Saksham sighed with relief when he found that his unintentional making of this system was the best choice he has ever made in his entire life. Not only can he know how much EP he has and the amount he spends on something, but it can also cover all the energy that leaves his body into the atmosphere. This helped him cover his tracks from the IOEA and the other mysterious organizations which want a piece of him too.
Saksham looked at the clock hanging on the wall, above the blackboard, and found that there was still a bit of time left before the teacher came to take their roll. So, he once again whispered, "What do you mean by changing the laws of the world? And what is this domain?"
"Are you sure you want to use 2 EP?"
Saksham pressed [Yes] and immediately a window popped up in his vision.
"Domain is the total area in which your powers can work. Currently, it is 35 Km in diameter, covering parts of Noida, Delhi, as well as Lucknow. Now, the laws of the world can be understood as the order of the world or the way the world should work. According to the world, a man will live up to the age of 70 years. But you can use your powers to change that and make him die at only 35. All those people you killed is an example. The four bullies you killed should have lived to at least 60, but they died at only 18. The gangster you killed, Gullu Tyagi, was meant to live till 50, but he died at 26."
"All this is changing the ways of the world. As an average person, you were never meant to have the power to stop that self-destruction of that Fire Elemental King, but within your domain, you changed the laws again to be able to control the power of space. All this is what you have been doing till now, bending the laws of the world to your own will. Every time you change the normal working of the world, it costs you what you call EP. The bigger the change in the laws, the bigger the consumption of EP. For example, within your domain, you can change the destined time of death of an average person and it will cost you only 2 EP at most. But if you want to do the same with a person acknowledged by this world as a person to carry some supernatural power, then the cost will soar up by multiple times."
"This is because whatever the powers they have is something granted by this world. Those people are closer to the world than an average person. So, to change the fate of those people will cost you more than what it normally does. But that doesn't mean that you can't kill them otherwise. As long as you have enough EP and quick thinking, you can do whatever you want in your domain. With ample EP, you are the God of this Domain."
Seeing all this, Saksham suddenly had a strange feeling in his heart when he read the word "God". But he couldn't tell what that feeling was. He just shook his head and started thinking about the things he read. Everything written in that pop-up window was something he had partly understood himself after experimenting for a long time. But there were some new things that he never knew.
In the information he just got, his system used sentences like "People acknowledged by the world" and "Closer to the world than the average person". The way the system wrote these sentences was like this "World" was a person rather than a subjective term given to this earth. The more he read, the weirder he felt about it. He couldn't' help but ask, "So, do you mean to say that this "world" is actually a person or some type of consciousness?"
"Are you sure you want to use 1EP?"
Saksham pressed [Yes] and when he looked at what was written on the window that popped up, his eyes widened as his jaws almost dropped to the floor. There were only 3 words on the window, "Not Strong Enough!"
Saksham felt as if he was going crazy. He used 1 EP and this is the answer he got? Not strong enough? You mean that the answer was so weird that I am not even strong enough?? BRUHHH!!
Saksham wanted to strangle this system now. But he held in his desire because the class teacher had come to take their roll. So, he just threw everything to the back of his head and concentrated in the class because he had some doubts he wanted to ask from the teacher. If some of you might be thinking that now Saksham should just use his powers to memorize and not waste so much time, I can only say that this is his pride stopping him to do that. If he had not gained any of his powers, he would have to study as any normal person would. But although he has powers now, that doesn't mean he would stop using his brain and rely on his powers for everything.
Actually he himself had wanted to use the powers to memorize everything, but then he realized that if he even started to use it for some day to day life things then he will just become a puppet to his powers. He will stop using his actual brain and just relying heavily on his powers and that will be his demise in one way or another. So, he wanted to prove to himself that he can actually score amazing even without using his powers and Anitha's encouragement further strengthened his determination.
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Saksham's house
After tiring 6 hours, Saksham came back home from school. Along the way, he had been thinking about something. He realized that even though he had such an omnipotent power, he was pretty weak too. Suppose if he gets jumped on by a bunch of high-level power users, even if he has his EP bar full, he is still going to die. If he just goes head-on to fight with them, then even if he used all this power at once, there is no chance that he will be able to defeat even one of them. To stop that self-destruction of Fire Elemental King, he had to use 50 EP! And that was also because of some weird coincidence that he was able to stop it. He doesn't know how did he get that power but there was a consequence of using that power too. His life span shortened by 3 years.
Now, with only a meager of 15 EP, a head-on collision is impossible. At least, for now, there is no way Saksham can engage in that big scale of a fight with someone. He might just be able to escape from them with 15 EP. But Saksham didn't want to live a life of hiding from people. So, he decided that he needs to have his own force too. Although fighting alone is cool, but dying is not cool at all. So, it is better that he has a force of his own that can fight for him.
But creating a force strong enough to fight against the world will take a long time. What he needs now is someone or something that can keep a tab of all the activities of people that have come for him. And after thinking about it for a long time, Saksham thought of an Anime, Naruto. In Naruto, the main character could make a lot of clones that can basically do everything he can do but will disappear when hit by a strong enough force. Right now, he really needs something like that. Although he can't let the clones have the same face as his, those clones can work as his informant in a way. They can be his small force until he really creates an actual one.
Saksham sat up from his bed and said, "Create 10 Shadow clones with no faces and only dark bodies. Dark enough for them to disappear in the dark. They can blend in the shadows of others. They can walk through walls. Make their presence almost none existent. And make them have a direct connection to me."
"Are you sure you want to consume 20 EP?"
Saksham was speechless. He only had a remainder of 3 EP left. He had been using them to ask questions from time to time, so there was not much left now. Saksham didn't want to use all the EP either because although the heavy and stuffy feeling in his chest is a lot lesser than it should have been, the feeling of death that he has to experience after using all 15 EP is something that Saksham really doesn't want to experience again.
So, he just pressed [No] and sat on his study table to start studying again. He decided that he has to postpone his plans for a couple of days.