He doesn't know the answer to that question. All he knows is that both options have negative impacts and will bring him a lot of trouble.
He doesn't know the answer to that question. All he knows is that both options will bring him a lot of trouble.
Crippling himself is obviously bad. He also has to do it thoroughly, or it wouldn't last. He would be exposed if he doesn't do it thoroughly, so his attempt at it and the game points he put into it would be a waste.
But if he exposes himself, he will invite a lot of trouble as people from all over the world start looking for him.
"I can continue to toe the line for now, but I will have to make a decision eventually. Maybe it is time to start preparing for the fallout."
"I need the ability to escape danger. That Earth Escape ability would do perfectly. But there is no easy way to get it."
If only he could buy a slave with an omega ability, his problems would be easy to solve. But they don't sell them. And even if they sell them, how are they going to keep a guy that can teleport or escape through the earth imprisoned?
He snorted as he thought about it. "They will be better at killing such a person than capturing and enslaving them."
He shook his head. "I guess I still have to rely on my own cabal to find people with useful abilities for myself. Which means I have to get that diamond skin ability."
He thought about it and nodded confidently. "No matter what. The diamond skin ability will be useful. I should reevaluate my situation after I get it."
According to his expectations, he will have the option to fuse the diamond skin ability with his first slot. If that were to happen, he might lose his steel physique.
Which means he won't be able to pretend to anyone that his ability is changing his body to steel. He will have to forgo the identity of Riptide and probably have to cut off his ties with Pauli.
He has so many problems to think about that it has become stressful to think about them.
So he said, "I'll think about it when I get the ability."
He decided to rethink his situation after getting the diamond skin ability. In the meantime, he would read his messages and go back to the real world.
As a super in the professional league of the Tower of Destiny, he gains access to another perk called the Communication System. With it, one can send messages to someone else in the professional league.
All he will need is the title of the person in the professional league to send the message to them. While this message will arrive instantaneously, the receiver won't receive a notification of its arrival when it arrives.
They will only be able to know of the message and read it when they return to the Tower of Destiny. This and the fact that the communication system doesn't allow real-time communication is why it is not a substitute for phones.
But it does have its advantages. For instance, the communication system is particularly useful to get in touch with a target whose identity is not known in real life.
Many people who hadn't been able to reach him now finally had a way to reach him. This is significant because, apparently, there were a lot of these people. So there were a lot of messages from them.
Their messages appeared like floating bubbles in the white, empty world of the Tower of Destiny. These bubbles contained colorful scenes frozen in time. It is until he opens them that the scenes will be able to play out.
Even as he examined the bubbles, more bubbles were appearing by the moment. Already, they were a hundred in number, but more was appearing.
The sight of so many messages almost made him quit trying to open them. But he soldiered through and opened them one by one.
He selected a message bubble and pulled it to himself. Then he tapped it when it got close to him. This caused the bubble to pop and the message within it to fall out.
Sometimes the messages are just simple texts. This will only be the purpose of the message and nothing else. It is used by those who want to keep their identities in real life a secret.
Other times, some people's identities in real life and in the Tower of Destiny are the same and can't be separated. This is usually the case with heroes and those who rely on fan count for power. So these people don't have any qualms about exposing their identities in the messages.
For this latter group of people, their messages can be audio or audio-visual. They don't mind that their voices and looks can be used to track them either because they don't care or because their voices and looks are fake.
As he opened the messages one by one, he realized that very few of the senders used text. About 10% of them used text. Even fewer used audio alone. They amounted to just 5% of the total messages.
The bulk of messages, which was at least 85% of them, used video. They recorded themselves speaking in the Tower of Destiny and sent the recording straight to him.
As he read the messages, he chuckled and said, "As expected, most of them are hate messages."
70% of them were hate messages. It was just people cursing him and promising death if they encountered him in the games. Some of them also challenged him to a fight in real life.
It was exhausting to read these messages, but he soldiered on. The occasional messages from people trying to recruit him kept him upbeat, while the messages from those warning and advising him to stop killing gave him some amusement through the tedious work.