Rebirth: 100 Days Before Doomsday - Chapter 147

Chapter 147: System’s Report

[Time until arrival of Blood Rain: 5 Days and 11 Hours]

Grace noticed the system’s timer as soon as she stepped into the living room of the villa after finishing her work in the kitchen.

Because of the extreme cold, the electricity, water, and gas supplies had been going on and off in the outside world. Hence, it had been a while since they prepared the lunch boxes. So when she got fresh harvest from the vegetable garden this morning, she felt like doing some cooking.

Though it wasn’t an easy job to cook so much food on her own, she had gotten used to it after doing so for the past several months. Not only that, but she had also started making use of her power to make the cooking easier for herself.

After finding out the limits of her power with Rune’s help. she sat down with 2025 to do a in-depth study of her power with the system’s help. Since Thought Creation was a superpower that didn’t exist in the previous timeline, the system also had no information on it. But the system was still capable of studying her power and driving facts and information through it.

Grace was surprised by the system’s in-depth study of her power, but at the same time, she was also very much satisfied with it.

As per the system’s report, her power required a source of energy to convert her thoughts into reality. The stronger or more complex the thought, the more energy it would consume.

The second point of the report focused on concept feasibility, meaning her thoughts must align with natural or existing logic. If she would try to create something unnatural, the power would only partially work or might fail entirely as no available resources would align with the concept of her thought.

While these first two points were something she herself didn’t focus on, the third one was a different story as it was the first limit she learnt about her power – the closer and more readily available the resources would be, the quicker and more effective the manifestation of her thought creations would turn out.

The next point was another one that she had already realized – physical actions or movements could serve as catalysts. A thought creation paired with an action would make the manifestation stronger and more precise.

But it was the fifth one that really took her by surprise as she had completely failed to notice this one – Thought creations had a temporal limit. Once created, objects or effects wouldn’t last forever and would revert to their original state after a certain period.

“Is this true?” She had asked 2025 once she was done reading the fifth point on the report.

In response, the little creature had nodded its head before explaining – “But there are exceptions of this rule. For example, if your thought creation is an action, then this particular rule will not apply. If your thought creation is the manifestation of something that didn’t exist in its required state already around you, then this rule will apply on it and the object will return to its original state or place if not used or consumed in time.”

“Then… what’s this time limit?” She had asked next, recalling that none of the products she manifested in Rune’s apartment disappeared within the time frame of forty-two minutes that she spent there.

“For now, it’s somewhere around an hour. But we believe that it can change once you will become stronger.” 2025 had replied.

The next point was somewhat similar to the third one, yet different – her power couldn’t create something from nothing. All her creations must be drawn from existing resources, whether physical, emotional, or energetic.

This was where the report ended. And ever since then, Grace had been trying to test out the given points of the report while using her power. Over the past two days, she did come to notice that the system had done a brilliant job in assessing her power.

The more time she was spending working on her power and learning about it, the easier it was becoming for her to control and understand it. Each day, she spent a few hours working on her power once she was done with all her daily tasks inside the space.

Since the upcoming Blood Rain was going to bring the zombie breakout, she and her team had also started preparations for that. They had tightened the security of the top three floors, distributed more weapons among the team members, enhanced their daily training sessions, and keeping an eye on the situation within the Building k12 as well as on the surrounding areas.

While they were spending their days in preparations for future, Rune was busy using his powers to check the entire Veil to look for further cracks or any other sort of damages.

It was only recently that Grace came to find out that Rune could travel across places with his subconscious mind. He might be sitting inside his apartment while his subconscious state might be walking across the snow-covered streets of a small town located at the far western coast of the Starship Country.

While this appeared to be a really cool ability to possess, it was one that could leave the user drained in no time. It had been days since the night of the monster’s attack and since then, Rune had been able to check only six cities where the Veil was located because of how much it was draining his energy with every use.

According to him, about seventeen more areas were needed to be checked before making sure whether the Veil was safe for the time being or not, and doing so would need about another week.

These efforts of Rune, that he was consistently putting into their preparations, was slowly making everyone in the team see him a new light. But while they all were finally seeing his efforts, his mature side, and his strength, it was still not enough to earn him anyone’s trust… yet.