Getting A System In A Modern World

As Silas rushed towards them, he controlled the earth around him and the air around him, simultaneously.

Though it might seem impossible for air to exist in the underground arena, but matter is anything that has mass and occupies space, and Silas is a matter manipulator. This allows him the ability to control matter at whatever state it's in.

Silas controlled the air around him as he rushed forward, coating them around one of his hands.

He arrived in front of his first target, someone who immediately got scared with Silas' appearance in front of him.

Silas didn't give him time to react as he pushed the air coating his hand to his and punched hard at the location of the person's chest.

His hand didn't make any contact with the person, but the result was that the person was sent flying, across the underground arena and landing on others, eliciting multiple painful groans.

Today was just the regular day for the Phenomenals in the underground arena. All they wanted to do was to come down here and take part in the competition that's ongoing and hope to win the prize money of $2.5 million, but who knew that they would meet a monster.

David, one of the strongest Phenomenals in the country stood in the crowd, looking at Silas with an interested look on his face.

He actually didn't believe that Silas was that strong when he saw him initially. Even after he saw how Silas sent someone flying with juat a finger, his thought was that Silas' superpower is related to his physical strength.

As someone who has been a Phenomenals for quite a long time, he has seen a lot of Phenomenals with different types of Superpowers. This is even more so that he's a documented Phenomenals and of one of the most important in the country.

Though he has seen a lot of Phenomenals, he has always believed himself to be the strongest due to his very unique superpower, Lightning Manipulation.

Even with The Empress being called one of the strongest in the world, David felt that this isn't trye. He felt that he would beat her on a 1v1 fight. He felt that the ranking they gave to her isn't because of her actual strength but due to the wealth and influence of her father.

Seeing how Silas was bulldozing his way through the Phenomenals, he decided to take action and become the hero of the day.

He really wants to know just how strong this youth in front of him is, to be able to deal easily with so many Phenomenals.

He clenched his fists and lightning tendrils exploded from them with loud crackling sound. The lightning tendrils slowly snaked up and around his hands.

He smiled with pride and in satisfaction when he saw this.

He just can't get enough of the feeling when he sees lightning tendrils around his arms every time. The adrenaline rush he always have when he uses his superpower is the best.

He looked at Silas who just punched someone, sending him flying and creating a straight line in the crowd.

He rushed towards Silas and without warning, punches him in the face.

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Silas was about to pick his next target when he saw a hand coated with lightning, approaching his face in a snake-like pace.

He looked at the hand and looked at its owner and he nodded.

"It's that Thor guy. I wonder how good he is?" Silas asked himself, and caught the lightning-coated-hand directly.

Silas was expecting to be zapped or feeling even a sting from the lightning that was coating Thor's hand, but he felt nothing, not even a slight discomfort.

"I guess I was expecting too much if the self-proclaimed Thor. Your lightning is actually this weak. Not even enough to heat a kettle filled with water. Tsk. Pathetic," Silas said and shook his head.

David was shocked when he saw how Silas caught his hand directly. He felt that he was seeing thing wrong.

As from what he knew and understood, almost every Phenomenals superpower were on the same level, with him being the exception of course.

He has fought a lot of Phenomenals to have this understanding and its also the reason why he joined the competition that the Abyss was holding, to use his opponents for training practice, but Silas seems to be changing his worldview.

He was about to pull his hand back when he heard Silas calling him weak, and he almost stumbled.

"Did you just call me weak?" David asked with a slightly irritated voice.

"Yes, I did and what are you going to do about it," Silas replied with the usual smile on his face.

"Good then, I will let you just how weak I am," David said with a sinister smile.

The next moment, the lightning tendrils started increasing in size and length surprising Silas.

"That's nice but you're still weak." Silas said, still holding the Thor's lightning-coated-hand in his grasp.

Just as before, he felt nothing. It was at this moment he understood just how much gap he has against other Phenomenals, both in his physical strength and his superpower.

David was mad when he saw Silas' reaction to his most treasured hidden move, and he exploded on the spot.

"Did you really think that's all I have. I am Thor, the god of lig—"

"Shut the fuck up. Do you think you're the protagonist of the world or what? Get the hell away from me," Silas said with an irritated voice, and flung Thor across the underground arena like a discarded piece of cloth.

"Now, who's next," He asked, and looked at those left with an expressionless look on his face.

Silas was no longer in the mood to play. He felt he has wasted more than enough time and really wants to leave.

He saw that no one was willing to attack and he started towards the door.

"You guys lost yourselves an heaven-sent chance to get $100 million," Silas said, as he opened the door.

"Hey Empress, I will see you later," Silas said, and walked out the door.

He walked down the hallway and got into the elevator, which took him back to the surface.

Few minutes later, the elevator stopped and it doors slid open, allowing Silas to exit from it.

After he got out of the elevator, Silas slid the kitchen shelf and walked into the kitchen.

He looked around the kitchen and saw that everyone was focused on whatever they were doing, with no one paying any attention to him.

Just like when he walked through it with Natasha, everyone treated them like they don't exist.

"I guess they are just ordinary people," Silas said to himself, and left the kitchen and the restaurant.

His initial thought was that the individuals in the kitchen are security personnels in disguise but their reaction which didn't look different from the first time he saw them, said otherwise.

Silas walked through the street of Nassau. It was already getting late and Silas didn't felt like making the trip back home, to Silicon valley.

He looked around and saw a small, elegantly-looking coffee shop at a side of the street and he walked towards it.

He took his seat on one of the chairs that was placed outside the coffee shop, and made his order.

As he waited fur his order, Silas thought of the Phenomenals he saw in the Abyss.

According to the information that Luna gave him about them, there are a total of 1553 documented Phenomenals in the world and 246 in USA, but from the crowd he saw gathered in the Abyss, he knew that their number is definitely more than what's being accounted for.

Silas ran the faces he saw there, through the relevant databases but most of the searches came back empty.

"It seems that there are a lot of undocumented Phenomenals. I don't know the reason for this but maybe... just maybe I can actually try to recruit them," Silas thought to himself.

His order arrived as one of the barista served his cup of caramel cream frappucino.

Silas was about to start drinking his frappucino when he heard a sweet voice beside him.

"Hi handsome. Why are you all alone?"

Silas turned to look at the owner of the voice and he saw a voluptuous Latina, dressed in a very tight white shirt that squeezed her melons so hard that most part of it was gasping for breath outside.

Silas' eyes widened when he saw this and they couldn't help but go down to her blue skin-tight red skirt that brought out all her curves, making it looks like she wasn't wearing anything.

If it wasn't for the difference in color between her skirt and her skin, Silas would had thought she was naked.

Silas has seen very ... crazy things on the Internet just like every other youth out there but this is the first time he's in the situation himself.

It has been a while since his body actually moved for a woman, and this lady in front of him is the cause of it.

The lady took her seat beside Silas and placed one of her fingers on the cup of frappucino, tracing it along the cup's rim, in a seductive manner.

"Papi, let's go somewhere else. Somewhere where we can do something fun...," She said with a wink.