Chapter 13: A Monster and More

This was the greatest moment of my life, physically, that is. Mentally, I should've been more concerned for Adena and me since we were both stranded.

Planet Candralt's so-called "System" was busy making changes to our composition on a fundamental level. And underneath the rubble of what was our life, should I say, ‘her life’, I think I missed Papa and Dada or at least she did.

Where was my life going to go from here? What would remain of my life, a life led by those two? How long could I keep that damn from breaking?

Adena hadn’t warmed up to me.

A part of me hoped she wouldn’t have a preconceived notion about me. She's reached that age where thoughts tend to lean towards the worse. When it comes to our kinship. There was much to be desired. I’ve never really taken kindly to her talking to me in my sleep when I was submerged in Nothing. I could be quite grumpy, I admit. Hopefully, she wouldn’t hold it against me but either way, it was her fault for having such loud thoughts.

We had a journey ahead of us. My knowledge of this world consisted of none other than the few Isekai novels Adena read in her free time. But "Candralt", was no "Valaria" there would be no honor guard to come to our assistance. I should be honored to be alive.

We were both quite extensive readers though our reading tastes were different genre-wise. I didn't care to read about fantasy worlds when the real world was out of my reach. History, science, psychology, and anything involving human behavior garnered my interest.

Adena had time to read about fantasy. But I, "forget it, I've read my fair share, I've had my fair share of dark fantasy."

“If I'm being honest with myself," Adena would say the unknown scared her. But I'm not Adena, I was tingling with excitement.

This world could only change me for the better I could feel it in my bones. No, I could feel it in the Matter that'd invaded my body. There was an asphyxiation, feeling my cells multiply, and strengthen, feeling like I could explode at any given moment, the throbbing headache as if my head would split open at any second. It was all so... exhilarating.

'The Matter here was way filling, just take a look at the vibrance. Just look at this place!' There was nothing to look at besides dirt, I knew this, even with my eyes closed.

I was thinking to myself taking it all in, enduring my system initialization. I felt like I was on top of the world when I was at the bottom of it.

There wasn't any sense of familiarity but a profound understanding that I couldn't explain.

I lay in a hollowed-out pit letting my body adapt to the system's changes even if my eyes were closed, there wasn't much to look at other than darkness and dirt. I didn’t feel like myself anymore. I felt reborn, the air here was richer and fuller. More, crisp. Everything was vibrant, which set this place apart from home.

"There was no way this is Earth." How could I know that lying at the bottom of this pit, lying in the remains of a Dungeon.

"A dungeon," this is my life now.

How could I know for certain this place was better when all I've seen so far is the unforgiving snow above, the lifeless cold dirt below, a dying dungeon core, and lastly a skeleton. Thinking about here, and there. I'd been waiting to exhale.

To watch as the system worked its way through me, making me a tool to rob everything in a wide radius of life. My reality right about now seemed so impossible, improbable, unbelievable.

"I can do it." I'll be dead set on living out this new fantasy of mine. This has been decided. I have decided as much.

"Who would've thought not me? I'm amazing!" With the help of the system, I had drained a plot of this land of its color and vitality. 'So cool.' The sensation of pain had become nothing in less than a day.

"Yes, Adena today is a special day indeed. For both of us." I was getting nervous not wanting to call for the system. I could handle pain but Adena’s experience with system initialization was rubbing off on me.

I was a bit anxious about my next thoughts. It was time to open the "System menu."

"If I want to survive, if I want us to survive, I'd have to act first and think about the consequences later." A slippery slope Dada would call it, but fear is the enemy. Eyes closed I couldn’t see anything in my radius but a blizzard above as snow slowly fell into the black pit that I had robbed of life. My sense of touch had gone through the ringer. I'm not nervous. "Nervous system, get a grip."

That's not true there was me. I was there in that pit, maybe small and insignificant as a kid below the height of 75 centimeters, but I was alive and soon to be thriving.

"Wait, I wonder how that spatial inventory thing works." Thinking about the system I couldn't help but bring up a small tidbit Adena had read about the system. Having a space inventory sounded nice, that's if I have one.

The system has granted me the Title of {Monster}, so I guess somehow, I was labeled as one. The question of the day is, "do monsters get a Spatial storage?" I would like one, yah know to put piles of dirt in.

"Sksksk,"that would be funny, a pocket dirt attack. Other classes were locked until I turned seven.

"It makes sense. It doesn't, why do I feel this way... as if Nothing mattered." My next task was to look at my skills and maybe pick a Class even if it so happened to be a {Monster} class...whatever that means.

A 'Monster' class, that is so subjective and laughable. "I'm a bit offended; I was born Human like everybody else." Quieting down, I thought about my next goal still not finding anything odd about talking to myself.

"This is going to be so boring looking for a Human society, having to walk through all that snow. Never mind, that was stupid why walk when I could run? This is a world of fantasy after all." Still lying in a pit starting to become covered in the falling white snow.

"I guess I should interact with the system before I head off into who knows what." So, all I need to do is think hard about the system, right?

'System menu.'

The system popped up, but I couldn't see my skills without focusing on them. A square screen was suddenly shoved in my face. If it was anybody else, it would've been a problem to have your guard down, but I was me after all. This was kind of incredible. The screen slowly transitioned from a transparent gray to a hard blue as if warming up.

Despite appearances, the system menu wasn't tangible. I couldn’t touch it.

The screen was faint. How could something visible and clearly on display be transparent and faint I don't know. Hard to explain. The menu caught my attention, that's for sure.

I was starting to wonder if choosing a class was the right decision, but it had to be done. I'm not dying here.

"Better to take a gamble, then risk...I'm not risking anything am I? Bearing a little cold isn't a problem for me. Ugh, now for that irritating pinging," and my assumption was correct.

[*Ping!* You have killed a Unique Sentient Dungeon Core]

*ping!* Experience Gained for the first kill!

*ping!* Bonus Experience Gained for killing a higher-level opponent!

*ping!* Bonus Experience Gained for killing a Dungeon Core!

*ping!* Bonus Experience Gained for Absorbing a Dungeon Core!

*ping!* Bonus Experience Gained for wiping out a dungeon!

[*Zing!* A Passive Experience gain has occurred!]

[*ping!* You have Unlocked your First Title!]

*ping!* Bonus Experience Gained for unlocking your first Title!

[*ping!* You have Gained New Titles!]

*ping!* Bonus Experience Gained!

[*Bing!* You have Unlocked multiple skills!]

*ping!* Bonus Experience Gained!

[*Bing!!!* Your Subspecies has been Maxed (Evolution Available)!]

[Bing* You have gained a new Title!]

*ping!* Bonus Experience Gained!

[*Ping!* Achievement unlocked: You have achieved Evolution within a minute. Making you the fastest sentient being and or monster to ever reach evolution without the acquisition of a Class. The system would like to reward you for this grave feat congratulations!!!] {System Reward}: Title ~ {Overachievers Thirst}

[Ping!* Achievement unlocked: You have absorbed a dungeon core single-handedly. The first to eat a dungeon core.] {System Reward}: Title ~ {Consumer}

[*ping!* Achievement: For traveling to another world and surviving] {System Reward}: Title ~ {Otherworlder}

[*ping!* Achievement: You have survived a space vortex created by a Subspecies of the last Polmaitixes Observer] {System Reward}: Title ~ {Indestructible} Skill~ [Matter Leech]

[*ping!* Achievement: In the act of forcing the closing of the Last Pomataixes Observers Space Vortex you have killed an entire species of Foaixes who were tethered to said portal] {System Reward}: Title ~ {Speciocide}

[*ping!* Achievement: You have been born, a miracle in Itself may He watch over You] {System Reward}: Title ~ {Realities Intruder}

[*Ping!* Achievement: You have tasted the flesh of Man, basked in the blood of your enemy, and worn the flesh of your kin] {System Reward}: Title ~ {Monster}

Name: Adonin Servan Mabtali Lee Ce Raphil

Race: A Being ...Biology Unknown System Error!!!!!

Subspecies: [Being] - Lvl.11 (Evolution Available)

AGE: 6

[ 121 Days and 16 Hours Left until Sapien classes can be unlocked]

[Monster Class: None]

Free Stats: (330)

[Strength: 50]

[Dexterity: 50

[Vitality: 50]

[Agility: 50]

[Intelligence: 55]

[Mana: 55]

[Mana Control: 55]

[Magic Regeneration: 55]

[Magic Power: 55]

General Skill:

[Racial Trait: Mind Over Matter]- Level 7 (New)

[Racial Trait: Matter Manipulation]- Level 2 (New)

[Racial Trait: Gemini Shift]- Level 8 (New)

[Racial Trait: Loved by Nothing]- Level (Max) (New)

[Racial Trait: Dark Matter Affinity]- Level (Max) (New)

[Racial Trait: Eyes of the Watcher]- Level 6 (New)

[Racial Trait: Actualization]- Level 3 (New)

[Racial Trait: Memories and more]- Level 5 (New)

[Racial Trait: Reality is Depressing]- Level 2 (New)

Pain Resistance - 3rd tier Level 1 (New)

Performance of a Lifetime - Level 3 (New)

Born Assassin - Level 5 (New)

Miracle Maker - Level 1 (New)

Memories and More - Level 1 (New)

Matter Leech- Level 2 (New)

Identification- Level 5 (New)

Density Defier- Level 3 (New)

Observational Immune System - 3rd Tier Level (Max) (New)

Material Regeneration - Level 5 (New)

Fear Resistance - 3rd Tier Level (Max) (New)

Spatial Magic Resistance - 3rd Tier level 1 (New)

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Chapter 13: A Monster and More (Part II)

'Gosh, where are abbreviations when you need them.' Something told me this wasn't normal for the average human, call it intuition. I was intrigued by the names of the listed skills, why wouldn't I be? They seemed to defy logic and that made my skin tingle with excitement. I'm sure it wasn't the cold from the snowstorm above.

I couldn't feel the slightest bit of pain at the moment due to [Pain Resistance] but I knew that snow was supposed to be cold because I had experienced it before. Who in their right mind could deny that fact. But my body was also numbing itself after the whole Spatial Vortex of Death incident.

"I must be super lucky to pick up seven Titles in one go, but right now I feel like picking a class would somehow limit me and the available evolution would put me at risk." It wasn't a nagging feeling but an instinct. What kind of instinct? That I wasn't sure.

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If I fell unconscious at the moment Adena could die from the cold. I'm no Pokémon and this no matter how much it seemed like it wasn't a game. The fact of the matter was I had no time to sit around and read all these skills, well process them, reading wasn't a problem.

The cold wasn't bothering me which was a blessing. I was immune to it, but I could still die if something out of my power came along and did me in while I was lying here without a care.

"Keep those muscles moving Adi," It's good to hype yourself up when doing a strenuous task. A task like twitching my muscular system, keeping the black blood pumping. My smallest enemy at the moment was hypothermia. The Pit's stone-cold floor didn't bother me as much as some monster appearing right out of some fantasy. An example would be the big ass skeleton Adena saw in the Dungeons Pond. An oversized skull attached to a human-looking skeleton; it could've been an amphibian with a tail like that.

"Yikes, focus Adi." I needed to dig myself out of here and find shelter. Hopefully, the shelter had people whom I could trust with Adena. I may be six years old but there was no way I was leaving a naked thirteen-year-old girl who is none other than my twin sister with strangers.

The skill descriptions were the least of my worries. [Identification] along with these eyes of mine are all I would need to find civilization.

"So coool," chattering the words.

I'd finally opened my eyes to look up and the skill [Identification] activated on its own when I squinted. Further Information on the system is definitely needed before I do anything else that could put my life, no, or our lives at further risk.

"I, I can handle a little cold," I'll say it again. “Onward”, I whispered to myself slowly digging out from under the white pile of snow that had landed on me.

Originally, I thought my nails would break off if I tried to climb out of the pit bare-handed but nope my usual super strength was doing its job, a great job. I wasn't bothered by the inclined dungeon pit. My fingers were punching small holes in the dirt and my miniature feet followed behind. One foot after the other, keeping up the pace anything and everything to help with the half-a-kilometer climb.

Thinking about lying in bed with Papa and Dada, making rhymes was on my mind.

I missed them just lying in bed enjoying each other's company. “No, stay focused,” I told myself, focusing on the climb. It was best that I paid attention to what was in front of me. I wonder if my slow growth rate was limiting me mentally, it was always on my mind these days.

Taking a deep breath and looking down I noticed that I was getting nowhere. My body was supposed to be supernatural so why was I climbing like a baby?

I shook and shivered for no good reason, readying for future actions completely led by impatience.

"Brainstorm," Brainstorming I'll start with gravity. 'It's what’s pulling me down toward the planet's core. Why go down when I could go up, so first let's think about what's pulling me down. That's what matters most in this situation. I won't interfere with what's going on inside my body that could endanger my life if I mess around with something fundamental. So let me focus on the Matter outside of my body.

“Ha,” look at me trying to defy the laws of physics. Let's do this slow and steady if worse comes to worse I could just die in the process.

"No biggie." The Outer layer of my body is where and what I want to focus on the 'Macroscopic scale' it's what determines motion, long that thought process, the skill's [Memories and More], [Actualization], [Mind over matter] activated in tandem and the Image I wanted to see right in front of me became so clear. An image that had no Human right showing up in front of my hazel.

There was a change in my perspective. A feeling as if I didn't have to spend my life looking outside of my glass window. Tears came to my eyes. It was breathtaking.

"I can see," there was no headache, and I wasn't being pushed to see more than I wanted. It was freeing. I could just cry, my eyes were working how they were supposed to instead of just seeing through buildings and far ranges, and add the occasional glimpse into cellular decay, give or take. I knew there was more to reality than staring off into Nothing. I was now looking out back into nowhere.

A realization. I had no idea what I was looking for involving the gravitational force and how it should look. I've never seen anything on this scale before even though it was way easier to see inside of Nothing, this still felt like a new and entirely different world with its own rules. I came back to reality breathing out in defeat. I was in over my head.

Taking another breath remembering to blink my eye, I watched my breath dissipate against the cold wall of the pit.

I was giving up, maybe interfering with gravity was beyond me. I was scared of manipulating my body's matter to change my density, one mistake and it was over for me.

“Pathetic!” I screamed hearing the echo that had nowhere to go but up.

“Some, Special Boy you are,” I was crying while dangling on the side of a leftover dungeon pit all because I had failed to do the impossible.

“I'm just a six-year-old boy,” Taking on too much again I couldn't even stop Papa from getting sick from a disease that was killing him right in front of my very eyes.

'I'm pathetic Papa would be ashamed of me.’ I was frowning and a crying snot was coming out of my nose. My will wasn't as unbreakable as I thought.

I wanted nothing more but to return to Nothing if not than Papa’s arms. He was the best at comforting me when I had taken on more than I could chew. What would I do if Dada wasn't there to push me past my limits?

"Die of boredom," I was always dying of boredom.

"Barf, c'mon you’re starting to sound like her." I closed my eyes and took my situation for what it was. "I need to act." My mind acted on its own and the skills gave me more room to enforce my will. A will that was mine, not Adena's conscience bleeding over into my time under the sun.

*Ping!* [Reality is Depressing] has leveled up!

*Ping!* [Memories and more] have leveled up!

I was two years old trying my best on the drawing notebook. Papa had watched me patiently.

“Look at my special boy,” Papa said while I was drawing Father. At the ripe age of two crayons were history. I had already moved on to pencils and pens, drawing Father's strong chin and muscular shoulders in all their glory. So much happened in the living room of the Mabtali Mansion during the middle of the night.

“How did I do it?’ I was just a child doing childish things, not a worry in my mind of how I’d managed to draw Pap in his glory. I just did as my eyes saw, as my hands moved.

*Ping!* [Loved by Nothing] is Maxed!

*Ping!* [Memories and more] have leveled up!

*Ping!* [Dark Matter Affinity] is Maxed!

‘Ah, that's it I remember now'' The Nothing, I can always see it, I can always see through it, when I looked at Father, I didn't just see him I saw him his specks and the Nothing that lived in and outlined him, all I did was trace along his outer lines and feel in the blanks. And before I knew it.

“Look at him Adousa, our boys a natural talent! No, he’s a Genius!” Papa was right, I am a genius. I had Nothing, the paper just allowed me to write what my eyes saw. Too bad Papa’s dark specks had eventually ruined the picture. There was too much Nothing to go around, and what was man became a blot of ink.

Hanging along the edges of the pit I whispered to myself. "Nothing is always with me. There was a time when it was all I had. It's what makes me special. I am the Boy who came from Nothing."

“Yeah, that's right I'm Adonin the special Boy!” I screamed at the top of my lungs at the snow above. I had gotten a clue on what I was supposed to do so I did it plain and simple.

*Ping!* [Actualization] has leveled up!

*Ping!* [Dark Matter Affinity] Is Maxed!

*Ping!* [Identification] has leveled up!

*Ping!* [Identification] has leveled up!

*Ping!* [Eyes of the watcher] have leveled up!

I looked at the space around my body using [Eyes of the Watcher] and let myself be taken in by the unexplainable tapestry of the world doing well not to lose my train of thought or get lost by using [Mind over Matter].

"Such useful skills." I couldn't see the gravitational force affecting my body or identify it, since I had no compass or ability to do so. Mentally taking a step back, taking the task bordering procedure slowly, I knew what I was looking for and I knew that it was needed, probably ending up killing myself in some freak accident if the utmost care wasn’t applied in its manipulation.

"I had help." Nothing was all the help I ever needed [Loved by Nothing] it was the compass to Map out and outline the force of gravity that was acting around me at all times.

My vision was doubled over, the macroscopic scale in front and Nothing in back. Seeing things from this perspective, the Gravitational force was as easy as ever to see for Nothing lacked color. Nothing was pitch black. Probably not even a color at all it was of its own. The gravitational force on the other hand was composed of the smallest threads covering everything around me. It wasn't just one thread as it seemed but a countless amount.

I assume these threads wrapped around me are attached to planet Candralt’s planetary crust. In theory, fewer threads were on the planet's outer layer, and the closer to the core you got the more these threads would stick and try to force you down, enacting the force of gravity.

My tears had been frozen onto my face by the snow but all I could do was smile. My white teeth were probably the only color that could be seen in the darkness of the pit. I had taken the time to take in what I had uncovered before continuing with my new lease on life.

The threads were all over me. I was encased and entrapped by them. There was no way that I was going to take the gravitational threads off one by one. So, I got to thinking about my next course of action. I could somehow try to get all of the threads off of me though that would be bad seeing as I’d just float off the planet.

What the hell was the skill [Matter Manipulation] Adena had the lesser version. Woah? I got sidetracked. How long have I been down here, probably a couple of minutes.

The snow wasn’t too high, back to learning about gravity. A couple inches to a foot.

'Matter manipulation?' Could I manipulate Matter, I've never tried. I wish these skills had actual descriptions. Wait! What if they do have descriptions?

Focusing hard on the skill [Matter Manipulation] a Description popped up.

[Matter Manipulation] - You have survived a space vortex, a feat only common and possible by beings familiar and born in the depths of Space. Though you may not have been aware you have manipulated the Matter surrounding you.

-In this particular case you’ve survived by manipulating your body's matter so that a Polmataixes Vortex wouldn't transmute you to fuel itself.

Okay, that was useless. How the hell did I do that? Hmm, okay I'm just guessing but "Matter" refers to the "Specks" as Adena would put it, so nothing is Dark Matter? "Everything is composed of matter to manipulate is to control not create. Creation is a completely different field”.

Hmm, wow I’m so happy I can't feel the cold I'm just hanging here naked not breaking a sweat “My body is amazing!” My shouting had caused an echo to ascend upwards out of the pit. 'Yeah, no more shouting there might be predators somewhere out there.'

I’ve seen Dark matter inside of my body just like Dada. Unlike Dada, the Dark matter that's everywhere on my body tends to leak, spread, and smudge onto my surroundings. You get used to it, not like anyone can see it.

'Assuming that nothing is composed of Dark matter. Have I seen any acts of Matter Manipulation?’

“I'm a genius", it's all coming back to me. I wanted Papa to survive Covid. And he got better, eventually. That was a use of [Actualization] to make something a reality. Going along those lines [Miracle maker] was used when something was made out of Nothing, "Nothing" is Dark Matter. I feel like I'm onto something here.

Dark Matter didn't belong in Papa’s Body, that's a fact. The black specks of “Ugh- Matter’ Stupid Adena. Particles? Were dark matter particles shielding Papa's healthy cells from the COVID-infected ones. If I was the cause, where did that matter come from, did it come from me or did it appear on its own?

[Memories and more] Gotta love the internet, and curiosity. Recalling random facts, I had read online. “Dark matter is hypothetically composed of 85% of the universe.”

"Wow, I've been calling it Black Matter this whole time. Have I? No, I haven't." I'm not an idiot if there was Dark Matter around me, I would see it, maybe my eyes aren't attuned to see it. Wait, maybe I am an idiot to see this planet’s gravitational force overlapping reality's macroscopic scale with Nothing. I've never tried it before but what if I was to pull a bit of the Nothing into reality!? Would that even work?

"There's no way I’m pulling it from myself, it's what makes up my being and I'm not ready for that." Talking to myself I may have looked insane.

Unhooking a hand from the Pit, I shook off the snow. Momentarily distracted by my science experiment. I moved my left hand out to my side and overlapped Nothing which seemed somewhat infinite with my left hand. Trying to pull nothing into the real world would be impossible if I couldn't even manipulate dark matter.

Focusing on my left palm which was splayed out as I hung on the wall with just two feet and one hand. I overlapped Nothing with what I was seeing in front of my very eyes. It took a lot of concentration to imagine Nothing following my will.

Skeptical at first, I thought that it wouldn't work even when I knew deep down that I Loved Nothing and it loved me, even had a skill that said so. I gasped in surprise at what happened next because it was for the most part.

"Yup, just like I expected." I was getting somewhere with Nowhere.

*Ping!* [Actualization] has leveled up!

*Ping!* [Loved by Nothing] is Maxed!

*Ping!* [Dark matter Affinity] is Maxed!

*Ping!* [Mind Over Matter] Has Leveled Up!

*Ping!* [Matter Manipulation] has Leveled Up!

*Ping! * [Miracle Maker] Has Leveled Up!

My eyes had shot open. This wasn’t Magic, this had always been with me. It has always been with us.

The place or state of being called Nothing, I've known my entire life which was quite short in the grand scheme of things. It existed and it was now right in front of my eyes. No, not in front of my eyes it had always been there, it was in my hands on this very plain of Existence. Dark Matter was in front of my hand hovering in the sphere, bending to my Will. But to anybody else, I bet it would look like I was staring at thin air.

Some of the Dark matter wisped off of the sphere as it traveled back to where it rightfully belonged.

The amount of Dark Matter I pulled through. It wasn't much but it was there. I had a feeling that I would bring over more of the Dark Matter from Nothing if wanted but first I had to make do with what I had. Now what the hell was I going to do with this new tool? I've seen it cover Papa’s healthy cells in little, microscopic spheres so I tried turning it into shapes.

Dark Matter was a material unlike any other material because, for the most part, it didn't exist. Did it exist? It had to exist right? It served its purpose in making Papa better. It took only a moment, but I had the idea to turn the dark matter into scissors to cut all the gravitational threads. It was a terrible idea.

Yup, yes indeed, my worst idea to date but the second one didn't seem so bad.

Father always looked like he was wearing a suit of dark matter. His face was less compacted with the specks. If not a suit, then an amorphous armor of a sort. "I guess specks can be used to describe dark matter. They do look like little specks, eye floaters."

I could try to mold myself a skintight suit of Dark Matter as thin as possible around my body and allow a selected number of gravitational threads to affect me. It seemed like the perfect idea.

Hanging in the darkness of the dungeon pit I looked up above into the sky imagining a circle floating above my head. My naked body was about to have a suit of Nothing, and I was ready for it. "And it's not even my birthday." Slowing down, my excitement would lead to failure. I needed to think about what I needed to happen and the effect I wanted it to have.

‘Number one, let in enough Dark Matter from Nothing to cover every centimeter of my body. Number two, make the Matter slowly surround me and every gravitational thread that is stuck to it. Number three, block off the gravitational threads that were subjecting me to gravity.’

I wondered again if cutting them was a bad idea, gravity is a constant force. If I don't do this right, wouldn’t I smash into something or burst apart?

No, I don't think that would happen. Astronauts have survived in space without gravity or the lack of it.

I could make the dark m the threads first instead of cutting them, which seemed like a hasty decision. I could create a choking point to lessen the forces threads, by slowing the rate at which gravity affected me.

To do that I'd have to make alterations to the Dark matter on a macroscopic scale which is what I planned to do anyway. "Now to act," I started by viewing my body at a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree angle using the skill [Eyes of the Watcher]. Now looking at my body on a macroscopic scale, I overlapped my body with Nothing allowing me to see the gravitational threads in front, maintaining a visual on every last one of the threads.

The skills [Memories and More], [Loved by Nothing] and [Dark matter Affinity] activated on their own once I imagined a circle opening up above to connect the two planes. Last but not least I pulled the Dark Matter from the Nothing using [Matter Manipulation] to cover every last gravitational thread wrapped around my body. Slowly and carefully, I willed the dark matter to cover every inch of my body without cutting off the dark purple gravitational threads. I could see perfectly fine through the Nothing covering me as I held on to the pit walls.

It hadn't crossed my mind until now, but I recalled how the Dark Matter dissipated the longer the sphere hovered above my palm. Dark matter would flow back to where Nothing existed most, so I had to constantly allow the corresponding amount of Dark matter through the hole I'd made to keep the amorphous blob of a suit covering my body from dissipating.

Precision was needed to keep the constant flow of gravitational threads from getting cut off, but I was a quick learner. Feeling where the threads were all over me, I slowly closed the space where these gravitational forces had to act. [Actualization] was helping [Memories and More] monitor the macroscopic changes.

I felt as light as a feather given a few pounds and had to remind myself that I couldn't fly yet. No matter how much I whirled my arms around, Gravity was a constant reminder that I needed to mentally ground some part of myself. Who knows, in the future maybe I could fly.

"Focus" I was getting ahead of myself. I already have natural super strength which I thought was the [Density Defier] Skill at work when I first saw it. To think all my life, I ran around thinking I had super strength.

"Isn't it though? No, I don't think it is."

"Time to get out of here," I held onto the wall readying for the jump that would soon propel me a kilometer or more right out of the dungeon pit.

Bearing down, I shifted my weight and threw myself upwards using my arms and legs. I flung myself out of the pit, covered in Dark matter dirt smooshed between my fingers and toes into the blizzard. A kilometer was nothing with this type of jumping speed. On my way out of the pit, I wondered about the skill [Density Defier] and the applications on which it could be applied. To say I was flying was an overestimation. I'd fall to my death in a huge splat if I wasn't so sturdy. If I wasn't so {Indestructible}.

*ping!* You have unlocked a new General skill [Dark Matter Embrace]

*ping!*[Actualization] has Leveled Up!

*ping* [Loved by Nothing] is Maxed!

*ping* [Dark matter Affinity] is Maxed!

*ping* [Mind Over Matter] Has Leveled Up!

*ping* [Matter Manipulation] has Leveled Up!

*ping* [Miracle Maker] Has Leveled Up!

I'd done what I had set out to do. The pit would soon be something of the past and so would System Initialization.