Chapter 38: Boundless, New Journey
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Lin Chen stood in the emptiness beyond conventional space, having just consumed the Seven Shadows and three Beyonders.
But his cosmic awareness detected something else. Something... peculiar.
He looked toward a realm that existed adjacent to the main Marvel structure—a white space that felt different from everything else. It wasn't part of the normal multiverse. It was something separate. A nursery. A womb-space.
"Interesting," Lin Chen murmured. "The Beyonders create universes to raise their young. And there's one still developing."
He opened a portal and stepped through.
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The White Realm - Beyonder's Personal Universe
The space Lin Chen entered was pure white—not the blinding white of light, but the pristine white of blank canvas. This was a pocket universe created by the Beyonder race as an incubation chamber for their children.
And there, sitting alone in the center of infinite whiteness, was the Beyonder.
A humanoid figure composed of pure energy, looking almost harmless despite containing immense power. The Beyonder turned his head, sensing Lin Chen's arrival.
"Interesting," the Beyonder said, his voice carrying curiosity rather than hostility. "You're not from my universe. You're... something else. Something that doesn't belong here."
Lin Chen studied the being before him, and his system immediately activated.
**[DETECTING ENTITY...]**
**[STATUS WINDOW - THE BEYONDER]**
**[NAME: THE BEYONDER (ADULT/MATURED FORM)]**
**[CLASSIFICATION: CHILD-UNIT BEYONDER, MATURED BEYONDER]**
[AGE: INAPPLICABLE - EXISTS BEYOND TIME]
[GENDER: INAPPLICABLE - ENERGY BEING, CAN MANIFEST AS MALE OR FEMALE]
[PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES: INAPPLICABLE]
[MENTAL POWER: 986,263 (HIGH OUTERVERSAL SCALE)]
[TIER: HIGH OUTERVERSAL (1-A+)]
[POWERS AND ABILITIES:]
FUNDAMENTAL NATURE:
- Nigh-Omnipresence & Nigh-Omniscience (Must learn through experience rather than innate knowledge)
- Higher-Dimensional Existence ( Low dimensional forces can affect him)
- Superhuman Physical Enhancement (All physical attributes beyond measurement)
- Immortality (Types 1, 3, 5: Eternal Life, Regeneration, Deathless Existence)
- Self-Sustenance (All Types - requires nothing to exist)
PHYSICAL & SENSORY:
- Acrobatics (Perfect control over movement, can defy gravity and physics)
- Enhanced Senses (Can perceive levels of activity inaccessible to normal beings)
- Extrasensory Perception (Can scan entire worlds instantly)
- Retrocognition (Can look into the past with godlike senses)
- Information Analysis & Cosmic Awareness (Can scan desires of all living creatures)
ENERGY & MATTER:
- Energy Manipulation (Complete control over all energy forms)
- Regeneration (Low-Godly - true form is pure energy)
- Incorporeality (Exists as pure energy, not physical matter)
- Shapeshifting & Transformation (Can shift into physical bodies at will)
- Transmutation (Can turn stones into fruits, cities into gold)
- Creation (Can create and manifest different elements from nothing)
- Matter Manipulation (Can control every molecule, atom, and particle)
- Deconstruction (Can atomize beings with a flick)
- Plasma Manipulation
- Elemental Manipulation (Control over all elements)
SPATIAL & TEMPORAL:
- Teleportation & Dimensional Travel (Can walk across myriad layers of universe casually)
- Space-Time Manipulation (Can slash through space and time, controls Beyond-Realm space)
- Spatial Manipulation (Complete control over space)
- Time Manipulation (Can transport beings through time, reverse time)
- BFR (Can forcibly shift beings through time and space)
MENTAL & PSYCHIC:
- Telekinesis (Mind-based movement of matter, can move planets and stars)
- Telepathy (Can read and control minds)
- Mind Manipulation (Can subjugate any world to his will with a thought)
- Empathic Manipulation (Controls emotions)
- Paralysis Inducement (Can freeze beings in place)
- Possession (Can take over other beings)
MANIPULATION ABILITIES:
- Soul Manipulation
- Biological Manipulation (Can heal or cause diseases)
- Age Manipulation (Can change any creature's age)
- Size Manipulation (Can increase or decrease size of anyone)
- Gravity Manipulation
- Light Manipulation
- Darkness Manipulation
- Magnetism Manipulation
- Vibration Manipulation
- Air Manipulation
- Earth Manipulation
- Weather Manipulation
- Technological Manipulation
ADVANCED ABILITIES:
- Power Bestowal (Can grant powers to others)
- Power Nullification (Can remove powers completely)
- Power Mimicry (Can mimic/copy abilities)
- Invisibility (Can hide from all senses)
- Intangibility (Can phase through solid matter)
- Astral Projection (Can divide consciousness)
- Stealth Manipulation (Can mask presence from all senses)
- Cloth Manipulation
- Healing (Can restore any injury)
- Resurrection (Can bring back the dead)
- Weapon Creation (Can turn anything into a weapon)
- Duplication (Can create copies)
- Sealing (Can trap beings for eternity)
- Petrification (Can turn beings to stone)
- Durability Negation (Attacks ignore durability, work on countless planes)
- Attack Reflection (Can reflect attacks back)
- Forcefield Creation
- Homing Attack (Energy seeks out targets)
- Aura (Radiates overwhelming presence)
CONCEPTUAL & ABSTRACT:
- Reality Warping, Law Manipulation & Physics Manipulation (Multiversal reality isn't real to him—everything exists because he wills it, can make cow fly with wings)
- Existence Erasure & Information Manipulation (Type 1 - Can erase beings from reality, removing all memories of their existence)
- Non-Physical Interaction (Can affect abstract/conceptual entities)
- Energy Absorption (Can absorb any energy)
- Life-Force Absorption (Can drain life essence)
- Fusionism (Can merge essence with all living beings)
BEYONDER-SPECIFIC ABILITIES:
- Abstract Existence (Type 1) (Exists on level more primal than Superflow, where metaphor and reality are one)
- Avatar Creation (Can act through manifestations—solid forms as vessels for non-physical essence)
- Information Manipulation (Type 2) & Plot Manipulation (Can alter base information and narrative of existence)
- Paraconsistent Physiology (Type 3)(Exists beyond normal logic)
- Nonexistent Physiology (Nature Type 2, All Aspects) (Exists above concept of existence)
- Acausality (Type 4) (Transcends temporal/historical structure but has own timeline)
- Precognition & Clairvoyance (Can see possible futures)
- Adaptation (Universally adaptive—can freely change shape)
- Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1) (Can manipulate independent concepts)
- Large Size (Type 10) (True form is incomprehensibly vast)
[NOTES:]
- Childlike mentality despite immense power
- Grew up believing his personal universe was all of existence
- Not aware of other Beyonders or greater reality
- Must learn through experience rather than knowing everything innately
- Represents a "child-unit" of the Beyonder race
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The Beyonder floated closer, examining Lin Chen with innocent curiosity.
"You're powerful," the Beyonder observed. "Very powerful. Almost like me, but very different. How did you get here? This is my universe. Everything here is mine."
Lin Chen smiled slightly. "I came from outside your universe. From a reality you don't know exists yet."
The Beyonder's energy form flickered with confusion. "Outside? But... there is no outside. This is everything. I've looked everywhere in my universe, and there's nothing else."
"That's because you've never left your nursery," Lin Chen explained. "The other—your people—created this place as a womb-space for you to grow. But there's an entire omniverse beyond these white walls."
The Beyonder's expression shifted to something like excitement. "Really? There's more? Can you show me?"
Lin Chen considered this. The Beyonder was incredibly powerful—nearly a million Mental Power—but also genuinely Childlike mentality, despite his cosmic abilities.
"Tell me," Lin Chen said carefully, "what would you do if you could leave here? If you could explore the greater multiverse?"
The Beyonder thought about this seriously. "I would... experience everything! I want to understand, learn, Is that wrong?"
"No," Lin Chen replied honestly. "But your power could be dangerous if used carelessly. You could accidentally destroy entire universes just by experimenting."
The Beyonder's energy dimmed slightly with worry. "I just want to just experiment with others."
Lin Chen made a decision. This being was too dangerous to leave isolated but too innocent to simply destroy. And there was something else—an opportunity.
"What if I offered you a challenge?" Lin Chen asked. "A test of your abilities. If you win, I'll show you the greater multiverse. If I win, you let me help guide your development so you don't accidentally destroy everything when you eventually leave here."
The Beyonder's energy brightened with excitement. "A challenge? Yes! I accept! This will be fun!"
The white space around them rippled as the Beyonder's power activated.
"Show me what you can do, outsider!"
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The Beyonder attacked first, reality warping on a massive scale. The white space twisted into impossible geometries. Physics inverted—gravity pushed instead of pulled, light became solid, sound became visible.
Lin Chen stood calmly as the warped reality washed over him, his own reality warping canceling out the Beyonder's changes.
"Interesting," Lin Chen commented. "You have the power but lack refinement. You're trying to do everything at once instead of focusing."
The Beyonder tried different approaches. He attempted to erase Lin Chen from existence—but Lin Chen's abstract existence meant he couldn't be erased so simply. He tried to freeze Lin Chen in time—but Lin Chen's temporal manipulation was more sophisticated. He tried to absorb Lin Chen's energy—but Lin Chen reversed the attempt.
[MENTAL POWER +93,134]
[NEW MENTAL POWER: 2,300,287]
Each exchange taught Lin Chen more about the Beyonder's abilities. The being was incredibly powerful but fought instinctively rather than strategically. Raw power without discipline.
"You're strong," Lin Chen acknowledged, "but power alone isn't enough. Let me show you why."
Lin Chen activated Absolute Devouring, but instead of consuming the Beyonder's physical form, he targeted something more fundamental—the conceptual essence that made the Beyonder what he was.
The Beyonder felt himself being pulled toward an impossibility—not death, not erasure, but absorption. Integration. Becoming part of something greater.
"Wait!" the Beyonder called out. "What is this? What are you doing?"
"Teaching you about the greater multiverse," Lin Chen replied calmly. "By experiencing it directly."
The white space collapsed inward, pulled into Lin Chen's being along with the Beyonder's entire essence.
[CONSUMING THE BEYONDER...]
[ANALYZING INFINITE-DIMENSIONAL EXISTENCE...]
[ABSORBING MULTIVERSAL REALITY WARPING...]
[INTEGRATING ALL BEYONDER ABILITIES...]
[MENTAL POWER +886,976]
[NEW MENTAL POWER: 2,999,999...]
[APPROACHING CRITICAL THRESHOLD...]
[ANALYZING POWER SCALE...]
[MENTAL POWER EXCEEDED 3,000,000]
[NEW MENTAL POWER: 3,187,263]
[TIER ASCENSION DETECTED...]
[REACHING BOUNDLESS TIER...]
[ALL ABILITIES SCALING TO BOUNDLESS LEVEL...]
Lin Chen felt something fundamental shift within him.
This wasn't just an increase in power. This was a qualitative transformation. He'd crossed the threshold from High Outerversal+ into something beyond—Boundless Tier.
The change was immediate and overwhelming.
He could feel his consciousness expanding beyond all conventional limits. His awareness touched every corner of the Marvel Omniverse simultaneously. Every universe, every timeline, every possibility—all of it within his perception.
He could create or destroy the entire Marvel Omniverse with a single thought. Reality bent to his will like words on a page—he could erase concepts as easily as deleting a sentence, rewrite existence like editing a story.
His Absolute Devouring now had no upper limit—he could consume anything, which now meant almost everything in existence.
His Abstract Existence evolved—he now existed as long as there was "outside" of something. Even if all of existence ended, he would remain because he was the concept of "beyond."
He achieved true Omnipresence—he could be everywhere in the omniverse simultaneously, not through speed but through existing in all places at once.
He gained Omniscience regarding Marvel—he knew all possibilities, all outcomes, all knowledge within this reality.
But something confused him.
"System," Lin Chen thought, "why is my Mental Power 3.187 million? Why not infinity? Why not incomprehensible?"
The system's response was immediate:
[BOUNDLESS IS A TIER SET BY HUMAN COMPREHENSION]
[HOWEVER, BOUNDLESS BEINGS HAVE DIFFERENCES IN POWER]
[ANALOGY: THERE IS A THIN SILK THREAD THAT IS INFINITE, AND THERE IS A ROPE THAT IS INFINITE]
[BOTH ARE INFINITY, BUT THE ROPE IS STRONGER THAN THE THREAD]
[YOU HAVE REACHED BOUNDLESS TIER, BUT WITHIN BOUNDLESS, THERE ARE WEAK OR STRONG]
[THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING MORE TO EXPLORE]
Lin Chen's eyes lit up with new understanding. Boundless didn't mean "the end." It meant "beyond conventional limits"—but even infinity had different scales.
A thin infinite thread versus a thick infinite rope. Both infinite, but one fundamentally stronger.
He'd reached the pinnacle of Marvel's power structure, but the journey wasn't over.
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Lin Chen thought about something that confused him. The One Above All—the supreme being of Marvel Comics, the creator of everything.
Why hadn't he appeared yet?
In Marvel lore, the One Above All was the top-tier existence who rarely showed up directly. He'd only appeared a few times, first mentioned by name by the Living Tribunal. He always relied on agents to manage existence rather than intervening personally.
"I need to confirm something," Lin Chen muttered.
He used his newly achieved perception to look beyond the Marvel Omniverse itself, searching for what existed above even the highest layers of reality.
He disappeared from the white space and manifested above the entire Marvel structure.
And there, he found... nothing.
No light. No darkness. No space. No time. No existence of any living thing.
Just absolute silence without timeflow.
Then, in the dark silence, a light appeared.
Golden light that formed first into a face, then a head, then a complete body—a male human image made entirely of radiant golden energy.
[DETECTING SUPREME ENTITY...]
[MENTAL POWER +433,543]
[NEW MENTAL POWER: 3,620,806]
Lin Chen approached carefully and asked the system to display the being's information.
[STATUS WINDOW - THE ONE ABOVE ALL]
[TIER: 0 (BOUNDLESS)]
[NAMES: THE ONE ABOVE ALL, ABOVE ALL OTHERS, ONE BELOW ALL, GOD, AUTHOR(S) OF MARVEL COMICS, OWNER OF HOUSE OF IDEAS]
[GENDER: INAPPLICABLE - PERCEIVED AS BOTH MALE AND FEMALE (REPRESENTS MALE AUTHORS)]
[AGE: INAPPLICABLE]
[CLASSIFICATION: TRANSCENDENT DEITY, SUPREME BEING]
[STRENGTH: BOUNDLESS]
[PHYSIQUE: BOUNDLESS]
[SPEED: OMNIPRESENT]
[MENTAL POWER: 3,200,000 (OMNISCIENT)]
[ABILITIES:]
- Reality Warping (Omniversal scale)
- Omniscience (Complete knowledge of Marvel)
- Omnipresence (Exists everywhere simultaneously)
- Beyond-Dimensional Existence (Type 3: Boundless) (Existence conceptually superior to all hierarchies of dimensions and size)
- Plot Manipulation (Controls the narrative of Marvel Comics)
- Resurrection (Can restore anything to existence)
- Creation (Supreme Creator of the entire Marvel Omniverse)
- Healing (Can fix any damage)
- Existence Erasure (Can erase things from the comic using the eraser on pencils, can remove from Tree of Life entirely)
- 4th Wall Awareness (Knows he exists in a story)
- Law Manipulation (Creates and controls universal laws at will)
[NOTES:]
- Supreme Creator of everything in Marvel Universe
- Immensely greater than all other characters combined
- All beings are extensions of himself
- Called "The Author of all that is"
- Exists in location beyond all dimensional space
- Represents the writers/authors of Marvel Comics
- Connected to the "House of Ideas" where stories are written
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The golden figure looked at Lin Chen with eyes that contained infinite knowledge.
"You are not my creation," the One Above All said, his voice resonating across all existence.
"How did your existence become possible?"
Lin Chen met his gaze calmly. "I am an outsider who came from beyond, experiencing your world."
"As for my origin, it's better if you don't know," Lin Chen added.
The One Above All's expression didn't change, but his tone grew firm.
"You should not exist."
The golden being stretched out his hand, and Lin Chen immediately understood the intention—Existence Erasure. The One Above All was attempting to delete Lin Chen from reality as if erasing a mistake from a story.
But nothing happened.
Lin Chen stood completely unaffected.
[MENTAL POWER +583,738]
[NEW MENTAL POWER: 4,204,544]
[ABILITY DETECTED: EXISTENCE ERASURE ( Boundless)]
[FUSING WITH EXISTING ABILITIES...]
[NEW ABILITY CREATED: NOTHINGNESS MANIPULATION]
[DESCRIPTION: CAN CREATE, SHAPE, AND MANIPULATE NOTHINGNESS—THE COMPLETE ABSENCE OF ALL ENTITIES AND SUBSTANCE]
[CAN REMOVE EVERYTHING FROM EXISTENCE BY MAKING THEM DISAPPEAR]
[CAN DELETE ETERNITIES, REMOVE TARGETS FROM ALL TIMELINES IN INFINITE DIMENSIONS]
[CAN ALTER, REVERSE, OR NEGATE ENERGY AND MATTER]
[FAR SUPERIOR TO DESTRUCTION AND EXISTENCE ERASURE]**
[CONTROLS THE VERY NATURE OF NOTHINGNESS]
[EFFECT IS ABSOLUTE—LEAVES NO TRACE, NO POSSIBILITY FOR RESTORATION, NO ECHO OF EXISTENCE, VOID CREATED IS AN ACTIVE ABSENCE THAT NEGATES ALL INTERACTION, ANYTHING THAT CONTACTS NOTHINGNESS IS UNMADE COMPLETELY]
[BYPASSES ALL FORMS OF DEFENSE, DURABILITY, OR RESISTANCE]
Lin Chen smiled slightly. "Your erasure doesn't work on me. I exist beyond your authority now."
The One Above All's expression shifted—perhaps surprise, perhaps concern.
Before the being could attempt anything else, Lin Chen activated Absolute Devouring at Boundless scale.
His mouth opened, and reality itself bent inward. The golden light of the One Above All began flowing toward Lin Chen like a star being consumed by a black hole.
"What—?" the One Above All's voice carried genuine alarm for the first time. "This is impossible! I am the Supreme Being! I am—"
"You were the Supreme Being of Marvel," Lin Chen corrected. "Now you're becoming part of something beyond your creation."
The One Above All attempted to resist with Plot Manipulation but failed to change plot, his power again flaring brilliantly. In desperation, he transformed—his golden light inverting into dark green. He became the One Below All, his opposite aspect—representing destruction instead of creation, hate instead of love, death instead of life.
But even this transformation couldn't save him.
Both aspects—One Above All and One Below All—were pulled inexorably into Lin Chen's consuming void.
[CONSUMING THE ONE ABOVE ALL...]
[CONSUMING THE ONE BELOW ALL...]
[ABSORBING SUPREME DEITY ESSENCE...]
[INTEGRATING OMNIVERSAL CREATION AND DESTRUCTION...]
[MENTAL POWER INCREASE...]
[+3,200,000]
[NEW MENTAL POWER: 7,404,544]
[TIER: BOUNDLESS (SUPREME LEVEL)]
[NEW ABSTRACT CONCEPTS ACQUIRED:]
- Abstract of Life(Cannot be killed while life exists)
- Abstract of Love (Cannot be erased while love exists)
- Abstract of Creation (Cannot be destroyed while creation exists)
- Abstract of Hate (Cannot be removed while hate exists)
- Abstract of Destruction (Cannot be unmade while destruction exists)
-Abstract of Radiation (Cannot be negated while energy exists)
- Abstract of Death (Cannot end while death exists)
[CONNECTION BETWEEN FOURTH WALL AND MARVEL SEVERED]
[WRITERS CAN NO LONGER AFFECT MARVEL REALITY]
[HOUSE OF IDEAS DISCONNECTED FROM ACTUAL MARVEL EXISTENCE]
[WHAT WRITERS WRITE NOW STAYS WRITTEN—NOT EXECUTED HERE]
[WRITERS DO NOT KNOW THERE IS REAL MARVEL SEPARATE FROM THEIR STORIES]
Lin Chen felt the fundamental change immediately.
The connection between the fictional "House of Ideas" where writers created Marvel stories and the actual Marvel reality he stood in had been severed. The writers could still write their comics, but those stories would no longer affect this real version of Marvel.
He had essentially made Marvel independent from its creators.
And more importantly, he'd absorbed the abstract concepts that made the One Above All truly immortal. As long as life, love, creation, hate, destruction, radiation, and death existed anywhere in any reality, Lin Chen could not be truly killed or erased.
The system's voice echoed in his mind:
[DETECTION: YOU HAVE REACHED MARVEL'S ABSOLUTE PINNACLE]
[NO HIGHER POWER EXISTS IN THIS REALITY]
[SUPREME TIER ACHIEVED]
[NEW OPTION UNLOCKED: POWER FOLDING]
Lin Chen blinked in surprise. "Power folding? What does that mean?"
**[POWER FOLDING ALLOWS YOU TO SEAL ALL ABILITIES AND RETURN TO BASELINE HUMAN STATE]**
**[PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES BECOME NORMAL HUMAN LEVEL]**
[ALL ABILITIES BECOME UNUSABLE][NEW HUMAN BODY CREATED]
[PURPOSE: TO ACHIEVE TIERLESS (INVINCIBLE) EXISTENCE]
[EXPLANATION: TO BECOME TRULY TIERLESS, YOU MUST BREAK THE TIER SYSTEM ITSELF]
[THIS REQUIRES FUSING BOUNDLESS TIER POWER FROM MULTIPLE DIFFERENT UNIVERSES]
[EACH UNIVERSE'S BOUNDLESS POWER IS UNIQUE]
[COMBINING THEM TRANSCENDS THE VERY CONCEPT OF TIERS]
[RECOMMENDATION: FOLD CURRENT POWER, TRAVEL TO NEW UNIVERSE, REACH BOUNDLESS AGAIN]
[FINAL RESULT: TIERLESS EXISTENCE—TRULY INVINCIBLE]
Lin Chen thought carefully about this.
Becoming Tierless—beyond all systems of measurement, beyond all concepts of power levels. Truly invincible in a way that transcended even Boundless tier.
The more he thought about it, the more exciting the prospect became.
"Yes," Lin Chen decided. "I'll do it."
[CONFIRMED]
[PLEASE SELECT NEXT UNIVERSE FOR JOURNEY]
[CURRENT POWER WILL BE SEALED]
[ABILITIES WILL BECOME INACCESSIBLE]
[PHYSICAL STATE WILL REVERT TO NORMAL HUMAN]
[SYSTEM WILL REMAIN ACTIVE TO GUIDE GROWTH]
Lin Chen thought about similar universes he knew. Places with power structures comparable to Marvel where he could grow strong again and eventually reach Boundless tier once more.
One universe came to mind immediately—a reality he'd read about extensively in his previous life. A world with gods, heroes, and cosmic beings operating on scales similar to Marvel.
DC Universe.
He knew that universe well. The Presence. The Source. The Endless. True Darkseid. Superman...etc. All operating at immense power levels, with their own version of supreme beings.
Perfect for his next journey.
"System," Lin Chen said aloud, "I choose DC Comics universe as my next destination."
[SELECTION CONFIRMED: DC COMICS UNIVERSE]
[INITIATING POWER FOLDING SEQUENCE...]
[WARNING: THIS PROCESS IS IRREVERSIBLE UNTIL BOUNDLESS TIER IS ACHIEVED AGAIN]
[BEGINNING IN 5... 4... 3... 2... 1...]
Lin Chen felt his vast power beginning to compress. The Mental Power of over 7 million started folding inward, collapsing like a star becoming a singularity. His Boundless abilities sealed themselves one by one.
His Omnipresence faded—he could no longer exist everywhere simultaneously.
His Omniscience dimmed—he no longer knew all possibilities.
His reality-warping capabilities locked away.
His Abstract Existence sealed.
His Nothingness Manipulation dormant.
One by one, every ability he'd gained—from the very first attribute absorption to the supreme powers of the One Above All—all of it folded inward, compressed into an impossible small point deep within his new human form.
His physical body changed. The cosmic entity form dissolved, replaced by a completely normal human body. Average height, average build, no enhanced attributes whatsoever.
He felt... weak. Vulnerable. Human.
But deep inside, sealed behind layers of conceptual locks, was the power of Boundless tier. Waiting. Dormant. Ready to be unlocked again when he reached that level once more.
Lin Chen looked down at his new human hands. They were ordinary. Flesh and bone, nothing more.
"This is strange," he muttered. "After being so powerful, being human again feels..."
[POWER FOLDING COMPLETE]
[ALL ABILITIES SEALED]
[PHYSICAL STATE: BASELINE HUMAN]
[MENTAL POWER: 1.03 (TEMPORARILY)]
[SYSTEM REMAINS ACTIVE]
[ATTRIBUTE ABSORPTION/PICKUP WILL REACTIVATE UPON ARRIVAL IN DC UNIVERSE]
[OPENING DIMENSIONAL PORTAL TO DC COMICS REALITY...]
A shimmering gateway appeared before him, showing a glimpse of a new universe. A world with different rules, different beings, different challenges.
Lin Chen smiled despite his current weakness.
"This will be interesting. Starting from scratch again, but with the knowledge of what I can become."
He stepped toward the portal, his human feet carrying him forward.
"DC Universe, here I come."
As he crossed the threshold, his consciousness began to fade, the transition between realities putting him into a deep sleep.
His last thought before darkness claimed him was:
"I wonder who I'll meet first? This is going to be fun..."
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