Chapter#8

(A/N: The money part in this chapter is bullshit. I don't know a thing about business, stocks, shares, or dividends, so I just wrote that for the plot's sake. I doubt the MC will need the money for some important things anyways, so I just wrote whatever I wanted in this one. Enjoy!)

"Inhale*...exhale*"

A stunning man, with a superb physique, is doing a hands-stand push-up by just using two of his fingers.

His top naked, showing his lean, compact, and muscular form. It sounds amazing and surreal. However, where he is doing it is the most unbelievable and impossible feat.

He's doing his handstand push-up at the tip of a frosty mountain, and not just any mountain—it's the mountain of Mt. Everest! meaning he's currently elevated over 29,031.7 ft over the ground with no supplemental oxygen or whatever.

"9,995...9,996"

A circle of orange energy suddenly appeared behind him. Inside the circular energy is another area of space, indicating that it's some sort of portal.

An Asian-descent man suddenly entered through the portal, and after entering it, the circular orange energy vanished into thin air.

"You're still not finished?" The Asian man inquired, shivering a little.

"10,000!"

Ding!*

[V.A.P Lvl 49->50]

"Finally!!" He shouted in glee while kneeling on the snowy ground.

"Yeah, yeah. Come, the Ancient One seeks you." The man said,

"You will never understand why I'm happy, Wong. Have you played a game and finally won your first victory with your crush watching you? That's how happy I am." Noah said to Wong while childishly smiling.

"I'm sorry, Noah, but I'm straight, though I'm flattered that I'm your crush."

"What?..." Noah thought for a few seconds, and when he realized why Wong said that, his eyes widened.

"Motherfu-"

BANG!*

Noah was not able to finish his sentence because Wong suddenly smacked his head with a wooden bat and broke it in the process.

"...Inhale*...exhale*...Thanks, Wong!" Noah said with a smile as he continued his way to the circular portal that Wong was creating.

"You're welcome," Wong said as the two of them entered the portal, leaving a snowy barren tip of Mr. Everest.

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"Hey, teach!" I greeted the Ancient One with a wave.

Right now, we're in the practice grounds with the other disciples and masters. The Ancient One is overseeing them just like in the movie.

"You're leaving already, 5 months...that's a lot of time spent, for a busy man such as you Noah. Care to tell me why you decided to go now?" The Ancient One said with her hands behind her back.

"Just cause..." I said while whistling and looking at the sky, avoiding Ancient One's stare.

"Even now, you still don't know how to bluff, Noah," She muttered with a solemn smile.

"Tsk...I've already learned everything that I can here, except your magic system of course, I didn't know that the Dimensional energies could hate me so much... sigh," I said to her with an annoyed look in my face.

Turns out, the reason I can't do any Kamar-Taj magic is because the Dimensional energy that they used is preventing me from ever manipulating it. Because of my radianite energy, the Dimensional energies were avoiding me like a plague.

"I doubt you'd need it anyway," Ancient One muttered with a knowing look on her face.

"...Yeah, I won't need it." I muttered with a relaxed smile, content with what I have.

'Status' I thought in my head.

[Noah Argento]

[•Health:100%]

[Shield: 50%]

[•Aquired Agent: Phoenix]

[•Mission]

[•Collection- Ghost, Bulldog, Marshal]

[•Agent]

[•Shop]

[Money: $270,400]

[VP(Valorant Points): 10,140 ]

[•Skills-

[Passive Skills]

{Valorant Agent's Profile Lvl 50/?}

{Absolute Mind Protection Lvl ?}

[V.A.P Sub-skills]

{Super Human Physiology}

{Body Kinesthetic}

{Nigh-Superhuman Senses}

{Accelerated Perception}

{Accelerated Healing Factor}

!!New!!{Adaptive Muscle Memory}- The power to replicate movements after observation.

!!New!!{Adaptive Resistance}- Power to develop resistances to damage or abilities used against the user.

[Special skills]

{Pure Radianite Manipulation Lvl 11/?}

{Radianite Fire Manipulation Lvl 55/100}]

[P.R.M Sub-skills]

!!New!!{Nature Affinity}- The power to become one with nature at a small degree.

5 months of training under extreme conditions just to level up all my skills.

Near an active volcano, in the frosty arctic, 3000 ft under the water. Every extreme places that you could think of. Just to have better control over my body, mind and powers. Until now, I'm surprised at how I'm still alive! Though it all works out well in the end.

The only thing I can complain about is that the Pure Radianite Manipulation is so fuc-...so hard to level up!

The only thing it gave me is-

"Yow birdman, are you leaving here already? Take us!"

"Shut your trap Pijy, I'll not take your sorry ass with me," I said to the pigeon perched on the tree with an annoyed tone.

Yes, you've heard it right, I'm talking to a pigeon. When my pure radianite manipulation became level 10, it allowed me to talk to the animals that my radianite radiation were exposed to.

Unfortunately, during my meditation, those pigeons were always near me, allowing them to be radiated with my radianite, which leads us into this situation.

"You'll not take me, papa?" A cute small pigeon suddenly announced her presence.

"Of course, I'll take you Milly, we're best buds right?" I said as I scoop her and lay her on my shoulder.

"That's discrimination, sexism, animal abuse, inequality, all right there everyone!" Pijjy shouted to the other pigeons

"Yeah! Yeah!" The other pigeons shouted,

"Are we really allowing, someone like this to be our leader!" Pijjy said while facing the other pigeons, with his left wing raised.

"No! No!"

"We should've pooped on him since the beginning!" One of the flocks shouted.

"Yeah! Yea-"

"Don't make me fly down there you punks!"

An old voice of a pigeon shouted from the top of the tree, making the flocks shut up.

"We're sorry, old Stanny!" Pijjy shouted.

'....These birds are comical...' I thought in disbelief wondering what I have just gotten myself into.

When I asked why they always want to be near me, they said that I'm like their very own heaven, whenever I'm with them they feel smart and really funny, like they're high or something...I never asked them after that.

Anyways, while the flocks are having a conversation. I thought of the things that happened to me this past few months.

[Second Mission] {Completed}

[Difficulty- Hard]

[Description: Find yourself your very first friend! Don't worry the system will reward you to do it so please make a friend! Rejoice!]

Reward: 1000 Valorant points, 1 sniper 'Marshal', $10,000.]

I finished my second mission unexpectedly, I didn't know it was just that easy to make a friend, 3 months in a library with Wong learning Sanskrit with my dumb IQ, gave me a very serious thought on why I haven't made a friend in my past.

Well, in the first month it was mostly me speaking because I want to annoy him for being so quiet. But over time, we became close and very cool to each other. He's like the big brother that I've never had.

On the subject of money, I've managed to buy quite a share in Stark Industries. Owning me a couple of tens of millions of dividends every year, and a couple of hundred thousands every month. I can just do nothing and have over a hundred thousand of dollars in my bank account every month. Wong mostly helped me legally on this one.

"The 'Quantifier'?" The Ancient One asked as she raised her palm.

"Oh! Right...here," Noah said as he took something from his wrist, similar to a bracelet with various symbols written on it and gave it back to Ancient One

The 'Quantifier', an object that measures the amount of strength a person holds. It is a relic made by a master of the mystics whose main fighting style is magical combat, a fighting style that uses both Dimensional and physical strength of a sorcerer.

Noah used it before he went to the Ancient One, and that's when he found out his strength and speed. Noah, with the use of the 'Quantifier', he was able to find out that his strength and lifting capacity is about 26 tons, a very large increase considering that he didn't take any serum or get bitten by any spider. His speed is about 40 miles-per-hour, in metric, that's about 64.4 kilometres per hour.

'26 tons of weight lift, and 40 mph.' That's more than enough for now, but in the grand scheme of things...

'I need to increase my combat skill and experience in combat, strength will be useless when fighting a skilled combatant.' I thought with a serious look on my face when suddenly a familiar sound reverberated around my surroundings.

Clink 3x*

The previous surroundings were suddenly changed into some sort of a mirror like structure, signifying that I am inside the Mirror Dimension.

"Up for a last spar?"

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(A/N: Two chapters for today, I hate cliffhangers. Btw, I'll be late to some updates next week, school's a bitch.)