Lord of the Time: I Can Reincarnate Infinitely

Caleb, on the other hand, felt a lot more confident to face the spiders with his newly obtained ability. He was itching to try it on them. As for revealing his ability... self is more important. "Guys, I have something to tell you. But you shouldn't tell it to anyone..."

"What do you want to tell us?" Jin curiously looked at Johan.

"Go on..." Dunn nodded.

The other three teenagers, on the other hand, perked their ears as they saw Johan's serious demeanor.

Caleb took a deep breath. "So it's like this..."

With that, he made the jaw of everyone dropped as he disclosed his ability to them in advance. Why did he tell them now? It's much better to tell them now than reveal it amidst the battle.

First of all, he would earn their trust back a little if he did this. After all, he had just double-crossed Dunn, Jin, and Rina. By doing this, he was indirectly telling them that he trusted them. Trust is still important if he wants to work together as a team because it creates harmony.

The second reason is by telling them about his ability... They will be able to coordinate it with their plan. It will increase the chances of their success. Not to mention, they would just attribute the ability to him being a Manifestor.

And lastly, the real reason... He was itching to use his ability and quickly master it! Once he masters it. He would become a versatile fighter both in offense and defense. He was looking forward to developing his ability to its full potential. After all, unlike his first ability, the second ability has a lot of practical uses!

"So you awakened another ability? You can release a sticky and stretchy substance. Well, that sounds useless." Andre said with a speechless expression.

Hearing this, Caleb chuckled, not offended at his friend's words. He just told them the general description of ability. So, the description of a sticky and stretchy substance really sounds useless unless one knows the ability really works.

Jin shook his head.

"I won't say that. Although we don't know the extent of the substance's stretchiness and stickiness, it might work wonders. For example, Johan here can use it to swing into buildings like a spider if he can transform his substance into spiderwebs form, right?"

Hearing this, Caleb's eyes lit up. He looked at Jin in surprise. 'Damn! Why haven't I thought of it? I can really do that shit! Just like damn spiderman!'

Still, swinging from building to building wasn't simple. To replicate such a feat, one doesn't only need to have a sticky substance akin to spiderwebs. One also needs to have the strength to swing himself from one point to another. Excellent shoulder mobility and body flexibility. A tough body to withstand the speed of motion, resistance, friction, and so on... Fortunately, although he might still not be as strong as Spiderman, he was a Grade 2 Taboo Fighter! He just needs enough practice to do so. Now, he only lacks spider senses... No, he also has a damned danger senses, ain't he?

'It seems one of my childhood dreams is about to come true. I can finally do acrobatic moves in the air like Peter.' Caleb felt that he lucked out with his ability this time. Then he looked at Jin with a smile. "You just gave me an idea..."

"That sounds cool." Clifford and Andre agreed.

Luna, on the other hand, felt that Johan was becoming more and more powerful. She felt happy. The more powerful Johan was, the more chances they would survive. Not to mention, Johan had been always by their side. He also trusts them. After all, he poisoned Dunn, Jin, and Rina, but not them.

...

Three hours have passed. Under Jin's guide, the hunting party managed to bypass the two spiders.

Caleb looked at the houses in front of him. Brown-painted walls which had faded and cracks. Metal roofs that are riddled with small holes. Shattered glasses from windows. They are five houses in a straight line, each four meters apart from each other.

As they continued their walk, the house became bigger and bigger until they completely passed the two of the five. Just like the previous buildings, the houses around were covered with thick spiderwebs.

'It looks like those from this town actually lived a decent life in the past. It seems this town was quite prosperous. Did the inhabitants manage to reach the city or did they die from the spiders' hands?'

"Well, it's the first time I saw other houses from these past few years besides our own. Are there really gods? Then did they create those damned monsters?"

Caleb stared at Clifford, who had a melancholy expression with his fist clenched. He won't be surprised if Clifford doesn't believe in gods. After all, the other had a tragic life.

Andre, who was carrying Fatty beside him, patted Clifford on the back as consolation but didn't say anything.

"Gods? If there are gods, they must be sleeping or just don't care about us. After all, this won't happen in the first place. Or we humans might probably angered him and brought upon this. Who knows?" Dunn said nonchalantly.

Caleb just listened as his companions talked about him without saying anything. God? Why bother to talk if he didn't know the answer? He cleared his throat and said:

"You guys are being distracted. There are more pressing matters before us. Don't let your guard down just because there are no spiders around."

"Johan is right." Jin turned his head at them and pointed at the silhouette of a castle. On top of it, there was a sun symbol made of silver.

"So, this is the church here? Who do they worship?" Caleb muttered, asking no one.

Not surprisingly, Jin gave him an answer. Truly, a man worthy of his title. Walking encyclopedia.

"This is the church of Sun God. How do I know? Because my dead mother frequently goes to the church of Sun God in the past. She's quite a devout believer."

'Church of Sun God? So there are other elemental gods in this world?' If that's true, it was bad news for him.