Chapter 36 - Magic
Bonus Chapter!
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[April of 2012]
[°Spain°]
Night
Tap. Tap.
Andrew walks down a steps made of stones that seems to be really old. He is currently entering a Crypt that is guarded by some guards, who of course wasn't able to do anything but just sleep soundly on their posts with a basic use of telepathy.
After a moment. Andrew appeared in a really old-looking underground stone chamber. He whistles a tune as he walks and passes by some ancient coffins and some relics.
Andrew has his senses spread out as he observes everything he passed by. He passed by some sarcophagi and after a while, he eventually stopped as he turned to one direction.
There. He saw a coffin that contains a priest that seems to have fought in the crusade, spreading their religion, according to the small description in the coffin.
Andrew didn't care about all that shit as he grasped one end of the coffin and pulled it out of the way.
Clang! Thud!
Andrew didn't care what state did the coffin ended up as he looked down on the empty solid ground. He then held out his hand to the ground and used [Geokinesis]
Dust began lifting from the ground and then the solid ground began returning to its natural state – dust – and also came off the way – revealing what's under.
There. He found a cloth that seems to cover something inside it. Andrew willed it to come to his hand as he grasped it with a solid grip.
Andrew then slowly unveiled the old cloth that is covering the object and it is revealed to be the middle the other end part of the Berserker Staff.
Andrew made it hover in front of him as he curiously inspected it. He saw some nordic symbol and what seems to be inscriptions that says "Power."
He was able to read it as he has already read most of the memories of Elliot and it would be dumb if he wasn't able to do this one simple thing.
Andrew then took a deep breath at what he's about to do and readied himself. He held his hand out and made the fragment of the staff land on his bare hand.
Whoosh!
The symbol in the staff began glowing in red as a strange energy suddenly came from the staff and began to quickly travel from his hand to his head. Though. The energy seems to be unsuccessful to enter his mind as it then circled outside his mind and then eventually went and spreads to Andrew's whole body.
During all of this. Andrew has his psionic sense carefully observing this energy and was even surprised by the strength of the energy. If his mind defense was just as strong as his previous one, then he was doubtful if his mind can just casually block that energy from entering his mind.
Thankfully. His mind was already much stronger than his previous one as he just continued observing the energy.
The energy then spreads to his whole body and then he felt his strength increasing and by the end of the process, Andrew is able to calculate that the increase seems to be around 2 to 3 tonnes increase in physical might.
Andrew was pretty sure that the increase would be much more than this if he allowed the energy to enter his mind, but he already knows that the energy was just there to rile up his emotions and fuel its power with his own rage and anger which he wasn't really going entertain.
After a while. Andrew let go of the staff and immediately felt the, what he assumes to be magical energy produced by the runes engraved in the staff, slipping out of his body quickly.
Andrew carefully analyzed and observed the magical energy, trying to unveil its secrets to no avail. He sighed as he realized something "Seems like i won't be able to use or know the secret of magic for the time being, huh."
Andrew then held the staff again, but this time, he had his psionic aura surrounding him, technically making him not touch the staff.
He then looked around to find something interesting out of the relics and old stuff but all he saw boring for him so he just turned around and stepped on something but he didn't care about that and just left the underground stone chamber.
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That night. The Spanish authorities was alerted of someone entering one of their most protected places and immediately went to apprehend the suspect, but all they found was one of their respected ancient priest's fossils sprawled around inside the place while the skull was broken and seems to have been stepped on by someone.
—-—
A Few Days Later.
Days passed as Andrew went back to New York while trying to analyze how the whole runic inscription thingy works but he still didn't get to anything.
Now. Andrew was currently in Trillemarka National Park in Norway to retrieve the next piece of the Berserker Staff.
One thing he found curious was the fact that Elliot Randolph was actually able to break the Berserker Staff into three pieces.
From what he can see in Elliot's memories is that the weapon was actually made out of the freakin' Uru Metal.
But after a bit of reviewing the memories. Andrew found out that Elliot was only able to break the weapon into three pieces after using its own strength against itself.
He manipulated the volatile magical energy within the staff and made it cut its own body and voila! It actually worked.
Anyways. Andrew then arrived in a specific location within the forest as he stopped and looked at the tree that is surrounded by large boulders from all around it.
Andrew didn't want to waste anymore time as he waved his hand – sending a psionic blade to the tree.
The tree was cut in half as the psionic construct dissipated after doing its job. Andrew took a step to the side as the upper part of the tree fell to his previous location.
Andrew approached the bisected tree and then saw the other end of the weapon embedded inside the tree. He summoned it to his hand and held it.
The similar thing happened as the magical energy spreads within him and increased his strength by about 3 tonnes.
Andrew then pulled something behind him and the other piece of the weapon was revealed. He then looked at the two pieces for moment and then connected it.
Zzzzst..
The runic symbols once again lit up in red as the two piece of weapon connected perfectly and then melded — no sign indicating that it was broken showed itself.
The strength of the magical energy elevated but it was still unsuccessful in its endeavor of influencing Andrew's mind as it just relented and then spread within his body.
The weapon's symbols continued glowing in red light as Andrew felt his strength increasing by about 10 tonnes.
"Hmm, nice." Andrew muttered traced the symbols on the weapon with his fingers.
He then flew up with immense speed, blowing away the surrounding boulders from the shock wave alone.
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[°New York°]
A Few Days Later.
Andrew once again came back to New York and met up with Kingpin for a while and then got back on his journey of finding the Berserker Staff.
A day passed and he managed to get his hands on the last missing piece of the weapon and went back to New York without restoring the weapon to its original state.
Now. Andrew sat on the bed of his room in the Fisk Tower while looking at the lying Berserker Staff on the bed.
He prepared himself as he grasped the one that has already fused and grasped the other that he just got his hands on.
With a serious countenance. Andrew slammed the tip of both piece and connected it. The Berserker Staff immediately glowed in a red ominous glow and the symbols lit up and began moving as if they're alive.
After a few moments. The magical energy contained within the staff gushed out of it as it quickly traveled to Andrew's mind as it tried to break his mind shield to influence his emotions.
But as usual. Andrew's mind defenses have already gotten so strong and the magical energy didn't achieve its Instinctive goals as it just relented and began spreading through his whole body and temporarily enhanced his overall physical strength.
"20 tonnes? That's a lot." Andrew was surprised by the overall physical strength that the weapon provided but he didn't forget why he even find this weapon in the first place as he gathered all his senses and focused it to analyze the magical energy that the staff houses.
The magical energy seems to have the same characteristics as its supposed work as it acted extremely volatile and the energy twists and turned as if it's in constant anger. Andrew didn't care about all that shit as he continued observing the energy and tried to up his work.
He then tried approaching the magical energy itself–that is moving about in his body–using his senses as he tried interacting with it.
The process was tedious as the magical energy constantly tried repelling anything foreign approaching it. Andrew wasn't about to give up just like that as he continued trying.
One Hour Later.
Andrew's eyes lit up as his senses finally managed to grasp onto something. He hurriedly tried to do what he just thought of as he made his psionic energy all spread all over within his whole body as it then interacted with the magical energy that was produced by the staff.
Pop~ Pop~
A muffled sound was produced that is only perceived by the sharpest of senses as Andrew fully gave all his concentration and saw his own psionic energy assimilating and merging with the magical energy itself.
The protagonist was estatic with the sudden progress as he went and poured more psionic energy within his body and watched as more and more magical energy merged with them.
Ten Minutes Later.
Andrew stopped and pulled his senses from within him as a slight smile surfaced on his face. He was finally finished.
He then stretched his palms out as he pushed the energy to gather above it. A swirling smoky grey energy appeared above his palms as it hovered there and seemed to emit a mystical glow.
Andrew's smile just couldn't help but widen even more with this as he psionically made the energy took on the form of a blade and other kinds of constructs to see if there's a difference between the normal psionic construct and the mystical psionic construct.
After a few moments. Andrew felt that his preliminary control over magical energy was already up to his expectations as he then implemented the little project that he has for a while now.
Andrew used the already-present mystical energy within him and made it rush to his mind. He then gathered large amounts of this energy and made it cover his whole mind realm.
Thirty Minutes Later
He sighed in relief and pulled all the remaining energy from around his mind. "Finally. Now, someone can't just casually mess with my mind using magic.."
One of Andrew's concerns was the fact that magical beings in this universe are like flies as they are everywhere and most of them are all strong. He feared that maybe he would clash to them one day and then he would immediately lost as his mind isn't protected magically.
Now, that's already covered up and he now have to worry how to protect himself from magical harms and this can also be covered in the near future with constant and rigorous practice with his new magical energy.
Andrew climbed down his bed as he stretched his body. Taking a step to the floor to ceiling window. Andrew waved the curtain to the side as he looked at the busy city of New York.
Numerous people go about their day while some was unfortunate and some just straight out had bad luck.
"The Chitauri Invasion is near..." Andrew muttered as he looked to the sky and imagined the wormhole just like in the movie.
A sudden thought struck him as he remembered on April 2 that the Mandarin Terrorist Attack seems to have already began and people have differing opinions about this.
Some say that this is the work of some separatist terrorists while some took the opportunity to spread bad word and made it look as if the mutants have had something to do with the whole terrorist attack.
Though. Andrew had a different idea as he thought about that unstable serum of Aldrich Killian developed by Maya Hansen called Extremis Virus.
At first. He thought about stealing the formula for that serum or just outright kill Aldrich and brainwash Maya Hansen to work for him but he erased and removed those thoughts as using Telepathy on everything is just removing the fun out of it and constantly using Telepathy was making him dependent to it that it would eventually make him decide that everything can be solved by just mind-raping everyone which is he doesn't want to do.
Eventually. Andrew finally made a decision regarding this as he turned around and made his way to Fisk's office.
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