Marvel: My Own Path

A week later, in Skye's Mindspace.

Within this endlessly extending world, the resounding crackles of the sound barrier being continuously broken reverberated in the surrounding.

*Whoosh!*

*Boom!*

At this moment, a figure in black could be seen flying in the gray sky, leaving behind shock waves and the sound of roaring thunderclaps.

"WOOHOOO—"

With his body straightened horizontally and his arms extended forward, Skye could feel the air resistance that was akin to wind blades as he flew in the air, traveling at the speed of sound.

Fortunately, due to his monstrously strong physique, the air resistance that tried cutting him was simply nullified.

"I'm still lacking in the department of manipulating my gravity field huh? Otherwise, I wouldn't be experiencing the negative effects of traveling at such high speeds..." Skye muttered under his breath.

As Skye pondered over this, he didn't know that it wasn't because of his low mastery of gravity field manipulation that he felt the negative effects of a high-speed flight, but instead because of his Kryptonian Physique that was still only Tier 2.

'What if I also use Hidden Flowing Lightning while flying? It should augment and accelerate my flight speed by a bit while also making me look cooler...' thought Skye as he smirked.

Activating the skill, instantly, massive arcs of golden lightning encircled his whole body. The winds and clouds churned as lightning and thunder flared. As the roaring sound of thunder and lightning intermingled, right then, it was as if Skye was an embodiment of a raging storm.

His current speed that was at Mach 1 was increasing more and more, nearly approaching the limit of the speed of sound to finally break through to supersonic.

As golden bolts of lightning remained in his tracks on the limitless firmament, Skye closed his eyes for a moment and opened them a second later, activating his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.

As the golden 'hexagram' Sharingan appeared, Skye whispered. "It's a pity that I wasn't able to get other Kryptonian abilities like X-ray and Heat Vision, Superhuman Hearing, and Arctic Breath yet."

'As for my Sharingan, although I can't summon Susanoo due to the eyes being altered by the system, the abilities of each eye are still amazing.' he thought.

Halting on the sky, Skye remained airborne as his eyes stared on the ground. At the focal point of his vision, a terrifying black flame appeared out of nowhere and spread in all direction.

The heat emanating from the black flames were beyond imagination, it was as if it came out straight from hell, it was as if it's capable of burning and reducing the world to mere ashes.

It wouldn't be wrong to call it Hellfire—flames that burned within hell itself.

'Amaterasu.' Skye said in his head. 'What powerful flames...'

Even now, Skye still couldn't help but be amazed at the intensity of the jet-black colored flames.

As Amaterasu was the ability of his right eye, the ability of his left eye, on the other hand, was different.

By willing it, Skye's left eye has the ability to enter the mind of any individual that he sets his eyes on and manipulate them. That individual wouldn't even notice that he was being controlled and would think that he was doing it of his own free will!

It was the highest caliber of hypnosis, mind control, and illusory power!

Of course, that power also has its limits as Skye could only activate his left's eye's ability once a month.

Since the benefits were great, the penalty should also be high.

'Hehe, steali, *cough*, making money wouldn't be too hard now...'

"System, create a clone of the current me. I wish to battle," said Skye.

System: [Sure thing, Skye.]

A few seconds later, tens of meters away from Skye, on the ground, a ripple on space suddenly appeared.

The ripple expanded and extended, and from it, escaped a leg that was covered in a black battle trouser. Following the leg was a body that was clad in the same black overcoat as Skye. And finally, the figure's face appeared, its appearance perfectly identical to Skye's.

Since Skye wasn't currently wearing the silver mask, the clone also didn't wear one.

At that moment, the clone's eyes turned into an Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan that was the exact copy of Skye's and glared at him.

Skye didn't evade the clone's gaze as he met the latter's Mangekyo Sharingan with his.

In an instant, the battle started.

Staring at the clone's eyes, Skye disappeared from where he was airborne as terrifying black flames appeared on his previous spot, burning the whole space.

Sensing danger, the clone flew up to the sky, allowing him to dodge an identical black flame that had suddenly surged from the ground.

However, right then, Skye was already in front of the clone as he delivered a punch on the latter's face. As his arm swung, Skye could feel an intense power brimming within him, wishing to be unleashed.

*Boom!*

Even the clone's superhuman reflexes couldn't help him dodge the fist as he was sent flying hundreds of meters away.

Skye didn't let up as he launched himself towards the clone, resounding sonic booms reverberating in the surrounding.

Just as Skye was only a few meters away from the clone, a terrifying curtain of black flames was conjured as it sought to engulf and burn Skye into ashes and dust. The flames were so hot it was if the intangible space itself was about to be melted.

"Nice try," Seeing this, Skye smirked as he used his right eye to f.o.r.c.i.b.l.y dissipate the clone's Amaterasu.

Since they both have the same ability and powers, both of them could cancel each other's eye techniques.

But at that moment, as if the clone had expected it, a fist covered in golden Qi rushed towards Skye as soon as the black flames were put out.

*THUD!*

Skye was unable to dodge as his face was struck—from thousands of meters up in the air, his body came crashing down the ground.

The power behind that punch was so strong that even physically enhanced individuals won't be able to resist. They could only have their bones fractured and broken.

Down on the ground, a large crater had formed due to the impact as dust and decimated debris floated in the surrounding..

The next second, clearly unharmed, Skye propped himself up and dusted himself, staring at the clone that was rushing towards him with insane speed.

"Interesting." Skye laughed as his Qi intensified, wrapping around his body akin to golden flames. And at the same time, sparks of golden lightning enveloped him as the sheer density of his power and energy forced his jet-black hair and the rocks on the ground to float upwards.

The next moment, Skye stomped heavily on the ground, his figure shooting towards the clone.

*BOOM!*

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[STATUS]

Name: Skye Hunt

System Level: 2

Path: Supremacy

System Points: 28,700

Attributes:

• Strength - B [Superhuman (Average)]

• Speed - C [Speed of Sound]

• Physique - C+ [Regenerative (Peak)]

• Energy - C

• Intelligence - C+ [Gifted (Peak)]

• Fighting Ability - S+ [Unparalleled Combat Prowess]

Power Ranking: B • [Tier 5]

System Remarks: You're finally strong and powerful!

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'This system remark though...' Skye couldn't help but chuckle when he remembered the system remarks in his status page in the past.

Standing in the backyard, Skye closed his eyes and enjoyed the sense of p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e as his cells that were full of vitality, continued to drink the sun's radiation.

A few moments later, he took out the phone for contacting S.H.I.E.L.D. and contacted Agent Coulson.

*Beep, Beep, Beep,*

After a few seconds, the call was picked up as the familiar voice of Phil Coulson came from the speaker.

"Mr. Hunt, this is Agent Coulson, what can I do for you?"

Skye: "Good afternoon Agent Coulson, since Director Fury's number isn't saved on this phone, I'm gonna have to trouble you to contact him."

Coulson: "Contact Director Fury? If you don't mind, Mr. Hunt, may I know what you will discuss about with the director?"

Skye laughed in response and said bluntly. "Sure it's not a secret anyway. I want to establish a special kind of school. It'll be small and for the right price, I can train individuals."

...

Meanwhile, in New York's S.H.I.E.L.D's headquarters, Agent Coulson who was in Nick Fury's office, became silent when he heard Skye's words.

After thinking for a few seconds, Coulson raised his head and looked at the bald-man in black coat, who was looking outside the large window with his back facing him.