Ring And The Sword In The...? Chp 39

#TIMESKIP 3 DAYS#

Jean and I were at the fortress practicing with our powers. I was trying to teach Jean how to make a telekinetic force field around herself.

"This is too difficult your bio-electric aura is bullsh#t" Jean complained.

"It definitely is," I agreed with her since I discovered that it was more or less related to telekinesis. I was hoping that with enough practice Jean would be able to replicate it.

This brings me to my next point I do it subconsciously and it gets stronger on its own. When I focused on it even more my bio-electric aura becomes noticeable almost ethereal in how it looked.

Afterward, it would slowly go back into me and get stronger. Kryptonians are bullsh#t that's for sure. The disadvantage was that it more or less took a decent amount of energy from my reserves. I went above the clouds to recover faster but still, I shouldn't do it so often.

I looked at Jean as she tried again to make the shield and she finally succeeded and began trying to make it into a subconscious action. Think of the brain as a supercomputer she is essentially making a program that would generate the field around her and power it up subconsciously.

"You did it, Jean I can sense it around you now although you may want to lower the power you are putting in," I said the last part noticing she was sweating a lot more and breathing heavily.

"My energy reserves are not enough yet without drawing energy from the Pheonix Force," She said tiredly.

I went over to help as she had fallen on her knees due to the effort.

"It's ok Jean you will get stronger on your own the more you practice," I told her trying to convey it was all right. From what I was able to sense she would probably be able to resist punches or kicks at most. No bullets or anything sharp yet but she will get there.

I noticed that she was extremely exhausted so I picked her and carried her over to our room in the fortress it was nothing fancy or anything but very simple with a bed and desk and a supercomputer nothing fancy.

I placed her on the bed as she had fallen asleep on the way here and kissed her softly on the forehead. It was Saturday so she could rest before we went back to school.

I went over to my lab to check the progress on the ship and how the Makluan ring worked.

The progress of the ship was going nicely since now I could supply sunstone crystals from my own magic. So that was covered at least a bit.

The Makluan ring was the green one from Iron Man Armored Adventures. From what I remembered it could emit impact beams and when powered up by some of the other rings it created blasts that could rival the X-man Cyclops' strongest eye beams. But without other rings, it could hopefully damage steel skin-level metals.

I was scanning them with my microscopic vision and it was amazing. So many intricate details of the technology that it seemed to rival some Kryptonian technology in its complexity. When I used magic to scan it, I could sense a high amount of power that seemed linked to this ring alone although I could notice that it wasn't capable of containing it.

("Maybe that is why the rings need each other to use their full power ") I grabbed the ring and put it on I could immediately sense the ring closing its power to prevent me from using it.

I could tell that it used a sort of biometric scanner to search for the dragon seed or Makluan DNA. As I did I could feel some sort of suppressor being lifted, I destroyed the test that was most likely the case.

I wanted to laugh when I noticed that the scanner wasn't exactly a part of itself so I used my telekinesis to break the scanner and get the pieces out.

No wonder Doctor Doom was able to use the ninth ring, he removed the scanner. The best part of it is that I sensed that it counted as an unaffiliated artifact aside from the scanner everyone else could use it if they got their hands on it.

What this meant was that there is no specific owner of the ring. Think of the cloak of levitation that Doctor Strange has in multiple universes. The ring is an artifact with no owner or actual requirement to use I was going to claim it as mine though but I was a bit sad that I wouldn't be able to bind it to me like I did Zenith. They weren't designed or forged like my weapon was they were just tools, powerful tools but still tools.

(The scanner must have been a new addition that was added when they were brought to Earth and given to the original Mandarin) I thought as I focused on the ring and made it make the Mandarin armor around me. It looked like the one in the show but it had a few differences that made it easier to move.

I was wearing a skin suit before and the armor formed around it I could see it being formed around me the ring was somehow making it from the molecules in the air. I remembered the orange ring and it was capable of altering matter.

I was going to guess that it is metal from the Makluans home planet as it was new to me but from what I could see it was a bit stronger than iron. (Maybe the rings are still connected in some way)

I took off one of the gauntlets and tried to squish one of the claws and to my disappointment, it bent easily under my strength.

(This is so bad) I thought disappointed in the armor itself. (Maybe I could somehow add new materials and enhance them possibly being able to bind them to me to take characteristics from me like my adaptation. Either way, this is disappointing maybe it can get stronger with some other rings.)

I was beginning to remember that the original Mandarin in the Armored Adventures show wasn't really evil his descendants were.

(That is why he hid the rest of the rings and left the purple one to one of them.) I thought. I tried to test if it could handle magic and to my surprise, the armor seemed more than capable of taking the energy in.

It wasn't Uru that was for sure since I could see some of the technology in the armor making it capable of taking in as much magic as it could. I had already made the gauntlet reform in my arm.

That saves some time at least. I made the armor disappear when a thought occurred of how I could make it stronger. I made the armor disappear and took it off me gently.

A few moments later I was looking at the disassembled armor. I was looking at everything when I had a moment of clarity with all of my knowledge I began to see that the armor was incredibly modifiable.

It was so modifiable that I would possibly be able to add new materials to it and hopefully make it better if not I will probably not use it. Although I was going to test it out later to see if my aura made it better. When I remembered my visit to Kamar-Taj one day.

I was just wandering around Kamar-Taj one day when I came across a certain sword and its scabbard.

Excalibur

I didn't even bother to try to lift it when I saw the magical etchings on the blade that gave it its powers.

Potency: The sword has the ability to kill anyone including gods, immortals, and spirits.

Healing: The sword has the ability to heal auras.

Durability: The sword was virtually indestructible. However, there are at least two alleged shards of Excalibur implying that it can be damaged and pieces may be removed.

Invincibility: When armed with the sword, the user becomes undefeatable. Invulnerability Excalibur's Scabbard known as Avalon offers invulnerability to its holder, making them incapable of being wounded or of receiving injury.

Magic Detection: Excalibur can imbue its user with the ability to sense magic around them

I had asked the Ancient One if she could tell me about the enchantments and how to replicate them.

#FLASHBACK#

"No," said the Ancient One simply

"Why not," I asked since when we learned that Thanos was learning magic we began training more. Some of the magic she trained on was amazing but dangerous.

"Your thirst for power is enough to deal with on its own and that worries me," She said in an emotionless voice as she drank some tea.

"You know why I have to get stronger Thanos is just going to be the tip of the iceberg," I responded stupidly.

#FLASHBACK END#

I was a bit dumb in how I responded.

I explained everything I know about Knull she asked to see memories of him. I made some memories of him decapitating a celestial with ease. She immediately agreed after she saw him killing the celestial.

She knew about the Necrosword since it killed Neptune and a few other gods on earth. But she believed that the sword was made by Gorr.

Afterward, she told me how the enchantments were made and I realized I was going to have to wait till I got my hands on some Uru. The flames of creation made me realize just how powerful Excalibur really was.

(It could rival the Necrosword if it was more like a symbiote) I thought

The enchantments and Excalibur were made and empowered by the flame of creation or rather the flame of a celestial. It turns out that both the Necrosword and Excalibur could kill anything when dealt a fatal blow. Avalon was just more of an extension of Excalibur to help prevent self-injury.

I know I could surpass the power of both of those weapons.

As it turns out I have a lot more to do I have to wait to get my hands on some Uru. It was time to pay a visit to a corpse...

The corpse of a dead celestial on earth...