But even if his plan to attract the attention of demigods work and he manages to reach out to the demigods, he doesn't dare to appear in front of them.
It might not even be a good thing for him to attract the attention of demigods. He can still remember the power of demigods on Lignum and how devastating that power can be. So he gave up on the idea of an alliance for now.
He decided to focus on himself especially since he still remembers the promise he made to himself about finding something stronger than diamond.
He doesn't hope to find something that can help him withstand damage from demigods, but something very difficult for mortals to damage will be good enough for him.
If he can find such a thing, he won't have to be so afraid of Icon anymore. He might even be able to turn the tables on Icon.
He chuckled and said, "I don't want much. Anything better than diamond will do."
He has had a lot of issues with Diamond before this moment. His issues aren't because diamond is weak. Diamond is strong, but it is not perfect.
In fact, diamond is far from perfect. It has too many weaknesses to be considered perfect.
Diamond is hard and strong, but it is brittle. That means it can shatter easily.
Diamond might be difficult to scratch, but a sufficient amount of force along its lines of weakness can shatter the bonds. that hold it together and make it break apart into smaller pieces.
He has been able to make up for this weakness with his ability to shift his body. But the weakness always shows up when his body fails to withstand abrupt shock.
Diamond is also weak to fire. Actually, diamonds can burn.
Not only can it burn, it can shatter if it experiences drastic changes to temperature. If it cools rapidly after being heated, it will break.
Then there is the fact that it can stop spiritual attacks, sound attacks, and attacks made of light.
Its inability to resist spiritual attacks is why he was able to defeat the original owner of the ability and take the ability for himself.
He has lowered his expectations to finding something better than diamond, and he is certain of achieving it. In fact, he is confident in fixing the weaknesses of diamonds too.
It is something that he is confident of because diamond is not the strongest and hardest material known to man and because he has the Solid Material Shifting ability.
On Earth-11, humans haven't discovered a material that can be considered divine, but they have discovered natural and artificial materials that are stronger than diamond.
In fact, there are six of them. In order of their strength, they are Wurtzite boron nitride, Lonsdaleit, Dyneema, Palladium microalloy glass, Buckypaper, and Graphene.
It can't be said that they are perfect, but all of them have certain areas of advantages over diamonds in terms of strength, resistance to scratches, and toughness. So they are candidates to replace diamond.
If he were to simply replace diamonds with them, he would surely have a stronger material, but it would be a material with a weakness.
Graphene, for instance, despite being the strongest one, is the easiest to fracture. What's worse is that a single fracture in its structure will render the whole unstable.
It is because graphene is just a single atom thick. This renders it weak to strain that is equal in every direction.
This is where Solid Material Shifting ability comes in. He can solve the weaknesses of materials by creating alloys with them.
With this Omega ability, he can solve the weaknesses of diamond by fusing it with spider silk known for its toughness, silica nanospheres, and silicon carbide.
These three materials are not harder than diamond, so it will be very difficult for them to increase the strength of the alloy they will make if they fuse with diamond, but they will make the alloy fire, shock, light, and sound resistant.
With Solid Material Shifting ability alone, he can hope to create a nearly perfect material. He can only hope because the process of making an alloy can create a weaker material.
For instance, diamond relies on the unique bond of its carbon atoms and the shape of its molecules for its incredible strength and hardness. If he dopes the diamond with other materials, this might solve its weaknesses, but it will surely make the diamond impure, which will reduce its strength and toughness.
The fusion will lead to a sort of give and take. Which is why the lesser the number of materials he fused and the more similar the materials are to each other, the better the outcome of the fusion will be.
He said to himself after thinking about it, "I should fuse diamond and graphene. They are both carbon-based, so there shouldn't be much of a clash between them. If done well, I will have a material nearly resistant to mortal means."
He plans to fuse the strongest material known to man with diamond. Graphene is rare, but he is sure he can find it.
The problem is how to find it without Icon getting a hold of him. This is a problem he can't find a solution to no matter how much he thinks about it.
So he decided not to solve that problem. Instead, he decided to create a problem to distract Icon with.
His plan is similar to when he made Icon appear within his safe house that was rigged to blow. But this time, he wants to find something capable of endangering Icon.
The problem is that whatever can harm Icon can also harm him.
He sighed and said, "At least I will be ready for it."
First, he sent one of his shadows to find graphene for him.
He still has shadows up in the world. Once they have found the graphene, he will send the shadow to a volcano.
Next he will induce the volcano to erupt. He plans to use a bomb to do so when.
He will drop the bomb into the volcano. The bomb will detonate within the volcano. Once it starts to erupt, he will swap places with the shadow and return quickly.
He said to himself with a grin, "If Icon appears there, he will have to deal with a face full of a volcanic eruption. I wish I could see it."
He can imagine just how pissed Icon would be in that situation. He wished he could see it, but he wouldn't be able to since he would have to run away.
While he was thinking about what Icon would do when he appeared on top of an erupting volcano, the shadow clone that would risk his life creating the eruption was grumbling about tyranny.
But he had no choice in the matter. As a shadow of Kelvin, he does everything and only everything that Kelvin wishes.
Besides, the shadows are not living things. They are just the manifestations of his abilities.
They can think just like a machine. But that is only enough to understand the instructions he gives them and execute them.
The reason why they appear to be sentient is because he had given them his memories to work with. That way they can pretend to care about their lives.
He thought to himself, "Speaking of abilities, the new one is worthy of replacing Slot 6 as an assassin."
Slot 6 used to be occupied by his shape-shifting ability. But it has been replaced by the Spatial Anchor ability.
The new shadow of slot 6 can't change how he looks, but he can still kill people easily.
His repertoire of abilities has undergone a lot of changes from an hour ago when he fused Shape-shifting ability with the Myriad Physique ability to create Solid Material Shifting ability. He checked his destiny report to see the total extent of changes.
Name: Kelvin Thorn.
Health: 109,248,588. Stamina: 109,248,588. Focus: 436,994,352.
Class: Physique. Tier: 1 (Professional League)
Level: 10 >>> 29
Strength: 10%. Constitution: 20%. Speed: 10%.
Endurance: 10%. Vitality: 10%.
Mind: 40%.
Kill Count: 65,528 >>> 83,142
Fans: 703 >>> 657
Game Points: 1870 > > > 1,730
Power Rating: (657 × 83,142 x 2) = 109,248,588 (A-rank)
Abilities:
A. Power Shifting (Divine): Shadow Clones.
1: Solid Material Shifting (Omega Ability): Fuse 0/20. Remove 0/1.
2: Juggernaut's Force (Omega Ability): Fuse 0/80. Remove 0/1.
3: Mind Overseer (Omega Ability): Fuse 0/80. Remove 0/1. Discover stories with My Virtual Library Empire
4: Life Domination (Omega Ability): Fuse 0/80. Remove 0/1.
5: Extraordinary Perception (Omega Ability): Fuse 0/20. Remove 0/1.
6: Spatial Anchor (Omega Ability): Fuse 0/10. Remove 0/1.
7: (Open 0/1280).
His game points have reduced to 1,730 so that every ability can become omega abilities.
Only Extraordinary Perception and Life Domination haven't changed since he returned to Earth-11 from Lignum. The rest have changed in significant ways, which have made him more powerful.