3 Power Manipulation

What is a superpower?

It is easy to imagine and think about them, but how do they work? There are many ways from biological to metaphysical. But the path I understood from the skill was unique...

I had within me 5 things that I quickly named shards, they resided in my very soul, each of these was in fact a small system of complicated operations.

Each shard was a small colorless crystal in the core of my spirit that absorbed an energy called magicules and had the capability to perform a series of operations to affect the world around me. The term magicule sounded very familiar to me but I couldn't quite remember where I had heard of the term before, ignoring it for the moment, I focused more on the coming stream of information from the skill.

At the moment the shards were sleeping with no real specialty or quality. I felt a connection with them, I knew instantly that I could change these shards with my imagination and will to affect the world based on my desire. Unfortunately, each shard had limited capability to absorb magicule and affect the world, after all, each one could only perform a limited number of operations with the energy. To fix this, I had to stack the shards and build crystal structures, this would improve the effect in every way I specified while adding power and removing limits.

My skill would generate 5 of these shards every day and manage them for me.

Simply, I had 5 shards a day which let me create powers, whose nature was fully under my control. A single shard resulted in a superpower of sorts, with more shards increasing the power, and versatility, pushing or removing limits, and adding more functions. I could also destroy the power, but it would also destroy the crystal shard. I could give the powers to others and take the powers back as well. Even generally feel the direction of the person I had given a shard.

'Isn't this the same as the one in the Worm CYOA I read a few hours before I died? The way it works is similar to how powers work in Worm with the shards and all, except they are not continent-sized and I have more than one...' I wondered in shock, it was too similar to be a coincidence.

Suddenly I remembered where I had heard the term magicule. 'Tensura?!'

I focused and understood everything, my thoughts before dying, and now this, it made sense...

'It does not make any sense! I am in a fictional world?!'

Thankfully I didn't feel much emotion in my spirit state, I was calm, in a serene way.

The coming existential crisis was interrupted when a wolf approached my corpse.

'I need to do something! I don't want to exist like this, and possessing someone else is going to be hard... I need to fix that body.' I decided and hovered closer to my body.

Concentrating on my shards, I willed a power to heal anything instantly.

I felt the shards move together but suddenly, they separated. They could not achieve that together, I didn't have enough shards.

As the wolf began taking a bite, I racked my brain for a solution.

'Limits! That's it.' Realizing that I tried again quickly, 'Healing only humans instantly.'

Failure...

'Healing only humans to perfect conditions and curing all things in a few seconds...'

Success! But there was a problem so I stopped midway. It needed 4 shards, but that was not the problem, the fact that a wolf was nearby meant I had to fight it off after healing the body and entering it, what was the point if I died again?

I did not like feeling pain, especially from being mauled by a wolf. I needed to create a power to survive the wolf and the next 20-something hours.

'Healing only myself to perfect physical healthy condition in a few seconds, time changing based on the damage but never more than 10 seconds...' This was basically the ultra-speed regeneration skill in Tensura.

2 shards fused together, their form changing to look like a leaf and their color turned a light green.

One moment, I was normal, and the next, I knew I could heal my body in front of me by just focusing a bit, it came to me so fast and felt so easy to do, as if I had always been able to do it. As long as a part of my body survived with enough mass which was roughly 1 kilogram of my fresh biomass to kickstart the process, I could return my body to perfect healthy conditions and re-enter it.

But I didn't do it immediately, there was the wolf still there, and more approaching. It was quite a large pack.

I needed durability to withstand attacks, the power to attack multiple wolves and kill them, and then escape if there was a danger I could not overcome.

The first of the three remaining shards transformed giving my body the durability to withstand physical attacks beneath a certain threshold, I could take anything these wolves could do, but a bear had the ability to injure me a little, let alone monsters that roamed this world... It was enough for now, at least.

The second gave me pyrokinesis, I could generate a reddish fire at the maximum temperature of 800 degrees Celsius and manipulate it as I wished with a range of 40 meters(131 ft) around me. My last and third skill was heat resistance, which was why I went with fire since It was the most damaging while I was immune to it.

The last shard gave me flight, I could fly, accelerating in a few seconds and reaching the speed of 60mph at maximum.

I tried using my powers in spirit form, but they didn't work, I needed a physical form since the powers were physical. Healing was special because it activated from the remains of the body on its own when I willed it.

'Let's do this.' I thought and began...