"One mans magic is simply another mans engineering." This was a quote from one of the authors in Lucks past life and he felt it was appropriate for the situation he found himself in.
Lucks three brains are more efficient than any supercomputer back on Earth and he rapidly started to put his mind to use figuring out what exactly he could do with his psychokinesis besides move things and floating around.
Expanding his consciousness into his surroundings he could see that everything had a certain aura around it. Concentrating on himself he could see that his aura was a ever shifting mass that formed a male body made of green and silver energy and there was a pink electric current at his core that flowed out of him that he traced to Yuki's body.
She had a dazzling aura that was hard to look at. Her aura took the form of a enormous female body that was easily 3 times bigger than Yuki's current form. The body was shining in a bright golden color, and this golden giant had fuchsia lightning arcing randomly over her skin. The hair was like a continuous waterfall of pink lightning. Her eyes were swirling pools of pink electricity that seemed to be staring at him.
Looking away to clear his vision, he thought seeing auras was merely neat and went on to try something else.
Settling his eyes on the wall, he simply focused his mind a little with the thought of pulling the wall apart his psychokinesis powers began to work.
His mental power wrenched a hole through the metal wall in a impressive display of warping metal that only took a second until a hole was formed just large enough that he could walk through without crouching down.
Unfortunately he had walked into his neighbors room, which was a middle aged woman that had just been startled awake by the noise.
Trying to read her mind or make a connection, or control her mentally proved to do absolutely nothing. Luck was wondering why that didn't work. he figured he needed better control over this new power, since he couldn't manipulate her, or perhaps it was a matter of technique to do something like mind control. He wasn't sure which was the case just, and resolved to ask Yuki later. Right now he needed to fix this situation with the woman.
Luck sent out a wave of mental energy like a concussive blast to quickly knock her unconscious. Not knowing how much force he should use he over did it quite a bit, and a shockwave tore through the room destroying everything in its path. When it hit the woman a split second later, she was lifted into air and torn into pieces before slamming into the wall with enough force, that it dented the metal plating with a sound similar to a grenade detonating.
What was left of her slid down the wall in slow motion in Lucks eyes. Not feeling affected by the horrible scene in front of him, Luck focused hard and started to use his life power with much more energy than ever before.
All the blood and body parts merged back into the women's broken frame before becoming complete a few moments later. Despite healing her entire body in record time, she was still just as lifeless as when she was a smear on the wall. The reason for this was Yuki had already collected her soul, which he learned a moment later.
[System - I could put her soul back, but she will remember what happened to her. Or we can use it as energy to advance, what do you want to do?]
*Keep it, and do something about the body. Also help me fix the room and then we will leave.*
Using his psychokinesis Luck gently pops the dent out of the wall while Yuki sends over a small swarm of nanites to control the body and fix the broken bed. Exiting the room through the hole he made, he attempts to repair that wall as well but all he manages to do is mangle the metal back together. Which made another loud noise much to his dismay.
Thankfully Yuki comes to help and using her nanites again, she was able to patch the wall up perfectly.
*What are you planning to do with the body?*
[System - I took control of it remotely. She will encounter a public accident tomorrow and it won't be a concern for us anymore.]
Not feeling a ounce of remorse or guilt over accidentally murdering the woman, Luck senses some soldiers coming to investigate all the noise he made.
The soldiers arrive at his room first and he opens the door for them. After asking a few questions and seeing that everything was in order they went next door.
Finding a opportunity to neatly wrap up the problem at hand quickly, Luck instructs Yuki to make the women attack the guards.
Using his expanded awareness Luck watches as Yuki undresses the woman so she's naked when she answered the door. This simple action lowers the soldiers guard and she got close to one and launched a sneak attack swiftly breaking one of the soldiers neck, killing him instantly. The other soldier reacted quickly and shot her in the head which fixed up everything conveniently as far as Luck was concerned.
[System - With that soul we have collected enough energy for a stat point increase.]
*Put it into aptitude and record the upgrading process and send it to me.*
Focusing his mind to feel the changes as it might be a clue on how to progress further Yuki completes the process and the only thing Luck noticed was his heart beat a little faster and he could feel a small amount of energy flow into him. As far as what Yuki transferred over to him, it was of no help at all.
Checking his status screen it now showed
Level 25R
Physique - 37
Energy - 61
Aptitude - 91
Luck - 12
Abilities - Life/Time/Mutation/Psychokinesis
Active skills - Heal (Intermediate)
Passive Skills - Regeneration (Moderate) / Time Perception (Moderate) / Toxin Resistance (High) / Energy Absorption (Moderate)
Seeing his energy go up by 1 he recalled that was a passive effect of Mutation. Which reminded him he still could use this power and with the right genes he could modify his body even further. What he lacked now was raw materials and the knowledge of where to acquire those materials to make any progress with it.
There was a ongoing commotion outside the room as more soldiers arrived on the scene. Monitoring the situation Luck found out apparently the woman's name was Cindy and she was quite well known among the ships crew. The soldiers were currently guarding the scene while awaiting new orders as the situation had been reported already.
Feeling indecisive if he should dispose with all pretenses and go on a rampage to murder everyone on the ship for some easy levels. Or keep using the military to learn more about the universe.
Luck decided to leave it to fate, as the military should have a extensive list of xenos and where to find them and getting that information would save him a lot of effort down the road.
However if somehow the soldiers found him out and decided to make a issue of it, he was pretty confident that between him and Yuki, they could kill them all. Yuki could then take over the ship and they could just go adventuring. There would always be other ways to acquire the information he needed after all.
Continuing to focus on his psychokinesis he decides to consult Yuki to see what she knew if anything.
[System - Psychokinesis is different from what your imagining. You can control the purest and simplest form of telekinesis. Which is the generation, and manipulation of telekinetic force itself. As a result, the possible applications aren't nearly as broad as some other specialty types of Telekinesis, you don't have the same subtlety, precision, and dexterity that a normal Telekinesis user has. The trade off for a Psychokinesis user is a large increase in raw power, and simplicity of use.
In short you cannot perform complex telekinetic operations, like the manipulation of matter and energy at an atomic level. However the things you can do are performed with overwhelming power in comparison.]
*You seem quite knowledgeable about the subject, can you give me some examples of what I can do then?*
[System - For example, you can crush and compress heavily armored targets into tiny balls or tear them to shreds in an instant, push/pull or stop objects or people from moving. You could also throw them by applying a little effort. Depending on your mental strength you can launch psychokinetic blasts strong enough to rival nuclear weapons or even stronger explosions.
You could casually repel or redirect attacks and instantly erect a strong self-repairing psychokinetic force-field. You could create invisible psychokinetic appendages of pure energy. Depending on your control, floating can turn to flying.
With enough overwhelming psychokinetic force and energy, you can bend or even break the laws of the universe, and distort space. This could allow you to teleport, or at the extreme end rip a hole into another dimension for example.]
After spending some more time getting familiar with his Psychokinetic ability's, the duos PFEDs lit up letting them know they were given a classroom to report too for Cadet training along with a map, time and who to report too.
Feeling a hint of annoyance at being bothered by this kind of thing, Luck suppressed it and got ready to leave.