Universal Power System

Chapter 282 The Poison Ability

[User's Energy pool has become too potent for Medium Tier Crystals to have an effect]

[User will no longer receive more energy while absorbing a Medium Tier Crystal or lower; however, the rate of understanding of the power within the crystal will remain the same]

[The cost of upgrading the energy pool using attribute points has also been increased to 5 attribute points for every upgrade]

Multiple prompts appeared in front of Mako as he broke and absorbed another Medium tier poison crystal, having lost count of how many he had bought and absorbed at this point; however, he did know that it was well over 100 crystals.

Mako was getting drunk on the feeling of the cooling sensation as the energy washed through him and his understanding of the poison ability continued growing with a small green bubble of poison aura forming inside him.

Mako had broken so many crystals that he had actually skyrocketed past Level 1 and had actually managed to achieve a Level 2 Poison ability.

In addition to that, before all those prompts showed up in front of him, Mako had been receiving another 10 energy points that were expanding his energy pool for every crystal he broke, so now he had almost 1000 more energy points to play around with.

Mako had also taken his last High Tier Rejuvenating pill which helped him recover even more energy at a faster rate.

Mako was a bit saddened to see the prompts as now he knew that there was a limit to how strong he could get just by cheesing his way through the system.

Eventually, he wouldn't be able to grow stronger even if he broke higher-tier crystals, and the attribute point cost to upgrade anything would also continue to rise.

This meant that no matter what, if Mako truly wanted to become the strongest he needed to not rely on the system and put in the hard work himself.

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[Congratulations! You have obtained the Poison Ability]

[Poison is an offensive/utility ability that can be used in many different kinds of situations boosting both offense and defense]

[Strength +5]

[Fortitude +5]

[To activate these boosts, you have to keep your ability active which will passively drain energy as well as release the aura of a level 2 Poison ability user]

[Current rate of energy consumption: 1.5 Energy per minute]

Once Mako had achieved the second level of the poison ability, his focus completely shifted from the prompts and his future plans as he came back to reality and turned towards Angela, hoping that now he would be of some help to her.

Mako activated the poison aura within him and it made his hands look like they were covered in a green, bubbly haze, just like a witch's cauldrons in those old movies where their potions bubbled and frothed as they brewed.

He carefully turned Angela on her back and exposed the area where the stab wound was by removing the ice that was covering it up.

Mako didn't really know what he was doing as he just followed his instincts and allowed the poison aura within him to guide him in what to do next.

He placed his hand laced with the green bubbling on the open wound and closed his eyes as he activated his elemental control of poison to take control.

Just like when he activated his Energy Sensing skill where he could see different energies while seeing the whole world on a greyscale, this time Mako could see the outline of Angela's body and nothing else, but from within the outline of her body, Mako could now see many different green spots that had spread all over her body.

'This is the poison that was injected into her, it seems powerful,' Mako said to himself as he observed all the little clumps of green that were spread throughout her body.

'The poison has spread too quickly, it must be very potent, but it seems that her body is somehow able to fight back as it has prevented the poison from reaching any critical organs... yet,' Mako said to himself as he continued to observe what was happening in her body.

The majority of the poison was spread throughout her muscles and blood vessels, but her heart was barely beating which made the poison spread very slowly and for some reason, an invisible force was blocking it from getting anywhere close to her heart or brain.

However, this invisible force was losing as the poison was slowly creeping towards her organs while also simultaneously destroying her muscle fibers and bones which was why she appeared so weak and her veins looked so blue.

Mako quickly got to work as he started to transfer his own poison aura inside her body to try and control the poison that was inside of her.

Sweat started to run down Mako's forehead and his energy points were dropping fast as he began forcing his will on the poison inside Angela's body. 

The poison inside her that was killing her was very high quality and Mako's measly level 2 poison ability was barely able to influence the poison at all with him having to exert great amounts of willpower and energy to move a small amount of poison from her body.

The poison ability worked in similar ways like water ability as on the fundamental level they were both abilities that dealt with manipulating a liquid but the thing with the poison ability was that the user created the poison within their own body and didn't have to rely on external sources.

There are many different kinds of poisons and each of them attacked in different ways with their efficiency being improved the more potent and strong they were.

While other abilities allowed the user to manipulate larger quantities of an element, for example: a Level 5 Water ability user could control and manipulate far more water than a Level 2 Water ability user, but with the poison ability, the higher level of the ability one possessed, the stronger and more potent poison they could produce and control.

The poison inside Angela was far stronger than what Mako could control which was why it cost him about 150 energy points just to finally remove a small blob of poison from her body.

The poison was bright green in color and Mako carefully discarded it away from Angela's body.

Even though Mako had more energy points thanks to the crystal-absorbing session and his rejuvenating pill, he was still physically exhausted as his stamina was on the brink of giving out. 

Mako had been using his abilities nonstop ever since he escaped from the hotel room right before it exploded and now his body just wanted to relax as the constant moving of different auras and casting skills put a physical strain on his body, one that could only be fixed with him taking a rest and relaxing his body.

However, Mako couldn't afford to relax now. Angela might not have been an official member of their team and was just supposed to watch over them as they finished their simple mission on their own, but he was the one who forced her into fighting alongside them. 

He knew all along that Angela was going easy on them when they had their little fight in the forest as there was no real way for any of them to defeat her. He understood that she was probably testing his resolve and in the end decided to aid him into breaking into the hideout behind the commander's back.

This was for sure a high-tier D-Rank mission something that only Beta and Alpha-ranked ability users take on, but Mako had insisted that they would be able to do it themselves as he was more worried about his captured friends than his remaining team that he decided to risk his own as well as his teammate's lives just to make sure that they were still alive.

Looking back at it now, Mako's heart filled up with guilt as he realized his grave mistake. He was so focused on his friends that his sense of reasoning wasn't able to compute what the commander had told him and now here he was in this current predicament with Angela dying in front of him and him not being strong enough to take out all of the poison.

He felt responsible as he was the leader and regretted that he himself had made the decision to disobey the commander's orders and do things himself. He didn't want to be the cause of anyone's death, especially Angela's.

"NO! I won't give up! Don't die on me, Angela!" Mako shouted at Angela's barely breathing body as his determination and emotion overcame his exhaustion for the moment and Mako quickly began to activate his poison ability again to remove more poison from her body.

Mako vowed that he wouldn't stop removing the poison until he either succeeded or passed out from overexerting himself.

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Time continued to pass as visible veins were now popping on Mako's forehead and he was covered in sweat. His energy points continued to decrease at a quick rate, but he continued to pull out more and more drops of the poison from her body.

Mako's hands were shaking from the strain that was put on them and he was in an intense amount of pain, but he didn't stop for a second as he continued to power through and not stop until all the poison was removed.

Angela's complexion slowly got better and the invisible force that was fighting from within her was starting to fight back the poison with great fervor but he was still only 25% of the way done and he knew if he gave up now, it would still be too late for Angela before help arrived.

Blood started to drip from Mako's nose as he continued to concentrate and expand his tiny green bubble of poison aura to work even faster and harder to move and influence more amounts of this strong poison.

Mako was determined to save Angela's life as he didn't care what happened to his own body in the process.

"Come on! We are all going home, alive!" Mako shouted as he again planted his hands into the wound to extract more poison.

He poured his will power into the tiny green bubble of aura to activate elemental control once again; however, this time something unique and unexpected happened.

The tiny green bubble that contained Mako's poison aura exploded from all the willpower and emotion that Mako had subconsciously poured into it.

*BOOM!*