Standing in his room with eyes closed, Shiratori Riku felt his mind erupt again and again like a cosmos in bloom.
He had talent, but not yet the foundation to drive it.
The games he had crafted before were simple and rough, riding on the raw stats of God's Ten-Billion Power.
To forge games on the level of Chronicle of the Cosmos, he needed more knowledge to let Divine Talent unfold.
If Divine Talent was an Infinity Stone, then he lacked the gauntlet that could draw out its depths.
So start from fundamental science.
"Divine Talent, show me your limits."
He drew a deep breath. A violet flash skimmed across his eyes.
Wiretap Storm surged again, and he plunged into the ocean of the net.
Intro Physics. Introduction to Quantum Mechanics. Fundamentals of Biochemistry.
His gaze blazed violet. Divine Talent activated, soaking up everything like a sponge.
Molecular structures, electromagnetic theory, the laws of thermodynamics, quantum mechanics.
Knowledge poured in like a flood, yet there was no chaos.
On the contrary, his Divine Talent integrated it all with astonishing efficiency and built a complete scientific framework.
In a handful of breaths, he had mastered the full scaffold of human fundamental science.
Step two, advanced technology.
He needed deeper tech, and the first stop was Tony Stark.
He tuned his vision across the city to the private lab atop Stark Tower.
Stark was adjusting the output of a new reactor.
Riku's super sight, boosted by altered stats, dived into the core. He watched the flow of plasma and the layout of the energy conversion matrix.
Divine Talent parsed the embedded physics and extrapolated a more optimal design.
"Palladium can only serve as a transitional element. Prolonged use leads to poisoning. I need something more efficient and stable."
Divine Talent whirred at full tilt, assembling a new reactor model in his mind, more efficient and more stable than Stark's version.
With Stark's tech sorted, he turned to Wakanda's vibranium.
With terrifying vision amplified by numbers, he ignored Wakanda's shielding and read the metal's molecular architecture.
The lattice lay bare before him.
"So this is why it absorbs kinetic energy. What an intriguing metal."
Using Divine Talent, he simulated vibranium's traits in his mind and ran its behavior under varied conditions.
Soon he understood its operating principles and could even synthesize a similar material on his own.
He chose not to do that yet and instead studied Pym Particles.
Hank Pym had locked the experimental logbook in a safe, but that meant nothing to x-ray eyes.
Riku observed the particle's quantum tunneling and let Divine Talent compute the math of spatial compression.
"Interesting. This version is a weakened one."
"It only uses dimensional folding to alter mass..."
By comic canon, the true Pym Particle is a kind of Kirby Krackle, a higher-dimensional substance from the White Hot Room. The White Hot Room is the heart and the home of the Phoenix Force, sitting beyond the multiverse within the M'Kraan Crystal and bearing transdimensional properties. At his present development of Divine Talent, he could not crack that apex domain.
He let his mind wander the heights while continuing to unravel the weakened particle.
Before long, he had it fully parsed.
Driven by quantum mechanics, Divine Talent climbed to a high tier.
Even so, its ceiling was still out of reach.
He was not discouraged. If anything, he was delighted. It proved that Divine Talent could grow even stronger.
The feeling of commanding all knowledge was intoxicating.
No wonder Dan Kuroto in the original was so in love with his own talent.
"Saa, begin the experiment."
Quoting a certain builder's catchphrase, he began turning knowledge into power.
All-knowing is all-powerful. If I grasp every truth, then I will be omnipotent.
He hand-crafted a brand new game titled Creation Workshop.
Backed by knowledge, its rules were tighter and its effects far stronger.
He launched Creation Workshop. The game field spread to fill his room.
In the next moment he stepped into the creation space.
[Greetings, Creator. Welcome to Creation Workshop.]
[Within the workshop, you may freely design and create anything you desire.]
[Now then, Creator, begin your creation.]
Riku drew a long breath and pulled his hands wide.
Tools and instruments bloomed by the countless in that space.
He used God's Ten-Billion Power to push his body stats, raising dynamic vision and physical control to towering heights.
Then he began the first trial.
He would build Tony Stark's reactor.
First step, he assembled the casing by hand.
His fingers darted. Parts aligned and the shell snapped into place almost instantly.
The casing was not the key. The heart was the core.
He inhaled and, with atom-scale dynamic sight, began hand-synthesizing a new element.
After a brief two minutes and thirty seconds, he stabilized the elemental plasma to a permissible state.
He looked at the newborn element in his palm and nodded with slight satisfaction.
"Not bad. Let's see how it performs."
He seated the element in the reactor.
HUM!
Pale blue light blossomed at the core. The energy readout climbed like a rocket.
"Success."
Riku's lips tipped up as he said lightly, "Not bad. Output efficiency is three times Stark's version."