After storing all the information in his mind and doing a small test to see if he remembered everything, just in case, Kaito moved on to the next thing.
He looked at his status and went to the second to last section. When he saw the information his expression changed quickly.
[...
Skills: Original Speed Demon(Max), Speedforce(Max), Shadow Manipulation(3/5), True Sight(3/5), Sacred Affinity(5/5), True Damage(4/5), Timeless(5/5), Weak Point(3/5), Omnipotence(5/5), Diamond Skin(3/5), Debuff Immunity(4/5), Gravity Master(4/5), Soul Power(4/5), Zombie Vitality(4/5), Fusion(5/5), Strikeback(3/5), Upgrade(3/5), Nemesis(5/5), Supreme(5/5), fire spear, fire column, fireball, multiple fireball, weak explosion, water spear, water column, water wall, water bullet, waterball, multiple waterball, wave, water threads...]
He obtained a lot of skills from the Omnitrix World, which made it hard to read. Besides that there were the elemental skills, each element had countless spells of its own. Only when you mastered an absurd amount of them would the skill evolve into element manipulation. The only two ways to avoid this were learning element manipulation from the start, like Sonya and later him thanks to his training, or having a special skill or trait. Mashiro, for example, was the fairy queen, with absolute control over all elements, capable of using any existing or invented spell. That is why she had manipulation of all elements from the beginning.
"Clean and efficient", Kaito muttered with envy.
There were of course some special elements he needed to learn, but even so it was enough to ask the fairy in charge to learn them quickly.
Normally Kaito would not give it too much importance, since even if it was annoying it was not a big problem.
"But if I have a solution, why bother?", he said to himself while looking at one of his skills.
[Fusion
Class: Skill.
Description: 1+1=3.
Effect: fuses compatible skills to create skills that share characteristics and improve the originals.
Note: fusion costs money depending on the power of the resulting skill.]
This skill was different from the rest, because when he activated it nothing special happened. Instead the system screen showed a new tab. In it there were two squares at the top that connected to another one at the bottom.
In the upper right corner was the amount of money Kaito currently had, around three hundred million. At the bottom there was a button divided in two parts. The upper part was black and looked like a screen where the price would be shown, while the lower part said fuse. At that moment it was disabled, since no skill was selected.
Being his skill, Kaito instinctively knew how to use it. Just by thinking of a skill it would be placed in the fusion slot.
However, when he thought of "Original Speed Demon" or "Speedforce", a notification appeared saying that he could not fuse skills of a level higher than Fusion.
Kaito knew his goal from the beginning, so he did not waste time and started fusing skills of the same element to later fuse the results with each other.
Fire spear with fireball, the result with multiple fireball, the result with...
And so, when he fused all the ones he had available, he obtained Fire Manipulation.
He repeated the process with all the other elements until he obtained the four elemental manipulations, fire, air, earth and water.
Then he fused the four and also added "Gravity Master", "Shadow Manipulation" and "Sacred Affinity".
Just as the description said, the result improved the characteristics of each individual skill, so he obtained Magic Manipulation, which included all the elements, not just the 7 he fused.
From now on he will learn any magic easily and these will appear inside this skill instead of being added to the status in a disorganized way.
But Kaito did not stop there.
From the last world he obtained many physical skills, so he started fusing them all.
Zombie Vitality, Diamond Skin, True Sight, True Damage, Weak Point, Timeless, Soul Power.
Each time he added a skill the result shone brighter. When all of them were fused, the final skill exploded with an intense golden light that drew Kaito's gaze unconsciously.
Once assimilated, all the information appeared in his head and he could not help but smile.
[Demon King Body.
Class: Skill.
Description: the ultimate skill when it comes to physical attributes, there is no body stronger or more perfect than yours.
Effects:
Perfect eyes: night vision, long distance vision, weak point vision, true sight, super fast vision, weak X ray vision, thermal vision.
Impenetrable mind: immunity to any mental debuff, immunity to mental intrusion, immunity to illusions, resistance to psychological trauma, resistance to weak mental states.
Immortal body: constitution, strength, agility, HP and HP regeneration x50.
Ruler aura: you emit an aura passively that repels enemies, attracts allies, protects allies, calms your mental state, weakens the opponent's mental state, increases charisma and can be focused on a target to cause weakening of up to one hundred percent of its stats and even death depending on its strength. One kilometer range.
Resistance: resistance to all debuffs, from weakening to temporary changes and even erasure from reality.
Note: more effects can be added later.]
When Kaito assimilated the skill he felt something he had not felt in a long time.
His entire body burned horribly from the inside. He felt himself being destroyed and regenerated at the same time, his muscles tearing apart and even for a moment he felt his heart stop.
Kaito fell to the ground on his knees while spitting blood.
Luckily this lasted only a few seconds before it stopped, although for Kaito it felt eternal.
His face stabilized with difficulty before looking at himself, this time his appearance did not change like the last time something similar happened, since all the changes were internal.
But Kaito noticed something more worrying than the pain. He felt an absolute rejection toward the system in front of him.
His mind went blank for a second before returning to normal.
Kaito did not know what it was exactly, he only felt his mind clearer. Nothing had changed, but at the same time everything had changed.
"System, what just happened?", he asked.
The system did not respond for a few seconds, until it finally spoke after ten seconds.
[...Operating again]
[Your skill Demon King Body, to be exact the effect of immunity to any type of mental intrusion, just reacted to the system, no, to the person behind it.]
"Why?", Kaito asked with a serious voice and narrowed eyes.
[I am not sure. However, it seems that this intrusion came from the beginning of your summoning to Gaia. Most likely all of you were subjected to this intrusion and you were not the specific target.]
"What kind of intrusion was it?"
[A mental suggestion type intrusion. It slightly changed your subconscious actions to guide you somewhere. Your skill detected it as a non harmful intrusion, so it was not something bad. That is all I know. However, it has already cleaned your mind completely.]
Kaito remained in silence thinking.
It made sense. He was not the target and it did not seem harmful.
"Even so, having someone enter my mind leaves a bad taste in my mouth", he murmured.
After confirming that whoever was responsible was one of the ones behind the creation of Gaia, someone so far above that Kaito probably did not matter to them at all, and above all that they had not seen his memories, Kaito moved on to the next thing to distract himself.
---
[Name]: Takayama Kaito, Lucifer
[Race]: Original Speed Demon
[Titles]: Lord of the Territory, King of Hell, Demon King, Winner of the Lords Battle (first edition)
[Base Stats]:
HP: 159000 (3190 x50)
MP: 750 (75 x10)
Strength: 6250 ((95 +30) x50 +2500)
Agility: 12600 ((100 +20) x100 +2500)
Constitution: 12500 ((85 +20 +20) x50)
[Skills]:
Original Speed Demon(Max), Speedforce(Max), Demon King Body(Max), Magic Manipulation(5/5), Omnipotence(5/5), Fusion(5/5), Strikeback(3/5), Upgrade(3/5), Nemesis(5/5), Supreme(5/5), Communication(2/5)
[Stat Points]:
[Skill Points]:
[Gold]: 130,500,000
[Resurrections Remaining: 6/3]
---
"Much better", Kaito murmured.
The only bad thing was that the effects of Demon King Body and Original Speed Demon did not stack, the most important one took priority.
For example, agility was not multiplied by one hundred and then by fifty. It was only multiplied by one hundred.
However, in strength, where the previous multiplier was x10, it was replaced by the x50 of the new skill.
While looking at his status, Kaito noticed the communication skill. He had never used it because he had not found an opportunity and it was weak, he had even forgotten about it.
Basically it allows receiving messages from other servers, even outside the country.
The problem is that it only allows one message per day, chosen at random, from a random person.
It is also an active skill, so the message only arrives if Kaito activates the skill. And he can only reply to that person during that day.
A useless skill in every sense.
Even so he decided to try it out of curiosity.
The message he received was:
[My esteemed and noble Lords, receive this message that, by design of the system, is sent automatically and simultaneously. You may call me Cursed with Good Luck Father, servant of the macabre and a proud father.
I will tell you my situation:
My daughter, that wonderful creature of dark spirit and blazing genius, was summoned with me to this world. However, fate decided to cast her far from my reach. Unfortunately for her she appeared in the capital of a kingdom, surrounded by bureaucracy, opulent buildings and guards willing to kill her the moment she tries to fulfill the mission the system gave us. The worst part is that it is impossible for me to reach her immediately.
The girl, always so visionary, had a splendid idea, opening a business. According to her, the great corporations of this world control people like soulless zombies. She liked the idea and wants to do the same. How proud I am to hear her say that. Naturally I want to help her.
Unfortunately, the Gaia system does not have exchange between different currencies. However it allows deposits and withdrawals, so I took the only reasonable measure. I am sending a considerable amount of our family funds along with this message.
This shipment is being sent to more than a million Lords at the same time, so each one will receive a proportional amount. I hope it is not offensively small.
If you can help my little girl, I ask you to send money directly to her name in the system, [The Worst Day Of My Life].
I will be eternally grateful. Family is the most important thing to me, and this time bad luck wanted the only one separated to be her.
Thank you for your attention, your generosity and your possible contribution to my little dark jewel's business dreams.]
Kaito learned quite a lot from this message.
First, the system does not allow the exchange of different currencies.
Second, money can be deposited, withdrawn and even sent from outside Gaia.
But above all he learned that...
"There are truly crazy people in this world", he said while looking at the money received.
Twenty five thousand dollars.
The message said that it had been sent to more than a million Lords. With that proportion the original figure was almost thirty billion dollars (30.000.000.000), something absurd.
And he did it with no guarantee. No matter how rich he was, he would definitely go bankrupt.
"He is either a loving father or a madman who wants his company to collapse", Kaito murmured.
"I will humbly accept your money, and if I ever receive a message from your daughter I will send her money in return."
Even though he said that, he did not have much faith. With one message per day and billions of Lords, the odds were almost zero.
______________________________________
+15 chapters in advance on Patreon.
p-atreon.com/IAMME26
(just delete the hyphen)
80 power stones = 1 extra chapter (cumulative)