Chapter 19: 19:Boost in Strength
Zephyr was still screaming in pain, his mind had blanked out and his body was limp and floating in the air by the green energy. His body was being destroyed by a green energy and rebuilt with a yellow energy that resembles gold compared to soul energy which was much darker or lighter depending on the density.
Every cell, every tissue ,every organ in his body was rebuilding themselves. Optimizing their performance and upgrading their durability.
Zephyr wasn't genetically enhanced and never underwent any gene optimizing. Other then his throat implant to translate alien languages and being a super, he was a completely regular human being. Mainly because they were too expensive for planetary level peasants like him.
So that essentially meant that his body had a lot of optimizations to do. Evolution wasn't perfect and left plenty of flaws in humans. Being a super could help fix some but some change were too deep to change.
From the spine being curved in a way that guarantees back pain to the blind spot in a humans eye. These flaws were small but would make an absolutely massive change when fixed.
Zephyr had heard that apparently all citizens of any civilization above the cosmic level were guaranteed a free gene optimization with implants by their civilization. Mainly because at those levels, pursuing a job was much harder!
After all, it was much easier to get a job in sciences at the planetary level. At most they would need to learn a lot but not nearly enough as what cosmic level above citizens had to learn.
In fact, as an example. To become a doctor you had to know everything about the body apparently!Yes, everything. From what happened when they ate to how they reacted to intense gravity they had to learn way more since their tech standards were way higher.
Compared to even the peak of humanity, the CEA. Zephyr doubted wether 100 of their doctors were equal to one cosmic level doctor.
But that was nothing compared to celestial level doctors. They had to learn so much that even though all of the celestial races had near perfect photographic memory. They still needed implants and more to fully learn everything. Zephyr was petty sure that even of every top human expert on medical sciences combined all their knowkedge. It wouldn't even have come close to what they learnt in only one year.
Each of the small tiny imperfections in Zephyr's body was being fixed to be on the same level as one of them!
From certain veins and arteries being moved around to transport blood quicker to his bones increasing in density. Each time his body got destroyed it would quickly regenerate its wounds.
By the time Zephyr underwent the 11th round of optimizing, his height had grown by a whole 2 cm! Which admittedly didn't sound like much but to Zephyr who was quite short every centimeter counted.
Dropping onto all fours. Zephyr gasped for air. His lungs breathed in way more oxygen then before and Zephyr could feel his own heart beating way quicker!
Carefully flexing his fingers, he was astonished at how much control he had over them.
He already had extremely good dexterity before he was a super from his shooting and after becoming one it was only enhanced. But now, there was so little delay between moving his fingers and his ability to perform micro movements would make any artisan jealous!
Stopping for a moment, Zephyr carefully looked at his quantum energy pool along with his mind and soul.
To Zephyr, they seemed like they were on the verge of exploding. Which meant only one thing. Zephyr was close to breaking through to the next otter grade. Not just close to but astonishingly close to breaking through.
The - and + suffix was just to get a more accurate reading of someone's strength level but a jump to the next letter grade was entirely different.
It was like elevating the persons existence. A qualitative change in the person.
Or as Nathan had put it, when he ascended he felt as if he was on a mountain peak. Staring down at lower beings.
Falton had felt something similar. When he advanced to D. It was a change that ascended his existence. He wasn't just stronger, he was smarter, faster, better in every way.
Zephyr had been stuck on F+ ever since he awakened but now that her was close to breaking through he grew more and more excited. He could live longer! Shoot stronger blasts of energy! Punch faster! His abilities would become so much more better then they currently were right now that it would be an insult to compare them.
Instinct would tell him when he was ready to advance but now that he knew he was close to advancing his motivation grew even stronger!
As Zephyr slowly grew more accustomed to his new strength, he heard a voice coming from his right and left at the same time.
"I TOLD YOU HE WOULD HAVE SURVIVED"
"HE ONLY SURVIVED WITH MY HELP, BESIDES IF NOT FOR YOUR POWER BEING THE BEST TO OFFER WE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN IN THIS SITUATION ANYWAYS"
Feeling the power, Zephyr almost forgave Orovada for the pain and torture it put him through. Keyword here, almost. All the scars on his body, mind and soul were gone but he could still remember the pain vividly.
"DON'T TRY AND RUN HUMAN. I AM NOT STUPID ENOUGH TO GIVE AWAY POWER WITH NO CONSEQUENCES. "
Raising one of its limbs at Zephyr, he felt himself getting flown into her grip. His neck landing in between its sharp claws.
"Then kill me. I'm not going to fight for you!"
Zephyr angrily replied to it while grasping at the limb holding him. His whole dream was to become an independent leader! He had vowed to prioritize himself over others and fighting to free some bugs was not on his to-do list!
SCREAAAAAAA
Orovada hissed directly into his face. If not for Zephyr quickly covering his face with a telekinesis barrier he would have been covered in saliva.
'Luckily I put up a barrier, that's disgusting as hell!'
Zephyr mentally gagged in his mind from just imagining it. He already hadn't showered in several weeks and was covered in dirt, grime and the blood and juices of several creatures. His vac suit had several holes in it and his armor or whatever was left of it hanged off of him in tatters. If not for occasionally cleaning himself he would look a lot worse then he already was!
"AS MUCH AS I WISH TO KILL YOU FOR HARMING MY BELIEVERS.I AM UNABLE TO.THE FUTURE FORETOLD NEEDS YOU AND YOU CANNOT CHANGE THE FUTURE."
Orovada dropped him onto the floor,leaving him gasping and choking for air.
Grasping his throat, Zephyr felt a warm and soothing energy flow into him. The same one that helped him during his optimizing.
To Zephyr, it felt like a gentle massage on his body. Slowly removing the wounds and comforting him. It was warm and calm. Unlike the healing casted by UTF which to Zephyr was like injecting someone with performance enhancing drugs.
It healed people and that was it. It didnt try to soothe injuries or calm the injured person.Instead it would do the exact opposite! It would make Zephyr's heart beat like crazy from the adrenaline even if he was asleep! Although it was useful since Zephyr always fought better after getting hit by one. Who would'nt when their heart was beating fast enough that it felt as if it would burst out of their chest?
So to Zephyr, healing like this was a reward on the next level. It provided a small moment of relief and tranquility in the dark tunnels (even if they werent in the tunnels right now).
Trying to enjoy the healing as long as he could. He relaxed himself on the floor and loosened his muscles.
Hearing footsteps, Zephyr was stunned to see Vados take the appearance of Falton.
"YOU'RE GIVING ZEPHYR A BAD IMPRESSION OROVADA"
And Vados even referred to Zephyr by his name instead of just human! Zephyr was liking him more and more compared to Orovada was like.
"I DON'T CARE, AND WHY ARE YOU TAKING THAT CURSED FORM?"
Good question actually. Why was using Falton's appearance?
"CAN'T YOU SEE HOW UNCOMFORTABLE HE IS WHEN WE ARE IN OUR NATURAL FORMS? I TOOK THE APPEARANCE OF A CLOSE FRIEND OF HIS TO CALM HIM DOWN"
"THERE IS NO POINT IN THAT. THIS IS WHY YOU WERE NEVER THE STRONGEST FIGHTER VADOS. YOU ALWAYS THINK ABOUT EVEN THE PUNIEST OF LIVING THINGS"
Zephyr felt insulted to be referred to as one of those puny living things. He was a super for goodness sake! He was stronger then just the average guy!
Although from the perspective of a higher dimensional being like Orovada. Zephyr suspected that he would need to be at disaster grade to be treated with respect rather then distaste.
After all, they lived for hundreds of thousands of years and when they were strong enough to wipe out fleets of interstellar level battleships. Their view was justified.
Zephyr felt conflicted with Vados turning himself into Falton. sure it lessened his caution of him a bit but if you saw a giant armoured bug Titan shape shift into your close friend it didn't really matter much.
Although Zephyr was interested in what Orovada had said. Vados had never been the strongest fighter apparently and Zephyr could understand.
Vados had mentioned how the life of the creatures on the planet was what made them, them. Using this logic, he could understand why Orovada was at stronger then Vados when Orovada had scorants and rand worms compared to Vados who had wasperos.
Which made him wonder even more. Why were these beings confined to this planet? Why can Vados heal? As far was Zephyr knew the natural healing ability of wasperos were limited. Why was he the one that the future foretold would free the creatures of the planet? More and more questions popped up in his head left, right and center.
"IT DOES NOT MATTER IF I AM NOT STRONG OROVADA. WHAT MATTERS IS THAT WE LIVE, AND TO LIVE WE NEED THIS PLANET'S INHABITANTS. "
"IT MATTERS WHEN A-
Zephyr tuned out to them arguing. Simply deciding to enjoy the healing and think about everything later.
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ZapFlak
ZapFlak One thing I really hate in novels was a lack of world building so I vowed that my novel would have loads with it being realistic and possible but now I'm realising that it's quite hard to make it interesting to the average viewer.
Although I feel like it would be such a waste because most of my time writing this novel is coming up with the world itself.
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