Jupiter gazed at the worlds he'd captured in his mind and broke into a radiant smile. This time, he'd captured more than fifty worlds in total. He'd discarded all the low-level worlds and spent 2.2 million Energy Points connecting to two high-level worlds and two mid-level worlds. Google search reader
As for the low-level worlds Jupiter could explore directly...
He truly had no interest in them...
Things like Parasyte, Tokyo Ghoul, and John Wick—after all that effort, they could barely destroy a city block. Their firepower wasn't even as strong as his farts. What a load of crap.
High-Level World: Warhammer 40K
Note: This world contains beings far beyond the host's power level. Please consider carefully.
High-Level World: Star Wars (a mixed canon of the old and new continuities)
Note: This world contains beings far beyond the host's power level. Please consider carefully.
Mid-Level World: The Boys (TV series version)
Mid-Level World: One-Punch Man (Murata remake)
Note: This world contains beings beyond the host's power level. Please consider carefully.
Jupiter nodded lightly as he examined the worlds in his mind. Good. Very good. First, he'd rule out Warhammer 40K. That world was way too damn loyal...
Without sufficient mental defenses, he wouldn't dare enter Warhammer 40K to get what he wanted. Though, to be fair, the Warhammer world was full of treasures.
Next was Star Wars...
Now that was interesting. A mix of old and new canon, and definitely worth examining. The Force could destroy planets, annihilate battleships, and choke someone across light-years. It was powerful and violent...
But it was also too mystical, so Star Wars wasn't one of Jupiter's targets for now.
Jupiter had his eye on the two mid-level worlds: The Boys and One-Punch Man.
He wanted Homelander's Heat Vision from The Boys and Boros's Star-Crushing Roar Cannon, the first-season final boss's ultimate attack, from One-Punch Man. A cool, flashy Ancestor Person with Heat Vision—that was what a true Ancestor Person looked like. As for the other power, the Star-Crushing Roar Cannon was incredibly efficient. It was practically a point-farming machine!
The Boys was the TV version, meaning its Homelander was far stronger than the one in the comics. His upper limit was unknown, but the strongest person in a mid-level world was generally at least planet-busting.
From what Jupiter remembered of the TV version, Homelander hadn't shown any potential to destroy a planet. At most, he could destroy an island; claims that he could take out a continent or the planet's surface were just hype. All things considered, Jupiter could take him down reliably.
Then there was Murata's One-Punch Man. If the strongest in an ordinary mid-level world was at least planet-busting, or even, at most, star-busting, then this one was a special case. It had a bald guy named Saitama, who was on a completely different level. But that wasn't much of a problem!
As long as he didn't provoke Saitama, Saitama generally wouldn't come looking for him. That meant he could pretty much run wild in One-Punch Man. The only one who might give Jupiter a bit of trouble was the final opponent who appeared at the end of the first season: Boros, the universe's strongest being. Murata had powered him up, turning the Star-Crushing Roar Cannon from an attack that destroyed the planet's surface into one that could destroy the entire planet.
"Whew..."
After thinking it over, Jupiter made his decision. First, he'd kill the big-mouthed Rex, then head to The Boys and crush Homelander, then go to One-Punch Man and take out Boros in one smooth combo. After that, he'd find a way to get a full set of equipment, then come back and face the Berserk Beast.
Once he killed the Berserk Beast, the next step would be defeating the universe's stud, Regent King Thrag, uniting Virtum, and then unifying the entire universe. One had to think big!
From being the Ancestor Person of Blue Star to becoming the Ancestor Person of the entire universe, the next step would be invading the multiverse.
We had only one motto: "I'll do whatever the fuck I want..."
After seeing his true nature clearly, Jupiter's expression grew ever more resolute. It was like some alternative way of strengthening his "Dao heart." Every successful person who rose to power had an unshakable will—and countless corpses in their wake...
"Whew..."
When Jupiter emerged from his mental world, the enormous cafeteria was already empty except for him...
"Hm?!"
Jupiter glanced at the watch on his wrist and saw that the first afternoon class had already started.
"Fuck!"
Jupiter grumbled irritably. But since he was already late, he followed his principle of never going to class once he was late and started playing on his phone right there in the cafeteria.
As soon as he turned it on, he found a pile of unread messages.
First, there were Mark's.
"Bro, my teacher made me stay behind to clean up today, so I'm late. Where are you?"
"Bro, I think I saw you, but you already had someone with you. Frank and I—and...—ate on the other side."
"Bro, I'm done eating. I have PE this afternoon, so I need to change. I'm heading out first..."
Next were Eve's.
"We finished eating. You looked like you were thinking about something, and when you didn't answer after I called your name twice, I didn't want to bother you anymore, so we left first. Don't forget—we're meeting after school~"
"Haha..."
Jupiter read their messages in silence, chuckled, and shook his head.
He went into the restroom, changed clothes, and flew out through the window. He needed to get an early start on Rex's grand funeral.
"Reporting in! Jupiter didn't go to class. He changed clothes in the restroom and seems to be heading off to do something."
In the restroom, a voice suddenly came from what had been an empty corridor, as if someone invisible were there.
"Keep watching him!"
A voice suddenly sounded in the invisible man's ear.
"Understood!"
The invisible man nodded lightly and walked up to the restroom window Jupiter had opened.
"Surprise!"
Just as the invisible man poked his head out the window, Jupiter, who'd been flying off into the distance, suddenly appeared in front of him.
"Fuck!"
The invisible man broke into a cold sweat at Jupiter's sudden appearance.
"Smack."
Before the invisible man could say a word, Jupiter's right hand clamped around his throat with brute force.
"Shh..."
Jupiter softly blew on the fingers of his left hand, then gently plucked a miniature earpiece from the "invisible man's" ear and put it in his own.
"What happened?"
"B12, respond!"
"What the hell happened?"
An aged voice came through the earpiece Jupiter was wearing. He knew it well: it belonged to Cissels, whom he'd met just that morning.
"Crack."
Jupiter took the earpiece out and crushed it between his fingers.
"Kid, you shouldn't have spied on me."
"Why can't you people understand that I hate being watched?!"
In Jupiter's eyes, the man in front of him wasn't some Translucent. He was an armed soldier wearing Light Kinetic Armor, said to be the pinnacle of Blue Star's technology, with materials alone costing up to a billion dollars.
Unfortunately, in Jupiter's eyes, the armor was pathetically weak and utterly useless.
"You..."
The soldier seemed to be trying to say something to Jupiter.
"Hm?"
Jupiter thought the soldier wanted to trade some important information for his life, so he loosened his grip on the man's throat.
"Whew..."
Once Jupiter let go, the soldier gasped for breath.
"Why... why can you see me?"
The soldier panted as he stared at Jupiter in confusion.
"Sigh. You missed your last chance to live. I only give people one chance—there won't be another!"
Jupiter had thought the soldier had something valuable to say. When he heard that the man only wanted to ask him this pointless question, he sighed inwardly...
First of all, Jupiter wasn't someone who killed indiscriminately. He didn't want to kill anyone who couldn't give him a useful ability or many Energy Points. But this poor soldier insisted on wasting his precious time—two and a half minutes, to be exact. Good grief! Two and a half minutes! He could have done so much in that time! The soldier had thrown away his own chance to live.
"Smack!"
Jupiter shook his head and gave the soldier a gentle slap.
"Whoosh~"
After absorbing the power of the one-eyed alien, Jupiter's control over his strength had become incredibly precise. The soldier's head spun 1,080 degrees on his neck, then bounced up, and finally his eyes closed.
After that, Jupiter threw the soldier out the window, making it look as though he'd lost his footing and fallen.
"Bang!"
With a loud crash, the soldier's corpse fell from the fifth floor into the dense woods outside the first-floor restroom.
"Fuck!"
The young men and women of Free Nation who'd been hiding in the dense woods outside the first-floor restroom in broad daylight, looking for a little fun, heard the noise and hurriedly pulled up their underwear.
"Jason, what happened?"
The girl asked in a shrill voice.
"I don't know. It sounded like something fell, but I didn't see anything."
The boy seemed to have looked around for a while but hadn't spotted anything.
"Then should we keep going?!"
The girl asked again.
"Of course..."
The boy named Jason smiled and nodded lightly. Nothing could stop spring from arriving.
"Heh..."
High above, Jupiter wore a white outfit with a large F printed on the front. He glanced coldly down at the couple.
From where he was, a mangled corpse lay beside them...
Now it was time to answer the soldier's question. Why could Jupiter see the invisible soldier? The answer was simple!
Because the soldier wasn't invisible at all!
That's right, the soldier wasn't invisible at all. The reason people in this country couldn't see him was that the material used in his powered armor refracted certain wavelengths of light...
And, interestingly enough, the Global Defense Bureau had added a special chemical reagent to the drinking water of every Free Nation citizen. It prevented their eyes from detecting several wavelengths of light, making the soldier appear invisible to the citizens of Free Nation.
So why wasn't Jupiter affected? It wasn't because of his excellent Virtumian genes, nor was it because of that one-eyed man's genes. It was because of the habit his previous life had given him: never drinking unboiled water. Jupiter had always made sure to drink only water that had been boiled and filtered. So from beginning to end, he'd never once lost the ability to see those special wavelengths.
That was why Jupiter had been able to see the government secrets that others couldn't since he was a child...
His acting had simply been too good, and no one would give a child a hard time, so no one had ever found out.
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