chapter 4: freedom

Leaving the house and my father was the correct move. With freedom comes time, and time I have spent quite well the past few weeks. My theory of my power was correct and it's quite the power if I say so myself.

Now onw might question why I took all my fathers money, but to me he hasn't been one. Not in a long time and too cut it short he is probably one of the top people I would kill without a second of a doubt. I could go into detail but it's just another drunk abusive father that hasn't woken up to reality and refuses it. Now back to my powers.

For one I can change reality to whatever I want, whenever I want so long as I have the energy inside me that it uses. Not only that but I have also found two rather simple solutions to increasing this energy. 1 is to just bend reality of the energy and increase the amount I have Sadly the increase is quite small and it takes me 2 hours before I have all my energy back. But any increase is still an increase. And with time that I now have it takes not much effort.

the other is to slowly manipulate the energy and not use it. It slowly increases as well but when I do this I need to meditate and focus on it. The time i have gained now was more than enough and with my power money problems truly don't exist. I don't have to work and I spend most of my time in my little apartment training and using my powers. Only time I go out is to get food and groceries to feed myself. Other than that I didn't get anything else, not even a tv.

No need to interact with others, since gaining power is my top priority right now. And I have just the idea that would work and shall amass quite the power for myself. You see, the world's power could be divided into two sides. The scientific side that has people with power through mutation, technology and even simply being a creature of another species. All this can fall under this category of power. The other is magical side. People who could learn powerful moves and truly break reality by using magic.

Both sides are powerful by themselves, but together? They will cause simple chaos if they so choose. To be genetically better or enhanced and know knowledge of power that cause mass amount of damage. It's simply so great that what I will have both sides of this coin.

with that said i begin to use my energy as I will it to change something within myself. I feel my body itself and i can see all the fault inside. So many weakpoints in the human body. So... fragile. Lets fix that, shall we?

I begin to use my ability and command it with a simplistic word in my head. 'Improve.' Then i felt heat coming from within my core, as i begin to sweat. The pain was truly killing, but i went through it. I gritted my teeth and clenched my fists. I stayed open as i felt the changes in my body. Muscle swelling and expanding, chest exploding. It hurt oh so much that I wanted to scream, yet can't since alerting anyone would be bad.

And as soon as it came, it went. In but 10 seconds of agony then was nothing. The change complete, and as I got up I notice the changes right away.

For one, i was taller. I grew a couple of inches and my body was now filled with muscle. Not even an ounce of fat was on my body and I simply felt power course through me. Not only that but i could see better, hear better and even smell better. I can hear the music coming form 10 floors below me in a headphones, I smell the food one the table someone is eating 5 floors to my left. And when I looked at the wall of my apartment i see all the signs of paint and how many times it has been painted.

Truly, the changes i had just made has improved everything in my body, even my mind has improved as i could think sharper before, although it seems it was the least to improve. Point standing, I now stood on what could be the apex of strength the human body had without having a overly buff and slow frame of a body builder yet not to lean. with this i also shredded my t shirt i had one and the underwear I had been wearing a moment ago as I now stood naked in my apartment.

'going to need some clothes to fit.' I thought as I grabbed some clothes and see it would obviously not fit my frame anymore. With that said I then waited for about 30 minutes for some of my energy to recharge before using it to increase the size to fit myself. I had a simple t shirt one with a simple black hoodie on. I had black jeans and shoes to match myself. It was dark outside and i wanted to test my newfound strength on something.

I then head out of my apartment as i moved my way out. I smirked to myself as I made a fist with my right hand, feeling the muscle of my body tense as strength flooded my body. " Let's see what I can do now with my body." I said to myself as i moved out and one the streets of this wonderful city.

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Walking through the streets I started to use my senses to feel my surroundings. I observed everything, hearing more things than I never had before, it was quite overbearing at first but after cutting of my senses on and off once I got the feel I was able to control my senses.

I've been walking for about have an hour before s smelled someone in the ally to my left upfront of me. I then smiled as I walked to it, prepared to knock someone down and see how i compare to a lowly scum.

Once i reached my location i then looked in and I could make out a person. With there back to the wall, he was about 5'10 feet tall if I had to guess, holding a knife in one hand as he played with it. He was looking right at me, as he simply stayed where he was.

I walked up to him as i stare him down, he does the same as he holds his knife tighter. " you better scram punk." He said as he moved off from the wall to stand. I kept quiet as I observed him, prepared for him to make the first move.

"Don't you hear me punk! Scram before I got to put you down!" he shouted as he now points his knife at me. A m7 bayonet knife if I am correct. I simply looked at him as I walked ahead. He grits his teeth as he lunges forward with his knife aimed at my chest. I see him aiming his knife for my heart, as he went for the kill. He moved so... slow. Before he could even touch me I slapped his hand that held the knife. *Snap*.

"Gah!!" The man shouted as he gripped his right hand that had the knife. It has bent at a 90 degree angle, with blood coming out and bone sticking out of his skin. the man fell to his knees as he held his hand.

I looked down on him as I see how much power i held. All i did was simply slap his hand out of the way and he now has a broken wrist that would cost a fortune to fix and probably not even fully recover with that.

'More testing required, i may know that I'm stronger than what a normal man could achieve but I'd like to know my limits.' I thought as i looked down on the man that i have caused quite the pain. I'm lucky that there isn't to many people around to see or hear this.

The poor man in question looked up and saw me. I saw fear in his eyes that when seeing me just increased. He had pain and fear in then. as I realize that he just saw my face.

Opening my mouth i spoke to him, the last person he will talk to for his life." Well, it seems you have seen my face. Quite sad must I say, since I now need to kill you." I said as I crouch down and moved quicker than he could see as i grabbed his neck. I then stood up as he then was lifted up by my right arm. e hanged off the ground as he grabbed my hand with his left and tried to make me let go. He started to squirm around. I let him for a while as he slowly tired himself out. After a while he realized that he couldn't escape my grip. He looked at me as he tried to speak.

Before he could even start begging for his life i squeezed slightly, knowing my strength would do the rest. I see him clamp up as he gripped my arm trying to escape once again, and failing horribly slow. He slowly got tired as his face slowly went purple. I then squeezed a bit harder, using my two fingers at the back of his head as i hear the noise. " *SNAP*. His body went limp as his eyes lost all light, his hand fell to his side, showing me that he is dead.

I then tossed his body aside, as I walked out of the ally. I put my hands in my hoodie as I moved forward into the city.

After all, the night was still young, and my journey has only just begun.