Miracle.
What was a miracle ?
A miracle was any lucky thing that happens to you, that you did not expect or think was possible.
And it was exactly that.
When you want a miracle the most, it never happens to you, but the time, the moment when you least expect it, that's when a miracle happens.
Because its called a ' MIRACLE '.
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.*****..The moment I lost all hope, the moment when death was was not even a second away from me.
My eyes lost vision, my ears couldn't hear anything, and I felt like falling deep underwater with a paralytic body.
At that moment!
It happened to me.
A miracle!
My only super-power, the one that I used to call trash all the time [ Miracle Thief ] .
It finally stood true to its name.
It brought me a miracle, and made me probably the biggest thief in the history of mankind.
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.******..When I used my superpower on the unknown intruder, I wasn't even in my right mind, I didn't even remembered the limitations and exceptions of my power and just wanted to make the person who was responsible for my death to suffer the same fate as me.
So I exchanged everything I had, my soul, my existence, my life, my destiny, my everything for his talent, his superpowers, his experience, his handsome face, his life force, and anything he had that was of benifit to me.
In a normal scenario, my superpower wouldn't have even activated and I would have just died from the backlash.
But nothing was normal in this scenario.
A miracle happened, the exception whose chances for activation were so negligible that it was called a miracle, actually got activated.
And everything I wanted to steal, did got stolen.
......A bright light covered me and the intruder.
The intruder was taken aback by this sudden change.
~ " AAAAAHHHHHHHH !!! "
Maybe he realised what was happening to him and screamed loudly, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't break free from the effect of my super-power.
The knife that was stabbed deep in my stomach came out automatically, my body was healing on its own.
My bones, skin, muscles of whole body started reforming, my height grew and I was transforming like Madara Uchiha transformed into six-paths.
My eyes became sharper, my head became clearer and my muscles became more explosive.
My old skin shed and blew away in the air like pieces of dust. I could feel the new power that now resided in my body.When my body stopped transforming, it was finally time for the memory and experience. I felt new information was stuffed into my head.
It felt like I was teleported in a dark space that suddenly changed into real life replica of the Intruder's life, I was reliving and watching everything the intruder went through in his life, from a third person perspective like an astral projection.
The more I watched the more shocked I got, I watch his whole memory of around 30 years as an astral projection in that space, but when I finally came back to the real world, I realized that only a few seconds had passed and the ' Regressor ' was still screaming wildly.
Yes! Regressor.
The person in front of me was a Regressor.
He was a person who regressed back in time after his death, because of a 'system' and the 'time stone' that he got in a lucky encounter.
The only single 'time stone' that existed in the world, and was from the immemorial times when the Gods used to walk the planet.
A time humanity would come to know about 10 years later.
...After the transfer of memory, the next to come was the experience. The experience the Regressor got from his life of 30 years, his fighting experience, his experience in using his superpowers and many others, were all now mine.
I felt like a war veteran who had spent his entire life fighting. The rush of adrenaline I was feeling was indescribable.
The 'System' was the last thing to appear.
The Regressor obtained the system at the same time he obtained the time stone.
The system functioned similarly to an A.I chip (Artificial intelligence chip) implanted in his soul. It was nonsentient and served two main purposes: data storage and analysis.
It would analyze data on the command of its host, gathering data samples and running simulations to make deductions.Its storage ability was even simpler. It would store everything the host experienced through their five senses and recorded it down. Empirical data showed that it had enough memory to store over 9,000 years' worth of events and its capabilities increased as the host experienced more things and became more powerful.
It was like a supercomputer inside your head that was capable of growing with you.
The one-sided exchange was finally over, and I mentally went through everything I had.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
I laughed like a lunatic for a few minutes, releasing all the emotions that had been building up inside of me, and after a deep breath, I was finally back to my emotionless and apathetic expressions.
I suddenly noticed that the Regressor was no longer screaming.
Taking a look towards my left side, I realized that there wasn't any regressor left to scream. There were only the clothes of the Regressor on the floor with some of his organs like heart, brain, liver, etc inside them.
The rest of his body like his bones, skin and everything else vanished into thin air, or should I say I stole it all.
Thankfully, my command for stealing was to only get the thing that would benifit me, so the parts like the Regressors' soul and other things that would have left me in a crisis weren't transferred to me.
I was me in the Regressors' body.
I was " A FAKE REGRESSOR "
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..The Regressor came back 1 month ago and the A.I. chip was already accustomed to world and had already created functions that I don't have to go through the trouble of making.
One of the functions that I really love was that the system can scan anyone and show their stats and data like a video games' profile screen.
I said the trigger word [ status ] inside my mind, and a light blue translucent screen appeared in my vision.
I knew that only I could see the screen, but watching a screen floating in front of my eyes was a novel experience even for me.
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[ Status ]
Name - Alvin Tate
Age - 18 years
Race - Human
STR - E
AGL - E+CON - EMAG - E+Current overall Rank - E+
Maximum Talent Rank - A+Superpowers - [ Miracle Thief ] , [ Velocity ]
**Click for a more detailed analysis**
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Closing the screen and recollecting myself, I focused on the cause of all the things that happened today.
I already knew everything about the fruit from the memories I stole from the Regressor but I still used my system to scan the fruit for me.
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[ Fruit of Limitless ]
Function - Removes the limitations on body talent of the consumer. The person will have no maximum Rank cap and can increase his Rank limitlessly.
How to use - The Fruit Should be eaten more than 80% with seeds included, for the effect to take place.
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According to the memories of the Regressor this fruit was supposed to be eaten by me.
But even after eating it and walking on the path of success I died a very gruesome death.
Just thinking about it makes my blood boil.
~*slap*
I tightly slapped myself on my right cheek.
I was loosing control of my emotions and allowing them to cloud my judgement. So this slap was to wake me up and remind me that I should always keep a calm mind, no matter what the situation was.
My time had already started to change, Everyone else was in the light and I was in the dark. They didn't know me, but I knew every single one of them.
I will definitely have my Revenge.
~*phew*
Taking a deep breath I looked directly at the fruit with burning desire.
'This is it…once I get my hands on the fruit, my future will change entirely.'
I thought as my eyes couldn't detach themselves from the pale red fruit that sat on top of the tree.
Glancing at the fruit above me, I raise my hand and plucked it with a flick.
I carefully observed the fruit.
Its pale red colour added with its holy-like glow that was enveloping it, made it seem like I was holding a fruit straight out from heaven.
Swallowing the saliva that was stuck inside of my throat, I gently open my mouth and took a small bite out of the fruit.
Instantly an overwhelming sweetness enveloped my taste buds, making them dance with joy. The juices coming from the fruit overflowed inside of my mouth, and the succulent taste coming from the fruit made me momentarily forget everything around me.
Shortly after gulping the first bite of the fruit, I could feel my body changing. My eyes became sharper, my head became clearer and my muscles became more explosive.
I could feel myself slowly becoming stronger
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