God of Systems: Maker of Heroes and Villains

Chapter 30: Unexpected Returns

Aria was happily roaming around the church when she saw a familiar system screen appear in front of her eyes. She had seen it recently, but didn't understand what it even was as the only thing that it said was that she now had the ability to see a person's threat level through colours.

In the church, there were many male and females that had the colour of dark blue, almost on the verge of violet. There were also some who had orange and red layer of aura.

But this was mostly useless to her as she already knew about these people as she had joined them in a certain "Holy Ritual". While it sounded shady, she still trusted these people and joined them.

This happened for more than a year before her parents gave her away to the church in the name of god. By then, her mind and psyche about the so-called rituals was positive.

But now that she got the system, she began to believe in her subconscious feeling more than what she just saw through her eyes or heard from her ears. All the sweet talks that the priests and high priests gave her fell to deaf ears after she got the system.

To her, this was a gift from god, and the quest announcement in front of her only screamed one thing.

'The holy one wishes to test my belief.' she thought excitedly as she rushed to her quarters and quickly changed into civilian clothes. Once she was done, she didn't bother with anything else and walked out of the church to roam the district.

Everything went fine at first as the people she saw, mostly had white aura or aura with various shades of blue. But things changed after a few minutes of walk. She saw a man reading a newspaper but as she got close, she saw him lower his hands.

This was the time when she slowed down as she saw that he was wearing a mask and masked people were mostly bad news.

The aura around him was white at the start so she continued walking, but the color quickly changed. It went from blue, to orange, to red and finally, stopped at a dark shade of red which almost looked like it was black.

When Aria saw this, the first thing that she did was to turn around and run as fast as she could. After a few seconds of intense running, she turned around and saw that no one was following her, which made her sign in relief.

But she still felt uneasy.

'God's gift will help me out. I just have to walk around.' she thought to herself as she steeled her mind and walked in a different direction.

Unfortunately for her, after five minutes of walk, she saw the same man walking towards her from the front and this time, there was no colour change in his aura as it was red from the start.

Thanks to her "God's Gift" she turned around and ran, losing the masked man once again before heading to another place but this time, she picked a crowded place.

But yet again, after a few minutes, she saw the same guy standing on the side of the street while leaning against the building's wall. This time, she didn't run away and used the cover of multiple people in the crowded market street to walk away from him.

Once she got out of the crowded street, she walked into a nearby alleyway that connected to another large street but while she was halfway past the alleyway, she heard a sound behind her.

It was rough and gritty, but also had a certain youthful feeling to it which gave her the feeling that the gritty voice was made deliberately to hide their actual voice.

"I... I'm a priestess from the Church of God of Money. You'll be marked as a sinner if you harm me."

He had two options. One was to attack her and the other one was to rob her as these were the only two things that could justify his previous actions. He didn't wish to actually hurt her, but taking some money was something he didn't mind as long as he could let her go without any suspicion.

As for other options, Keith just wasn't able to process them at the moment.

"Hmm..." Keith hummed as he got closer to her, "Well, give me all your money and I'll let you go."

"Do you swear on the Money God Mammon that you won't harm me if I give you my money?" she asked while shivering slightly.

Keith did not expect her to get this scared so he took a step back, "Sure. I just want money. Empty all of your pockets and place the money on the ground. Then you're free to leave and I won't do anything."

Aria silently nodded and grabbed the small leather pouch that was tied around her waist before putting it beside her on the ground. Once she did that, she took a step forward and stopped.

"Please don't attack me."

"I won't, just go."

The moment Keith told her to go, she did and she did it extremely fast. Keith silently watched her run away and once she was out of his sight, he took the leather pouch and took out all the money that was inside before tossing it away.

'Her leather pouch is of a higher quality compared to mine, but using it would just raise suspicion.' he thought as he put the money he just got in his pocked before walking away. He then entered a random empty alleyway and took off his mask before heading to a smoked meat shop which was quite far from his sister's house.

On the way, he slowly took out the money that he had just robbed and saw three golden yellow Chron notes. Each one of them had the number 1 on them, but Keith was in awe just from the color of the note.