bury me alive but I am stronger than the average street level heroes. I'm not taking any chances.
The only serums I remember from the Marvel world are the Lizard Serum and the Extremis Serum.
Extremis is out of the question—too heavily guarded by A.I.M. So, Lizard Serum it is.
I've already decided I'm not getting involved in any "hero" crap. Since I was born in Brazil, I'm not planning to migrate to the U.S. permanently. But… I do need to go to New York for a lot of things.
My goals:
1. Get the Lizard Serum. I want to know how powerful the system will make the serum when multiplied
2. Gain influence—lots of it. Without influence, I'll eventually get shut down by dirty politicians or Shield
3. Use the system to make a lot of money
4. Need some minions…. I mean allies loyal to me
So… next stop—New York.
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