Marvel : Master of Role-Playing

"System, aren't you going to explain this to me?"

At this moment, Reid stood in front of the mirror, observing his new abilities. At the same time, his hands kept moving, mixing various chemical substances provided by Wayne Enterprises, concocting something.

His face, or rather, his appearance, changed every second.

In one moment, he was the elegant British gentleman, Alfred. The next, he had become the embodiment of Gotham's madness, the Joker.

Initially, Reid had thought that Alfred's character card had been completely ruined by him and transformed into the Joker's card. But after trying a bit, he realized that his appearance could change freely.

Rather than saying the Joker had replaced Alfred, it was more accurate to say that the Joker and Alfred had merged together.

That also saved him the trouble of making a face mask from human skin.

Still, Reid felt that he needed more explanation from the system.

He had said so much earlier, trying to communicate with the system, but it had replied that there was nothing it could do except increase his acting skill, with no way to obtain new character cards.

And what was the result?

After experimenting, although he hadn't obtained a new character card, he had successfully evolved a normal card into an SSR.

Although still an ordinary person, the Joker was on a completely different level compared to Alfred.

Forget about Dionesium, that miraculous thing that can bring a person back to life—just the Joker's own creation, the Joker infection, which was born from his research on laughing gas, made him a far more dangerous entity.

Anyone infected with the Joker infection would become a new version of the Joker. Even Batman wouldn't be able to avoid it. After being infected with the virus from the Joker's most powerful heart, Batman himself transformed into the "Laughing Bat."

Moreover, because of the knowledge he had gained from the Joker, Reid learned the location of the underground Dionesium pool in Gotham. If he could take control of this place and research and utilize the Dionesium, it would mean he had already conquered half of this Marvel world.

The other half would depend on when he managed to draw Superman or Doctor Manhattan's cards.

"Eh~~"

The system let out a sigh, and Reid raised an eyebrow. Finally, the system's voice was no longer emotionless. It seemed his actions had a significant impact on it?

"Here's the thing, host: the system holds all the bodies and souls of the entire DC universe."

This statement genuinely startled Reid.

He had thought about how the system provided him with character cards, but he never imagined it was this simple.

"Did your previous host take the entire DC universe with them?"

The system naturally didn't answer that question.

"Regarding the origin of the system, I'm sorry, I cannot answer you at this time."

"Continuing from earlier, the system holds the bodies and souls of the entire DC universe. Those useless and weak souls will transform into environment cards along with the surrounding environment, while the powerful souls and bodies will individually become character cards for the host to play."

"As long as you act in accordance with the will of the soul, it will trigger the power within the card, and the card will use this power to strengthen your body until all the power is fully controlled by you."

"However, while you are acting, the cards do not possess their own consciousness. But within the system space, powerful souls retain a certain level of awareness. They cannot think, but they can be attracted by certain actions of yours."

"Alfred's soul didn't want to become the Joker. So, when you harmed yourself, your performance dropped drastically. But ultimately, Alfred had the potential to become the Joker, and your actions attracted the soul of a younger Joker within the system. As a result, the Joker's soul lost control, merging with Alfred's body and card to become what it is now."

"Please, host, never do such things again. The detachment of a soul from the system is an extremely dangerous matter."

When the system said that last sentence, its tone even carried a hint of pleading.

However, Reid certainly wasn't feeling sorry for the system. What mattered to him was only one thing: surviving better in this world.

Raising his hand, Reid took out the laughing gas he had just made and sprayed the green gas at the system panel that only he could see.

The green gas naturally didn't affect the intangible system panel and passed right through it.

"Hahahaha!"

Whether it was because of the laughing gas or just Reid's own desire to laugh, he burst out laughing.

"You're dreaming, system! Either you erase me now, or I will use every possible opportunity to grow stronger. You have your rules, but those rules—I won't follow them quietly. You better be prepared!"

With that, Reid waved his hand to close the system, grabbed the newly made laughing gas, and returned to the basement.

Deep within Reid's consciousness, a human-like face suddenly appeared in the system.

"Still as troublesome as ever..."

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In the future Batcave, now turned into the Joker's lair.

Using Alfred's position as Wayne family's butler, Reid had gathered a lot of materials. Now, he was using the Joker's abilities to create some new equipment.

The equipment used by Joker in the comics was simple, but that was just its appearance. In reality, it was highly effective. Whether it was traps or bombs, they could be used precisely as planned by Joker.

Now, with the support of Wayne Manor, the equipment Reid created was naturally going to be much better.

However, while preparing for his plans, Reid also realized some things were not going smoothly.

Firstly, the Alfred card now had two play degrees: one belonging to Alfred and the other to the Joker.

Alfred's play degree hadn't changed much. It had reset to zero, with the rewards and tasks identical to before, continuing his role in managing Wayne Enterprises and maintaining his outsider form.

But the Joker's play degree was different. There were no form rewards along the way, but the character's tasks were especially absurd.

"Overthrow this world..."

That was something only Joker would come up with.

Clearly, this was a task that couldn't be completed right now. Without the power of the five great cosmic entities, how could anyone overthrow the Marvel world?

"The only good news is that Joker's play degree is now maxed out. Even without using the card, I now have all of Joker's abilities. But considering the effects of the Joker Venom..."

Reid silently made up his mind: he would absolutely not use his own body, Reid, to create laughing gas. Absolutely not! He didn't want to turn into Laughing Reid.

Just imagine—if in the future, after acquiring the abilities of Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Flash, Batman, and Superman, Reid's body were suddenly infected by the Joker Venom...

Reid only fantasized for a moment, and a vivid image appeared in his mind.

That image was of a spherical representation of the Marvel world, suddenly boom... exploding.

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