Into The Portal: Monster Invasion

Chapter 105: First Clue on Dual Elemental Orbs!

I will inject the serum now, honey. Clear your mind, and focus only on improving your mind. Evelyn warned Miles. She was standing beside Miles. In her hand, an IV needle could be seen. She was ready to give it to Miles anytime.

After testing his learning capacity, Evelyn was surprised to see him last for two minutes. But she didnt ponder over it. After all, Miles was her son, and could as well as have similar superpowers or empowered superpowers to hers. If it was so, even in a dormant state, it would make Miles much smarter than the normal folk.

Even at present, people still didnt know why people awakened specific superpowers. There were many cases of superpowers matching people's desires or hobbies. Evelyn was a scientist, and she awakened the power Data Sort allowed her to excel in her work. Adam was the same. There were two theories for this.

First, people awaken the powers they desire most. The wishes of the people affected the power they acquired. But, there was one major problem with this theory. The people in the same lineage awakened the same or similar powers. How could every person in the family have the same or similar desires?

The second theory was, people, unknowingly, were influenced by their dormant powers and their hobbies or their wishes came from their superpowers. The Data Sort superpower pushed Evelyn to become a scientist, and in Adams case to become a botanist. This theory also covered the problem of the first theory, similar powers and similar occupations were heretical. In theory, it had no problem, but it hasnt been proven yet.

Since both Merlin and Marcela had powers that allowed them to use different elemental abilities, the family always thought Miles would have power with similar effects. But since he failed to awaken, his superpowers were a mystery. If, unlike his two siblings, Miles had similar powers with Evelyn, it would explain his remarkable results in testing. After all, Miles would always be around her when he was small. It would also prove his thirst for science. But it was anyones guess.

I understand Mother. I am ready. Miles assured his mother. She nodded and pierced Miles's skin with care, albeit with difficulty. She looked at Miles for a second, then let it slide.

She was after all a strong fighter and even a better scientist. Because she was more focused on learning, and her superpower was more science-related, she wasnt as high ranking as Malcolm, but she was a top Devote-Rank hunter nonetheless. She could see that needle hardly pierced Miles' seemingly thin skin. She was surprised for a short while, but ignored it.

After IV connected to his system, Miles felt a cold liquid moving from his arm to his upper body. Unlike Strengthening Serum, Mind Serum had a cooling sensation that made Miles feel much calmer and relaxed. Liquid passed through his neck and flooded his brain. When he felt like a bubble of cold surrounded his brain, his eyes all of a sudden went white.

Miles felt like his brain was freezing. The bubble burst, and the liquid filled every part of his brain. But in that chaos, there was tranquility. He didnt feel like dying, instead, he was calm. He didnt know if it was because it was how the medicine worked, or because a hand was holding his firmly. He calmed down and focused on his thoughts.

Although new technology made it easier to learn new knowledge, it didnt mean everyone could upload whatever they wanted to learn into their brains. As Evelyn put it. A normal person could only last half a minute. Miles was abnormal and lasted four times that amount.

It was mostly because of other factors such as Strengthening Serum, genes he got from his mother's side, and some other unknown elements. But even in those two minutes, the information Miles acquired was limited. And the after-effects werent desirable. Miles felt weak all over his body despite using two Strengthening Serum, and he was in so much pain, he passed out.

And all of them were to store the information in his brain. After all, even after all that information recorded in his brain, it didnt mean Miles comprehended them. In an analogy, it was like reading a text in a foreign language. One could memorize the pages worth of texts but without learning what every word meant, one couldnt understand the text.

It was the same for Miles. Now he memorized all the information Evelyn stored in his brain, but he had to study them to make them part of his knowledge.

The bright side was, Miles already knew most of the scientific terms thanks to sticking around Evelyn when he was small. Now he could focus his mind on those articles while the cooling sensation was wrecking his brain, he thought, why not learn them now?

The articles Evelyn stored in Miles' brain were hand-picked by her. They were highly classified and cutting-edge knowledge she and her team acquired. By reading them, Miles felt like he was experiencing what Unity had gone through in the last few decades. All the experiments and theories were stored in his brain systematically. But Miles didnt only learn them, he also cross-checked them with the text he and Coin found in a mysterious room.

Previously the foreign text now started to make sense. Miles didnt know who left the mysterious room, but since the person was able to create two-element orbs, he or she was way ahead of Unity in terms of technology.

Miles also learned how to make arrows and ammunition by using monster cores. But to his surprise, there was a key restriction to creation. In the articles his mother sent, it was said, elemental compatibility was key to melting monster cores. So to say, to melt a fire elemental monster core, a fire user had to be present and work with the team. In the text he found in a mysterious room though, it was said, elemental compatibility was a minor step. Miles thought the difference in emphasis on the same restriction was important but didnt know how the mysterious person achieved it.

There were close to a billion people living in the confined lands of Unity, 95% of the population were able to awaken their superpowers. The superpowers varied from elements like water, fire, lightning to rare elements such as poison, light, and dark.

There were also comparing companies, which meant the rarer the element, the harder it was to find a person to work for it. Especially when considering the rarer the element, the better the user would be. Then, why would a light element user work for a company as a core melter? While he or she could enter the portal world and gain fame and money.

But the same restriction was a minor setback according to the owner of the mysterious cave. Miles didnt think the owner of the mysterious cave had a person for each element but had another way to work around the problem, but he didnt know the real reason. Since he couldnt guess, it didn't matter how hard he racked his head, he let it slide and continued to work on the papers.

What gave Miles the largest shock was the requirement for creating double elemental orbs. In the texts he found in a mysterious room, there werent many details, but only the restrictions. Before, Miles couldnt understand them due to a lack of key information related to science. But now that he learned these things from his mother, he could somehow understand them. But learning the restrictions wasnt enough to copy the technique. But it would still give Miles a slight idea how to do so.