God of Systems: Maker of Heroes and Villains

Inside a small room in an inn, there were multiple large bowls that were empty.

Keith sat in front of those bowls with a dissatisfied look on his face.

".... luck really is hard to guarantee isn't it? Even though I increased my luck for a second, I still got a yellow system." he muttered and let out a sigh before he went ahead and lied down on his bed.

He felt his mental energy go down at a steady pace as his system seeds automatically spread from one person to another. A little more than 120 and Keith began to feel his head hurt.

'This is not efficient at all... hey system, the left over divine energy. Do I have enough to add another function to my system seeds? I want them to use up fifty person of their host's energy as fuel instead of just mine. Is it possible?'

[Possible. User has enough divine energy to make these changes right now. Would you like me to add this function?]

"Yes." Keith said as he stared at his system screen.

[Affirmative.]

[. . . Adding new function.]

[New Function Added. The system seeds will now use 50% of a hosts mental energy and will constantly drain their physical energy to convert it into mental energy.]

'That's a bit more than what I asked for but alright.... just make sure that the people don't feel these changes.'

[Temporarily nerfing the function. Physical energy conversion will now happen at a very slow pace.]

"Alrighty, great." he muttered as he shifted his attention to the new yellow system he had gained.

'Necromancer system... starting with summoning simple humanoid skeletons to being able to command an entire army of undead huh? In a way, this is better than cultivation system but it does have it's own limitations.' Keith thought as he read it's description for the second time.

The necromancer system allowed it's user to control undead and that was the root of all problems. The undead weren't autonomous and had to be controlled by the "necromancer" through the use of simple commands and even this, was only available if the user unlocked the command function.

Keith let out a soft sigh as the limitations were very clear, but he had the perfect candidate for his new system.

"Gerald.." he muttered as he dived into his spatial dimension and glanced at the girl whom he had put into a temporary coma. He had teleported her into his dimension the moment a system seed took place in her body.

'I made him wait for a long time...' he thought as he snapped his daughter out of her coma and made her appear right in front of her father who was sitting silently in a 10x10m space.

Gerald's eyes went wide and he fell into a state of shock for a moment before he hugged his daughter tight, "Hannah... Hannah, I'm so glad that you're here."

The girl sat on the ground, confused for a few seconds but as her mind absorbed the new situation, she hugged her father back.

"I've fulfilled my promise and now, I'll give you a gift. Would you like to be my apostle?"

The voice echoed loudly and Gerald nodded immediately as he wiped his tears, "Yes, my lord. I will devote my life to your divinity."

"Good." the voice echoed again and Keith gave him the necromancer system before speaking once more.

"You will stand along with Keith Zenister, my first apostle and will act as his sword."

Keith then withdrew and silently watched Gerald as he checked out his system.

Name: Gerald

Physique: Grade C

Genetic Physique Type: Burst

Awakening Status: Awakened

Awakened Ability: Ethereal Psychokinesis

Ethereal Psychokinesis: Create objects and control them mentally.

Necromancy Skills: (All skills currently locked)

Bone Manipulation: Controlling or reshaping of bones.

Undead Summoning: Summon Undead to fight for you.

Corpse Manipulation: Controlling of corpses.

Corpse Reconstruction: Crafting, merging and modification of corpses.

Necrotic Healing: Healing oneself or others by absorbing life force from targets.

Undead's Intelligence: Enables the undead to understand commands.

'I don't have enough mental energy to help him unlock even one of them at this moment, but I'll give him upgrades for free unlike Vincent and Fabian.' Keith thought as he shifted his attention from Gerald.

He glanced at the five ex-criminals and smirked as it was time to put them to use.

'Let's wait for some of my mental energy to recover first...' Keith thought as he withdrew from his spatial dimension and took a nice nap which lasted for more than six hours.
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He dived back into his spatial dimension and saw Gerald sleeping silently beside his daughter.

'Welp, time to wake up broski.' Keith thought as he made a voice echo in Gerald's head.

Gerald immediately jumped up, panting from the shock as he slowly calmed down.

"I want you to teach five sinners the ways of assassination. They will also work for Keith Zenister, but they'll stay in the shadows while you stand beside Keith."

Gerald silently nodded, "As you command, oh great God."

Keith snapped his fingers and teleported Gerald in front of the five men who were busy working out. The moment they all saw him, they stopped what they were doing and silently stared at him cautiously.

"Ahem." Gerald cleared his throat before he went directly to the point, "The great god has commanded me to teach you guys how to assassinate people. Which means, I'll be your teacher from now onwards. Let's start with the introductions, shall we?"

The ex criminals looked at each other and nodded before one of them spoke up.

"We have given up our names and our past, so we have no names." he said and Gerald nodded as a slight smile formed on his face.

"Good. That's a great start." he said and continued, "Assassins need no names, history, or a family. Your entire existence is meant to act as a sword for your masters. From today onwards, you are not humans but tools instead."

The five of them frowned and one among them angrily walked towards Gerald before poking his chest aggressively, "Oy, the only reason we gave up our names is because we wanted to start over. I'm not a tool and I don't have any plans on serving some random bastard."

Gerald was about to speak, but to everyone's surprise a humanoid being made of light appeared above them.

"You are all sinners and already have your names written in the book of hell. Consider this as a chance to redeem yourselves. If you do well, then the God of Systems will personally go and erase your names from the book."

The concept of heaven and hell was something that was ingrained in the minds of almost every single person in this continent, but in reality, things like that did not exist in this world.

There were divine palaces, but in reality, these were just personal spaces of the so-called wannabe gods who were basically just extremely strong awakened beings that underwent the third awakening.

The souls of people would simply be absorbed by the planet, only to get mixed with trillions of souls as a mystical form of energy. This energy was in-fact, the key to third awakening but even the people of this continent did not know of this.

Keith silently watched as the ex criminals were having an existential crisis and didn't get involved further. Gerald took the lead instead.

"I didn't expect something like this but it looks like you guys have no choice." he said, his voice soft..

"Fucking bastards... fucking fuck fuck!!! You're no god! You're a fucking devil!" the guy to whom Keith had given the ability of metal manipulation cursed.

Keith controlled the being of light and made him imitate his body language. It snapped it's fingers and the guy burst into a mist of blood, leaving behind nothing.

"Damn, this crazy... fuuuuc-"

Before he could end his sentence, he met the same fate as the first guy and all that remained after this, was pure silence.

Even Gerald was shook to the core as he saw how ruthless the god he served was.

While the three ex-criminals and Gerald were in a state of shock, a familiar voice echoed in the air.

"I gave you guys a chance before, but now I give you a choice. Forge your minds and bodies for the sole purpose of one man, or meet the same fate as the other two."

The being of light chuckled, "Pick your poison, sinners."

Before any of them could respond, one of the remaining three also burst into a mist of blood. A dull white powder softly fell on the ground while the remaining two jumped backwards.

"He took part in abducting kids and also did unspeakable things to them before selling them off as slaves. Keith absolutely hates people like this, so I decided to take him out of the equation."

Keith silently stared at the remaining three people, one of whom was Gerald. He didn't know why, but all of a sudden, he felt extremely aggressive and impulsive.

'I should just take a step back and leave Gerald to take care of the rest.' he thought as a deep frown formed on his face, "Tch, wasted three days worth of mental energy by killing these three dogs. I should have just done this first before giving them their awakened abilities."

The being of light disappeared after a few seconds and Gerald finally relaxed slightly.

"... I'll just wait for your decisions so take your time." he said and sat down right where he was.