Kelvin retracted his claws and took her seat. It was to be his loot from a battle well fought.
Wrath observed their present company and commented idly, "Trashy skills on good ability or trashy ability with mediocre skills. Bottom of the barrel, the lot of them."
He mubbled under his breath, "That's what we signed up for."
"Yes, indeed. By the way, good restraint on not using too much of your shape-shifting ability for that fight even though she had an alpha ability."
At this point, Wrath grew excited. It asked excitedly, "Isn't it great that we encountered an alpha super so soon? What are the odds of that? I'll say that we are up to a good start."
He nodded and pushed aside the glass of alcohol in front of him. He doesn't like alcohol as it will mess with his judgement. It something he can't have on a job. Instead, he thought back onto the fight while a cleaner went to work on removing the corpse of his slain foe.
The fight would have been easier if he had used everything he had against her. But Wrath suggested that he keep his shape-shifting ability a secret for public missions. It was to create a distance between his games in the tower of destiny and his activities in real life.
He agreed completely with it because while his identity is hidden with the fake body he is currently using, anything that makes him too similar to his game persona might make it easier for people to narrow down his position to this city.
That would be very bad, as demigods could begin scouring the city looking for him. Aside from that, it was always a good idea to keep some of his abilities a secret. That way his enemies will mess up.
So it is not a wonder why Wrath is so disdainful of every villain here. After all, despite holding back against her, he still beat her easily. Not even her guns would have changed that.
He doesn't think it is exactly a fair assessment of her. After all, her ability was powerful. It was probably an alpha ability like his. It granted her a boost in defense and strength. Unfortunately, she wasn't a skilled fighter, and she didn't have the boost of destiny to truly shine.
Unlike him, she hasn't many reasons to fight for each day that she wants to live. This made it easy for him to defeat her with a beta ability.
That's the level of the steel bones. It is a mediocre ability that would only grant superiority this early on. It won't fare well against ranked opponents who have a large boost from destiny.
In fact, the steel bones will hold its owner back unless it can evolve into something stronger. So is the metal skin. Unfortunately, those are the kinds of abilities he will encounter among the unranked.
If someone had an alpha ability like shape-shifting, they would be able to go beyond level 10 and reach the professional league in the destiny games. They wouldn't decide to languish about in the amateur league or sign up for low-paying gigs.
The thought made him chuckle to himself. "Maybe I shouldn't be so hard on them. After all, everyone has to have a beginning. Besides, having a beta ability doesn't mean they have to be mediocre."
He decided to be open-minded and consider everyone a worthy threat. After all, he is also unranked. Any ability can be the end of him, and one's ability is not the only factor that determines the limit of their potential.
The lady he just killed, for instance, had an alpha ability. It was why she was so cocky. She was full of herself, but it didn't end well for her. Thunderbeast, on the other hand, had a beta ability, but he rose to great places and did great things.
Despite his open-mindedness, he would still appreciate an omega ability or consider them a higher threat than anyone else, even if they are unranked.
For comparison, telekinesis, invulnerability, reflection, and super strength are alpha abilities. They grant a boost in power that is directly proportional to the amount of boost from destiny. That boost is in the form of a percentage, so the higher their power rating, the more boost they gain from their ability.
Beta abilities such as eagle wings, steel bones, and steel skin only grant a fixed base boost that becomes insignificant at high power ratings. But abilities such as intangibility, telepathy, invisibility, teleportation, mimicry, and Manhattan's bond with nukes have effects that are largely independent of their power rating.
A teleporter will teleport regardless of their power rating. Their power rating only determines how far or how long they can teleport. So a teleporter can survive anuke at the D-rank and a B-rank telekinetic can turn a nuke around while an S-rank shapeshifter like himself will definitely die.
That's what it means to have an Omega ability. They are dangerous to anyone, regardless of their power rating. Manhattan was so powerful that people avoided him at all costs or surrendered at the very sight of him at the destiny games.
Unlike Icon, Manhattan did not need the help of the whole world to become a demigod. He and his trusty nukes were more than enough for him to achieve longevity.
Just thinking about it made him wistful. "What I would do to get an Omega ability."
He actually has an Omega ability. His power shifting is an Omega ability. But he wants more. That's why he prioritized information about the possessors of Omega abilities in the gig he put up. Unfortunately, he has very little hope of getting one that way.
It is because he is not the only one looking for Omega Supers. Large corpos are also looking for them. Unlike him, they are not looking for them to steal their abilities and then kill them to silence them. Large corpos are looking for them to sponsor them. That way, the Omegas will be able to protect their interests.