Hearing the rooster's crow, Antoine, who was immersed in cultivation, opened his eyes.
He checked the boy's health and saw that his condition was gradually improving.
Since the boy was getting better and the risk of complications was low, he left the cave to attend to his daily tasks.
As a precaution, he left Custos to monitor the boy's condition.
He quickly finished his tasks before returning to the cave. Seeing that his patient was still not awake, Antoine sat down a bit further away, on another straw bed, prepared for when the boy would wake up.
He began to doubt his initial assumptions about being crazy and questioned the system and its veracity.
If the system was real and the abilities he had acquired were not just figments of his imagination, as he had previously believed, his future would become much more interesting. Cultivating immortality as a hermit in the mountains.
Now eager to learn more about the system's abilities, he quickly called up his status.
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Status
Shop
Quests
Links
Disciple
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Nothing had changed since the last time he consulted it. He decided to explore each of the interfaces. He first thought of the status, and the screen in front of him instantly changed, displaying personal data, some of which was still unfamiliar to him.
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Status:
Antoine Wettin
24 years old
Class: Immortal Hermit
Cultivation: 1st Stage of Foundation Building
Skill: Deep Concentration
Ability: Farming (Beginner) / Animal Husbandry (Beginner)
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Seeing this various information, although interesting, it wasn't particularly useful to him. He had tried interacting with the only skill he possessed, but no further information was displayed apart from the name.
Already having a vague idea of what the shop was, he ignored it and went straight to the Quests tab.
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Quests:
Take on a disciple
Reward: Beginner cultivation book, beginner alchemy book, beginner forging book, random movement technique, and random sword technique.Live as a hermit, far from society and worldly distractions, living a frugal and non-material life, detached from the world, self-sufficient, and meditating to reach higher spirituality.
Reward: 1 hermit point per day (1 point is added each day to the reward as long as the streak is not interrupted).
Current duration: 8 days.Develop a skill to beginner level.
Reward: Intermediate and advanced books of the skill and medium-grade artifacts related to the skill.
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Seeing the quest rewards, Antoine was instantly drawn to completing them. The hermit quest wasn't difficult to achieve, as it merely required him to continue living the same lifestyle he had adopted over the past year.
« For the hermit quest, it's a shame the system doesn't count the cumulative days since I started my inheritance. Otherwise, I would be earning more than 350 points a day, and many useful items in the shop would be accessible to me. »
Sighing deeply, Antoine pondered the other two quests he could currently accomplish.
« For the disciple quest, if the young man has a good character and wishes to, I could offer it to him. If he accepts, great, if not, it's no big deal. I don't think it's the kind of thing that should be forced. I must look beyond the system's rewards; choosing a disciple is very important and shouldn't be influenced by external reasons. »
« As for developing a skill, that too shouldn't be rushed. I should first check their details and choose the most appropriate one. Who knows when intermediate and advanced skill books will be available again. When I looked yesterday in the shop, I briefly saw that the price for an intermediate book was set at 1,000 hermit points. If the price of the intermediate book is so high, I don't even dare imagine that of the advanced book. »
Sighing once again, Antoine calmed himself and took a few deep breaths to control his desires. He had to manage his cravings and avoid letting the lure of material rewards lead him astray from his principles.
However, he wouldn't abandon the quests and would accomplish them in due time.
Antoine took some more time to meditate, focusing solely on his mindset before turning his attention to the Links tab.
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Links:
Subjugation Links: /
Equal Links: /
You can bond with beasts that are subjugated to you and unintelligent or with any being that willingly agrees to bond with you. There are two types of bonds: subjugation links and equal links.
For subjugation links, it's a one-sided contract where only the one subjugated must respect the terms.
For equal links, it's a contract where both parties must respect the terms decided at its creation.
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A series of information appeared on the system's blue panel. Antoine, after reading it, thought about it vaguely. Seeing no practical use for this feature in his current situation, he moved directly to the last available system tab.
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Disciple:
/
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Surprisingly, no information was displayed in the disciple category, leaving Antoine to imagine its functionalities.
Having gone through the unknown features, he returned to the shop to explore it more thoroughly. When he had activated it for the first time, he had ignored a lot of information, focusing only on finding an item to heal his patient.
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Shop:
Gâcha
Pill
Artifact
Training
Library
Nature
Miscellaneous
Current balance: 1,016 hermit points
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After seeing the different options in the shop, Antoine got a first idea of what each of them offered. He explored the gâcha first, as it intrigued him the most among the various options.
The system's blue panel then displayed three options to choose from: 100-point draw, 1,000-point draw, and 10,000-point draw. The exorbitant prices of the draws greatly surprised Antoine, especially when he remembered that a life-saving pill cost only 10 points, ten times less than the cheapest draw.
« System, I'm buying a 100-point draw. »
Wanting to get an idea of the draws' usefulness and profitability, Antoine activated the cheapest draw.
After waiting a moment, a response from the system appeared
« Congratulations, you have obtained a time acceleration technique through the 100-point draw. »
YOU ARE READING
Imortal Hermit System
ParanormalAntoine, a hermit living deep in the Himalayas, wakes up one morning with a blue screen in front of his face. An ancient and drowsy voice informs him that Earth has evolved and that the system will be linked...
