She is complaining despite doing the barest minimum. She did the barest so as not to make herself suspicious. An investigation is bound to happen if the assassination fails, so she is looking out for her neck by being cautious.
Lady Grava received a notification soon after that her mission had been completed. Her terminal also requested for her confirmation so that payment can be passed to the villain who took the job.
She didn't act out of character despite the notification. She remained professional and waited for one hour before she went looking for the boss. She found his corpse as well as the words written on the wall.
She read the words out loud, "I am you but better."
It didn't mean much to her, but she didn't care about it. She was busy looting the safe for important documents and money. Only then did she announce the death of the leader. Then she put her plans to take over the brothel into place.
It was hours later that she gave the confirmation that the target was dead.
Meanwhile, Kelvin had been waiting in a hotel in District 666 for confirmation of the success of his mission. He didn't go home because he wanted to make sure that he wasn't being followed.
He and Wrath busied themselves with talking during that time.
"That wasn't so bad?" He said as he crashed onto the bed in his room.
Wrath wasn't in the mood for chitchat. He said, "Yes, yes. You did well on your first mission. Now tell me the full details of your ability. I'm sure you've awakened a lot more knowledge about it now."
Kelvin replied. "I can only have nine abilities, so it is not limitless. What's more, I can't steal destinies anytime I want. I need to open slots with game points first before I can fill them with the destinies of others. I have used up my first slot, so I need to open the second one."
"How much will it cost?" Wrath asked.
"20 game points."
"That's not so bad. It is normal to need game points to expand one's ability."
"There's more. I can only use one of the nine abilities at a time. I will need to shift between them each time I want to use them, so technically I'll only have two abilities at a time."
Wrath maintained, "Still, not bad. Many people can only have one ability, and they can't even decide which one it will be."
Kelvin chuckled. "Yeah, you're right. It is not bad. I can activate or deactivate any ability I steal. I can also fuse similar abilities, so I can fuse that metal skin divine ability with the metal bones one. It will just cost me 10 game points to do so."
Wrath became excited. "Now that's something. This opens up a lot of possibilities. Can you imagine what we can do with this? I can make you into Esgod."
Kelvin asked in confusion, "Who's that?"
"It is not a person. It is a title. It means the god of espers. In our situation, it will mean the god of supers. Or is it the god of destiny?"
"Forget about Esgod. Let's get back to the matter at hand. Can you also fuse stolen abilities with your shapeshifting ability?"
Kelvin replied with a shake of his head, "No."
"That sucks, but it is of little consequence. In that case, we should make your first slot for the hybridization of shapeshifting abilities. Let's combine every type of shapeshifting ability into one to create god level one."
Kelvin liked the idea. He said, "There are indeed plenty of other cool shapeshifting abilities. There's elasticity, inorganic transformation, species shifting, mechanical mimicry, matter-state shifting,..."
Wrath cut him off, "Yes, yes. The metal bones and metal skin will work with inorganic transformation. Imagine what you can do with that. You won't be limited to metal anymore. You can shift into diamond. You might become actually invulnerable."
The shadow was so excited that Kelvin had to take a lot at him. Wrath didn't care. He continued excitedly, "I knew it was a good idea to choose you."
"Slow down your horses. Those guys are not going to be easy to get to. They are at least in the F rank."
Wrath wasn't discouraged. It said, "It will take time, but we will get to them. In the meantime, we can continue with what you are doing. We can also use the money you acquire to hire others to hunt abilities for us."
Kelvin nodded. "That's a good idea. The last thing we need are game points. It is just a pity that I can't use my game name for my villain gigs."
"You can't, or you will help those who will come looking for you to be able to narrow you down. The whole Thunderbeast Villain League will cave under a single glance from a demigod. They will rat you out immediately."
"You just have to rely on your best performance for the games."
Kelvin smiled and said, "I have a good idea for the next game."
He didn't say what it was, but Wrath wasn't interested either. The spirit was too engrossed in what he was capable of to care about that.
"The ultimate goal should be to make you unkillable by every means possible. That means apart from shapeshifting, we have to get an ability from the other 5 classes and abilities that will ensure you have no weaknesses."
"You have be immune to being frozen, burned, crushed, shot, poisoned, mind controlled, illusions, physic attacks, nulls, suffocation..."
Kelvin groaned as Wrath listed off the many ways he could die.
Wrath finished with a final thing he had to be immune to. "Apart from being thrown in space, the last thing you need to be immune to are nukes."
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A/N: The catchphrase "I am you, but better" is courtesy of Sloth_Archon.
I am open to suggestions for cool catchphrases and powers that we can steal. So feel free to share your ideas.