《Bloody New World》Explanations, concerns and new abilities! (Not a chapter)
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Abilities gained so far:
Absorption.
Flight.
Observation.
Pain resistance.
Disease resistance.
Stamina increase.
Enhanced speed.
Poison-resistance… Evolved into Weak-poison Immunity.
Enhanced strength…. Upgraded to Super-strength.
Regeneration.
Fire-manipulation.
Water-manipulation.
Earth-manipulation.
Invisibility.
Night-vision.
Heat-vision.
Steel-skin.
Healing.
Air-manipulation.
Heat and cold resistance.
Hiding presence.
Telekinesis.
Increased luck.
Lightning-manipulation.
Ice manipulation.
Improved vision.
Telepathy.
Perception.
Elemental Control.
Teleportation.
Ability-Identification
Metal-manipulation
X-ray Vision
Enlarged Stomach
I think I got all the abilities so far (Not counting the ones from chapter 21) but if anyone spots an ability that is missing from this list let me know and I’ll update it.
Before we go to the details of the abilities he gained last chapter from his travels, I’d like to explain my thought process of abilities a bit further.
1) Physical abilities (Eg: speed, strength, agility, dexterity etc) are abilities which have three basic tiers:
Enhanced: This is the first and weakest tier. This tier enhances your physical ability to the maximum possible limit for a human. This tier will use every possible cell in your body for a specific purpose, so enhanced speed will make use of everything possible in your body to make you go as fast as possible. (Normal people only having one ability will be much slower than MC, as MC uses enhanced speed usually when he is flying which makes him much faster than others with the same ability as he doesn’t have to move his legs to take actual running steps) That being said, even normal ability users with enhanced speed will be fast enough to only be seen as blurs.
Super: Second tier for physical abilities. This tier will make your physical ability go above and beyond the limits of humanity. So for example if a person with enhanced strength can lift a 16-wheeler truck with a single hand, a person with super-strength will be able to lift a Boeing 747 airplane with a single hand. This is just to give you an example of the difference between the two tiers. However, there will still be a limit to this tier.
Ultimate: Third and strongest tier for physical abilities, and also the rarest (obviously). This tier has no limits, so if you get this tier for your ability you may be strong enough to punch through a planet, or you may just be a bit stronger than the super tier. This tier will always be stronger than the ‘super’ tier, but exactly how much stronger is up to luck and a few other factors (which will be revealed later on.) For the MC, the limit will be defined by how much blood he drinks from a person/monster with this tier, though he will need A LOT of blood to be able to punch through planets :P
2) Elemental and variant abilities (Eg: 4 basic elements and their variants, does not include stuff like blood, space, time etc) These abilities also have 3 basic tiers:
Manipulation: Weakest and most common tier. It requires the element or the variant element to be present in your surroundings to be able to manipulate it. Degree of how much you can control varies. I believe I explained it in the initial chapters so won’t repeat it here.
Control: Stronger then ‘manipulation’, but this tier also requires the element or variant to be present in your surroundings to be able to control it. However, degree of control is much stronger than the previous tier, and this tier also makes it easier for you to control elemental attacks aimed at you from others. Eg: If the MC had absorbed more blood with this ability when the abominations rose up, he would have been able to easily control all attacks and avoid them, and not just the fireballs, and Carmen would have had a higher chance of surviving.
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Creation: Strongest tier, it gives the strongest degree of control over elements and their variants and also allows you to create them without the need for them to be present in your surroundings. Eg: In the previous two tiers you would have been able to control fire anywhere on Earth because of the combustion of oxygen which is present in the air, but you wouldn’t have been able to use fire in a vacuum because of the lack of oxygen. The ‘creation’ tier will allow you to create fire even in a vacuum and thus you will be able to control it. As with the previous ‘ultimate’ tier of physical abilities, the degree of how much power this tier will grant you varies greatly. You may be able to control and create water larger than the size of Earth, or you may only be able to create and control water the size of half an ocean. Variation depends on luck and some other factors.
3) Evolvable abilities: These abilities are extremely rare, and they can be evolved to make them stronger. MC only knows about one ability that can be evolved: poison resistance which can be evolved into poison immunity. However, not all abilities with the word ‘resistance’ in them can be evolved, as is evident because of the fact that MC has abilities like disease-resistance, pain resistance etc, but he didn’t get a message regarding their evolution when he received them. I have a few more abilities that can be evolved in mind, which will be revealed later on down the road. :P
4) Abilities with undefined power-levels: (Eg: flight, telekinesis, vision-abilities, hearing-abilities etc) These are abilities that do not have any defined power levels. For normal people or monsters, they are stuck with whatever they got through luck. For example two people have the flight ability, one of them can fly to a height of 15 stories while the other can only fly to a height of 10 stories. There is no way for normal people to improve these abilities. However, the MC is a bit different because of his unique ability, which makes it possible for him to gain limitless potential with these abilities. For example if he can find other humans with telekinesis, he can absorb all their blood and be able to control every single living thing on the planet with his mind, but to do that he will first need to find living things with these abilities and have to drink a seriously huge amount of blood to get this powerful. Think thousands and thousands and thousands of liters worth of blood!
5) Restricted abilities (Eg: teleportation, all unique abilities) Basically all these abilities have pre-existing restrictions on them which can’t be overcome no matter what. Teleportation, for example, has a restriction on being able to only teleport to places you have visited or to places you can see, but you can’t see a picture of a place and teleport there as that is restricted. Even if MC drinks all the blood in the world he won’t be able to get over this restriction. A bit of a spoiler here, be WARNED. Nothing major though… All unique abilities are also restricted in one way or the other, including MC’s absorption ability. The restriction with MC’s ability will be revealed later, and the restriction with a lot of other unique abilities will be revealed later on down the road.
6) Healing abilities (eg: healing, regeneration, curing) These abilities also have three tiers:
Basic: Just basic abilities, allowing you to heal minor injuries and regenerate lost body parts. However, this ability will be the slowest healing ability of the lot. If MC didn’t have regeneration when his arm got burned, it would still have taken him a few weeks to get his arm healed up again, but because regeneration only had to regenerate flesh and skin, and not bones, it quickened the healing of his arm considerably.
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Rapid: Much faster than the previous tier. This tier will enable you to regenerate, heal or cure diseases at a rapid pace. For instance, if it takes 4 hours to regenerate a leg in the previous tier, the ‘rapid’ tier ability will be able to regenerate the leg in less than 30 minutes. This tier also enables you to cure more serious diseases quicker, or heal more serious injuries quickly.
Instant: Heals, regenerates or cures instantly. The lines between regeneration and healing gets a bit blurred here actually, as if you have a strong enough ‘instant healing’ ability, you will also be able to re-attach lost limbs or even re-attach if your head gets cuts off! However, regeneration will allow you to regenerate a new limb or a head, while instant healing will require you to actually have the limb or head in order to re-attach it. This tier also allows you to instantly cure almost any disease, including curses! Degree of how much you can cure, or heal, or regenerate will depend as always on luck and a few other factors, and for MC it will depend on how much blood he can absorb.
7) Other abilities (Observation, perception etc) Explanations were getting a bit long so let’s just end it here. Throw in any ability you can think of in this category. :P If you have a particular ability on which you are unclear, feel free to comment below and ask me about it and I’ll explain it in the best way I can.
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Addressing a few concerns:
completely emotionless! Plus, another glaring fact that almost everyone seems to be missing is BIOLOGY! A human has hormones, and no matter what the MC does he can’t control them. He went into a rage at the end of last chapter, which caused his blood to pump, which cause his hormones to go crazy and which resulted in him not thinking with his head for a bit and making a stupid decision. Someone also commented that he should have used ability-identification on the T-rex and the dragon, but seriously when you have a huge-ass T-rex running at you or you are instilled with ‘dragon’s fear’, your brain isn’t thinking straight! The MC was scared shitless, and all his brain was thinking at those moments was how to escape with his life, and NOT on standing there using his ability-identification on those monstrosities! This does NOT mean that he will get emotional, it only means that on very, very rare occasions emotions may get the better of him for a short amount of time. This won’t happen a lot, maybe once every 20-30 chapters..? Maybe even less…
3) Concerns about how MC will fall in love because he is supposed to have dampened emotions. Yes, I get it, but just because I have entered a female lead into the story, it doesn’t mean both of them will fall in love immediately and live happily ever after. The character of the MC will stay the same, and it will take a LONG time for BOTH the MC and the heroine to actually develop feelings for each other. Again, I’m trying to portray ‘real’ characters, and you don’t just fall in love immediately in real life in usual cases.
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New Abilities:
This must be what you all have been waiting for, so let’s get straight to it. These are the abilities which he improved and the new abilities he gained from the last chapter:
Improved abilities:
Enhanced speed has been upgraded to super-speed.
Weak-poison immunity has evolved into moderate-poison immunity.
Regeneration has improved to rapid-regeneration.
Steel-skin has improved to diamond-skin (Thanks to Hyoudo for this idea, his comment actually was extremely similar in terms of abilities to be improved to what I was thinking!)
Absorbed more blood to improve the following: Flight, pain resistance, stamina increase, heat and cold resistance, night-vision and heat-vision.
Newly gained abilities:
These are all mainly ideas taken from your comments. As mentioned in the last chapter, MC only gained 11 new abilities so obviously I was unable to add all abilities that everyone mentioned, but thank you all so much for all comments! You all had so many great ideas that I really had a hard time choosing only 11! If what you said isn’t mentioned below, I apologize, but I will try to get them into the story later on. One ability that a few of you mentioned was blood-manipulation, and although I agree it fits very nicely, I have a plan for him to get this ability later on. So, he won’t be getting this ability right now, sorry! Another popular ability was multi-language, but the probabilities of him gaining a language ability from creatures/monsters was low, especially since he can’t fight against monsters that are intelligent enough to speak like dragons etc. Mostly I picked abilities that had multiple comments. The abilities he gained last chapter are:
Pocket dimension/inventory. Allows him to get a small pocket dimension that is able to store things. Time is frozen in this pocket dimension, so food stored here will stay as fresh when taken out as it was when it was put into this dimension.
Metabolism control. Allows him to control metabolism in his body, which makes him need much less food and water. Though he will still need to eat and drink from time to time.
Summoning. (Will be explained in detail a bit later, maybe in two chapters from now. Always wanted him to gain a summoning ability, so when I read so many comments for it I HAD to add this)
Intimidation. Allows him to intimidate others, though it won’t work on someone or something much stronger than him.
Voice-manipulation. Allows him to changes his voice, and ‘throw’ his voice so it appears that he is speaking from somewhere where his body isn’t present.
Acid control. (different from the ‘control’ tier mentioned above.) Allows him to throw acid or cover weapons with acid.
Poison control. (Again, different from the ‘control’ tier) Allows him to throw poison or cover surfaces with poison.
Mental fortitude. Makes him resistant to mental attacks.
True sight. Allows hims to see through lies, deceptions and invisibility. (Thanks Mackoy)
Improved sense of direction. Allows him to know which direction is which, making it easier for him to navigate.
Appearance manipulation. Allows hims to manipulate his appearance and change it to some degree. (Won’t allow him to change gender, not a fan of gender-benders)
Alright, that’s it! Mainly picked abilities which were more popular. The abilities not mentioned above will either be gained later on down the road, or a few of them won’t be gained at all. Some of you mentioned overly powerful abilities, but again he isn’t strong enough to beat such overly powerful creatures yet so please wait till he gets stronger.
Let me know of anything else you wish to know, and what do you think about my choices above for the abilities? I didn’t want him to get too powerful too quick. Also, do you guys want me to justify how he got all the above abilities, and actually mention in the story exactly how and from which animal/creature he got them, or do you want to just get on with the story and assume 'he must have gotten them somehow during his travels'... I honestly don't mind either way, will just do what the majority of you want.
Thank you very much for all the suggestions last chapter! Will probably have another chapter ready for you guys tomorrow, once again sorry for no chapter today :P
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