God of Systems: Maker of Heroes and Villains

Chapter 43: First Step to Becoming the Battle God

Vincent was sitting at a table while stuffing himself with bread and stew when a translucent blue screen popped up in front of him.

[Congratulations, you have been selected as the host for Battle God System. From today onwards, you are free to use all the features and abilities that the system can offer. Would you like to check your current stats?]

[Yes || No]

Vincent had heard about people getting blessed by gods through the stories that some people told in in the past, so this was a pleasant surprise which got him a bit too excited.

"Yes!" he said out loud, gaining attention of the people eating nearby, but didn't care too much about them. Instead he stared at the screen in front of him, hoping so see what it had to offer.

[The host can issue commands mentally. There is no need to say them out loud.]

[Host's current stats:]

Physique: Grade F (Absolute garbage)

Genetic Physique Type: Endurance

Awakening Status: Not Awakened (24 days, 4 hours, 49 minutes remaining)

Skill Trees:

Battle God's Body: Locked

Awakened Ability Boost: Locked

Unarmed Combat: Locked

Sword Arts: Locked

Spear Arts: Locked

Staff Arts: Locked

Shield Arts: Locked

Knife Arts: Locked

Archery Mastery: Locked

Throw Mastery: Locked

War God's inheritance: Locked

Vincent read the contents on the screen in awe and by the time he was done, a new system notification popped up.

[Beginner Quest: Visit the Bromburge town's underground cage fight organisation and register your name. Approximate Location: The old weapon store beside the graveyard.]

Reward: Immediate Awakening, Unlock the Battle God's Body.

Seeing this, he quickened his pace and ate the food extremely fast, almost choking a few times. Once he was done, he payed the guy 1 brak coin and left the restaurant.

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Keith leisurely sat in his carriage as he read the contents on the screen, which was showing him Vincent's current actions through text format.

'There's a limit to what I can give him for free. ' he thought as he knew about the limits of his powers. Previously, he only got the white systems, so it didn't have much of an importance but for a red system, things were different.

Every awakened person had a limit to their awakened ability. A perfect example would be Adam's limited bullet creation. Most people wouldn't use their abilities to the limit, but everyone had limits to their capabilities and Adam wasn't an exception to this.

'In simple words, it's similar to a person's physical stamina but the more I use my ability, the more my capacity grows. I could technically give Vincent a lot of freebies, but that won't be worth it in the long run. He needs to feel like he's achieved the rewards on his own, but he does need a boost at this moment.' he thought as he stared at the screen in front of him.

He rubbed his chin, deep in thought for a few minutes before clasping his hands together, "Yeah, there's no need to worry too much. Bromburge's cage fights aren't too deadly."

'As long as he's alive, I can give him a regeneration boost as a participation reward. If he wins a fight, then I'll give him extra stuff but again, I shouldn't give him too much.'

Keith had a lot of time in his hands at the moment as the journey would take around 5 days to get to the nearest river ports. So until then, he planned to focus on Vincent's growth.

'Well, that aside... let's take the tax first shall we?' he thought mentally as he opened up the system screen that he had ignored for the past few minutes.

Battle God System

User: Vincent Vance Valentino

Capabilities: Gives access to multiple skill trees that aid and push the user to become close to a battle god.

System Tax: Physical money; 4 Zen, Inheritance of user's physical ability.

'Hmm, no awakened ability. I guess I'll wait for him to get to that place. Once he awakens it, I'll take a copy of his ability as tax.'

Fortunately, he didn't have to wait for long as Vincent was very proactive when it came to quests. In just a few minutes, Keith got a notification that informed him of the quest's completion.

And at the same time, he also felt lethargic all of a sudden.

'Wow, it feels like all of my energy has been drained.' he thought to himself, 'This isn't something related to calories, food of physical energy for sure. Must be mental energy or maybe there's a special term for it. Though, I wonder why there was no information about mental energy in the novel.'

Keith then began to create another quest for Vincent after taking his newly awakened ability as tax.

[Quest Created]

First Step towards becoming the Battle God: Wait until night and sign up for a fight as a newbie.

Win: Reveal conditions to unlock Unarmed Combat Arts, free regeneration boost.

Lose: Body Regeneration boost in exchange for 1 Zen.

Once done, he sent it to Vincent and leaned back against his seat to get some well needed rest as he was feeling slightly nauseous at the moment. It was just a short nap as he woke up two hours later, feeling better than before.

He raised his index finger and with a simple thought, a spark was generated before it turned into a bright yellow flame. He knew that he could make the flame bigger, but since he was in a carriage and didn't wish to raise suspicion, he decided to test the full extent of his powers later on.

Keith then tried to nap once again, sleeping for an hour or two before waking up and he did this five times until the sun went down. Seeing that now was the right time, he kept his eyes on the system screen and waited.

Minutes slowly passed and even though he was bored, he continued to wait until-

[... Vincent enters the cage and faces the man known as Smelly Rat.]

'Switch to video mode.' Keith gave out a mental command and saw the text on the system screen disappear. Replacing it was a first person view of the cage in Vincent's perspective.