Marvel : Titles

For the past two months, Val thought about many ways to run away from the base but knowing that the outside world is not exactly safe, he hesitated to make any move. If it was just the MCU world Val would have tried to run away directly but since deadpool was here, he can't be sure about the outside world yet.

For the current him. the base was more beneficial since he knew the true face of this base. With the temptation of curing incurable diseases, the base attracts group of patients as experimental subjects for research.

At the beginning, Val was injected with an unknown medicine—an experimental serum designed to trigger genetic mutations. This serum relied on the adrenal hormone naturally secreted by the human body as a catalyst. Once introduced into the bloodstream, it interacted with one's DNA, searching for latent mutant genes that might exist within them.

If such genes were present, the serum would stimulate their activation, potentially unlocking extraordinary abilities or unforeseen transformations. However, since mutant genes generally activate under stress, it was obvious that the patients had to go through unimaginable pain for it.

The mutated genes or the x-gene is one of the easy way to get power in marvel world. They can endow the human body with various abilities, enabling one to even capable of destroying a city by themselves.

But even for the experimental subjects whose genes were successfully mutated, the fate waiting for them at the end was not freedom as they hoped but it's to be forced to wear collars that can suppress their x-genes and eventually become obedient Mutant slaves. They are then packaged by the research institute to be sold in auctions.

To put it simply, this research institute was a mutant-slave processing factory and all experimental bodies are their raw products.

But despite all this Val still felt it was better for him to stay here for now. Since who knows maybe he have X-gene in him and he could gain some op ability from it and even if it was not there the experiments were still helping him to unlock one of the Titles in his system.

So for the past two months, Val had been patiently waiting for the title to be activated and there's also the incident of Wade exploding the base to escape so he would have the chance to escape anyway.

. . . . .

Val who was currently sitting still in bed after taking Francis torture, silently materialized the status screen.

'System,' Val said in his mind as the status screen opened right in front of his eyes again. The appearance of this blue panel in front of his eyes always manages to motivate Val since it's the prove that he has a way to get power on his own.

Val was currently looking at the available titles in the screen.

[Title: Just Enough Luck to Be Annoying (Locked)]

[Title: Punch First, Ask Questions Later (Locked)]

[Title: Aimbot installed (Locked)]

. . . . .

Val had no idea, what some of the titles even mean or what abilities he will get from them. Even the conditions to unlock them were not available for him right now, except one.

But in his current situation it's better to have crappy ability than nothing. But sadly, most of these titles are in grey color, meaning that they were not unlocked yet.

According to the rules, he needs to meet the various conditions of a Title to be eligible to unlock the corresponding title.

Still seeing the harsh conditions to unlock the titles, Val was sure that he would get quite powerful abilities from them, at least he hoped.

Val moved his gaze to the last title on the panel, only to see bright red color displayed at the bottom.

It was the title he had been waiting for a long time to unlock, he didn't know what it will offer but it was the only title he could unlock in his current situation.

[The Death's blind spot (Locked)]

[Unlock condition: survive fifteen near-death situations (15/15)]

[Do you want to unlock the title?]

"Whew... finally, it's done."

Val's heart pounded like a war drum, adrenaline coursing through his veins and a wild grin stretched across his face. The wait, the endless cycle of torture—it was all for this moment.

If not for the achievement system, he would have already given up. The endless torture had pushed him beyond his limits, leaving him on the edge of complete collapse. His body could only take so much, but it was his mind that had been closest to breaking. Without that glimmer of hope, he wouldn't have lasted.

This place was a prison, a nightmare where many before him had lost themselves. He had seen it happen—people reduced to hollow shells, like a doll. Their vacant stares, their mindless mumbling—it was a fate worse than death.

But Val had something they didn't. The system.

The conditions to unlock this title had lined up perfectly with his suffering. Each time he endured another round of torture, the progress bar edged forward. It became his one reason to keep going, his only hope.

And now, at long last, it was complete. The progress bar had finally reached its end.

"Yes… Unlock it."

Without hesitation, Val accepted.

[Title unlocked successfully! ]

[Title: The Death's blind spot]

[Description: Everything has a blind spot, and guess what? You're standing right in Death's. So, it's never around when it's time to claim you!]

[Reward: Immortality]

…

"

What the fuck? What the hell is this?"

Val was completely stunned, his mind blank as he stared at the reward before him. This—this couldn't be right. When he imagined a reward, he figured he'd get some kind of body-strengthening ability at best—something practical, something reasonable. Instead, he got immortality.

It was like expecting a cheap consolation prize in a lottery, only to end up winning the jackpot of a lifetime.

For a while, Val simply couldn't process it. Before this, he had no clue what the titles even did. He had assumed it was something good, sure, but not this. Not immortality. He had unlocked it without much thought—after all, in a godforsaken lab like this, he wasn't expecting to become immortal just because he survived some torture.

He could admit that immortals were indeed could be said to be in the blind spot of death, but he hadn't expected it to be so literal. Most titles sounded grand regardless of their actual benefits—he had figured this was the same.

"Oh well, it doesn't matter right now."

Warmth spread through his body, surging along his bloodstream like liquid fire. It wasn't painful, though—quite the opposite. It was soothing, invigorating.

The first transformation began with his eyes. His vision, once sufferring from myopia, sharpened in real time. Blurred edges and soft lights crystallized into perfect clarity. It felt as though a fog that had covered his sight for years was lifted in an instant.

Next, the change swept through his body. The torture he had endured—days of relentless agony—had left behind countless internal injuries, many layered atop old wounds from his past life, since it was the same body. He had to suffer through every second of it without treatment, forced to endure the unbearable.

But now?

A warm current flooded his veins, reaching deep into the very core of his body. His wounds, both old and new, healed in mere moments. The aches and bruises, the fractured bones, the battered muscles—every last bit of damage vanished as if it had never existed.

For the first time since he had crossed into this world, Val felt whole. Unburdened. Alive.

The sensation was indescribable—like basking under the warm morning sun, resting on soft green grass after an exhausting jog. His body was no longer a collection of broken pieces held together by sheer willpower. It was strong. Fresh. Reborn.

A wave of pure exhilaration crashed over him.

"FUCK YEAH!"

Val shouted at the top of his lungs, throwing his head back against the cold metal bed. For a moment, he completely forgot he was still in the lab.