Tale of Discovery

Chapter 39: Plundering Spree ; Immortal Challengers of Hades

Having returned to school with Yusa, I go over to where Juno is at and inform her that we're leaving. However, before we leave the school premises, I use Location to locate someone that has "Ability Erasure".

I go over to where he is at and carefully plunder the ability from him. I then check out my new ability that falls under the irregular section.

Ability Erasure:

{Unlimited usage | Maximum range is 5 m}

I immediately put the ability to use as I get rid of any ability wielder I am able to locate in the school premises that I deem useless. While doing this, I locate an ability that could be useful- Gift.

I go over to where the guy is at and immediately loot the ability from him.

Gift:

{Unlimited usage | Maximum range is 15m | Lasts for 5 minutes.}

Having cleared up the school, I head over to the city centre and begin using my ability to find ability users all over. Thus, begins my ability erasure spree, in which I rarely come across any ability that could be useful. However, I do find one unusual ability-

Organic Constructs:

{Unlimited usage | Maximum amount of constructs that can be active at once is 2.}

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While I'm going around in the city, I sense an abnormality. Looking over to take look, I see a repeat of the telekinetic user's kidnapping incident. It's basically the same scenario, but this time, the victim has their ability which is: Insight.

I don't know what it is, but it seems useful and besides, I can't just let them have it.

Signalling to Juno to just follow along without taking any action, we pursue the van to wherever it's heading to. Better to pull the weed out from the roots.

The van continues to drive for a while, far away from the city and going to someplace away from society.

I expected no less from an organization that experiments on children. I'll just wipe them out at one fell swoop.

As we continue to follow them, something catches my attention up ahead. A building. A humungous building.

However, this isn't exactly what caught my attention. No, it's the group of children who are jumping terrific heights fighting against armed men with only their fists and legs that caught my attention.

Focusing my eyesight, I see that some of the children are shot, yet they continue to fight with their extraordinary strengths.

One of them was even shot in the head, yet, even that wasn't enough to make him fall as he continues to fight.

Interesting. Are they immortal or are they using some kind of method to keep the bullets from puncturing through their flesh?

Deciding that it's about time I did something, I dash towards the van with Godspeed activated. The moment I am close enough, I use Pyrokinesis to melt the tires, destabilizing the van, before I get inside using Permeation and instantly killing two of the three men off before using Hypnotism on the last one.

I take a quick glance at the victim who is staring at me with widened eyes before grabbing her and splitting the van vertically in half. I jump out of the van, carefully holding the victim in one arm while pulling the man that I had knocked out with the other.

I place her down on the ground and watch as the van, or at least what's left of it, roll over and explode.

What a beautiful explosion...

"Please save my sister! I will give you however much money you want!", the girl suddenly exclaims with desperation apparent in her tone.

Looking at her, I just notice that she has this "noble" aura to her. I guess she's a young lady of some nouveau rich family.

"What do you mean?" I probe out of curiosity.

"You're one of us aren't you? My sister is the leader of the Immortal Challengers of Hades, Veronica Angevin."

Who? And what the hell is with that cheesy name. It couldn't get any worse. Did a bunch of drunk teenagers come up with it to fight against their depression or something?

I want to ask her some more questions, but I'm not given the chance as we suddenly, we hear the sound of an explosion.

"No!!!", screams the girl as she looks at where the explosion came from.

I should just go over there, destroy the facility and save some teenagers' asses while I'm at it.

---3rd Person POV---

They failed. Miserably.

She takes a look at her right arm that is lying on the ground, and with it any hope of survival she had washed away.

They had come here to rendevous with the original establishment, but who would have known that they would run into a destroyed building before men appeared out of seemingly nowhere and kidnapped them.

They were brought over to the facility to be tested on, but before they could start, she managed to use her ability somehow to turn the only one that hasn't been turned into a vampire.

She experienced intense pain and was exhausted when she did it, but it was worth it if they could escape.

Alas, their resistance was futile, as here they are facing several weapons that mankind shouldn't even be capable of producing, awaiting their inevitable death.

Closing her eyes, Veronica thinks of her only sister.

"I'm sorry..." she mutters as she watches the, what seems to be a plasma-blaster, aimed at her ready to erase her from existence.

Closing her eyes, she awaits her death. However, it doesn't come even after a dozen seconds have passed.

She opens her eyes, and the first thing that she sees are her comrades alive on the ground all staring in one direction with a dazed look.

Looking over, she sees a pair of teenagers. One of them is floating and has glowing runes all over his body, while the other is covered in purple flames.

Three "plasma-blasters" are aimed at the guy and are fired.

Before she could shout to him to watch out, he vanishes mid-air.

The moment he reappears, most of the men that were at the brink of finishing them off all collapse to the ground with various degrees of injuries on them. Most of the injuries seem to be fatal ones aimed at their vitals.

The girl that is covered in purple flames suddenly moves and so does her flames as they spread around and cover the rest of the men, burning them to ashes in a split-second.

Veronica stares at the pair that arrived and an ultimatum appears in her mind:

Those two are either their salvation or their damnation.

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Plunder I>>II [V]

{The maximum distance is 10>>15m. | Possession time - 3>>4 seconds. The maximum amount of abilities that could be used simultaneously is 3.}

--- Primary Ability (1/1) ----

- Telekinesis I [V]

{Unlimited usage. | User can only lift objects with similar or less mass to themself. | Maximum velocity is 172 m/s. | Maximum range is 5m.}

--- Secondary Abilities (5/5) ---

- Permeation I [III]

{Can be used up to four times a day.}

- Location I [III]

{Can be used up to five times a day. | Range limit - 5 km. | Accuracy = 46%}

- Hypnotism I [V]

{Can be used up to three times a day. | Requires direct eye contact.}

- Collapse

{Can be used up to two times a day. | Requires a stressed brain to trigger. | Range limit - 50 m.}

-Pyrokinesis

{Unlimited usage. | Requires at least 50% of brain focus to keep active.}

--- Tertiary Abilities () ---

-Spiritualism I [IV]

{Can be used up to three times a day. | Maximum duration of 3 minutes.}

-Insight I [VI]

{Can be used once a day. | Maximum duration of 10 minutes.]

--- Irregular (6/?) ---

- Flight I [III]

{Unlimited usage | Maximum speed is 40 km/h. | Maximum acceleration is 5 km/s.}

- Memory Erasure I [IV]

{Unlimited usage | Requires physical contact | Time need to initiate the erasure process is five minutes.}

- Imperfect Invisibility I [X]

{Unlimited usage | Can become imperceptible for one target.}

- Time-Leap (?)

{N/A}

-Ability Erasure

{Unlimited usage | Maximum range is 5 m}

-Gift I [V]

{Unlimited usage | Maximum range is 15m | Lasts for 5 minutes.}

-Organic Constructs

{Unlimited usage. | Maximum duration of 5 minutes. | 10-second cooldown. | Maximum amount of contracts that can be active at once is 2.}

--- Unassigned ---

- Thoughtography

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