All Marvel fans know that the Reality Stone in the Marvel Universe has very stringent usage conditions; without a powerful physique and a strong energy supply, no one can control the Reality Stone, and even when used without the complete Infinity Gauntlet, it will drain the user's life!
Even as powerful as Malekith, the leader of the Dark Elves—oops, no, it's Malekith—who possessed the powerful Aether Particle (with the Reality Stone as its core) and was able to contend with Odin, was ultimately hammered to death by the God of Hammers because using the Aether Particle would drain his life force due to its Reality Stone core!
It is clear that beneath the powerful abilities of the Marvel version of the Reality Stone, there are equally huge hidden dangers!
But!
Michael's Golden Finger—the Reality Stone—was not like that!
Or rather, the Reality Stone that Michael possessed was a mutated version, even an upgraded version, different from the Reality Stone in the Marvel Universe!
Because... through the information obtained after binding the mutated Reality Stone, Michael fully understood the abilities of this powerful Golden Finger!
All the abilities that the Marvel Universe Reality Stone has, the mutated Reality Stone has them all!
Moreover, things that the Marvel Universe Reality Stone doesn't have, the mutated Reality Stone also has!
For example, the Marvel Universe Reality Stone can only be used in the Marvel Universe; if it leaves the Marvel Universe, its abilities will be weakened or even become a completely useless gem due to the different cosmic origins. But the mutated Reality Stone can adapt to the current cosmic origin in any cosmic World, thereby exerting its full power!
Most importantly!
Unlike the Reality Stone in the Marvel Universe, which requires a huge amount of energy and drains the user's life force when used.
Michael's mutated Reality Stone will not drain Michael's life force; in fact, conversely, the mutated Reality Stone, once bound to Michael, will even provide defense for Michael!
This defense is passive.
Of course, if Michael is willing, he can also turn this ability into an active skill.
However, the difference is that passive use does not require additional energy consumption from Michael, and the mutated Reality Stone will even absorb incoming attack energy; but active use is equivalent to using the mutated Reality Stone, requiring Michael to actively provide energy consumption!
In fact, according to the information transmitted to Michael by the mutated Reality Stone, this ability is actually energy absorption, energy absorption in all senses!
Similar to the Mutant Black King - Sebastian Shaw, but far more powerful and all-encompassing!
This energy absorption includes material, immaterial, positive energy, negative energy, mental energy, soul energy, magic energy, and so on.
It can be said that with this passive ability alone, as long as Michael has an oxygen tank, he can live well in space even without wearing any protective suit, because all harmful energy or radiation to Michael will be completely absorbed by the mutated Reality Stone!
Of course, such a powerful passive skill is not without flaws for Michael.
First, the energy passively absorbed by the mutated Reality Stone is not retained for Michael, its host, to use; instead, it is completely devoured by the mutated Reality Stone. For example, if Michael were thrown into the Universe, while he wouldn't be harmed by the energy, he would still die from lack of energy replenishment and oxygen.
Secondly, this passive effect also has an upper limit, which is the maximum attack that Michael's host body can withstand. If Michael were instantly blasted into smithereens, or if he were thrown into the Sun by a powerful super-being, then this passive effect would naturally fail.
Finally, the most overpowered aspect of this passive effect is that if Michael cannot be instantly annihilated, then the mutated Reality Stone's passive effect can endlessly restore his body.
For instance, if Michael were shot in half by an anti-sniper rifle, but because he didn't become irrecoverable smithereens, he would be fully revived with full health and mana the next second. The cost, of course, would be the intense pain of being split in two!
Despite this, Michael still considers this passive effect to be extremely powerful.
As long as Michael doesn't court Death, for example, by running into the energy beam of Stark Tower or being directly hit by a high-yield missile, he can be said to possess a strong sense of survival! As long as Michael doesn't reveal it himself, who would know his weaknesses?
You see, even a psychic wouldn't be able to invade Michael's mind, so how could anyone know what Michael's weaknesses are!
Moreover, if a psychic dared to invade Michael's mind, the mutated Reality Stone would teach him a lesson. Lightly, the invading energy would be swallowed, and the psychic's brain region would be injured. Severely, he would directly become an idiot or even face Death.
It can be said that after arriving in the Marvel Universe, what Michael fears least are various psychic and soul abilities.
Of course, Michael wouldn't actively cause trouble. A trump card is a trump card because no one knows about it; if it's known, can it still be called a trump card?
Last, but not least!
Michael also understood why Sorcerer Supreme Ancient One, and even the mages of the New York Sanctum, hadn't discovered him, the 'stowaway'.
This is naturally due to the mutated Reality Stone!
Even in its mutated form, the mutated Reality Stone is not something Ancient One and others can peer into. Even those who control the Infinity Stones cannot probe other Infinity Stones.
What's more, in Michael's opinion, the mutated Reality Stone is a divine object even more advanced than the Marvel Universe's Infinity Stones, so how could a mere Ancient One detect Michael's arrival!
Of course, if Michael were to run in front of Ancient One to court Death, that would be another terrifying story~
Clenching his fists tightly, Michael completely relaxed.
Without the threat of Ancient One, without the prying eyes of that peeping tom from Asgard, and with the powerful mutated Reality Stone, how could he not make a name for himself in this World?!
Michael: I! Will become the strongest!