Marvel: A New God's Reign

Chapter 56: Infinite Potential

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"Freedom is power. To live a life untamed and unafraid is the gift that I've been given, and so my journey begins."

- Halle Berry, (Catwoman)

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<(Atem POV)>

"*Pant* *Pant* So, it seems I lost even with that type of power," Clone-me said while lying on the floor. His entire body was bruised in multiple places, and he bled from his mouth and nose. "I am really proud of 'myself'." He chuckled, causing him to cough up some more blood.

"Amazing! This mental space is almost as real as the outside." I calmly commented as I scooped up some of his blood in my fingers. "And as for me winning, of course, I won. You for some reason only possess my divine physiology and a unique divinity, not my other powers which gave me a huge edge in our battle. It would have been a disgrace if I had lost."

"Yeah... I guess so. I possess the divinity of Void, aka, nothingness. It's a hell of a power when it comes to offense but it's not absolute. But again, nothing in this world is... Anyway, you passed. So, congratulations!" He snorted while looking at me and then glanced at the statue that still hadn't fully recovered from his void-based attacks. "It looks like you won that fight as well by using me. That statue was supposed to be the perfect antithesis of your current powers since your domination divinity, magic, and physical abilities wouldn't have fared well against it. But you cheated by including me in the fight."

"You can't blame a man for using his brains," I said with a small smirk.

"Yeah, especially if that brain is mine." He said with a somewhat proud expression on his face. "Now, help me up. It's time for you to get your reward and for me to complete my special purpose." The clone-me thrust forward his hand. The previous annoyed expression was nowhere on his face. Instead, his face sported a look of what looked like acceptance and relief.

He was happy.

I didn't reply. After just staring at his face for a couple of seconds, I gave him my hand. The moment he grabbed it, his body began to break down into millions of small pure light particles and got absorbed into me.

'Every time I absorb one of these 'clones' of mine, it almost feels like I get some of myself back that I had lost due to some reason.'

Soon, the statue also began to transform into tiny particles of light as they floated towards me. Its body, which had almost been completely destroyed by the power of nothingness and then fully subdued by my black receivers, began to flow towards me and merge with my being.

It was like those tiny light particles were changing me. They weren't just affecting each and every cell in my body but also, influencing me on a spiritual scale as well. I could feel that change happening. There wasn't any pain, just a sense of calm like I was high on some extremely potent drug. The pleasure forced me to close my eyes in delight and the next time I opened them, I was no longer in my mental space.

I was back in my room on Ego with no evidence of my previous fight with that statue and clone of myself. It was like I never left the room... which in a way, I didn't since everything happened in my mind... or soul or whatever that was.

Despite my recent evolution, however, there was no sticky or dirty liquid covering me like in those wuxia novels. I was as clean as always, just like a god should be. But I could feel something different in myself, especially the explosive power that I could now accurately sense in each of my cells.

[Ding! The host has started Divine Evolution]

[Congratulations! Evolution successful]