101 4.13

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[Alexander's POV]

I looked at myself in the mirror, admiring my new costume.

It was quite tight, as all costumes were in this world, but I hadn't gone for the superhero classic. I didn't have a cape, nor did it have flashy colors. It was black and grey, and looked like a fine mesh armor. The fabric was resistant to shocks, cuts and flames.

Of course, it was only to a certain extent, but it should avoid me the now familiar situation of my clothes ending up ripped in my fights.

"You look amazing."

I glanced at Stormfront, who was laying weakly against the bed. In the past week, I had slowly been draining her power out of her. It was quite the complicated process, as I did so through her lifeforce. This was a challenge, even for me.

If I tried to do it too fast, I would just absorb her entire lifeforce, but her power would stay in her body and disappear.

Instead, I had to absorb the very power out of her, and I had to go carefully with this. But now, after a week, I had absorbed nearly the entirety of her power.

It wasn't a big power-up for me, in the sense that I was already capable of using lightning. Power wise, my Force Lightning was a little stronger than hers.

However, as I had told Homelander before, her power was Plasma Manipulation, and that was a little different. It wasn't stronger, but it gave me versatility. Well, I can use every ability she can.

And the best thing was, I didn't have to expend lifeforce to use my lightning anymore. That was the main thing for me. After all, everything Plasma Manipulation allowed Stormfront to do, I was already capable of doing.

Be it shooting lightning or flying, I was already able to do it with the Force. I just was a little slower with Flight, and had to expend lifeforce or another energy I absorbed to shoot lightning.

Now, I could shoot a moderate amount of lightning without using any other energy, and fly at Mach 2. Well, my physical strength had also been improved, although not by that much since I was close to her level already.

Passing my hand through my hair, I said, "Today is the big day."

Stormfront, who was laying naked with cum leaking out of her holes, moaned, "The real big day will be when you lead our race to it's true one place and take back everything that was stolen from us."

Rolling my eyes, I walked up to her, and grabbed her by the chin as I said, "No matter what I said to Sarah, I thought I was going to enjoy fucking you. A hole is a hole, after all. But I just felt disgusted."

Stormfront looked confused as she struggled a little, and asked, "Who's Sarah? And what do you mean disgusted? I thought-"

Shaking my head, I tightened my grip over her jaw, and broke it with ease, finally shutting her up. She tried to scream from the pain, but I was now holding her by the throat, "Thank you for gifting me your power, dumb bitch."

And with that said, I absorbed the last remnants of her power, along with entirety of her lifeforce.

It was a little harder than usual, as I wasn't balls deep within her and she wasn't willingly giving me her power, but there was so little left that it didn't matter.

[You have eliminated Stormfront. Rewarded Rank B Reward and 9000 Points.]

Power Stealing was an ability I had created just over a week ago, when I was injected with Compound V.

I was curious myself as to what it would do to me, but to my dismay, my Super Soldier Serum was strong enough to devour the Compound V and clear it out of my system.

The original plan had been to only show the power I would have gotten from Compound V, but since I didn't get any, I only released my physical strength.

But having felt Compound V within my system, I became capable of singling it out within someone else when I came in contact with them, and from there I was able to find the source of power of Stormfront.

I wasn't sure about it yet, but I should be able to find the source of power of basically anything. Of course, that didn't mean I could just steal anyone's power.

Just for Stormfront, who was weaker than me, it took an entire week of dedication to steal hers. Moreover, I was literally inside her, and she agreed to giving me her power in her delusions I was some Aryan messiah.

If not for those conditions, I'm not sure I could even steal her powers. Or if it was possible, it would take me months, if not years of hard work.

Of course, the technique could always be trained, but for now it was just an interesting side project.

Letting go of the husk Stormfront had been turned into, I frowned as I felt hunger, which had only been strengthened with the theft of Stormfront's power and strong lifeforce.

This was starting to become a problem. It was getting harder to control, and I felt it was starting to become harmful to me.

But one good thing, is that I think I know what causes this hunger.

It isn't just a Dark Side consequence, but instead a physiological consequence. My lifeforce is becoming too strong compared to my spiritual energy, and is started to overwhelm it. And since I earned this much lifeforce by devouring it, my lifeforce was instinctively sending signals of hunger to my spirit, thus making me feel hungry.

The evidence I had for this was that I had to leave my Fists of Randagulf behind, and my hunger had lessened since I let go of them, as my Cell Vitality and Muscle Density were no longer boosted.

Even now, after having absorbed all of Stormfront's lifeforce, my hunger had only risen slightly below the level it was at when I entered this world with the Fists of Randagulf equipped.

So to remedy this hunger, I should have to increase my spiritual energy. That could be done by training in the Force, but that was a little too slow as it wasn't a completely spiritual enhancement in nature. The best solution would probably be to buy a new enhancement after this mission.

But I would see this later. For now, I had a man child to lead into a trap.

It had been exceptionally easy to manipulate Homelander, as for all his physical strength, he was weak spiritually. All I had to do was to say what he wanted to hear, and with some Sith Mind Abilities, becoming his best friend had been all too easy.

Well, there was one complication, I guess. In the night, I had felt Team Oceania flee the building, along with everyone in the Seven except for Stormfront and Homelander.

I wasn't sure what exactly had tipped them off, but they had somehow known there was something wrong with today's operation. I originally intended to get everyone with tomorrow's attack, but Team Oceania was the weakest of the Teams, and had only shown four people, so it wasn't too big of a loss. The three members of the Seven they had taken with them shouldn't be worth that much either.

Coating my hand with electricity, I decapitated Stormfront, before flying through the window to quickly reach Floor 99, where I knew Homelander was waiting, alone.

Entering through the special entry made for people capable to fly, which was basically Homelander's personal entry, I entered the room to see Homelander looking distressed.

He quickly hid it as he saw me however, before quickly frowning as he saw what I had in my hands.

Throwing her head on the table in the middle of the room, I said, "I suppose you heard about our little runners?"

Homelander nodded, sending a pointed look at Stormfront's severed head, "Is that the reason?"

I smiled and replied, "The outcome. While I was fucking her, she revealed to me that today's attack was actually a plan to kill you. In her crazy mind, I was going to join her and take your place after your death to found the Fourth Reich."

Homelander gasped, "That… is a lot to process."

I snorted, "What is there to process? With Stormfront out of the picture, they don't stand a chance. It will be you and me against Soldier Boy, Butcher and some of his merry band. Maybe that together they could hold on against one of us for some time, but together we are going to show them the difference between Gods and mortal men."

While I spoke, I fueled his arrogance, sadism, and God complex, and after pondering for a few seconds, Homelander smiled wickedly.