As rain drops heavily, he looked at the corpse in front of him. His breathing slowly becomes heavier by the second. However, he quickly managed to regain his breath and walked over.

  'Thank god it was a bluff' He sighed.

  He knew it was a bluff that he had a bomb in him since he could detect it. The reason why he stalled for time was to disable the tracker in his ears. If what the crusher said was true then he was doomed to die. He couldn't last long enough to disable a bomb since it would be deep inside his body. As for how the gun moved on its own, he turned on the manual control instead of the AI one and use his Versile to control it. It took a while to actually move it though.

  He tried to check his ears with his hand. Unfortunately, due to the crusher's punch, his right arm was broken and his legs were hurting like hell. Even in this condition, he managed to take out something out of his ears. It was a small earbud.

  He put it in his pockets and took one last look before leaving.

  He had underestimated the power of an Uncoiled since he thought he could get a surprise attack which was wrong and nearly costed him his life.

  'Being an Uncoiled sounds nice'

  ***

  Ring ring

  As an alarm went off, Julo jumped out of bed with joy and quickly did all of his daily routine.

  Today was the day he was going to become an Uncoiled. In fact, he was suppose to be an Uncoiled the day he completed the mission which was 4 days ago. However, the injuries he suffered were too much for his body to handle and due to this he had to rest for a few days before becoming an Uncoiled.

  As he walked into the building and entered the living room, he saw Gino sitting on the couch watching something on the tv.

  Gino decided to take a small break while he was advancing to Uncoiled. Of course, he was here if anything went south.

  "You ready?" Gino said to Julo while reading a document about Julo's versile. He had to know what type Julo's versile is in order to make sure he gets the most out of it.

  "Yup" He replied instantly.

  "Alright. Wait for a second"

  Gino left and came back into the room with a glass like object in his hand. There were a few paths carved onto the glass like a subway pathways. However, the paths were like an Uncoiled versile. It was used for Coiled to understand how an Uncoiled's versile works which was important for Coiled to become an Uncoiled by themselves.

  A normal person couldn't become an Uncoiled instantly if they used a finder since it only makes them understand how versile works more. The information on how versile works could only be explained but words were not enough therefore Uncoiled that didn't use paths finder had to make them to enhanced the process of becoming an Uncoiled.

  Despite its long history, there haven't been a single paths finder for levels above Coiled, only drugs. The reason being, each versile were unique and couldn't really be replicated due to the fact that it would only cause a reaction in the body that can cause death. Sure, a similar Uncoiled versile could use a finder that could help them understand versile better but trying to reshape their versile's paths with the knowledge of the finder is too risky to be reliable.

  Gino handed the finder to Julo.

  "Use your ability while holding this"

  After looking at it for a while, Julo nodded and used his versile.

  His mind suddenly filled to the brim with knowledge and his body instantly tried to reshape the pathways.

  However, things didn't go exactly as planned.

  He suddenly felt a feeling of helplessness and the atmosphere around him seemed to froze.

  A eye that had the color of the void appeared in front of him. It looked around, moving at a unhuman speed until it finally locked onto Julo.

  Julo's vision blurred, his mind was filled with the feeling of dread. Every single, he stared at the eye, he seemed to get closer to it.

  Julo looked at Gino to signal for help, however, he seemed to be frozen in time. stuck in one place. Julo quickly looked around in despair, everything was frozen. To the rain outside, the clock and everything.

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  The eye suddenly enlarged.

  Julo tried to escape but it was useless. His legs were not moving.

  No.

  It wasn't that his legs were moving, it was that his leg were gone. Decayed to dust. Even the bone decayed.

  Slowly his hand decayed, his chest decayed and finally his entire body was dust.

  A flower appeared in the dust and seemingly completely unrelated grew.

  From a little flower to plants were growing all over the dust. It grew in height and size.

  The plants reshaped itself and turned into Julo. A exact copy.

  It was then time resumed and Julo came back to his sense.

  Unlike before, he could remember what happened, albeit only to the extent of when he got turned into dust.

  The finder were still in his hand and his chest was feeling heavy.

  Just as he was about to say something he coughed blood.

  A lot of blood.

  Gino quickly noticed this and ran out of the room and came back with a different finder in hand.

  "Gi-Gino." Just as he was about to finish the sentence he coughed even more blood.

  "Don't talk" Gino said with urgency and put the finder in Julo's hand

  Julo was calm enough to know that he wanted him to use his versile.

  So, he used his versile to activate the finder. However, this time, it went smoothly unlike last time. He stopped coughing blood and fell onto his knee.

  The pain in his chest, slowly faded away as his wounds started to speed up before regenerating fully as if the wound was never there in the first place.

  Using Gino as support, he managed to stand up before resting his tired body on the couch.

  "Congrats"

  "Stay here and don't go anywhere. You'll unconsciously use your Uncoiled versile in the first day of becoming an Uncoiled."

  Julo sighed. He really wanted to go home and just sleep since he got here earlier than usual but it looks like he couldn't do that.

  "Alright"

  As Gino left the room, Julo stared at the rain and wondered about what happened.

  'This is problematic' It truly is. He didn't cough blood because it was simply incompatible with the finder he was using.

  No.

  It was because he tried to tell Gino about the eye. However, he couldn't tell him that before collapsing on the floor. He tried telling him twice but it ended with him coughing blood.

  Normally, he wouldn't connect both of these events and figure out the cause. However, not only was he coughing blood everytime he tried to tell but he was also getting his versile damaged.

  Given the fact that he just experienced something unholy, he could quickly connect the dots.

  'I'm scared' He thought.

  'Lucky, I'm an Uncoiled now' He grinned.

  He tried to test his power by using it but he couldn't use it at all.

  Remembering Gino's words, he thought it was probably because of the unconscious Versile usage that made it unusable.

  He learned a new ability today after becoming an Uncoiled. Which was quite common. He didn't really know what it did other than how to use it and few more things about his waves and electronic.

  His new ability was quite simple actually. It was the power to distort.

  He didn't actually know how it distort but from what he knew it would be pretty powerful if he actually thinks about how he will use it.

  He shook his head and decided to think about these things after the first day.

  He went up to the coffee machine. Excited to actually drink it without burning his lips.

  He quickly went to making the coffee and waited.

  After it was done, he went up to it brought it to his lips. His hand trembled slightly.

  He tried to take a sip.

  It didn't enter his mouth.

  He opened his eyes in confusion to look at the cup only to see it frozen.

  'What'

  It didn't make sense, the machine was suppose to make the coffee way above 100° but it was frozen.

  He touched the ice in the cup with his hand before quickly retrieving his hand in surprised.

  It burned him a little.

  Which really didn't make sense but Julo had stop questioning logic in the department a while ago.

  The ice melted instantly when he touched it.

  However, instead of staying as a liquid, it quickly evaporated.

  Julo was, of course, dumfounded by the situation. He had just become an Uncoiled and just gained the power to drink the coffee only for it to run away from him.

  He looked up at the vapors when it reformed as a liquid and fell onto his face.

  Julo was lucky quick to react to shake his head to get rid of the liquids. Unfortunately, he should've dodge it since it has already caused him a lot pains.

  He didn't have burns anymore because the body was enhanced by becoming an Uncoiled but it still hurts like hell.

  'Yeah I think I found the answer to how my Versile distort things'

  ***

  "Was it smooth?"

  "Well, I guess you can say that"

  Two people were in a call. These two were Gino and Winston, of course.

  Gino quickly explained what happened to Winston.

  "Didn't know he was chaotic person."

  There were a lot of paths finder. However, all of them use one system that determines what is good for them.

  The system was based finder.

  If a person wanted a strength based finder with no safety then they could buy it and use it and so on.

  There were a few based types but the most used one are strength based, defense based, speed based and stealth based.

  As the names suggested it gives a power up in one type.

  The finder Gino used on Julo was originally going to be the jack of all trades finder. With safety being the main thing.

  However, that didn't seem to work, so he had to use a versile based with no safety at all to quickly advance him to Uncoiled to give his versile's paths a power up in order for it to quickly repair itself.

  As for how he knew it was the versile that was being damaged. His uncoiled Versile allowed him to suppress other Versile like abilities and that came with a unique side effect of sensing Versation and Pathways better than anyone.

  "Alright, that's all I wanted to ask you"

  "Oh yeah I almost forgot about the protoco-" He hanged up.

  ***

  Energy formed before destroying itself in its presence. The shape of it wasn't fixed nor could it be described. The pathways slowly circled around him as it created everything in its power to try to escape.

  ...

  In a instant, everything stopped as a eye appeared in the general middle of the being, looking at the beloved world of them.

  "What?" Mumbling confusingly, it looked at the world even more, seemingly trying to find a person or something.

  "This doesn't make sense?" The voice was said in a language of nothing and everything. Everything it said could only be understood and misunderstood at the same time.

  Its 'eye' shaken. The energy forming it collapsed as the pathways around it, exploded into thin dust and fog.

  It has decided to not interfere.