Chapter 2 - Fantastic, awe-striking visions
In one of these visions, he saw a young man who seemed to be thirty, exuding a sense of all-powerfulness and unparalleled mightiness.
BOOM!!!!!!
With a simple, ordinary punch at the air—as he didn't do anything too mysterious or spectacular except punch with his fist that subtly glowed, and which resonated like tens of millions of thunderbolts jointly striking a certain spot at once, he instantly obliterated the massive world beneath him—a solid, habitable planet that was thousands of times larger than Jupiter; a planet in Jack's solar system with an immense volume capable of accommodating more than 1300 Earths.
So, with only a single effortless punch, he had disintegrated the entire planet to nothing but countless tiny particles—atoms! While the boundless, unstoppable shockwave of seemingly limitless devastation that arose from his ordinarily punched fist, traveled through the endless and vast expanse of space at an inconceivable speed, continuously annihilating numerous hundreds of planets that were millions to billions of kilometers away from one another, turning them into countless particles too.
But what shocked Jack even more than the horrifying, yet amazing and monumental vision, was when the thirty-year-old-looking man looked at him as if aware of his presence and simply smiled. Seemingly pleased to demonstrate his awesome yet terrifying, berserk cosmological power of strength and might to Jack, who had lost his breath to the mind-blowing and overwhelming vision.
Then suddenly, without anticipating it, the vision shifted once again, revealing a scene where he saw a young woman who appeared to be twenty.
With a seemingly ordinary gesture that appeared mundane to Jack, this woman covered a million megameters in an instant. With a bright, confident smile etched on her face, she consciously ignored, negated, and canceled the continuous spatial and temporal effects generated by her incredible power.
Disregarding the sensation of weightlessness as her figure shot through space, it was as if she wanted to showcase to Jack her immense and unparalleled speed by effortlessly covering massive distances ranging from megameters to exameters – on the order of billions to vigintillion – in fractions of a second.
She particularly demonstrated this ability by running from one astronomically distant planet to the next in the vast, endless void of space. While a massive ephemeral aura, one that continuously phased in and out of existence and had the form of a caped, otherworldly monarch with glittering luminous eyes—which looked like it could unravel the entire boundless void and the worlds it possessed, seemed like the silhouette of an insurmountable behemoth deity of unfathomable, teleportation-like speed to all witnesses that would set their gaze upon it.
This seemingly mystical aura, in the shape of a grandly-sized deific figure, fully encased her swiftly bolting form and looked like it propelled her to run in the vast, limitless expanse of space at unmatched, immeasurable speeds that appeared to rapidly contract immense, unbounded distances.
As soon as Maxmillan saw this aura, the words 'Rapidflux Convergence' mysteriously surfaced in his head, disappearing as quickly as they appeared. Meanwhile, the woman who continued to ecstatically demonstrate her power of super-speed, executed a forward dash in space from a certain planet while enclosed within that magnificent preternatural aura that radiated the reverence, awe and dread-evoking power of a spacetime-manipulating, glorious speed deity.
As she showcased her truly unlimited speed, she barreled across the vast expanse of space like an otherworldly shooting comet, flitting past dozens of supermassive galactic systems in the thousandth of a second. So, the moment she took off from one planet, she immediately materialized on another planet about two thousand planets away, with the gap between each of these worlds averaging around 15 quadrillion terameters.
When the woman stopped, she looked at Jack and smiled, further solidifying the idea in his mind that these cosmically powerful entities were demonstrating their powers for him.
The third and last vision he saw was of a young boy who appeared to be 15. The boy mysteriously smiled at him and unexpectedly pointed a finger at the sky, instantly conjuring a multitude of drones that ranged from pico-sized drones—many times smaller than nano-sized drones—to solar system-sized drones that navigated the vast expanse of outer space at speeds thousands to millions of times faster than the speed of light.
These exceedingly large drones, equipped with seemingly-countless, myriad futuristic weapon systems of unparalleled obliterating power, resembled gigantic celestial bastions, cosmic titan fortresses, or the floating regional territories of planet-sized god beings and humongous leviathans. They charged the void around them with the radiative and emissive power of unbound galactic destruction and instant star-system devastation. Simply supra-technological in appearance, the drones—from pico-sized to star system-sized—were reminiscent of mind-boggling marvels from a highly advanced, technologically superior race millions of millennia into the future. At least, that's what Jack thought within himself, totally impressed by their awe-striking, stupendous sophistications.
Immediately the boy wove countless numbers of frightening, small to large drones into existence in only a second with the effortless, mundane point of his index finger at the sky, two profound words, 'DroneGenesis Nexus', which radiated the feeling of unmatched technological grandness and would conjure the absolute, overwhelming thoughts of gods subjugation and deities extermination in the minds of onlookers or witnesses, immediately flashed in Jack's head, disappearing as quickly as they appeared.
"Amazing!" Jack exclaimed within himself, a great look of astonishment appearing on his face as he observed the uncountable drones that exuded a sense of all-destructiveness and unparalleled planetary or total multidimensional ruination.
The visions he saw, were beautiful, phenomenal, breathtaking and fully immersive. It was like he was physically there, right by their side and could see vividly what they were doing, as well as feel the boundless currents of power emanating from them.
Suddenly, the visions ended and he was pulled back to his room where he witnessed the resplendently prismatic crystal in his hand begin to melt into an iridescent, highly illuminative, cold viscous liquid. This frigid, molten essence of the crystal began to seep rapidly into his hands that intensely trembled because of the overwhelming fright, dread, and alarm that took over his entire being and casted a thick mesh of horror over his heart.
The molten crystal after moving through his bones and bodily tissues, reformed in the region where his pool of consciousness could be found, this time appearing extremely massive, almost like a glowing, crystalline planet within his mind space—a vast and limitlessly expansive realm of pure, intense darkness, becoming the only source of light in this inaccessible microscopic realm. Thousands of seemingly ancient inscriptions of abstruse symbols, characters and texts, along with occult-like engravings of enigmatic diagrams and arcane shapes, including millions of socketed runes, adorned the entire surface of the crystal that had once been clear, pristine, and beautiful in his hands.
Awestruck and severely gobsmacked at the stupendous, eye-whirling sight of this, Jack continued to gaze at the crystal within his sea of consciousness, unsure of what else to do. Prior to this, he hadn't been aware of having anything called a pool of consciousness, nor a mind space. Although he was inventively imaginative and could creatively envision both weird and bizarre things, he definitely couldn't have imagined such things. However, it was the appearance of the stone within this realm of his body that granted him the ability to scan and scrutinize his pool of consciousness.
"Marveling," he said, with a mind that rampantly reeled in great astonishment and wouldn't stop anytime soon—even in months!
Then suddenly, the stone produced a strong, seven-colored glow in the realm dominated by his mind. While a loud, thundering voice that sounded like that of a man, a young lady, and a teenager, simultaneously rang in his head, saying, 'The Trifaceted Talent System has been activated by you, Jack—our most favored Host! Well done.'