Mine 25 (Luck provides)

Once the Undersider were completely and utterly handled things continued going forward. Since Lisa was no longer needed here he dragged her toward Coil’s base so she could get a handle on it. He brought along the unconscious Coil with them as she deserved to have her prize within her eyesight.

That and he did not want to leave Coil in the Undersider's hands even if he got a handle on the majority of them. Brian was still pretty finicky and he might take the opportunity to retreat with Coil in hopes that he would follow through on his promise.

So the overdramatic Bond villain in the making was going to stick around with him for the most part. Cole was currently sitting on the couch in Coil’s office and was using Coil’s body as a leg rest as he relaxed.

Lisa was tapping away at the computer muttering to herself as she drew on her powers to make sure she was making the right moves. She was pretty focused on that but she did shoot an envious look his way as she too wanted to use Coil as a footstool as she worked.

Which was not in the cards as being the boss came with some perks. Since he now had some downtime he opened up his System and just stared at the baffling amount of energy for a moment. He knew that it was going to be quite a lot since he was effectively throwing canon into the deep end by this point but it was still shocking.

Seeing that frankly crazy energy values he decided to take a risk. He knew that one of the words he had access to had a fellow System user and that guy would likely have the best stuff so he tried to target him. 

Only to be completely and utterly shocked when he got a negative response. He figured targeting the things provided by the System would be too much but he could not even afford to target the System User with the vast amount of energy he had.

[Of course, the host can not steal from that man. The Perfect Template System would protect its own items when it is blatantly targeted. The first theft was humiliating enough for the Perfect Template System after all. You can only steal from other Systems in a blind theft as it blindsided both the Theft System and the Targeted System.]

Cole’s System helpfully explained. Which was kind of shocking. It had been a long time since he had heard from the thing after all. He was begging to think that the System had fucked off to do something else.

[The Host had a handle on the System’s functions and no longer needed guidance. The Host did not bring up any other issues they might be facing and the System did not have any input on your mating rituals.]

Cole blinked at the words being thrown at him. He understood that the System was going to keep quiet since he did not really ask it anything. He was also going to ignore the comment about the mating ritual as getting into that with an AI seemed like a pointless effort.

Cole frowned as he tried to figure out anything else he might have overlooked since he had time to think. The problem with that was he overlooked stuff in the first place because he could not recognize its value so thinking more about it was not going to be helpful.

Well, there was the fact that Systems were apparently rather difficult to steal from. He wondered if there were other things that met that level of difficulty.

[God’s can be tricky depending on their power levels and their Domains. Beings that might as well be gods are also incredibly difficult to steal from. If an item has some sort of sentience it increases the energy values as well if at a much-reduced rate in comparison to difficult targets.]

The System explained again. That was good to know even if he could have put that together rather quickly. He would question why it was so easy to steal Powers from the Shards in comparison but it made sense.

While powerful Shards were not anywhere close to Gods as most of them fucked around with concepts. Most of the things Shards did was Dimensional fuckery, Math, and the Biology of various alien creatures. Powerful but not you die because I say so powerful.

Okay since the System was off the table what should he steal? Jujutsu Kaisen was a good target as always as it had a wide power pool and some of those abilities would be pretty broken here. The issue was if he kept spending all of his energy on JJK then he would never open up more powerful worlds.

Shaman King runs into the same issue and it is doubled as he does not really know all that much about the setting. Which kind of left him in a bind.

He had been wanting to take Viktor’s power for a long time but he had crossed that off the list as it might draw attention from Papa Space Whale.

Stealing from Trickster was fine since the guy’s power came from a dead shard but Viktor was very much a live trigger. It was just not worth the effort even if the guy’s power meshed very well with his system. It was not like he was having issues collecting energy so far.

It had been less than a week and he had already pushed his pool far higher than he thought possible. On the other side of the coin, he had kind of pushed over the sand castle that was Canon by this point.

Cole let out a sigh that startled Lisa for a moment but he decided to just do a blind theft to calm himself.

[World Selected]

[Theft in process]

[Theft successful]

[The Theft System has stolen the Technique Perfected Ultra Instinct from the User Cognac.]

[Comment from Victim: Well, this is interesting. This has never happened before. I wonder how all of this works. Zeno-sama might find some amusement from this.]

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Cole froze at the screen before him. He was just bemoaning not having access to any of the high-tier worlds and this just gets dropped into his lap. On the other hand, he just stole ULTRA FUCKING INSTINCT FROM AN ANGEL!

Since they were in a completely different multiverse cluster he should be fine but he was still worrying a lot. When people talk about powerful verses Dragon Ball gets thrown around constantly. He got access to that reality now and he even got a terribly effective move for the low low cost of a blind steal.

Well, Ultra Instinct was not that crazy when he thought about it. It just made him capable of reacting and acting at the very peak of his body. Currently that was still at the levels of a very squishy human. Sure, now he could dodge with supernatural grace but he could still be speed blitzed by Velocity.

The good thing about UI was that it scaled with him. So if he became more and more powerful the move would still retain its usefulness. He did not have to worry about the stamina drain as he had Perfected UI from the angels.

Well since DBZ was open he might as well get the most powerful move. As he thought it over he got a big fat X again. That made sense as Hakai would be a powerful ability and it was basically stealing from gods for the most part.

He tried to think over other techniques that might have worked out but none really reached the potential that Hakai represented. The other KI techniques also required KI which was not something he had. This meant he had to steal a KI pool and then control that pool to get a beam that might hurt Endbringers. Sure, Kamahamaha was powerful but it was just energy in the end so it was not going to kill the Space Whale as it hid across multiple dimensions. 

He could steal the knowledge that Doctor Jirou had and make a android to fight the Space Whale but while they were powerful they ran into the same issue that certain KI blasts hit. Bulma might be more effective as she was able to make a literal time machine but was that worth spending energy on?

The way time travel worked with that thing was not really time travel more like parallel word travel which was fine but not that needed. He would still be stuck in this world cluster and the Golden Morning would eventually happen.

Maybe with Jirou’s IQ coupled with Bulma’s and their pool of knowledge, he could think up a solution but that was a maybe. He would be better off getting a handle on his cursed energy and stealing something like Idle Transfiguration.

God this was going to take even more thought.

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No joke I used ChatGBT to draw Gacha and got fucking UI. I managed to hit the 2% chance at a legendary. Was tempted to scrape it considering what it was but figured UI was not really that impressive and DBZ was not as crazy as most people think. It’s just guys punching stuff at the end of the day.