Chapter 244: Personalised Deck of Cards
It took Keith six whole weeks to reach the closest dukedom even after using a combination of land and water travel. During this time, he changed his plans a little regarding the goats.
He originally only had around twenty adult goats and fifteen kids, which was a low base number in his eyes.
Due to this, he decided to simply buy regular goats in bulk since the main goal was to secure enough food for the wolves.
Mutating hunting monsters was way more practical compared to mutating grass eating herbivores.
Now, after an entire month of traveling, Keith had managed to buy enough goats to reach the four digits. On top of that, he also bought rabbits in bulk since they reproduced a lot quicker.
As the carriage got close to the dukedom, Keith dived into his spatial dimension to take a look at his herbivore plot.
'Hey system, tell me how many goats and rabbits I have. Also include the number of males and females.'
[Affirmative.]
[Goats]
Males: 413
Females: 651
Total: 1064
[Rabbits]
Males: 1431
Females: 1198
Total: 2629
"Alright...." Keith muttered and teleported some of the male rabbits into the wolf land and watched the wolves chase their food.
The rabbits were fast, but they weren't fast enough to escape their fate.
"That's that." he said as he shifted his attention to the plot that now looked crowded thanks to the excessive number of animals.
He had been actively trying to not take taxes since it helped him recover divine energy faster, but at this moment, he could tell that he had to do something about the space really fast.
With a soft sigh, he took taxes from all three people who were currently using his systems.
[Copied Skill: Muscle Strengthening]
[Copied Skill: Awakened Ability Boost]
[Copied Awakened Ability: Ethereal Psychokinesis]
'Show status screen.'
Name: Keith Zenister
Physique: Grade S
Genetic Physique Type: Endurance
Mental Energy: 1185 (1184.96)
Awakening Status: Awakened
Awakened Abilities:
Spatial Dimension (Unique): User has access to a 1km x 1km land that is cut off from the real world and as control over almost everything in this spatial dimension.
Danger Sense: User's body reacts to danger, working like a seventh sense.
Libido and Sensitivity control: Absolute control over libido and sensitivity. Condition to activate is physical contact.
Fire Creation and Manipulation: Creation and Manipulation of any kind of flame.
Supernatural Regeneration: Boosts the regenerative ability to an unbelievable extent. Does not rely on nutrition as a fuel and instead uses Mental Energy.
Ammo Summoning: Summon 9mm ammo and recover 50% of your mental energy through sex. Mental energy recovery can only be done once a day.
Ethereal Psychokinesis(New): Create objects and control them mentally.
Special Skills:
Awakened Ability Boost:
Use it to boost your awakened ability. Can be used once to give permanent boost for free and multiple times for temporary boost at the cost of mental energy.
Regeneration: Grade SSS
Improves stamina recovery and boosts the rate of regeneration of wounds.
Battle Instinct: Grade SSS
The more you fight, the more you learn from the fight. This knowledge will be permanent and cannot be erased under normal circumstances.
[Unarmed Combat Arts]
Fists of Steel -> Red Hot Fists
Fists of Steel: Grade SSS
Increases the hardness of your arms from the fingers to the elbows, directly improving their defense and offense.
Red Hot Fists: Grade SSS
Increases the internal heat of your arms, making them resistant to flames and heat.
[Body Cultivation]
Skin Hardening: Grade SSS
Description: Builds the foundation by fortifying the body's outermost layer, increasing resistance to physical harm.
Muscle Strengthening: Grade C
Description: Muscles thicken and become denser without increasing mass excessively. It enhances flexibility, endurance, strength, agility, and resilience, allowing the user to exert superhuman force.
"Alright... let's test some things first..." Keith thought and immediately used the Awakened ability boost skill. It was almost instinctual and right in front of his eyes, all the plots that had been split up in the past, merged together.
All the living things looked like they were experiencing a time pause while Keith witnessed a miracle.
The plot of land that had an area of one cubic kilometer, began to expand. He didn't know how much time had passed, but when the time flow returned back to normal, he hurriedly made the segregation once again.
"Wow... just one boost and it increased by this much?" he asked himself before addressing his system, "Hey system, tell me the area my spatial dimension right now."
[The current area is 400 million meter square, or 400 kilometer square.]
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"That's a lot..." Keith muttered before asking the other question that was in his mind.
"What about this temporary awakened ability boost? How much will that increase and how much mental energy will it consume?"
[Insufficient Data. User is suggested to use it a few times to gather data.]
Keith nodded and spent his mental energy. First, he used exactly 10%, then he went with 25% and lastly, he hit the 50% mark before asking the system for information.
[Calculating based on new data.]
[The awakened ability passively consumes mental energy proportionate to the amount of mental energy spent. Every 10 points of mental energy spent gives you 1 km square worth of extra land.]
Keith read the response and thought about it a little before speaking, "What did you mean when you said that the ability will passively consume energy proportionate to the amount of mental energy spent?"
[Generating Example.]
[In simple words if you use less mental energy, your mental energy's recovery is not impacted much. But if you use more mental energy, then your recovery will be significantly impacted.]
[Case 1: You use 100 points to create 10kmx10km area of land.]
[Case 2: You use 1000 points to create 100kmx100km area of land.]
[In case 1, you'll only have access to 1085 points of mental energy (1185-100) which means that 100 mental energy points will be locked up. In case 2, you'll only have access to 185 mental energy points (1185-1000).
In a sense, this could be considered as a semi-permanent state. Now, coming to the recovery.
In case one, you'll have 1085 points of mental energy and based on your regeneration capabilities, you can regenerate 10% mental energy every hour. This means that you will regenerate 1085 points of mental energy in 10 hours instead of 1185 points.
Similarly in case two, you'll only be able to regenerate 185 points of mental energy in 10 hours. Indirectly, it will effect your recovery rate.]
Keith stared at the screen for a few seconds as he processed the information and then nodded, "Okay so... the more mental energy I invest in increasing the area, the slower my regeneration will become and it's the same with my capacity since it gets locked. Right?"
[Yes.]
Keith still had a few questions but he didn't feel like getting answers right now since his head was currently feeling prickly inside since he had used up 90% of his mental energy for accumulating data.
'Anyways, time to test other stuff...' he thought and used Awakened ability boost on Danger Sense, only to see that there was no response.
"Hmm... the single use was based on the user and not on the awakened ability huh... well, I was hoping that it would work but I guess there's nothing I can do about it right now..."
[Nah you idiot! (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
I just wake up from my sleep and see you making idiotic assumptions. Tch. It works on multiple awakened abilities but since most of your abilities are artificial, aka, connected to your system, it won't work.
If you underwent a second awakening in the future and you got an ability that's completely different from your current one, then you'll be able to boost that one too.
Anyways, fuck you. I'm going back to sleep. I used way too much of my divine energy to make this shitty server for you and now I can't get my daily entertainment.]
"Emma?" Keith asked, surprised by the sudden change of tone he could sense from the words on the system screen.
Unfortunately for him, there was no response.
He let out a soft sigh and re-read the entire message before nodding to himself, "I see... so my spatial dimension is kinda biological while the others are like extra attachments. Pretty cool... but it feels like this overpowered ability got nerfed.
My disappointment knows no bounds...." he muttered as he looked up at the sky, as if looking at an invisible being who was keeping at eye on the entire universe.
Keith then withdrew from his spatial dimension and got the carriage to stop since he wanted to rest and get back to his optimal state before he started his plans.
"Is something wrong? You wanted to hit them as soon as possible right?" Clara asked and Keith nodded.
"Yeah, hmm... I don't really feel great right now, but maybe I should stick with it. Yeah, let's just do it."
He then took out a stack of playing cards that he had purchased along the way and began to pick out a few of them.
One king, three queens, two jacks and lastly, cards going from 8 to Ace. He didn't care about the spades, hearts, clubs or diamonds and simply focused on the card values.
He took this specific group of 14 cards and tied them up neatly before giving it to Amelia, "Give this to the guards and tell them to deliver it to the Duke."
"Why do you want to do this though?" Amelia asked, looking confused.
Keith smirked as he pointed at the card that was at the top of the stack, "Well..."