Chapter 17: Tom

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But this time he stood his ground better than before with only a small blood line on his mouth, his eyes glowing in a red color.

WTF?!!! Is this Adaptation!?

We distanced from each other and observed the opponent, the guy smiled even more and laughed: "Ghaahahah finaly someone who can take my punches, let's fight!" He declared and didn't even bother to wait for a response.

He immediately dashed towards me and kicked without any technique and experience, it was clear that he never learned to fight, but his immense adaptability and strength probably helped him until now.

Exactly, untill now.

What is the advantage of Four Arms? Strength, durability, speed? Nahh

Like the name says, the alien advantage are his four arms! So i moved my big body with precision and with my two lower hands i grabbed his legs, and with the top ones i grabbed the hands and headbutted him!

*Bang!*

His eyes closed from the impact but then opened again, he completely adapted from the force, so i increased my output and threw him in the air, and like Dragon ball, i appeared on top of his back with a hammer blow ready.

*Booom!*

But I didn't let him adapt and with a precise and controlled tap on the air i found myself below him in the exact spot where his body was rocketing to.

I pulled back my arm and with a smirk full of excitement at this now punching dummy i unleashed a punch with every ounce of my power without using the essence.

Oh, right i have four arms!

So i threw four punches!

The moment my fists came in contact with his body four big holes appeared on his being, his head partially missing with his brain and remaining eye looked on me.

But in front of me his body regenerated with even more speed that before and in a moment he was all healed up with his annoying smile still on his face.

He punched and I did the same, so we entered in an exiting battle all over the city destroying everything without care, punches kicks everything, i was more skilled than him but his abilities were just too broken, this nigga tanked every hit and regenerated with a stronger body.

His overall stats continued to increase exponentially until i was not holding back anymore and begun to use my essence, but even then i was loosing ground, Four Arms is too bulky.

I prepared to punch again but he grabbed my head and threw me away, his strength even higher than before, while i flew i thought about his powers..

Reactive Regenation, Ceck.

Reactive Adaptation, Ceck.

What else?

This nigga is broken, i turned my body and looked down in time to see a fist centimeters from my face, his smiling face was darkened by my shadow with his eyes glowing red, making the scene look scary for children.

I smiled while closing my eyes, just like Speed did with that kid on a Fortnite stream...

I fucked up.

*BOOOOMMM*

Even after enchanting my body with essence i felt the punch, i continued to fly in the air with a speed higher than sound, with continuous sound barriers being broken.

I shook my head and stopped mid air, with essence it was easy to fly, i lowered my head and looked at the guy who was on the ground breathing heavily, his body was tired and he can't fly.

So he was stuck on the ground, i flew towards him and landed on the ground gently, i looked at his smiling face while looking at the sky: "Thanks man, i needed that." He spoke while turning his head towards me.

I shook my head and sat down, the area we are seated it's partially rubble and craters, i brought out the pizza box from a folder and placed it on the middle of us.

He looked at it and asked: "What's this?" I smiled and responded: "place your hand on it." He did as i told him and for the next minutes we continued to eat like there wasn't a tomorrow.

This shit was soo good, it's addicting.

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"So you're telling me that you awakened one week ago and meet a Djinn two days ago." I asked again, and Tom nodded while asking: "Those demons are called Djinns? Cool."

"Cool? Are you stupid? They are a scourge we need to remove from existence, what do you find cool in it?" I asked incredulously, from the small information that i learned from Omar, the Djinns have a hand in many world wide problems along with the Lost Humans.

So him saying that it's cool it's a grave offense, Tom scratched his head and said apologicaly: "My bad, i will moder my words." Seeing his sincere eyes i nodded: "Don't worry, but don't do something similar in front of other awakeners before they accuse you of being a lost human."

My warning made him nod and turn back to eating, Tom is an orphan, after his parents died in a incident he has been living on the streets since he was a kid, how is that possible?

Well, the world is not pink and flowers, even though the social workers assigned his to foster homes, his trouble maker personality didn't help, so he tended to escape every time.

Until he awakened one week ago, with today being seven days, he told me that he was sleeping under a bridge when everything in front of him begun to get cut continuously until he floated on space looking at the sun getting cut in half and then the entire galaxy.

But then everything reattached itself until he found himself on the grass with sweat all over his body while he felt a burning sensation on his whole being.

After that episode he instinctively knew that he can adapt to anything that doesn't outright kill him, while also having a regeneration that improved the more it was used.

And to even really kill him, you need a more pure essence than his, but that's if you're able to disintegrate his whole body down to the atom.

So he as the fool he is, did a stupid thing or a smart move?, without even caring about the consequences he jumped into the river and refused to come out until he adapted.

There i asked him: "What if it was all an imagination?" And he responded with: "No pain, no gain. And i can swim so no problem." At his response i was impressed, not everyone is this decisive, he's like me.

Cool.