I have Nine Lives

Chapter 146: Simulation battles

As an apex predator, Felix had quite the good battle instincts. Cats were normally very good hunters in the wild. But the domestication and the passing time made them lose that edge as they transformed into fluffy cute rolling balls of blobs. They were just like dough.

Felix was like that as well, he had a nice life on earth as Tsuru took care of him, but after he came to this world, things changed.

Ever since he became hungry and food wasn't near him, the instinct to hunt awakened and evolved inside him.

As he gained intelligence, things took a turn for strangeness. He couldn't adapt to society really easily, and he looked at everyone as if they were not beings.

He was also selfish and did whatever he needed to survive.

He was a special being, but he had no goal.

He was like a lonely boat drafting on the stormy sea all by itself.

He was a person with friends behind his back, but he didn't acknowledge them.

The people that helped him... He did help them back because he wasn't a total dick.

He wasn't a bad person nor a good person.

All of these traits made him who he was... all of these traits were the things that gave him his ability to devour and evolve.

From a normal cat to a superpowered one, through thick and thin, he had reached space.

Felix didn't know how others perceived him. And even if he did, he wouldn't care much.

This is what made him, him.

All of these things went through his head the moment his dulled edge grew sharp again.

The unknown assailants slowly became clear in Felix's eyes.

They were a biped race of lobster-looking humanoids with thick carapaces and long mustaches.

They had fingers just like humans, but theirs were sharp and elongated, and the mentioned fingers were also the weapons they were using to decapitate Felix's current allies.

Things weren't that good around the battlefield after the formation of the troops was broken through by the enemies.

But this was where Felix had to prove himself.

If something like this happened during the real battles, he wouldn't be able to forgive himself.

He had a few people- that he started to care about, and the fall of the planet would surely not be what they wanted.

And he liked the planet as well, he had traveled through quite a bit of the place, and he didn't want it to fall to someone else's hands or be destroyed.

Felix concentrated as his new aura engulfed his body, a green-mist-like vapor started to grow out of Felix's body, and then it covered him like armor.

The crustacean enemies weren't idle while he did that. They did try to kill him just like they did his comrade.

But Felix's defenses were extremely high, and the simulation enemies weren't of that high quality. The simulated enemies were not strong as this was Felix's first time. Fighting in this space environment, so Vangar started him at a lower difficulty.

Felix ignored all of the attacks, which made the crustacean enemies angry, and they started attacking his relatively weaker comrades.

Felix knew what to do as his body was engulfed in lightning. He had activated his lightning armor!

The armor engulfed his whole body as it took a different colored tinge than before. Now it became leafy green.

There were some changes to the armor as some sparks appeared in it, and as they started to light up, Felix's body started to get lighter and lighter.

He was floating in the first place as the special armor helped him do it.

But now, he was flying by himself as the sparks had triggered something in the surrounding energy giving him the ability of controlled flight.

His ears buzzed as he flew and slain the crustacean menaces trying to do his best in this simulation.

He knew that he had a long way ahead of him, considering the invaders were stronger than the human civilization as a whole.

But they believed in his potential to save the planet.

Felix's abilities were constantly increasing as he slew those crustacean beings and pushed them back, outside of his comrade's formation.

He was getting more and more used to the 0 gravity and the flying aspect of the space battle.

His talent and adaptive capabilities were very strong.

The lobsters realized that he was the biggest problem on the battlefield. So they starting focusing on him.

However, their attempts at killing Felix failed time after time.

Felix's body flickered across the battlefield, not even after-images were left behind, and no one could see him properly. His speed had evolved, reaching a spot that was never touched before by him.

Combined with his stealth techniques and breathing techniques, he was pretty much unstoppable on this type of battlefield.

Felix's claws moved swiftly across the beefy carapaced necks of the crustaceous beings, easily tearing through their tough natural armor and making their heads fly into the endless space surrounding them.

No matter how hard the lobsters focused on our cat, they never got- to even damage him.

They were strong but also rather slow and dumb.

Felix's body was being engulfed in lighting continuously as he absorbed the energy from space.

Space, just like all other planes of existence, was filled with a type of energy.

This type of energy was what the humans were storing in their Rubix cubes for cleansing and improvement.

Normally the space energy wasn't useful for absorption directly as it was infested by quite a lot of other contradicting energies.

The energy in space came from the multitude of planets that existed in the universe.

This energy mixed with other types of spatial energy was toxic and deadly to those that absorbed it directly. Without it being filtered with the use of some special technology.

What Felix was doing now was akin to a thirsty person drinking poison. However, he didn't know that.

He still felt high on the feeling of flight and power as he decimated all the enemies that stood in front of him and saving the virtual comrades at the same time.

Felix's powers didn't last forever as he suddenly felt dizzy and queasy. His stomach retched automatically for him as he vomited on the lobster in front of him, who was trying to cut his head off.

The lobster immediately became disgusted with Felix's actions, but he continued to advance along with some of his people who were coming from behind. Trying to flank Felix and hit him from two sides at the same time, just like they did before.

Felix didn't feel so well, and he took a few hits that could have been easily dodged in a normal situation.

His power was waning fast as his constant heartbeat started to slow down, he knew this was a simulation, but he still felt rather annoyed at his failure.

He didn't know the energy he was absorbing was poisonous. Because at first glance it looked ready to use, and he was also used to absorbing the surrounding hex energy for his techniques, regardless of where he was.

This time he hit a hard place as he realized that his habit of absorbing energy was bad, but if he didn't absorb the energy, he would only have his hard body to rely on, his breathing techniques would be cut off due to the lack of energy, and his battle power would drop by a lot.

His physical body was strong, very strong, but it was still not enough if he couldn't use any type of energy to support it. Naturally, the body was strengthened so it could hold more energy of higher quality. The stronger the body, the better and stronger the energy it could hold would be.

Felix was dying slowly as the lobsters encircled him and tried to cut his head off and transform him into mincemeat.

However, no matter how hard they tried. They weren't able to do anything to his physical body.

Even though his body wasn't protected by energy at the moment, it was still too hard for these low-level simulated foreign warriors.

Felix slowly succumbed to the feeling of death as he closed his eyes and realized he was back on the leather chair as Vangar was also taking down the helmet from his head.

Vangar nodded, seeing that he was already awake and had no troubles from the looks of it.

Trainees would normally panic after they woke up from their first simulated death, but Felix had already experienced this thing in a real environment. Multiple times.

Felix cracked his neck as he felt it was a bit sore and asked:

"How much time had I been in there?"

Vangar took out a pocket watch from his armor and looked at it before responding:

"Around 5 hours and 36 minutes, pretty good for your first try, and you only lost because you absorbed the infested spacial energy, I guess I should have warned you about that. I kinda forgot you don't have your own hex links in your body, and you have to rely on the surrounding hex energy."

"But that's where the cube I gave you comes in."

Vangar took another cube from his armor and started to explain to Felix how to use it properly. Instead of waiting for it to absorb energy passively. It could also be used to absorb the hex energy from the air as it was both a battery and a supporting tool in war, and it could act as both.