[It's fine. I want to try something…] Laura said.
[Lay it on me.] He asked.
[I wanna start integrating some of your powers with my fighting style. You told me that you can manipulate lightning, I think it would be good if I can develop a fighting style that can utilize that ability.] Laura told Alex. They had gotten pretty familiar with each other recently and she didn't need to beat around the bush before asking for something from Alex. She knew that he was a straightforward symbiote.
[Bring your hand up and extend your claw.] Alex told Laura to bring out her Adamantium-Vibranium claw. He wanted to see how well her metallic skeleton could conduct lightning.
Alex had noticed that her entire skeleton was made of the metal alloy of Adamantium and Vibranium, similar to Wolvorine's. It would've probably caused a huge number of problems for her later in her life, but with Alex sustaining everything she wouldn't have to deal with what Logan did later in his life.
Alex channeled his electricity through her skeleton in a completely controlled manner— He didn't want to shock her— and extended it out through her knuckles and into her claws.
'It's perfect…' Alex thought as he looked at the sparks that were being generated from his extremely low output of energy. The efficiency of the ability was increased multifold with Laura.
[This can work amazingly. I'll form a telepathic trigger that would allow you to use my lightning manipulation with ease without having to ask me all the time. I'll be acting as support for you to use it so you don't have to learn how it works and can focus on its applications.] Alex told Laura happily. The only other person with whom his lightning manipulation was this good was Ghost-Spider Gwen and she had her own electricity ability.
Wanda didn't need this since she had Chaos Magic and Nerdy Gwen in the Research World also didn't need it since she wasn't a fighter.
Natasha was trying to develop a fighting style that incorporated the ability, but its efficiency with her wasn't very good. Alex theorized that a higher level bond would allow his abilities to work better with his hosts.
Alex finally felt like this ability might become a real fighting ability in Laura's hands.
[That works for me.] Laura agreed. If she always had to ask Alex then it would take too long even with the telepathic connection allowing instant transmission of thoughts. A trigger would work better.
[That direction.] Alex pointed her toward the next abomination's location. It was another lone grunt class. This was because he was focusing on looking for the ‹Grunt Class› ones. The main reason was that Laura had been confined for way too long and couldn't keep up with her regular training.
She could attempt to fight the ‹Buff Grunt Class› but all that would happen was that she would get her ass handed to her. She would have to fight a couple of hundred ‹Grunt Class› abominations before she could even think to face the stronger ones.
'I'm not even going to think how we'll combat the regenerative ones… I might need to get my proficiency up in Chaos magic for that…' Alex thought as Laura ran to the next abomination. It was another lone abomination.
He ignored the small groups for now since he didn't want her to get into a dangerous situation. Especially since Alex wasn't sure if he could bail her out of such a dangerous situation. Even though he'd gotten quite a bit of control over Chaos Magic, it wasn't enough to combat the abominations on a large scale. At best, he could kill one ‹Buff Grunt Class› before his reserves are finished.
Soon, Laura reached her destination and killed the abomination with some effort.
That was how their next hour went.
By the time Laura was at her 63rd lone abomination, Alex's EP had finally increased by a point.
He realized that killing normal people was completely meaningless. He'd killed and devoured tens of thousands of normal people till now and all that translated to in terms of EP was less than half a unit.
It was completely meaningless to kill normal people to get EP.
One might ask how he ended up killing so many people. The answer to that was that he was currently the president of the United States in Farm Earth. At the same time, he'd taken over the entire European Union in Research Earth. He needed quite a large number of resources to develop tech like the arc reactor and he had to pull a huge number of underhanded tricks to get those resources.
The good thing though was that he had a sample of the real arc reactor that he'd stolen from Tony's suits during the fight at the airport. So it should be marginally easier to create his own sustainable energy generator.
Though it was probably going to take a month or so. It was the same with the planetary shield. He needed quite a bit of time. The main reason for the delay was that his scientist was learning on the job. She was a specialist in Biochemical engineering and had to learn a lot of stuff on the go.
'Well, unless I devour an entire planet's worth of humans, there's no point…' Alex was tempted but he knew his limits. It wasn't physically possible for him to do that, at least not yet.
'Not to mention I'd drown in guilt if I killed an entire planet's worth of humans… It was so good when I didn't feel any of that shit…' The Level 3 bond was a big deal for not only Laura but also for Alex.
Those feelings of guilt and morality that he'd completely lost after becoming a symbiote were slowly coming back to him. He was becoming more humane and he didn't know what to feel about it.
'Forget it can't do anything—' His inner musings were interrupted by his 6th sense flaring.
[Laura! Dodge to the left!] Alex shouted in her head telepathically.
Without wasting a second, Laura ignored the abomination that she was attacking and leaped to the left.
It was a ‹Buff Grunt Class› that had ambushed her.
Alex didn't realize its presence beforehand since this guy was supposed to be around 50 miles away from this spot when he last checked with his Mana Sense. He can't constantly keep the ability on since it consumes his mana and he didn't exactly have an infinite amount of it.
That was why he sends a pulse of mana every time Laura kills the abomination which usually takes around 2 to 5 minutes.
'This guy crossed 50 miles in a minute…' Alex realized that this guy's speed was way too much and he might even catch up with Laura if she ran away at full speed.
[Laura, run!] She said to her as he camouflaged her to the best of his ability and used half of his current Chaos energy reserves to immobilize the abomination on the spot. Alex knew that this guy was pretty strong even for a ‹Buff Grunt Class› and he probably wouldn't be able to kill it.
He didn't risk it and had Laura run away at her full speed.
Laura was a master tracker so she was also able to cover her tracks as she ran away at full speed from the dangerous location.
'This one was the most dangerous one yet…' Alex realized.
They'd already had some ambushes when attacking the other abominations but this guy was the strongest one yet.
Usually, it's just another ‹Grunt Class› that they could kill, and even if Laura couldn't kill it, she could outrun it.
10 minutes later they were far enough away from that spot.
[I think we should go… back…] Alex's words lost their drive as he noticed something that terrified him in his mana sense's pulse.
[Laura, stop…] Alex stopped Laura from running.
[What is it?] She asked.
[I'm not sure…] Alex said in her head. He'd sensed a huge cluster of abominations with his mana sense. In normal circumstances, he would've told Laura to run like hell to get away.
But he saw something that spooked him. New abominations were practically spawning in this location.
'This must be some kind of nest like I theorized…' Alex thought.
[We need to do some spying. Turn right and move a mile in that direction, slowly. There's something that the both of us need to see.] Alex told her.
[What did you see?] She asked. She knew that he had a sensory ability that allowed him to see extremely far distances and that was how he kept guiding her to the lone abominations.
[Something that would confirm some of my theories.] He said cryptically.
[Stop being cryptic you asshole.] She said.
[You'll see it soon enough.] He didn't tell her what he saw.
[Asshole…] She mumbled.
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