I blinked in confusion as the Parabox went back to being a normal box to my senses.

  Twisting the Parabox every which way provided no new insights, as the feeling I had just a second before was gone.

  "Az? Are you alright?" Fraya's voice would have startled me, if I had not felt her body and organs tense up in preparation to speak.

  "...Yeah, just experiencing everything with my new senses." It took me a moment to formulate a proper sentence in my mind, my thoughts still foggy.

  "What happened?" A resounding voice asked and I recognized it as an Admin.

  I looked up from the now mundane feeling Parabox and studied the Admin that spoke. I was going to respond, but I got lost in the sight of their form. My new senses easily overstimulated by what I saw.

  The admins had a strong Reality presence about them, more so than any other being that I could sense. Which isn't a lot considering I had just gotten this ability. The Admins were strange in that their organs did not feel familiar to me, so it took me longer to adjust to fully comprehending what I was looking at. Warped Reality surrounded every single Admin in this room, and it took me only seconds to figure out what it was.

  "You guys can't die?" I asked, forgetting the previous question completely.

  "...No? Is something wrong?" The Admin asked in confusion, and I marveled at how something like neurons fired throughout their entire body. Hinting that they had no brain like I or the other aliens do.

  "I can see and feel this weird bubble surrounding your species. It's actively bending the fundamental law of the universe by making any possibility of you dying zero, basically a manufactured quantum immortality..." I squinted up at the being, learning how the bubble works and how I could recreate it.

  "You can see that? Yeah right, there's no way." A new Admin spoke up, and it seemed he was nervous or scared. Possibly just uncomfortable.

  I ignored him and my thoughts wandered for a moment, then I caught myself and focused back on the conversation. It was getting easier to push through the mental fog but it was still present.

  "You modify probability so all attacks cannot kill or even touch you most of the time. A cheeky way to escape mortality, but you can still die." It was a simple solution, but the execution was impossibly complex to pull off.

  While I could recreate it with my new Skill, I did not know how they made it originally.

  "Alright, alright..." I turned toward Sally-1 and fought against the pull of just observing everything around me to reply coherently.

  "I leveled up to 10, and got a new Skill called Minor Reality Manipulation. It consumed every Skill I had before level 10 to put everything I had into it, but the Skill does everything the old Skills did and more so it's like I never lost them. To get the Skill, I needed to touch the Parabox. I had not considered what would happen if I got the Skill to max level as soon as I got it, and I don't really remember what happened afterwards. I have some flashes of just... staring upwards?" I trailed off as I remembered something that might make my mind escape this perpetual fog.

  I opened my Stats and put all of my 4,000 Stat Points into Intelligence, hoping it would free me or help me process everything better.

  And surprisingly, it did.

  The fog that made me feel light headed and a bit airy, slowly receded into nothing as clarity returned to me.

  I blinked a few times and shook my head, then hopped off the table and stretched a bit. I felt a lot better, but noticed no other notable changes.

  "I'm glad you're all better now, but what gives? You have to fight some asshole and you didn't come to your Guild mates for help?" A voice I hadn't heard in a long time spoke up, and I could feel the smirk on his face as if it were my own.

  "I'm sorry to say Gill, but you're just so weak." I mocked a sigh and shrugged my shoulders dramatically, teasing him.

  "Dumb ass." He knocked on my helmet, but I could feel his emotions and knew he was relieved.

  "You do not want our help Az?" Another voice I hadn't heard in a long time asked and I smiled to myself.

  "Not this time Christinia, sorry. This guy is impossible for the Admins to deal with, so only I can step in." It was true, but it didn't make me feel any less full of myself.

  She just smiled softly down at me and nodded. I looked around the collection of aliens and a robot that surrounded me, and I felt just a tiny bit less lonely. A weight in my stomach that I was so used to feeling easing slightly.

  I couldn't bask in that warmth for long as something got my attention. I focused on Fraya's mid section and felt... possibility. A weak Reality presence, just the barest hint of something.

  Having focused on her, I felt and saw the emotions and hormones flowing through her mind. I didn't really understand what I was seeing, but comparing her to Christinia showed me a hint.

  "Are you pregnant Fraya?" I asked, not considering that might be a rude thing to say.

  "You can tell? Yes, I think I am. We haven't had the time to have a test done, but that might not be needed if you see something we can't." Fraya smiled wide while clinging to Xyke.

  That made me pause, and I thought about just how long it's been since I last interacted with anyone from my Guild. I felt like an idiotic asshole.

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  "Congratulations! I'm sorry that we haven't spoken in a while, I should have spent more time talking to you guys instead of being so distracted with nonsense." A bittersweet feeling filled my chest.

  I was happy for them, truly. But I also felt guilty for not actually trying to interact with them. I knew I was lonely, even if it was being suppressed. Now wasn't the time for regret though, so I pressed on past it.

  "It's alright, we've been too busy dealing with all the Adamantium sales to have any proper free time anyway." Xyke commented and I was caught off guard when Fraya brought me into a hug.

  As much as I hated to admit it, it felt nice. For a moment before I realized they were treating me like a kid again. 'Fuck my life.'

  "How long was I out of it anyway? Any news on the faker?" I asked when Fraya let me go after a good moment.

  "No more than 4 hours, and we've lost sight of the threat." An Admin spoke up and now I felt all awkward for having a moment in front of strangers.

  "He's not in the star anymore?" I asked but I wasn't really that surprised. It was only a matter of time before he made a move.

  "Correct. We don't have any leads on where he could possibly be, but your city is under surveillance right now in case he shows up." As the Admin spoke, I used my new Skill for the first time and created the Reality protective bubble around my Guild members and Sally-1.

  It wouldn't do to have them die or be a target to get to me.

  "If that's the case, there's really not much for us to do except wait right? I think I'm good to continue on with my life until he shows his face." I got a collective nod in response.

  "Come hang out at HQ when you're all finished up. We'll be waiting." Fraya said while Xyke just nodded again.

  "Just give me a call if you want me to kick his ass!" Gill continued to smirk even as I felt his desire to really not get involved.

  "Good luck Az, I know you can do it." Christinia offered with a gentle smile and a small bow.

  Sally-1 was being a smart ass but it made me smile anyway.

  Then they were all gone from my sight as the Admins put us in our original positions. I felt space fold in on itself as little tubes of magic transported not just me but the rest of them. As we entered our respective tube, I could no longer feel them with my new senses as they were moved far far away from me in an instant.

  I was back in the lab, and instantly felt new sensations now that I was no longer in an odd pocket dimension. I got a better feel for the limitations on my new Skill, and I could only feel out about 2 solar systems in a radius.

  An absurd distance to be sure, but so tiny when compared to the rest of the universe. Even with my upped Intelligence Stat, it took me a long moment to break out of the reverence that is everything.

  I could feel, hear, smell, taste, and see each and every little detail down to the sub atomic level of everything within the radius. A whole solar system worth of senses.

  While I was on the moon, I could sense every monster on my planet. See from their eyes. Smell from their noses, and so on. I could also feel my Guild mates in HQ and Sally-1 again now that we were out of the tubes the Admins used for transportation.

  I shook my head and snapped out the fog in only a few seconds and put the Parabox back on its table.

  "Will I ever get used to this?" I sighed to myself as I made my way to a side project that I had on the back burner for a long time.

  Gating over to Anny the nano swarm, she was quite the sight. Still a massive non-sapient blob of Adamantium nano machines, but it was still cool.

  "Alright Anny, I think that's big enough. Got a new job for you." I said and the swarm stopped writhing as it ate the raw metal.

  Once again, I opened a Black hole Gate and teleported us to the ruined part of the city. The Rob's were beginning to rebuild, but it would take a long time to fix the mess I made.

  "Your new assignment is to help the Rob's rebuild the city, and once built you will provide the city with upkeep. Repairing things and making sure everything is working as it should. Continue to consume Adamantium so you can cover the entire city in your swarm." I gave her the job I needed done, and let the massive blob of glittery silver white stuff plop onto the ground and it slithered like a living slime to fill the gaps.

  'What do I do now?' I tapped my finger on my helmets chin in thought.

  An idea popped into my mind, and I acted upon it instantly.

  My kuppens, Hedge Claws and Ruth, were probably bored and hungry but I couldn't really be there while waiting for a fight. However, I can literally be in multiple places at once so I simply became two. Got overwhelmed slightly by the doubling of sensation but got used to it quickly enough that only a second passed.

  Ruth barreled into my leg and immediately tried to gnaw it off but I knew she was just playing. The other two quickly noticed me and started circling my double.

  "There. Problem solved." I chuckled to myself as I played with the 3 monster kups, then applied the protective Reality bubble on them as well.

  Since I had the power to make sure no one I loved died, I would use it. Now I was back to square one though, which was what to do now?

  "Guess I'll practice this new Skill of mine, see what kind of things I can do with just bending rules." I muttered and set off to do just that.

  ...

  About an hour later of fucking around with a Skill I truly did not understand that well, I learned that I wasn't really limited by my previous limitations. Like there wasn't many to begin with, but now I had even less.

  The Skill Minor Reality Manipulation, really means Minor Reality Manipulation. If I can think of it and comprehend it, then I can bend it's associated rule to it.

  Like speeding up or slowing down time, for example. It cost an insane amount of Energy, several million points for even 0.5% in any direction, but with my new pool that was practically nothing at all.

  As a side thought, I memorized the atomic make up of everything in the entire solar system. When I applied the law E=mc2, which is all about getting energy from matter, but reversed it I could get matter from Energy!

  So I spent a glorious, big fat number of 200 million points of Energy to create..!

  Two atoms.

  I made two atoms.

  But something unexpected did come with the creation of these two atoms.

  Antimatter.

  Something I had sensed but could not place when I felt it in the solar system, because of how rare it is and how fast it simply disappears, I couldn't figure out what it was when everything else was so blinding.

  The first attempt at creating matter from Energy, the atoms collided with the antimatter and they cancelled each other out. Becoming ambient energy and dispersing with light, heat, and radiation.

  The second attempt, I cleanly separated the two atoms. That's where I realized what I had created was antimatter.

  Antimatter, unlike most depictions of it, looks exactly like regular atoms. There is nothing special about it until it comes into contact with matter, where both just cease to exist. This would make antimatter impossible to contain or transport without some kind of advanced magnetized tube or whatever, but I was a guy with brain powers. So I held onto the antimatter with just will alone, and it obeyed.

  With this in mind, I could safely create matter from just energy. But since I don't want to hold onto a bunch of antimatter for no reason, the number of atoms in the universe remains roughly the same.

  Which means creating new atoms to create an object is the dumbest thing I could do when it would be so much easier to just rearrange already existing atoms. The only use I could have for this particular process would be to create rare atoms that can't be found easily or separated from something else at all. There are a few like that, so I'd keep this in mind.

  With the cost to make matter my way, it would take 961 billion points of Energy to create a single pebble the size of my fingernail.

  Completely possible with my insane pool of Energy, but not super useful.

  'Wait... But that also creates a pebble sized collection of antimatter. Of which I could use as a weapon against the faker to just erase some of his atoms directly!' This realization made me smile while I tapped my fingers together evilly.

  "Yes... I'll make a DEATH RAY! I SHALL ERASE HIM FROM EXISTENCE ITSELF!" I laughed dramatically, doing my best evil laugh.

  It sucked, but no one was around to hear it so I kept it up for several minutes as I created and collected antimatter slowly.

  I burned through my Energy faster than it could regenerate, but even if this doesn't work it's a good way to train my regeneration.

  That faker is so fucked.