Adam's house.
Inside his house, Adam can be seen packing up most of his belongings as if he were to leave and go somewhere else.
'Goodbye home, I only stayed here for a few days but I'll be moving out,' He thought, 'I got a pretty good deal from selling this house, I also don't have many items so it's easy to move out.' He added.
Adam doesn't want to waste money by renting or staying at a hotel so he decided to stay inside a so-called abandoned haunted house, it's in a pretty bad condition but hey beggars can't be choosers.
"My acting a few days ago was great, even after a pretty long time it's still on top ten most researched topics," Adam said with a smile on his face, "Now I just need to completely abandon this 'identity' via suicide or faking my death, so how should I proceed with this decision? I would prefer a cool death, not a lame one." He added.
Adam's mind began to drift away from consciousness as he poured most of his creativity into it, and a stroke of genius befell him, he decided that his death will be at the hands of a death ray, he doesn't want to bother creating a fake body after all and this death will leave nothing left of his corpse.
Before acting upon his plan, Adam released all of his acquired abilities to check on them.
[S-ranked Ability Card: Energy Creation]
[A-ranked Ability Card: Anti-Elemental Body] ( ! )
[B-ranked Ability Card: Cold Protection] ( ! )
[B-ranked Ability Card: Fortified Exoskeleton]
[C-ranked Ability Card: Genius Intelligence] ( ! )
[C-ranked Ability Card: King's Eyes] ( ! )
[D-ranked Ability Card: Mental Fortitude] ( ! )
[D-ranked Ability Card: Fit In]
[D-ranked Ability Card: Weekly Restoration]
[D-ranked Ability Card: Hardened Skin]
"Huh? What's up with all of these exclamation mark? There's a lot of stuff needed to be discovered about this ability of mine." He muttered before he tried to interact with said exclamation mark.
[Do you want to fuse [1] and [2]?]
[1] Anti-Elemental Body (A)
[2] Cold Protection (B)
"Yes." Adam said, curious.
[…]
[Results of the fusion: S-ranked Ability Card, Tundra Elemental Hunter]
[ S-ranked Ability Card ( + )
Name: Tundra Elemental Hunter
Description: Immune to all ice elemental effects and damage (the bigger the gap of rank, the less effective it will become), immense physical resistance, immunity to all elemental debuff of the same rank and below
Mutation: A gaseous substance that cause coldness will be released from your body, allow the user to manipulate the gaseous substance to freeze anything
Evaluation: Godly defense, ice users will be less of a threat with this ability in your possession, a mutation that created an offensive capability? What a cheat! ]
"Insane," He muttered before he also clicked the exclamation mark on the other ability.
[Do you want to fuse [1], [2] and [3]?]
[1] Genius Intelligence (C)
[2] King's Eyes (C)
[3] Mental Fortitude (D)
"Yes."
[…]
[Results of the fusion: A-ranked Ability Card, Psychic Wisdom]
[ A-ranked Ability Card (++)
Name: Psychic Wisdom
Description: Enhanced intelligence, photographic memory, parallel thinking, accelerated thinking and learning, immune to mental attack, high resistance to mind reading, mind control and perception disturbances, unwavering willpower, flawless composure, abnormal senses (1/6) - Emperor's Eyes; Domination, Enhanced Vision, Night Vision, Attention to Detail, Supernatural Perception
Mutation: - Psychic Ability; telekinesis, mind reading, memory alteration, psychic blast, illusion, emotion manipulation - Psychic Awakening; awaken target's dormant psychic powers, temporarily enhanced an awakened psychic ability
Evaluation: Speechless, a two plus ability? What a once in a lifetime luck, greatly enhanced the user's mental stability, I wonder how strong it'll be as an S-rank? ]
Adam couldn't help but smile at the sight of this two new extremely broken abilities, he would undoubtedly used them to the fullest.
Suddenly Adam felt like his mind was cleared from everything and he felt nothing but bliss, as if he had ascended into a new dimension.
"What a magnificent ability…" His voice much calmer and his eyes deep like an ocean that hides countless layers of wisdom could only stare at the sky, his face filled with nothing but joy and warmth.
"I love this feeling but…" Slowly the gentle and calm mask began to fade as his face showed a look of cold indifference towards the darkening sky, "I need to quickly find a place to die…" He muttered before a notification popped into his phone.
"An attack by a villain at Albino Whale Mall? That's quite close… well, now that I've chosen a murderer let's start this suicide mission." Adam said as he quickly went to the mall.
…
'Great Inferno, a B-ranked villain that have magma based ability that allow him to well manipulate magma and generate them from his body, a dangerous foe that absolutely wouldn't leave any leftover from his victims… my perfect killer.'
'Just in case, I will coat myself in a thin layer of energy, I wouldn't recklessly took an avoidable risk, if I still did that while having my intellect enhanced then I should've just died for real.'
In the scene, the villain had already took a lot of hostages, his face contorted into an ugly smile as he drooled at the sight of his victims squirming in fear as if feeling a sense of euphoria, to increase the sense of the despair and horror, he would grab an innocent young girl by her neck and launched her to the wall nearest to a crowd as she quickly exploded upon contact, her parents horrified face was like a desert to the villain before his face turned ugly as he felt a sharp pain in his left abdomen after being struck by the armored hero, Core Ketsu.
"You disgusting excuse for a human, I will personally send you to hell." Core Ketsu said, his voice cold and filled with murderous intent as his body trembled in rage, in the short time after his first punch, he mercilessly grabbed him by his neck collar and smash his face with a good punch that injured Great Inferno's jaw.
Instead of fear, the villain only feel the adrenaline kicking in and a rush of excitement that makes him blush as he fought back by sending a roundhouse kick to Core Ketsu left temple but because of his armor he was unharmed but he was still caught off guard, the Great Inferno on the other hand felt a sting on his leg as he thought that he just kicked a concrete pillar, now that one of his legs are injured he decided to put the hostage to use.
Laughing hysterically the villain launched a high speed lava blast towards a crowd of people but in a quick succession, Adam in under two seconds managed to throw away his wallet to appear that it fell off his pocket to give the other people an idea of who the guy that died, he then effortlessly blocked all the lava and swap himself with a humanoid puppet.
The hostages was surprised so did the hero and villain but Core Ketsu quickly regained his composure and subdued the rampaging villain, on the other hand one of the hostages noticed the dropped wallet and looked at the identification card inside, it was a man she knew and that only deepen the shock she felt.
"Adam…?" She muttered in disbelief.
From afar, a figure was seen standing and calmly overseeing the event unfold, that figure was Adam.
Adam walking down the road calmly as his face showed a serene expression, in his mind he was planning his future moves.
"Now that 'I' am dead, I can pour all of my time for the organization, it's not like I have something in the life of 'Adam'… at least nothing I get from the memories implied that. I also need to hone my combat skills, if I don't have overpowered abilities or I am facing an equal opponent, it wouldn't be surprising that I would lose." He muttered under his breath.
Soon, Adam found himself at the train station, he avoided using his ability without a disguise just so that nobody would see him using them.
He sat on the train with his bag on his right, his fingers scrolling through the news websites, despite his calm and careless attitude he was currently searching for someone that have ill intentions of stealing his bag.
He was calm and had a few suspects, his eyes secretly locked onto them trying to sense their movements until someone accidentally bumped into him, 'What a careless guy… wait…' Adam finally noticed that his bag is gone.
'Something's wrong, I couldn't see or even sense him, specifically I couldn't notice him, I know he was there, what is his purpose? Well, it's not like he can hide forever.' For a brief moment a sadistic smile was beamed from his face as a warning to the thief.
As the train stopped, Adam slowly scanned through the people that left and quickly found the thief, it seemed that the thief can hide his presence and change his clothes but his physical appearance remain the same as he from before wore a plain black hoodie with brown jeans and now wearing a gray T-shirt with black shorts.
'Found you, bastard.' Adam calmly followed the thief outside the train.
To avoid attention, Adam prevented himself from using any ability and unconsciously made everything harder for himself as he carelessly let the thief out of his sight.
He upgraded one of his D-ranked ability, Weekly Restoration, into an A-ranked ability called One Minute Refill, an ability to restore his stamina and health which quickly revitalizes his body to catch up to the thief.
Using Emperor's Eyes as he got out of the train station, he couldn't see the presence of the thief until he once again bumped into someone, he saw the man muttered the word 'shit' and as he carefully scan the man's face, he was furious and filled with excitement as he noticed that it was the fucking thief.
'He changed clothing in such a short timeframe, an illusion ability? An ability to shapeshift? Or is it some special technology?' He thought to himself as he saw the thief running away.
Through the enhanced vision, Adam saw that the man's appearance slowly changed as he approached the woman's toilet, 'I see what's he trying to but I'm not going to let you slide even more after knowing your precious ability~' He thought licking his lips as if he was seeing a delicious food.
It didn't take a long time for Adam to catch up as he enhanced himself using energy control and just before the man was halfway done with his transformation, Adam snatched away his ability and struck him hard enough for him to get knocked out.
'Gross…' Adam thought as he saw the body of the thief that wore a woman's clothes.
Suddenly a security officer arrived and questioned Adam after they heard a high pitched scream that they thought was from a woman but they quickly was interrupted by Adam which then turned into him explaining the 'situation' about how the crossdressing man are a damn pervert that tries to find a victim inside the toilet, the evidence of the thief fingerprints being found on the doorknob strengthened the suspicions, and then the security officer called the police on the man which the reawakened thief denied any accusation.
"Cool, today's heist are great, despite only being one ability, it was quite a useful one~" Adam said with a large smile painted on his face.
[ C-ranked Ability Card
Name: Costume Change
Description: You can change your hairstyle, clothes, and add additional accessories based on your imagination, when copying an object it will not copy its stats or special functions
Evaluation: An ability made for disguise and deception, getting dressed wouldn't be an annoying task anymore! Even if you tried to make an Iron-man suit, it wouldn't be able to work, lol. ]
As the time has finally passed a few minutes into midnight, Adam quickly turned into the nearest alley and activate his new ability, "Change." He muttered as his clothes quickly began to morph.
His hair grows and quickly tied itself into a long braid, a top hat manifested above his head as a monocle sat quietly on his mask, his normal plain clothes became layered as the outer layer transformed into a long black coat, his inner layer became a red suit and a black necktie tightened around his collar as his shoes became a black leather shoes.
"I love it." Adam muttered, his hidden face showed a satisfied expression.
'Edgy, perfect for the character, as if Mr Gentle are the overly kind, pacifist and altruistic one hence this guy will be an overly cruel, arrogant and egoist, what should I call him? What about Mr Cruel? Not really that bad.' He thought before he disappeared into the night taking another step for his plan.