Chapter 22 36%

Camp Lehigh, New Jersey.

David floated a few kilometres up in the air as he was looking down on Camp Lehigh

It seemed empty, pretty much abandoned but David knew better.

This was where Arnim Zola stayed in its Ai form.

David wanted to get rid of Arnim, the eyes and ears of Hydra but then, he had to go and make a deal with Fury.

So now he had to somehow extract data from Arnim.

In David's opinion he could probably spend some time studying and figuring out how he could prevent Arnim from destroying the files and escaping.

But David did not feel confident in himself, Arnim was an Ai that has had several decades of time to prepare defences and counter measures.

It was not going to be an easy task.

"Maybe after the upgrade" David murmured.

David had also considered getting some help from Tony, hoping Tony would put him on the right path of learning but when David had visited Tony's mansion.

He seemed to be laser focused on building his suit so in the end David decided to avoid disturbing him.

And Venom seemed like he was ready to risk it All for some brains.

It had not eaten what it had been craving this entire time it had been with David.

Venom was provided with almost a limitless amount of energy for the current version of it, by David.

But it craved the chemicals found in brains or chocolates.

In the end as disgusting as he found it, he dropped by some small time mobsters and let Venom freely devourer to its hearts content.

A warehouse filled with a criminals belonging to the sub organisation of the Hand.

David glanced at the system, the purple hologram on the side of his face with the two rewards that would take his strength all the way to 36%.

As he was standing inside a warehouse with multiple tendrils extending out of his body, men shooting while some running.

Loud gun shouts resounded but David stood there completely unbothered looking at the system while venom captured and devoured these guys.

leaving only the body on the floor.

David felt satisfied knowing that after this upgrade he might be able to accomplish his goal of trapping Arnim and making sure the files are not deleted.

As for his strength he was not exactly sure, but if his guess was right his strength would reach a mind blowing 600,000 Tons, if his percentage increased.

For the record his current strength is 600 Tons.

His speed would reach Mach 6000, approximately less then 1% of the speed of Light yet still absurdly fast.

[A/N: His strength and speed have a 100:1 ratio]

He would basically become one of the strongest beings in the Universe barring Entities such as Dormamu, silver surfer, Galactus, Watcher, Ego and Phoenix force (full) Jean grey to name a few.

*Burp!*

A loud burp resounded as the warehouse fell into silence.

David glanced around and saw the multiple headless bodies on the floor and couldn't help but sigh to himself.

He seriously need money.

David thought to himself as he flew out of the abandoned warehouse located somewhere within China.

Flying towards Antarctica, David found a empty Ice cave with miles of completely barren around it and decided he wanted to accept the rewards right here.

This was a place not many people would be able to find him, and the cold temperatures contributed to providing a little cooling to his body as it upgraded.

"System, I want to accept the percentage rewards" David said feeling a little excited not knowing what to expect, yet also knowing that he was going to be fine because the system had shown that it will not harm him.

"System will I loose complete consciousness?" David ask worried about Venom taking this opportunity to take control of his body.

[At worst you will maintain a sliver of consciousness during the process]

Hearing that David smiled with relief.

[Starting Percentage increase] The system said as David watched the percentage increase in excitement.

That feeling of excitement very quickly faded away when pain 100 times worse then the first time struck his body.

"Oh shit..." David thought to himself as he realized just how much he had underestimated the pain.

Even with his 6% endurance and mind that had been greatly enhanced to be able to react at speeds of Mach 6, think and process information at those speeds, he was only able to last a measly 10 seconds before his mind and body couldn't take the pain.

"David what the fuck is going on!" Venom shouted in pure panic.

It had been resting after the large meal it had just had.

Unexpectedly, David's body decide to try and rip itself apart countless times in a few seconds.

It ripped itself apart completely before it was regenerated all within a second.

Venom quickly tried to help, using up all of its energy to constantly heal David's body.

For a process that lasted a whole 10 minutes.

David on the other hand didn't wake up, while Venom was barely able to function properly as he analysed David's body.

It was like the body of a completely different person.

Bursting with energy, Venom did not think, David's anatomy could get any more absurd then being able to convert the sunlight radiation into power.

Yet it still somehow managed to get even more absurd.

Ripping every part of itself only to grow back stronger and the cycle repeating hundreds of times?

It didn't make sense but after 2 minutes into the process the exhausted Venom had finally realised this pattern and felt like David's body was not at risk of death.

And the extreme heat, David's body was radiating began to even affect to surrounding ice and began hurting Venom.

So it quickly distanced its symbiote body away from David and observed from a distance.

In the time it had stayed in David's body, Venom had noticed that whatever was happening to him seemed to be good for him, his body was constantly improving, everything down to his cells were being ripped and regenerated even stronger then before.