Chapter 2 Meeting the Team

Demigra POV

"Yesterday, I said yes to being a hero. Batman even took his time immediately after I said yes to help me set up my permanent room at the base. Today is my first day here as so far I was bored as fuck," Demigra says.

I went to my bookshelf in my room and began reading a book about martial arts.

[Skill Book Fisticuffs Mastery was found. Would you like to learn the skill {Yes}/{No}]

"No, wait, what if the book disappears just like in "The Gamer "WebToon. I need to order a copy of these books," Demigra says.

As the skill window faded, I put the book into my inventory. I walk out of my room to the commons area near the couch and TV. I was ready to walk to the kitchen until someone suddenly grabbed my throat.

[-10 hp]

"Who are you?!"

I look down to see an angry Superboy glaring at me. I grab his hand and pry it from my neck.

"I am Demigra, and I live here like you do. Damn, Batman should have at least told the current residents of this place." Demigra says cause Superboy to calm down slightly but not relax.

"How do I know you're not lying?!!" Superboy yells again.

"Contact Batman because he is the only person I talked to," Demigra said calmly.

He lets go of me.

"Fine, follow me, don't go out of my sight or try to sneak away," Superboy growls.

"Don't give me orders, little boy. I'll follow you but keep being rude to me, and I will give you a reason to shout about," Demigra said, and Superboy growled in anger.

I follow close behind while trying to make my steps quiet so I would make a sound. After ten minutes of walking, we reached the Zeta tube room and accessed the coms system. I see a transparent window pop up.

[Passive Stealth lvl1/100 gained Description: Stop people with lower stealth skills from tracking you and prevent people with lower detection from noticing you]

"Yes, I can gain a new skill by doing a repeated action." Demigra thought to himself.

"Superboy to Batman. Is the guy name Demigra supposed to be here?" Superboy asks.

"Yes, he is staying there as a permanent resident like you," Batman answered.

[+2 Lvl Stealth]

I hear him ask other questions, so I tune him out and start to look at my stats.

[Name Demigra Cyroblood

Lvl. 1 (Exp to 2=100]

Race: Demon (Subspecies Dragonewt)

Age: 15

Health:10/400 Regen 2 per min

Mana: 200/200 Regen 2 per min ( All skills require mana except for passive skill)

Str:10

Dex:10

End:20

Int:10

Wis:10

Cha:10

Stat points: 0

Passive:

Oxygen not required: As a Demon, he doesn't need air to breathe, talk, or exist

Disease Prevention: As a Demon, he is immune to all diseases.

Gamer Mind: Protects against all harmful or not consented mental charges, attacks, or communication attempts. Also, keep emotions at bay.

Gamer Body: No injuries appear on your body. They merely take away health. After sleeping, all wounds and mana are entirely healed. Poisons also act on game rules and time limits (Which doesn't prevent you from dying from poison)

Skills:

Physical resistance: lvl.1/100

Fear manipulation

1-15: The user can evoke and increase fear and horror in others, causing the target's brain to release fear-inducing chemicals. The target's perception is altered, causing them to see their environment as ominous and the user as dark and foreboding, or even a monster. Users can sense the presence of fear in people, animals, and other creatures. They can sense the company of others by sensing their fear.

16-25: The user can fully or partially absorb fear while removing it from the source into their body and use it in various ways, gaining some form of advantage, either by enhancing themselves, gaining the drained power, using it as a power source, etc., either temporarily or permanently. Targets of the draining become calm.

26-50: The user can generate an aura of fear that can amplify/induce terror on beings inside their atmosphere. It can augment the fears in others, increasing the targets' fears, potentially boosting them to the point that the victim dies of fright, usually a heart attack.

51-75:The user can discern and instantly understand the greatest fears of other beings. They can genuinely observe the most hidden of fears within an opponent and use those fears to their advantage.

76-100: The user can bring the fears of their own and the fears of others to life. The creatures created will gain a life of their own or possibly attack the user precisely due to their fear of them. They could make fears as scary as monsters to something silly such as clowns.

Mana Manipulation: Lvl 1/100

Users can create, shape, and manipulate mana, a magical form of life-force energy, usually the spiritual fuel behind the magic.

Wing Manifestation: Lvl 1/100

The user has or can manifest wings that grow or are attached to the body allowing flight.

Stealth: Lvl 3/100

Stop people with lower stealth skills from tracking you and prevents people with lower detection from noticing you]

After 10 minutes close my stat window, and I see Superboy coming into my field of vision. He looks at me with a stoic look.

"Sorry," Superboy says before walking away.

I nod, walk back to the kitchen, and get some food. After that, I begin to leave after eating and go to my room. Once I get there, I take out the martial arts book from my inventory, read it, and ignore the window. Hours later, I after reading the book till the end. I look to my left and see something new.

[Fisticuffs mastery Lvl 1/100 gained due to the user reading the whole book]

"Okay, that is cool but more time-consuming than just learning it directly from the gamer ability," Demigra thought.

Five days have passed since I met Superboy. In those five days, I could get all of my skills except for fear manipulation up to level 5. I leave my room, activating Stealth passively as I watch Superboy begin walking towards the central area. I begin to follow him because Batman told me to stand off until Red Tornado introduces me to them. I kept my Mana presence hidden and made my step so quiet you could hear a thing. I made it to the corner and began listening in since my race is a demon, and I can hear them from afar.

[+4 Stealth] I also learned that eavesdropping and hiding my mana presence help level the skill. I then focus on the group Batman plans to introduce me to.

"You all have a new teammate, and he has already been introduced to Superboy. His name is Demigra." Red Tornado says.

I walk towards them and pop-ups behind Superboy.

"Hello there, Team. I hope you are all well," Demigra says, scaring Superboy from how close he was.

I dodge the reflexive punch from Superboy. I look at my teammates and see their look of surprise.

"Take the time to get to know Demigra and bond as a team. Have a tour of the base," Red Tornado says.

"This team is not a social club." The blond boy says.

"No, but I am told that social interaction is an essential team-building excise. Perhaps you can keep busy by familiarizing yourself with the cave.

Red Tornado then went to his room in the ceiling. I look at the Team as I see the green skin girl with red hair approached me.

"Hi, I'm one of your new teammates, Miss Martian." Miss Martian says.

"Nice to meet you. I'm Demigra, as you have heard." Demigra says with a friendly smile.

"Keep busy," red hair boy says with an annoyed tone.

I tune them out, seeing that they are going on a rant. I was so deep in my head that I felt someone grab my hand I looked to see that it was Superboy. He was dragging me with the group.

"May I ask why you are grabbing my arm. Superboy?" Demigra ask.

"You weren't following us for our Team Bonding tour, so I grabbed your hand and began dragging you with us," Superboy answered.

"Alright, then lead the Superboy," Demigra says.

I let myself get dragged as I hear Miss Martian explain the places of our tour. They were explaining how we are hiding in plain sight. I begin to smell something burning. I hear Superboy sniff the air twice.

"I smell smoke," Superboy says.

"My cookies," Miss Martian gasps and then flies down the hallway. We all follow behind her to see her pulling out the cookies with her powers and setting them down on the counter.

"I was trying Grammy Jones' recipe from episode 17 of- Never mind." Miss Martian says after giving out an awkward joke.

"I bet they would have tasted great, and besides, he doesn't seem to mind," glasses say while pointing at the red-haired boy.

I looked at him to see that he was scarfing down the burnt cookies. He begins to feel the stares of all of us and looks at us.

"I have a serious metabolism." red hair boy says weakly.

"I'll make more?" Miss Martian asks in an unsure tone.

"It was sweet of you to make any," Blondie said.

"Thanks, Aqualad," Miss Martian says with a slight nod.

"We're off duty. Call me Kaldur'ahm. Actually, my friends call me Kaldur," Aqualad says.

"I'm Wally. See? I trust you with my secret ID, unlike Mr. Dark Glasses. Batman forbade Robin from telling anyone his real name." Red hair boy says, causing shade boy to looking at him annoyed.

"Mine's no secret. It's M'gann M'orzz But you can call me Megan. It's an Earth name, I'm on Eartth now" Miss Martian says.

Everyone looks at me to introduce myself.

"I'm Demigra. That is all" Demigra say bluntly.

I walk to the fridge and pull out a drink. Before looking at them without a care in the world.