Psionic Billionaire c2

I looked at the book floating in front of me. Is this for real? It seems there is more to these awards than just gaining more psionic power!

How nice! 

I slowly put my hand on the book. The moment I touched it, the purple energy surged from my body and enveloped the book!

That moment I knew what this was! It was a freaking Grimoire! 

A grimoire of Mind and Soul! Though it was empty at this moment, with my bare minimum understanding of this book it appears to be very useful.

How though? If I am to guess, if I finish these puzzles, the major ones, then I will gain powers, items or other things related to the puzzle.

For example, for finishing this library I got a grimoire, so what do I get, if I finish something with a less understandable purpose?

Like a general house? While the housing boom is just starting as of this moment, there should be several houses in the middle of construction.

Though what would I get for finishing those inside the Astral Realm? House related? Though those don't have any sort of special importance in people's minds apart from a general purpose it has for that specific resident.

"Strange… I will need to check this out later, for now…" 

I ordered the floating book to open. Just like I had expected, all the grimoire's pages were empty and they were all black.

It doesn't give me a sort of nice feel to this. If I could brand this just by looks then it's leaning towards evil, you know… soul and mind magic is not on the nicer side of the spectrum.

Yet, the content of this book will be decided by me, I do have a general idea of how I will fill this book with powers.

It's strange knowing something which I never did before, this place is so strange.

After inspecting the book I ordered it to close and simply 'recalled'. The moment I wanted that, the book closed and simply disappeared with a flash of purple light.

Yet, I could feel the presence of the book all the time… quite strange, it feels like an extra limb which I can control.

Well, for now, I decided to call it a day. It looks like it's quite late as it is!

The moment I started to float for the first time after the power boost, I could barely control myself and not just float away!

"Damn… I am so light now!" 

It took me several moments to control myself before I got the hang of it!

Once I got it, I started to fly towards my house. 

~~~~~~Next Morning~~~~~~

Alex returned home around 2, past midnight. He immediately retired to rest because his head was spinning hard and he was extremely thirsty. 

He realized that such prolonged exposure to the Astral Realm is affecting his body. It's most likely that his body is 'dead' when his soul is not inside. Though he is not sure, he can't truly check his heart as his soul immediately gets sucked into his body.

Regardless, a good night's rest was enough for him to recover as by the time he needed to wake up he was feeling refreshed.

The first thing he did in the morning was to check the stock market. To his surprise, the stock he bought was worth £219, this means it was time to get some action done and sell it and buy something more substantial.

Not only that, he is willing to use more of his savings. But before that, he needs to get a shower, get some food and get ready for his work.

'Hmm, I wonder what I should do with the economics assignment I have to do? I have been procrastinating on that front.'

After all the morning rituals Alex left towards his work, after waiting for a bus which was three minutes late he was wondering what he should do next.

He just got that boost in Psionic strength and now he has an empty grimoire.

But the issue is he has no idea how to use his power offensively! However, since his latest boost, he has enough power to use his power towards that direction now!

'Well, at least I know how to progress from here.' 

"Hmm?"

Alex's eyes went to the side as he saw Sky News, BBC News, and ITV News vans at the Library!

'What the…fuck…'

His eyes widened to a massive degree as he saw the library was in pristine condition, there was an absurd amount of confusion and even freaked-out people who were looking at the building with disbelief. He could see several people in suits which should be government officials.

Not only that but several news helicopters were circling the building as well!

'No…way! My power impacts the real world!? Damn!'

For a second he was extremely nervous but then he calmed down a lot and simply sighed. No one saw him do it. It was not even in the Physical Plane, he did it in the Astral Plane, to begin with.

Then, when he arrived at the bus station he saw the light pole which was bent before, now it was straightened up! 

It means his actions in the Astral Plane indeed are impacting the Physical Plane.

'Does this mean if I deal with the fire in central London it will be cooler there?'

This idea sounded quite interesting and worthy of spending time there!

As he thought about it, he walked into the Underground Station.

~~~~~~Later, Same Evening~~~~~~

After returning home after work Alex went to work with his stock market, first he sold his stock and added another £100 from his savings. 

This means he has £319 which he can use. 

Before he bought anything he did some studying and research on what to buy.

With his increased mental faculties he was able to predict the growth curve of the several companies!

While this awed and even terrified Alex of his power, he took it with a grain of salt as there are always possibilities of something going wrong.

This is why he didn't put all 'the eggs in one basket' as they say. Just like a couple of days ago, he decided to spread out his money and buy several different stocks.

This time they will be much more expensive and from more known companies.

Once he was done with stock buying he began with his Astral Plane training. 

He was feeling quite powerful now, as it was no longer floating but more like flying at much faster speeds, he was quite confident that he could reach the city centre in less than half an hour the way he was!

And that is just impressive as by using the bus and the tube it takes around 30 or 40 minutes to reach the city centre from his flat!

However, he is not planning to fly anywhere, instead he was thinking to practise his Psionic powers!

As he flew out from his house, he flew to the middle of the road and called forth his psionic power, he focused it at one point and tried to condense his energy at this specific point.

If his idea is right, he could theoretically affect gravity as he is putting weight in a single spot. 

Though he is nowhere powerful enough to affect gravity. But, it's good if he concentrates it at one spot and then flings that weight at his enemy. 

After doing this several times and getting quite good at it with the help of his Computer power.

He rested for a bit before practising another method. 

And that is walls, he shaped the energy into walls and similar shaped constructs. 

Since he is quite new at this he needed a few tries to get the hang of this.

However, his computer power came to play once again, and helped him to practise geometrical shapes, casting them almost instantaneously which is quite impressive!

Once he was done with such basic forms he practised more with deadlier shapes, like blades and spikes, with his computer power he designed them as sharp as possible going from extremely solid to extremely fragile and explosive, like glass.

After all, he is not taking any chances in such a ghost-infested place like Astral Realm.

Once the basics were done Alex switched to more coordinated casting. 

Like casting a large cube, which would place the enemy in a cage of psionic energy and then casting psionic blades from all directions. 

It should technically shred enemies minds to smithereens.  

As in Astral Plane minds which give shape to the bodies, so if these blades attack, they attack one's mind.  

This was at least how he understands this place. 

Alex's practice lasted for some time. More like he practised until he was feeling confident enough.

After resting, it was time to deal with that ghost thing. Which he believes is a poltergeist, if it's true then he could add this thing to his grimoire. There is that certain belief that he could do it.

This kind of belief comes from the book itself. This is a good thing, he doesn't need to look for someone who could teach him how to add Magic or is it Techniques? To the Grimoire.

Once he was ready he flew in the direction where the ghost thing was.

To his relief, that thing was still there. 

Before he attacked it he took a deep breath and concentrated as much as possible. His Hyper Analysis was on. With this, his mind was working fast, faster than ever. 

He simply pointed his hand and Psionic energy rushed forward and created a cube of Psionic energy, surrounding the ghost-like thing.

The moment it happened the Astral was screeched!

The screech was inhuman, it sent shivers down Alex's back! 

It got surrounded by blackish miasma and tried to blast itself from the cage with a ferocious energy. It cracked the psionic cube's wall with a single powerful strike!

Which made Alex panic for a bit, he quickly recast it and reinforced the cube and then swiftly went to summon his psionic daggers inside the cube!

And then launched them at the ghostly creature.

The moment the sharp weapons smashed into the Astral thing, they shredded it, like punching through a paper. However, it didn't die or anything like that.

The thing instead reformed and turned into a more monstrous thing!

'It appears my attacks do work, shredding its mind, but it's not enough to kill it, as it's still alive-ish, and it can reform!'

Seeing that it became even more ferocious and berserk, Alex sent another volley of psionic daggers. This time ending this thing.

What was left after is black mist-like clouds floating around, they were much darker than the fog which is normally in this place.

As Alex landed on the ground and took several steps closer his Grimoire manifested on its own and opened, the first page glowed and sucked in all the black clouds. 

Once it was done, he inspected the new entry in the grimoire.

It was a picture of the evil ghost-like thing, which looks almost like a banshee, with long nails, with slightly longer neck than it's usually for a human, extremely long and unruly hair, dressed in white ghost-like clothes.

The official name of the thing was Poltergeist.

The Grimoire specified that he can summon Poltergeist via the usage of his Psionic energy. He can control it or allow it to go Berserker. 

In the end, though, it is under his control and he can dispel it. What is fascinating is that he can use it as surveillance, very convenient!

Wanting to try out Alex summoned one of these things. 

The book glowed, black and purple energy gathered and formed into an identical thing he saw just a few moments ago!

The only difference was that this thing has purple glowing eyes and that he can control it like another of his limbs.

'Very, very convenient. Quite impressive power and means of spying! Fuck S.H.I.E.L.D! I have a ghost to spy for me!' He chuckled to himself as he made the poltergeist disappear. 

The way it disappeared was similar to how he killed the previous one. It turned into black and purple clouds which existed for a few moments before it was gone!

After witnessing the disappearance of the poltergeist his gaze went to the light pole. With his increased power he fixed it in single-hand motion.

The power boost he received from this was quite abysmal by this point. Though power is still power so he didn't complain instead he decided to explore the neighbourhood for any more puzzles!

First, he started with flying further, away from the city centre in the North East of London also known as Romford. It's more like a suburban area and it is some distance away. 

Alex decided to check all of London in a clockwise manner.

It didn't take long for Alex to look as he was in East London moving westwards, ending up in East Ham, the place where most emigrants start living for the first time when they arrive in the capital.

This was an area where the place is rapidly expanding and there are a multitude of construction/restoration works going on.

Many buildings have their ground-floor altered to become shops while the first floors are the living places.

For now, he decided to fix one building and see what he will get from this.

It wasn't anything hard or impressive like the library he did last night.

Without much hassle, he was done with it in less than an hour. He could tell time now because he decided to have a pseudo-HUD with the power of a computer concept.

While he is still trying to figure out the time flow in Astral Realm, he can count, so by using simple counting he can guess time, eventually he will be able to differentiate between time flows.

Making his trips in the Astral Realm much more bearable.

~~~

As the building rearranged, it glowed white and moments later it emitted a purple glow which slammed into his body increasing his overall Psionic power.

"Hmm… the power boost was less than the Library one, but larger than the light pole one. A mediocre one, I guess…" Alex said to himself as he inspected the glow and how thick is the aura around his body.

It's getting there, he is getting more powerful. Now that he knows that he can get quite a good amount it was time to fix the other two buildings and then deal with that construction site.

That one has quite a bit of pieces of the puzzle!

Around 2 hours later, Alex's power has doubled from the time he got his first major boost of Psionic Power.

Though this was not just it for him, he leisurely floated in front of what is considered a Construction site.

Though from the looks of it the amount of pieces floating around is considerable.

'Is it because it's purely a building under construction that I can't make heads or tails of what this is at this moment?'

Alex frowned quite a bit from this puzzle. If he could rank this then the Library was medium difficulty while this thing here is Hard Difficulty.

As he thought about it the Rubik's cube manifested in front of him.

Moments later he felt a familiar feeling washing him over and the white light enveloped the Construction site.

'Solve it and you will be rewarded for it! Fail it, and you shall feel disappointment.'  Alex said to himself as he closed his eyes and Hyper Analysis kicked in. That moment his psionic powers surged and enveloped all the floating pieces!

When he opened his eyes they were no longer blue but purple psionic ones!

The analysis of the forms of these pieces started as he started to build a mental image of what this should look like!

Moments later he motioned with one of his hands to descend. The foundations of the building rushed to the ground as it was the first thing he solved the easiest. Next was the walls and the interior of this new building.

The moment he knew what this was, the speed of the puzzle-solving increased several folds!

It was a supermarket, so he finished quite quickly after he figured out the purpose of this building.

Once the last piece slid into place the 'Earth' shook and the building glowed white. That moment a pillar of purple exploded from the supermarket and rushed into the sky, lightning rumbled in the clouds before the very same pillar slammed into Alex.

He could feel his energy growing by quite a bit. Not as much as before, he got around ⅓ increase in his overall power.

Though this was not what he was wanting the most, he wonders what he can get for building a supermarket!

The wait was not long as his grimoire manifested on its own and the second page got filled up. It was a basic diagram…

"Construction? …as in the concept of Construction?… wait… I thought I would get something related to trade!"

Alex frowned quite a bit, but then he realized that people most likely had no idea this would be a supermarket in the first place!

"Oh well, it doesn't matter, the concept of construction something is much more interesting…" He said with crossed arms as he thought for a bit.

As he thought about that he realized that he could use this to make Psionic constructs or more like…power constructs… making ritual-like things with psionic power.

These are just the base things he realized from the very get-go… 

As this is a 'concept of construction' this doesn't mean he will just construct buildings, but items as well! Because after all, there are no specifics about what he can construct!

With such an idea in mind, Alex decided to walk back to his home instead of rapidly flying.

Just from the top of his head, he decided to build a place where he could increase his psionic powers. Or make construct/craft items?

A necklace or a ring? Or maybe something grander…like a temple?

~~~~~~???~~~~~~

A man dressed in a black leather coat was looking at a large TV in front of him. There was a frown on his face as his single eye was looking at the news reporter on the television screen.

The news was confusing, to say the least, in London buildings building themselves. A library was restored on its own. Light poles straighten out on their own. 

All this is strange, while it's nothing related to dangers for his homeland, the UK is still an allay country and he has to respond to this…

But what? It's a wild goose chase! There are no sorts of leads, while the library got restored in the middle of the night, the residential houses were restored in front of a crowd on a busy road!

The supermarket was even more impressive as it just builds on its own, the resources appeared from thin air! 

While such a thing is not bad per se, it is still bad because all that labour force needs its work! The supermarket construction was scheduled to be finished in a half a year. There are no workers either who could start working in this supermarket as well!

Truthfully he doesn't even know where to even start with this…

He walked to his table and pressed on the comms button.

"Send Agent Hill in, I have a mission for her." 

A few short minutes later the doors opened and a young woman with short dark brown hair and dressed in a blue full-body suit entered the main office.

"Sir? You asked of me?" 

"Yes, we have a situation in London. I hope you have heard about this?" The one-eyed man asked curiously as the news was still running on the TV. It's pretty much on all British channels and even some of the American channels are milking this as well.

"Yes. Hard to miss." 

"Good, less for me to explain. Your mission for this one is quite strange, as I was asked to investigate these strange incidents in London. Homeland security wants to see that we are doing something to help our allies. Truth be told, I have no idea how to investigate this. 

This is where you will come in. I want you to go to the United Kingdom and do your investigation. The locals will be expecting you." 

Agent Hill slowly nodded, though she had no idea how to even start this.

Buildings constructed on their own? Renovation done on its own? 

"Understood… I suppose I will make a list of buildings which are to be constructed?"

"Good start, take your time, this is not a critical mission." 

"Understood sir." 

~~~~~~Back in UK~~~~~~

The commotion that Alex has caused has weirdly affected the Stock Market. 

'Hmm, could I use this to manipulate the market? It appears the construction companies' value went up. Though this won't last for long.

I should sell them at the moment the value is at the highest.'

It was early morning and Alex decided to sell all those Construction company stocks which earned him over £400!

And yesterday, the amount he invested in construction companies was under £150!

Quite a nice development! He can reinvest this money in more…stable stock as he is causing quite the ripples in the construction market at this moment.

So without much hassle, he sold the stock he had in the construction market and reinvested in other companies which he predicted will grow soon!

Sigh

"What night this is. The traffic should be around in East Ham, this means the traffic moving towards the City Centre should be much less." Alex thought to himself as he stroked his chin while leaning in the Gaming chair.

After thinking for a bit he decided to take a quick shower, this was the first time when he did something not according to his daily schedule.

He never used to start his computer first thing in the morning! It's hard to leave when he does it! Not that this matters any more; his life is so random now!

As he walked to the shower he checked himself in the mirror. His eyes slightly frowned when he saw that his sky-blue eyes started to turn into purple! 

'I guess my mental powers are starting to affect my physical aspects.

I don't remember if Jean Grey or Xavier had any sort of issue like I have. Is it because my power doesn't come from Gene X? I hope it's not Gene X… apart from a few hotties I don't want to be in that place.'

He frowned for a bit before getting his shower, he dearly hopes no bald man in a wheelchair comes to visit him any time soon.

~~~

After work, Alex returned to his practice. He did realize that he is using his powers a lot in his Astral Form. It's slightly different to use these powers in the real world, the physical world.

There is a certain amount of drag, because of air resistance and gravity is affecting him as well!

This is why he covered the curtains and closed the door before starting to practise his psionic powers in his room!

Nothing too excessive, he wants to get the feel for his power after all those boosts. 

So he called it forth and he quickly realized that he can cover his whole room multiple times over!

This was quite absurd compared to just three days ago! After all, it was Thursday and he got his powers on Monday! 

Regardless, he spread out his psionic barriers throughout the surfaces of his room and then pushed the dust up!

Since he has such power…why not use it on something productive?

With dust going up Alex made another layer which made all the dust flow to a single spot!

Gathering in a single ball, with this he cleaned his room to perfection!

Or is it? There should be some cobwebs in the corners! With several more waves of psionic energy, he shredded all the webs!

"Now it should be clean to perfection!" As Alex said that he made a small purple ball float down and land in his hand.

Inside this small ball was extremely compressed dust, so it looked black. He made this ball float to the bin.

"No, I should place it in a bag, I want to see how much it is." 

As he thought about that he walked over to the sink and pulled out a small white rubbish bag from under the sink and then made the purple ball of energy float into the bag.

The moment he sealed the bag he made the psionic ball disappear. What he got was quite a bit of dust though it wasn't as much as he expected.

'Hmm… I could use this in my workplace.' With crossed arms Alex did some basic maths, he knows where cameras are. He could just dust off all the stuff with his Psionic power.

For now, he went back to his bed and left his body and entered the Astral Plane. It's time to do some construction!

'Hmm… I should most likely build in the air, not on the ground. Air is better since when I move out from this place, my… Air fortress? It could follow.'

With such an idea in mind, Alex activated his Grimoire and the second page glowed. 

This was for the first when he sensed how his Psionic Energy started to weave, it was nothing like he ever did before. 

Summoning Poltergeist was different it was like he just created a cloud and this black energy left the grimoire and fused with the cloud while the second page is different, his Psionic energy gets weaved like some sort of miniature ropes and then gets coated with another type of energy which is summoned via the grimoire.

If he is to get a conclusion from these two grimoire powers then he absorbs anything which has Psionic or Soul in it. Quite curious if this is true then he will know what to do to get things outside the Astral Plane.

However, he was quickly brought out from his thoughts as he felt his Psionic reserves getting low.

And all he did with his reserves was a 2x2 metre surface around a foot thick! That's it? This was quite a blow to his confidence!

He slowly floated on it and landed on the floating psionic tile. It was dark purple, it looked like a brick and not transparent, it just shows the sheer difference between his glass-like barriers and this tile!

However, it will take ages for him to build anything with this! 

This leaves him with only one thing to do. And that is to continue his puzzles otherwise he will spend years building a single thing!

'Maybe I could get some sort of enchantment-based concept? This way I could have more psionic power.'

The first thing which comes to his mind is to visit the museums. They have all sorts of weird stuff.

Though… Can he get anything from old stuff? It's not construction, it's not renovation either…

'Well, I can check it out when I am in West London.' 

With that in mind, Alex waited for his power to replenish, once that was done he was back on the move.

~~~~~~~Later~~~~~~

Turns out he can't get anything from buildings which have scaffolding changed or some basic garden work. So his journey to the outskirts of London was quite dry.

If his memory is right then only two years from now the true growth will start when the borders will be open. However, the economic crisis will make the £ value drop.

Regardless of all that, he did build up a few residential houses and fixed another light pole which was bent thanks to another bad road design.

Apart from that, there was nothing major going on this side of London.

The true prize will be visiting purely East of the Capital. Like Canary Wharf, which has several skyscrapers under construction. 

'Though… me finishing those will cause quite a bit of chaos. However, what rewards will those be? It's purely a finance and banking area. 

Oh, they do have Dockland Light Railway, the purely automated Railway.

So, a concept of travel? Concept of banking? Or is it trade?' 

Alex frowned as he thought about it. His gaze was rooted in the major construction site.

It's going to take a while for him to finish, however, he decided to finish the Barclays Skyscraper first. He wants to see what kind of banking or is it storing power he will get. Though he wouldn't mind an upgrade for his Concept of Construction.

As he landed in the major construction site, as in… there are a bunch of them getting built at once the whole of this city block is one huge thing. 

As far as he remembers, according to some people it took them years to finish the whole thing. It started when the Conservatives took over from the shitty Labours.

Or was it a Labour thing which started this and the Conservatives finished? Hell, he has no clue how the whole stuff started, all he cares about at this point is profit from the power-up and the boost in his Psionic power.

The moment he landed in the construction site the Rubik's cube manifested, and a white glow consumed the whole thing. 

The puzzle has begun!

At first, Alex thought that building a skyscraper would be hard, but on the contrary, it was much harder with the supermarket and the library!

Why? Because the supermarket was just starting its construction and the Library was a unique style of building! But with this finance building, it's quite easy he started with the building around 20% done! So he already has a head start!

Though it is fascinating to build a tower of glass!