Ning sat on his couch and looked at the vial in his hand. The light violet mixture glistened under the bright light; a serum that could make anyone without a power in the past into a superhero.
Sadly, he could hardly care about it. If not for the fact that there was no one else he could give it to, he wouldn’t even be thinking of taking it.
But the idea of seeing what sort of powers he could unlock via this vial was still a fun one.
He turned it over in his fingers the same way he had done at the president’s office, watching the light violet liquid catch the lamplight. The Aullazire inside had been fully utilized, so there were no sparkles left.
"Well, here goes nothing."
He uncorked it and drank it.
It tasted like nothing. Slightly salty, maybe, but otherwise unremarkable. However, it did have a very low viscosity, even lower than water, and it slipped right through his throat with him hardly noticing it. He tossed the empty vial to the side and crossed his arms in wait.
All he could do now was wait.
Since he didn’t need sleep, he figured he’d just watch some TV while waiting for the awakening to take place. He had the System ready to tell him when the changes became apparent.
For a while, nothing happened.
Then, 2 hours in, the System spoke.
"How long exactly?" Ning asked.
Ning settled in and waited. He could feel something, distantly. Not pain exactly—more like pressure from the inside, creating a slight itch throughout his body that was too weak to need his immediate attention. If he had been asleep, he wouldn’t have even noticed it at all.
The itch lasted multiple hours as his body slowly adapted to the serum.
Ning raised an eyebrow. "Then do I have a new power now?"
Ning frowned. "What does that mean, exactly?"
Ning thought about that. "So anyone with a frequency can have a power?"
"Don’t different people need different amounts of Aullazire in their body, though?" he asked.
"I see. So that’s how it works," Ning said as he nodded in understanding.
"Could I have just crushed some Aullazire crystals into powder and snorted it? Would that have worked?" Ning asked. The crystals felt a lot like Spark in that they were a powder that gave power. However, while Spark was a fuel for power, these crystals were the entire engine.
Ning had learned somewhat about how the powers of this world worked, but he had never gone into such detail. Only today was he finding out so much about them.
The itching began subsiding a while later before pletely vanishing. Then, around midnight, Ning got the System’s notification.
Ning didn’t feel anything different at all. "What did I get?"
"Kinetic Dampening?" he repeated.
"Isn’t that useless for me? I’m already able to survive anything that es my way."
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