(Author's Note: Want to hear something funny? My tuition time has quadrupled, and thus I will be getting almost only three hours of free time per 5 days, things are not final, so let me see If I can scratch out a few more hours out of this schedule, otherwise my updates are gonna be super-super slow)
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Akash Pov
I am finished with all the quirks I needed from Japan except the time rewind of Eri and the Overhaul quirk. I need to do some preliminary preparation for them before executing my plan and getting those quirks. I do have some destructive quirks and I am pretty strong as of now capable of going one with one All Might, but the fighting style is not refined, and I have to do training for it before attempting to free Eri and get her and the Overhaul quirk.
Before that, I need to finish the international quirk hunt first which is pretty much America and get all the abilities I desire, I have also targeted some people with quirks similar to synthesis or separation and I will be trying to get these two important skills which will be my gateway on getting more Ultimate Skills when I will evolve into the Demon Lord.
Thus, I am going to begin with America and get the quirks I have my eyes on, one of which is a reality-bending quirk or budget reality bending even if it is nothing compared to real reality benders I am hoping to get more out of this. Thus, I landed on American soil as my disguised self, this time with red hair, green eyes, and a man of age around thirty. I cannot change my hair colour normally, but using a simple trick I can do it.
I just needed to devour colours, makeup, and other necessary item, and then just use it along with my transformation to make it similar to artificially attached parts of the body. This is how I get several transformations without devouring anyone else. My Skill Mimicry is quite versatile, even if my Predator skill can't create energy from inorganic molecules due to different world laws, it is still one of my strongest abilities.
Anyway, after doing all the procedures at the airport I quickly got on my job, I traveled to California for the user of the ability that I had eyes on, and soon I was in front of Jack's house, a man who had a weak quirk that can conveniently divide any non-living organism into two. I knocked on the door, and soon the door opened revealing a brown-haired man," Yes? Who are you, Sir?".
I smiled and said," My name is Allen Wanston", I forwarded my hand for a handshake, and not suspecting anything he took my hand, I took the opportunity and repeated the steps, I took enough of his blood, skill cells, and a bit of tissue, and then breaking the handshake I asked," Are you Harry Winchester?", he frowned hearing that and replied," Nope, My name is Jack Chadwick".
After giving him an apology I left the place and thought,' Western culture sure makes my job and germs jobs easier ', After reaching a deserted place, I devoured the organic matter using my Unique Skill Predator.
{Skill: Division has been acquired!}
[ Report! Skill Division can divide any inorganic material into smaller equal halves, it works only inorganic material and seems to be incapable of separating skills], Great Sage Reported.
Hearing that I sighed in disappointment, Although the chances of me getting the same skill or even equivalent to it was quite low, it still was disappointing, though I didn't fret over it any longer and quickly moved to my next target. Which was none other than the number 1 Hero of America herself, the woman that even All For One feared and had plans to intercept only after getting One For All.
Thus I quickly took out my laptop and asked,' Great Sage find out her location ', She quickly started doing her job, and entered the virtual world where she started to find her location, and soon she replied,[ Report! Master she is soon going on a Mission in New York to eliminate a hidden group of villains, according to my calculations she will be there for the next two days as the time for the plan has been fixed]
My smile widened hearing that, did Great Sage probably hack the American government servers for this info? Of course, she did! But to me that mattered little, as I didn't care about hacking to the world's biggest superpower or any country as long as I could get things done thus I quickly booked a superfast metro ride to New York.
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3rd Pov
" As you can see Star and Stripes has again done it! She defeated an entire group of villains hiding in New York and waiting to cause chaos and mayhem saving the lives of thousands!", said a reporter as she told the glorious victory of a hero winning against the villains who were making their evil plans to do their evil shenanigans.
Cathleen was surrounded by a horde of people and reporters, She decided to wait a longer but not to give a speech and glorify her image, but to give advice to people and to give autographs to her fans. Suddenly a man approached her passing through the crowd in a very sneaky way, and once he got in front of her, he said," Star and Stripes! Please do a handshake with me!".
As usual, she did an handshake, and a genuine smile on the man's face appeared as if he was overjoyed, but Cathleen's eyes on the other hand narrowed as she looked at her hand, and then suspiciously at the man, seeing that he had caught Akash quickly came out the crowd only to find Cathleen in front of her, she said with firm eyes," I don't know how you healed me but did you think you can take sample of my blood, skin cells and tissues that easily? What you have done is a great offense! So please surrender yourself otherwise I would be forced to take action!".
The entire place became silent, and soon most of the people gathered there made distance between them only leaving reporters who were crazily shooting the scene live. The man's face suddenly became emotionless and he said in a neutral voice," Oh, I see you caught me it seems your quirk is more complicated than I thought ".
His eyes glanced at her, and as time around him slowed by tens of times, his thoughts became thousand times faster, and the next moment he elementalized into thunder, and then at a speed that was far faster than sound he quickly flew from there, Cathleen thankfully due to her supersenses quickly reacted and used her quirk to boost her speed to next level and followed after the man.
Thankfully Akash had left her quite far away and went through the maze of the city, seeing a good opportunity he transformed himself into a rat, when Cathleen came and saw that there was no one, she tried to use her quirk to pinpoint his location but couldn't find it,' Where the heck he got? ', she thought, she knew that the power of quirk was limited but using it cleverly she can do a lot, like how she was using it to boost her intuition to next level.
But seeing that she wasn't able to find him in the city, she could only leave the place quite troubled by such an encounter, meanwhile Akash who was hiding in the sewers breathed in relief, he quickly devoured the quirk while escaping and quickly used a New order which is,' New Order fails to work on Akash Alpheus! ', and thus escaped the woman whom even All For One feared.
' Damn, to think I will have to escape to sewers, though I managed to escape her so it doesn't matters much ', he thought. Akash didn't know how strong he really was other than the calculations of Great whom he believed to be true so he had huge chances of winning against her and almost 99.9% with Great Sage taking command, but again he didn't have any plans to fight against America's strongest hero and put himself into the limelight.
Thus he decided to escape, as for why he didn't use his eyes of suppression on her? Since he needs to see her and in his human form he can only see with his eyes and he doesn't have a cheat skill like Magic Sense. ' Anyway Great Sage explain all the users of the Unique Skill I have got! ', he said excitedly, as he had expected New Order to give him a Unique Skill and it was one of the pretty broken abilities.
[Report! Unique Skill Law Manipulation can manipulate a limited number of laws of the world at a time to some extent which both depends on the amount of Magicules used and includes the ability to manipulate Reality, Physics and Mathematics to an limited extent], Great Sage said.
Akash erupted in a burst of laughter that was very similar to how cliche villains laugh,' Hahahahaha!! ', thankfully he did it in his mind and no one heard it. Suddenly his laugh was erupted by Great Sage,[ Report! With the acquisition of this skill, the master's soul has been subjected to a pressure of 65%! According to my estimations if this pressure was to increase more than 95% then Master Soul's would start breaking down and even 90% pressure will prove disadvantageous to Master]
His smile froze hearing her voice, and grunted in displeasure but he didn't complain as he knew this time would come sooner or later, he isn't like Rimuru who has a freaking soul stronger than a God, thankfully his soul is still extremely stronger, way stronger than any God of 3rd Rate world.
In simple words, his soul was as strong as a demi-god but Great Sage had considered it by Peak Universal standards which is equal to a world like Moon Type. He sighed and thought,' Then we cannot go for any more quirks anymore, as I still have to devour Overhaul and Rewind, including All for One which would definitely affect my soul a lot ', he knew Greed was necessary for his growth but too much will kill him.
Thus, he canceled all the other plans to acquire other quirks he deemed useful and decided to return to Japan. Although he lost the opportunity to get some other juicy quirks it wasn't entirely wasted as,[ Report! After getting quirk Division and including Transmutation the chances of getting an equivalent ability to Degenrate has increased from 35% to 78%!], Great Sage told him.
Yes, there were still a lot of opportunities for him, he will get the two quirks after some training, and this is the time he begins researching something that brings Miracles, i.e., Magic, a topic untouched by him till now. He also needs to train with his quirk and adapt to it. So there is a lot for him to do for the next few years.
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Akash Pov
I returned back to Japan and finally reached my apartment, I had already made an excuse to All Might that I would be going on a trip. Thus, I hadn't aroused any suspicions till now. Anyway resting on my bed I said,' Great Sage show me my status '.
[Status]
Name: Akash Alpheus
Blessings: None
Rank: SS+ (Multi-Continental Level)
Intrinsic Skills: Conversion, Self Regeneration.
Unique Skill: Devourer(Predator), Wise One(Great Sage), Spatial Distortion, Transmutation, Law Manipulation.
Extra Skill: World Link, Water Manipulation, Virtual Programmer, Fire Manipulation, Wind Manipulation, Stockpile, Eyes of Suppression, Telekinetic Fly, Ice Manipulation, Dragonification, Black Mud, Cannibal, Wolf Morphism, Copy, Thunder Manipulation, Gravity Control, Earth Manipulation, Blood Control, Heal, Invisibility, Sound Control, Spiritualization.
Skills: Venomous Bite, Night Vision, Eagle's Eye, Keen Smell, Sonar Sense, Bear's Strength, Steel Nails, Transfer, Enhanced Muscles, Steel Shot, Steel Body, Rippling Jaw, Bone Pincer, Eyes of Confusion, Screech of Banshee, Division.
Resistances: Pain Resistance, Physical Attack Resistance, Thermal Fluctuation Resistance.]
Yes, seeing my status I can say without any doubt that in terms of raw power, I am the strongest in the world, and my power is only going to increase after my fighting skills increase and I learn magic. In simple words, everything has been going the better way for me, even if it wasn't completely in my favour.
To be continued...
(Author's Note: Guys yesterday I panicked seeing my stories missing in my webnovel application, thankfully it was just a new update messing up my settings.
P.S.: It was embarrassing anyway, thanks for your support and clarifying my doubts yesterday!)