It has been a day.
A whole day since I locked myself inside my room, doing stardust. Injecting stardust rather. Doesn't make it any better huh.
During this period of seclusion, I didn't just inject myself with stardust, I also made more research about myself and the world in general.
Turns out, I am more wealthy than I thought. In terms of wealth, I am in the top 0.0000000001% of the civilization. But, these wealth seems useless.
Apparently there is an extra currency for civilians, the Civilian Merit Point (KMC). The KMC are also referred to as merit pionts.
They are very essential, as legally to spend anything above a thousand CCC, you are required to have at least one KMC in your official profile. It increases along with the amount. Ten thousand CCC to ten KMC.
KMC can also be used to directly buy special materials, equipments and artifacts.
These KMC are points given to civilians for being law abiding citizens. They are other ways of getting them too, which involves contributing to the society financially, physically or even just being an emotional support or pillar for the society.
Someone like Jess has a lot of merit points due to being an exceptional citizen without any criminal records and also a great pillar of the Western sector of the civilization.
I don't have any criminal records but I still don't have any merit. This is probably either because I got rid of all my merits during or before the heist, if I ever did one. Or the stupid entity did this to limit my access to money.
I am starting to tilt to the 'powerful entity' idea more. I don't know why but it just seems more... Right.
It may be the result of the faint preminition ability I got from Power, but I think it is more right.
Anyways, that dude or dudesss probably planned for me to not be able to access the money without working for it or gain power directly without earning it either.
When I first checked my information on the panel. I noticed my strength overview, which represents my overall strength, was at level 0. This is wrong, or should be as the combination of my powers then would have put me at just above level 1. But due to the fact that I did not know the know how or have the experience of the usage of the abilities, my strength back then was still level 0.
But then when I checked it just before my 'seclusion', I discovered that it was already
[ Strength Overview: level 1(unique) ].
After confirming that the panel is truly capable of stating my power level, I started the seclusion, injection of stardust.
A stardust is just a ball of glowing cotton-like strings. To inject it, I have to focus on the ball then use the same mental strength and ability I use to draw latter from the surroundings, to draw in the strings. Each string contains a bountiful amount of latter and also impurities.
The origin of Stardust isn't known to the general public but is known is that it isn't just beneficial to starred but also harmful, if the amount of injuries are too much in the starred system.
What are these impurities? Well, only the people who knows where stardust came from would know.
Normal starred can only inject one stardust per seclusion, and have to wait for a whole year to inject another because this is the period it takes to get rid of the impurities. Even uniques, who can inject two to three per seclusion, have to wait for this same period.
This is the reason why despite its use as an essential growth resource, it is rather used as a currency for higher advanced planets and families. It is also why Starlite is preferred as a growth resource, but starlite is very very rare.
Stardust are also used to create special latter filled environments. This places are created by using specially designed technologies or artifacts to dismantle stardust into latter and it's other components then spreading the latter in a confined space.
But.
Stardust for me is more beneficial than anyone could dream of. This is because of Power.
[Power], even though still partial, improves every part of me. Every part. Stamina, strength, speed, intelligence, instinct, talents, natural limits, regeneration, every part.
And it is a base multipler not a constant addition.
Considering I have this near cheat of a ability, I should use it to my advantage.
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A day and ten stardust injection later.
Yes, ten.
I injected myself with ten, going over the normal limit by over three times. I did this after considering the various factors and advantages I have.
Power increases the limit I can inject, increases my resistance to the impurities, increases my success rate of absorbing latter which in turn reduces the amount of impurities absorbed, increases my talent which in turn increases success rate of advancement.
Neon can also be stacked on Power to increase all aspects of myself. Even though it won't be as effective as Power, it is still capable of doing the same thing.
And since both these two increases my success of rate of advancement, which in turn increases Neon capabilities which again increases my general capabilities.
These factors allowed me to go from.....
[
Name: Neon ( Starlight )
Condition: Normal
Strength Overview: Level 1(unique)
Ability Status: Starred(True),Mutant(partial),Aura(False)
Abilities:
[ 0 star ] Neon : Ability to turn light into energy, strength, speed, and so on.
[ G star ] Power(partial ): Increases all aspects of the body, mind and soul.
BOF: [ 5 ]
]
To....
[
Name: Neon ( Starlight )
Condition: Normal
Strength Overview: Level 4(Unique)
Ability Status: Starred(True - 3 stars),Mutant(partial),Aura(False)
Abilities:
[ 3 star ] Neon (Unique+ star ability): Ability to turn light into energy, strength, speed, and so on.
[ G star ] Power: Increases all aspects of the body, mind and soul.
BOF: [ 5 ]
]
In a single day.
But even I have limits. I discovered that stardust can not help my starred advancement anymore, anytime soon.
Maybe if I can fully unlock Power I would be able to use it and stardust to push myself to level 4.
'Now, I feel like I am not fully unprepared for the slap about to it me on the face.'
Standing up and stretching to get used to my new and advanced body. I said "Now, to visit the black market."