Yes — in this world, Peter isn't Spider-Man. Instead, it's MJ (Mary Jane) and Gwen Stacy, who go by Scarlet Spider and Ghost-Spider respectively.
Nova had actually witnessed the event but hadn't thought much about it at the time. He remembered seeing something bite MJ and her swatting it off her arm, only for it to fly over to Gwen and bite her too.
After awakening his past life memories, he understood exactly what had happened and uncovered the real identities of Ghost-Spider — Gwen Stacy and Scarlet Spider — Mary Jane Watson.
One thing that actually puzzled him was where they got all the tech they used. From news reports and online forums, he found out that they had some seriously cool tech.
One thing that actually puzzled him was where they got all the tech they used. From news reports and online forums, he found out that they had some seriously cool tech.
Ghost-Spider's gear was sleek, practical, and built for mobility. Gwen's suit was a lightweight polymer mesh, resistant to small-caliber bullets and blades, while remaining flexible enough for acrobatics and wall-crawling. Integrated into the suit were tactical lenses capable of enhanced night vision, thermal imaging, and a heads-up display connected to a private network. She carried web shooters mounted on her wrists, but these weren't just for swinging around — they could fire electrified webs, impact grenades, and microtrackers.
Nova had once seen a blurry video where she disarmed three armed robbers by snapping their guns away with razor-thin web lines in under a second. It was clean, efficient, and downright cinematic.
Scarlet Spider, on the other hand, had a slightly flashier setup. MJ's suit was fire-resistant, with shock-absorption plating built into the arms and torso. Her web-shooters were custom-modified to fire different types of webs: acidic webs that could dissolve metal, smoke webs for cover, and even sticky concussive webs that exploded on impact. She also carried a pair of compact grappling hooks and shock batons for close combat.
According to online rumors, her suit was embedded with sensor-jammers that made her invisible to most security systems and drones.
What bugged Nova the most was that this wasn't some half-assed cosplay gear. This was professional-grade equipment, bordering on black-market prototype tech. Stuff that would normally cost millions and require connections to either government programs, elite private labs, or underworld syndicates.
And neither MJ nor Gwen came from rich families or had known ties to major tech geniuses.
Sure, Oscorp existed, and he wouldn't put it past Norman Osborn to have a few shady side projects on the side — but from what Nova could gather, neither girl had direct ties to Oscorp either. Which left one other option: someone in the shadows was backing them.
Nova made a mental note to dig into that later. It was too convenient. In a world full of supers and secret wars, people didn't just stumble across advanced crime-fighting tech without strings attached.
And if there were strings… sooner or later, those strings would pull back.
Suddenly, Nova came out of his thoughts as he felt something new awaken inside his body.
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
After a while, Nova opened his eyes and smiled widely.
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[DING! SOULLESS HAS PERFECTLY FUSED WITH HOST'S SOUL, AWAKENING UNIQUE ABILITIES:]
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1.) Reality-Touched Energy Refinement (Passive):- The fusion between Soulless and your soul allows your body and spirit to passively absorb ambient, unrefined energy at all times. This gathered energy is instinctively refined within your soul, producing a unique form of high-grade energy exclusive to you.
This unique energy is allocated as follows:
→ 30% to strengthen your physical body
→ 30% to enhance your soul and mental faculties
→ 40% to expand your internal energy reserves
Advanced Mechanism: Once accumulated energy reaches a critical threshold, it will automatically ignite and compress, purifying itself further and enhancing overall energy quality. This process can also be triggered consciously.
Important Note (by SYSTEM): It has been detected that the Host's energy possesses an innate reality-altering property, though currently it can only be passively accessed under strict conditions.
→ To address this, Soulless has slightly modified the nature of your energy — dramatically shrinking your energy reserves in the process. However, this alteration allows you to actively use this high-quality energy in a controlled manner, albeit with limitations.
Wish Ability Evolution:
→ Original Mode: Instantly fulfill any wish without needing to understand the underlying mechanics or principles.
→ Refined Mode: Allows the Host to alter reality manually, but requires knowledge of the relevant concepts and precise procedures to execute.
Limitation: In this Refined Mode, you are currently unable to manipulate high-level cosmic laws such as Life, Death, Time, Fate, etc. To unlock this capability, you must first reach the Divine Realm and establish your own Godhood/Divinity.
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2.) Soul-Sight Resonance (Passive Sixth Sense):- By leveraging the reality-altering energy within you, Soulless has awakened a latent sensory ability. Once activated, skill grants you awareness of the inner workings of the world around you — perceiving hidden connections, structural weaknesses, energy flows, and conceptual frameworks that would be invisible to normal senses.
Hint (by SYSTEM): Once the Host acquires sufficient knowledge, energy, and meets certain requirements, this ability can be used as a foundation to create new, unique skills and techniques.
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3.) Legacy Unbinding (Potential Release):-
During the fusion process, Soulless detected a unique artifact in your possession capable of facilitating 'trades'. As a result, it integrated a specialized ability designed to interact with potential-based systems.
This ability allows you to:
→ Unlock latent potential of others.
→ Trigger secondary awakenings of existing abilities
→ Forcefully evolve or refine abilities under the right conditions
This skill can act as a catalyst for growth, advancement, and evolution — both for you and those you choose to affect.
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Nova's eyes fluttered open, the faint glow in his irises slowly fading as the rush of information settled in his mind. He stayed perfectly still for a moment, listening to the quiet thrum in his veins, like his blood had turned into liquid lightning.
"Reality-Touched Energy Refinement," he thought, a crooked smile creeping onto his lips. A passive ability that absorbs ambient energy and converts it into my own? Constantly? No meditation? No weird breathing techniques? No chanting some ancient monk's name backwards?
He snorted under his breath. Hell yes.
And the breakdown made it even better — 30% to the body, 30% to the soul and mind, 40% to energy reserves. He could already feel it working, like some invisible, gentle tide tugging at the edges of his being. His muscles felt subtly denser, his thoughts crisper, a sense of balance humming in his core.
This ability is basically similar to Superman. He passively absorb sun light to become stronger, meanwhile Nova absorbs the energy around himself.
This basically balance us out, as unlike Superman, Nova's ability isn't powerful enough to make him so powerful to destroy Earth in 30 or so years. It will take many-many years for Nova to reach the level Superman reached in just 30 or so years.
But in other case, Nov scan absorb any type of energy from his surroundings, he isn't limited like Superman, who can only absorb sun light.
Nova is very happy and excited with this ability. So excited that he wishes to discuss theories of mating with May entire night.
Shaking his head, Nova looked further.
Innate reality-altering property… Nova blinked, okay, he already knew it. Afterall an absurd ability like Wish, need an reality-altering energy to operate.
And the fact that Soulless had shrunk his reserves to modify it? He really love this Soulless. It basically removed a major problem for him. Altough it have various limitations but it's still better than nothing.
With this modification Soulless basically made him a magical Superman, if there is one in DC. Basically refined mode is just similar to magic. One needs to understand the spell related knowledge to perform it, very similar to his case.m
Suddenly Nova bansihed the absurd thought that came into his mind. Which was, after gaining magical knowledge from other worlds, he will go to Kamar Taj and shout: Ancient One, I am here to make a deal.
That lady is clearly very dangerous, he isn't going to meet her before he become god and have stepped into heavenly father realm.
Shaking his head, Nova looked at the second ability, he awakened Soul-Sight Resonance. He mentally willed and activated this ability.
The world shimmered for a split second, the edges of objects, walls, even the air itself taking on a faint latticework pattern in his mind's eye. Weak points. Hidden threads. Energy flows. He could see how things connected, how forces moved through the world. Like reality itself was a web, and for the first time, he could glimpse the strands.
Suddenly he felt headache rising and felt his mental energy decrease at alarming rate. Nova immediately deactivated the ability. Ok this ability require high mental energy.
Nova's grin returned, sharper now. He can work with this. Afterall his mental energy is constantly being recovered by hsi version of Superman ability. Overtime his mental energy is rise so high that he can use this ability 24x7.
And finally — Legacy Unbinding. That one made his stomach flip. It wasn't just for him. It wasn't just another tool in his kit. It was a catalyst, a trigger for other people's potential. He could unlock abilities, push second awakenings, force evolutions.
He let out a slow, amused breath. Now that's dangerous. Not just for me him but for everyone else.
Because in a world where powers decided survival, the ability to shape someone else's growth was the kind of thing that could topple empires or build new ones.
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