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The rest of the day went pretty quietly. No one else came to see me. And I was waiting for my bald acquaintance. Though perhaps even with all the effect of my appearance, people's thoughts at the time were on how to survive in this mini branch of modern warfare. Now I sat in the room and waited for the last few minutes until the end of the counting of my reward. In the afternoon, in the first few hours of my search, I had found most of the wire my father had installed there. Then, after taking all the equipment out of the room, I used the mini EMP that Schultz had sold me so friendly for 10,000. It's disposable and has a small kill zone. So I used five of these bombs per room. After that I put all the things back and sat down to watch some TV series. At the end of the second episode of this detective before me was a notification about the end of the calculations and having broken away from a rather amusing idea about the radio, which allowed two people to communicate from different times I turned off the TV and opened the window with missions.
Zing!
Mission accomplished
You've saved the lives of 300 people and helped save the lives of 87 more. You destroyed 70% of the entire Vanko mini army, enough power for a small coup in a third world country. You helped disarm a mad genius in the most risky and illogical way possible. The creator of the system has appreciated your actions and in the future you will have access to test more advanced features of the system.
Reward: 167 S.O., Healing Lottery Ticket, Superpower Ticket, Disposable Ability Ticket, Secret Ticket (temporarily locked).
Isn't that too many points? Enough to turn a regular military man into Captain America. The film said that the serum pumped the body up to the maximum of all parameters. And from what I understand, 100 is the human maximum. Where were those awards in the beginning? Then I wouldn't have to eat so much lead with my heel.
All right, let's forget it. It's time to release my inner excitement. And thinking about cherries I tore up the superpower ticket.
You have been granted hellfire. This ability allows you to summon and control the flames of the underworld itself. The power of the flames, as well as the amount of flames, is limited by your abilities and mana supply. (Looks good with chains and motorbikes)
I'm a pyromancer now?! Awesome!!! But the sentence about the power limit is confusing. Mana? Where do I find out my mana reserve? System answer! That's awesome. And what's more, we can't test it yet. I've removed all the cameras and wiretaps, but I'm a careful man. as they say.
Next, I tore up my disposable gift.
You've been given a "time stop." Saying the key phrase "ZA WARUDO" will freeze time. You will be given 5 seconds before the skill ends.
Now that's cheating. I like it (¬‿¬ ).
Overwhelmed by my luck, I tore up the third ticket.
You have received the "star balm". It's a very powerful medicine that can instantly heal any injury. Ancient chronicles even mentioned the possibility of coming back from the dead with this medicine, but no evidence of this has been found.
Um, am I even gonna be able to open it?
Maybe I'm not awake yet. Just too much luck for one day. In games, it's common for a character to be showered with plushies before a boss fight. Am I in for some kind of shit?
+1 to intuition
That's great. Who am I going to be up against with all these perks? I can't even imagine. Well, I should check my stats, because I've been too busy today (said the man who visited only three locations today: his room, living room, kitchen).
Name: Ryan Pierce.
Level:34
Experience:24125/25000
Parameters:
-Strength:95
-Agility:106
-Stamina:223
-Intelligence:68
-Intuition:59
-Free Points:168
Specialities: "major", "lab mouse", "gotcha", "under-alpha".
Skills/skills: "martial arts 54ur", "shooting 54ur", "polyglot 5ur", "psychology 18ur", "strategist 35ur", "stealth 31ur", "player's mind MAX", "intimidation 29ur", "animal style 13ur", "drug resistance 14ur", "hackerman 27ur", "engineer 12ur", "alpha will 3ur", "regeneration 19ur", "alchemist chef 8ur", "poker face 7ur", "howl 1ur", "falcon gaze 5ur", "pain threshold 17ur".
Superpowers: "time acceleration", "lycanthropy", "hellfire".
Man, looking at my stats, I look like some kind of tank. At this rate, all I'll be able to do is stand there and take hits without even realising where they're coming from. All I need is masochism for a complete build. That way I could disorientate my enemies pretty well. I imagine a guy like that going at enemies with no armour or weapons and getting hit and shot at without even showing signs of injury. You hit and shoot and then stop to realise what the fuck this is. And he comes closer and shouts EACHO!!! And you're in for a shock, although it's more of a psychological trauma. Brrr.
Your idea was to the creator's liking.
You receive the gift of the skill "masochism 1ur". You are wished good luck with your plans ( ＾▽＾).
Noooo. Take it away. I'm not like that. Please!...
After sitting there staring blankly for a few more minutes, I realised there was no changing that. My tongue is my enemy. But then I had a plan. After all, the pain threshold is also affected by damage, which means I just need to get it up before masochism. And then even the worst pain will feel like a tickle to me. I just saw one in my dad's office. That's not where my mind is going. Oh, it's not.
Okay, now I should probably go over the other new skills and tell you how I've strengthened the old ones. Well, let's start with resistance to all relaxing and exhilarating substances. I boosted it by cooking up a select mixture of a bunch of drugs and vegetables. Why vegetables? To even out the harms and benefits of the cocktail a little bit. Anyway, I threw it all in the blender and in a couple of minutes the smoothie/energy/buff was ready. Anyway, that's when I discovered the skill of making such nourishing drinks. As I realised and not just them. In fact, after an hour of rather enjoyable time watching Mexican TV series, I felt hungry. I had everything in my mini flat. But then the Star Wars adverts came on. And I was craving biscuits. My dad's a villain, too. And I still haven't turned to the dark side. So as a reward for my feat of will, I decided to reward myself. And plus this skill will come in handy when I'm trying to lure someone to my side.
Having prepared all the ingredients, I opened up a video on how to prepare them. Following all the instructions and mixing everything I had on hand I completed the creation of my masterpiece. After waiting for 20 minutes, I finally tasted the fruits of my labours. And it was divine. It even filled my body with energy. It was only when my mouth ate the seventh biscuit that I finally realised they were too special and decided to check the ingredients in the kitchen. There I found an empty bag of cocaine. It seems I have some sort of connection to this substance. When I was making the cocktail, I left a quarter of the packet for the future. And it seems that while preparing the product of the dark side I forgot about it and decided to pour out the almost empty packet first and only then open a new one. So my biscuits turned out to be a snow-white mixture of flour and cocaine. If you think about it, that's the kind of product you can get hooked on. Once you try one biscuit, you can't stop. And I'm the only one who knows the recipe. And given that cooking is a skill boost, I'm the only one who can be the chef.
I'm talking too much. Anyway, that's how I was able to pump the old skill and at the same time open a new one. Hacker I improved, disassembling and opening to the end of the data Hammer. Engineer I seem to have pumped up by taking apart drones. The face seems to have appeared at the expo, as did the howl with the falcon gaze. By the way, about the stare. Is it that the falcon's eye has a dexterity over a hundred? Or is it just a coincidence of names?
Now, given the information that I have overcome the thresholds of endurance and dexterity, I decided that it is time to surpass the limits of human strength. And given the amount of points I've been rewarded with, I'm certainly not going to get poorer.
Congratulations on passing your strength limit. You're looking less and less human now. There are still two more limits to go.
For breaking the human barrier, you will receive the skill "maximum punch 1ur".
The knowledge of this skill immediately poured into my head. Thanks to the system. This skill allows me to strike at the maximum power that my body can withstand. At the first level, my punch becomes twice as powerful. Only this skill has a downside. Every time I use it, it overloads my body. And the limb being hit is damaged. I don't know how bad the recoil is yet. But given my regeneration, it's more of a temporary debuff. Also, the multiplier increases every 10 levels.
I went to bed satisfied.
In the morning, I went to Stark's. To sort out my armour and ask for some modifications.
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-Sir, the target has left the house. Stalking? - Asked a man in a black car parked between the trees.
-Sure. Don't report to Fury yet. - A voice gave the command.
-Yes. - The man replied and started the car's engine.
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I came away from Stark even more satisfied, though it seemed more so. My armour would get some much needed upgrades. He was doubtful about some of the armour, though, and he'd laughed heartily at my suggestion at the beginning of the conversation. He said I had confused his armour with medieval armour. But we'll see who has the last laugh.
After buying a bicycle from a shop along the way, I headed out away from people to test my new ability.
Overall, my skills with hellfire were pretty flawed. I couldn't attack properly with it except by touching it. And increasing its heat level was also a bit of a mess. But I learnt the most spectacular trick of the racer quite easily. Namely, I was able to ride across the field on a bike with flaming wheels. It probably would have looked epic if I hadn't bought a BMX. It was fun, but it just didn't feel right. Especially afterwards I had to run to the car to get a bottle of water so my fire trail wouldn't cause a fire.
Well, Rome wasn't built in a day either. I'll learn and get better. Only frustrating is the lack of understanding of the amount of my mana. After all, the time to use this perk depends on it. The same fire cover for the bike took a minimum, which was covered by energy regeneration. But to heat up the flames to melting stone and destroy a couple of relatives of Ben Grim already drained my reserves by half. That's a shame. But I was able to test some of my theories. After building a mini fire with some lighter fluid and matches, I dipped my hand into it. And my expectations were fulfilled. By expending some of the energy, I gain immunity to heat damage.
After that I added liquid to the fire and learnt that energy expenditure depends on the temperature of the flame. And I probably can't resist the same flamethrower for more than 4-5 minutes. But knowing my limits, I can run to the nearest fire right now and cosplay Dany. Thankfully, Game of Thrones is here and my cosplay won't be taken for exhibitionism.
After gathering up all my things and putting out the fire, Raine left the clearing safely. He was followed by the shadow that was hiding a couple of hundred metres away from his training place.
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