Systematic Hunter - Chapter 4.1 (Patreon)

Electro magnetism was one of the building blocks of the universe itself. It was one of the most important things that truly existed, and one of the founding primal forces of reality.

At a first glance, without knowing just how the properties of electricity and lightning could be manipulated Daiki's semblance was incredibly powerful, but simple and straight to the point.

That could not be farther from the truth.

It was only in the hands of someone that actually knew how physics worked, that his semblance could show its true power.

The most basic of all-

Being the interaction between positive and negative charges.

"…This is incredible." Daiki couldn't help but grin massively, taking in just what he had achieved. It had taken an entire night of practice after getting his training in, but by the next morning after he'd taken Ruby out on their date and revealed the secret of her eyes to her-

He found himself standing upside down in his home workout room.

Standing on the ceiling.

By applying a negative charge to something with his semblance, and then giving himself a positive charge through it, he could attract himself to said objects, in this case, it would allow him to stand basically on any surface, in any direction even upside down like this.

With this he could even walk up the side of a mountain if he so desired, hell with enough application he could possibly even walk across water, maybe even fly.

Though, that was something that would take a while, if not to work out, then because of the sheer amount of charge he'd have to be capable of producing, he'd never be able to keep it up for any period of time with the current reserves of aura he had.

'I'd probably have an easier time making a railgun or something.' Daiki snorted to himself as he cut off the charge of his semblance and fell to the ground, flipping over to land on his feet.

Breakfast time? He idly wondered.

He'd been up all night working on training with his semblance and had finally found the perfect balance on it to split it between positive and negative charges.

He wasn't all that tired though, the excitement of his accomplishment had washed away any of the building up fatigue.

"Yeah, breakfast it is." Daiki hummed, leaving his work out room behind and making his way to the kitchen.

Besides, he had quite a bit to think about, and had to come up with some plans for going forward.

He began making a nice protein filled breakfast moments later, filled with plenty of eggs as his mind wandered.

He had a plan for making a massive name for himself, making a massive amount of lien and becoming massively famous all in one. He would be the pioneer of an all new energy source.

A world wide, revolutionary feat.

…The problem was, that was more of a long term plan.

For one, he couldn't exactly just easily get into contact with who he needed. Who, being none other than General James Ironwood. He was not only a fair man, but one more or less leading the charge to protect the world from Salem. On top of that, he not only had the assets to allow Daiki's plan to flourish, but the power and influence to make sure he couldn't be exploited by others.

There was no way someone like Ironwood though, would be accepting business meetings and proposals from some random kid from an entirely different country or continent more or less.

Quite frankly, his only hope of getting into contact with the man, was probably through Qrow getting him an audience with Ozpin or something.

…Or he supposed he could go straight to Atlas. There was one guy that was easy to meet there, who was heavily involved with Ironwood who might be able to get him into contact with the man.

Pietro, the father and creator of Penny.

And before any of that could even happen, he needed to created at least some workable practical examples.

Some would be cheap, some not so much.

Making a miniature versions of say windmills or watermills, wouldn't be too hard. What would, would be making a battery or generator that could store the electricity, and other such things. And of course he'd need to work on specific wiring and such himself for electricity to travel through.

He knew how to construct all that really, for the most part, there was a science fair project he'd worked on with his professor a few months before he ended up here that that gave him some practical experience with it.

All the materials together though, accounting for mistakes along the way, wouldn't exactly be cheap.

'And I'm going to be giving away roughly seventy percent of my savings to Qrow soon as well.' Daiki mused, as he finished up making breakfast and took his plate to the kitchen table to begin munching upon it.

And he would still need to keep some to live on.

…Which meant he needed money, and lots of it. There was taking missions to kill grimm he supposed, but most places that put the missions out weren't actually all that close to Vale, and would require him to either pay for a bullhead to get there or make the trekk there which could take days at a time, depending on how far away it was.

He'd done a few before, so he knew he could definitely do it. And it was more or less stable, but he just wasn't capable of taking on the ones that could let him rake in the big bucks.

Things like bands of beringel, a rampaging goliath, a murder of nevermore lead by a giant one. Those were beyond his pay grade right now.

…Well if he played his cards right he could probably take down a single goliath or two, it would require more experimentation with his semblance though.

Depending on what he used as a projectile, a railgun could have the power to take one down.

Though that would be a completely different matter once he managed to use the second part of his semblance on a Sea Feilong.

Granted, he didn't know how long it would take Qrow to find one.

Either way, he couldn't just wait around for that to happen. Knowing how competent Qrow was, it shouldn't take him all that long to find one, but Daiki just didn't want to wait around either.

He'd rather be a little proactive on his own. And not waste any time.

The grind that was life waited for no man.

…He supposed there was always the shadier part of things. People like Junior probably had need of some real strong muscle. He had those cute twins, but even with a full gang of thugs backing them up alongside Junior himself, Xiao Long had pushed their shit in.

If she could do that, so could he. Xiao Long was pretty durable and some mean endurance to go with her semblance, but she was easy to bait, and sucked at dodging because she relied on her semblance.

…Not that he had any room to talk there considering his entire fighting style revolved his semblance, but still.

He couldn't beat Ruby not even close at the moment, but he could definitely beat Xiao Long. Granted, he was one of the worst opponents for her because he could simply play keep away and blast her with lightning from afar, but still.

So yeah, he could probably get some decent paying jobs from Junior pretty easily. And he would probably be a good way to make other connections, especially in the underworld.

Beyond that though-

"Should I try it out?" Daiki mused to himself, pausing in his eating, laying his work down and staring up at the ceiling.

He'd had the thought idly yesterday when thinking about Xiao Long and her motorcycle, and more during the night while he experimented and trained with his quirk.

Could he recharge dust crystals?

Specifically lightning dust crystals?

It had never occurred to him before he gained the memories, or rather more aptly merged with his other self and they became one being, because dust was just a big fact of life and he had no education beyond the basics and being a warrior.

But now that he did, the possibility wouldn't leave him alone. If he could, not only would he never need to buy any other lightning dust ever again, but if he could, depending on how much power it took…

He could sell them on the cheap in bulk to dust traders and make some real good cash.

"Well, there's no harm in trying it out I guess." he shrugged to himself, it wasn't like it was going to hurt him to try at least.

Picking up his fork again, he dug into the meaty protein filled breakfast, downed a nice big glass of protein shake, and then tossed his plate, glass and cutlery in the sink.

He'd clean em' later.

Honestly, he needed a god damn maid. He was a messy bugger to be honest. A live in one if possible that could take care of his daily necessities like cleaning, preparing food and such.

…Of course for that he would need extra funds.

Honestly, he needed extra funds for a lot of things. Like, he'd always wanted a swimming pool and had the space for it, but the cost wouldn't be pretty.

Shaking his head, Daiki made his way to the storage cabinet in the centre of the home. It was where the power outlet was. It was a simple thing, with docks for inserting lightning dust.

Four outputs, for four crystal to power the entire house. Grade 1 lightning dust made for homes, two dust crystals per pack. So two were needed to be bought to fill up all four when they all ran out, and they could generally power his house for two to three weeks depending on how much time he spent on the computer, television and such.

He was pretty good for keeping electronics he didn't need off to save money. He was a responsible kid.

…Or was at least.

His other self was a bad influence. He himself actually was a bad influence on himself.

…What did that even say about him?

Shaking his head, his eyes went to small garbage bin he had in the storage closet underneath the main power system of the house.

Filled with small cardboard boxes, which were in turn filled with empty dust crystals.

One thing that a lot of people didn't grasp, was that dust crystals themselves were still dust. They weren't some container made for them, but dust themselves, just without anything capable of powering anything any longer.

He reached in and pulled out one of the cardboard boxes containing two empty dust crystals.

The bin was filled to the limit nearly actually, and there was bang on ten cardboard containers, including the one he just picked out.

So that was twenty empty grade one lightning dust crystals.

"Alright, let's see how this works out." Daiki hummed, taking out one of the empty dust crystals and holding it between two fingers.

His semblance sparked to life around his fingers and he kept it very low powered, directing it into the dust crystal at a steady rate.

The dust crystal vibrated ominously for a second, and Daiki's aura flared up around him on instinct as he thought it was going to explore into sharp shards of dust-

But as he did, he instinctively lowered the output of his semblance, and it stopped.

And then…before his eyes, a dull yellow glow formed at the bottom of the empty dust crystal, before growing larger and brighter, spreading through the small grade one crystal.

And moments later, he was done.

And in his grasp, was what was definitely a grade one home style lightning dust crystal.

His eyes widened, "….Holy shit…." he gaped.

He actually could do it, holy shit!

Holy shit!

Holy shit!

He could recharge lightning dust, that was insane! Incredible, out of this world even!

Wait, he had to check something.

"Status!" he barked out.

Name: Daiki Yurei
Age: 14
Aura Capacity: 961/971
Magic Power: -/-
Strength: 10.07/100
Endurance: 10.08/100
Durability: 10.06/100
Agility: 10.05/100
CQC: 23.08/500
Weapon Wielding: 35.08/500
Aura Control: 40.19/500

Semblance:
Lightning King Revolt: You are capable of augmenting your body, enhancing your speed, agility, reaction time and physical strength by converting your aura into electricity and can freely expel lightning from your body. You are capable of subjugating any single being you kill, gaining a portion of their abilities for your own and gaining the ability to summon them to fight for you. You can only use the subjugation effect once.

…There it was.

And it had cost even less than he thought it did. Ten points out of his total nine hundred and seventy one aura capacity score.

That meant he could fill up ninety seven of those grade one lightning dust crystals. And since there was two to a pack, that would make it forty eight packs he could recharge.

And his total aura amount generally recharged at a rate that would go to max from zero, three times a day.

…So that was what, one hundred and forty four packs worth of grade one lightning dust crystals he could recharge a day.

At their max price of twenty lien per pack, that….two thousand, eight hundred and eighty lien.

Of course he couldn't sell them at that price. But he could probably sell them for seventy five percent….or at least fifty he was sure to dust traders.

So a thousand four hundred and forty lien worth then by his estimates, a thousand at least.

"Holy…fuck, my semblance is fucking amazing." Daiki's face twisted up into a massive excited grin.

Well, even more amazing than it already was.

And the number he could do would only increase as time went on as his aura capacity grew!

'Man if I had Jaune Arc with his semblance on hand, I could charge an infinite amount of them…' Daiki realised a moment later. With his semblance that could recharge others aura, and the ability to recharge his own, he could continuously refill Daiki's aura.

Infinite lightning dust.

Too bad he had no idea where that guy was right about now, nor was he anywhere close to being able to use his semblance either.

Well, that sucked, but oh well, this was still amazing regardless!