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.
'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.