The Commander had many means of gathering information. He had prepared various countermeasures because he had been betrayed in the past. One of those measures was a special hidden website on the dark web. Anyone could go to this website with the proper address. There was even a user system.
Most of the team assigned to organizing information in The Commander's information network were required to submit all the data to this website.
But the way it worked for them wasn't like a forum. They could submit threads, but they couldn't read them. This led to asymmetry in regards to information. The Commander thought that information was power after all!
And now...
Anon had acquired the 80 digit 'key' needed to browse this forum!
He also knew the address.
But The Commander had no idea he had given Anon a piece of his information network. He didn't remember this at all. Because it never happened as Anon went back in time.
Anon browsed the forum for a few minutes and got to see information all around the world.
"Gateways have opened up in panda and dragon country?"
This was Anon's first time learning about these gateways. But he soon saw something that made him excited.
"Death by organ failure and old age?"
Anon started to laugh like a madman. He had read the reports of sending people into the gateways. They all died and their bodies aged at an insane rate.
But was Anon afraid of death? Was he afraid of aging? He was timeless!
"I don't have a passport. So going to dragon country isn't possible."
"Unless I unlock my axiom state and fly there!"
"I have died countless times and trained my body to the human limit. I have mastered acrobatics and the aerialists profession. But for some reason..."
"I just can't cross that barrier..."
Anon still needed to resolve the problem of his missing identity.
"The Commander can give me infinite money and vast resources. He can also restore my identity and give me a passport!"
Anon shook his head. He didn't want to really contact them again. His animaxiom was empty and he needed to recover it. It wouldn't be hard to meet his requirements either way.
But he decided to do something else.
"If gateways opened up there. They will likely open up all around the world. The thing I lack least is time. I can just wait until they appear nearby."
"The main issue I have is a lack of money and identity..."
Anon went to a restaurant for the first time in a long time. He went to the public bathroom and looked in the mirror. His clothing was in tatters and his hair was a mess. He hadn't showered in over a year. Dirt covered his skin and he was quite dirty.
Anon remembered when he was homeless in the past. He definitely looked the part right now. He stood on a corner of a busy street with a cardboard sign.
He asked for money.
Some people offered food directly. But Anon wasn't too interested. Anon had one advantage that others in this 'profession' didn't. He never needed rest! He never needed to sleep! He never needed to eat!
He spent a few weeks in a row gathering money. He could store it in his storage space.
He made around a thousand dollars over the course of three weeks. He walked to a mall and bought some new clothes and a couple pairs of shoes and socks. He went to a local superstore and bought hygiene products like soap, deodorant and such. He bought new sunglasses. He then went to a gym and bought a membership.
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He took a shower for an entire hour. He felt like a new person when he walked out of it. He then put on a fresh pair of clothes. He threw away his old clothes. He wore his sunglasses and walked out of the gym. He went to a barber and got a haircut.
"It is almost time..."
Anon had changed his mind on 'waiting'. He had a more crazy idea.
Anon planned on running to dragon country!
While a normal human can't run for long periods of time in a full sprint. So they average running maybe 10 kilometers an hour. Anon was different. He could infuse his muscles with animaxiom to enhance his body. He also had 'concentration' which was boosted since he unlocked the first three seals.
The main issue with this plan was that they were on different continents!
He would need to cross the ocean to reach his destination!
Anon decided to go all out. He first created a technique using what Ayil had trained him to do. He figured out how to cover his entire body in animaxiom. This meant even his clothes wouldn't get dirty from the elements.
"I have to perfectly balance my consumption of animaxiom!"
Anon went to a local lake.
"Walking on water can't be that hard right?" Animaxiom covered the soles of his shoes as he ran across the lake. Anon started to mentally take notes.
Anon frowned. While he succeeded on his first try. It used too much animaxiom. He burned through all of his reserves in a few minutes.
"This isn't good..."
A week went by.
Anon was doing backflips and somersaults. Every time his hand or feet touched the water. He redistributed the animaxiom circulating through his body to that area.
He was doing all of this on top of water!
"I think I've improved the efficiency enough."
Anon could stand on water at the mere cost of 1% an hour. He recovered at a rate that was just barely enough to sustain himself. But there was a major problem. Once you factor in enhancing his muscles and covering his entire body. The consumption became a bit insane.
"Luckily, I can store animaxiom in my body versus the soul..."
Anon went into the wilderness and found a cave so he wouldn't be exposed to the elements. He stripped naked and put his clothes in his storage space.
He then entered a state of meditation as he started to inject his body with animaxiom.
1%
2%
3%...
100%!
After a hundred hours. His body had enough animaxiom that it matched his soul. In the past, Anon definitely wouldn't have been able to do this. But his control had improved over time.
100%
101%
103%...
200%!
After another hundred hours...
His body now contained double then what his soul contained.
87,600 hours later...
87800%!
Anon then felt an intense pain all over his body! His muscles started to squirm as if there were maggots underneath his skin. He started to feel cramps all over his body. The pores on his skin seemed to open as a black tar like substance was expelled from his body.
His organs started to do the reverse of cell division. They started to merge together. His skin started to crack and blood started to flow from these cracks.
But this blood started to turn golden as a light halo appeared over Anon's body.
Anon's body had originally been human. But now his entire body was going through 'deification'. He was unlocking the fourth seal!
The cell membranes merged together. His body almost completely became a single entity! His organs had fused together. The brain was even enhanced. The heart pulsed with the vitality of a god!
There was enough energy stored in his body to go back in time 878 days! Unfortunately, it did take a decade to gather this much energy. Things also didn't work out so well.
He could inject his body with animaxiom from his soul. But using his anima leap required animaxiom in his soul. Not his body. It wasn't that it was impossible to do. He just hadn't mastered this aspect yet.
The process was like breaking an egg. It is easy to break one. But harder to put it back into its original state! The stimulation of having so much animaxiom in his body allowed him to break through his fourth seal.
His body was no longer human at all despite its appearance.
A golden glow cleansed his body faster and better then any shower or bath ever could. His physique had become perfect. Anon had been naked the entire time.
He took out his clothes from his storage space and put them on. He put on his sunglasses and left the cave.
Before spending this decade in isolation. Anon already was capable of sustaining walking on water. The problem was shielding his body and enhancing his muscles at the same time.
A capacity of 100% was simply not enough.
While his capacity of 1,000 points hadn't improved over the decade. The amount he had stored in his body had reached the absolute limit.
Eight hundred and Seventy Eight times his normal capacity!
87800%...
878,000 points!
His body had almost exploded from the energy against his will. If he didn't go through 'deification'. He would've died from storing so much energy!
Anon left the cave and covered his entire body in animaxiom. He loved the feeling of having so much power. His leg muscles were enhanced with the energy and he started to run.
150 kilometers an hour!
Within two hours. He had reached the beach.
"I'll probably get lost if I run directly on the ocean. There are no landmarks..."
"Luckily, my phone has GPS..."
"But it has long died..."
Anon bought a new phone as his was quite outdated. He also checked out the forum to see if any gateways had opened up nearby. But unfortunately they hadn't. But the culture had shifted in the dragon country. The emergence of so called 'immortals'.
Anon bought some portable battery chargers and stored them in his storage space.
He then started to run on water.