The System

CH- 54: A casual meet with gods (I).

    Mindless hunting is meant for those who crossed the line, that single Dandralith, not anyone who can provide XP. Sure he will level up much faster by creating some grey lines, but how many grey lines?

Won't one lead to another, and before the line is erased, can one distinguish one line from another?

The idea of dropping super hacks into luck might seem much, but when a slight shift in luck can flip the coin to life from death, then each point holds an extra life. This still didn't mean Tetsu was going to test his actual three lives provided by the system.

No sir, never.

After consoling his stomach with half-truths and forcing himself to sleep, Tetsu dreamt of his family and a juicy steak encircling him slowly, and—Tetsu jerks awake and erupts out of the ground with a huge centipede around his body.

He screams like a little girl, high-pitched and rasped voice, kicks the centipede away, and runs to safety.

The centipede lands with a thud, shifts its weight around, and taps the floor in a pattern with every pair of legs.

From a solid state, the land transforms into a semi-liquid state, as the centipede swims around on the solid floor and disappears, diving deeper.

"Enough earth mana can do that!" Tetsu exclaims. "Wow." His interest in earth mana increased exponentially. "I also need to find new hiding spots."

Tetsu catches his breath and heads off in the direction of possible meat. Along the way, he created ru'nic formations and relied on normal tracking to find the tiger's dead body. With an insufficient database, 'RR' skill could not place a mark on the tiger, and now Tetsu did the hunt or scavenge the old-fashioned way.

Broken branches there, claw marks here, a part of the missing forest!

"Where the fuck did you go?" *Tetsu gaped at a vast crater, created by pure magic.

There weren't any scorch marks or any signs of battle near the crater. Someone or something snapped a part of the forest out of existence, like scooping out a perfect crater in ice cream.

The crater measured around thirty yards wide and twenty yards deep, and it sat ten yards beside his sleeping hole. An explosion or whatever that can cause such a vast crater can't be done without any commotion.

'A skill?' Tetsu ponders over the only plausible explanation, stirring an unsettling feeling inside his gut.

Another weakness of Tenco Ten is the long-range and mid-range attack. If skills can snap an attack from anywhere, Tenco Ten requires a serious upgrade. Otherwise, things were going to get really dicey.

"If I... eh!" Tetsu screams with his mouth shut.

Being able to use wisps of mana to tag objects can solve all his problems, yet the finished puzzle made no sense.

"I need more practice." Tetsu makes a fist of determination and his stomach growls. "Before that, I need sustenance, it seems! Where is that shadowy tiger?"

He wished the tiger wasn't anywhere near the crater.

Splitting his attention into different aspects, Tetsu focused on tracking his next meal and pondered about bonds.

Tetsu calls it selling one's soul.

"Seriously! What's the point of power if you can't do what you want? The notion sounds preposterous, but who trusts a third party, a government, to handle the issue? Many factors already divide humans. If the human race goes against any hive mind, we will be wiped out."