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IM/DC Chapter 190
🕑 Added 2024-09-08 20:39:19 +0000 UTCI was brought back to the menu for selecting stats. It hadn’t even been a year since I saw it but it felt nostalgic. The stat points didn’t make sense to me until I thought about it a little more. We got 20 points for surviving and twenty points for killing someone in the second test. That brought me to sixty, then another ten points for every member of the 100 I killed outside which brought me to 100 points. The final ten points I got were from either hindering or inadvertently killing the last two members bringing me to one hundred and ten.
If Old Death would have just as many points as me since he killed nine outside when he just started and the other villain would have at least forty points to spend. I had a hunch his amount was higher than that though, not as high as mine but higher than forty. That got to the second part, the menu was slightly different. There were no longer any bundles to purchase, which made sense. Those bundles were meant to give people more than what they’d spend.
Another change is everything was about twice as expensive. You could purchase the old ten-point powers like Krypontian physic but that would cost all 20 points you earned from taking part in the second test. The purchasable items were the same price. I only knew that because I remembered looking up the price of a lightsaber before realizing it would be a mistake to select it.
That wasn’t a problem now and I knew I’d spend a good portion of these points on items because there was only a handful of powers I wanted left. Knowledge was the first subject I looked at. Picking up increased mechanical affinity/knowledge and force affinity/knowledge before moving on. Both together only cost me four points… I was going to have a lot left over.
I raised my stats to high cosmic which only took a handful. Fixing the powers I had but weren’t complete(power siphon, empathic touch, partial reality warping, partial speed force access) brought me down to an even eighty points. Next was upgrading other powers to better versions.
Dual cultivation became immortal cultivation. Energy absorption became energy manipulation. Item box became item warehouse. Bind familiar became create familiar(because I keep forgetting to get one). Elemental control became elemental manipulation. This rounded out my power base and made me stronger, more tanky, and had far more utility.
The last bit was purchasing powers then the rest of my points could be spent on items. I picked up pocket dimension creation, photographic reflexes, reactive evolution, phylactery creation, +1 life, and soul ejection. These were expensive but they gave me the last powers I needed plus they also gave me layered immortality in case the worst did happen.
I could see several options not unlocked yet… This meant there would be more options in the future to gain more points, possibly when world-changing events happened… Maybe I should hold onto a few just in case… Nah, it seemed like the value of points would only go down as time progressed. The powers were on the expensive side though.
I looked through the list of weapons but realized I didn’t need them or the armor so didn’t even bother. The weapons and armor that could be used to defend a cosmic-level attack would be far too expensive. Once again I noticed the other realities tab was greyed out and unusable which led me to think that eventually new timelines and realities would be added. That meant they would do away with the three golden rules they set up at the beginning eventually. We saw them pushing back on them slightly with Moira’s powers, perhaps gauging the fans' interest in whether time travel and alternate realities should be rolled back in now that they took a long break involving anything to do with them.
To be fair I had killed most of the villains already which made the universe far more boring than before. Eventually, I’d expect them to add new villain universes to the mix like Crime World with Ultraman and Superwoman just to bring in more fodder for me to kill. The comic book writers either had more difficulty controlling me or had mostly given up because I no longer felt any pull against my actions. I hadn’t killed anyone super important like Batman but I think even if I tried killing the Joker I could pull it off without the world exploding.
I look through the items and pick out a dozen good ones before narrowing the list to get the most out of my remaining points. Philosopher’s Stone, radioactive spider, Mother Box, Hive Symbiote, and Depleted Phantom Ring. If the cost of the items had doubled I would have only been able to afford half of the items, so I was glad the price didn’t change. That still left me with seven points but I couldn’t really think of anything that valuable until I got an idea.
I picked seven different types of blood with my remaining points. Asgardian, unicorn, dragon, griffon, harpy, flerken, and hydra. Some of the blood was just too expensive compared to the rest like Angel and Kryptonian. I was surprised that dragon and unicorn only cost a single point but I guess they were only rare in this dimension and not Camelot.
Now, what was the thought process with the items I selected? Well, I could have picked a replica of stronger items but not the original items themselves like the infinity stones. I knew that a replica of the reality stone would be weaker than the original so it ruled out many items because of their uniqueness.
Another reason was the cost, some of my choices like the lantern ring and power sources were just too expensive, taking five points for each and who knew if the ring wouldn't fly off the moment I returned. That is why I chose the phantom ring which all rings were based on to maybe make my own lantern core for half the price.
Philosopher’s Stone took thousands of lives to make and there wasn’t really any work around. You needed to kill the people to make one and it had to be done all at once. I could make one in the future it was just too much of a hassle and it only cost three points. It had the properties of both the Marvel and DC stone which meant it could make the elixir of life and provide immortality but also be an extremely valuable magical resource and magical focus.
Radioactive spider that made Spiderman, that one is self-explanatory as I could figure out how it gave powers and upgraded my super drug or evolve people in a different direction. Mother Box was for money purposes, it would be cheaper using that than having magicians keep the portals open. Hive Symbiote really shouldn’t have been on the list. Knull the symbiote god made a Hive Symbiote to make and control other symbiotes. With that, it meant I could create my own symbiotes to give away and make a symbiote army with.
It was a ten-point item but I would have paid twenty for it, it was that valuable to me. Most of my choices were made with my remaining points in mind. The items I chose were ones that would be extremely difficult if not impossible for me to get unlike some of my other choices.
The final reason I chose blood, while I could create a dragon with molecular reconstruction, it wouldn’t be magical. I needed the blood for research purposes and it would be cool to have magical symbiote creatures in my army. I also hadn't made any magical artifacts recently because of the lack of magical material.
