A few men sat looking at a graph against the wall, each figure was not to be trifled with and among them is a familiar figure, the man who caused the immense damage to Richmond during the first intern period could be seen.
“The amount of failed operations has gone up by 90% since the attack you caused, Turbulence.” one of them said to the man who had the wind powers.
“It’s not the fault of the attack itself. Those bastards who are buzzing around that stupid school have been the cause of it.” He said.
“I heard you put a bounty on a brat, why the hell did you put a 15 million bounty on his head?” another asked.
Turbulence frowned and pulled up images from his helmet at the time and showed the formation of the rock but he was distracted by Chasm Might but his helmet had 360 view and made the image focus entirely on the rock.
The explosion of energy, the death of the beast droids and only the boy who moved and was lifted up by the energy.
“What happened?” One of them asked.
“The same event as the eastern dragon.” Turbulence said.
They all instantly reacted and weren’t as calm as before. “So that is why this blockhead killer is loitering around inside city borders. What about Server Admin?” another asked.
“I was lucky to have downloaded most school registers because recently there was a massive effort to erase information on this one.” he said, pulling up Kevin’s information. All the information said was that he was a gamer.
“A gamer attracting Server Admin and an inheritor attracting Chasm Might. Fucking hell, the gamer is even bigger of a threat because we’ve notice a huge growth in the students once they returned from the hidden camping trip Chasm Might took them on. I feel like the gamer might have blossomed and can now affect larger areas. The event they pulled out of their ass to deactivate so many defective powers was too big of an event to hide and it was when this brat’s information was totally whipped off regular registers and his top secret information. I only know because I copied it down.”
“All of us together are powerful and could put up a decent fight against Might but having both Admin and Might together in such close proximity and both of them with flight capability makes it impossible to kill either brat. Not to mention all the executioners hidden throughout the city for secret protective measures as well as to hunt down the escapees. Over 70 are dead already.” one of the men said.
“I heard a report yesterday, a contact at the academy of elastic powers showed Chasm Might and the gamer brat doing something and all the students in the entire academy spent almost an hour working with his gamer power. They got the information they were taught a day prior.” the first man said and pulled up Robin’s information on stats.
“This… what happened to them?” Turbulence asked.
“Every brat was covered by a number of floating nodes and they were basically covered in cocoons of light and when they came out and started training, their power and strength had basically doubled in all fields.” He said solemnly.
“We have to kill this brat no matter what. At the moment his power is limited to small areas but if Server Admin has any say in it, he will try his best to expand that fucking power and it might eventually give birth to someone that can beat the biggest man and make no place for men like us in this world.” Turbulence said.
“How do we even do that?” One of them asked.
“Do any of us actually have our faces known by the judicial power?” Turbulence asked.
“Naturally none of us, we worked extremely hard to not have that found out.” One of them said.
“Then it might be possible to trick them. Do we have any strong psychics that can restrict or full out mind control.” Turbulence asked.
“With proper equipment we might be able to get one of them to control one or two people.” He said.
“If we could improve the bodies of followers like those brats...” one of them said.
“Wait…” the first man to talk said.
“What is it?” one of them asked.
“Do any of you remember Time Tempest?” he asked.
“You mean the super villain who almost killed Chasm Might and Mephesto alone with his ability to age and reduce people's age and even strength based on how much time he rewinds.” one of them asked.
“Yes, he got both arms crippled and severe organ damage and only survived by returning his age to 5 years old so he had a lot of healing potential. At the time, I had found him and saved him and got him away and he owed me a favor. I think we can take over a school and reduce our people’s age to replace all the brats. Tempest has the ability to reduce just age or age and power so we can put our guys at a young age with all their strength and quickly strengthen up with their own trick. After that we can attack.” the man said.
“That doesn’t help us who have to fight Might and Admin.” Turbulence said.
“But among the off handed comments my contact heard, this gamer system is capable of healing injuries in even Chasm Might. The many micro injuries that were hidden were cured making him fight at full power again. If Tempest were to hear about this and obtain the ability to use that system and heal up, we would have someone that even Chasm Might and Server Admin would have to fight tooth and nail to beat and not even kill. If we attack the fucking brats at that moment once all our people are strengthened, we would instantly become a force to be reckened with.” he said.
“Yes but we can’t be sure about the full nature of this system and if it can recognize dangerous individuals.” Turbulence said.
“It probably can’t even if it has some stupid game system to show alignment, the system needs to witness the changes in a person to register it. Before it can do that, we just hide and quickly cash in on our hidden potential. If a super villain appears while two major heroes of the American union dies, it would give a chance for those guys to step back into this continent and support us. We might also reach and match true hero standards if this system works efficiently enough.” the man said.
Everyone wants power and getting the chance to steal this potential from heroes and attacking them when their backs are turned is truly the best tasting revenge.
“But the first problem is getting a school that can’t be fully monitored, we don’t know how big that gamer space is to have already scanned all people working in public functions. Let’s take a school one town over from Richmond and see if we can’t get something from that.” Turbulence said.
Each man was filthy rich and one of them had some minions go research and eventually they found a very crappy normal private school and just purchased it. They paid back the tuition of all the students so that they could leave after they purchased it while the man with the contact tried to reach out to the very dangerous super villain with the offer to potentially heal his wounds through the gamer system but the lack of concrete information made it hard to give certainty but when he learned Chasm Might was one of the protectors, he accepted. If his crippled limbs were healed to function, that was more than enough for him.
He prepared to come within a month to this fake academy of theirs and would change their people to student age between the entire high school age spectrum. He would also be the ‘son’ of the academies owner and if the system does not automatically do it, get permission to access the status to heal, he would be a 17 year old and victim of a major villain attack who only crippled him.
This was the story they would go by to get him to obtain the permission.
As for his facial features, there are plenty of people who can change those and he had gone to them several times since that time and it would be impossible to recognize him. Even his own voice can be changed through his aging.
Like this they began quick expansion of the school and accepting ‘new students’ while restricting access as a boarding school.
***
Server Admin looked at a report with a confused expression as he looked.
“Is this actually real?” he asked his contact.
“Yes sir, I’ve gone to each person and checked over their information and confirmed the powers.” the contact said.
“Seriously, same date and even the hour of birth was in line all the way to the quintuplets?” He said.
“Yes sir.” He said.
“Right… have their families accepted coming over?” he asked.
“Yes, the offer of a well paying job and their powerless children having the chance to awaken their gamer powers is more than enough for them. The first pair should already be landing. By the end of the day all four groups should have arrived there and you will have all five. We will keep looking in case there is a 6th group but that would require access to all nation’s hospital records and we still have a lot of resistance from a lot of them. Honestly, the luck that came with this is unimaginable.” he said.
“Right, this is more than enough for years to come.” Admin said.
They got some information as well about hundreds of other gamers who are coming along with the main targets. Many gamers had begun to hear that Server Admin was gathering gamers and looking for particular types and it went out throughout the open news but many didn’t to not want to lose a ‘resource’ to strengthen another nation.
Now what were the people he was talking about, well Game Master space pieces.
Indeed, the search for people like Kevin who had the special pieces to expand the main hardware of the gamer space had led not only to what is assumed to be part two but all the way to part five.
What is amazing is the coincidence of their entire existence.
Kevin was a single baby and had clearance level 1 as the limit, the level 2 clearance however were twins and each of them could form half of a gamer space orb like Kevin and could even connect them and produce an effect just like Kevin used to.
Third is triplets and each one, like the twins, contained one third of a gamer orb, fourth part was quads and fifth part was quintuplets. Amazingly, they are all identical, not a single one was a fraternal twin among their group. What is most amazing is that they were all born the same day and same year as Kevin but the scary part is the time they were born.
Kevin was born 1 am, each of the twins were born 2 and 3 am respectively and the line continued. The triplets went from 4 to 7, the quads from 8 to 12 and the quins went to 5 pm.
If there was one more pair, they could still be born within the last hours of the day as sextuplets. This is why he asked to search for it, there was a possibility that it still existed.
Server Admin found the flight records and saw that the first planes would be arriving soon so he decided to send some men to pick up and sent several to pick up all the groups in order.
They would naturally be brought to the housing complex.
It went on for a few hours where airplanes were full of gamer based powers or people who had it alongside their families who didn’t.
When the final one arrived in the afternoon, Server Admin called Kevin to ask where he was and he was ready to go home but was asked to pass by the complex.
He told his dad who was there by car to pick him up and they headed into the complex together and got a guide to Server Admin’s own home in this complex and he was called in where he saw the 14 other kids and several were the same face in pairs.
“These are?” he asked.
“Well, let me introduce you all, this is Kevin Harper and his parents. This is the person with the Gamer Space that has connected with many different gamer abilities and developed a complete system. Kevin, these are the people who we believe are the 2nd to 5th clearance parts.” he said.
He looked at Server Admin before extending his hand and formed the orb. Everyone instantly focused and something in all of them as well as Kevin seemed to click as the space rapidly expanded and covered the complex.
Then something that had never been seen happening before happened, a new orb appeared and suddenly everyone’s eyes became the same and formed circuit-like lines and they spoke in unison.
“Complete Game Master Clearance level 1 activated. Clearance parts for level 2, 3, 4 and 5 located. Commencing the bond.” they all said.
“What is going on here?!” Kevin’s dad said.
“Don’t worry.” Server admin said and did the same to the other adults in the room to not obstruct them.
First the twins got up and stood to both sides of Kevin and formed their half pieces and they pushed it around Kevins and closed around it instantly.
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The power plug from the first level released energy upwards and they all felt world power in the gamer space gather towards the two who extended their fingers and touched the area and each of them began to release lines of stamina which blended their biological energy into the mix and once it formed they got energy back with each circle until it fully formed. It was bigger than the first level and it formed on their heads as well but when it formed, the world power openly entered through that plug.
Once that was done, they took a step closer to Kevin and the triplets came up and their pieces surrounded with the three edges connecting at the north and south poles and power plug channeled up as into the third level and they followed the example growing more complex. Than the quads and finally the quins all of them formed layers around the central system and when it did all the edges in each layer slowly vanished as they fully blended and when it was done, they each pulled and the orb shined and each and every individual formed their own five layered system and it all expanded and blended into the existing system before it pulled back and closed.
When it finally finished they all returned to normal but everyone raised their hands and showed the complete five clearance levels stacked and stored in each of their bodies.
“You all shared parts?!” Server Admin said.
“No, everyone is still their part but now level 2 requires me and the twins to work together, level 3 requires us three and the triplets. Each level requires the complete lower level to support the upper level, there are many lacking plugs.” Kevin said.
“Wait! Did you get the information without me needing to open the information?” Server Admin said.
“Yes.” The trio said together, “If we had gathered even without the plugs for level 1, connecting even a single par would have unlocked the knowledge for the level below. Only level 5 lacks unlocking clearance… There are 6 levels total.” Kevin said and smiled. “We need the 6th level without a doubt, together…” Kevin said before everyone talked, “We make up the Gaia System and Gaia, earth, is the AI.” He said.
“Wait… don’t tell me that…” Server admin started to speak but Kevin smiled.
“Son, are you fine?” Kevin's father asked.
“I’m fine dad. Mr Admin, you should know about Lola, the demon summoner.” He said.
“Yes.” He replied.
“Good, then just like demons exist, so do gods, Gaia is earth’s god, the personification of earth. We are fragments of her soul each with our own individuality and gamers are pieces of a system that hadn’t been possible to build during the formation of earth. The buds of this have existed in earth’s rules but now it can take shape. Many superpowers are buds of power left since the creation of the world and life. That is what the system tells us. Your fragment is a role as one of many watchers and managers of this system to aid it to maturity and afterwards watching over to make sure the system is not broken.” the twins said in unison.
Server Admin felt his head hurt as much as the parents who saw this, “Do all of you children know where this last group is?” He asked.
“No but we know they were split up.” one of the triplets said.
Kevin raised his hand and formed his single orb and touched the top in the middle of the plug, “The last one is divided in six parts and should look like this. Three pieces long from north to south and cut along the equator forming curved triangles. Anyone who can only project this as their ability is definitely part of the last group.”
Server Admin frowned in deep thought as he listened before he sighed, “Do you children have any idea how big a level 5 gamer field grows?” he asked.
“Half of the world.” They all said in unison.
“Would you be able to pinpoint them if you could extend it that big?” he asked.
“Yes.” they replied.
“Then we will look for them but you children should focus on finishing this as fast as possible. It should go without saying but you all are children that could very well get massive targets on your heads. You need to work as a unit to bring this to fruition.” he said.
“We know.” they said and smiled.
Server Admin sighed and looked at Kevin’s father, “Sir, I know this is sudden but for your safety and your son’s it would be a good idea for your family to move to the complex. This would allow him to be in constant proximity and safety under my hand. There would be no delay in protecting him or you all.” He said.
“I… Yes… I didn’t think my son would get into such a situation.” he said.
“Neither did I.” Server Admin said, rubbing his head.
Like that, the 15 children split up with Kevin staying at Server Admin’s home with the twins as they borrowed a room to instantly start working on the level two while expanding the space over the compound and starting to build plugs to the lower level’s system and connect them to level 2 from which they would be able to actually build the system from.
***
Like this the school fell into a steady pace. Several times Kevin was required to go to a public or private school and three times in the month to aid illed psychics to enhance their mental capacity.
During this month, the school worked hard wording quests as best as possible until they got the best results.
After the routine test the system gave quests for training giving them a casual routine and a serious routine. Everything fell into their limits and completing the serious routine would usually reward a lot of exp crystals at a time but would in turn make them grow faster and expand that limit constantly pushing everyone.
After half a month, the first students began to get traits and finally used their stat points after that to adapt.
For Robin, his routine was among the most intense daily and this didn’t include the home work, school work and club activity rewards they would get.
Within a month, he produced enough to get traits and he expanded his blended power making them stronger without weakening either.
This was a total of 180 levels and part of this his friends had helped him with their own share and in return he would do that for them. He also needed 25 stat points for each trait to adapt his body but this was achieved in the last month by levelling up naturally.
The first to obtain a very big trait was Lola who had help from the club to gather the 350 levels of exp to rebuild her body’s meridian.
Once she used her stats, she instantly noticed a big change in her method of growing stronger and they saw the amazing power of trait growth.
For Robin, he felt like his body was finally where it should be, it didn’t feel ‘dry’ and it was malleable. From the information Mr Might got from Captain stretch he indeed learned the physics of the many animated powers, their drawbacks and more but at the same time, he tried them out and felt exactly the pains and problems.
For increased blood flow, the trick required a large amount of blood to be gathered by widening the veins along the extremities and pull it all back following the normal blood flow and than he needed to actively control a higher and harder heart beat to push that bundle of blood at increased pressure to achieve the effect of actual enhancement but it goes without saying, it was painful and hard. Shockingly it began to consume life essence as he tested.
It did, however, prove to be able to mimic the rapid stretch and withdrawal that he could achieve with his springs. He tried to expand his bones but they weren’t that loose to be able to fully achieve that degree of morphing.
For the second purchase of this kind, just like estimated, the cost dropped drastically and an organ segment was added, the first three were 30 level worth and the new one was 60.
This took the rest of the month to gather up while still sharing to help everyone strengthen. The second trait purchase was the last of this kind and his body reached full balance as the traits strengthened the first one reducing the ‘weakened’ that the separate code in each respective ability would have.
It was the most expensive route but he had no problems in the compatibility and all aspects of his rubber improved.
The final thing he achieved was compressing Titan force one more level and in doing so, was able to empty the stone and so he returned it back doing the second merge. What remained he fed to Mr Atlas’s essence, finally balancing the rock once more to a higher level and the rock one level smaller.
The next day, it was a minor test to view their progress and Robin had Titan force ready and he stood in front of the punch machine.
“Don’t worry, this machine can handle over 300k points for force.” Mr Might said.
This meant for him to use Titan force as well.
He took deep breaths as he swung his arm and it gathered blood rapidly and he focused control and his chest released a dull thud sound while his skin turned little towards pink. Of course, he didn’t release steam but his heat did rise.
His arm spun and charged the spring. He took a low pose to handle the intense recoil that his body produced now and channeled Titan force through his body as he hardened his body and finally punched.
Everyone watching saw next to nothing from his punch but they felt the shockwave as his fist broke the sound barriers with near sniper bullet speeds.
When they looked the machine was already calculating and they watched as the number broke the 100k mark.
Mr Might nodded and wrote it down, “Official strongman.” he muttered as he wrote next to Robin’s name and called the others.
Robin calmed down and felt very good but doing the count of Titan force’s amplification, his limit reached 105k.
That means a common straight punch would have 21k, a full 6,000 points higher than his previous strongest punch.
Of course, his skills had greatly improved and he was slowly building a new style beyond spring style. Also even with springs he was learning to cut the charge time. Particularly for the legs and this is purely thanks to the enhanced traits improving control and flexibility.
That said, one bad thing that came from this is that his costume can’t keep up with the expansion so it had to be remodeled. The problem stemmed from it being able to stretch with his speed but not when it pulled back. It would be like a balloon and would take several seconds to tighten so in the end they had to talk and he decided that it would be better without the arms.
The others went up and each of them showed their explosive growth. The most surprising of them all was Shoji who kept expanding his wisdom and psychic potential and learned to coat his blade in psychic energy.
You would be surprised what creative usage of any internal force can do.
When he maintains it firmly around the blade, it produces a very dangerous psychic blade. He had to use the blunt side to attack, the real attack was if he actually released the psychic energy, it would burst out from his katana like an animated sword slash and even thick metal plating can’t stop it. Normal metal can’t stand up to it, only more special stuff.
Of course, with such a complex skill he developed he naturally trained normal telekinesis which allows him to levitate himself as well as small manipulation just around his body. What this does is lets him give himself initial running impulse but he floats with that force while using telekinesis to reduce drag from air friction. It was a creative usage of a limited psychic resource.
In all, most of the class had upwards of 30k in their pure strength. Those who surpassed 100k were few.
The day went to examining their full physical proficiency before going to class.
At the end of the day, the students surprisingly found both heroes talking in their club room.
Kevin and the 15 new gamer students were all there.
“What’s going on?” Robin asked, behind him his childhood friends.
The two stopped and Mr Might sighed, “It’s a strange feeling we are getting.” he said and explained the contract set up three weeks ago with a private high school which had recently been bought out and rebuilt and already had totally new students through all the high school grades. They had come to ask for help ‘catching up’ through the gamer system.” he explained.
“Couldn’t they have waited for the new year to start to open up?” he asked.
“That is why we think something is up here.” Server Admin before he sighed, “However, they offered 5 times the regular price for the gamer space treatment and it started to set off alarms in my head when I was there until I finally pressed them for answers. The old dean says that through contacts, and likely a lot of money, he had heard that using the gamer space can help heal injuries even in heroes, like referring to Chasm Might’s usage which healed hidden wounds.” He said.
Everyone nodded understanding that.
“He said that his grandson had been a promising strongman, almost braveman level in strength when he was attacked and cruelly beaten by a villain who didn’t kill him, instead he crippled all but one of his limbs, even damaging the nerves on the three limbs. Although the limbs are mostly set and the bones properly positioned, muscle atrophy, severe scarring from torn muscles, severe organ damage, nerve damage and more have basically left him in a wheelchair.” Server admin said.
“So what is the problem about letting this person heal?” Lola asked.
“We got a picture but whether it is admin or I, I can’t help but feel my heart beat faster. I’ve never seen this face in my life but there is something there that I can't put my finger on that is making me feel uncomfortable.” He said.
“Fear?” Milo said, “Are there even things that heroes can fear?” He asked.
“Yes.” Both heroes said at once with very serious expressions, “In all my life, the few regrets I have are not finishing off several villains who could be labeled as true Super villains.” Chasm Might said.
“Super villains… Is it different from the regular term we use for super villains?” Shoji asked.
“Of course, to us Heroes, a super villain is a deranged and powerful man that even two or even three heroes together can’t outright kill.” he said.
Instantly everyone felt their hearts drop at the concept.
“In my life I’ve let three such people get away, let me say that this was after I became a Hero. The first even almost killed me and played with me like a ragdoll and used me like a punching bag. This was the most dangerous man on this planet and the true leader of the only Villain country on earth. The second almost killed me and Mephesto when we were fighting all out. You children should know the incident, it was the last time Mephesto used his demonic avatar and was one of the few times he had summoned it’s entire body along with it’s demonic weapons. Remember this, he has only ever done that 5 times since he became a hero and this time…”
“The avatar was almost destroyed.” Lola said, “It had three arms ripped out and the enemy pierced two of its own swords to stab and pin the avatar and almost destroyed it.” Lola completed.
“Exactly, this person was Time Tempest. After him is the strongest monster in the world, living and controlling Antarctica, living at the very center and melting over 200 km of ice and maintaining that while filling this land to give birth to a continent of monsters, the Fire Dragon King. Even when ten heroes from all countries banded together to kill him, seven of us, including myself, came out extremely injured and we didn’t die because the dragon king let us leave.” he said.
“There are many beings that have appeared since the appearance of abilities in both humans and animals that heroes could not surpass. Honestly, that is why when heroes find hero candidates like you children, we tend to focus on nurturing you so intently that even someone like Chasm Might would stick around near cities despite how dangerous his strength is.” Server Admin said.
“You want to hopefully find someone to match ‘those’ beings.” Robin said.
“Yes.” They said together.
“So you think this injured person might be someone dangerous.” Shoji asked.
“We don’t know, I just feel strange.” he said.
“So what do we do?” Kevin asked.
The two Heros fell into thought before Server Admin took out from his inventory a strange computer, “I can’t decide so I will have to speak with the Seer on this subject.”
None of the students knew who the seer was. All they knew was that she was a hero who never fought because her powers weren’t combat type.
Server Admin had to go through, shockingly, four different password encryptions and half way through Mr Might groaned, “This is why i don’t even carry this thing. I just outright look for one of her mansions in every city and pass the message to one of her butlers.” he said.
“Yeah but this is direct contact.” Server admin said and continued on until finally he got through that and the machine sent the call.
It took two rings for it to answer and a veiled woman appeared.
Server Admin didn’t waste time and just showed the picture, “Chasm Might and I are feeling extremely strange about this individual, they requested the gamer space to heal his damaged body through his own body potential and said he was nearly a braveman.” He said.
The eyes of the woman just looked for a silent minute before she spoke, “Heal him… but only when there are at least six of you. Two must unconditionally protect your disciples. The rest are to show the children the future of their responsibilities. Bring all your strongest followers in hiding.” She said.
Instantly the two men’s faces morphed and Chasm Might slammed his hand down, “YOU WANT US TO HEAL A MONSTER!” he roared.
“Mephesto will happily join at my call. You two pick the others… there are talented children who would gain much from certain heroes.” she said.
She didn’t wait for their reply and just cut the connection.
“This woman!” Chasm Might shouted and almost punched the wall but restrained herself.
“I’ll call the ‘school’ and tell them we are moving the date back a small bit due to unexpected circumstances.” Server Admin said and looked at the club members already walking in. His eyes passed Lola and Shoji before going to Tristan and Oliver and surprisingly even to Rudy.
He left to make the following calls which would undoubtedly be the most difficult calls in his life knowing exactly what was to come. Furthermore, the ‘show them their future responsibilities’, that wasn’t just Robin and the Gamers, that was all the heroic students. The students plus all their sidekicks, disciples and powerful followers.
Chasm Might was in a horrible mood and left to vent out of the city before he too began to send out calls by the dozens.