Chapter 61 - Years of Effort

Inside a strange room with nothing else but white walls, a large pod opened and emitted gas and steam. From the egg-like pod, gooey white liquid erupted as a hand stretched out toward the ceiling. Yuga gasped and breathed in deeply, his eyes shaking and trembling from the torturous procedure.

Doctor Kyudai and All for One immediately noticed his awakening and the doctor soon arrived inside the strange white room. The door slid open and Kyudai hurriedly assisted the young man coated in gooey white liquid from head to toe.

Then, with rough and unsteady steps, a chair and computer popped out of the walls beside them, and Yuga sat down with a thud. Doctor Kyudai went on to connect strange straps and devices to Yuga's body and monitored his situation.

His eyes shone brightly soon after. He wore a wide grin and mumbled to himself in delight, "It's a success!"

"It's a success!" He repeated his words and stared at Yuga Aoyama in unending glee.

Yuga stared down at his hands and remembered the unimaginable pain he went through. He almost had the urge to throw up after recounting it, but he clenched his fists and curled his toes. His eyes shone with resolve and he heaved a sigh of relief.

'Finally…' He leaned back on his chair and ignored the fact that he was naked and covered in white goo. Instead, he closed his eyes and almost fell asleep in the next moment, '… Finally, that illusory dream is arriving closer and closer.'

…

Yuga walked through a dark hallway, his eyes calm and deep. After acquiring All for One, even if it was a weaker strand, and can only hold up to eight other Quirks, none can doubt the vast potential he currently holds.

Besides Yuga, a man wearing a black cloak and a white mask walked forward without turning back. "So, are you rejoicing the fact that you're part of Hidden Order now?"

Yuga remained silent and simply nodded his head. The more time he spent with this mysterious man named Leader, the more he realized just how deep the foundations of this mysterious organization were.

The meager amount of information he managed to gather almost made him jump up in fright. Politicians, business owners, Metubers, actors, pro heroes, and sidekicks, were all part of Hidden Order, one way or another!

They operated in secret, unknown, and hidden from the rest of the world. Even the seemingly godlike human All for One didn't know of this organization's existence.

"Heh, you sure are lucky, acquiring All for One so soon. If not for your inherently Quirkless nature, we could pump you up to nine Quirks already, but we gotta have you go slow and steady. Luckily, All for One decided to leave the problem of acquiring your nine Quirks to yourself, so you can get our help pretty easily, and we can also lay some traps in advance and use them if we're lucky."

The man spoke in an unhurried tone, and they soon arrived inside a strange room with an endless array of glowing motes of light stored inside cylindrical glass containers. The light wasn't blinding and was similar to the starry night sky, but with All for One, Yuga immediately understood what those endless stars were.

"They're all…" He uncontrollably gulped and looked around with shocked eyes. "Quirks?"

"Copies, to be exact." Leader shrugged his shoulders and lead Yuga in a certain direction.

"Just how many are there?" Yuga mumbled and shook his head. Now wasn't the time to be dazed and amazed.

Soon, the two arrived in front of a certain glass container that held a bright star, a star that shone a lot brighter compared to the other stars in the room.

"What Quirk is this?" Yuga instinctively felt the massive power the Quirk held.

"Oho? So you can even sense the general power Quirks hold, huh?" Leader stared to the side with his golden eyes and explained. "This is the Quirk—War God. It gives the holder a powerful body that can grow stronger with training, the ability of flight, and can shoot laser from their eyes."

"With this Quirk, your body would receive a massive boost and we'll be able to raise the upper limit of your constitution." Leader revealed the details of his plan, a plan which Yuga can wholeheartedly agree with.

He knew just how weak his body was, and it was already a miracle that he managed to completely assimilate Navel Laser thanks to Hidden Order's help. With War God, this issue can be more easily resolved, and he'll be able to gather more Quirks later on!

"So…" Yuga looked at Leader with a questioning gaze.

"Yeah, you can absorb it." Leader nodded his head and stepped to the side.

Yuga took a deep breath and stretched out his hand. He could feel the star inside the glass cylinder like it was a fire that can be grabbed with his bare hands. His eyes shone with a dark blue luster, and as he did a pulling motion, the star shot out of the cylinder and into his body.

"Ack!" Yuga's eyes widened as he felt pain assault him from the inside out.

Leader quickly moved and waved his hand. They arrived inside a strange room littered with medical equipment and syringes before Yuga was then placed inside a pod and tubes stabbed into his body and veins.

Green liquid soon flowed into his bloodstream as the pain gnawed at his brain. He couldn't move his body to squirm and struggle no matter how much he tried. Instead, because the green liquid gave his cells the required energy to handle the newly acquired Quirk, the pain grew uncontrollably as his body and soul underwent an extreme change.

Hours passed and the pain slowly subsided. Unknowingly, the pod opened up, and Yuga's body changed once more.

His previously slim yet muscular body has turned more robust and big. Muscles and veins roared with strength as the power of War God coursed through every fiber of his bones. He slowly opened his eyes and they shone brightly with blue light.

A beam of light uncontrollably shot out of his eyes and into the walls and pierced through them, but Yuga hurriedly regained his calm and stopped his Quirk's rampage. He closed his eyes and felt the changes in his body as clear as day.

Powerful. Immense. Unending.

It was a wondrous and intoxicating feeling. It was unlike his sickly body that had to face the stress brought by an incompatible Quirk. Yuga silently clenched his fists and wore an ice-cold face.

"Ha…" He breathed out deeply and opened his eyes. He unclenched his fists and pulled himself out of the pod, bending its metallic frame as he unceremoniously stepped out with his naked body.

"Good." A pleased voice sounded out from the empty room, and the air in front of him warped to reveal a cloaked figure wearing a white mask.

"How long did it take?" Yuga asked while rubbing his damp and sweaty hair.

"A few hours outside, and around a week here." Leader chuckled and opened the door beside him, and he then saw an endless expanse of white extending out into the far distance.

"Go on, test your limits while you're still here. Once you're back outside, you must never reveal this part of your Quirk and act as if it's only a body augmentation Quirk. No flight, and no lasers." Leader gave a helpful warning and Yuga took his words to heart.

He nodded his head and walked out of the door with a grin. His every step was loud and heavy like a walking hunk of iron.

As he arrived outside the endless expanse of white, Yuga slowly organized the information that entered his brain, and he followed the instructions Leader gave him.

First, he floated a few centimeters above the ground. His form was wobbly and unstable, but he quickly got the hang of flying and flew higher and higher into the sky.

Then, as his blue eyes shone with dim light, a terrifyingly hot and destructive laser beam shot out and tore through the air with endless might.

Slowly but surely, Yuga Aoyama used his Quirk and understood his limits, and was well on his way to adapting to his newfound strength.

…

Ryuji sat on a simple black couch with his eyes closed while numerous white humanoid figures wearing white gowns crowded the vast research hall with numerous rooms and floors.

Numbers flashed on endless screens while numbers were written on a series of blackboards. The white humanoid figures worked with terrifying efficiency as if they were one and the same being.

Inside Ryuji's mind, he vividly recalled Yuga's experience of having All for One transplanted into his body and the valuable data he could gather from it. He analyzed every little detail he could gather and quickly started to understand every step of the process.

This was due to the help of one of his greatest creations—Hidden Order's Researcher Hivemind!

It's like having hundreds of geniuses born once in a hundred years fused their minds into one single brain, then that's what Researcher Hivemind is! It's a continuously growing mind created from human life and the supernatural abilities of Quirk.

It's a creation that bordered the act of god, an eldritch monstrosity that shouldn't exist. Its brain power alone can easily overpower Ryuji and outsmart him hundreds of times in ten different timelines, but unfortunately, that monster was under the mountain-like grasp of Ryuji!

It was his creation, and he was its God.

Unending loyalty and countless arrangements were placed on this beast, and Ryuji used its unrivaled power to deduce and research the mysteries of this world with unparalleled speed.

With the valuable data they managed to gather from Yuga's torturous experience, they swiftly broke through the many hurdles they faced when it came to making All for One Ryuji's power.

More and more data was written while endless numbers flashed on numerous screens. The hivemind was working at its full capacity and dedicated most of its power to resolving this problem.

With talent that made Doctor Kyudai's intelligence appear as an ant beside a heavenly elephant, Ryuji opened his eyes with a golden luster as he wore a devilish grin.

"It's finished." He heaved a sigh of relief and mobilized Hidden Order without hesitation.

In the endless white void, numerous portals opened up as he displayed the deep foundations of Hidden Order.

In a matter of minutes, a gargantuan construct was made, and an egg-like object was at the center. Countless tubes were connected to and fro the machine, with glowing blue light appearing and disappearing from one place to another.

It emitted an ominous hum that would cause one to subconsciously feel fearful and wary.

Yet, Ryuji's eyes shone brightly as he walked up toward his divine creation.

He arrived in front of the egg-like object and watched as it opened, revealing its fleshy insides like the stomach of a beast. Ryuji smiled and waved his hand.

Above the egg, a star appeared and lets out an incomparably dark light. It dyed everything around it with malicious darkness.

Ryuji caressed the star and grabbed it carefully. He pushed his hands deep into the egg and planted the star into its core. The white shell of the egg turned pitch black in a matter of seconds, and the construct around it whirred to life.

The tubes pumped out golden liquid as the egg rapidly expanded.

Ryuji already expected this and wasn't surprised. He didn't move from his spot and watched as the pitch-black egg slowly devour him whole like a terrifying monstrosity.

'Finally, after 15 long years, and my first encounter with that godlike power to warp reality, I'll finally acquire a Quirk that even surpasses that reality-bending power of New Order!'

'But this is just the start. One for All, All for One, New Order. Hehehe, it's only a matter of time!'

His eyes shone with a resolute light, and with that, his vision changed to endless darkness as the egg swallowed him whole.

AN: This chapter has 2033 words.

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Anywho, I already started Arc 3 and I'm already depressed. Bro, I know I'm writing a fanfic so why am I doing some stupid ass worldbuilding. Ugh, all the shit I do to keep making this shitty novel more intense and exciting. And then you realized that Volume 2 - Scribe of Destiny might be in Reverend Insanity which has all kinds of big brain weirdoes. I ain't escaping the loop of big brains getting bigger. The only way out is my next novel, Fortune Lover: My Luck is Infinite!

God fucking damn it, I can't wait to write a protagonist with the thickest plot armor imaginable... Then his origin story is that he's a god bored out of his own mind so he restarted again with some stupid ass plot twist where he has to fight against the strongest supreme god, Lady Luck or some shit like that to ascend and become omnipotent. And you know what's more sad? I can definitely make it more big brain by adding in other plot armor wearers and turn it into a multiversal war between the Blessed Children of Children as systems and cheats turn the infinite realms into chaos.

(June 16, 2023 - 568th day of writing)