BOOK 4 CHAPTER 5 LIFE ENERGY
The current body of me in Hero World, was far weaker than the one I had in the Manga Hall. But with the use of my power systems I was a far cry from the original me in this world. Strengthening my body with Nen I was able to jump between buildings as I moved through the city. No Gantz Armor needed, it was almost child’s play as I moved from shadow boxing myself and trying to find real opponents to face. Luckily there were plenty in New Castle city.
Like some distorted world of all the DC and Marvel villains and heroes focused on one major city, I jumped from one conflict after another. Either stumbling on simple crooks stealing a purse, or raiding known villain hideouts, I quickly learned my fighting style once more. Haki, my main go to for strengthening myself, I had spent two years learning the utilization of Haki in a fight. It was like an old friend to me, no questions on what its capabilities were as I punched in the face of Poke, the spiky villain that had stabbed me once upon a time.
Nen was a whole other beast though. Having learned the ability, I had ignored it in favor of chakra. When I felt I got the easy targets in the city, and felt more confident in my strength, I decided meditating on my Nen was my best option to try to plan it’s future growth. Setting up on the balcony of my penthouse condo, I stared down on the city as I made nen my main focus.
Nen was my lifeforce, and it was potentially my strongest otherworldly power. At least I hoped it was since I remembered the characters from Hunter x Hunter were very strong. Nen was the accumulation of the life and power of every cell in my body, granting me life. Through water divination I was able to learn that I was of the Enhancement variety of Nen.
Enhancement was the ability to use aura to strengthen the abilities of an object or someone’s body. I had focused on using it to increase my physical attack power. Coating my hand in my lifeforce to make it stronger. Many Nen users did this of course, but as Enhancement, mine was especially attuned to just that.
I had played with it over the years, but never focused on my Enhancement. After receiving an Upgrade I was able to increase the proficiency of my Emission of my Nen. Which was pushing me to learn how to do this more often, increasing my versatility when I needed to attack from afar.
Another factor to consider when manipulating my nen was that I was handicapped. The Handicap promising me increased rewards I hoped it was worth it as I trained in these weaker bodies. But thankfully I saw this as an opportunity. When I had first awoke Nen, I was already strong. I had plenty of lifeforce to spare. Now I wanted to use this opportunity to figure out the most basic of ways to use my nen. Efficiency was key. Back in DBZ world I had wished to make all the energies of my body as efficient as possible. Hopefully that was replicated with this copy or original of my last body. It was time to bring the true power of nen out. Learn what it took to use Nen like a master in Hunter x Hunter.
In the manga two of the strongest Nen users had been Enhancement. One was Uvogin. A beast of a man, he had been part of the Phantom Troupe. Basically world class thieves where each of them could kill armies of normal people. Uvogin had been Enhancement and used his Nen to strengthen himself, allowing his body to become as strong as steel. He could tear through tanks like they were made of nothing.
The other strongest Enhancement user I could remember was the leader of the Hunter Association, Netero. An old man, he was known as the most powerful Nen user in the world. I had met him during the hunter exam, but hadn’t known Nen well enough to ask him about the process. I decided I would head back there once I had the Manga Hall open again. I knew he was strong though, so I had to get that strong.
In the manga, Gon Freecs, the main protagonist, had been an Enhancement Nen user as well. He had gone through a long training arc that I knew every step of, or at least most.
First was focusing Nen into certain parts of the body. The eyes were the most important. Moving Nen to focus on the eyes you could see other Nen and lifeforce. Other methods were coating your body, fists, or feet in Nen, strengthening you. And one of the most important was pushing your nen into tools.
Gon and Killua had spent weeks training their Nen. The first part was training the focusing of Nen to parts of the body. With a thought I released my nen, moving it to my eyes, hands, then feet. It was a slow process that took focus. I would have to work on that more to make it instantaneous.
The next thing the duo did during the training arc was digging miles through solid rock. Eventually using Nen on shovels and pickaxes to tear through rock like butter. I would have to find a spot to do just that.
The last step I could remember was training by fighting one another. Though there may be some heroes that could use their lifeforce, I wasn’t sure if I would find anyone that could use Nen. Back in the Manga Hall I was able to awaken chakra in my loved ones easily enough, but I had always held off on training people to use their Nen, just because the only awakening process I knew of was a little dangerous.
But Marvel was a big world. Maybe when I went there I could find someone to awaken their lifeforce, and train my Nen with them. But who knew what the future would hold. A training partner would have to go to the backburner for now. Letting out a sigh I stood up, ready to begin pushing Nen in places. Beginning the first step of my journey to learn all the intricacies and attributes of my lifeforce.
With no job, no wife or kids, it was easy to focus on in this world. Excited to figure out everything I could do, it was only a matter of time until I refocused on my new Spark Power, and became even deadlier.
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I moved through the hospital slowly. As my day persona of Weston Walker, I was visiting my parent’s hospital. Called Walker Hospital, my mother ran it. No one knew my secret identity as the old Chargefist. I had to keep reminding myself that I dropped that name, and would be known as Tesla when I started Hero work again.
It had been a week since I entered the world. Having secluded myself during the training I felt much more confident in my fighting, especially with Nen. Now that I was comfortable with my fighting style it was time to reenter the Hero World to figure out what else could be done.
The Sentries had already released a statement that Chargefist was wanted in questioning for the disappearance of the hero Medici. They didn’t give up my true identity, as they never did. They probably thought I was being controlled and would come back. I planned to never return.
Moving from room to room at the hospital I slowly began to learn how to work the new aspects of my Spark Power. Medici was right, it was like I was talking to their bodies. Different from my Haki, I could hear what I assumed were the electrical impulses of people around me. Pain was a big one for a lot of the bystanders in the hospital. A constant throb that never stopped as they groaned or cried. The pain dulled by medication, the sluggish impulses moving through the patients was an echo in the large hospital as my Spark Power interacted with them.
It took time, but I planned to slowly learn how to do what Medici could. Healing was always an OP power. I planned to learn all of it’s little attributes before moving onto the next world.
The power was weak of course, but as I played with my Spark, I could make it do as I wished. Make people no longer hurt as I matched the electrical impulses of the mind and nerves. Slowly telling the body and the general area what to do. Heal this or that ailment, and to my utter joy, the bodies listened.
The first day at the hospital I spent focusing on one patient. He was in a coma, and since I wasn’t exactly sure if my power would hurt someone, I felt he was the best guinea pig since he wasn’t conscious to feel the pain. He had been in a motorcycle accident and was a throbbing mess of damaged nerves and organs. I simply listened to his body. Learning all the minor details as my Spark power somehow translated the pain to information for me.
Before the Forge, my Spark Power had always been an enigma. My mind knew how to call electricity. Coating my body in the yellow bolts of miniature lightning had been the easiest aspect, thus that was all I did. But current me had been playing with different powers for years. Learning their little tricks and tips. Using my Inner Eye to understand my powers at a base level. Granted I was always learning, but I had a lot more experience playing with powers than old me. So I was able to coat my body in electricity, gauge the power and strength of it, and charge it up so I could shoot it off like a true bolt of lightning.
This new evolution of my power with Medici’s Forge, had added an aspect to my power I never thought possible. Instead of being able to turn the energy of my body into electricity, I could almost hear the electricity of other people. Tiny electrical impulses controlled the nervous system which controlled the body. Those micro-firings of neurons were speaking to me, and I was hearing them.
After I understood this the first day at the hospital, the second day I attempted to heal the man in a coma as Medici had explained, but it was never that simple. It took another two days to get the right frequency to talk to the body. The channel or level of power that the nerves communicated with was so low it was like whispering with my Spark. No, not whispering it was more like thinking. Where before I could talk and yell using my Spark, I had to basically use the wisp of an idea of power. It was an interesting trick to learn, powering down the ability. But as always, I figured it out.
When I got to the power level to talk to bodies it took me another day to figure out the correct order for the body to follow. It wasn’t like I could think, heal. No, I had to monitor what the body was already doing trying to heal the damage, then match that order. Somehow my Spark translated it, and I was slowly understanding the language it was speaking so I took it slow. Sending in a constant stream of power into the comatose patient as I ordered his body to heal more rapidly. It was a grueling process but I eventually healed all ailments except for his mind.
The following day I moved to another room. This time it was a kid that had been in a car accident. I learned that the same orders I used on the first man worked on the kid. Which meant I wouldn’t have to relearn how to heal each person. I simply had to understand the one order to make them heal. This time it only took me half the day to heal him.
I learned over the next few days that I could speed up the healing. I became more competent and confident with the orders I was giving bodies. Making the healing order constant, then increasing the power from a thought to a whisper I was getting the hang of it. Thus increasing the speed at which they healed.
On the eighth day of my training I was able to heal someone’s broken arm in an hour. By the twelfth I could walk into a room and almost sense what was wrong with someone by listening to their bodies. At that point I walked into a room with someone that had brain damage, but it was beyond me. I didn’t want to mess them up, so I gave up for the time being. Happy with my progress I took a break when the perfect distraction came along.