Power Idea

[TheEldritchGod]

Okay, so the villain's power was astral projection with the ability to make a new body on location so you can kill him over and over, like a video game, because, well, the world was originally based on a video game. It's got limits, mostly power requirements.

However, the hero murdered the final boss in chapter 25 and didn't even know it, eating his demonic heart in the process. Now, we enter book two and we get to understand many of the secrets of book 1. The hero is a master of power storage. He was an engineer, after all, and he is obsessed with improving mana storage capacity. At some point, he will improve his demonic mana capacity and wind up fighting the Omnilord (yes, the demon lord's replacement is a cringe-tastic transmigrator wehraboo.)

They will be fighting in the omnilord's home turf rich with demonic mana.

Freed from the constraints of mana, I was thinking that the MC would repeatedly astrally project out of his current body and make a new one, over and over, while leaving the remaining "body" on "autopilot/muscle memory" so it continues a series of combat maneuvers on "reflex" before melting away. So he an duplicate, but only for a few seconds at a time and the original body can only do "combat reflex" Understand, the MC BEATS THE SHIT OUT OF HIMSELF. He has a TON of combat reflexes. He had his own arm broken repeatedly just so he could get used to setting his own bones and healing himself without thinking about it.

So, given that we're gonna be in the mid-way point boss battle, does this power make sense and is it "cool". I think I makes sense, given the power progression, but I'd like another opinion.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

What?

 

[MintiLime]

I think it makes sense but would be extremely mentally taxing for the MC. I feel exhausted thinking about it. It’s like a snake sloughing off its skin repeatedly

 

[RepresentingPride]

Okay, so the villain's power was astral projection with the ability to make a new body on location so you can kill him over and over, like a video game, because, well, the world was originally based on a video game. It's got limits, mostly power requirements.

However, the hero murdered the final boss in chapter 25 and didn't even know it, eating his demonic heart in the process. Now, we enter book two and we get to understand many of the secrets of book 1. The hero is a master of power storage. He was an engineer, after all, and he is obsessed with improving mana storage capacity. At some point, he will improve his demonic mana capacity and wind up fighting the Omnilord (yes, the demon lord's replacement is a cringe-tastic transmigrator wehraboo.)

They will be fighting in the omnilord's home turf rich with demonic mana.

Freed from the constraints of mana, I was thinking that the MC would repeatedly astrally project out of his current body and make a new one, over and over, while leaving the remaining "body" on "autopilot/muscle memory" so it continues a series of combat maneuvers on "reflex" before melting away. So he an duplicate, but only for a few seconds at a time and the original body can only do "combat reflex" Understand, the MC BEATS THE SHIT OUT OF HIMSELF. He has a TON of combat reflexes. He had his own arm broken repeatedly just so he could get used to setting his own bones and healing himself without thinking about it.

So, given that we're gonna be in the mid-way point boss battle, does this power make sense and is it "cool". I think I makes sense, given the power progression, but I'd like another opinion.

I think it would look good adapted in visual but I don't know if it feel the same in a novel.

 

[melchi]

Okay, so the villain's power was astral projection with the ability to make a new body on location so you can kill him over and over, like a video game, because, well, the world was originally based on a video game. It's got limits, mostly power requirements.

However, the hero murdered the final boss in chapter 25 and didn't even know it, eating his demonic heart in the process. Now, we enter book two and we get to understand many of the secrets of book 1. The hero is a master of power storage. He was an engineer, after all, and he is obsessed with improving mana storage capacity. At some point, he will improve his demonic mana capacity and wind up fighting the Omnilord (yes, the demon lord's replacement is a cringe-tastic transmigrator wehraboo.)

They will be fighting in the omnilord's home turf rich with demonic mana.

Freed from the constraints of mana, I was thinking that the MC would repeatedly astrally project out of his current body and make a new one, over and over, while leaving the remaining "body" on "autopilot/muscle memory" so it continues a series of combat maneuvers on "reflex" before melting away. So he an duplicate, but only for a few seconds at a time and the original body can only do "combat reflex" Understand, the MC BEATS THE SHIT OUT OF HIMSELF. He has a TON of combat reflexes. He had his own arm broken repeatedly just so he could get used to setting his own bones and healing himself without thinking about it.

So, given that we're gonna be in the mid-way point boss battle, does this power make sense and is it "cool". I think I makes sense, given the power progression, but I'd like another opinion.

I don't know. If it gets too esoteric then all it is going to do is confuse readers.

Having instances of the hero can get really confusing fast.
I think more classical uses of astral powers might be easier on readers. Like planar shift where they are effectively invisible or ethereal body to get physical immunity.

Having multiple main character projection could work if they are treated like a group. Spider so what did that.

 

[ThrillingHuman]

It depends on how you made soul-things work in your story. If with the passing of the soul-thing the brain activity stops then it won't be a few seconds, it will probably be like half a second or such and then braindead or just dead bodies start dropping.
If with the passing of the soul-thing a body lacks a will but otherwise is alive, then you can add some kind of exposition of your mc having given himself hypnotic suggestions to fight and fight, and when there is no will to oppose the suggestion, the body does what it's told - fight.
There are many possible scenarios apart from those two, you just have to figure out how astral projecting affects the body.

 

[Theirl]

Okay, so the villain's power was astral projection with the ability to make a new body on location so you can kill him over and over, like a video game, because, well, the world was originally based on a video game. It's got limits, mostly power requirements.

However, the hero murdered the final boss in chapter 25 and didn't even know it, eating his demonic heart in the process. Now, we enter book two and we get to understand many of the secrets of book 1. The hero is a master of power storage. He was an engineer, after all, and he is obsessed with improving mana storage capacity. At some point, he will improve his demonic mana capacity and wind up fighting the Omnilord (yes, the demon lord's replacement is a cringe-tastic transmigrator wehraboo.)

They will be fighting in the omnilord's home turf rich with demonic mana.

Freed from the constraints of mana, I was thinking that the MC would repeatedly astrally project out of his current body and make a new one, over and over, while leaving the remaining "body" on "autopilot/muscle memory" so it continues a series of combat maneuvers on "reflex" before melting away. So he an duplicate, but only for a few seconds at a time and the original body can only do "combat reflex" Understand, the MC BEATS THE SHIT OUT OF HIMSELF. He has a TON of combat reflexes. He had his own arm broken repeatedly just so he could get used to setting his own bones and healing himself without thinking about it.

So, given that we're gonna be in the mid-way point boss battle, does this power make sense and is it "cool". I think I makes sense, given the power progression, but I'd like another opinion.

well a question how can that not backfire to the mc? like revolution of the clones? like from what u said he is already the stronguest so what is stoping one of his clones inherit the next title of demon lord and it become a fight agaist himself?

the power make sense but it dont seem to have a drawn back and if it is cool it depends on how u write it, like if he awaken to the ability to make a bunch of astral projections mid fight it would be cool and would even have consequences for next arc for him having to resolve

 

[Whitephantom]

It depends on how you made soul-things work in your story. If with the passing of the soul-thing the brain activity stops then it won't be a few seconds, it will probably be like half a second or such and then braindead or just dead bodies start dropping.
If with the passing of the soul-thing a body lacks a will but otherwise is alive, then you can add some kind of exposition of your mc having given himself hypnotic suggestions to fight and fight, and when there is no will to oppose the suggestion, the body does what it's told - fight.
There are many possible scenarios apart from those two, you just have to figure out how astral projecting affects the body.

Like what he could do is have the mc before switching to another body tell the current body he’s in now to fight fight fight until let’s say die. And that body without a “soul” would still have a “will”. To further explain its like a snake’s head gets chopped off and the rest of the body squirms, you can say forget why it actually happens and put hey, before I died I put a will on this body to do that until____. It’s simple and flexible to work with I think

 

[Tempokai]

If your hero is a masochistic and hate himself, and it shown in his personality, it's good. If we have ordinary dude, I don't think it's the best way to train

 

[TheEldritchGod]

well a question how can that not backfire to the mc?

They aren't clones. In effect, they are just empty shells of ectoplasm that imitate the MC's body. They would have no intelligence.
Understand the MC is in the body of someone else, and the original owner just came home. So he has a vested interest in getting out of the body to give the original owner some "alone time".

 

[Alfir]

Does it have a Time Loop? It sounds like a Time Loop protag with infinite lives.

 

[Deleted member 68927]

Okay, so the villain's power was astral projection with the ability to make a new body on location so you can kill him over and over, like a video game, because, well, the world was originally based on a video game. It's got limits, mostly power requirements.

However, the hero murdered the final boss in chapter 25 and didn't even know it, eating his demonic heart in the process. Now, we enter book two and we get to understand many of the secrets of book 1. The hero is a master of power storage. He was an engineer, after all, and he is obsessed with improving mana storage capacity. At some point, he will improve his demonic mana capacity and wind up fighting the Omnilord (yes, the demon lord's replacement is a cringe-tastic transmigrator wehraboo.)

They will be fighting in the omnilord's home turf rich with demonic mana.

Freed from the constraints of mana, I was thinking that the MC would repeatedly astrally project out of his current body and make a new one, over and over, while leaving the remaining "body" on "autopilot/muscle memory" so it continues a series of combat maneuvers on "reflex" before melting away. So he an duplicate, but only for a few seconds at a time and the original body can only do "combat reflex" Understand, the MC BEATS THE SHIT OUT OF HIMSELF. He has a TON of combat reflexes. He had his own arm broken repeatedly just so he could get used to setting his own bones and healing himself without thinking about it.

So, given that we're gonna be in the mid-way point boss battle, does this power make sense and is it "cool". I think I makes sense, given the power progression, but I'd like another opinion.

Keep on writing!

 

[TheEldritchGod]

Does it have a Time Loop? It sounds like a Time Loop protag with infinite lives.

No. You astrally project out of your body and form a new body of ectoplasm. Then I thought, Why can't I astrally project AGAIN? Why do i have to go all the way back to the ORIGINAL? What would happen to the old ectoplasmic body? Well, I figured it would linger for a while operating on autopilot. Not exactly a killer move, but certainly distracting. Time travel is basically a no-go.

 

[Alfir]

Astral Projection and Body Replication/Cloning were different. Your Power Idea sounded like the latter than the former. Just for clarification. Was your MC the villain? And your protagonist was the antagonist actually? What was it?

 

[TheEldritchGod]

Astral Projection and Body Replication/Cloning were different. Your Power Idea sounded like the latter than the former. Just for clarification. Was your MC the villain? And your protagonist was the antagonist actually? What was it?

Do you know what a wehraboo is? It's someone obsessed with how cool the Nazis were. Given the Main Antagonist is a wehraboo, I think that gives you a clue as to who the villain is. Also, his nickname is Childr*per the Misogynist, but that needs some context. The MC is an anti-hero turned hero.

The MC is a guy who is kinda meh, but has seen some shit and is very sarcastic yet witty. Think Crichton if he was isekai'd, but had PTSD.

The villain is a wanna-be, fat otoku who is obsessed about the otome game that they got stuck in and decided to use the fact he wrote the WIKI to basically speed run the game and take all the most powerful items for himself, kill the demon lord, become the most powerful demon, then take over the demon kingdom. He is PURE CRINGE. He is a cracked mirror of the MC. He hates women and blames them for everything wrong in his life. He is, in short, a power mad incel who is the most powerful person on the planet and wants to sacrifice the souls of every mortal on the planet to dark gods for even MORE power, because he doesn't think any of them are "real".

 

[Alfir]

So your MC's abilities are Power Storage, and Astral Body(with cloning properties, allowing the MC to spawn repeatedly). Your MC's power, the Astral Body, is most likely the same as the protagonist's abilities from Webtoon, Auto-hunting With My Clones.
Is your Power Idea cool? Yep, it is cool. On the OP scale though, it is mid barely surpassing the weaker tiers. Getting creative on his power to make your MC become stronger will be quite fun and challenging.