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âWhat the fuckâŠâ he said, still staring at his pack.
âWhat is it?â Cal-com asked as Paul remained distracted.
âSomehow I can now zoom my vision.â
âSecond lens?â Cal-com guessed, kneeling down next to him and using a bit of his remaining armor power to activate his Regenerator and scan Paulâs new eyesâŠas well as the rest of him.
âWhatever it is, itâs creeping me out. My situational awareness is horrible like this,â he said, bringing his vision back to normal, then zooming in again.
âThese are not Human eyes. TheyâreâŠfor lack of a better termâŠsuper human.â
âI like the sound of thatâŠâ
âBut the source of the change is still unidentified,â the Voku said.
âI think I have a partial answer on that.â
âAnother vision?â
âNo. Not that I can remember anyway. Whateverâs going on in my head when Iâm blacked out I canât recall. But I think I know why my body is so sore. Itâs not from damage inflicted, but from updates processing. Some of it, at least, I think is from Delayed Training Effect.â
Cal-com knew what that was, though it rarely happened. When the body went through really hard and long workouts, a significant adjustment was made afterwards, usually while sleeping. If there was a delay in the downtime, the body would try and make some adjustments on the fly, but it couldnât make all of them. If one had a multi-week excursion that was intense throughout, such as in combat, and it produced a significant training effect rather than just damage, the adaptation to it would occur in bits throughout as needed to keep moving, but the rest would essentially be stuck in queue until the body could get into a rest state.
When it finally did, it would often update in stages rather than one long rest if the accumulation was great enough. The process was not usually peaceful, with the adjustments coming in chunks that produced instability, and sometimes pain, in the transition. Whereas normal adaptationâŠwhere you had rest breaks oftenâŠoccurred in smaller âjumpsâ that were less traumatic. In either case, the bodyâs genetic code rewrote itself in tiny ways, and some of those waysâŠif significant enough over timeâŠwould be passed onto the offspring in the genetic code merger of conception, mitosis, or whatever other method was used.
âI canât confirm that, but youâre still changing in waves. Cellular structure is getting tighter again. I think with more food in you you might put on more mass for the same volume.â
âI feel too light.â
âYour weight hasnât dropped much. I think your body is reorganizing and scavenging from where it can. Do you feel up to binge eating?â
âNo,â Paul admitted. âIf I eat too fast I start to get queasy, but if I stay awake long enough I think I can slow charge. What do my levels look like?â
âFat is almost nonexistent, and blood sugar is low. Everything in your stomach isâŠâ
âIs what?â
âHow long ago did you eat?â
âAs soon as I woke this cycle. My sense of time is obviously off, so I canât say for sure how long itâs been.â
âYour digestion rate is very high. Iâd guess youâd eaten 10 cubes a few minutes ago?â
âI got down 18, but not the big ones. Their taste is too tart, and I have to nibble.â
âDelayed Training Effect from what?â Cal-com asked, getting back to the original subject matter.
Paulâs new eyes narrowed, with the gesture being identical with his annoyed/serious look that he only showed when heâd made a mistake.
âWe messed up with the Saiyan genetics, I think. My head fog might be part of that, maybe not all of it, but Iâm fairly sure itâs part of the problem.â
âLack of rest?â
âWe thought we didnât need it, but if some of our adaptation wasnât processing and has been building up over all these millenniaâŠI might be letting it through, since I can now sleep.â
âYour eyes?â
âI donât see how thatâs connected, but who knows.â
Cal-com held up his arm again, this time producing a solid shield plate rather than the mirror. On it he produced a variety of colors. âSpectrum check.â
Paul stared at the lines, seeing the wavelengths clearly measured, then his eyes went wide with shock.
âI can see UV and a bit of Infrared, but I can also see Gamma. Run a check with other races. See if thereâs a partial match.â
âI already did. Unless itâs not included in the Regenerator database, thereâs no exact or partial match. Similarities yes, but this appears to be upgraded Human geneticsâŠto the point that itâs no longer registering as Human. Did your Saiyan genetics affect your eyes?â
âJust the color, and we added that separate.â
âAre you close to blacking out?â
âItâs starting to build, but Iâm not close yet. Give me some water. I used the rest earlier.â
Cal-com passed him a fresh bottle, and Paul downed all of it, motioning for another that he half drankâŠthen he stretched out his legs and laid back on the ground, staring at the tent top. âCheck my water burn rate.â
The Voku grasped his wrist again, with the Regenerator tendrils lightly drilling into his body briefly to get the necessary sensors where they needed to be.
âElevated. Your metabolism is far higher than Human or Saiyan, in spurts. If it was constant youâd be dead by now.â
âThe numbness to the universe. The focus on the mission. The need for something to
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