DC- New Age

Chapter 12 - Psych

'Luthor's Impervious Fear Enforcers??' Blitz was surprised

'Since when could I read thoughts?! No wait, it seems I can catch only the surface thoughts.' realized Blitz.

'Is it due to my brain being upgraded after the previous incident? Hmm, makes sense, after all, the cause of my death was due to a speedster, and if I need to react fast enough then I need to be able to sense him and to do that, my brain and other body parts need to keep up, hence the upgrade? But that doesn't make sense as to why I can read thoughts...unless!...' Blitz's brain was working at extreme speeds to figure out why and how his powers work.

'The speedster had most likely gained his power due to energy from a different dimension and thus lead to me being exposed to it before my death, thus allowing me to sense energies from different dimensions and surface thoughts being something like a public broadcast in this different dimension, thus being allowed to be picked up by anyone who can tap into it, like say, psychics and many sages who mentioned in folklores across the world? Damn! so would I also be able to perform telepathy if I learned how this dimension exactly works? cool!'

'Lex, I'm telling you it's the first time I have ever seen this guy even with my extensive knowledge of the DC-comics and franchise...He has extremely OP powers and is a complete blockhead whom I can make full use of!!' Alexander Luthor's thoughts were once again picked up by Blitz as he was literally screaming in his mind.

'Alright Alright I get it sheesh, I'll try not to use my surface thoughts when communicating with you...' suddenly everything went silent as Blitz could no longer pick up lex's thoughts as though it suddenly changed from public to private broadcast.

'Is he talking to himself? weird! what was he even talking about, DC? franchise?' Blitz thought, trying to make sense of what he just heard 'Must have gone bonkers in his head with all his scheming and restless workload

All this had happened in a fraction of seconds. Luthor left almost immediately, advising Blitz to take a 'well-deserved rest', to which Blitz nodded and was led to his new room by a robot assistant.

Blitz entered the room with all its wall painted a dull white, which apparently can be customized to his likes as 90% of the walls was technically just tiny screens connected with one another. The robot even gave him a demo of how he could customize it and even use it as a gigantic screen to do whatever he wants, ranging from watching the news to playing games and attending video calls.

However, none of this interested Blitz much as he had much better things to do, so he just laid on the extremely comfortable, adjustable size bed and closed his eyes. He didn't drift off to sleep as one would expect, but instead, was excited about having figured out a part of his power, which was right in front of his face till now, but he never could.

'The power works due to my soul's subconscious!!! Hence whenever I die or suffer, it changes that part, which I felt was the reason for my demise/suffering. Thus meaning, with sufficient practice, I can modify my body however I wish and whenever I wish, limited by nothing but my imagination!' Blitz literally screamed with delight in his mind, at the thought of instantly becoming ultra OP at some point in the future.

'But wait! how does it work when even my soul is destroyed, which I'm pretty sure happened when I experienced my first death and visited that weird, wall-like place with what I can assume to be my soul which was later pretty much devoured by the being's, black hole-like, mouth.' Blitz was slightly bewildered at this and tried to think of how he survives even when his soul which is supposed to dictate his power is destroyed.

'Unless!....' after a good 5 minutes of thinking, an idea pooped into his head 'My soul is like data, the body is like the hardware and the power is like a server. The server keeps a copy of my soul and body and is linked to my current one. If either my body or soul is destroyed, then it gets the reason for the crash and thus, using that information it works on the stored data and creates a new, destruction free data which is then later updated and the patch is released, thus a new me' Blitz thought, in the simplest of terms. Though he termed it like this, he knew that it was not so simple, cause he himself could find many issues, which would lead to him having ceased to exist.

He knew that though, each was interdependent, they were also individual. That is as long as one of the three: soul, body, or life force (as he termed it) exists, then the other too will exist. It could be thought of like if the server is taken down, the data of the life force server which has been stored in the soul and/or body can be used to bring it back up. Thus the only way to effectively kill him is to destroy all 3 at the same time.

'Which is nigh impossible' thought Blitz. However, overconfidence might lead to death, thus he decided to keep any information he has on his powers, to himself. Maybe just spread some 'not entirely false' information about his powers.

Having figured out the basis of his powers, he felt slightly tired of having used so much of his brainpower for the first time ever in his life and thus decided to take rest for a while.

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