"Whoa what the hell are you doing you idiot?!" I heard Shinigami's voice as she decided to appear before everyone here.
"A ghost?" Kanae couldn't help but question the sudden appearance of a ghost since neither she nor Shinobu have met her before.
"That's not important right now! Why the hell did you gouge out your own eyes?!" She yelled at me while I kept my thumbs in my eye sockets to keep my eyes from regenerating.
"Because I felt like it! No you idiot! Whatever reward I just got was about to make me go out of control and start attacking everyone, I can still feel its presence scratching away at my mind!" I couldn't help but shout out as it felt like someone was digging their claws into my brain, trying to force me to lash out.
"What? I know the system give yous random rewards most of the time but none should be…. Oh…." She was saying before stopping and seeing what was affecting me.
"Oh? Oh what? Oh this reward is actually a bad thing as it is?" I had to ask because this felt like shit to me.
"Well…. It's a really strong ability, insanely strong at that….. However….. Using this ability causes the user to lose their sanity and go berserk….." She said which confused me hearing that.
"Don't I have a passive that makes me immune to madness?" It was the ability I got for saving Briar, that being Bloodlust Suppression and Madness Immunity on top of unable to be killed due to bleeding to death, it's why I'm not worried about the constant bleeding my eye sockets were releasing right now.
"Yes you do have Madness Immunity, however if you just had the normal version of this power then you would be immune to its downsides, but this is the 'True' Version of this ability, the Penultimate version of it all, The True Alpha Stigma." She said telling me this powers real name.
"Alpha Stigma, I'm not familiar with that one." I watched and read plenty of Manga and Anime during the few years after I stopped being an assassin but I was more of a mainstream anime/manga fan so if it was from a obscure manga or anime I never heard of then I wouldn't be familiar with it.
"It's a power that allows one to analyze and annihilate any and all magic attacks, but the True Alpha Stigma allows the user to analyze structures and even living beings and when enough power is used then the user can also annihilate those structures and living things just by looking at them, however the True Alpha Stigma's major downside is the Creator of the Alpha Stigma's Will digs into your mind making you want to go on a rampage, because of that it's ignoring your madness Immunity and it's effecting your soul rather than your mind and Madness Immunity blocks attacks that effect your mind but not soul based madness attacks like what's effecting you, though taking out your eyes has cut most of the connection that creator has with you, so long as your eyes are gone that is." She said explaining the true power of this ability.
Having the power to analyze anything and everything both magical, structural and even living things and being able to destroy them at a glance is amazing, but the clear downside is that if I try and use this power I would go insane and attack and kill everyone and everything around me, so I got to fix this.
"I'm a bit afraid to ask, but how much would it cost to remove this so called creators influence over my mind?" I asked and Shinigami went quiet.
".... 20,000,000,000…."
"…. I'm sorry I didn't quite catch that, did you just say what I think you just did?" The pain in my skull suddenly got even more intense.
"….. Yes….." She said which made me feel like coughing up blood, I could actually feel it coming up my throat as I had to keep it down.
I pulled my thumbs out before using my fingers like I would if I was rubbing the bridge of my nose but using my right hand to keep my fingers in my eyes, "It's going to take months to earn that amount back!"
I had enough but I would be put down into the two hundred million range of SP and I like keeping a lot just in case bad shit happened to use the shop to buy something to fix it.
"Maybe I should just sell-"
"You crazy?! It would cost you a trillion just to get this power back! And if you would it you'd only get a fourth of the cost to own it back!" She couldn't help but shout at me, making me pensive to sell it.
Based upon how she's describing it, this skill itself can be even dangerous to godlike beings, but I can feel even after I use it there must be some draw back to its use just like with Divine Reflection where over use would burn up my eyes until I'm blinded and the recovery being very slow to recover, so it being so good if it could theoretically let me kill a god, I'd most likely lose my eyesight for an extremely long period of time in return for doing that and if I was in a fight with multiple god like beings I would still be in extreme danger even if I was able to defeat/decomission/kill a god if my sight is lost even if I still retain the memories when I was an assassin and my training to be able to fight when I have lost my sight.
I had to put real thought into this I only had one question on my mind, "If I had full control of this power would I be able to completely kill ORT?" As the being deep within the Amazon Rainforest of South America is one of if not THE Greatest Threat to all of Humanity to exist in this world and will destroy this world within the next 100 to 200 years.
Shinigami was silent for a bit, the others by this point had left us alone to argue about things after knowing I would heal back to normal sooner or later, until I heard her sigh.
"Yes it 'could' kill that thing, problem is you would need to be able to get remotely close to it to destroy it in the first place as anything that approaches it would be turned into a crystal like structure as a result, though if you were able to Perfect the Power of your Spiral Energy across your body then you could negate its Crystalizing effects, but that should be the last thing you should worry about with the whole Junko thing and not to mention your old ex's coming back to kill you as thanks to some chaotic being getting involved and enjoying the sight of everything happening." She said reminding me about the more imminent issues compared to ORT that won't matter for 100+ years from now.
"Haaaa….. alright just use up all my points to let me get full control of this power." I said letting Shinigami remove this influence that was trying to dig into my mind and soul, soon I felt like my brain and soul were freed of the construction on me before I pulled my fingers out from my eyes before beginning to rapidly regenerate my eyes.
Feeling I was in total control now I reopened my eyes before looking at myself in a mirror as I saw my eyes take on the shape of a Red Star with various inscriptions surrounding it in a circle with some inside of the star in my eyes as well, "Man, did the guy who made this story these come from have some chunni tendencies or what?" I couldn't help but cover my eyes with my hand before parting the middle fingers to peer through it and look at myself with these Chunni eyes of mine.
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"Yep, I could see Kaido having these eyes and even striking a pose before spewing something about his 'dark power' welling from his eyes and 'prepare to feel the wrath of my Alpha Stigma!'" I say before deactivating these eyes before I go and embarrass myself more by saying all that shit.
Well I at least got a skill that could kill Godlike beings with this power of mine, though at a high cost.