*Skill Development: 8 Hours Per Dimensional Day*
The remaining third of each day went to practical skills.
He designed his suit. Not the Spider-Man suit from the movies. His own version. Custom-built for his enhanced genetics and martial arts mastery.
Flexible but protective. Lightweight but durable. Sensor systems integrated throughout. Communications equipment. Medical monitoring. Everything he'd need.
He built an AI assistant. Not JARVIS.
Something uniquely his.
FSIS.
Future Super Intelligence System.
Pronounced "Fizz." Because Peter appreciated a good acronym and also subtle irony.
The AI was rudimentary at first. Basic pattern recognition. Simple task management. But Peter kept improving it. Adding modules. Teaching it. Training it on his own thought patterns and decision-making processes.
By August, FSIS could hold conversations. Analyze data. Provide tactical recommendations. Assist with research. Manage his digital presence and cyber security.
"Good morning, Peter," FSIS said in a smooth, neutral voice. Male but not aggressively so. "You have seventeen new research papers to review and three patent applications awaiting your approval."
"Thank you, FSIS. Summarize the research papers. Flag anything revolutionary."
"Processing. One paper from MIT describes a breakthrough in graphene superconductor production. This could be relevant to your suit design. The others are incremental improvements to existing technologies."
"Pull up the MIT paper. I want to review it personally."
"Understood."
Having an AI assistant made everything more efficient. FSIS could handle routine tasks. Sort through information. Monitor systems. All while Peter focused on higher-level work.
He also studied business management. Financial analysis. Corporate law. Everything needed to manage his growing wealth effectively.
[Current Net Worth: $127 million]
Smart investments in companies he knew would succeed. Apple before the iPhone boom. Google expanding its services. Bitcoin purchases that would pay off massively in future years.
But Peter also invested in infrastructure. Set up shell companies and holding corporations. Distributed his wealth across dozens of legal entities. Made himself hard to track financially.
He purchased property through intermediaries. A warehouse in Queens. Renovated into a hidden base. Nothing flashy. Just secure. A place to work in the real world when needed.
The property had advanced security systems. Backup power. Research equipment. Everything necessary. All purchased anonymously through corporate fronts.
'Backup base,' Peter thought. 'In case the dimensional space ever becomes inaccessible.'
Contingency planning. Always have a backup. Never rely on a single point of failure.
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*July 15th. Real World.*
Peter woke up at 6 AM. His body felt powerful. Controlled. Every movement precise and efficient.
[Status Update]
[Physique: 7.5/10]
[Mind: 10.2/10]
[Spirit: 5.8/10]
He'd surpassed what he thought was peak human for Physique. Kept pushing past the 5.0 threshold. His potential was much higher than normal. Just kept improving.
'But I need to recalibrate my understanding,' Peter thought. 'If 5.0 was Captain America level, what am I now?'
He went to the basement. Did a quick strength test.
Bench press. Started with 225 pounds. Easy. Added weight. 275. Still manageable. 315. Starting to feel it. 405. Difficult but achievable. 450. Maximum effort.
Four hundred fifty pounds. At fifteen years old.
'That's not peak human anymore,' Peter realized. 'That's beyond human. The system's Physique scale goes higher than I thought.'
He checked his sprint time. Ran a measured mile. 3 minutes 47 seconds.
Sub-four-minute mile.
At fifteen.
His vertical jump was 42 inches. His reaction time tested at 120 milliseconds. Far faster than Olympic athletes.
'I need to recalibrate the scale,' Peter thought.
[Revised Physique Scale Understanding:
1.0 = Average human
3.0 = Olympic athlete
5.0 = Peak natural human (Captain America base)
7.5 = Enhanced human (current status)
10.0 = Spider-Man level (estimated post-bite)
15.0 - 20.0+ = Beyond Spider-Man]
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