God of Systems: Maker of Heroes and Villains - Chapter 252

Chapter 252: Fabian’s Grand Reward
A few months later, somewhere in Baroma Kingdom.

Fabian stood in a dimly lit room with all of his limbs chained up.

“Ugh…” he suppressed a groan as one of the three men around him gave him a strong hit. He felt his femur break and puncture the muscles around it, but he grit his teeth and silently stood as it automatically regenerated.

Without waiting, the second guy swung his heavy iron baton, breaking one of Fabian’s arms with a single hit but other than a suppressed grunt, there was no other reaction.

This continued for three whole hours and the guys who were in charge of hitting Fabian, swapped once every thirty minutes.

“Switch your weapons…” Fabian said as he panted with blood slowly dripping from various parts of his body. Even though he kept healing as soon as he got hit, it was inevitable to have some blood drip.

The men around him nodded and switched to a barbed mace before continuing but just after one round, Fabian screamed.

“Stop!” he said and took a few deep breaths before looking at the guy who was right in front of him, “Take off the chains, I got something to do.”

“As you wish, boss.” the man said and hurriedly took the chains off. Fabian rushed out of the room and climbed up the stairs until he reached the first floor.

He turned to look at a familiar face and gave him a curt nod, “Make sure that no one disturbs me. No one.”

“Sure.”

Fabian rushed into his room which was just a few meters away and locked the door behind him before he read the contents of the notification once again.

[Golden Jade Dragon Emperor Daoist Young Master: Junior, it’s time for you to take the next step. Come to me and I’ll help you awaken a second time.]

[Emergency Quest Created]

[Quest: Accept the Golden Jade Dragon Emperor Daoist Young Master’s invitation.]

[Rewards: Second Stage Awakening]

[Punishment for rejection: The young master will be disappointed with your decision.]

“I accept.” Fabian said and the system screen emitted a blinding light, forcing him to shut his eyes close.

Two seconds later, he felt the intensity of the light reduce since the back of his eyelids didn’t look red anymore. He opened his eyes and looked up at the sun that was up in the sky, making him feel a sense of warmth.

“You’ve been working hard.” a voice came from his left, which prompted him to turn around, only for him to see an old man.

The words “young master” gave him a feeling of the man being youthful and young. He had never expected him to be an old man.

Fabian immediately nodded and bowed down, “It’s a pleasure to finally meet you… master.”

“Just call me dragon emperor.” Keith said as he stroked his fake beard that was extremely long and also white.

“Follow me child.” he said and waved his hand, making himself float slightly above the ground as a long sword flew down to act as a platform for him to stand on.

As Keith flew, he looked behind to see Fabian run at full speed as he tried to catch up.

“You’re a very disciplined child.” he said and smiled, “Even I didn’t work as hard as you when I was young.”

He then pointed at a large empty area, “Race me to that place, child. If you win, I’ll give you a cursed artifact.”

“But…” Fabian began, wanting to complain about the unfairness since Keith was flying around on a sword but before he could even get to the point, Keith jumped off his sword and began to run at the same pace.

“But?” Keith asked and Fabian shook his head, “Nothing…. Let’s just race.”

Keith silently watched as Fabian put in full effort to overtake but when there was just two hundred meters left, Keith stopped holding back and ran at full speed.

With partial assistance thanks to his control over the spatial dimension, he cheated and easily overtook Fabian. Once he reached the destination, he stood still and looked forward as he teleported a cup of hot tea that he had prepared in advance.

He held the cup in his hand and close his eyes before taking a sip.

Fabian had reached the destination by now and when he saw the “old man” enjoying his cup of tea, he decided to sit down on the ground and recover slightly since he had strained himself a lot physically in the past few hours.

“Haaaa, nothing beats fresh tea.” Keith said and snapped his fingers, making the terrain shift and transform.

Fabian watched in awe as the whole thing began to take the form of a huge maze, at least in his eyes. Two meter tall walls rose up and the pathways looked really confusing and hard to traverse.

While Fabian simply had mazes in his mind, Keith silently watched the ritual formation take shape. It was 90% similar to the one that he had seen at the church more than a year ago and it was also larger in scale.

“Take a seat right there.” he said and Fabian immediately followed the orders.

Keith then checked the amount of mental energy he had remaining and used a decent chunk of it on Fabian.

[Ding! The Golden Jade Dragon Emperor Daoist Young Master wishes to help you unlock and upgrade your marrow cleansing passive skill.]

[Would you like to accept?]

‘Do you even have to ask?’ Fabian thought, ‘Of course I accept.’

As soon as he did, there was a bombardment of notifications that looked mostly similar, but the meaning behind those small notifications were huge.

[Congratulations! Your Marrow Cleansing Skill has been upgraded to Grade F]

[Congratulations! Your Marrow Cleansing Skill has been upgraded to Grade E]

[Congratulations! Your Marrow Cleansing Skill has been upgraded to Grade D]

[Congratulations! Your Marrow Cleansing Skill has been upgraded to Grade C]

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[Congratulations! Your Marrow Cleansing Skill has been upgraded to Grade SS!]

[Congratulations! Your Marrow Cleansing Skill has been upgraded to Grade SSS!]

Keith silently looked at Fabian who had his mouth wide open while he stared at the system screen in front of him.

‘…. Maybe everything would have gone differently if I made things hard for Vincent like I did with Fabian…’ he thought as he watched Fabian.

The man had changed a lot in the past year. While he was still crafty and didn’t hesitate to pick evil methods, he had learnt to have a baseline for the things he did.

‘Though, I think it’s better for Fabian to continue earning the stuff he wants using the hard way for now. After all, he’s someone who enjoys the grind.’ Keith thought and walked towards Fabian.

“Close your eyes and relax.” he said and placed his hand on Fabian’s head, “Relax…. Relax… I’ll help you recover.”

Keith’s mental energy drained slowly as it was being transferred into Fabian.

“Now all you need to do is close your eyes… yes just like that.” Keith whispered and sat down beside Fabian as the guy drifted off to sleep almost instantly.

With a simple mental command, Keith made a small barrier around Fabian and boosted the time inside it by a whopping twenty times. Then, he waited until Fabian woke up, which was just twenty minutes for Keith.

The barrier instantly vanished and Keith took out a sharp knife and gave it to Fabian, “We’ll need your blood for this one. A lot of blood.”

Fabian nodded and immediately slit his wrist. Then, he swapped the knife to his other hand and repeated the step before looking at Keith for more instructions.

“Just lie down and let your hand hang over the wall so that that blood can drip into the hollow space.” Keith said and snapped his fingers, making almost fifty thousand camphor fruits appear behind him.

Another snap of his finger and all of them were crushed while keeping the seeds intact. Keith teleported the seeds away and watched the bright green oil fall into the formation.

“I’ll be back after twenty hours.” he said as he turned to look at Fabian and once the guy nodded, Keith disappeared.

A few kilometers away, he fell onto a soft mattress that was inside a decent sized hut.

‘Fabian is first but since I’m going to use almost all the fruits on him, I’ll probably have to wait for another week or two before I pick someone else but should it be?’ he thought as he stared at the ceiling.

‘Amelia maybe? But I did promise Caleb so I should probably prioritize him first. There’s Miya too…. She’s really young and she hasn’t undergone an awakening yet, so this should help with giving her a huge boost directly at the first level just like how it happened with me..’

Keith then brought out a system screen in front of him and watched Clark who was still preparing the materials, which were mostly just a lot of animals.

“Isn’t he going to wait for war?” He could literally just pick a place that might have a lot of blood shed and he’ll automatically be able to undergo a second awakening without having to take extra steps. Actually, maybe it’s time…'” he muttered to himself and turned around to look at a small bag that was inside the hut.

‘This much gold isn’t enough, but I guess I’ll just gamble right now.’ he thought and got the gacha wheel pop up in front of him.

“Time to test my luck…” he muttered as his finger moved towards the roll button.