37 Welcome Home (1/2)
The Dream Rise House is a two-storied modern villa occupying an area of some 50,000 sq. foot. Partly built up over a waterfall it has a feeling of being one with nature.
The house was anything but conservative in terms of grandeur and expenditure. The villa's reflecting pool is large enough to provide a swimming ground for dozens of people.
For the most part, the house followed the large sliding window theme. The house is specifically designed keeping in mind the abilities of mutants with the glasses and walls strong enough to handle the attack of both mutants and modern weapons. The house has around twenty rooms with separate space for garage, cinema, dining, bar and other miscellaneous activities. The safety and cleaning activities are managed by artificial intelligence system installed in the house.
You can say each section of the house smelled of extravagance. It is hard to believe but only a single person lives in it.
The above features are what the people from the surrounding community know. What they don't know is that there is more to the villa then they think to know.
There are two underground floors below the villa so designed that the thermal or any other scan could not detect their presence including the abilities of mutants. Even the power system for underground floors is self-sustained with no reliance on the villa's power source. Such design requires not only money but influence as well.
In the topmost underground floor lies a high-tech modern lab. The lab is divided into four sections with each section serving different needs.
Section 1 of the lab has an area of some 200 sq.m.It has cryogenic chambers along with advanced body scanners and all types of equipment required for treating a mutant. One can say the lab has enough capacity to save the life of a man about to die.
Suddenly, rays of white light started converging at the center of section 1.
The security system in the lab didn't do anything to stop the rays of white light from converging into a man. It was as if the security system was well adapted to such occurrences.
[[Welcome back, sir.]] The artificial intelligence (AI) system said in a feminine voice.
Kiba gazed at the virtual screen in the lab where the AI prompt was displaying the stats of the villa. He was surprised to check that it was 4 am.
”Claudia, thank you for the hard work as always,” Kiba said after seeing the log screen.
[[Sir, it is my duty. If I may say, the sensors are detecting the scent of multiple women from your body. You must have enjoyed yourself.]] The AI system named Claudia said.
”Ah well. It was quite fun,” Kiba said with a bashful smile. He moved towards a body scanning device and said, ”Claudia, run the usual tests on my body.”
[[Uderstood.]]
The body scanner released multiple lights which wrapped Kiba.
In reality, Kiba wasn't as carefree as he let others think. Ever since Zed became Kiba after fusing with Cosmic Spark, he gave special care to his body. He was afraid there might be some side effects on him given Cosmic Spark used to be the power source of an entire world.
How can a human fuse with it no side effect?
He knew that he wasn't using even one percent of Cosmic Spark's powers in his ultimate form so the chances of any harmful effect were close to zero, but he wanted to be better safe than sorry.
This is why he built the underground advanced laboratory capable of dealing with any worst case scenario.As for the lab equipment, some were smuggled to him by Eva while others he himself 'borrowed' from World Government and corporate.
For gaining the required knowledge to operate and manage such an advanced lab, he used his Cosmic Manipulation ability.Theoretically speaking, a user of this ability can create, shape and manipulate cosmic energies to produce nearly any effect they desire, including the molecular restructuring and transmutation of matter, the manipulation of matter across space and time, the creation of force fields, the creation of inter-dimensional portals and vortices, telekinesis, and cosmic awareness.