"Wait Van Hellsing , I strongly feel that we should discuss this. I am no use to you out there and this is definitely a bad idea....."
Riley turned around immediately he heard the rambling because he already knew it was Van Hellsin's sidekick in the movie , Carl.
As expected , the system didn't hold back and a screen appeared almost immediately.
[Character : Carl]
[Would you like to sign in]
[Y] [N]
Carl faltered when he saw Riley then gave Van Hellsing a questioning look.
"I don't even want to know , just please have the Cardinal reconsider this Van Hellsing."
Riley just watched in amusement as Van Hellsing basically dragged Carl along , then he fell into step behind them before turning to the system.
[Host has signed into the following]
- Mercury Hammer
- Gas propelled Crossbow blue print
- Samaritan revolver set (Human sized)
'That first one sounds familiar , anyway , let's check them all.'
[Mercury Hammer]
- Creation of the Hextech prodigy Jace and used as his signature weapon. The Hammer is made of sturdy heavy alloy metals and powered by a refined Hextech crystal.
'Yup , it's the one , a Hex tech weapon.'
The Hammer was a very well known weapon and even Riley was excited about getting it because he could already picture how cool he would look in battle with that thing.
The crossbow plans were a win honestly since the entire concept already sounded cool and would probably even earn Riley a couple of point with a certain Blacksmith God.
The Samaritan set was an adaptation of Hellboy's revolver from the 2019 reboot. The design and composition remained the same , but sized down to normal human levels.
'Atleast they are all useful or will be useful at some point. Now , I need to ditch these two for abit and integrate some rewards.'
That turned out easier said than done though , because apparently Van Hellsing had been told that Riley was his responsibility so he didn't want to let Riley out of his sight for now.
The boat trip was fun though because Steven finally got some much needed freedom but he didn't use it to integrate rewards , instead he meditated.
Part of Riley's new training after the near complete integration of the Kizaru Template, was to meditate and improve his control over the growing power within his body.
As he meditated, Riley circulated his Divine Solar light through his body to improve the speed at which he could weild and mobilize it. At the same time he controlled circulation of the Cosmic Ether in his second heart throughout his body.
Equally , a portion of his mental power was dedicated to getting a feel for his Dragon qi.
Riley had already deduced methods of growth for all his different available paths and almost half wouldn't even require him to put effort , only to master and maintain control.
When it came to Divine power , Riley's Kryptonian cells were doing most of the work because Riley's Divine power was actually much more intricately fused with Solar power than he thought.
At this point , the energy was almost completely fused and Riley could feel a subtle pull from even the light around him and in the sky. The natural absorbtion of Solar energy by his cells had caused growth and strengthening of the combined energy.
Basically , Riley no longer had separate Devil fruit light , Solar energy and Devil fruit light. Now , he had a combined hot , glowing and dangerous yet still versatile Divine force that had the properties of all previous energies.
Just sitting there would allow Riley to grow stronger since his energy could grow all of the three ways that the original power grew. He could train or sit still and absorb sunlight , but the overall energy would grow while maintaining stability and harmony in every aspect.
For Riley's Cosmic Ether though , there was little to no change and all Riley could feel was a gradual improvement in his control over it as well as increasing ease in it's circulation within his body.
So far , Riley had even managed to create techniques for enhancement with both his
Divine energy and Cosmic Ether.
The Divine energy enhancement was simply him Drawing our the Divine Solar light in his cells and pouring it into a specific area of his body. With his current control all he could manage was reinforcing his arms and legs.
When Riley elementalized and became a glowing pale gold figure , he released the energy in his cells freely but restrained it to his body. Reinforcement however , was concentrating that energy into a specific area and maintaining it in his cells
This energy then made the muscles and cells in the strengthened area glow and pulse faintly so ,unlike elementalisation , the glow of reinforcement could faintly be seen pulsating underneath Riley's skin but didn't take over everything.
The best part about the reinforcement was that it looked really cool because it showed the outline of scales when the light pulsed.
Cosmic Ether was less impressive when Riley tested it because it provided far less useful or noticeable boosts than Divine light , not to mention it was too flashy.
The meditation and energy control continued withput disturbance since most people didn't even concern themselves with Riley due to him putting up an illusion of luggage around him.
It wasn't until they got off the boat that Riley managed to get some distance from Van Hellsing in the icy cold mountains that led to the cold snow covered town of Transylvania.
Now hidden in a small cave near the top of a large mountain peak , Riley was prepared to integrate new rewards and increasing his overall potential even more.
'Integrate the physique now.' Said Riley as he removed his clothes then pulled out a Vial of Basilisk Incarnate serum from the inventory.
The physique integration started much like the bloodline integration except that the warmth was less...warm and a thrumming of energy kept on radiating from Riley's body.
Riley dropped the Shapeshift and returned to his true form just as the changes begun on his body.
Where Riley was previously growing a pair of solid gold antlers , now he had a pair of small budding white antlers tipped with gold along with smaller buds above his ears which showed more horns.
Along with that , two golden marks looking like tear trails appeared cutting across his cheeks down to his chin.
Riley's visible uncovered pale skin got much paler then a third vertical eye opened on his forehead like it had always been there.
From the upper part of Riley's lumbar, white half metre long feathery wings with Golden markings along the outer edges sprouted and Riley's long scaley tail slightly thinned as the muscles became more compact and dense.
The physical changes continued , refining and improving Riley's body which increased his strength once again and added more abilities to his already growing list.
Finally , when the physique was completely integrated , Riley opened his eyes and flapped his wings lightly to test them.
"Now that's more like it."