God of Systems: Maker of Heroes and Villains - Chapter 236

Chapter 236: Skill Experimentation

“Yes… I’m Beta and this is Alpha. We swore to live the rest of our lives for your sake.” Beta said and Keith nodded with a smile on his face, “I see, at least you guys won’t harm the innocent anymore.”

“Anyways, what are you guys doing right now?” he asked as he looked at Gerald.

“Just testing out this new system thing of mine, that’s all. I’ll need some corpses to test more but I don’t think I’m allowed to harm these goats here…”

Keith nodded, “Yeah, don’t touch them.”

This time, his tone was different and sounded more like a command instead of a request.

Gerald instinctively nodded in response, but Keith hummed before speaking, “Hmm… you just need corpses right?” he asked and the guy nodded.

Keith turned to look at Beta, “Time for your first mission. I’ll send you somewhere and all you have to do is place your hand on the animals near you. I’ll make sure to bring you back here if things get dangerous.”

“As you command, master.”

‘Master huh…’ Keith thought. He didn’t like it but he also didn’t complain about it.

Keith then snapped his fingers and Beta disappeared. He then glanced at Alpha and said, “I think it’ll be better for you to join him too. Just shock the humans that see you guys and make sure to not kill them.”

“Okay.” Alpha said and instantly found himself in front of a middle aged scrawny man who looked horrified.

From the corner of his eyes, he saw Beta running as he slapped the cows, calves, bulls, steers and oxen.

Alpha immediately placed his hand on the middle aged man’s shoulder and sent a small jolt of electricity. The man lost focus and fell to the ground as his muscles spasmed violently before relaxing.

The soil near his groin turned wet, but Alpha didn’t pay him any more attention and kept an eye on his surroundings.

There were barely any humans here and other than the guy who was now on the ground, Alpha saw no one.

The job was done quickly and after just ten minutes, there were eight people who were passed out. The two of them had managed to get their hands on pigs, boars, sheep and even goats apart from the cows.

Once they were done, they found themselves back in front of Gerald and Keith.

Keith then snapped his fingers and two steers appeared in front of the group. Steers were just castrated bulls that were raised solely for the purpose of meat.

“Feel free to use these for testing.” he said to Gerald before he turned to look at Alpha, “Kill them both. Nah, wait…”

Keith placed his hand on both the steers and decreased their sensitivity to pain and touch to an extent that they’d feel absolutely nothing.

He then turned to look at Gerald, “Tell me about your skills. All of them.”

Gerald began to tell Keith about his necromancy skills and once he was done, Keith silently nodded before pointing at the steers in front of him, “Bone Manipulation. Crush their skulls and pierce their brains with the bone pieces.”

“What? But it’s alive…”

“The skill description doesn’t say that it can only be used on the bones of dead things now does it?” Keith asked, making Gerald realize that he was not thinking creatively.

Hearing Keith’s words, Gerald nodded, “Okay let me try.”

He tried using mental commands, mental visualizations and even tried to use his hands like a fraud shaman to control the skull, but it just did not work.

“Welp, looks like it only works on the bones of the dead. A pity really, but it’s always a good idea to test things out instead of assuming that it will never work.” he said as he looked at Gerald and then added, “As for undead summoning… it’s called undead summoning for a reason right? It’s not called skeleton summoning.”

“What are you trying to say?” Gerald asked, frowning slightly, “Undead is basically a skeleton right? They crawl out of the ground and what not.”

Keith stared at Gerald for a few seconds but he understood why his thinking was so linear.

‘He doesn’t have access to novels, mangas and anime so no wonder he doesn’t know about zombies, death knights and things like bone dragons. It’s fine though, I should be able to teach him but I think I’ll have to give him some sort of image reference first.

It’s most probably dependent on his imagination, so there’s no way he’ll be able to…. wait.’

“Hey Gerald, imagine a dead human. Those are zombies basically. Imagine those and use undead summoning.” he said and Gerald nodded.

A few seconds later, nine zombies appeared in front of the group. They looked human but had intense stench coming from them.

“Works…” Keith muttered and Gerald nodded in response as he hid his excitement.

“Alright Beta, kill these two steers and let’s get to work.” Keith said as he looked at the guy and Beta nodded before stabbing a dagger into the eyes of the creatures in front of him.

It was an instant death.

“Corpse manipulation and reconstruction are the two skills that are left right?”

Gerald looked at Keith and nodded, “Yes. Let me try it out.”

Corpse manipulation felt very similar to bone manipulation, but it was also very different.

When it came to bone manipulation, he had to control every single bone but it was different for corpses.

Controlling each one of the steers felt like he was controlling one bone each and on top of that, he could sense that the creatures in front of him could follow simple commands just like the skeletons a few minutes ago.

He tested out various commands with Keith and once he was done, it was time for corpse reconstruction.

“Merge both the steers or separate the flesh from bones. Do whatever you want and play around with the skill. It has insane potential.” Keith said before taking a few steps back, “I’ll take my leave for now, so let’s meet again later.”