Isekai into Marvel/DC

Chapter 95 Use the Force 01

With my goal accomplished, I teleport out of the ocean and go back to watching the Spiderman fight. Just when it looked like they were going to finish Spiderman off Miles and Gwen showed up. Three versus five when they were struggling six against one. They quickly start losing.

Hmm. Maybe I could steal away Mr. Negative as well? I didn’t know what his powers were though. Probably some form of energy so it would just improve one of my bread-and-butter powers. Still might be worth it, one less bad guy to bother Pete. I was already so strong. I had tons of redundant powers that I was never going to use already. Why would I kill some random guy for more powers I didn’t need?

Well… Because I could. He was a murderer. He was a criminal. And I could do it and get away without any repercussions. Who knew if I wouldn’t get a big deal of power from him. I didn’t know much about him other than he was an enemy in one of the popular games. I can test something with him too.

So I’ve tried thinking about injuring opponents before but the system somehow knew I was going to kill them after I crippled them. The pull was weaker though. It was still possible to injure a villain or hero while killing one outright would be impossible. Once again detaining them completely removes the pushing force of plot armor.

I think the system was learning from my strategy though. I could feel some reluctance to bear hug the guy. I doubted his negative energy would hurt me but even still I went for the safer option. I wondered if he had any magic resistance. I whispered under my breath. “Peels.” Falling through a portal no one noticed his disappearance as a fake version of him sprang up. The false negative was fully touchable because of light constructs and looked exactly like him.

I teleported to one of my secure rooms and slapped a power dampener around his neck. His body slowly changed back to the peaceful man but I didn’t care. This man was a murderer. Even before he gained his powers he was a slaver. I grabbed his head as I ripped his heart from his chest. I whispered to myself. “Wow. I’m getting pretty evil. Maybe I’ll do some good by putting F.E.A.S.T. into May Parker’s name.”

It wouldn’t take more than a meeting with his lawyers to write up a few documents. I could just take it or buy out the shares but stealing it from him just feels like the right option. It should be put into someone's hands that’ll do good with it instead of turning it into a money laundering business or some other such nonsense.

Still alive!? I ripped his heart out of his chest how the fuck didn’t I ge-.

What the fuck was dark force!? Did I just make myself a sith!? My body suddenly floods with power. The mana space where my chi core and magic rings are suddenly attacked by the new force, which also wanted to be in that part of space. I would have had my cultivation stripped many times over but with perfect control of magic and chi I started figuring things out. It’s like a mini-portal to another realm trying to suck in all my other magical resources.

No, I needed to fix this problem right now or I could risk losing all of my cultivation if the portal siphoned harder when I wasn’t paying attention. That led me to think, what are forces? They work differently than energy and mana. Speaking of which, what was mana? 

It was necessary to figure these out so I could stop the dark force trying to siphon my mana. I really wish more people used the scientific method to figure out what exactly mana/chi was. I could only make the faintest illusions from beings over thousands of years old. Even their inklings about the fundamental function of mana felt wrong.

A dragon thought of mana as another resource akin to light or darkness. He supposed that all creatures needed it to function but that wasn’t true. There were manaless zones and most of space was manaless. Mana wasn’t an energy and it wasn’t a force, could it be? Could it be a fundamental building block of the universe like atoms?

If atoms were the material aspect of what made everything that would make mana the spiritual or abstract aspect. You could use mana to strengthen your body or create something out of nothing. But you didn’t, you just altered the atoms or controlled atoms to do what you wished.

But what did that make force? Speed force, still force, strength force, the green, the red, dark force, sage force, phoenix force, odin force. It hit many areas from fundamental laws to aspects of nature to a single person. It was someone or something using their will, interposing its nature over mana? 

It was like an unwritten contract for force powers. They would allow you to tap into their force but they would gain all the mana you would normally gather. They were making people into mana batteries and giving them back a much smaller portion of their force. Who owned the dark force? My best guess would be Dormamu. No, even then it functions autonomously.

If I could revert the portal siphoning to giving force I could retain a free new power to call on. It took awhile of tinkering but by imposing my will I could slow and eventually reverse the pull from the portal. My body started to flood with dark force which was good but dark force was intentionally corrupting. If I didn’t alter it I would eventually not be myself anymore. 

Spinning the force into a globe I surround the portal. Putting enough effort into the dark force that it wouldn’t want to break apart was easy enough. Slowly it would fill and if I didn’t do anything to solve the problem it would pop. Then I’d have the same dark force problem again. No, if mana could be altered into force could force be altered back into mana?