My Ultimate Sign-in System Made Me Invincible - Chapter 442 Gifting Friends Exosuit

Chapter 442  Gifting Friends Exosuit

A few minutes before the spacecraft touched down, Matt leaned forward in his seat and looked at Liam with an expression that says he wasn’t sure if he was allowed to ask something.

He tossed around the question in his mind a few more time, still unsure whether to ask, but he decided to ask anyway.

“Liam, for the the exosuits, is today it, or can we actually use them again?”

Liam glanced at him. “You can keep them.”

The cabin went very still, as everyone slowly turned to look at him. They all had heard Matt’s question and they were curious to know Liam’s answer, as they all also have the same question.

But what they didn’t expect was for Liam to say that they could keep it. This was a bit out of their expectations, and they felt that they had heard wrong, and they weren’t the only one.

“Keep them?” Matt asked in confirmation, staring at Liam.

“Yeah, keep them,” Liam confirmed. “Use them whenever you want. Just don’t be careless about it. The last thing any of us needs is footage of someone flying over a city going viral.”

Nobody moved for a moment. Then several people spoke at once.

“You’re serious,” Stacy said.

“He’s serious,” Alex said, at the same time, to nobody in particular.

Matt pointed at Liam, still in disbelief. “I need you to say that one more time. Clearly. Because I need to be absolutely certain I didn’t mishear.”

Liam smiled. “You can keep the exosuit, Matt.”

Matt sat back in his seat and looked at the ceiling of the space shuttle. He stayed like that for several seconds. Then he looked back down.

“Okay,” he said. “Okay.”

Kristopher was the first to collect himself fully. He looked at Liam with an expression that had moved past surprise into one of genuine appreciation.

“Things just keep getting better with you,” he said. The lightness in his voice had a layer of real gratitude underneath it. “Thank you.”

“Don’t thank me yet,” Liam said. “There’s a reason behind it. I’ve been planning to give those to you for a while now. It’s part of how I want to help you all get stronger. The exosuit is a starting point.”

That landed differently than a simple gift would have. The word stronger shifted the frame from generosity into something with more intent behind it.

Kristopher nodded slowly, absorbing the distinction. “Then I’ll make full use of it,” he said. “That I can promise.”

The rest of the boys thanked Liam in the way boys thanked each other, directly and without lingering on it. The girls thanked him with more warmth, though most of them admitted freely that they hadn’t yet worked out what they were going to do with the exosuit. The general consensus was that they would figure it out and that it would almost certainly involve flying somewhere beautiful and taking photographs.

The conversation shifted quickly into speculation, the group talking over each other about possibilities and plans. Matt announced his intention to fly across the world, citing no specific destination, just the general concept of crossing continents at altitude under his own power.

Liam listened to this and said, “You don’t have to worry about being detected.”

“Does it have a stealth system?” Matt asked.

“The suit has two layers of concealment,” Liam said. “A stealth mode that makes it invisible to surveillance systems, radar, satellite tracking, anything electronic. And a cloaking function for full visual invisibility. You could fly over a military base at low altitude and nobody would know you were there.”

There was a pause after Liam said this.

“It also has a shield system,” Liam continued, “for defense against physical and energy-based attacks. And a reflective function that handles extended damage. Absorbs it, redirects it.”

There was another pause, and it was longer this time.

“The one thing it doesn’t have is an offensive weapons system,” he finished. “That was a deliberate choice.”

His friends looked at each other and then back at Liam.

Elise said what several of them were thinking. “We thought it was just a very advanced vacuum suit that could fly.”

“It is that,” Liam said. “Among other things.”

Just as Elise has said, they had assumed the suit was just an advanced vacuum suit with flight capability. Nothing more. But hearing Liam list its actual functions changed that picture completely. This wasn’t consumer technology dressed up in a sleek shell. This was military hardware at a level that had no civilian equivalent and no earthly parallel.

And they knew that if any government got hold of even a single unit, the already delicate global balance of power would break.

The boys, to varying degrees, went somewhere private in their heads for a moment. The cloaking function alone opened doors that had nothing to do with sightseeing. Full invisibility, no electronic signature, defense against attack. The applications extended in directions that none of them said aloud, though the thinking was visible on their faces.

Matt eventually voiced the version of it they were all circling around. “I’m going to be honest,” he said. “If I had this three months ago, before I understood what I was dealing with, I would have done something extremely irresponsible within the first week.”

“Two days,” Alex said.

“Two days,” Matt agreed without arguing.

Kristy looked at her wrist, at the watch sitting there that contained the suit. “We have to be careful with these,” she said. It wasn’t directed at anyone specific. It was a statement to the group as a whole, and the group received it as one.

Nobody disagreed.

The shift in how they looked at Liam was subtle but present. It had been building across the entire trip, accumulating with each revelation, and the exosuit conversation had added another layer. They had known he was exceptional. They had understood for months that he operated at a level entirely separate from what everyone else they knew. But standing in that understanding and actually measuring it were different things.

He had technology that no government on Earth could match, and more of it than he’d shown them. He could travel between universes. He held a monopoly over space itself. His company had changed the world three times in three months and had apparently been holding back without effort.

And he had no interest in leveraging any of it the way someone with that kind of power would be expected to.

Stacy thought about it directly and found herself arriving at something that felt important. The restraint required to have all of that and simply not use it to take whatever you wanted wasn’t a small thing. It was, in a way, more impressive than the power itself. Most people never got the opportunity to know what they would do with unlimited capability. Liam had the opportunity every single day and kept making the same quiet choice.

She didn’t say any of this aloud. But she thought it clearly, and from the looks on a few other faces, she wasn’t alone in the thought.

Matt, working through the same territory, arrived at a slightly different conclusion and found it almost funny. If he were Liam, he genuinely didn’t know what he would do. But he was increasingly certain that taking over Earth wouldn’t even register as an interesting option when you had already been to places that made Earth look like a small room at the end of a very long corridor.

The spacecraft’s descent had been gradual enough that none of them had noticed the approach until the runway appeared through the windows, the private island spreading out below in the late afternoon light.

The landing was smooth and the boarding platform descended immediately after, but nobody moved yet.

Stacy looked at Liam. “What are you doing after this?”

Liam thought about it for a moment. “Probably busy,” he said. “There are things I need to handle in the other universes. A lot I want to do, but a few things are holding me back.” He paused. “My plate is full either way.”

Stacy nodded. Then she looked at him with the directness that was specific to her. “Take care of yourself,” she said. “And this isn’t the polite version of that.  It’s the actual version. Don’t get yourself hurt trying to do everything at once.”

“We mean it,” Elise added.

“Whatever you need,” Kristopher said. “Whatever we can actually help with, we’re available. All of us.”

Liam looked at them. Eight people telling him they had his back. Something about the specific combination of those facts struck him as quietly remarkable.

“I appreciate it,” he said.

Matt shook his head. “Don’t thank us. We’re the ones who should be doing that.” He gestured broadly, encompassing the spacecraft, the day, the wristwatch on their wrists, everything. “You changed what our lives look like. What’s possible in them. That’s not a small thing.”

“It’s not something we’re going to forget,” Harper said.

“We go further for each other,” Alex said. “That’s just how it is now.”

The girls nodded, and the sentiment moved through the group without needing more words than that.

Liam smiled. The warmth in his chest that had been building since the morning was full now, settled and solid.

The platform was waiting and they all stepped off a few seconds later.