"Alright, today you learn about your strength. Now that you've broken your cap and absorbed an Heir Cript like myself, you'll find you have way more abilities and powers than you did prior." Cript stated.
“Yes, I have noticed the extra…massive amount of power.” I nodded. “So how strong am I?”
"With everything you have now you should be at my level, but only one way to tell for sure." Cript said. Before I could ask, they sucker punched me. I didn't go flying, or get knocked out. It just hurt, but only shortly as I noticed my HP return to full from the fair amount of damage that did.
“Ow…” I grumbled. “That still hurt.”
"But you survived it." Cript pointed out. "That attack was just half my full strength. Enough physical strength to punch most other beings into atoms or through the next hundred dimensions. Yet you took it like it was just an average punch."
“Yeah…I did take it pretty well.”
"Exactly. Now you try, only half physical strength now." Cript said, leaving themselves wide open.
“Alright…” I said while swinging my fist at Cript with what I thought was half physical strength.
I hit them in their chest. The impact knocked him down as he coughed some. "Ah, crap. That was more than half, and damn I forgot what actual pain felt like." He said, getting himself back up.
“Sorry, I thought that was half power.” I said nervously.
"That was probably more like seventy, eighty percent." He said, taking a deep breath. "Which for Reference if you hit anyone with that aside from me, they'd be not only beyond dead, but also the next… fifty dimensions would have been obliterated."
I looked at my hand… and that's just pure physical strength…
“Uh…huh…” I started worriedly. “That’s….not concerning at all…”
"And now you know why I never go full power at anything." Cript stated. "and now, neither can you unless you wanna accidentally commit a multi dimensional genocide from a sneeze."
“I’d rather not thank you very much.” I said carefully.
"So, you have to learn to cap yourself out. And that can be the tricky part."
“Well, I’ve already been trying to cap myself for the most part…” I started. “But…looks like that’s not gonna cut it this time.”
"Yeah. Luckily, I invented a helpful cheat." Cript said, walking up to me and taking the arm with my assistant. "After my power reached a point where self restraint kinda went out the window, I invented a special app for my Assistant that actually hacked into my Code to regulate my power levels. After you got that extra info from your deal with Vincent I was even able to vastly Improve it."
“Oh? How so?” I inquired.
"It helped me improve the level percentage. I was also able to make it all mentally controlled. That way I can adjust them all with a thought in combat."
“Perfect.” I nodded. “So hey, weird question, do you have a Time Walker following you around that hates you a lot and is there for when you go Mad?”
"Mad, evil and when I get board." Cript stated. "When Tiara, Heart's kid, founded the Time Walkers, Pecator and I made her promise to train some special time walkers to kill us in a worst case scenario. And she did."
“But I’m still not sure if that’s…fully the case because of how…badly I just don’t actually go full out the more I think about it.” I said honestly. “Seriously, how many times have I been told I’ve gimped myself in fights?”
"Tell me, why don't you go all out?" Cript asked as he was working on my Assistant.
“Because…” I sighed. “I’m scared that if I do go all out, many bad thing’s will happen. I’ll destroy everything around us, the power will go to my head and I’ll get sloppy and predictable…or if you think about it…I’ve always had to fight on the backfoot no matter how strong I got, so I always had to play it more tactical, or at least use a combination of other things to make myself stronger…” I explained carefully.
"Welcome to my life. I'll get T-shirts made later."
“I mean, that was way before I became you first off, but now…it’s even more worrying.” I said nervously.
"Well, in any case when using this I find for day to day stuff, keeping it on the low side for that and upping it when or if the need arises."
“Fair enough.” I nodded. “Thankfully it can change at any moment at my discretion.”
"Yeah. So, this aside it will be fairly easy for you to regulate your powers, strengths and such. After you get the hang of it there's not much else to teach you. You already finished the trial and with this it will be easier for you to keep your powers in check."
“Which will be fantastic.” I nodded. “Cause I’d rather not accidentally blow up a continent trying to get milk or something.”
"Heh. So, after this what do you wanna do?"
“Hmm…what is there to do?” I wondered, “Cause there’s a whole lotta things to do still…and I kinda expected my training to be going on a little longer…oh, actually I just thought of something.” I started. “About those Hunter Shadow’s…you do know that if one of them survives long enough that’s gonna be a major problem right?”
"That's the idea." Cript admitted. I suddenly felt like control over my body just… extended. "There, all set."
“Whoa…” I started, clenching my fists lightly. “That feels different.”
"Yeah, you'll get used to that. Now, mind blinking a few times?" I did, suddenly seeing countless bars, each one corresponding to an element, magic, power, even my weapons and abilities were all on display in my view.
“Wow…” I said. “That’s quite a bit of stuff on display.”
"You're in the Master Control Menu. All your everything is there. From Admin stuff to basic stuff. Now you can Control what you want them all to be at. I typically just put all combat stuff to .5."
“Alrighty then.” I nodded. “Thank you Cript…but again, about the Hunter Shadow’s being a massive logistical nightmare if left unattended…”
"Yes I believe I stated that was the point."
“And that’s not much of an answer when they could most likely become unstoppable if given enough time…which considering they’re might be countless numbers of them…it might become an even bigger problem.”
"And?"
“So…you just let loose something that could do terrible things and just…left it to whoever else had to deal with it?”
"I believe that was obvious, yes."
I sighed, rubbing my temple lightly. “Just throwing caution to the wind on that one I suppose…”
"Well that's part of the plan."
"And there will be people to stop this obvious mess?" I inquired.
"Duh."
"Hopefully this hits the fan after I retire…" I grumbled.