Pain filled the mind Alex. He could feel the worm attempt to take over his mind. It was like trying to stop a car by pulling on the back trunk. He slowly felt his control fade. But he remembered all the time he spent with his friends, so he grit his teeth and started to pull even harder.
His eyes sharpened and his eyes' pupils turned into crosses. It started to glow a bit as well. But not only that, it was more than just two eyes, seven eyes were in his face, his whites turned black and the pupil turned red. Purple flesh started to cover half of his face.
But he did not give up, he continued to fight. He slowly pushed the parasite out of his mind, he then started to beat it, using his aura to corner it and compress it. The parasite eventually submitted to him.
He was not quite sure how his parasite worked, his quirk had managed to work now, but it was very vague. It only told him the name and how the parasite worked, not what it could do.
He tried make it work, but nothing really happened. He felt something on his face and started to touch it. He felt his skin was not his skin. It was the flesh of the parasite over his skin, but he felt it like it was his own, he also realized that he could see through the eyes of the parasite. After feeling it he started to control it, it felt like a third limb he never knew he had.
It was a bit complicated but he managed to gain control of the parasites body. He started to spread it across his arms, it was like an exoskeleton, it was hard like iron, but flexible like skin. But it also felt like iron plating over his body.
He knocked both of his fists together and a metallic sound resounded from his fists.
"This, is definitely worth my money." He thought, because not only was he in very thick armor, it was light like a feather, and the armor also boosted his body. And he could see from the other eyes the parasite produced.
He could easily become a real power powerhouse on a global scale. Due to the celestials that gifted people power and skills, he and his group of people were not taken very seriously, after all, in the past, he was the highest level in the expansion of his core. But after the celestials gifted people power, he was just called, average. That was because many more people were of similar strength, it was only due to his celestial and skill being more powerful than the others that his group was not being consistently harassed.
But there were three groups that harassed him quite a lot. The Wrought Iron, a group of people that was under the man, Jack Hammer. He was blessed by Endless War, and got the skill, mass berserk. This increased the strength of everyone in his group and making them fearless.
The second group was Ascended, a group of scholars and fighters, led by Mill Creek. He was bless by Sacred Knowledge, and was given the skill, Efficient Teacher, allowing him to teach anyone something in just a few minutes. They were the most reserve and were more like teasing than harassing.
The last one was Scarlet Blood, a group of manics, that grouped together. They were actually a group of villains and criminals that were being hunted by the government. They were led by someone under the one known as Manic Blood. Their leader's skill was also unknown.
With this, he would be able to get his group higher in prestige. But even without that, his group would be highly celebrated. For they had made a it to the second floor, the very first to make it.
He would investigate the place and give a report to the government. With this he and his group would be known around the world.
Alexander was having some fun, if he was ever bored he would just make one of his puppets do as he pleased, after all, he was the celestials that gifted the humans. They thought it was like a game, celestials gifting people with power to use them as chess pieces, instead it was just Alexander moving things behind the scenes.
He made the second floor very difficult from the others. Rather than ones full of monsters, this one had a bit of allies, ones they could trade with and forming alliances.
The dwarves, he had created some dwarves in the dungeon, he created a small kingdom, one of around ten thousand dwarves. What made them very valuable is their ability to create high quality items. One better than the ones that can be bought.
Thus people that wish to have better items, they would need to build a good alliance with the dwarves.
Alex and his group walked to the dungeon. They were now propared for the dangers of the second floor. They had potions and pills, scrolls and talismans, items and equipments, they were fully stocked up.
They entered the dungeon, but instead of the lush grasslands they knew, it was now in the mountains, full of snow and ice. But they kinda expected that. So they didn't stop. They marched forward. On and on, for three hours they marched, but for some reason they didn't find any monsters.
That was until they heard a gunshot. Something that shouldn't exist in the dungeon. But it sounded too much like a gunshot than a bomb. They went over to investigate the matter and they were met with a scene.
A giant bear towering over a small man. In the man's hands was a musket like gun. He pointed the gun towards the bear and shot. The shockwave of the attack caused a small wind to pass. The bullet which was around the size of a child's fist struck the bear at high speeds. Breaking its shoulder. It charged forward at the small man and was about to kill it when Alex charged forward. Using the parasite's flesh as a gauntlet he smashed the bear in the face. But this did not help much. This only knocked the bear back a bit.
The bear looked at Alex and was about to attack when a bombardment of attacks struck the bear. This caused it to turned around and swip at the attackers. But they dodged the attack and counter attacked. Soon they managed to kill the bear.
"Who the fuck are you fuckers?" The small man asked, his gun pointed towards Alex.