SSS Class Awakening: Start With A God-Level Choice System
Chapter 58: Extracting The Gravity Manipulation Superpower

Chapter 58: Extracting The Gravity Manipulation Superpower

From Ainsworth’s discovery, sun crystals and moon crystals would form at any time of the day as long as there was a location where sunlight or moonlight was concentrated. However, only at noon or midnight would they rain in abundance.

Following the direction where the magnetic needle of the compass pointed, Ainsworth soon found a sun crystal on top of a building’s rooftop.

No one had found it yet, and even zombies wouldn’t dare touch a sun crystal. Unlike a moon crystal, zombies wouldn’t covet a sun crystal, so no one had taken it yet. It was also possible that it was newly formed, so no one had the time to find and get it.

At least, not until Ainsworth made a compass just to find these sun crystals.

Taking the sun crystal, Ainsworth observed its appearance, which was a clear orange crystal with a warmth hue. Also, it was warm to the touch unlike the cool surface of a moon crystal.

"Now that I have acquired a sun crystal, I’ll let my believers and the zombies in my Zombie Kingdom know."

Using Hive Mind (S), Ainsworth sent mental images of it to all his believers from the Church of Evolution and zombies like Kyle, Howard, and Judy from his Zombie Kingdom.

Although the Zombie Kingdom wasn’t fully established yet, Kyle, Howard, and Judy were already infiltrating other survivor groups and slowly assimilating them into the Zombie Kingdom.

After informing his subordinates about it, Ainsworth then continued rummaging through the city with his sun crystal compass in hand.

He looked for approximately half an hour before it was finally noon. He had found seven sun crystals in total before noon, and it was a good haul as sun crystals at this time of hour weren’t that abundant.

Checking the time, Ainsworth noticed that it was only a minute before noon, so he waited on top of the highest building on the city’s rooftop. To pass the time, he was absorbing the sunlight to purify and improve the quality of his viral energy and zombie virus.

Even when he was finding sun crystals before, he would multi-task by finding sun crystals and absorbing sunlight at the same time.

He did feel his viral energy attribute improving slightly with every sunbathe, so he didn’t want to waste it. To reach C- grade in most of his stat attributes, he needed all the improvements he could get.

While Ainsworth was sunbathing, a minute had passed, and it was finally noon.

When the sun was at its highest when facing the world, Ainsworth soon noticed that sun crystals were forming above the sky, and eventually, they fell lightly from the sky to different parts of the city.

’There should be more than twenty sun crystals, quite similar to the amount of moon crystals formed during midnight. They are all mine. After all, finders keepers. Even if the evolvers in the city need them, then they better be faster and stronger than me, or else they won’t get any.’

With that thought in mind, Ainsworth immediately used Freedom of Movement (SSS) to teleport into the sky and intercept all the sun crystals before they fell on the ground.

In the end, he got 23 sun crystals from the sun crystal shower, but just when he was about to get the 24th, he saw a woman flying into the sky.

That woman reached her hands towards the sun crystal, but just when she was about to get it, Ainsworth used wind superpower to let the sun crystal float towards him.

Noticing Ainsworth took the sun crystal that she was after and even made it disappear (via storage in the system inventory), the woman who apparently had gravity superpower floated in the air, looking displeased at Ainsworth’s actions.

"What gives? I saw you get almost all of these crystals."

In response to her question, Ainsworth merely stated, "I don’t see the part where that’s my problem."

With that, Ainsworth was about to leave, but Nichole, the evolver with the gravity superpower, wasn’t planning to let him off unless he returned the sun crystal to her.

She increased the gravity in Ainsworth’s area, wanting him to restrict his movements and even let him fall on the ground.

However, she didn’t know that Ainsworth was a free man. He had the freedom to move, and her actions of restricting his movements were a violation of his right to move.

Because of that, Ainsworth was unhindered by the increased gravity and merely stood in the air, looking at her as if he were looking at a fool.

Noticing the scorn in Ainsworth’s eyes, Nichole blushed in shame and resorted to manipulating gravity to make her move towards him at a fast speed as gravity propelled her towards him.

Using gravity to increase the weight of her fist, Nichole swung at Ainsworth with full force, but he evaded it like a ghost, letting her punch pass through his afterimage.

"Futile."

Before Nichole could react, Ainsworth was already above her, balancing effortlessly in a one-handed handstand on her head. He released a surge of viral energy, channeling the Father Zombie Virus directly into her skull.

Seconds later, her eyes turned dull. Her body twitched, then went limp. She was now one of his own, incorporated into the Hive Mind.

As always, Ainsworth analyzed her zombie strain and added her unique evolution path, gravity manipulation, to his internal archive. With it, he could now wield the gravity superpower even better than she ever had.

Wanting to test it, Ainsworth teleported to the top of a nearby skyscraper. His right fist pulsed with condensed gravity energy.

"Gravity Impact."

He slammed his fist into the rooftop.

The result was instantaneous. A thunderous boom echoed as the impact cratered the rooftop, sending web-like fractures racing through the concrete like lightning.

The force didn’t just stop there—shockwaves tore through the internal structure. Floors caved in one after another as the building’s core integrity gave out.

Within seconds, the entire skyscraper collapsed inward, like a crushed soda can. Glass shattered. Steel beams twisted like paper. Dust and debris billowed into the air as the once-proud tower was reduced to rubble and ruin.

Ainsworth stood at the edge of the collapsing wreckage, untouched, with calm eyes.

"Not bad," he muttered. "Let’s see what else this power can do."

He raised his hand and clenched it into a fist.

"Gravitational Pull."

A surge of gravity rippled outward from his body, and everything within a 50-meter radius was violently dragged toward him—twisted metal, crushed concrete, dismembered zombie limbs, and even a few ragged survivors who had fled from nearby ruins.

Screams were silenced mid-air as their bodies were flung like rag dolls into the gravitational epicenter, only to be crushed under the accumulated mass.

Ainsworth didn’t even glance at the corpses.

He pointed a finger downward.

"Gravity Well."

A dense black sphere formed just above the ground. The moment it touched the surface, the earth itself bent unnaturally, as if space folded in on itself.

The area below crumbled into a spiraling pit, pulling down the remaining walls and floors of a half-standing adjacent building. Zombies caught in the pull were flattened, their bones snapping before they vanished into the compressed void.

He floated into the air, looking down at the chaos below.

"Orbital Smash."

A sphere of condensed gravity formed above his head, glowing dark and heavy with distortion. He launched it downward.

The projectile dropped like a miniature meteor. Upon impact, it exploded—not with fire, but with sheer crushing force.

A shockwave rippled out, flattening a city block. Windows shattered in buildings far beyond, and a deep crater was all that remained of the area.

Smoke and dust billowed, but Ainsworth hovered above it all, unbothered.

Far below, scattered survivors screamed and fled. Some had hidden in the building before. Now they were nothing more than statistics. They were reduced to nothing more than collateral damage in a field test.

Ainsworth didn’t blink.

"Reverse Gravity."

A group of nearby zombies, previously unaffected, suddenly found their bodies lifting into the air. They flailed helplessly as gravity reversed, hurling them skyward. A moment later, Ainsworth canceled the effect.

The bodies plummeted.

The sound of their impacts, which was a wet splatter, echoed like a drumroll of death.

"Efficient," he murmured. "I can definitely work with this."

With his skill set expanding, Ainsworth found his sub-class more useful than expected. While his main class allowed him to do virtually anything, the stronger the effect, the higher the energy cost.

If he wanted to act as a culinary assassin, his Freedom Freelancer class made it viable. And if he wanted to play as a mage wielding different elements, he could rely on the superpowers he’d extracted from analyzing various zombie virus evolution strains—like Nichole’s gravity manipulation or Chloe’s ice manipulation.

Surveying the devastation and the bodies scattered across the rubble, Ainsworth concluded, "Aside from improving my stats, I need more skills to round out my combat repertoire."

"Moon crystals and sun crystals are valuable, but before we complete the Otherworld Mission, I need to collect every evolution strain these so-called evolvers have."

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