How To Be A System (Dummy-Proof Edition)

[Ding! Emergency quest has been released!]

[Emergency quest: KILL!

Detail: Kill that guy and cut any loose end.

Reward: 1000 points.

Failure: 1 minute of electric shock.

Note: If not accepted within one minute, this mission will be counted as failure.]

Seeing the screen I sent, Ren Qingquan stared blankly and entered a dilemma. While he was thinking, one minute passed and I sent another message to him.

[One minute has ended. Initiating punishment.]

After I sent that, Ren Qingquan panicked. 'System, wait! I will do it. I will kill that guy imme-'

[Too late!]

I immediately created 10 energy worth of lightning and continuously sent a part of it to Ren Qingquan's body for a minute straight.

After I sent the first lightning into Ren Qingquan's body, his body quickly went limp and fell to the floor while twitching occasionally. 'Ouch. System, quickly stop.'

I ignored his scream until one minute passed. Before I stopped sending electricity to Ren Qingquan's body and he stood up from the ground.

Shaking his numb body, Ren Qingquan thought of taking a breather for a moment. That is when I repeated the mission I previously sent.

[Ding! Emergency quest has been released!]

[Emergency quest: KILL!

Detail: Kill that guy and cut any loose end.

Reward: 1000 points.

Failure: 1 minute of electric shock.

Note: If not finished within one minute, this mission will be counted as failure.]

Seeing that mission once again, Ren Qingquan's face turned pale and quickly accepted it.

Looking at the unconscious Lackey A, Ren Qingquan thought. 'Sorry, dude. No hard feelings.'

Then, he activated Body Hardening and Armament Transformation once again before turning it into the shape of a sword. With a stabbing motion, that sword pierced right through Lackey A's heart.

Just when I thought Ren Qingquan was going to pull the sword. I heard him thinking about some suspicious thing. 'Hmm, I already pierced him. Let's not stop halfway and make sure he died for good.'

Next, I saw him control Armament Transformation's energy sword to change shape. Suddenly, the sword shaped energy grows several spikes. Those spikes directly turned Lackey A's corpse into a hedgehog.

What the fuck?! I only asked him to kill Lackey A instead of mutilating him!

Ren Qingquan then reabsorbed the energy from Armament Transformation's sword that he used to kill Lackey A.

After he killed Lackey, A and I scanned the corpse several times to make sure he had already lost every vital sign. I notified him of his first quest's completion.

[Congratulation for completing 'Emergency Quest: KILL!'. You have been rewarded with 1000 points.]

Next, I scanned Lackey A's remnant soul using [Scan].

Perhaps because he is quite strong, the memory I can gain from scanning his remnant soul is quite limited. I didn't even learn about his name. But at least, I found some important information.

Lackey A is actually tasked with investigating Ren Qingquan by Young Master Gu Cheng. I am not sure why this Young Master Gu Cheng targeted Ren Qingquan. But, I will note this down.

Then, I remembered Ren Qingquan had granted Young Master Gu Cheng with a sub system containing [Scan].

Guess I need to separate my attention into more things. Thanking the multitasking skill gained from [Calculate] once again, I refocused my attention to that remnant soul.

Seeing as Lackey A's remnant soul is about to disperse, I warned Ren Qingquan about it.

[Host, please quickly throw one of your Lv 1 subsystems near that corpse! His remnant soul is going to disperse!]

Looking at the corpse of Lackey A he just killed, Ren Qingquan is reminded of that miserable corpse he saw at Martial Arts World. But, upon hearing my notification, even if he is still a bit nauseous upon killing someone for the first time. He still tremblingly threw one of the stones containing the Lv 1 subsystem toward the corpse.

Because Ren Qingquan is still busy holding his nauseous feelings. I decided to activate that subsystem's [Devour] on my own. He already knows I can control the subsystems anyway.

Although I can detect the specific energy an item has through using [Scan]. But, since entering the Cultivation World, my [Scan] has been a bit problematic.

So, to make sure I don't accidentally devour some powerful treasure containing low energy content like the formation plate Lackey A used as a trump card. I only specified Lackey A's remnant soul as my target.

Looking at the additional 2 energies, I can only sigh in pity.

If only Ren Qingquan is the one that used [Devour] on that soul. I will gain 100x more energy.

Sharing half the energy I gained from Ren Qingquan, I sent him a notification and a warning.

[Ding! Successfully devoured 1 point! Host, system advises you to quickly pick that guy's corpse before lightning strikes the stone and destroys the corpse together with the treasure he might have! ]

Seeing my warning, Ren Qingquan ran wobbly toward the corpse before picking him up. As I already scanned the corpse and didn't detect any possible trap like poison or hidden weapon, I didn't say anything when he touched the corpse.

Once, he dragged Lackey A's corpse quite far away, he groped around and collected his loot from Lackey A's body.

Three minutes later, he lay on the ground after collecting some precious things like spirit stones and medicinal pill from Lackey A. Among them, there is also the formation plate Lackey A previously used for his final attack.

That is when I get a bit confused.

Where is the feeling of being observed? Did I count the time wrong?

But after another three minutes passed and the sky was still clear, my confusion deepened.

What is happening here?

Another four minutes passes and the sky is still clear. Yet another ten minutes passes and the sky is still clear.

Even after half an hour, the sky is still clear without any trace of cloud.

⊙_⊙

Where is the promised lightning strike?

Ren Qingquan also realized the lack of lightning bolt and asked me about it. 'System, where is the lightning bolt that usually descends after I devoured things?'

[Maybe it got delayed?]

To be honest, I don't even believe that answer. Then, I activated [Calculate] to look for the possible reason.

While at it, I heard Ren Qingquan's next question. 'System, what did you devour previously which gave me 1 points?'

Hmm. I didn't devour anything special. I am sure I only devoured Lackey A's remnant soul and nothing else. I didn't even devour the surrounding sands and ai-

Wait a minute. That is it!

While answering Ren Qingquan's previous system, I also wrote something into the quest panel.

[System previously just devoured that guy's remnant soul. So, System thinks the reason those lightning bolt doesn't strike is because System only devoured that guy's remnant soul.]

Then, I activated the newly added quest function once again and sent a quest to Ren Qingquan.

[Quest: Experiment.

Detail: Check whether only devouring a remnant soul will cause the world to send lightning bolts.

Reward: 1000 points.]

As Ren Qingquan already has enough rest. Upon seeing the quest, he immediately went near the sea and activated his Body Hardening and Armament Transformation once again to create a propeller.

Opening the system map, he swam for two minutes and targeted a nearby random fish at Body Tempering Stage or equal to Martial Master stage and pulled it toward the shore.

Next, he slashed that fish and then collected several stones nearby before granting one of them with Lv 1 [Devour] and threw it out toward the fish.

'Devour the soul of that fish.' Following Ren Qingquan's will. I activated the Lv 1 [Devour] placed on that stone and specifically selected the fish's remnant soul as my target.

As the amount of energy gained from devouring that fish's soul using a Lv 1 subsystem is only 0.2 points. After dividing it into two parts for Ren Qingquan and myself, he only got 0.1 points. Because the total amount of points obtained are less than 1, I only wrote it as 0 energy.

[Ding! Successfully devoured 0 points!]

After seeing that notification, Ren Qingquan quickly ran away and waited.

Just like when I devoured Lackey A's remnant soul previously, even after ten minutes has passed, there is still no sign of any lightning cloud.

Waiting for another ten minutes to make sure. I finally concluded it is possible to absorb the soul without repercussions.

So, I rewarded Ren Qingquan with the quest reward.

[Congratulations for completing 'Quest: Experiment'. You have been rewarded with 1000 points.]

'Hehehe. That reward is equal to 100 minutes of my hard work.' Seeing the amount of points gained from the quest, Ren Qingquan grinned before asking me. 'System, can you tell me the specific amount of points I gained from devouring that fish?'

[The exact amount of point host devoured is 0.1]

Seeing the exact amount, Ren Qingquan started to calculate which option is better. 'I can gather 600 points per hour from those lightning punishments. Meanwhile, the amount of points I can obtain from killing and absorbing souls is only less than 0.1 points /minutes which is depending on how many creatures I killed.'

Hearing Ren Qingquan thinking up to this point. I feel the need to remind him.

[Host, if swallowing the soul doesn't cause any lightning strike. That means you can use your 'Devour' to swallow them. Which increase your income by 100x compared to using a Lv 1 Subsystem]

Reading my message, Ren Qingquan's eyes widened as he facepalm in disbelief. 'How can I forget about this!'

As devouring things with his own [Devour] concerned his own well-being, Ren Qingquan decided to do several more experiments to make sure about it.

Summoning his propeller once again, he went toward the sea and pulled three Body Tempering Stage fishes toward the shore.

Collecting three stones from nearby, he granted them with Lv 1 to Lv 3 subsystems containing [Devour] and other random functions.

At first Ren Qingquan wished to use only Lv 1 subsystem. But, just in case the lightning will only descend when a certain amount of souls are devoured at once. He decided to experiment with different leveled [Devour].

Ren Qingquan then killed one of those fishes before activating the Lv 1 subsystem to collect those fishes' souls.

[Ding! Successfully devoured 0 points!]

Then, he moved toward another fish before killing it. Throwing the stone with Lv 2 [Devour], I followed his command to activate it.

[Ding! Successfully devoured 0 points!]

After I sent another identical notification, Ren Qingquan moved on toward the third fish.

Killing it with a slash of his energy sword, he throws a stone with Lv 3 [Devour].

[Ding! Successfully devoured 1 point!]

This time, I sent a notification telling Ren Qingquan he gained one point of energy.

Waiting for twenty minutes, until the sun slowly descended toward the horizon. Ren Qingquan is finally sure he won't be struck by a lightning bolt upon [Devouring] souls and decides to devour a fish's soul himself.

He then glanced at the sun which slowly set, and decided to quickly pick up a fish as his experimental material.

Summoning his propeller, he jumped into the sea once again. 2 minutes of swimming later, there is already a fish on Ren Qingquan's hand.

Killing it with a single slash, he asked me to devour the soul of that fish.

Activating Ren Qingquan's [Devour], I targeted that fish's soul and swallowed it. Sensing an increase of 20 energies, I sent half of it to Ren Qingquan.

[Ding! Successfully devoured 10 points!]

As I don't want him to suddenly die due to being struck by lightning, I focused most of my attention toward the sky above Ren Qingquan. I also prepared myself to activate [Transfer] and teleported him upon sensing any slight change.

After ten minutes, I sensed no change.

Perhaps because Ren Qingquan has overclocked his brain from all the experiments and got tired. Upon seeing there were no lightning clouds after 10 minutes passed, he pulled his 2x2x2 metal shelter from [Storage] and decided to sleep.