Chapter 228 New Upgrades
Quantum Flux was another upgrade that came from the previous round. Its time manipulation ability had not really spoken to him back then, and that was before he even got a quantum clone.
It spoke even less to him, but its upgraded ability to eliminate the adverse effects of time control was truly amazing. Most people clamored for time-related powers but forgot that such a thing came with various problems.
If you turned time back, will the memories you or someone else who was the target made stay or revert back to that time period of your life? If you turned time forward, no matter how you spun it, your mind and body would age, cutting down your lifespan, which was limited by default.
Lifespan could be extended using special powers or items, or having higher stats, but even with 2 million or 20 million, there was still a final date on your lifespan. Continual use of time manipulation would cut it down; that was a fact.
Quantum Compatibility made Dante's eyes flash because it solved his biggest problem at the moment. He could replicate any quantum item with quantum replication, but that did not make it a real item.
It was still a quantum item, which meant that not only could he not benefit from it, but others may likely suffer adverse effects from using them. An example was the Mutation cores he gave Aisha.
They had miraculously worked for her and increased her superpower greatly, but Dante did not know if there would be any aftereffects, which was why he gave her a physically demanding task to capture other superpowered people on Earth.
Continued battle and fighting with others would accelerate the growth of any problems and reveal them soon enough. However, with this, all such testing would be unnecessary, and not only could Dante replicate any quantum item, but he could start his own unique business in the Eternal Universe, which Beatrice had suggested long ago!
Of course, he was not going to do something stupid like sell fruits or reveal that he could sell fruits. The most he would do was reveal Mutation Cores but claim that he could only make up to the C Rank, and even then, both the pricing and the output would make it tough for only the topmost to be able to get it.
*Cough* but this was not the time to discuss that; Dante had already laid plans for his business empire when he got Quantum Replication back then, so it would be revisited again in time, especially after Portia came back to life.
Quantum Infusion was another good one that Dante desired greatly. The ability to infuse items with quantum properties and even copy the properties of other quantum items was so overpowered.
Dante could literally enter an anime world with 7 pebbles and glance at the Dragon Balls from afar, copying their properties onto his 7 pebbles and then have the actual items for himself. It was temporary, but how long did it take to make a wish from Shenron?
Or he could acquire the fruit of the Tree of Might and literally harvest worlds with pebbles, then empower himself by eating the fruit afterward. He could even temporarily copy things like the Nirvana Fire and use them to resurrect someone, meanwhile, just 10 seconds ago, it had been a common piece of rock.
Even though it clashed with replication a bit, it actually boosted it in another way, allowing him to preserve the original and replicated items while using other things to copy them, meaning he never ran out of stock.
Quantum Destabilization was explained in two words: gawt dayum.
Just… just touch him? And that's it; he crumbles into ash like he was snapped by Thanos?
Not only that, but the person or thing could be reassembled and still be alive? If they weren't reassembled within a period of time, that was it; they were permanently and truly dead?
Dante had thought to himself that Quantum Entanglement was best used for esoteric abilities rather than offensive ones, but this one was truly tempting. The idea of it was crazy to think about.
As for Quantum Siphon… Dante was speechless.
Why not just come out and call it Quantum Super Saiyan?
Did the tree that powered his ability watch its friend be blown up by some space lizard emperor and achieve the form not seen in a thousand years? If not, then why was the multiplier the exact same?!
A 50 times boost would not conflict with his Bionics or Psionics, and the energy would not drain his body as it was supplied by the superpower. He could maintain it for as long as the ability allowed, which would be awesome.
Assuming he never raised his stats in the future - very unlikely - he would have 100,000 in all fields after this ability's boost, all energy consumption free! From 2,000 to 100,000, that was enough for him to beat Beatrice in her base form!
Finally, Quantum Summoning was something he also desired. With this, he could bring his cultivated 'protagonists' to reality, or even fellows like the Golden Ape from the previous 30-day mock exam or the 'reincarnated celestial troops' right here.
Don't forget, ALL of these fellows had superpowers that were suppressed from the A and B rank to the C and D rank. If Dante brought them into reality, putting aside the fact that they would be bound to his superpower and would be loyal to him, their already brainwashed states ensured that they would follow him till death and after.
Counting them, they numbered slightly over a thousand because the server could not take too much load in regards to genuine superpowered monsters. However, a thousand superpowered users all loyal to Dante was enough to directly challenge the Prime Human Council for sovereignty of the universe.
That was not even factoring if Dante entered new quantum worlds like this one and dragged fresh batches of superpowered monsters out after brainwashing them. As long as the ability could support them, Dante could recruit them!
Dante looked at his ten options of which he could only choose two with deep contemplation. There was a lot to consider when making a choice, including future-proofing the ability, its utility in the present, its power and usage cap, how many goals or functions it could achieve at the same time, as well as overall, and finally, its value compared to others of the same category.
Dante looked at his mental goals list and compared each ability to each of his targets. He rubbed his face with deep contemplation and consideration before eventually deciding that he would make his choices.
He thought about consulting Beatrice, but when he had spoken to her during their week-long 'honeymoon,' she basically said that she wanted to leave all his choices to himself because at the end of the day, he knew his situation best.
In that case, when you thought about Dante's personality, his goals, and the kind of future he was gunning for, was it surprising when his choice for the upgraded base ability and the new sub ability was Quantum Transportation and Quantum Compatibility respectively?
There may be other good ones among both options, but there was hope they could arrive again in the future during a different selection. Aside from that, they simply did not solve a pressing issue or had abilities that could be replaced by other things.
When Dante made his choice, he felt the abilities settle into him, and they even manifested unique apparitions in his soul space that were loosely connected tothe tree in the distance. The way to use them and the rules tied to the abilities were revealed to him, and he was pleased to find that it was basically as he expected.
Quantum Transportation could take up to 10 people at once at the B Rank, and all of them could be protected from quantum poisoning within 10 meters of the quantum marker, assuming they entered the quantum world.
If it was between universes, then there was no problem, obviously.
As for Quantum Compatibility, it had even less of a restriction. Most items were fine, but higher-dimensional or pseudo higher-dimensional things like the quantum fruits - and real fruits - were still controlled by higher laws that the universe itself could not infringe.
It was not that Quantum Entanglement was weak but that it was limited by the environment in which Dante was in, which made the fellow speechless.
He finally had an answer as to why replicating the fruits was so hard; it was because the universe itself could not tolerate the strain of two of the exact same superpowers existing at the same time in its 'official' register.
If a person had Absorption in the home universe and a person had Absorption in the Eternal Universe, neither the home universe nor the Eternal Universe would sweat it if one of them used Dante's quantum portal to come over because it was still tied to the universe it came from.
Not just Dante's portal but any means, really. As long as it was acquired in a certain universe, it would be borne by the universe of origin, not the universe of habitation.
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