Marvel: My Own Path

(Author: Important announcement, read the Author's Thoughts.)

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System: [Your Strength attribute has been increased from E+ to D.]

System: [Your Speed attribute has increased from E to E+]

System: [Your Physique attribute has increased from D to D+.]

System: [Skye, you need to absorb solar radiation, nuclear radiation, or cosmic energy to strengthen your Kryptonian Physique.]

"I guess I can't fly with a Tier 1 Kryptonian Physique huh..." muttered Skye. "My hearing and eye-sight have also improved, albeit a little bit."

"As for absorbing solar radiation, my body should automatically absorb the radiation from the sun, just like how my body, with the system's help, automatically absorbs Qi."

'I'm just like a walking battery now huh... I wonder how strong I'll be when I max out this Tier 1 Physique's solar radiation absorption. What about the Tier 2 one?' thought Skye in his heart.

He looked forward to increasing his strength since he knew that this messy world houses numerous powerful beings. He wanted power, enough power to protect himself and his sister from this dangerous world.

"System, is there anything in the shop that could help me train? I need to control this newfound strength of mine since I don't wanna be breaking every single thing that I touch." he laughed.

System: [An orb of Level-1 Training Space is what you're exactly looking for. One orb costs 500 system points but you can use it three times, with each tries lasting 8 hours.]

The system never disappoints.

"Okay, buy it!"

System: [Ding! A Level-1 Training Space has been purchased for 500 system points. Remaining points: 2,000.]

System: [By the way Skye, this orb only activates once you are asleep. Once activated, your consciousness will then be transported to the Training Space.]

Skye smiled when he heard those words. "How convenient," he said as he looked at the white crystal orb in his hand.

Glancing at the night sky outside the window, Skye stood up and left the living room, heading upstairs towards his room.

"System, how can I activate this orb?" asked Skye as he laid in the bed, his eyes closed.

System: [Hold the orb to your forehead and simply say 'activate' in your mind. Once you descend into sleep, your consciousness will then head to the training space.]

I see, how simple.

After Skye said 'activate' in his head while holding the tiny crystal orb above his forehead, he immediately tried to sleep.

He always had a technique when he wanted to sleep.

Remembering his experiences in the previous world, Skye's memories of his past life flashed in his head, one by one.

At that moment, his eyebrows scrunched up a few seconds before relaxing, finally descending into slumber.

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When Skye opened his eyes, what greeted him was a large gray space which seemed to limitlessly extend.

Although there was nothing but the ever-present color of grey, Skye clearly felt the cold, hard ground beneath his feet.

'Is this the Training Space?' he thought.

At that moment, the system's ever-familiar voice resounded in his ears, answering his question.

System: [Yes and no.]

'You can also follow me here?'

System: [Of course Skye, be it by soul or mind, I am connected to you.]

Skye was silent. 'I see...'

'By the way, what did you mean earlier when you said, Yes and no?'

System: [To be exact, the place where we are now, is in your mind.]

Skye was astonished. 'My mind? This endless gray world?'

System: [It is your Mindspace. Since you have never accessed your Mindspace before, it looks like this, a dead, null void.]

'So that Training orb was the reason that I was able to access my Mindspace?'

System: [Correct. Look around this world, don't you see anything?]

When he heard the system's words, Skye looked around, his eyes sweeping this place for the first time.

And what greeted his eyes were a few shocking things.

'This was never here before right?' he thought, speechless at this moment.

As he looked at the colossal golden statue that was probably hundreds of meters tall, he couldn't help but be shocked.

With his hands behind his back, this golden statue had a luxurious crown on his head, with a golden battle armor covering his body.

His eyes seemingly looking into the distance, an exalted aura emanated from the statue, as if it was an untouchable king that was above all.

When Skye's eyes landed on the golden statue, he felt a throbbing sensation from within him, as if coming from his blood itself.

He whispered. 'Tyrannical Champion Physique?'

System: [Correct. This is the statue of the Tyrant God who hailed from a different universe, far from the Marvel Universe. The Tyrant God's Physique came from this supreme being, and your Tyrannical Champion Physique, branched from the Tyrant God's Physique.]

System: [There are more, keep looking.]

Following the system's words, Skye looked around once more before his eyes froze when he saw a strange image.

'This wasn't here before too...'

What he saw was a pair of eyes that he was familiar with. It was a pair of golden eyes that were identical to his Sharingan!

But this one was simply massive, maybe a hundred meters big.

When he looked around once more, Skye saw another shocking thing, his eyes staring at the bolts of golden lightning in the distance, flashing from time to time.

These bolts of lightning were as if they were capable of smiting all things in existence!

Shifting his gaze once more, his eyes then landed at an airborne statue of a man. Different from the Tyrant God's statue that was hundreds of meters tall, this statue's size was comparable to that of Skye's.

As it remained suspended mid-air, Skye could clearly feel a powerful strength exuding from the statue. He felt another throbbing sensation inside him, coming from his very blood.

'I guess the previous one was my lightning ability, and this one the Kryptonian Physique.'

System: [Indeed. This Mindspace of yours is connected to your soul. You should thank the creator for giving you such a wonderful gift, a gift capable of housing numerous powers without them repelling or destroying each other for dominance and control.]

'You're saying that if I didn't have a powerful Mindspace like this and a powerful soul, then I wouldn't have been able to possess these powers?' asked Skye in wonder and awe.

System: [Correct. It wouldn't matter even if you had the Supreme System since your body and soul would simply explode due to the overload.]

'I see.' In his heart, he thanked the creator for everything.

'Well, enough of that, how does the training orb work?'

System: [The Training orb has already been activated. In this Mindspace of yours, you can imagine anyone in this world and an exact clone that possesses all of his or her powers, skills, and combat ability, will be created.]

System: [This, in turn, will provide you a perfect sparring partner that could be revived endlessly.]

'So just anyone huh?' pondered Skye.

Captain America?

Black Widow?

Iron Man?

Thor?

The Hulk?

As one name after another popped up in his head, Skye had a sudden thought.

Activating the Coat of Midnight which was also in his Mindspace, the loose, jet-black overcoat costume appeared on Skye's body. After that, a contrasting silver mask suddenly appeared, covering the upper part of his face.

'System, create a clone that's exactly like me, instead of someone else.'

'After all, only I can beat me.' he smirked.

Although arrogant, it was simply a genius idea. After all, if you're able to fight yourself, then wouldn't it be easier to spot your flaws and mistakes, which in turn, will help you fix them and further improve yourself.

There is no better training partner than oneself.

System: [As you wish, Skye.]

Right after the system's words, a strange ripple on the space a few meters away from Skye appeared.

As the ripples continued and expanded, a leg that was covered in slim-fit, jet-black battle trousers, stepped out from the ripple.

What came after was a figure of a young man that was wearing an overcoat that looked exactly like the one Skye was wearing.

When Skye's eyes landed on that figure's masked face, he couldn't help but laugh.

'You look awesome man!' he praised in admiration.

However, in response, the clone Skye released a terrifying killing intent that bore down on Skye.

If this dense and horrible killing intent was focused on someone else, then that person would surely die simply from the oppressive will that was full of slaughter and carnage.

It was a killing intent that was created and born after killing who knew how many people.

However, under the fierce aura, Skye remained unfazed as a smile appeared on his lips.

'I don't want to be that kind of person anymore.' he thought. 'Especially now that I have a cute little sister. How could I dare scare her by becoming such a person once more.'

Skye stepped forward, which was followed by his clone.

Clenching his fist, Skye could feel the newfound strength which came from the Kryptonian Physique.

Staring at the clone that was running towards him, Skye laughed.

"Come!"