Mind had moved from 14.8 to 15.2 in three weeks. Spirit from 11.4 to 11.9. Small jumps by the numbers.
Enormous in practical terms. His processing speed had increased again. He could feel it in the way information moved through his head. Faster connections. Less friction between observation and conclusion.
The martial arts integration was the interesting one. The system was doing something he had not anticipated. As he continued to train, he was seeing more of the 'Proficiency System' cheat.
He was practicing recently mostly for maintenance.
But it was not just maintaining the 347 styles he had already mastered. It was cross-referencing them against his new spider-enhanced body and building something that did not have a name yet.
'I should make more time to master all martial art styles that exist and see what will happen then...'
A synthesis. Movement patterns that combined the efficiency of his best martial disciplines with the physical capabilities the spider bite had unlocked.
He had not been able to move like this before the bite. Not even close.
'Keep pushing,' Peter thought. 'Phase 2 in six days. Then everything changes again.'
He entered the temporal dimension and spent four hours reviewing the patrol. Every movement. Every decision.
Every half-second where he could have been faster or quieter or more efficient. FSIS had recorded everything through the suit's sensors.
He updated his operational protocols. Seventeen adjustments. Small ones mostly. The kind of refinements that only came from doing the thing instead of simulating it.
By the time he came back to reality it was still 1:16 AM.
He went to sleep.
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The suit had taken two years to design properly.
Not the physical construction. That part had come together in the temporal dimension over a few subjective months once he had the materials figured out.
The design process was what had taken time. Getting every decision right. Understanding exactly what he needed and why before he built a single component.
The base was synthetic spider silk. His own formula, developed through hundreds of iterations in the dimensional lab.
The silk was stronger than kevlar at a fraction of the weight. It distributed impact force across the whole surface rather than absorbing it at a single point.
Getting hit in the suit felt like getting hit in the suit. It did not feel like getting hit through it.
The sensor mesh ran through every panel. Temperature. Pressure. Electrical field detection.
The data fed to his lenses and to FSIS simultaneously. He had more situational awareness in the suit than most military operators had with a full support team behind them.
The lenses were the detail he had spent the most time on. A blank mask read as threatening.
Something that moved and responded made you readable without making you identifiable. The white expressive lenses could shift and narrow and open.
They communicated without revealing anything. People responded to them differently than they responded to a flat visor. He had run the psychology on it extensively.
The web shooters sat in the forearms rather than the wrists. Better leverage. Wider firing arc.
The cartridge system held six web types and switched between them in under a second. FSIS managed the switching based on tactical context. Peter could override manually if needed.
The whole suit weighed less than three pounds.
He had been building toward this since he was eight years old, sitting in Uncle Ben's office reading engineering textbooks at midnight while the rest of the house slept. Every patent filed.
Every lab session in the dimension. Every materials science paper he had absorbed. All of it had been pointing here without him fully knowing it.
The suit was not a costume. It was the most sophisticated piece of personal technology he had ever made. And he had made a lot of sophisticated technology.
'Still room to improve,' Peter thought, reviewing the patrol data. 'Always room to improve.'
He updated the operational protocols and went to sleep.
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