Chapter 4: Unexpected message

"Ethan come down here for breakfast" yelled the matron

"Coming sister Mary" I yelled as I woke up from the comfort of my bed. Though it was nothing compared to my usual Amerisleep AS4 bed. But for some reason there was some charm about living this kind of simple life.

I sometimes contemplate living like this after completely achieving omnipotence. After all I have to do something, because I know especially how dull my life was. People assume that having everything you ever wanted would be great, and it is but sometimes you look at other people with envy. They can take slow walks in the park with their dogs, because to everyone else your a nobody.

Sure the glory and awe people look at you is great but it gets very repetitive. There is no challenge in life, humans are very weird creatures. When we don't have something available to them, they do everything to get it; when they get that thing and have it in abundance it quickly loses its value and just becomes like trash to you.

I snapped out of my inner monologue as sister Mary called me down for the second time.

I walked down the stairs into the dining table in the center of the room

" Are you all right Ethan, normally you always help me set the table. Did you have a bad night of sleep?" asked sister Mary.

Sister Mary was beautiful blonde with blue eyes, she was an orphan that lived in this orphanage and decided that she want to be a nun and matron here. She was 28 and surprisingly she has a Phd. biochemistry; year she still decided to become a nun

Last night I had unlocked my powers and after 1 year of being perfectly normal, I knew it was time to start my plans.

I first looked at the virtual screen in front of me.

Name: Ethan Hunt

Strength: 0.2

Dexterity: 0.2

Constitution: 0.2

Intelligence: 10

Wisdom: 7

Resistances: None

Immunity: None

Skills:None

Wishes: Doomsday, Overachiever, Power Anchoring

Perks: True kryponian, Golden rule, Essence of home, Man of Mystery, Genesis Embryo: (ability to see the truth sealed to basic levels until stats reach 100 stats in everything).

Messages: 1

I had gained access to this screen last night at 12:00. I realized something very ironic and poetic looking at the time and date.

It was June 18th today. This was the day I had died in my last life. My journey has begun on the day, my last life's journey ended.

I didn't fully examine the status screen because sister Mary was putting everyone to sleep and I couldn't exactly go to the bathroom and spend a few hours examining every option. So I just waited the next morning, it was hard but I knew that if I couldn't wait a single night how will I be able to have the patience to carry plans that take years to occur.

I still had time to ponder and managed to theorize what each option might mean.

Strength is most likely measuring physical power,muscle power and how much I lift,throw, etc...

Constitution - measuring endurance, stamina and good health

Dexterity - measuring agility, balance, coordination and reflexes

Now it's time for my "Mental" statistics

Intelligence - measuring deductive reasoning, knowledge, memory, logic and rationality

Wisdom - measuring self-awareness, common sense, restraint, perception and insight.

My intelligence and wisdom are much higher than my physical stats, but thats probably because of my previous life.

I finally noticed the massage option that showed I had one message.

I waited until I ate breakfast.

It was a nice eggs Benedict, with some crispy bacon and a glass of refreshing orange juice.

Again, it wasn't as good as any of the gourmet delicacies I have had before, but again there was just a charm of good hearty breakfast meal that just reminded you of home.

I went outside and sat under the shade of a big tree in the back of orphanage. I called back the blue screen.

I scrolled down and pressed the option button.

" Hello, my boy. How have you been? I am sure you have already made hundreds of plans and what not but I reincarnated you 1 year earlier because I know that these next few years are going to be stressful on you and I wanted you to experience the quiet and fulfilling life, I know you always wanted. Now, as you already know, there is a blue screen in front of you with statistics of all your powers,abilities and skills.

Foremost you will be able to use the stat points and and manipulate them. You can add and minus the points and move them to other statistics or abilities you have. After reading this all your powers and abilities will be unsealed, but you will start at the beginning. For example doomsday started out as a biologically evolutionary goo. It had to die dozens of times to reach the point where it could kill Superman. You are not immortal, so the ability will be changed into what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, as compensation you will be given the ability to absorb solar radiation and have the same abilities as Superman.

But again remember every Superman had to wait years for their powers to reach their potential. They each had spent at least 20-25 years absorbing solar radiation to become the same invulnerable Man of Steel we all know and love. Everything is unsealed except for Genesis embryo. You will start at Hyper intuition and make your way up to the power you asked for. This is the last favor I am doing to you, I am going to include your destiny in this that means that you will not be considered an anomaly in this world. You will have a special designation as in the fact that you will stay integral to the worlds fate and the cosmic entities will not attack which they would if they found out who or what you are. Now however they will actually favor you in some ways. I believe this is called plot armor in your universe. This will be the last time We will talk. Unless of course you reach my level and reach omnipotence, good luck boy and know this, savor the journey; but don't give up your dream"

A timer of Five minutes appeared, I was stunned and tried to understand the implications of what was just said. My brain was changing the hundreds of plans I made and remade them to benefit me best.

The ability to absorb solar radiation like Superman and have his abilities is countless times better than Doomsday's infinite resurrections because one in DC there was no "physical" representation of death. The Endless Death does not count because she just ferried souls to the after life she didn't control souls. What I am trying to say is that there is no "true death" in DC as people cheat it basically every Tuesday.

Here, however Death actually has agents here to grab souls that have escaped. She is actively involved marvel in the form of Thanos. She throws tantrum if someone escapes her once.

Can you even imagine what she will do to so someone who can revive infinitely?

I rather not take my chances with a flimsy thing known as plot armor.

Also Thank God, or the entity I guess. Sure the Man of mysteries would conceal me and keep me safe but I didn't even consider that they would treat me as an anomaly.

It's really humbling and it means that I can't get arrogant.

Wait a minute, does this mean I have to spend every waking minute in the sun. I sigh like the old man that I was. I was annoyed but I guess sacrifices had to be made.

The timer slowed down as only 3 minutes were left.

We lived in front of a range of hills and thank god for that, because if what I am thinking what's going to happen when that timer runs. I am gonna need some space. I entered deep inside the green hills. I ran as fast as my small legs would carry me. I looked around and knew that no one came here, so while I would have loved to have a specialized hideout where I could prepare for what's coming. This will have to do.

The timer slowed down as the virtual clock disappeared as it hit zero

Then I felt it

The rays of the sun shining down on my body, enhancing and changing me. I was being rebuilt at every nanosecond down to each atom of each molecule, my being was gradually altered.

I fell to my knees as my ears were bombarded by intense sounds across multiple wavelengths, I could hear the resounding laughed and screams, I could hear the ultrasonic screams of bats and the chirps of the birds. I could hear the world. I could hear the songs of the stars. And my sight wasn't any better.

Shapes and colors zoomed into view and then out of focus I could see the shining verdant green grass, hell I could see the core of the earth. I could see the electromagnetic spectrum, I could see through my very own hands at varying levels of exposure. The smells of the sweetest perfume and most disgusting filths assaulted my nose at the same time. I was agitated, I felt the nerves around my eyes generating great amounts of heat energy which were then expelled through my very own corneas. It was painful at first as my vision turned red, I turned away from the green grass and looked up to the sky

I placed my hands over my eyes but that just made it worse as the beams became scattered through the space between my fingers.

I had to calm down! 'remember your training! You are the master of your body, you control your senses', I called on the decades of mental training I had.

I shut off all sounds coming into my ears and focused on my presence, I calmed down and called upon my vision. I willed for it to clear, periodic blinks brought everything else into focus.

I huffed and puffed as eventually I calmed down. I took a smooth exhale as my overwhelmed senses once again returned to my control.

I may have recovered faster than others in my case because all of my mental training, my senses were mine and it was going to stay that way.

"I AM MAGNUS"with arms spread wide I announced to the heavens and a little childish glee, the power behind my shout was enough to move the floating clouds and shake hills I stood on as almost visible sound waves moved through the area.

Saying my mind is expanded feels like an understatement, my intellect is beyond anything I have ever known. I had the powers of a kryptonian, that inside his genes had the knowledge of over 28 different galaxies. He was part of a race that's known for their advanced technology and intelligence, so believe me when I say my intelligence has risen exponentially. but I now understand all that I knew, everything I once made research on is now like an open book. I now understood what was wrong with my serum.

This is what a having an above super genius level intellect is like. I knew things before but now I understood them, I see things now, such simple answers to complex problems. Can you imagine that in mere moments of gaining this intelligence, I solved the cure to serum, I made it now I can enhance my mid and soul with solar power It's like an explosion of quantum computers in my mind, this must be how God feels. And I can feel it growing.

Kal-El has this and he chooses to be a journalist, he once said that lex luthor could single-handedly advance the human race. But what of him, Why didn't he advance the human race when such power was within his grasp! My god I really was a buffoon before compared to my level of intelligence now. I need bury myself in education and information to make good use of my mind. One look would be enough for me to retain all information, I have the combination of a super raised to godly levels eidetic and photographic memory.

I can see the atomic components of matter. I can see the entire EM spectrum, I can see the bacteria in the air, my vision went further than the microscopic level. I could see the atomic components of matter! I can see it with my naked eyes! Can you imagine it, can you truly imagine these clouds of electrons, surrounding a micronucleus. I could SEE! I was blind before, I don't think I could ever go back to being human after all of this even if I was given the chance.

After calming down from the realizations of my abilities, from the enlightenment I received.

I felt the bioelectric aura that surrounded my skin. It was like a autonomic response system that would affect my immediate surroundings. I guess this was the tactile telekinesis

But why does it function this way? I didn't have enough info to form an accurate description on my abilities or that of superman. but even if I did I couldn't explain everything with common sense. Even DC hasn't given a comprehensive reason behind Superman's abilities because even though it's Fiction they don't truly understand it either. Though marvel was not completely like DC, they were both similar in the way that they don't fully enforce the laws of physics and reality. One example of this is my ability to know an object's position and momentum at the same time. Can you imagine that, I know where an object is exactly when in time it is. I shouldn't be able to do that! It makes no damn sense! That is basically small scale reality warping! Anyway back to the aura. I could consciously utilise the aura but it wasn't easy at all.

I know the heat vision is the discharge of solar energy through my optic nerves. The varying intensities caused it's different colours. I could make low intensity invisible rays, I could also make high intensity micro beams. The provision was down to an atomic level.

I wanted to try a different heat vision I speculated as one of the more explanatory reasons for Superman's power.

Heat glare. I willed my eyes to vibrate to ridiculous levels, causing excitations in the air molecules that come in contact with my eyes, turning them into a stream of super heated plasma. I was transferring kinetic energy into the air and the intensity and temperature of the beams had a correlation with the speed of my vibration, speeding through the air. This was different from regular heat vision, because that was just pure solar energy being discharged. Right now I was just vibrating my eyes and indirectly anything that my eyes look at. That means that my so called beams don't have to travel as their starting point are not my eyes. What ever my eyes look at is the starting point and that makes the beams practically impossible to dodge and impossibly precise with what my eyes could see. If I can somehow mix this with Genesis Embryo I would be invincible. I stopped my self from drowning the power, I reminded my self of beings out there.

Any ways continuing

Vvzzzz the superheated plasma cut through the air. I could combine both emitted beams and created ones to make something exceptionally destructive.

Yeah, I'll call the combination of both a destructo beam.

Doing the reverse of the process by absorbing the Kinetic energy in the air I could also create freeze rays.

They looked like solid beams of ice the would skewer and freeze an object on impact.

What? Doesn't make sense? The physics don't add up? Haha this universe doesn't conform to your definition of common sense.

I could fully test my abilities but I don't think I could cover it all in the course of a year.

It was time to test the real power that made superman iconic, flight.

I focused on my being, I focused on this bio electric aura that responded to me like a third arm, I had an instinctual feel on how to use it, to control it.

I directed and manipulated it, it responded to my advances. Dirt the size of small sand grains slowly rose signalling the effect of my aura on the environment. And with a thunderously mighty shock wave I shot off the ground like a super rocket. Dust and dirt was scattered, the ground cracked and quaked as I zoomed through earth's atmosphere.

"Hahahaha!" Flying is like nothing else in this world. It's like swimming but with absolute freedom and barely any resistance. I shaped my aura on the fly instead of making it spherically streamlined I altered it into shape edges and immediately I cut through the air constantly bursting sound barriers. This could be utilized offensively, I could cut through an object like this.

Let's try the standing man pose, with my superior proprioception I would always have an awareness to the relation of my body to the space it was in all at pinpoint accuracy.

"Look Ma! I made it" I spread my arms out with a standing pose. I think I like this better than flying horizontally.

( I love that song 😀, a cookie to anyone who know what I am talking about)

After hours of playing around with my flight abilities, I decided to go to space. To visit the very power source of my powers.

Flying through space without any form of protective gear was absolutely surreal. The Earth looks so much more beautiful when seen from space, this big blue ball of magnificence and vibrant life. I zoomed past the planets as I arrived before the sun, it's rays barely tickling my skin. Filling me with strength and power. I have a theory I would test to increase the energy procession and storage capacity of my cells. I would stay very close to the sun and with each trip I will gradually move deeper into it, till I reached the core of the sun allowing my cells to evolve and enhanced to have a larger storage capacity and the capability to effectively process it.

I couldn't immediately move to the centre of my sun, the resulting raw stellar energy would be more than my cells will be able to process which would then lead to them being over saturated with solar energy causing to burst from within, they would constantly explode resulting in the eventual degradation of said cells, effectively killing me.

I don't know how long I spent here bathing in the raw rays of the sun. I felt so peaceful just floating here among the stars and their songs but I had work to do.

Even from space I could see sister Mary doing laundry and I zoomed through the Earth's atmosphere the re-entry resistance barely even affected me.

Boom!

Hero landing achieved. I would've coughed with all the dust and broken pieces of rubble shooting through the air, but I was a superman.

I looked around as implications of what I just did, struck me like thunder.

It seems like I need to train more, I acted like a five year old. It seems like being de-aged to a kid seems to have affected me somehow.

I looked around and cursed, it was going to be a pain to conceal this as I looked at the destruction I caused.

Trees uprooted, dirt and rubble everywhere. A ten meter crater right in the center.

I got a lot of cleaning up to do.

(You got your fun time, now suffer the consequences. MUHAHAHAHA, cough, cough.)

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