Lord of the Time: I Can Reincarnate Infinitely

Chapter 99 : 99: Versatile Ability

Even the pain of his punctured shoulder and broken caused by the fight with Fushigiro vanished due to his ascension to grade 2. Yes, it healed all his injuries automatically along with the strengthening he received. Now he could feel that he could punch a hole in the sky. Well, jokes aside. He felt that his mind was clearer. Before, he was blind, now he could see. It might be the drastic increase in his spirit. Physically, he had transcended human limits. Bending steel using bare hands? Check. Immune to normal cold weapons? Check. Immune to pistols? Check. Yeah, pistols, not rifles and snipers. He would die if someone sniped him with AWM or something like that. Not to mention, armor-piercing bullets.

Caleb began to think of what his ability could do and couldn't do. He really wants to try it, but there are people around him. How would he explain his ability to them? Does he pretend oblivious and blame it on him being a Manifestor?

Thinking of the description of ability. He looked around him. Most of the members were still asleep. Dunn was outside as he had just two hours before to guard and watch the outside for spiders.

'A chance!' He can use this to try his ability, Albeit he has to avoid doing big moves that would wake them up.

'So this is Gum Gum Rubber...' True to its description and name, a purple substance came out of his fingers. Actually, he could feel that he could produce the weird substance on any part of his body.

Wondering how elastic the substance was, Caleb stuck it on the wall beside him since it had the properties of gum. But damn, the stickiness was quite overtopped as no matter how hard he pulls it physically, he couldn't remove it. However, if he wills it too, in his mind, it will be removed.

Eager, he walked to the other side of the room. Only to result in the substance stretching all the way to the other side. He can feel that it wasn't the limit and it can still stretch a lot. This result made him dumbfounded and he could already think of ways how to use it in his future battles.

This second ability of his wasn't something that he could have guessed. It doesn't possess or give him strong attack power. However, the ability was quite versatile in his opinion. Due to its unique properties, the substance was quite durable.

Thinking of this, he swung his Odachi to the substance, but the substance only stretched and repulsed it. However, he saw the spot had some minor cuts.

'Makes sense. Rubber has a higher resistance to blunt damage than cutting ones. Just like the MC of One Piece.' Caleb scratched his chin with a pensive expression. Discover more stories on m_vl_em_p_yr

While Gum Gum Rubber is quite durable and elastic, it's not indestructible. The effectiveness of a sword or any other weapon in cutting his Gum Gum Rubber substance would depend on various factors, including the sharpness of the weapon, the force applied, and whether the user of the weapon is vastly stronger than him. If a sword is exceptionally sharp and wielded by a strong swordsman, it might be able to cut through his Gum Gum Rubber substance, especially if the user can enhance the sword with some other abilities.

It cannot be considered a weakness. After all, isn't everything or everyone vulnerable to sharp objects? Yes, his substance got slight damage from the Odachi but that doesn't mean it was its weakness. Just like how wood or other objects can get cut by sharp weapons, doesn't mean it's their weakness. After all, it was normal to be vulnerable to something sharp.

Just like that, he experimented more with his heart's content. He let his substance take all forms and shapes such as hammer, whip, rope, sword, machine gun, sling, spear, shield... It's this trait to take any shape and form that made his ability a lot more versatile. Unfortunately, even if his ability to take the form of a spear or sword, it cannot cut or penetrate anything since the substance wasn't innately hard or solid. And if his substance took the shape of a machine gun, that doesn't mean it can shoot bullets. It's more effective to be used as a whip or other blunt weapon such as a hammer or mace if he wants to use it as a weapon.

As for the defensive aspect, he could create a net to bounce back most projectiles or even bullets back to their owners.

Still, there are a lot of applications that he hasn't thought of. He knew that he needed to develop his ability well because it has a lot of potential use!

'It seems I have a lot of things to do with this ability.'

Caleb was fairly satisfied with the thing he got. Although not heaven-defying as abilities such as time manipulation, infinity, space manipulation, or probability manipulation. At least he got a useful one that will help his current situation.

Just like that, Caleb familiarized himself with his ability until the members woke up one by one. They are at their breakfast, tend their wounds, and discuss their next actions.

"I already scouted what we will face ahead of us." Jin looked at everyone. He felt somewhat despondent, as there are only 8 of them now from the previous 12. "Guys, we only need to bypass the two other spiders and five blocks of houses, a church, and an open field. However, there are three spiders that we need to face once we arrive at the open area. And then, we will be out the town. I estimate that once we're out of this town, we only need to walk another 1km."

"Well, fight three spiders? I'll be damned! Just one of them was already troublesome. How would we supposed to kill them without causing commotion?" Dunn rubbed his eyelids, feeling stressed by the information.

Now, they don't have Fushigiro to kill spiders silently. It was bound that they would make a sound once they fought the spiders.

"Well, we will certainly face the spiders, but we will run away immediately. We don't need to defeat them. Just run..." Jin smiled.