Into The Portal: Monster Invasion

Chapter 262: How Do Superpowers Form?

Miles found an empty seat and waited for class to start. There were a few others in the class who arrived even before him, but Miles wasnt familiar with them, neither did they try to meet with him, so Miles ignored them and sat in the back seat.

Not long after students started to fill the classroom. When Alex entered, he looked around and found Miles. He moved to sit next to him.

Hey Number 2. He smiled brightly. All the girls in the classroom blushed when they saw him smiling. Miles sighed and greeted back, Good morning Number 1.

After class, I will go hunt in the valley. This time I will approach the portal. Wanna join? Alex asked.

Already hunting? You havent spent all your merits, have you? Miles asked.

Nah, I just want to see the portal, Alex said lackadaisically.

Oh, sure I wanted to see it too, Miles said with a smile. Although he saw a portal when Cross Family descended to the battlefield, it was already sealed. So he wanted to see one still functioning.

Soon the tutor entered and closed the door. The tutor was a woman in her forties, but she was beautiful and charming. She wasnt wearing a military uniform but a dress purple in color giving her a charming aura. On top of the dress, she was wearing a tutor gown.

Hello, everyone! I am your Theory Tutor Ina Olsen. You can call me Tutor Ina or Olsen. She smiled brightly. I will be teaching Theory of Superpowers and Ancient Genes, Energy, Portal World, Monsters and Native Races of the Portal World throughout the year.

Starting with Superpowers and Ancient Genes.

As you may already know, Ancient Genes are the constituents allowing us to use our superpowers. Every human is born with Ancient Genes, and through stimulating the Ancient Genes, we acquire a superpower. She said as she drew a circle in the air. After that, she drew 10 tubes connected to the main circle, stretching out.

Until a few months back, it was common knowledge for everyone in Unity. Although there were only 6 potential power types, Tutor Olsen decided to draw 10 tubes, clearly showing their mistrust of Mother AI. After all, she kept the information about other races and different types of superpowers before too. It was normal for the academy to be skeptical.

Imagine Ancient Genes as a pond, and these tubes as canals water can flow through. She said and wrote down ancient genes on the circle. Then she put a line where the circle and tubes connected to seal the border between the circles and tubes. Ancient Genes are the source of our powers, and these tubes are potential superpowers, but they are blocked, and without energy filling them, we cannot make use of those potentials.

When stimulated by Awakening Serum produced by Mother AI, the energy in Ancient Genes flows into a tube that the medicine leads to. Like how a pond would flow into a riverbed when stimulated by a force. Although it was a known fact that medicine was the deciding factor over the type of superpower, there were still other factors that could change the flow of medicine.

The tube that energy flows into decides our superpower. Now, there are several theories behind how the potential superpowers form. Firstly, what are pathways and how are they decided? Secondly, why does the medicine lead the energy to one of the pathways? Thirdly, why is the superpower limited? And lastly, why are almost all superpowers elemental and there are only a rare few different?

Starting with the first question we will move on in this class. She looked at the class and pointed at the questions she wrote in the air.

Now, what are pathways and how are they decided?

A few years back, we didnt know anything about this and could only theorize about them. Just last year we had learned that there were indeed more races living in Portal World and each race had an AI of its own.

When monsters invaded Portal World, the AIs worked on their own to create unique versions of awakening serums separately while only sharing their outcomes from time to time. Although the path they all took was similar the end product was vastly different.

You may have already realized that most of the superpowers on Earth are elemental. And only a few rare people have different abilities. For example, Number 1 here has a lightning elemental superpower, while Number 3 has solar elemental superpower while Number 6 has the rarest form of, Body Strengthening Type of superpower.

Miles recognized Number 6 from the previous day. She could turn her limbs to swords and fight with them. They were quite powerful. Body strengthening type superpowers were rare on Earth, after all, so they were much more valuable than elemental power, depending on the superpower.

At first we thought the ancient genes were fixed and powers were fixed. Elemental powers were the only form of power humans should be able to awaken. Those who awakened other forms of superpowers had faulty or mutated genes. Only later do we learn that the medicines produced by each AI lead to different awakenings.

So, our one and only Mother AI produced the serum which leads to elemental awakening. So each pathway here is a potential superpower, but because of the medicine we use, the pathway the energy flows into is mostly the elemental one. And in rare cases, one of the pathways is more dominant, thus forcing energy to flow into it, awakening different powers.

That is to say, every human has a few potential powers they can awaken but are forced to awaken one because of the medicine we have in hand. But although we only awaken a superpower, the pathways are still potential we carry. She explained until thereby showing examples and charts. Miles already knew most, but he still understood how superpowers were formed.

Ancient Genes and Superpowers are, in analogy, memory cards with limited data. Inside each pathway, there is a single form of superpower. Ancient genes are only strong enough to activate one pathway. When we stimulate it through the medicine and awaken the superpower, other pathways collapse, thus limiting our superpowers with one form. She said and raised her hand. Her fair skin turned eerie purple.

My superpower is Venom Hand. I can turn both my hands into venom, and touch can kill a monster in minutes, she said and a liquid formed in her hand. True form of my superpower is Venom Hand and only allows me to change my hands to venomous. But with energy, I can change that form and use other forms of my superpowers. Such as this liquid. I can extract it because of my Ancient Gene and change its form. I can, for example, do this. She said and the liquid in her hand formed a dagger, an arrow, a sword.

But it still doesnt change the fact that my ancient genes are limiting my energy. Energy, after entering inside my system, gets washed by my ancient gene and takes the form of my element. So, every attack, every weapon I use, can only take the venom element, and no other element. She said and formed a sword from energy in her other hand. The color was lighter than the one she formed with liquid venom, but it was still purple.