Breakthrough, The Traveler's Plan and Asahi's Frustration

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(Brian's P.O.V)

Silence reigned between us. The tension growing bigger and bigger. Before finally it burst apart anticlimactically.

"I'll be waiting."

Asuma disappeared, having the last word. For a minute there, I saw something in his eyes. Not fear particularly but not far off either. I saw wariness. I saw respect. That was enough to show me, I had a chance. If he was afraid, he had something to lose.

The mental lock clicked and the memories restricted by the Interface came back. This was a program I had set up in case Asuma tried to read my mind. I didn't know how effective it was but I would do anything to hide my clones' existence away from him. 

I looked around and noticed that the planet was still overflowing with life despite his departure. Scary.

A hand ran through my face. 

" 3 years. That's all I got. I'm on a time limit now. Interface, set up a countdown for 3 years. Inform the clones of the change in plans through the auxiliary systems."

[Confirmed]

I minimized the new window of the Interface to the corner of my vision. On it the countdown began. I only had, 

[2 years 11 months 23 hours 59 minutes]

Maybe I was a bit hasty…no. Fuck him. I'm going all in. There was no time to leave and find another planet to practice the Kaioken so I started right there and then. I powered up, finally giving in and screaming. Veins appeared on my forehead as my hands clenched in a wide stance.

"Kaioken x 6!"

A scarlet blaze appeared around my ki shroud. I held the technique closely and tightly to my body. My ki instantly jumped from 100 trillion to 600 trillion. Stronger than my previous form by a wide margin. ×5 was my previous limit. According to what King Kai knew at least. However, I could actually take the skill further than that due to my strong body. 

Despite the fact that I had divided my ki into 3, my body physique was still strong. Gaining the lost ki would be easy peasy. What I needed to do was break through and take my body further.

( 2 weeks later)

It was a quiet day, prey grazed lazily while predators hunted, birds flew overhead while fish swam in the sea. Everything was as normal as could be, but then a scream cut through the air.

"Kaioken x 100!"

A shockwave of energy blasted out. The air picked up suddenly, uprooting the nearest trees near me. Soil and rock flew out leaving behind a crater with me in the middle. I was shirtless and wearing a blue gi, where the upper section was tied at the hip.

Steam left my body as sweat burned away due to the heat pouring off my body. The scarlet blaze of Kaioken was larger than ever covering almost 5 meters away from my body. Creaking noises rang out as my muscles tried to adapt to the strain of the churning Ki running through my body. 

My teeth rattled and I breathed heavily. This…was my true limit. It had taken 2 weeks of continuous Kaioken practice to reach here. I steeled my will. Time to break through the limit!

"Kaioken x 110!"

The crater turned to lava as rocks liquidized. 

"Aaahhhhhh!!"

 My eyes opened as the ki flow got too violent. Blood started running down my eyes and the golden glow of Extremis appeared trying to fix the damage. My blood vessels burst and my bones broke. 

The last thing I saw before I passed out was streaks of white lightning running through the shroud of my Ki. 

I woke up in the middle of a crater looking up at the moon. My body felt…weak. A weakness I had never felt before. I coughed and got up gingerly. I walked forward, feeling stronger by every step I took. I grabbed the walls of the crater and pulled myself out of it slowly. 

I stumbled towards the shelter I had built on my first week here. You guessed it, it was a cabin. I have a thing with cabins. 

Once inside, I devoured everything edible. The dried meat, fresh fruits and clean water. I ate and drank everything, finally feeling like I was back to my full power. I pulled up the Interface and gaped. My power level had changed.

[Name: Brian Parker]

Cultivation level: N/A

Power Level: 350,000,000,000,000. 350 trillion).- You have halfway broken through your mortal level. Your body is that of a god but your Ki is still that of a mortal. 

Psionic Skills: Echo.

                          True Reveal.

                          Divine Telekinesis- 500 tons.

                          Divine Telepathy- 100 miles.

                          Inventory.

Special skills:  Danger Sense.

                          Zenkai.

                          Extremis.

                          Super Fast Growth - Your growth in power is phenomenally fast. Eclipsing almost all other beings.

Enhanced Adaptation - Your body adapts to things faster than is humanly possible. 

Ki Skills:           Superman set.

                          Ki constructs.

                          Dimensional Jump.

                          Multiform.- Create 3 independent clones. Autonomous in their actions yet completely subservient to you. They are not mere copies, they are extensions of your very soul. The clones have a real body and can think for themselves but they WILL NEVER betray you. Ki is divided equally among all.

                          Kaioken. - A skill to increase your Ki, strength, speed, senses and durability. Currently the enhancement is at ×100 increase in all parameters.

* Currently the skill is unusable due to the body and Ki being dissimilar. 

Inventory:         Pure Wish Energy Bead.

                           Valiant Costume. 

I had broken through to the next realm by body alone. The increase came about by the continuous use of Extremis and Zenkai working in tandem to heal the strain on my body from the Kaioken. 

Although I couldn't use it right now because of the unexpected benefit of breaking through my mortal level, I had completed my objective of mastering Kaioken to a sufficient level. Kaioken × 110 was good enough for now. 

It was now time to move on to the next step. Time to enter a black hole.

(Elsewhere - The Traveler)

The Traveler stepped out of the portal and walked forward. He had arrived in the Absolutely Anything universe. A dimension where a council of galactic aliens chooses to give one random earthling limitless power for ten days as a test to see what the human would do.

Things go badly for the council when due to some issues the human with the power, decides to pass it on to his dog and the dog wishes the council to be destroyed. 

The reason for The Traveler arrival in this world was because of the countdown minimized on the corner of his eyes. He had received information from the Main that they only had 3 years to get to Asuma's level. He already had the energy frequency of Aladdin's Lamp, one of the 3 conditions for producing more of the wishing bead's energy. 

The traveler further theorized that studying more items of the same power would be favourable to the overarching plan. 

He knocked on the door and stepped back. The door opened to reveal a middle aged man. 

"Hello, can I help you?"

Neil Clarke asked. The Traveler smiled.

"Yes. Can I talk to your dog please?" Anyone else would have looked confused at the odd request but Neil instead, simply studied The Traveler and nodded. His life had been weird for a while now, so he wasn't quick to discount the stranger standing before him as mad. Even though he was asking to see his reality warping dog. Neil turned his head and shouted,

"Dennis, you have a visitor!"

The dog came running and cocked its head upon seeing the strange man.

The Traveler smiled and crouched to Dennis' level.

"Hey boy, I was wondering if I could scan you. In turn I'll give these tasty biscuits."

"Who are you again?"

A surprisingly human voice sounded from Dennis. The Traveler smiled.

"I'm sure you can find that out if you waved your paw and wished for it."

Dennis did so, wishing to know who the stranger was. The dog was quite for a while, looking thoughtful.

" I see, you're someone from another dimension. You're also not evil like those galactic aliens, so I agree."

Dennis finally said. The Traveler scratched his ear right on the spot that Dennis loved so much. 

2 minutes later, The Traveler left and entered a portal, he stepped out on the other side to his apartment. Instantly a wave of blue undetectable energy spread out, isolating the room from any eavesdroppers and parties with superior senses. 

The Traveler closed his eyes and after opening them, he wasn't alone in the apartment anymore.  20 of his copies were standing all around the room. He cleared his throat.

" I don't need to tell you what you need to do."

They nodded as one and 20 portals opened, the copies entered them and the The Traveler was left alone again.

He looked towards the direction of city Z, where his main mission was. A stake out. Observing Saitama throughout his 3 years of training to understand how and when he broke through his limiter. Jumping forward in time was not a viable option now. Not if he didn't want to miss a single thing. This wasn't a task he could leave to a simple mental copy, a skill that was derived from Multiform but was much weaker.

The countdown was 3 years. The main clearly wasn't thinking when he made the deal. He wasn't calm or logical, but The Traveler understood that the main thrived in emotions.

Unfortunately the time lapse in the One Punch Man was the same as Dragonball. That meant The Traveler wasn't going anywhere anytime soon.

Luckily, the copies would complete the secondary missions. In 2 years, The Traveler would have it all. A way to fulfill his end and then the responsibility would fall upon the main.

He sighed unraveling the veil around his room as he could feel Tornado flying towards his house.

(Elsewhere- Bleach)

Asahi felt like punching someone. Scratch that, he wanted to stab someone, slice them apart and then hit them with a well placed hado 4: Byakurai.

The dummy exploded in a shower of wooden bits as the electric current left a smoldering patch on the largest piece of the dummy. 

His energy jumped to fulfill his intentions without direction from him. The Kido class that had been in full swing stopped as everyone turned to watch him. Asahi wasn't satisfied. His frustration was still burning inside him and he could feel the beginnings of a headache forming.

12 years? Was the Main even serious? What the fuck was he thinking. To be fair he had a few more years as compared to the Main and the Traveler but Soul Reapers aged slowly. That meant in a way, 12 years was akin to 2 years in real time! 

It had already been half a year and he was yet to awaken his Zanpakuto. He couldn't hear it yet, couldn't even enter his inner world yet! The Kido was easy to master, in part because of his high energy control and in flash step he was up to intermediate level and was already planning on how he could increase that using the same enhancement the Main had applied to Ki. 

But that didn't mean shit because he only had 12 years to get to captain level, acquire hollow and Quincy powers, get the Hogyoku and ascend to a higher level, the equivalent of a god in bleach. So fuck the Main. 

Asahi raised his hand and pointed at the still smouldering remains of the destroyed dummy. The Kido instructor's eyes widened as Asahi's oppressive reiatsu was released from it's tightly held control. Asahi's classmates groaned and some of them fell to the ground unconscious. 

"Wait, what are you…"

The instructor's words were cut short by Asahi's indifferent voice.

"Hado 63: Raikouhou."

Yellow lightning escaped his fingers like sith lightning, streaking through the air and then.

"KRAKOOOM!"

If you had asked everyone they would have said the same thing. The world shook. The instructor stared at the place the hado had hit. A shiver ran through his spine. The dummy was completely gone which was to be expected. What shocked him however was that the destruction had only been contained within the area where the dummy had been. 

Such Phenomenal control! The Instructor looked at Asahi and gulped. He had a report to make. The Soul Society had a new monster.