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Kevin sought out physicists to investigate matters related to time travel.
However, they couldn't reach a conclusion immediately and required a long period of research.
Kevin wasn't in a hurry. As things stood, the overlap between the two timelines wasn't severe. Aside from Supes with special abilities, almost no one could touch the other timeline.
Compared to that, the Hero Association was more important.
The appearance of severed limbs on the President's desk in the White House greatly helped Kevin.
The current President was terrified. According to rumors, he nearly wet his pants, and the establishment of the Hero Association faced much less resistance as a result.
At least within America, and within permissible limits, the Hero Association possessed unlimited law enforcement authority.
From that perspective, it was already much stronger than the former The Seven.
According to the white-haired President, The Seven had been doing similar things before, so it was merely a transfer of responsibilities from The Seven to the Hero Association, which was nothing significant.
However, perhaps to suppress Kevin, or to save face, Congress still decided to establish a Supe Oversight Department.
The newly established Supe Oversight Department had the authority to regulate and investigate Supes not belonging to the Hero Association, and also had investigative power over some heroes within the Hero Association.
Furthermore, if certain Superheroes committed crimes in the future, after the Hero Association stripped them of their superpowers, they would need to be handed over to the Supe Oversight Department for detention and investigation.
Kevin had no objections to this and agreed to the establishment of the Supe Oversight Department.
If you ask why...
The head of the Supe Oversight Department was Victoria Neuman, who had recently gained considerable fame.
She was Kevin's person.
This meant that all authority concerning Supes was, in fact, overseen by Kevin, with little to no relation to Congress or the President.
With the establishment of the Supe Oversight Department, the turmoil that had arisen finally subsided.
Kevin finally had time to organize the skill points he had accumulated.
Kevin hadn't calculated his skill points in a long time, but with one point daily and after causing so much trouble, his skill points had now exceeded fifty, approaching sixty.
This many skill points was truly a first in history.
Kevin decided to spend this batch of skill points first.
Currently, the skill located in the head was Fighter's Body, at a high level six.
Kevin wasn't ready to upgrade Fighter's Body to level seven, and he didn't have enough skill points yet. Rather than focusing on upgrading a single skill, he should prioritize overall development.
So, Kevin first allocated sixteen skill points to upgrade Deep Sea Immortality, which had been stuck at level four for a long time, to level five.
At level four, Deep Sea Immortality had a three-day cooldown for resurrection, with the condition that it could be used anywhere with water.
However, level five Deep Sea Immortality underwent a qualitative change.
Not only did the cooldown change from three days to 24 hours, but there were also almost no restrictions on the conditions for resurrection.
The reason it's 'almost' is that there's one restriction: 'must exist on a planet with a water source.'
This means that as long as Kevin is on a planet with water, even if he dies in the desert without water nearby, he can still resurrect.
Just looking at it this way, it doesn't seem much different from the previous conditions.
But... Kevin couldn't guarantee that he would always have water around him.
If he encountered enemies in the future who could instantly evaporate all the water Kevin created, then the level four condition would clearly be insufficient.
"At least I don't have to worry about losing my life easily anymore. Hmm... there's no one who can kill me with this physique now, right?"
With a level six physique, Kevin felt he was already infinitely close to Superman in the DC Universe, the kind that isn't afraid of Kryptonite.
He couldn't think of anyone who could kill him with such a physique.
With Deep Sea Immortality upgraded to level five, Kevin then allocated twelve skill points to upgrade Weakness Detection from LV2 to LV4.
The early effects of Weakness Detection were not significant.
Most people whose weaknesses Kevin could see were weaker than him, and the weaknesses of those stronger than him were not obvious, so this skill seemed to be of little use.
But that absolutely doesn't mean this skill is truly useless.
Weakness Detection, according to the skill description, should produce an effect similar to 'Mystic Eyes of Death Perception' when maxed out, allowing one to directly see a person's death.
Level four Weakness Detection should also be absolutely strong. In the future, as Kevin continues to traverse worlds, he might encounter even more powerful enemies, so a skill that can see an enemy's weaknesses is very necessary.
With Weakness Detection upgraded to level four, Kevin also upgraded Deep Sea Senses on the same skill line to level four.
This cost twelve skill points.
Deep Sea Senses is an active detection skill. Level two sensing could only be used underwater, detecting the general situation within a few kilometers.
After upgrading to level four, not only did the range of underwater sensing expand, but Kevin could also perform sensing on land.
The range was smaller than underwater, but it compensated for Kevin's deficiency in sensing methods.
"Now I have clairvoyance and clairsentience too."
Kevin joked, trying out the level four sensing ability.
While Homelander was generally weaker than Kevin, he had two abilities that were much stronger: Super Vision and Super Hearing.
The former allowed Homelander to see through all obstacles and observe distant places.
The latter enabled Homelander to hear sounds from miles away.
These were areas where Kevin couldn't compare.
But now, Kevin's shortcomings compared to Homelander were also compensated. Aside from not having heat vision and not being able to fly, Kevin could probably even cosplay Homelander now without any issues.
Three skills alone cost Kevin forty skill points.
Looking at the skill points instantly shrinking to a dozen, Kevin's mouth twitched.
"I thought it was a lot, but it's clearly not enough!"
Fifty-odd skill points seemed like a lot, but in reality, they were used up in minutes once allocated.
Kevin had originally intended to upgrade both 'Mystic Rune' and 'Form Shift' to level four.
Now, it seemed he could only prioritize upgrading 'Form Shift,' which allowed him to transform into an elemental creature, to level four first.
Skill points - 12.
...I have a few points left. I'll save them for a trip back to Wolverine 3 and see. The other skills will have to wait for my favor later.
Kevin muttered to himself after spending a large sum of skill points.
Kevin had already confirmed the time flow in the Marvel World during this period and had even retrieved the second version of Compound V from Banner.
The time flow in the Marvel World was a bit slower than in the The Boys world.
Several days would pass in the The Boys world before one day passed there, which meant that skill points from the Marvel World increased very slowly, almost as if there were none.
But the good news was that if Kevin no longer served as the Sorcerer Supreme in the future, he wouldn't have to pause time in the Marvel Universe, which was quite troublesome.
Such was the Marvel Universe, but who knew how much time had passed in Wolverine 3.
If Kevin's guess was correct, and the source of one skill point per day was from Wolverine 3, then a very long time had probably passed in Wolverine 3.
Kevin had thought about returning to Wolverine 3 once things settled down here.
Now was the time.
However, before returning... Kevin still had one more thing to prepare for.
His engagement to Annie.
They had been in love for so long; it was time to officially confirm their relationship.
...
In the West, engagement ceremonies and wedding ceremonies are not too different.
Both require a pastor to officiate and guide the entire process.
Other guests would offer their blessings from below.
The engagement location didn't have to be a church, but to make it formal, Kevin still took Annie to a church for the engagement ceremony.
He also arranged for the television station to broadcast it.
After all, this was the engagement ceremony of 'Deep Sea' and 'Starlight.' The two finally confirmed their relationship as fiancés, which would surely make many members of the 'Star-Sea Fan Club' faint with excitement.
Many guests were invited to the engagement, including Maeve, who had lost her powers, and she brought her girlfriend to attend the engagement banquet.
Even the Church of the Collective sent people to offer their blessings.
Although Kevin had long decided that the Church of the Collective would be his next target, since they were so sensible as to offer blessings, Kevin decided to let them live a bit longer.
The engagement process was not long. Under the witness of the pastor, Kevin and Annie exchanged their engagement rings and placed them on their left middle fingers, officially signing the marriage contract.
Incidentally, Annie's mother, Donna, also attended the engagement banquet as a guest.
She was Annie's mother; it was impossible for her not to come for such a big event as Annie's marriage.
As for Annie's father, there was still no news of him, and it was unknown if he didn't want to see Donna, as he didn't come today.
After the engagement ceremony, Kevin specifically sought out Donna to chat.
He didn't call Annie over, nor did he use his identity as the CEO of Vought to pressure Donna. He simply chatted with Donna as Annie's boyfriend.
Donna was a very snobbish person.
She wanted her daughter to be a person of high standing, an existence admired by everyone.
This dream was understandable, as most parents in this world hope their children will achieve great things.
But Donna's dream also contained personal interests.
And personal interests perhaps accounted for the majority.
Otherwise, Donna wouldn't have injected her daughter with an unknown potion, referring to Compound V.
Injecting her children with Compound V, an unverified drug on the market, just for the dream that her offspring would become Superheroes and bring her fame.
This was a common mindset among most Supe parents.
Donna was no exception.
Therefore, Kevin specifically explained to her that although Kevin and Annie had become a couple and would become husband and wife in the future, this did not mean Donna could completely rely on Kevin's influence to act recklessly.
Kevin told her that if Donna, as Annie's mother, caused any trouble she shouldn't have, and was completely in the wrong, Kevin would not provide her with any assistance.
This point was also agreed upon by Annie.
In short, if Donna simply acted as an elder to the two, they would naturally treat her with the respect due to an elder.
But if she wanted to use that identity to do something...
Then, sorry, they wouldn't know her, wouldn't be familiar with her.
Neither Kevin nor Annie would bother with Donna.
Only after ensuring that Donna fully understood this fact did Kevin allow Annie and Donna to meet, giving the mother and daughter an opportunity to finally open up and talk.
And it was the day after the engagement ended, after informing Annie, that Kevin returned to Wolverine 3.
His main purpose in going to Wolverine 3 this time was two-fold.
The first was to confirm how much time had passed in Wolverine 3.
The second was to undergo the 'Ocean Lord' class transfer in Wolverine 3, to see what would happen when a class transfer was performed in an instance world.
The skill tree did not warn Kevin against performing class transfers in instance worlds. No prohibition meant permission.
Kevin decided to give it a try.
To see if he could use Wolverine 3 to jump to another world not belonging to Marvel.
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