EHG— CHAPTER 749

Title: No Rest for the Wicked (2)

The loud noise of sirens filled the vicinity of Hell's Kitchen as many news stations reported the scene live. Still, this much chaos was nothing new in the city. With more and more super individuals prowling the night, a building catching on fire with one of the most notorious vigilantes caught within was bound to happen one of these days.

Wearing a tight business skirt-suit with the top two buttons of her shirt unbuttoned and a tight skirt around her wide hips, Mary reported the situation with a calm expression.

"It has already been 2 hours and the suspect— Frank Castle— better known as the Punisher is still inside the hotel. He intends to keep the councilman a hostage. Let's inquire about the situation through one of the many heroes on the scene. Officer, what do you think is going to happen now?"

Tilting the microphone towards the officer in charge of the situation, Mary waited while he explained the circumstances but refrained from saying anything regarding the tactics they would need to use to smoke Punisher out.

However, being a loyal fan of Vanish, Mary smiled professionally and continued, "In these cases, Vanish could prove far more effective than the local authorities, don't you think so?"

Stiffening up, the officer glared at Mary before replying coldly, "I cannot comment on this."

Leaving with a disgruntled expression the officer made a few more arrangements while Mary ended her segment for the moment.

Sighing softly, she instructed a few things to her crew and made her way to the station wagon when she suddenly felt a firm pressure over her shoulders. Feeling her tension filtering away, Mary let out a relaxed sigh.

"Can't you just end all of this quickly?"

She inquired once alone inside the wagon.

"Not now... I'm even stopping myself from playing with Tanya specifically to optimize and digest everything once again. Not to mention..." Nik's voice turned quieter.

"Hmm? What's going on?"

"I don't think I can keep it under wraps for too long. So... what happened is that I might have, but definitely, angered a super god compared to other deities... consider them aliens strong enough to put galaxies under their foot. Well, I can always run away but the stronger beings I interact with, the more I feel getting close to completing the Karma. It's all based on instincts though, so it's hard to explain."

"How is that going to affect your objectives?" Mary inquired curiously, her chin resting over her palms.

"If I can reduce a god to the level of a beggar... wouldn't that be considered an act of equality?" Nik's words making Mary's lips twitch.

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"Really, the wicked do not rest at all," After cutting off the chat with Mary, Nik looked towards his own luck.

The black circular patch covering the violet dildo now seemed to expand further, tendrils of black flesh slowly reaching out and wriggling right above the tip of the lucky dildo.

"Is this because Knull is gathering forces? Or just growing more and more stronger? Hmm... this is kinda troublesome. Even if I can keep track of major enemies in such a manner, I can never get too deep into detail but..."

With a spark of electricity flickering from his pupils, Nik gazed at his own luck which seemed far sturdier. Thick veins popping while the dildo seemed ready to fuck anything in its way.

"So... if I manage to get the most benefit out of all my resources, the purple cock would grow more ripped. A good thing to know," Nik snickered and closed his eyes once again.

The cosmic crystal was placed in front of him while he surrounded himself with a three-layered formation that would slowly fuse the energy within his body while using the impure energy released from Nik's body to slowly nurture the land around him.

"I... really wanna learn necromancy. With all the worlds I'm traveling, I can clearly raise an awesome army of the dead, and there's also the fact that I want to try out my Tychokinesis but as Morgan warned, a single misstep fuelled by lack of knowledge can have drastic effects and... the chaotic soul seems to control luck in my favor automatically. Even if Knull's effect is growing greater, the effects of the three ancestors and Kaal's luck seemed to have grown weaker for some reason. Not only that, despite Lucifer's open declaration, there isn't a shred of his luck over mine."

Although Luck did not divine the future, it did reveal the direction of it to some extent.

"Anyway... back to training..."

Nik began focusing on the changes in his body. He sat against a tree with a calm smile as his toes suddenly sparked with electricity before glowing brightly.

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Days passed in the blink of an eye as Nik finally stood up.

He had a play to attend to, after all.

"But I need to at least test my strength against someone. Just the mutation from Jennifer was an amazing boost to my physique, not to mention the absorption of cosmic energy for another mutation."

Looking down, Nik unclenched his fists, revealing green and yellow gems in both of his palms.

"Not to mention that slowly and gradually, these two will increase my affinity with the mental energies and temporal element."

"Now... to create a perfect sparring partner..."

Licking his lips, Nik's body began growing in size. His physique felt lightly strained but nothing he cannot manage.

However, instead of just growing out, Nik's right index finger elongated and his body began growing smaller once again. However, the appendage attached to Nik's index ballooned up, muscles, flesh, and nefarious energies swirled around the being and intimidating any spirit beast near Nik to flee for their lives.

"It's time to make a more optimal use of body and mass manipulation," Nik whispered as he expended more and more mass to create a perfect copy of his body. However, without any soul, the body detached from Nik's finger and fell on the ground while Nik stopped utilizing the pym particles within his body.

With extreme focus, Nik grabbed the head of... well, 'himself.' Feeling not a single alteration he might have left out, Nik began imbuing his consciousness inside the body.

"Hmm..."

The moment 'Nik' opened his eyes, they both looked at each other and nodded.

"Testing our physical strength would prove ineffective. We should begin with sparing and creating better attack and defense patterns for various situations I find myself in." The two spoke simultaneously once again.

After all, what Nik essentially achieved was something far different from a true clone. It was like a consciousness copy of him, just with a physical body. So, instead of just dividing his consciousness into multiple parts, Nik can now divide his body and mind together. However, his soul could not be touched, or rather, Nik refused to ever include his soul in the equation. After all, he was planning to get back at Lucifer by using Luci just because she had a part of the original's soul!

"Let me go through my stats and optimize a few things there, too. It's too big right now. Oh, and you should hold onto these two."

Tossing the two infinity gems towards himself, they both nodded.

The infinity gems can be traced in the outside world due to their energy signature but in here, Nik can hoard them and slowly raise his insight on many concepts.

"Hey, now that we both can produce Pym Particles, you should save yours since you are dealing with the outside world. I will begin the process of creating more and more copies. The girls are going berserk."

"Oh, and we also need to think of a way to give orientation to our in-laws. Can't really control their mind, can we? Not to mention, the current world is far more educated and based on an independent approach to simply accept our terms."

With their minds connected, the two continuously shared ideas. It was the same as thinking out loud or talking to oneself, just that this time Nik could convey the thoughts to a physical entity and vice versa.

But soon enough, both of them grew erect once again while feeling their mind being ravaged in the consciousness city.

"Yeah... they are overloading consciousness a bit."

"Anyway, we approve of the changes? We can always change them again, right?"

"Yeah!"

Smiling, Nik opened the status of his Transmigration Heart while the other could see it, too.

[Name: Nik (Faran) Minion

Age: 22

Limits: 8 (0/72 Karma Fulfilled)

Bloodline: Lust Apostle/ Scales Beyond

Talent: Exotic Escort, Balance, Perfect Eyesight, Skill Palace, Physical Genius, Limit Buster, Legacy Eyes

Profession: Imperfect Chimera

Legacy: Idle Summoner

Physique— (G-) D+

Mental— (G-) C+

Energy— (G+) C-

Luck— B+]


[Abilities—

Lust's Recruitment: A+

Use: A special skill that allows the user to place a special mark over the agreed party from the opposite gender and allow them to wield the following benefits at the user's discretion:—

• Talent Pool.
• Skill Pool.
• Consciousness Pool.
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Ethereal Illusion: A-

Use: Skillful utilization of the multi-purpose pheromones allows the user to ensnare the target permanently and physically until decided otherwise. The pheromones can be stacked up to prevent such control over the user itself.

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Cure: A-

Use: This skill allows the user to cure any and every disease and returns the target to a disease-free state. This skill cannot cure curses and the effect highly depends on the knowledge of the user regarding the disease.

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Physical Essence: A+

Use: The ability to manipulate various forms of physical enhancing energies to refine the entire physical structure of the user. Current forms of energy— Hamon, Life-force, Purple Qi, Chi, Blood.

Caution: The refinement, at many times, shall inflict pain.

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Body Manipulator: S-

Use: The ability to manipulate any fleshy body with extreme precision and control. The user must have complete knowledge regarding the manipulation it wishes to make.

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Absolute Sharpness: S+

Use: The ability to turn any object or body part sharp to the point that everything can be cut. The effectiveness of the ability is directly related to the quality of the object or body part that the ability is enchanted upon.

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Purification: A+

Use: The ability to purify anything deemed waste into the void.

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Devour: A+

Use: The ability to devour to expand and restore energy reserves.

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Genderswap: Lvl 1

Use: The ability to swap the gender of the target. The ability is restricted by the knowledge of the host regarding the biological structure of the target. The ability is not dependant on the neutral energy but the forced concept of 'change' infused in the ability.

Slot: 1/1

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Explosion: C+

Use: The ability to manipulate various chaotic energies to create an explosion, manipulate, and shape them. The greater the knowledge of the user regarding the making of explosives, the better the effectiveness and power of the ability.

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Psychic Aptitude: S-

Use: The user can instantly learn and understand the workings and mechanics of anything, regardless of how simple or complex. They can comprehend the complexity and exactness of events, organisms, objects, subjects, fields, powers, etc. without the need for long-term or special education, or explanation.

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Tychokinesis: B

This is the ability to psychically manipulate metaphysical fields of chance, and thus probability and 'luck'.

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Mass Manipulation: A+

Use: The ability to reduce or increase one's mass at will after expending appropriate mass manipulation attributes.

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Insights—

• Lust: 33%
• Fire: 32%
• Water: 30%
• Wind: 29%
• Earth: 31%
• Lightning: 33%
• Light: 28%
• Darkness: 22%
• Vision: 33%
• Wisdom: 19%
• Time: 24%
• Energy: 33%
• Space: 11%
• Gravity: 8%
• Magic: 44%
• Martial Arts: 22%]

A few of his abilities like psionic equilibrium was mixed with the more broader insight of energy. Meanwhile, once Nik felt like optimizing his insights to keep a better track of them, the status of the Transmigration Heart itself turned all Nik's insight into percentages of mastery and once Nik inquired the situation from Sky, she explained it quite easily.

Any insight below Grandmaster Tier, ie, expert or master or even quasi-grandmaster falls under the percentage of 1-33. Meanwhile, Grandmaster and quasi-great grandmaster tiers cover 34-66%. Finally, the Great Grandmaster and the quasi supreme grandmaster tier of insight falls under 67-99%.

The last 1% belonged solely to supreme grandmasters but Nik now felt that Sky hadn't explained to him everything regarding the tier. But being so far away from the goal, Nik found no reason to pester her.

Abilities like Body or Mass Manipulation didn't fall under any concept Nik knew of so they remained as such without any changes.

Lastly, Nik did not include his mutations in abilities. They did not matter that much because he didn't need to keep a close eye on their progress.

"Alright," standing up, the other Nik pocketed the infinity gems after wearing the clothes Nik gave out. Meanwhile, Pickle fell into an ethical dilemma.

"Nik... I can't fight you..."

She responded as both the men chuckled.

"Nah, you don't really need to come out. Just stay back and enjoy the show we both are going to put out."

"Yeah," the other one nodded as his physique grew slightly with a green tinge soon covering his body.

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A/N: Alright, I can already feel many complaints from miles away while I wrote this chapter.

Why the clones? Consciousness clones should be enough, right?

Probably not. This is a harem novel, true. But I did involve the concept of cuckolding and as there is a saying when committing a murder that the murderer should be prepared to die one day, too, similarly, this involves in bride stealing and stuff. Since the clones are essentially Nik himself with his own consciousness inside them and no form of added personality to individualize them, I think these should be added now that the girls are free from time stasis.

I know that this explanation won't help ease the hearts already soured by the chapter... but while I try to please every reader, I know that in the end, I cannot. The personal copies are needed and in most harem novels where there are no clones, you will notice that the amount of girls is much lower, probably, 1-10, but... a single Nik can of course organize orgies, in the end, he is a lust fiend and if he can satiate his lust all the time, he would chose that option in a heartbeat.

And the ability to attain physical pleasure by continuously being with the girls inside the Dream Core, meanwhile, finding more and more girls to plow in the outside world proves to fulfill Nik's desires (and mine) in a better manner. Once again, if anyone is considering this as a self ntr or something, then I would only agree if a Nik from another universe and another world began plowing the current Nik's harem. Since that is not the case, I will strongly disagree any arguments in favor of self ntr and keep writing anyway...

Once again, I apologise to those I left unsatisfied this chapter, and would appreciate all forms of response in the end.

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Jennifer Walters