I fell in Marvel with Essence Gacha but I’ve never heard of Marvel

Just as Lex was considering what to do with the island, another thought finally caught up with him, reminding him of the reason he had actually gotten all the powers. His father's arrangement had given him a rather unusual objective, and although Lex had never been particularly obsessed with fulfilling it as quickly as possible, the word conquering had always been there in the back of his mind. Considering that he had just fought an entire island that was capable of thinking and defending itself, formally claiming it probably counted for something.

“I declare this island as mine. Any objections?” Lex announced, raising his voice enough for everyone nearby to hear.

The moment the words left his mouth, however, he couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed by himself. That sounded incredibly cringe, he thought, resisting the urge to take the declaration back and pretend he'd said something else instead. Fortunately, nobody seemed particularly interested in mocking him for it.

“We've got no problem with that,” Storm replied after a brief glance around the island. As far as she was concerned, it was an isolated piece of land in the middle of the ocean, and she wasn't even sure which nation, if any, would have a legitimate claim over it. For all she knew, the nearest country could have been the United States, Greenland, or somewhere in Europe, and considering that the island was apparently alive and capable of moving itself, territorial ownership was hardly the most pressing issue.

Kara, however, gave Lex a curious look. She knew him well enough by now to realize that he rarely did something completely without reason, so she found herself wondering what exactly he intended to accomplish by suddenly claiming an island. Then she remembered Regina's repeated requests for somewhere isolated where she could work without worrying about collateral damage, preferably an island or a mountain far away from populated areas. Perhaps Lex had simply decided that giving Regina her own private island would be useful, although Kara suspected there was probably more to it than that.

Before she could ask, however, Lex's attention abruptly shifted elsewhere. He had received the response, and with it came the information that his declaration had been accepted as a legitimate conquest.

Krakoa.

Apparently, that was the island's name. Lex looked across the strange living landmass for a moment, rolling the unfamiliar word around in his mind before deciding that it sounded perfectly fine. More importantly, he now knew that his objective had been fulfilled.

What caught his attention more than the conquest itself, however, was the Essence that accompanied it. He had expected something relatively simple, perhaps another ability comparable to the Animal Sidekick Essence he'd received previously, but the information already settling into his mind suggested otherwise. This conquest was apparently worth considerably more than the previous ones, not only because it was the first time he'd deliberately set out to claim something, but because he had conquered something that possessed its own consciousness.

Essence of the Ultimate Chad.

By drinking a fluid of explosively awesome taste you turned into the Ultimate Chad.

• You gain a new body that sits at the peak of your species in capability, you may choose to look similar to your old self or look like someone completely different, in either choice your features will be enhanced to peak handsomeness. Essentially making you into a walking wet dream.

• You became supernaturally good at sex; able to almost instinctively know what your partner wants and needs to make them feel good, even when it shouldn’t be possible. This ability is so effective that you are able to turn even experienced primordial goddess of sex into babbling ahegao puddles.

• You gain infinite stamina when having sex, and your refractory periods are under your complete control.

• Your cum is extremely tasty, highly nutritive, and slightly addicting. Someone can easily live off a diet completely composed of your cum if they want/need, though they will become a junkie for it.

• You can only impregnate someone if you want to, and when you do the pregnancy is one hundred percent guaranteed even if it shouldn’t have been possible.

• Each of your sons will be Chads themselves though of less potency than you, and each of your daughters will be extraordinarily beautiful Stacies.

• You have a passive ability to always say and do the right things to get into a woman’s good grace, but only when you are not paying attention to it. When you are, and are actively trying to get into a woman’s pants, this ability becomes active and you will supernaturally know what to say and do to achieve this goal. Be warned though, some women need more work than others, but you can woo anything with enough effort.

• Women in relationships are much more vulnerable to your charms than a woman who isn’t. For example; it may take months of hard work to bone a lesbian feminazi that hates men with undying passion, but if this feminazi is in a happy lesbian relationship, it will only take a few weeks instead. Married women are particularly vulnerable to you, needing only a few days or hours of work.

• A woman that you successfully managed to have sex with becomes a ‘conquest’, and you may figuratively or literally mark her. Each of your conquests are moderately loyal to you on the moment of the first lay, is up to you how you foster this loyalty or let it die.

• You may influence the feelings a conquest has for you, from friendly attraction to undying, madding love. Though the process isn’t instantaneous.

• For every woman you ‘conquer’, you gain one or several boons related to the powers and abilities the woman has. Normally, it’s a copy of their power or ability, but it can be something similar or related to it. For example; you bang a common housewife, you learn how to cook, you bang a witch, you gain the capability to use her kind of magic and learn several of her spells, you bang an kunoichi, you learn how to ninja, gain the ability to use chakra, learn several of her jutsus and maybe gain a copy of her bloodline ability.

• Each ability and power you gain have unlimited potential to grow and evolve even when they shouldn’t. You can also unlock the hidden potential of the powers and abilities of your conquests during sex if you choose.

• You can now use sex to replace training; an hour of sex is the same as an hour of hard and fulfilling training, complete with insights and experience of how to use your powers and abilities better. This benefit is increased the more partners you fuck at the same time. This ability can be shared with the partner/s that you are having sex at the time with if you want.

• You learn how to do a complex tantric ritual that lets you travel to other worlds, however, the aim of this ritual is very faulty and you may end up in a world you didn’t intend to go to. There is also a ‘cool down’ period for the ritual to be used again; this can range from a few days to a full month depending on the world.

• You learn how to do a simple ritual to travel back to the worlds you’ve been before, these can be done in a few minutes and don’t need a ‘cooldown’, however, each time you are in a completely new world, it will need time to tune your metaphysical presence to your relative position in the multiverse, reentering it useless for a period of time that can range from a few days to a full month depending on the world.

• Fate itself conspires to make your life ‘interesting’ and throw hot women your way, this can be a blessing or a curse.

<It has been observed that many parents wish for grandchildren, it could be hypothesised that the same may apply to your father and he may be trying to help you in giving him grandchildren.>

Raphael's conclusion was delivered with the same calm analytical tone she used for practically everything, which somehow made the statement even funnier. Lex could practically imagine her compiling some invisible statistical report on the reproductive ambitions of parents before arriving at that conclusion, and despite himself, he almost laughed.

His thoughts soon returned to the Essence itself and the peculiar idea of conquest behind it. Technically, he hadn't spent much time conquering nations, kingdoms, or worlds, but if the word was being interpreted more broadly, then there was another area of his life where he had certainly accumulated a rather impressive number of victories. He had been with a lot of women even before Sharon, Donna, and Kara, and although he wasn't particularly proud or ashamed of that number, he couldn't deny that having beautiful women around him was something he genuinely enjoyed.

Still, calling Sharon, Donna, and Kara his "conquests" didn't sit right with him. Whatever strange relationship the Essence had with that word, those three weren't trophies or achievements to be collected; he genuinely cared about them, and the fact that he enjoyed being with multiple women didn't change that. If anything, having them in his life had made him realize that there was a significant difference between simply wanting someone and actually wanting to build something with them.

Yet the thought still made him reflect on his own life.

If you stripped away all the complicated details, there were probably three things most men wanted or dreamed about: money, power, and women. Lex had already solved the first problem to an almost absurd degree, and the second had become increasingly meaningless after gaining immortality and enough abilities to make most conventional threats irrelevant. As for the third...

Well, he certainly wasn't going to pretend he didn't enjoy it.

He liked women. He liked being surrounded by them, spending time with them, flirting with them, sleeping with them, and building relationships with them. There was something comforting about having people around him who could turn an otherwise endless existence into something worth looking forward to, and perhaps that was the real reason this Essence felt strangely appropriate.

Maybe it hadn't simply rewarded his conquest.

Maybe, in some strange way, it had reflected what he already wanted.

“So, anyone got any idea how we move all these people back to the mainland?” Scott suddenly asked, pulling Lex out of his thoughts. “Our jet obviously can't carry everyone.”

“How'd they get here in the first place?” Kara asked.

“They came in a ship, but it's pretty damaged,” Storm explained.

Rogue glanced toward the surrounding ocean before looking back at the island. “Sugar, if the island can move itself, why don't we just have it head toward the States? Once we get close enough, we can transfer everybody onto the mainland.”

“Islands don't move, Anna,” Scott scoffed.

“Well, technically they do,” Beast corrected, adjusting his glasses as he considered the data they'd gathered. “Especially this one. We've already established that it moved approximately three kilometers from its original location after we landed, and that may explain why it took us an entire day to locate it despite having a reasonably accurate search area.”

Scott frowned at that but still didn't seem particularly convinced. “Okay, even if it does move, somebody has to stay here and look after all these people. It could take weeks before it gets close enough to the mainland, and I'm not spending weeks sitting on an island.”

“I don't mind staying,” Rogue replied, glancing down at her hands before looking toward the ocean. “After absorbing this place, I feel a whole lot more comfortable around the water anyway, and I reckon I can help it move faster.”

“That settles it, then.” Scott turned toward the direction where they'd left their jet. “Come on, everyone. We need to report everything to the Professor.”

He started walking away, but after a few steps he glanced over his shoulder and realized that practically nobody had followed him.

“I'll stay too,” Jubilee announced after a moment's hesitation. “I don't want to leave Anna alone here.”

Scott turned around with a baffled expression. “Alone? There are dozens of people here, and most of them should wake up within a few hours anyway.”

Jubilee crossed her arms, apparently deciding that his objection wasn't worth answering.

Ororo approached Rogue instead, offering her an apologetic smile. “I'm sorry, Anna. I'd stay as well, but the Professor wouldn't be too happy if there was nobody left to teach at the school.”

Rogue smiled faintly and nodded. “Ah know, sugar. Go on. We'll be fine.”

While the X-Men sorted out who would remain behind, Lex was still examining the subtle changes brought about by the Essence he'd received. Something about him felt different, although it wasn't a dramatic transformation that he could immediately point toward. It was more like his existence had shifted slightly beneath the surface, as though something had been added to the way reality itself perceived him.

Kara noticed it too.

“What happened to you?” she asked, studying him with an amused curiosity. “You feel a little different.”

“More handsome?” Lex asked.

Kara looked him over for a moment before shaking her head. “Hmm... nah. More manly.”

Lex raised an eyebrow. “What, I wasn't manly before?”

“You were,” Kara assured him, her smile gradually becoming more mischievous. “Just... not this much. You kinda went from my incredibly handsome boyfriend to...” Her eyes lingered on him for another second before her lips curled upward. “Daddy.”

Hearing her say it like that, blood inside him suddenly changed direction toward a certain nether region.

However, before he could reply to her, Lex felt something strange happen almost immediately.

His Essences were interacting.

As he focused inward, he began to understand what was happening. Transcend Self represented an almost absolute degree of control over his own existence, including his fate, while Ultimate Chad possessed a far more aggressive influence over fate itself, pushing reality toward encounters, opportunities, and circumstances that would lead him toward attractive women and interesting relationships.

Ordinarily, Lex might have expected one of them to simply override the other.

Instead, they reached an understanding.

Both Essences were deeply woven into his existence, both were fragments of something far more fundamental than ordinary abilities, and neither could simply erase the other without contradicting the reality they had become part of. Transcend Self essentially recognized that this particular alteration wasn't something Lex would actually object to and willingly surrendered some of its absolute authority over that aspect of fate, retaining enough influence to ensure that Ultimate Chad couldn't simply dictate his life.

The result was a compromise.

Ultimate Chad could push.

Transcend Self could still steer.

Lex stared into the distance for a moment.

Essences are weird.

That was probably the simplest way to describe it.

Only then did he realize that the X-Men were preparing to leave.

“Wait, they're really leaving these people here?” he asked Kara, who had apparently been following the situation while he'd been distracted.

“Nah,” Kara replied. “They're leaving those two girls here, and they'll guide the island toward the United States so everyone can be transported once they're close enough.”

“Oh.”

Lex turned toward the island.

“Krakoa, come here.”

The response came through his mind almost immediately, the psychic voice carrying a distinctly irritated tone.

“What do you want, human?”

Lex frowned.

“You sound pretty rude. Maybe I should just destroy you anyway.”

Kara gave him a sideways look before defending the island. “To be fair, you did kinda forcefully conquer it, and now that girl is making it move toward the United States at full speed. I'd be pretty annoyed too if I were in its place.”

Lex considered that.

“When you put it that way...” He sighed before looking back toward Krakoa. “I suppose you're right.”

He then smiled slightly.

“How about this, Krakoa? I'll give you a gift. A very powerful one. In exchange, you become loyal to me. If you betray me, I'll take the gift away, and on top of that, I'll destroy you.”

“Very well,” Krakoa answered.

The tone had already changed.

“Let us see what gift you can grant me, human.”

Lex looked around for a moment before casually wandering toward a nearby patch of bushes.

Kara watched him go.

“Where are you going?”

“I need to take a piss.”

“You don't need to do that.”

“I know.”

The answer was accompanied by a completely shameless grin, and Kara immediately understood that Lex was doing something stupid on purpose.

Normally, he used his blood when he wanted to transfer the effects of Transcend Self through his body fluids, but there was absolutely nothing that said it had to be blood. Any bodily fluid would technically work, and since Krakoa had just annoyed him, Lex saw no reason not to make the process as vulgar as possible.

The change began almost immediately.

The cracks carved into Krakoa by Kara's earlier punch began closing, but the healing didn't stop at repairing damage. The soil itself became richer as nutrients replenished, roots spread deeper beneath the ground, and vegetation erupted from the earth with startling speed. Trees that had been damaged during the battle straightened and thickened, their branches filling with fresh leaves, while entire patches of barren land transformed into healthy green growth.

The effect continued spreading outward.

Krakoa's terrain began to shift and expand, its very structure becoming healthier and more complete as though the island were being pushed toward the absolute peak of what it could naturally become. Land rose from the surrounding ocean, new stretches of coastline forming as the island's total area expanded until it was almost twice its previous size.

The transformation was so profound that even the island itself seemed momentarily stunned.

“It is indeed a great gift, my Lord,” Krakoa finally said.

Lex smiled.

“That sounds better.”

He turned toward Kara, apparently satisfied with his work.

“So, should we continue our date?”

They barely had time to move before a voice called out behind them.

“Hey, you!”

Lex turned to find Jubilee running toward them. She slowed as she approached, but her eyes immediately wandered over him again, and this time she didn't quite manage to hide how strongly the sight affected her. Lex was still dressed only in his swimwear, and the subtle influence of Ultimate Chad had apparently made his already absurd appearance even more difficult for someone her age to ignore.

“Hi,” Lex greeted with an easy smile.

“Heyyy...” Jubilee replied, a blush spreading across her cheeks. As she noticed a certain bulge.

Lex waited patiently, though the amused glint in his eyes made it clear he had noticed her reaction.

“So?”

Jubilee blinked and seemed to remember why she'd actually run over. “Right. The island. It suddenly started changing, and now everything looks different. Do you guys know what happened?”

“Oh, that?” Lex replied casually. “That was me. I was experimenting with a... special growth serum for trees.”

Jubilee stared at him.

“A growth serum?”

“Yep.”

Kara turned her face away, her shoulders trembling slightly as she struggled not to laugh.

Lex, meanwhile, maintained the most innocent expression he could possibly manage, fully aware that he had just gotten away with giving an explanation that was technically true in the broadest and most ridiculous sense imaginable.

Spoiler

Lex will be going to the Boys world soon, any special suggestion you've got? Something you wanna see?

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