The leaves by now surrounded the beast, blocking off all its escape path. The beast suddenly became red and charged towards Tim. It had changed its mind, it did not want to attack the guests anymore.
It just wanted to grab its meal and escape. It slammed into the leaves blocking the path to Tim with a sonic speed. POOF POOF
The leaves stopped its charge and disappeared and appeared again with a multiplied number. The leaves were numbering 50,000 now, the beast's entire field of vision was covered by little green leaves.
It wanted to tear up the leaves, but it was scared to. It did not want the leaves to continue to multiply. It just stood looking around for a way to escape like a cornered cat.
"Honestly, I gave you a chance to escape, but you instead went towards the kid we want, how audacious of you" Bubba scolded the beast. The beast was supposedly the apex predator of the forest that they were in, but now it stood in despair, totally soaked in fear.
"Bubba, 50,000 leaves wow. Don't you think that this skill is an overkill. Considering that the beast is far more weaker than you" Xavier asked with his mouth full of the snacks he was munching on.
"You have a point, I will end this. Leaf Coffin" Bubba said, as he clenched his hand into a tight fist.
The leaves around the beast suddenly rushed towards the beast like the beast was a magnet and compressed into a ball of leaves.
The leaves continued to compress until the broken bones of beast reverberated. Fore sure the beast was dead now, but the leaves kept shrinking and shrinking until it became a 2 inches ball, after which it unrolled to become a single leaf and finally disappeared.
"Bubba your skill never cease to amaze me honestly" Xavier praised.
"You don't have to give me unnecessary praise, the skill is very ineffective against strong opponents like you. I just simply bullied the poor beast" Bubba said, as the both of them began to walk towards Tim that was passed out.
Arriving at the bottom of the crater, Bubba gasped. He was expecting Tim to be covered in all sorts of wounds, but Tim's body was at the very peak with not a single scratch on it.
"No wonder you said you want him, so his bloodline has something to do with regeneration. Xavier you corny bastard, you want to recruit a practical undead person so you can test your skills on hm right?" he asked Xavier, who was beside him.
"I actually did not even think of that, but thank you for adding that to the collection of things I will do with him" Xavier replied with a smirk.
"If he is healed already, why is he still unconscious? Can he not heal from his unconsciousness? You know you can't take the boy without him being conscious. Is his bloodline the cause for his unconsciousness? Bubba asked.
"Stop with your questions Bubba, why do you like asking me questions that I almost can't answer? We both came to the cave together how do you expect me to know the answers." Xavier complained.
…
Tim woke up, but not in his physical body, he woke up in his Inner Palace. "Hey you, Inner voice, intruder" he called out.
[ you can very much call me System]
[ My purpose is to guide you on your journey to the very top]
"Guide me to the top you say? Who even sent you? how did you enter my head? I really suspect your motive." He replied not believing a single word the System said.
[I have been with you since the day of your birth. I will not reveal who sent me.]
"If you truly are my guide, where were you when I was being experimented on and used as a form of entertainment to my oppressors? You were no where to be found when I needed you, I grew strong thanks to my hard work.
I will not be needing a guide Thank you, so leave." He ranted
[ I was taking a nap to recover energy, but the nap took a little too long, whether you need me or not I will guide you.]
Veins were bulging on Tim's face. "Did you just say you were taking a nap? Is a 13 years nap actually called a nap or a freaking comma!" Tm screamed.
[ - _- ]
[I will make up for the lost time Tim. I promise you. Look how strong you became without me, with me you are going to be dangerously strong]
Tim immediately cooled down after he heard the last phrase uttered, after all he was always looking for ways to escape the oppression of the strong on him.
"So how do you plan to make me stronger? What can you even do to support me?"
[
How do you think I activated your bloodline skill for you? I can access your bloodline and bring the best out of your bloodline. I can help you Awaken your Talent.
I Have vast knowledge on this universe and other universes, obviously I won't give the knowledge to you for free.
I have a vast collection of skills and empowered items that you can acquire with certain conditions
I can influence your potential and make you level up in strength with some particular requirement.
With your permission I can cast skills for you especially in life threatening situations just like the way I did previously against that beast.
Lastly, I can do this, call out system status
]
Tim that was already mind blown about all the good information he was going to get subconsciously called out the command.
A visual hologram appeared in front of Tim displaying information about him.
[
Specie: UNKNOWN
Awakened Level: 0
EXP: 920/1000
Strength: 13
Speed: 14
Dexterity: 16
Mana Energy: INFINITE
***********
Mana Energy Skill(s): NIL
Battle Technique(s):
(Revolver: A technique created by your own blood and sweat, channel the momentum or force applied to you and redirect it appropriately (You can only redirect force and momentum that is 1.7 times your strength and below)
***********
Bloodline: UNKNOWN
Bloodline Sacrifice: 4/1000
Bloodline Skill(s):
(Vamp: Instantly rebuild your entire body using the appropriate amount of sacrifice.)
(Empowered Body: Create a shell of your body in your Inner Palace and funnel unlimited mana into it which in turn makes everything you do to be Empowered. (The longer the usage, the higher the backlash)
(Accelerated healing (Passive): You regenerate health and stamina at an accelerated rate at all times (currently 15x of normal).)
(Mana Source (Passive): The vast universe has recognized you as a mana energy reservoir, constantly pouring mana energy into your Inner Palace.)
]
"Wow, just wow"
[Your status can also be customized to your liking]
"Wait what! Why is my specie unknown? I am clearly human, I think you are wrong System" he pointed out immediately he started reading the contents
[ I can not lie to you by design. I can only withhold information from you and I tell you the truth when I say that you are an UNKNOWN. You can just imagine yourself to be a new breed.
Have you never wondered why you have a unique bloodline, and why you have that engraving on your chest?]
Tim subconsciously looked at the golden engraving on his chest when the System Pointed it out.
[ It is because you are different. Even I know nothing of the blood that flows within you, maybe as you grow stronger, we would start to uncover the mystery around you]
Tim always thought of himself as human, a human who got lucky enough to have a unique bloodline.
He never knew for sure if there were other specie apart from the ones on Earth 19, not to talk of him being a different specie from the likes of humans.
After thinking for a while he dismissed the thought of him not being human. It was a thing to worry about later.
He resumed the inspection of his status and asked the next information that confused him "Well the awakened level seems accurate. What is this EXP of a thing?
[EXP short for Experience Point, it is the amount of experience required for you to move to the next level]
"Wait what! The experience required for a new level. I am at 920 EXP now does that mean when It reaches 1000 EXP I will be awakened?"
[Yes, you would definitely Awaken when you meet the required experience point for the next level]
"Woah, give me the required EXP to level up already, how do I get the required EXP? I have been waiting too long to awaken my talent" he said happily.
his awakening had been bothering him every single day since he turned 12, so hearing he could finally awaken if he just collects some experience thoroughly made him happy.
[ There are two ways to gather experience points. You can gather experience points by training hard and meditating to increase the strength of your Mana Core, but in your case you need to train extremely hard and increase the strength of your Inner Palace since you don't possess a Mana Core]
"What! I don't have a Mana Core, I thought my Inner Palace was my Mana Core" he exclaimed, surprised by the shocking discovery.