CHAPTER 368 COC

CHAPTER 368 COC AnnouncementSorry I've been relying on the side worlds so much lately. I've been reviewing the source material and working on what I want to happen in the actual fanfics. Its odd how its easier to come up with whole new characters and worlds than the fanfic material. There are a few more instances of going to the side worlds mainly for quests, but the next few weeks will be pure Marvel.

I was in the Red Room once more. At the 7 o’clock door I looked around to the other world entrances. I had known Marvel was this door thanks to a World Choice. In the Manga Hall this would have been One Punch Man. A manga with impossibly strong heroes and villains. The 6 o’clock door was my exit, so I looked to the 5 o’clock.

“You have to be DC,” I said walking up to the door. A world filled with super heroes, not near as many as Marvel, they were still synonymous with one another. It only made sense that they were mirror images of one another. I thought about it and decided to find out who I was in this next world.

Opening the door I stepped in and was met with darkness. Slowly the scenery around me began to brighten. I was in a massive room and someone in a blood red robe was running at me. I instinctively punched them, throwing them back.

More men and women in similar robes moving toward me I noticed a man above me. He was in a blue, white, and yellow skin-tight suit, flying around the room punching other men in robes that were on upper balconies.

The man looked familiar, but instead of trying to guess who it was I noticed a large puddle of blood a few paces away. A man’s upper and lower half was on either side of the blood pool. It appeared someone had ripped him in half. Looking into the thin puddle, between the gut and viscera, I saw my reflection.

I was Weston Walker. 18 years old, I had lived a mostly normal life. That was until I was 9 and my mother was killed. It was a freak accident, of course. The men that attacked us were going for my dad, Bill Walker, aka The Immortal.

I didn’t know this at the time, but my dad was really old. At least hundreds of years old. With super strength, flight, regenerative powers, and immortality, he had lived to see a lot in his life. He was an impossibly strong man. Black hair, thick beard, huge muscles. He had been a pretty good dad, up until my mom’s death at least.

When I was a kid scientists had hired a mercenary group to capture him. They had been trying to find him so they could study him. My mom was caught in the cross-hairs. My dad only needed his bare hands to rip the attackers apart, limb by limb. After that he wasn’t the same. Leaving me with my mom’s sister, I stayed with her, and didn’t see my dad again until he was on TV.

As one of the founders of the Guardians of the Globe he was considered the unofficial leader. The strongest and oldest human, or so he said, my dad was a hero to millions. I didn’t see him for a long time after that. It wasn’t until I awoke my own super power that he showed up.

My ability had kicked in one day. I had been playing catch and happened to catch a ball I had no chance to get. At first I had thought that I was simply moving super fast. Like the Red Rush in this world. It wasn’t as simple as that though. New to the power I could only manage bursts of speed. And with testing it was found that I was actually speeding up time for myself. Only for a half-second, but enough to give me a slight edge in a fight. My Aunt called my dad and he showed up on my doorstep for the first time in years. Not to catch up or apologize. No, it was to begin my training as a superhero.

Day in and out he pushed me beyond my physical limits for 5 months straight. I was allowed to join in on field work, and grew to enjoy being a hero to the world. I had my own secret identity, and had recently graduated high school.

That morning we were called to a mysterious group that had been on the radar recently. Since there was always some group popping up here or there that caused trouble my dad decided to check it out. And since I was still under the probationary period with the Guardians of the Globe I was stuck checking them out with him.

The new group was called the Children of Cthulhu, which we had referred to as COC. They were a mysterious group that had a huge jump in recruitment lately. A recent influx of disappearances in the area, we had gotten a tip about a weird group working out of an abandoned cathedral. When we arrived at their hideout all hell broke loose.

Below the cathedral they used as their hideout was a giant room. Inside the room, cult members had all been chanting and praying to a magical red glowing ellipsoid. The oval shaped blood red floating deathtrap had only been about 8 feet tall when we arrived. Currently it was 15 feet tall.

As the memories settled another cultist jumped for me. I breathed out and activated the part of my brain that sped up my time. Like being dunked in water my skin tingled, and I sped up. Allowing his fist to meet me. The man moved slowly as I focused some Nen in my hand and hit him as the notification came.

Welcome to Invincible World

You would need to be invincible to survive here.

“Fucking hell,” I said as my time slowed down to normal.

At first I was surprised, but then again, DC really didn’t have all that many super powered people. Superman was of course the strongest, but this world had Viltrumites. Each as strong as Superman, or so I guessed since there was never a crossover comic. Invincible sported hundreds of super strong aliens and humans alike. Marvel had just as many strong foes. I guessed Marvel and Invincible were considered harder than DC.

“Weston!” My dad yelled. I ducked down as a blood red beam shot out at me. Pulling out a mass of my lifeforce I threw the Nen at whoever shot at me. They were thrown back and the futuristic weapon they used was flung away. The Immortal continued fighting another few from above, but the fight was mostly wrapping up.

Walking to the center of the circular room the blood red ellipsoid began to pulse. I used Gyo on it. There was some lifeforce there, but using Observation Haki it was like looking into the pit of doom. The Energy was actually black. Normally it was a white or weak gray, but what I felt from the mass was pure evil.

“I think the ellipse is made of blood,” I said as my dad landed next to me. Below the floating oval of death were intricately drawn circles that were written in blood as well.

I cursed, focusing my lifeforce into my pointer and ring finger. I used a Nen Blast. The blast cut deeply into the tentacle. The monster let me go as I was sprayed with blue blood. Freefalling through the air I began to breathe in and out quickly to try to calm myself. A white fog below me I couldn’t help crying out as I fell. Moving far faster toward the ground than I was used to I almost made it to the fog when another tentacle grabbed me. My leg about dislocated from the sudden halting of the world’s gravity’s pull. This tentacle was stronger than the last. I focused Armament Haki to prevent the tentacle from crushing my bones.

Dragging me back up to it’s mouth I cut this one with another Nen Blast, but 2 more tentacles grabbed my legs causing them to almost do the splits. I was going starting to think I would prefer getting eaten than some fucked up tentacle porn ending that was playing through my mind. But like hell I was going to let this be the end.

“Summon!” I yelled out. Nibi appeared just ahead and I grabbed her.

“Nibi, I need you or we are fucked!” I yelled. Looking up to the cat, which was actually down, we locked eyes. Long seconds I waited for her to make a decision, then she began to grow. Wider and wider she jumped up to become bigger than a horse. I had to use the last of my Nen to strengthen myself enough to hold onto her. Keeping her in the air below me.

A black ball of chakra formed at her mouth. As it grew it began to glow blue with her flames. With a great boom it shot from her mouth striking through the tentacles and blowing them away. Both of us falling to the fog I yelled out in triumph as I moved to sit on top of her. She turned in the air, more tentacles shot toward us. She spit intense blue flames that were as thin as lasers at them.

We made it to the fog this time. Our view blocked, I panicked again. Sending out my area of Observation Haki to a wider range, we were speeding up far more than I expected. I felt the ground and as I yelled out to warn Nibi we hit it with a great boom. The cat didn’t hesitate though, running away we moved past the tips of tentacles that kept the Cthulhu monster standing above the fog.

The wind roared in my ears as Nibi picked up speed. I never loved the cat more than that moment. She had literally saved my life, and I would do whatever she needed. As the last of the tentacles was dodged she continued to run in an almost lazy gait.

I received a couple of notifications.

Invincible World Quest 1: Complete

Escape the Cthulhu Monster

Rewards:

Pet Evolution

Timeflow

Weakness Eliminator

Invincible World Quest 2:

Survive 24 hours

Rewards:

Weakness Eliminator

“Fuck,” I said. “Let’s find somewhere to rest.” I decided to wait to use the Pet Evolution until we were farther away. My heart was still pounding far more than I was used to. There was something wrong with this planet. My body didn’t feel the same. I raised my hand to hold my head but noticed it was a struggle to get it up.

“This world has a higher gravity,” I said, amazed. I guessed I was over 2 times my normal weight. As my adrenaline began to lessen I felt the differences of the gravity. My body was heavier of course, but it was more than that. Able to focus on my body parts I could feel my heart struggling to get used to the increased power it had to exert to pump blood to my body. My skin felt tingly as it was pulled down more. Hell, even my hair felt heavy.

“What the fuck did I get us into this time?” I asked, but Nibi didn’t answer. Running on into the mist I felt a tentacle ahead and guided her away. Desperate to find somewhere safe to hide for the time being.