The Cursed Gamer, Book 1

Chapter 13: Boom! (1)

Chapter 13: Boom! (1)

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[Ding! Your Quirk, "Surge" has levelled up!]

["Surge" has reached level 5! New abilities have been unlocked!]

Standing in the backyard of the Hado mansion with his hands pointing upwards at the sky, Neji kept staring at the air while blinking profusely.

It's been 9 and half years since Neji was born in this world. Life has been peaceful other than some small awkward moments of arguments now and then.

His current goal was to upgrade his Quirk's level and evolve it to a state where it can replicate energy similar to mana so that he can reach his full potential as The Gamer.

But for that, he assumed the quirk needs to upgrade to at least level 10. He clearly wasn't expecting this type of message to show up right now.

His Quirk evolved…? That was quick, but not a bad thing. 'Wait, what path did the awakening take? My quirk lets me release a 'wave' of 'shock', so my Quirk can go both ways. Either complete Shockwave manipulation or Wave manipulation.'

[It's not an evolution, Master.] The sudden voice of the system brought him out of his daze. [The best way to describe it would be to call it a pseudo-awakening.]

"Ah… I understand. Can you show me the changes?"

[Gladly] The system simply replied as a screen appeared in front of Neji's vision.

[ <3/3> ]

[Quirk(s):

•<Surge>; LVL 5: This Quirk grants the user the ability to convert their own vitality into energy and release it in the form of exceptionally powerful spiral shockwaves.

New abilities: 1. The user can control the density of the energy released. 2. The shockwave energy isn’t bound to a spiral form anymore.]

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Huh? I remember seeing Nejire create shockwaves that don't move in corkscrew motion in canon. In that School Festival thing where she danced in the sky while golden energy danced around her that she used to create a "sketch" of a flower. I also remember that in My Hero Academia, Hero's Rising (game) – Nejire could release rings made out of shockwaves. So this upgrade is good, I assume.

"And about the density control… it's interesting."

To make things clear, my quirk lets me release energy in the form of shockwaves. In essence, it’s still energy I am releasing, it just shares some of the properties of shockwaves – such as the energy, when released, isn’t calm, it is constantly vibrating.

So, calling my quirk Shockwave Manipulation would be slightly wrong, I’d rather call it Shockwave-Energy Manipulation.

Now that aside, where does the ability to control the density of the energy come to play? Well, currently, the shockwave energy that I release is very dense, it’s so dense that I can touch it and feel it... it kind of feels like jelly, well, until it disappears into the air at least. Now, a blast of shockwave would usually phase through things and damage them from inside, but since my wave is too dense, it just clashes with the skin of anything it comes into contact with - for example, the two giants Nejire one-shotted in the anime.