Bruce's POV
When I finally reached home, the first thing I did was throw my bag onto the couch before collapsing beside it. The place wasn't dusty at all, my shadow clone had already cleaned everything earlier. Perks of ninjutsu in a Marvel world.
Thanks to my legal emancipation, I no longer had to live with the original Bruce's uncle. Technically, as a minor I required a guardian… but the moment I arrived in this world, I started looking for a way to free myself from that burden. Daredevil crossed my mind as a lawyer, but getting close to any well-known character was basically begging for trouble. Even the "weak" heroes here could crush me casually at start.
So I searched until I found out Janet's father was a lawyer. I arranged a meeting, prepared everything, and after the usual paperwork he started hinting about a "processing fee" that the judge would supposedly require to speed things up.
Yeah. The money was for him.
But I didn't care. My independence was worth far more. The uncle wasn't a bad guy, but after spending over a decade alone and surviving by killing, pretending to be a harmless normal teenager suffocated me. The act made my skin itch. My instincts kept demanding an outlet.
It got so bad I ended up sending shadow clones into Hell's Kitchen just to spill some blood. I wasn't a sadist in my first life, but dying at Root's hands must've twisted something in me. Or maybe I simply needed a way to vent all the anger I'd been suppressing.
Either way… I needed power. Real power.
I opened my system window.
[Points: 30]
"Alright… let's see if something good comes out of this."
With a muttered prayer, I dumped all my points into a ten-card pull. The number dropped to zero, and ten glowing cards materialised in front of me.
1. Singularity (200CP)(Generic Worldwalker)
2. Michael Holt (DC)
3. Points Exchange Mode
4. 1200 CP
5. Warp Gate (MHA)
6. Endurance (Interstellar)
7. Toyo Harada (Valiant)
8. Background Customisation ×3
9. Removed From Context [600 CP] (Young Justice CYOA 1.6)
10. Miyamoto Musashi (Baki)
I focused on the ninth card first. Removed From Context. The name was familiar.
[Being from outside of this world makes it much harder for others to predict what you're doing or planning at any given time, making you harder to counter in a fight as well as harder to plan against. In addition, it's impossible to replicate your powers and technology that aren't native to whatever world you're in. If you willingly choose to share or give your technology, than it may be replicated.]
A grin instantly spread across my face.
"Perfect. Exactly what I needed."
I purchased it and singularity immediately with my newly gained CP.
With this, I didn't have to worry about my template powers getting stolen or reverse-engineered. I am one step ahead of DOOM already. Next I checked the character cards.
Michael Holt. One of the top human geniuses in DC. A man who solved problems involving time travel and dimensional physics unlike someone here who is known for causing Chaos. He is going to raise intellect level, help to become rich legally and build advanced tech equipment.
Then there was Toyo Harada. A Psiot with telepathy and telekinesis. Psiots were essentially a subspecies of humans with evolved psychic abilities. In many ways Toyo was an alternate-universe Xavier. Someone capable of broadcasting his thoughts to every sentient being on the planet.
Finally, Miyamoto Musashi. A perfect boost for his swordsmanship.
Next I checked the Points Exchange Mode.
There was a new function on the screen. I could trade one hundred dollars or items of equal value to gain thirty points every month.
Without hesitation I pulled cash from the pocket and activated another ten-card draw.
1. Marvel: Age of Krakoa CYOA (Rater202)
2. Cortana (Halo)
3. Anime World Travel Ticket (Low Tier / One Month)
4. Konohamaru Sarutobi (Naruto)
5. Elasticycle (The Incredibles)
6. Saeko Busujima (High School of the Dead)
7. Black Pearl (Pirates of the Caribbean)
8. Minor Healing Potion ×3 (Overlord)
9. Assimilation slot x1
10. Fiat Backed (300 CP) (Smallville Jumpchain)
I immediately inspected the tenth card. Another perk. I already had a guess based on the name.
[While CP backed abilities are all well and good, it is still a pain when you acquire abilities in jump but they are subject to the natural laws of its original verse. For example, acquiring Speed Force abilities from a jump doc will allow you to keep the connection when you leave but acquiring it in jump will mean that the connection will be broken when you leave. That is what perk is for allowing for any abilities, magic, perks etc acquired in jump either from experiments, lucky encounters etc to be fiat backed as if you got it from paying with CP.]
I didn't think twice. I bought it immediately, leaving me with 100 CP remaining.
Then my eyes fell on the Naruto character card. Was it because I came from that world? The Gacha seemed oddly biased.
Reading the name made me pause.
Tch. Sarutobi.
He wasn't even born when I was murdered, but his relation to Hiruzen alone made my blood boil. Still, I didn't let emotions get in the way of logic. I added him to my third Assimilation slot the one I'd just obtained while Holt occupied the second.
Toyo was technically the better defensive option, since he offered psychic protection, but I decided to wait a little longer. I'd already survived a month in this world without mental defences, if someone already saw that all then it doesn't matter to. And besides, the Sarutobi template would assimilate faster.
[Konohamaru Sarutobi — 62%]
See? I already knew most of his techniques, even including Rasengan. What remained was his personal experience, and that would assimilate quickly too.
Next, I opened the Age of Krakoa CYOA.
"Hm… this jump is set during or after Krakoa's formation, around the House of X timeline. But the supernatural society here hasn't progressed that far. Will it send me to a different timeline or adjust this one?"
As soon as the thought formed, a notification appeared.
[Do you want to make a jump or use the perks without traveling? (Toggle Generic Mode)
Note: The second option is possible because the jumper is already in Marvel.]
[Generic Mode (Toggle): Instead of being restricted to Krakoa-era narratives, this toggle allows entry into any officially established Marvel timeline at any period.]
I immediately chose the latter. I had no plans to wander around the Marvel Multiverse casually.
Ignoring everything else for now, I checked the free perks.
And damn… that was the only word I could think of.
[How Can You Cure Me When I'm Not Sick? (Free): How downright offensive is it for people to say that treatments that suppress or remove Mutant powers are a cure? As if being born different was a disease? As if having powers was a curse? As if they're doing you a favor by forcibly stripping you of your natural abilities? And inevitably when a well-meaning but ignorant busybody makes one of these, it immediately gets appropriated by either anti-Mutant hate groups as a terror weapon or used by governments to institute an attempted mass depowering of all mutants. And then there are the people who want to slap a power-dampening collar on you and drag you off to "serve your country" or be "re-educated for your own good," or the people who feel entitled to tinker around with your genes or harvest your organs. As insurance against those people, you have blanket immunity to any and every attempt to remove, alter, lessen, damage, destroy, copy, steal, or replicate your supernatural abilities, DNA, or other aspects of your abilities or being without your freely given and fully informed consent. Nor are any biological samples obtained from you, be it a stray hair or an entire organ, viable for any purpose other than the ones you donated to explicitly under the same circumstances.]
The next perk wasn't any less insane.
Mental Fortress (Free/200 CP): There are a lot of nosey telepaths in this world, and this is a bad point in time to have certain bits of metaknowledge get loose. This perk gives blanket immunity to mind reading and hostile telepathy. Not only are your psychic shields numerous, all-encompassing, and impenetrable, but if something did manage to get through them they would find that your mindscape is a vast and twisting labyrinth filled with deadly traps and countless dead ends, with miles to go before even reaching your surface thoughts, which are themselves protected by even more shields, let alone your memories or secrets and so on and so forth. You can, of course, allow others to read your mind if you want, and a set of innocuous but context-appropriate fake surface thoughts will keep any casual mind-readers from getting suspicious. You are immediately aware of any attempts to invade your mind. For an extra 200 CP, this extends to similar protection against any and all forms of mental or spiritual control, influence, corruption, alteration, or so on, natural or supernatural, as well as supernatural social influences.
I immediately check some others.
Now I can also choose drawbacks to get a point too, let's make a jumper profile.
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I will put the rest of the free perks he got at end of each chapter also you can check the list too to suggest something other than power copy.
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Singularity (200cp): You are quite the rare existence even amongst worldwalkers. You are a singular entity across all realities, meaning that there are no other versions of you to be found even in the infinite expanse of universes. This has granted you absolute immunity to having your form copied, replicated, and cloned, all attempts either ending in failure or producing a very imperfect copy. In addition to this, your singularity also extends to your personal temporal line, meaning that you are only located in one timeline, and the creation of another timeline will see that you do not exist within them. Though, you can still time travel through your own timeline with past selves existing due to special circumstances.