Getting A System In A Modern World

Chapter 256: Awake (II)

Few minutes later, Silas felt that his body recover to an extent. His body no longer ached as much as before and he also didn't feel the intense soreness he was feeling.

He slowly pushed himself up from the bed and sat down. He doesn't have enough strength to move around but he doesn't have to continuously lie down on the bed.

"That really did a number on me," Silas said as he clenched his fist lightly and loosened it.

[It did. If you hadn't gone through your first evolution metamorphosis, you would be dead by now. Even your Regeneration superpower would had not been able to help you,] The system said, surprising Silas.

"System, nice to hear from you. This is the first time you're talking without me asking a question," Silas said with a smile, bt8he didn't receive any response from the system.

Silas smiled when he saw this. The system has already told him that it won't respond to irrelevant questions, so he wasn't bothered by it's silence.

Since the system raised the issue about his evolution metamorphosis, he decided to ask a question that has been on his mind since he woke up.

"System, if I'm to go through the second evolution metamorphosis, how long would that take?" He asked.

[The duration isn't fixed. It all depends on your body and your genes.]

"I see..." Silas nodded slowly when he heard the system's response.

The reason why he asked is because he intends to go through another evolution metamorphosis, to increase his strength. But he doesn't want it to be as long as it was before.

With the way things are right now, he doesn't have the luxury of spending six months in the evolution capsule.

Two to three weeks is okay. A month or two is also manageable but anything more than that is too much.

Even though this is his thought, he knew that he has to increase his strength as soon as possible. The truth is that he wants to increase it before paying a visit to the Bureau and this is the reason he doesn't want it to take too long.

What Silas intends to do is to crush every single one of them without even giving them a chance to struggle.

"Fuu... I will still have to do it at some point and it's the sooner, the better." He sighed as he continued to think about it.

Silas also thought his family—his dad, Kim and Alex. He was curious to know how they are handling, especially Alex who just went through a traumatic experience.

Thinking about it made Silas to clench his fist in anger. He blames himself for everything that happened today. If it wasn't for his arrogance, something like this wouldn't had happened.

"I'm sorry, Alex. Big brother will make it up to you."

Silas knew that he can't keep dwelling on it as it won't change what happened. What he can only do is to correct his mistake.

He it's hope that the incident won't affect Alex too much, as he wouldn't know what to do with himself if it does.

The incident also made Silas to realize that he has to provide himself with something like a back up strength or a hidden card. This is for if he finds himself in a similar situation in the future.

He thought about it and he knew that it would be of great help to him. Assuming a situation where he's at one end of the world and his family is in danger at the other end, how is he expected to travel such a long distance, and save them?

With his current strength, it was beyojbf impossible. Also, even if he's go through his second evolution metamorphosis, he doesn't have the confidence he would have such strength.

Silas isn't hoping for such a situation to occur again but it's better to prepare for any eventualities.

He thought about it and decided that what he needs is a suit of armour and one that can fly. The armour would boost his strength and it would be able to work in tandem with his superpower, and this is even if it ranks up to a very high rank.

He doesn't want something that would be useless after a maybe two or three rank up. Yes, if it becomes useless, it would show that he he has become extremely strong but Silas still wants an armour that would last him.

Silas also already has an idea of what he's going to model the suit of armour after. It's going to be modelled after the MAU but its specs are going to be higher than it. And it should be able to travel a very long distance almost instantaneously.

He felt it would be better if its specs are five times better than the MAU. That would make him extremely overpowered and he would have to reason to show off his superpower. But he would still want to show off.

"It would be nice to have that diamond crushing strength back." Silas smiled.

The next thing involves his family and increasing their strength. He doesn't want what happened today to repeat itself again and this is he reason why he want to increase their individual strength.

He wouldn't want then to actively go into a dangerous situation but it would be best if they have sufficient strength to protect themselves in a difficult situation.

Silas understands that he won't always be there for them and this is the reason why he wants to do this.

"It would be best for them to take the GES but I don't think they can handle the complexity of being a Phenomenal. I also don't want to put them through the pain I went through," Silas said to himself as he continued to think about how to increase his family's strength.

He thought about it and in the end, he didn't know what decision to make.

"It would be best if I discuss it with them first. That way, I would understand how they feel about everything. I shouldn't go ahead and make a decision for them." Silas sighed and smiled.

His mind was still occupied with other things but he knew that there was nothing he could do about any of them as long as he's still weak, and unable to move.

He looked out the window and saw the beautiful night view of Los Angeles, the city of Angels.

He allowed himself a moment to enjoy the view without think of anything.

He was still looking out the window, when his door opened slightly and his date peeked his head inside.

"You're awake, son." He smiled in relief when he saw Silas.

Silas nodded and smiled at his father.

Chris opened the door wide and walked into the room with Kim rushing inside and to Silas' bed.

She hugged him and broke into tears.

"I'm glad you're already. I was really scared."

"It's okay. I'm fine now." Silas smiled as he caressed her back softly.