Name: Kelvin Thorn.
Health: 300/300. Stamina: 540/540. Focus: 300/300.
Class: Physique. Tier: 0 (Amateur League)
Level: 2
Strength: 30. Constitution: 30.
Endurance: 54. Vitality: 30.
Speed: 30. Mind: 30.
Kill Count: 24.
Fans: 1.
Game Points: 18.
Power Rating: 204 (Unranked)
Abilities:
A. Shape-shifting (Alpha): 1-Malleable Anatomy.
B. Power Shifting (Omega): 1-Steel Bones (Fuse 0/10 | Remove 0/1). 2- (Empty). 3-Locked (Open 0/40)
There are a lot of changes. For one, he is level 2 now. He has also unlocked his second slot at the cost of 20 game points. He will need 40 game points to get a third slot. The expenditure reduced his total game points from 38 to 18.
These are expected changes. What he didn't expect was that he had gained one fan. Apparently, someone had been impressed with his performance enough to want to support his climb of the tower.
This fan gave him a single unit of temporary destiny. When multiplied by his kill count, it made the single fan as valuable as 24.
He put the single unit of temporary destiny into his endurance because he felt that he needed it. This increased his endurance and power rating from 180 to 204.
He would be able to use the extra 24 power more if he put it into strength, as he would be able to shift it to constitution and speed with his ability if he needed to. But today's experience showed him that he couldn't handle prolonged combat that required intense shape shifting.
The short, intense fight with the angry man had caused him to shift almost all the bones in front of him to grow spikes and turn him into a porcupine. Then he had had to lose a lot of his flesh in order to get his arm down the man's throat.
Next he had to shift his hands into a deadly weapon, heal himself of the injury the man did to his body, and shift himself to hunt while also running at his fastest speed over a distance of hundreds of meters.
Those actions came easy, but they came at a cost of stamina. He was running on fumes by the end of it. This makes him feel that he has to prepare himself for such strenuous activities in the future, so he went with endurance, not strength.
He was in a good mood as he left the tower. Wrath was waiting for him there.
The spirit asked with a smile, "You are in a good mood. Why is that?"
He replied as he moved to pick up his phone for another study session of abilities, "I won. Well, sort of. I completed the objective."
Wrath asked, "Is that all?"
Kelvin realized he had missed something, so he exclaimed, "Oh yes. I got enough game points to unlock the second slot, and I have enough left to fuse my first ability."
Wrath was still smiling as it asked again, "Is that all?"
His smile made Kelvin suspicious. He thought about what he could have missed before replying with a smile, "I got a new fan today. I guess I am rubbing off on some people."
Wrath burst out laughing. Its reaction made Kelvin roll his eyes. He asked, "What's funny now?"
Wrath replied in between chuckles, "I am your fan."
Kelvin frowned. "What do you mean?"
"I was at the game. I saw you and decided to support you. I didn't know that I was going to be your first fan."
His frown didn't ease up. He said, "I didn't expect that."
"That's why it is extra funny. I saw you as Alina. Poor girl. You've defiled her image. The look on her face when she finds out will be priceless."
That removed his frown and made him chuckle. He said, "I wish I could see her face."
Wrath said with a wistful tone, "Me too."
Then it asked, "Have you decided on what ability you want next?"
He scoffed at that. "I have a lot of abilities that I want, but their wielders are too strong for me."
Wrath agreed, "That's true. If you have money or power, it will be easier to get more powerful abilities."
He shrugged and said, "In the meantime, I will just have to be content with the dregs of society. That's why I think I should get that metal skin ability and something useful as a placeholder for my second slot."
Wrath nodded, "When do we go?"
He replied, "I'll start preparations after I relax. Even then, it will take a while to do the research. A mental ability to improve my ability would come in handy right now."
Wrath considered what he said and suggested, "Those should be easy to get, but only if their wielders are unranked. Mental abilities like that usually accompany some other nasty abilities, but they are harmless and weak on their own."
"We will just have to see what the bush will give after we shake it."
He returned to reading, while Wrath returned to watching television. Currently, a large incursion is being shown on the news channel.
The incursion was in progress. It was also large enough to see more of it. A large space in that location was twisting and churning. This created cracks in space that extended outwards, which made space look like cracked glass.
Everything around the crack was eviscerated by the crack. The strange energy being ejected from the center of the churning whirlpool was tainting the things beyond the cracks.
It was like a rainbow spring. It had many colors and looked pretty. Some might be fooled to think it was harmless. But it caused the mutation of flora and fauna as soon as it touched them.
Some of the living things died outright. The energy warped them beyond their capacity to live. But some didn't die. They became incursion zombies.
This didn't happen equally to every living thing. Plants would either die or mutate and become something else. Only animals had the option to become incursion zombies. Something about the energy changed animals differently.