Chapter 225: Gifting Awakened Ability
'At first, I was like a headless chicken. Picking whatever I thought would work but now that I got the wolves, I don't see a need to keep these goats with me anymore...' he thought but then immediately changed his mind.
'No, the goats are fast and can also attack. I'll need to find a way to incorporate both the wolves and the goats into a proper system where they act as preys and predators.'
He looked at the system screen in front of him.
[Plot has been divided into two equal parts. 500mx250m rectangular area.]
'Hey system... about this time boost thing. Is there a way I can get things done more efficiently? If there's something that I'm missing, then it'll be great if you tell me.'
[Affirmative.]
[User has only been using time boost but never the time slow. Using just one will consume mental energy, but in a specific scenario, the consumption can be made zero.]
[Example Scenario: Use two equal parts of a plot. Boost the time in one of the plots by X and slow down the time in the second plot by the same value. Like speeding up the time by two in one plot and slowing down the time to half in the other.]
"Wait, this let's me bring down the usage of mental energy to zero?"
[Yes. But the user has to keep in mind that if you bring your physical body to the plot where the time is being sped up, then you will also age at the same rate. This can be negated using a clone of yourself.]
"There's no need for making clones of myself right now. After all, we're just talking about goats. They simply need to eat grass and stuff."
[The goats need minerals and salts for their survival. Suggestion: Leave a few blocks of salts on the ground for them to consume whenever needed.]
"Okay got it." Keith said and grinned as he immediately gave out a mental command to boost the time in goat land by 1000, only to get an error message.
[Error: User cannot go above the limits of your maximum mental energy capacity. Current Max: 14times time boost for 1.11 seconds.]
"I see... now much mental energy do I have to spend for each increase? For example for two times boost and three times boost?" he asked and the system immediately gave him a response.
[The mental energy required for each jump in time boost is multiplied by 2.1 times compared to previous. Take time boost 1 as base where there is no boost in time flow. Boosting time by two times will require you to spend 2.1 points of mental energy and boosting it by three times will consume 4.41 points.]
"Alright got it." Keith said and boosted the time of the goat land by 14 times and immediately slowed down the time of wolf land by 14 times.
This act took him almost half a second and consumed half of his mental energy instantly.
"Phew it's done but my head hurts like crazy now...." he muttered and saw way the goats and wolves moved.
"Hey, compared to my time... they are 14 times faster and slower respectively but how much fast is the goat land when compared to wolf land now?"
[The land used to raise goats is 194 times faster than the land used to raise wolves.]
"DAMN!" Keith exclaimed, feeling excited, "I'll go buy some meat so I can feed these wolves for a few days. Once the population of goats reaches thousand, I'll just send the goats to fight for their lives in the wolf lands."
Keith then focused his attention on his 100mx100m land that was separated just for himself and saw the 5 guys still focusing on working out.
"Time to start slaving away for me, you dogs." he muttered as he sent a system seed to one of them and it spread to the other four almost immediately.
Once that was done, he took at look at the list of awakened abilities of the people that his systems had taken root in.
"Let's see.... yeah, this one will do. I'll first recover my mental energy and use everything to give one of these guys an awakened ability." he said as he stared at the guy who was the shortest in the group.
"It'll take five days to give them all their awakened abilities, but that's a necessity and a great investment since I'll be using them for my dirty work from now on."
Keith then shifted his attention to the potatoes that were still lying around and spent the rest of his mental energy to cook, mash and store them before boosting the time by two.
Once he was done with all the things that had to be done, he retracted himself from his spatial dimension and went to bed.
Next morning, he send Miya out to play with Caleb and the others to he could get some alone time with Clara. After indulging in carnal pleasures for almost half an hour, he recovered half of his total mental energy, which filled up his capacity to full.
'Time to awaken one pawn.' he thought as he dived into his spatial dimension and created an illusion.
A being made entirely out of light descended in front of the five men and pointed at the shortest one, "You will be blessed by the great god before the rest. You were noticed for your dedication and hardwork, so congratulations."
The guy knelt down immediately and began thanking, but Keith didn't give a damn and simply got to work.
'System, which ability has the best compatibility with this guy?'
[Metal Control. The original user has very low mental energy, so he was unable to use this ability to the fullest. The one you picked has high compatibility and also has very high mental energy compared to the original user.]
'I see, okay. I'll give that to him.' Keith said mentally and as the ability took root in the guy's body, he fainted and his body heated up.