We had stopped counting the number of Deviants we killed after it reached a hundred and every day we were able to kill more of them. Only it was also getting more and more dangerous as we had noticed that if we left the Deviant bodies alone, they would get absorbed by the Blood Ghosts and become strong. Thus, we started to pile them up and burn them. Fortunately, they were especially easy to burn.
Telos had not turned in to a deviant and we realised getting injured by them didn't mean death. This meant two good things. We would be able to fight a lot more ferociously and not die.
We were killing the Deviants in a group. At this point, I didn't care about any strategy as we became faster and stronger. The Deviants had become quite easy to kill for our elite group.
A shocking thing was that although everyone's powers had grown a lot stronger, they were still quite useless. At the same time my strength, speed and endurance had reached way past the limits of what was humanly possible. I was at least twice as strong as Telos. Everyone's strength seemed close to Telos, maybe because of the number of Crystals they ate. This meant that every single person in my family can crush every single record from the previous superhumans that existed before the Apocalypse. This was just a week after the Apocalypse.
From my conclusions, although my power was extremely useful at the beginning, when my family gained better control and stronger powers they would surprass me. They had a lot more latent potential than I.
I wasn't depressed by this fact at all as my family strength was my strength after all.
Also, even though they were also killing the Deviants at this point they each could take on 4 of them at the same time. While I could take on ten of them at this point. Our distribution of crystals was quite simple, the one who killed it was the one who got it, as for Sunlight, I had supplied her with crystals.
At first, Jason had offered to give Sunlight the Blood Crystals, but I refused and told him that I could kill them a lot easier than him, thus there was no problem at all. After he reached strength that was near mine, he could take my position, as for now there was no need.
I must admit that I Dudley Bonneville had never felt more alive before. The biggest shocking change in me was, my appearance. I had regained my black hair and looked ten years younger than before. Some of the wrinkles of my face had also disappeared making me look even more youthful. Some might even call me a handsome middle-aged man. My muscles were quite daunting as well as I had seemed to have grown by 5 centimetres and looked like an old Martial Arts expert. I never felt so good in my life as the power and youth was too addictive and every single person would wish to possess such power.
Unfortunately, only the brave will be able to obtain it. Many people will die chasing for power, I was sure of it. If I will be one of those people, only time will tell.
My family and I were moving as if we were ferocious beasts, we killed the Deviants one by one. We had scary expressions and blood all over us. Jason was acting especially fearsome. He was becoming more and more reckless. All of us were becoming more and more reckless as we killed the Deviants. Sunlight's power of healing was becoming better, so we were able to do this.
There was, of course, a reason for that. Jason was worried about his family and wanted to become stronger. I was in the same position as well. While the two younger ones, unfortunately, they just loved fighting. They were full of young blood and didn't care about world peace or such things. Telos girlfriend had recently broken up with him as well, as for his friends he wasn't in the least worried. He said that all of them were martial art experts.
We also didn't dare to get too close to the bridge or we might attract hundreds of Deviants and that would be certain death for sure.
I had contemplated for a long time about our next action, but I've decided it was time to try and get to the house where Jason last saw the person.
The reason I hadn't acted before is that it was practically impossible to get there.
The house stood extremely close to one of the bridges leaving off the island. That's where the Deviants were most packed. Not only would they fight each other often there, but more and more of them would also come from the other side of the bridge.
Deviants there looked extremely strong and hard to deal with, but at this point, I feel like I and my family should be able to do it.
We had killed hundreds of Deviants and ate an insane amount of Crystals. At this point, I could cave in the Deviants skull with a single punch and with a slight stroke of my sword I could cut their heads.
We had also found ways to test the control and strength of our powers. For example, for me how I tested it was by lifting strength. I was able to lift a two-ton car all the way from the ground to lifting it over my head. Telos on another hand was able to lift 750kg only, but on another hand, he was also able to lift in the air a 50kg of earth, not to mention that he started being able to bend metal nails with his powers.
Jason, on the other hand, was able to lift anything, although only 25kg. I guess it makes sense. If he was able to lift 50kg with his mind as well then the power of earth would be two times weaker. It made a lot of sense, Telos power was focused on achieving one thing while Jason's power could be used in countless ways. Although I wasn't sure about that either, this is because of the fire incident.
Archi had been accumulating a lot of electrical devices that we would find inside other people houses and she kept trying to power them. Unfortunately, we had found out that it was practically impossible as it required immense control over electricity. Instead, she had found out that just accumulating her power in a single spot she would be able to make a fireball.
Thus, using electricity to make polar magnets, she somehow managed to make her palms into magnets and would squeeze the ball between her palms. She would then release it and it would shoot out like a bullet. If she made Gokus pose when she released the attack, 'Kamehameha' is what it would be like. Although it required a lot of time, concentration and energy to release just a 5cm in diameter ball of energy. Even then she somehow ended up having the strongest power out of all of us. The only reason for that is that she had combined her physical power with the elemental power. One could even call her a genius for coming up with it.
The only reason she even though about it is that she loved, 'Dragon Ball'. Which I am proud as I was the one who introduced it to her. Back 50 years ago in 2009 when I was a kid it was my favourite show of all time. I still remember running back to my grandma's house when it was summer and watching it with my friends.
It was just a coincidence she gained the power of electricity and was able to make opposite polarities in her palms. Who would ever think about using it like that if not her?
I still remember how it happened.
She was like, "Grampa I have something to show you! Hehe"
Her cheeky smile immediately piqued my interest as I wondered what she was up to.
We walked out of our house and on to the road. The two crashed cars were still there.
"Grampa look at what I learned to do!"
"Kaaaaameeeee Haaaaaaameeee-"
"What it is she up to?" I couldn't understand why she was improvising Goku. I saw her concentrate hard as her palms at her side started trembling. It took a good 10 seconds.
"HAaaaaaaaaaaa!"
*Boom*
A big hole appeared on the car doors and it exploded inside the car, as a mushroom of smoke appeared. Everything inside was wrecked fire started inside the car.
It all happene to quickly. I just saw electricity jumping around her palms and arms when she released a ball of white light. It then shot to the car and exploded.
My eyes bulged out and my mouth opened., "HOLY FUCK!"
My granddaughter was a Saiyan! Wouldn't that mean I am a Saiyan as well? Wait, what the hell, we are Saiyan's?
I breathed out as I was shocked it took me a moment to calm down. I realised what a load of bullshit I was thinking about, then I thought about the load sound that Archi just made and started sweating. I looked around Three Deviants were running towards us.
I quickly took care of them without a problem and went inside with my granddaughter.
It was a dream come true to witness such a thing; the world had truly become a magical place.
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Besides that, we had also tested Sunlights power, which was a bit troublesome. We had realised that eating crystals helped with wound recovery. We healed at least three times faster than normal if we kept consuming them. Also, as our bodies got stronger, we healed faster. Then if Sunlight used her powers, we would heal even faster. A small cut only took one day completely heal not even a spot would be left on it.
After a lot of failures and test, we finally managed to determine that if she used her powers for one hour a day that would increase the healing rate by three times. If she used it to her limit which was 4 hours a day, then she would be able to do 3 days' worth of healing in those four hours. Of course, she was only able to do one hour at a time after which she would have to take a rest.
It was in the afternoon. After we had killed Deviants in the morning and had our lunch, we thought it was about time to check out if that person was still alive.
We went outside of our house, with our equipment ready and walked on the road.
I heard roaring weird noises.
It was water splashing.
The next moment something jumped out of the water. It was a snake of some kind. I never knew much about snakes, but this one was bluish-green with black circles all over it. One didn't need to be a genius to tell that it was a poisonous one. Besides the colour, the size of the snake was completely on another level as well.
At least 15 meters in length and half a meter in diameter. It could probably swallow a small mountain.
"What shit luck!" Telos shouted. Damn it, that's what I wanted to say. He learned this from me as I kept saying this repeatedly. Like father like son, like grandfather...
"So, it seems that a boss mob has appeared..." I should have been doing more exercises after work instead of playing games. Why did my late wife have to have been a gamer as well? So many questions, yet they will never be answered.
The snake slithered to the side and suddenly raised its head and looked at us. Suddenly mini wings spread out from its side as it had been camouflaged before.
The snake opened its mouth and hissed. Two gigantic teeth seemed to unveil themselves from inside the snakes' mouth and long black tongue slid out.
The invisible pressure from the snake overcame as we took a step back. We were so shocked we couldn't move.
Just then we realised that it had already started raining and lightning struck somewhere in the distance. The heat, the sight and the sound were all overwhelming as this only made the pressure the gigantic snake executed more terrifying.
Crackle
Lightning hit one of the houses on our little island.