I walked out of the lab to the marble room, seeing swprdjuice and glassmetal watching led spar with victor

The man had bahs under his eyes but a vicous smile to accompany it. He was fighting with his power like he had had them for years, flowing the metal around him to defend from attacks and then attaking back.

It reminded me of elemental manipulator fighting but he had some trixk to thorw in the mix as well I sprroached the wathicng two asking them “what wepons he absorbed then”

Only a pistol and a kinfe for now, we testing it slowly.

The whole night?

He has to rest, and the absorbyion process isnt swift like in your power, the metal has to take it in slowly.

Hmm I see

The things he can do with those mods are crazy too so we spend a lot of time testing them.

Mods?

Yeah, the modifications. He told about them yesterday, he can alter any aspect from the wepons he absors but only one at a time.

What count as an aspect, and what are the mods again.

Okay akay, ill explain eerything, he was still wathicng the fight while talking to me so he pointed at them oh there look

I turned to see victor spining the mercury like metal around him in a circle, led seegin that crouched and jumped just in time to evade something, smething that was only visble by the line it cut on the marble.

More flything cuts?

Galsmetal laughed, yeah it works a bit like swordjjices powers, that is the enhance effect, it amplifies an espectf of the weapon, as you can see its very versitile, at firss the was using it only on the physical things like durability and the actual sharpness.

Then while tryin gto enhance the shaprness one of these times it just enhance the actual cut, we’re thinkinh that these effects that he has can inlfuence nnot only the phisical aspects of the weapons but the actions taht they perform as well.

That’s crazy and way more versatile indeed, and he doesn’t even need to keep the weapon shape to use it

Yeah, he can make it and that’s the most basic use, he made a knife and then moved to making any swords sables and daggers, I think its more about the material than being specific about weapons like swrojuices powers

It is specific though, it can only absorb the materials from weapons, and use them sa weapons.

That’s true, theres alot of wiggle room in that though like he just used, spining it like that, making its an effective attandk and defense in one he can build from that.

True, what did he get from the pistol then? Can he make the gunpowder? Are the projectiles made from the silver metal?

Yes to both, glassmetal said noddind, he can copy any material integrated in the weapons is what we’re extrapolating from, and we thought he might be limited when it ocmes to energy weapons but him being able to make swrd cuts that is what, we don’t lreally know.

Its not cutting energy, that just doenst exist.

Hmm, you said it was enhancing the acton like, the cutting action, it could be extending an edge that we cant see and couldn’t see, like spltitting the molecules the air or even the space in that line that extends from the edge.

That wuold be pretty wild but how would it get that fomr just an edge.

yEah, as it enhancong the cutting ability it could be just making something extremely shapr and what victor is snding off is just too thin ofr us to see.

I tihnk that might actually be that. Like a hair thin thread with a like, nanoscale edge.

That wuld definitly cut things.

Poh hey look, he change to the pistol hthins when a t distance.

On the fight now led was jumping around evading victors line of sight all. Arodn the scientists back was a circular flat array of silver metal, various bulbous chambers with nostril expanding from them.

Out of those we could see flashes as the bullets were expeled at great speeds.

Led really has to take care with that, victor went crazy on his tests, he knows so much about this gun things its crazy. He altered the shape of the bullets the case the firing muzzles and the chambers, he can prety much do any design with it.

Sharpnel bullets, more prenetrative bullets, quiet shots and shotgun shots. He can alter the caliber at will, its completely crazy.

Led was really sometihng being able to be erratic enogh that victor simply couldn’t pin him down, as he never kept to the same patter of movement, always staying in front of the line of fire.

It really was a mental battel togehter with a phisical one agains led, his enhanced mind demanded that you had sometihng to play on the same level or get out strategized.

“the only thing, sowrdjuice said a little exhaperation on her voice. He really cant last that much for now.”

And it was true as I could see the liqid losing shape, turning much more liquid as the fires stopped completely and victor dropepd to a knee, panting hardly.

Led appraoched the mand extending him a hadn tha victor took.

Good fight victor you already have a very good handle on the fuciton of your power, you need to learn more about concerving your energy thgoug, making atatckes only when its oppotune.

Yeah, I get a little bit exited being able to swing this much power around.

We all know the feelin. Glassmetal said as he beought a botthe of water that victor gladly accept

Swordjuice and me also appraoched and victor nodded to me I noded back sying hi.

You got a real crazy one victor, I said, im almost jealous.

Ha, as if, come to reap what you sowed?

That’s an ominous way of saying it, but you know me I woundt let the oppotunit pass.

But why dindt oyu use more buff back there I asked.

“oh , htose, theyre crazy but theyre just as expensive.”

Hmm, is mainirening the power too energy intensive? Maybe it’s the modificiation to the base weapons.”

“yeah, he nodde pneisve, I noted that altering them does drain me more, but the upsides are so great that I thought it a better fighting sttyle.”

I mena it is your fightin style. Os you have to do what works best

Led nodde, I said the same, if he had had trining with those weapons in their base form he could use a more common fighitn style and conserve energy, using the mods and the modifications to catch people by surprise or to set big attacks.

But, as he would need to learn that from the basics, maybe its best ot just lear how to demolish the oppsition quikly.

“thats good, nut try and learn the base fhgitn style as well, it cant hurt.”

Youre an overachiever matrix victor laughed im already killing my ass here and im not even moving that much.

Itll get easier, your power can probably grow in resitante. Swordjuice said to him

Yeah, at the star I could only make one buff for a couple minutes. Led said nodding.

I nodded as well, most powers grow at the minimun in that area, stamina. But I have another qusestion tha might be relevant to that.

What is it.

The silver liquid, you produce it biologically or your powers that generate it, the lost mass is then replenished duiring the fight consuming more energy or only after.

I have a set amount, it just generates more from itself. And yeah it does so durign the fight, expending energy.

You can learn to limti tht then, the mass will slwoly dimiinish over time but you can fight for longer then maybe.

Yeah, using projectiles turn into a quantity games as well then glassmetal said nodding along.

True, but does it just stay ther I said at the nergy flowing over victors skin.

I odnt really know, its like a piece of me it just feel natural to have it around.

Can you unconjure it?

Victor concentrated buit then shook his head, no I odnt think so.

It can get infinitely small and thin rifhgt? Sworjuice asked to what victor nodded, then, cant you pull it trhough your skin?

Victor made a strnagen face a little scared, his eyes and face slidding to the right as he thought aobout it. I- I guess I can, he said slwoly.

You hsould do it. Led said, if oyu cant make it dissapear the next best place is inside you, at least you d have to swallow it and spit it out.

Yeah, that’s certainly. An advantage victor said.

You can spred it under your skin, like a layer of armor, then youre always protectd. Even more so if your mass limit increases. I said happily

Victor sighed, nodding. He extended his arms and closed his eyes concentrating. The liquid flowing iver his skin setteld and wiggled about slowly. But by bit decreasing as it dissapeared under his skin.

We normally don’t notice but everyone has an under toneto their skin, changin the overall color of it. And now the undertone of victor’s skin was quite unatural sitting in silver.

It was subtle but made him look a little weird in a hard to put your finger in it way, a little bit sick maybe. Ceratinly very pale.

It is done.

Now you really look like you never saw the sun.

A proper crazy scientist.

Bleh lay off of me, I’m done for today I think

What today you’ve been foing this since yeasterday.

Victor laugh sheepsly and everyone joined him.

Lets go to the lab then, glassmetal said, matrix will want to have a loot at your power and we may as well sit around. He glared at victor and, and please leave the weapons for after you sleep, you had to stand in place for a whole hour to absorb a simple knife don’t go picking up our energy cannons.

Sure sure victor said leading the way to the lab as he yawned loudly.