The weapon dealer's son

Chapter 20: Exoskeleton.

Adam found it easier to manipulate the fabric using the skill, as he only needed to think of what he want it to do, and the symbiote takes care of the technical stuff.

He turned it into a historical car shape, and the symbiote made all the realistic details. It added two rubber wheels, glass windows, metal frames, it even added the engine and the working gears.

Adam held the now realistic, 30 centimeters long, red ancient car in his hand, he opened the little doors and looked inside, it had a brown textured leather interior, a dashboard with all kinds of buttons and leverages, some screens with information on them, little compartments that Adam couldn't reach but opened them with his mind.

He flipped the car and mentally removed a layer hiding the functional parts, and they were tiny but working, he checked the engine and found that full of details as well.

He got excited and couldn't wait to try it out, if he could add all that details using one kilogram of the fabric, he imagined what he could do with 10 kilogram.

Of course this is not impressive if a system is controlling the fabric, but he never heard of a human capable of doing this.

Adam put the car on the ground and tried to control its movement with his mind, which also was easy due to the skill. He played with it for a while and got bored so he moved on.

He touched the rest of the small metallic rods connecting to 9 more kilograms of high end cluster fabric.

The reason this particular type of cluster fabric is so expensive is that its used in military machinery and weaponry. It is usually not for public use, not that they would need it any way.

A normal cluster fabric takes a certain amount of pressure before it deconstruct to preserve itself, however, a cluster fabric made for military use, not only can take extremely high pressures, but it will also keep the construct its in until it breaks apart, or it gets manually deconstructed by the system controller.

Adam checked the materials he could use in his constructs in the skill page, he didn't understand most of the displayed elements as some of them he never heard of. 'can you make it easier to read! Or maybe arrange them based on toughness, or something that I can currently understand!'

[processing…

Rearranging…

Creating basic construct categories…

Simplification complete.

data expansion required for more basic construct options.]

Adam stared at the skill page as it kept changing in front of his eyes, instead of displaying elements, it now displayed different categories of constructions.

He opened the first category that his eyes landed on, (wearable). It displayed hundreds of thousands of clothes, and in a moment it changed into multiple different categories.

it showed foot wear, tops, pants, shoes, glasses, gloves, accessories, armor…

It kept expanding in front of his eyes as the symbiote kept adding more data into the skill. Adam didn't look at it for long, he collected all the 10 kilograms of the cluster fabric and attached them to his body, as the symbiote read what he was trying to do, it kept importing data into the armor category.

Adam wanted the cluster fabric to act as an exoskeleton suit, while the top layer looking like normal clothing.

 "Mirror." He ordered as the core system responded by conjuring a 2 meter tall and wide mirror from the floor.

Adam looked at himself as he kept making adjustments to the suit as he moved around in it. The weight of 10 kilogram on his body was barely noticeable with his strength, but if he could get an extra boost using the cluster fabric that would be attached to him any way, why not.

When he was finally satisfied with the shape and feels of the exoskeleton suit, the symbiote finalized the design making more modifications to it, and added it to the armor category.

He tested the movement, and found it way easier than normal. He can also use a percentage of the fabric to construct other stuff without compromising the structure integrity, so he tried lowering the percentage to see when it would be useless.

When the symbiote made the final adjustments, it took into consideration the protection of the host, it made the outer layer of the suit from the hardest light weight material known to humans, which is called galidium, which is not native to earth.

Adam kept lowering the amount of fabric in the suit without feeling any difference, when it reached 50% Adam was surprised, at this point he can create two 100% working exoskeleton suits with its defense.

At 30% Adam faced a choice, to compromise defense, or to compromise strength boost.

At 15% he could only use one of them at 100%, or use them both at 50%, and it can get even lower.

Adam was happy with the results. 'isn't this too overpowered!? I mean! I'm not going to war or any thing, am i?' he thought to himself.

He then opened the skill tap to choose an outfit, and go take a break, he glanced at the other categories available beside wearable, and he noticed the (weapon) category. He looked at it for a while and decided to test them later, as he wanted to have fun for now.

Wearing a stylish white shirt, a black jeans pants, and a cool looking shoes. Adam exited his apartment, heading to floor 67, where Mela lives.

He stood in front of a door with engravings all over it, it looked like a very ancient drawings. Mela's mother is an artist, she uses different materials to create sculptures with weird shapes, Adam never understood what It supposed to represent, he never found it beautiful as well.

"hey Mela! You home?!" Adam yelled at the weird door.

Setting on a pink bed, with some fictional creatures engravings on its frame, Mela was watching a Tv series where two characters were currently holding hands.

When a device on the wall beside the room door played a message with Adam's voice, she screamed. "Adam! You're back!" she instantly ran out to open the door herself, even though the door could let him in with just a word.

"hey Mela!" Adam said with his usual expressionless face, Mela didn't mind hugging him despite that.

Adam just stood there, he didn't hug her back, he didn't push her away either. he just waited for her to finish her display of emotion.

"Mom told me you went away with your father! Why didn't you tell me?!" Mela said in a displeased voice, punching him on the shoulder. She then felt the pain in her hands.

"I wasn't with my father, some people caught me and put me in a place for lost kids, I was trying to escape." He monotonously said. "Is your mom home?!" he asked looking around the opened door while Mela was holding her hand in pain.

"mom isn't home!" she casually said. "what are you wearing under that shirt?!" she looked at him suspiciously.

"Lets go to the park, I'll show you something awesome!" Adam said while stepping towards the elevator, not waiting for her answer.