After that, Alex opened his status panel and looked through it.
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[Name: John (Homelander)]
[Life Level: Level 6 (Legendary)]
[Status: Normal]
[Talents: Heat Vision +3 (78/800), Deep Space Flight (59/200), First Cosmic Velocity (185/200), Biological Force Field +3 (98/800), Divine Strength +1 (86/300), High-Speed Regeneration +1 (45/300), Eye of Truth (59/200)]
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"First Cosmic Velocity is about to level up."
"Divine Strength broke through during the fight with Odin, and the proficiency increased quite a lot."
On Alex's retina, the detailed information for "Divine Strength +1" appeared.
[Divine Strength +1: Strength limit increased. Maximum output can now reach "200% Output." The previous "Second Impact" has now upgraded into "Multiple Impacts." Whenever carrying out a physical attack, there is now a chance to trigger "Multiple Impacts," producing anywhere from five to nine impacts, though the force decreases as the number of impacts increases.]
"Hmm! The strength limit increased, and the maximum output can now reach 200%."
"Second Impact also upgraded into 'Multiple Impacts,' but now the effect no longer triggers with every attack. It's become chance-based instead."
Alex thought for a bit, then decided to level up "Heat Vision" and "Biological Force Field" once each.
[Heat Vision proficiency +20]
[Heat Vision proficiency +20]
[Heat Vision proficiency +20]
After consuming 37 Skill Essence, the talent leveled up.
[Heat Vision +4: While keeping the effects of +3, the upper temperature limit has increased. You can now use heat attacks reaching up to 1 million degrees. In addition, the "Big Explosion" effect has upgraded into "Chain Explosion," allowing one "Big Explosion" to trigger hundreds of smaller explosions afterward.]
Alex then upgraded Biological Force Field to level 4 as well, but Biological Force Field only increased in defensive strength and did not gain any new derived effects.
After both talents leveled up once.
Alex only had 86 Skill Essence left.
"Good enough for now."
He opened the status panel again and glanced over it.
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[Name: John (Homelander)]
[Life Level: Level 6 (Legendary)]
[Status: Normal]
[Talents: Heat Vision +4 (0/1000), Deep Space Flight (59/200), First Cosmic Velocity (185/200), Biological Force Field +4 (0/1000), Divine Strength +1 (86/300), High-Speed Regeneration +1 (45/300), Eye of Truth (59/200)]
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"Yeah, not bad."
After finishing the upgrades, Alex closed the status panel and stretched.
At that moment, the command hall doors opened, and Ice Princess and Element Woman walked in.
The two women seemed to be discussing something.
"Did you watch that video?"
"I did. Pretty amazing. That super criminal's ability is really strange."
"Yeah. It's just like something from a movie. I thought abilities like that didn't exist in real life."
"What do you think that person is?"
"No idea, but definitely not a good person."
Alex turned around and smiled, "Ladies, what are you talking about?"
"Mind telling me too?"
Ice Princess walked over and placed a phone on the table, "Homelander, you still don't know?"
"A video that's been spreading online these past few days has gotten really popular."
"A superhuman caused chaos at a dock. Several people died."
"A video?"
"Let me see."
Alex picked up the phone and tapped play.
In the footage was a dock.
Alex saw a ship rise into the air by itself.
It flew onto the dock and slammed down hard onto several men.
Soon, blood started flowing out from under the ship.
One guy whose arm had been crushed held onto it and screamed loudly.
In the corner of the screen, Alex saw an Asian man wearing a baseball cap quickly leaving.
"Look, this is telekinesis."
Ice Princess said excitedly, "This is a very classic superpower. A lot of comics and movies have this kind of ability."
"But in reality, this is the first person with this kind of power."
"Homelander? Homelander?"
Alex was slightly distracted, though it was not because telekinesis was so amazing.
It was because he knew who that Asian man in the video was.
That was "The Female's" brother, Kenji.
In the original series, Butcher and the others captured Kenji, but later, he died at Stormfront's hands.
Also, this Kenji was a member of an extremist organization.
'Well, the rat showed himself.'
Alex smiled, then sent the video to his own phone.
He returned the phone to Ice Princess.
Then Alex left Seven Tower.
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[Chinatown]
After disguising himself, Alex came here and immediately spotted Kimiko wandering outside the music shop from a distance.
Today she wore all black, looking cold and stylish.
By the time Alex approached, she had already noticed him.
Inside the music shop, Caitlin was adjusting a guitar.
Beside her was the white man from last time who had been trying to flirt with Caitlin.
Alex remembered his name was William, a singer.
Without paying attention to what the white man was saying to Caitlin, Alex gestured for Kimiko to follow him across the street. They stopped at the entrance of an alley.
Alex took out his phone, played the video he got from Ice Princess, then handed it to Kimiko.
At that moment, inside the music shop, Alex saw Caitlin and William walk out. The two stood talking at the entrance.
Alex's ears twitched slightly, and he heard William say, "Miss Caitlin, thank you for tuning my strings. You helped me a lot."
"Can I treat you to dinner tonight?"
Alex was just about to hear Caitlin's answer.
But in front of him, Kimiko was already excitedly making hand signs.
'It's Kenji, it's him!'
'You found him?'
'Where is he, sir?'
'Please tell me.'
'Please tell me!'
Alex shrugged, "I don't know where he is right now, but I'll find him."
"Now you know I wasn't brushing you off."
Kimiko nodded hard, grabbed Alex's hand, and signed: 'I'm very grateful to you, sir.'
Alex smiled, then saw Caitlin get into William's car.
He narrowed his eyes slightly and pointed at William's car.
"You should get back to work first. Once I find your brother, I'll notify you."
Only then did Kimiko notice that the person she was supposed to protect had already gotten into someone else's car.
She quickly nodded and left the alley.
After watching them leave, Alex released a strand of information flow from his fingertips and connected it to the nearby network.
Then he rapidly searched through surveillance cameras and phone cameras all across New York. His "Quantum Sub-Brain" began processing huge amounts of data.
It intercepted countless images and compared every face appearing in them.
Searching for Kenji's location.