Something extraordinary started taking place. His arm, starting from his shoulder, all the way to his amputated elbow started to squirm rapidly as though something was about to be born from within his arm.
It first started from the bones. Michael saw visibly as nanites merged together, forming a weird pattern.
Staring intently at the forming object, Michael saw it was his arm bone! His arm
Rhad been entirely shattered from the elbow joint down, making it non existence but the nanites actually managed to form and regenerate his missing arm bone!
Except for the fact that it wasn't entirely white and was instead silvery dark, it looked similar to his real arm bone.
As his arm bones continued to regenerate in mid air, it got to his wrist and Michael saw how his wrist, joints and finger bones started to from.
After which, muscles started to visibly form at a speed the naked eyes could track! They were, like fine threads of silk, being knotted by an invisible pair of hands, as they took their place.
They covered and clothed over the newly formed bones, creating the foundation for strength and movement. It looked a lot similar to real tissue, in fact it could be argued that they were real tissues as they regenerated.
Next came the tendons, slender and resilient, resembling the strings of a puppeteer guiding the puppet.
His tendons were like wire connectors as they stretched and intertwined, forming over the ready made muscles. Immediately it was completed, Michael willed his uncompleted arm to move and it actually moved up and down, in accordance to his wish. It truly was working.
Lastly, the vast and intricate network of blood vessels emerged, like tiny rivers and streams, weaving a complex pattern that not even Michael could understand.
They carried the warmth of existence, coursing through the arm with a gentle heat that signaled the return of vitality.
His nanites were rebuilding his cells his themselves, into the original genetic structure of his right arm, all the while integrating the blueprint of the arm cybernetic implant into them.
The processes burnt an incredible amount of biocell fuel as well as metal essence. But that wasn't what was on Michael's mind.
What occupied his mind was the extreme itch from the regeneration.
It was similar to the night he first got the Modifier. Even till now, it was still a scar in his heart because the process had been incredibly painful!
It wasn't just his amputated arm that was transforming, it was both arms. He could feel the bones in his intact arm growing even stronger and stronger as they tranformed into the arm cyberware blueprint he had imitated.
Although the pain was quite unbearable as though they were performing surgery on him without pain killers or anesthesia.
In the blink of an eye, flesh started generating right from his elbow, clothing his newly shaped arm in normal pale looking flesh.
Michael took in a deep breath as he retrained his shock. Normal grade nanite would never be able to regrow limbs, even a military grade one can only heal damaged tissues and save one from severe injuries as for complete regeneration of lost limbs, Michael had never even heard if it.
Hence, his shock. Touching the newly grown flesh, he pinchesld hard and tears instantly welled up in his eyes as he inhaled deeply in pain..
"It feels as though I never lost my arm and even stringer too." Clenching both fist, he punched hard at the metal take before him.
"BANG!
The metal table immediately shattered to pieces as it collapsed.
Michael couldn't help but grin as he checked his newly advanced status.
[Arm Fully Recovered]
* * *
"Status."
❰Info❱
[Michael Therian]
[Specie: Human X Machina ]
[Rank: Street Runt]
[Credits: 59,900]
[Nanites: First Generation]
[Genetic Status: Physique Tempering]
❰Cellular Diagnostics❱
[Strength: 2.5]
[Physique: 3.2]
[Reflex: 2.4]
[Intelligence: 2.2]
[Cell-biofuel: 100/1000J(used up)]
❰Cyber Wares❱
[Neuro-Morphic Interface]
[Type]: Prototype
[Bio-cell fuel]: 1j/per (Basic daily computations)
[Effect]: Your personal computer right before you
[Mod Slot]: two
[Outlaw Sandevistan]
[Type]: Prototype
[Bio-cell fuel]: 500J/sec (Upon activation).
[Requirements]: 2000j, 2 physique, 2 reflex.
[Effect]: Slows down time to 85% for 3 seconds.
[Limit]: 1500J
[Mod Slot]: Zero (Unable to activate)
❰Life-level❱
[Undefined]
❰Skill-ware❱
[Basic Brawl] (common) (lvl. 1)
[Cyberspace] (Common) (lvl. 1)
❰Resources❱
[Steel Essence Accumulated: 16,000]
[Gene Essence Accumulated: 0]
❰Cell-bots Abilities❱
[Devour: A certain part of the Nanite-cells become active (Usually Fingertips and palm). During this period, Nanite-cells devour items they touch, increasing attributes as well as upgrading Cyberware]
[Imitate: Nanites copies the structure of a piece of cyberware not lower higher than user life-level into the user body with enough steel essence (cooldown depending on level of cyberware imitated ]
[Upgrade: Utilizing absorbed resources, Nanite-cells can be upgraded. (Devour First-generation set of Nanites to upgrade)
(Devour Type-D genetic materials or to upgrade) ]
[ Merge: By using [Upgrade], three Cyberwares, bio-chips as well as data skills of the same level can be merged to form a single Upgraded item.]
[Overclock: Overcharging the cells of a particular attribute with intense energy puts them in an overloaded state (+1 attribute) {100J/sec} ] ;
⁅Strength Overclock: (Berserker) ⁆
⁅Physique Overclock: (Fortification) ⁆
⁅Reflex Overclock: (Flash) ⁆
⁅Intelligence: Overclock: (Time dilation) ⁆
"My strength and reflex increased by 0.5 while physique only increased by 0.2." Michael was pretty satisfied with this.
For the past two months, he had been doing quiet a few exercises and whole they yielded results, increasing his strength, it wasn't by much.
Five sets of push ups gives about 0.001 which was so little Michael gave up this route because it was simply too difficult if he wanted a substantial change.
Though he gave up, the route, he still does a few push ups everyday. It was an addicting feeling increasing ones strength.
Recollecting how he got here, he couldn't help but remember the Captain of Neon city enforcer's department.
If it weren't for him absorbing the metal chains made of pure metal esscense that had used to lock him down, he would never have had the chance to utilize the Steel Esscense units to imitate the Sandevistan, increasing his speed to a level where he could react albeit barely from being killed by the strange youth in a single strike.
While he lost his hand, he still managed to keep his life.
A cold look flashed within Michael's pupils but then, he managed to calm himself. As they say, it's never too late for a man to take his revenge.