Chapter 33
The barrage of comments that had been flooding the screen instantly vanished, but Big Pineapple had no time to look at them anyway.
Mostly, he could not bear to look. He had shown off for less than three seconds before his true colors were exposed.
He could already imagine what the viewers were thinking, so rather than that, he might as well look.
He wanted to shut off the livestream, but his body hurt far too much!
Pain tore through his heart and lungs, pierced his marrow, and penetrated his soul!
This was the price of using his ability. To gain extraordinary power, he had to endure extraordinary pain!
Want to get stronger?
Then pay for it with pain!
That was the best answer to what this extraordinary ability entailed.
The more Big Pineapple hurt, the more he inwardly cursed the person who had left behind this extraordinary seed!
He did not even dare curse aloud, only secretly in his heart. How stifling was that!
Even though Big Pineapple had gained two abilities, he still wanted to curse!!!
Actually, he did not know whether what he had counted as one ability or two.
The first ability was telekinesis. It was no different from what appeared in novels: not only could he manipulate objects, he could also make himself fly.
But after using it, he would end up in his current state. The pain was calculated according to how long and how intensely he used the ability.
The second ability-he did not even know whether it counted as an ability-was making others feel pain.
He actually had not been showing off earlier. He really had made people feel pain. No, those things did not count as people, but that was not important.
Originally, he had wanted to fight those big fellows with telekinesis, but on second thought, with his meager telekinesis, he would probably struggle to fight even a single mosquito. And he would still have to endure the pain in his body.
So he had made his enemies experience the pain he had suffered before. Credit where credit was due, it was powerful! It really delivered, wiping out fifty mosquitoes in one go.
This was the strongest, fiercest battle record since the entire Asura Clan had come into existence!
Big Pineapple fell from midair. The surrounding members of the Asura Clan shouted [Asura] as they rushed over and helped him up while he was still rolling around, wailing like ghosts and howling like wolves.
Come to think of it, Big Pineapple had no wounds on his body. He did not know whether that was because this body was sturdy to begin with or because he had become extraordinary.
He knew perfectly well that the pain in his body was not from falling out of the sky, so there would not be any wounds either.
Big Pineapple really was covered in dust and dirt now. The sweat pouring from him because of the pain had only made that dust stick to his body.
After being helped up, he endured the pain and ordered the Asura Clan members to kill all the mosquitoes on the ground.
Those mosquitoes were not actually dead yet, only unconscious. If they did not hurry over and kill them, they would revive in a while.
The Asura Clan had no language. Even though Big Pineapple wanted to teach them, he had not managed to do so in such a short time.
So even as his entire body shook with pain, Big Pineapple had to keep shouting [Asura] at the Asura Clan members while gesturing repeatedly before they finally understood his orders.
Once he saw them all charging toward the mosquitoes with weapons in hand, Big Pineapple immediately shut off the livestream.
In the livestream room, everyone stared at the suddenly black screen in continued deathly silence.
Not a single person dared speak, though they wanted to know how Big Pineapple was doing.
Was he dead or alive now? Why had he suddenly ended up like that?
And what exactly was his superpower?
How had he obtained a superpower?
All sorts of questions plagued everyone in the livestream room, but the guy had simply shut the stream off, leaving them helpless.
After a long while, a comment popped up.
[Big Pineapple probably shut off the stream himself. He should be fine, but I reckon he felt a little awkward and embarrassed. Everyone, remember not to bring this up next time.]
[Setting the facts aside, wasn't my Brother Pineapple handsome back then! Sure, he was standing buck naked in midair, and sure, he started bawling after showing off for three seconds, but for those three seconds, he was still really handsome, okay!]
[Yes, I'm willing to call Brother Pineapple a true three-second real man!]
[All right, all right, it's over now. Stop talking about it. If Big Pineapple starts streaming again in a bit and sees you saying this, he'll probably shut it off again.]
Inside a certain laboratory, a large group of people stared with extremely solemn expressions at a small pop-up window in the blacked-out livestream room.
It was a screen recording they had made themselves, showing the moment Big Pineapple had unleashed his might.
Of course, they had originally had many more recordings.
But ever since that person had shattered everyone's screens with a slap, they had hurriedly deleted all the earlier footage.
They had only started recording again after confirming that person would not appear in the livestream.
"Can you tell what his ability is?"
"Trying to examine something like this through a video is still asking a bit much. This isn't even as good as the anime my grandson watches. When the characters in his anime use their skills, there's at least a ring of light. Here, there's nothing. All we see is Big Pineapple reaching out, and those monsters falling out of midair."
"I did notice something. Look, these mosquitoes were twitching all over when they fell, as if they were experiencing tremendous pain. Maybe that's his ability. Didn't he shout 'feel pain' earlier, too? As for flying, well..."
"Feel pain? He can make people feel pain from a distance? What sort of ability is that?"
In the real world, everyone was still discussing exactly what ability Big Pineapple had obtained.
In the Microcosm, after Big Pineapple had endured two hours of agony, the pain in his body finally vanished. By then, the Asura Clan had killed all the mosquitoes as well.
Afterward, he began pondering this superpower.
Why had he gained a superpower? Could it be because he was a transmigrator?
Then was there any way to let other people gain superpowers too?
If he tossed this question to those guys in the livestream room, they might well come up with a solution very quickly.
But as for starting the stream now, Big Pineapple could only say, "Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
Unless something major happened, he did not intend to turn on the livestream again for the rest of his life!
He had lost so much face today!
He had lost it clear beyond the world, beyond the universe.
He could not even muster the courage to look at what those guys in the livestream room thought of him now.
Over the next half a year and more, Big Pineapple really did as he had said and never started the stream once. But he did not stay in this place either.
This was where he had gained extraordinary power, but he was still too weak now, so he planned to return and investigate later.
Thus, he led the Asura Clan members to the place where the stone tablet had been discovered.
He wanted to find some of the weapons from the previous civilization, the previous era, that the earlier transmigrator had mentioned.
And so, after more than half a year of excavation, they finally dug their way into an underground city that had long since become ruins!