Seized by the System

Russia was covered in gloom.

Their powerful totemic spirit bear was beaten by the Eastern Dragon God. Plus, billions of people were watching when it was defeated in seconds. This defeat shattered the confidence of many people, and everyone was discussing the possibility of changing their national totem.

However, there were some people who couldn’t care less and were even joking about it.

Inside a private room of a restaurant by the West side of Russia.

“I said before. True power comes from personal training, and it is useless relying on these worships. These totems will be useless when it comes to fighting real powerhouses,” two Russian men around two meters tall was talking to each other while drinking vodka.

“That’s enough, Valery. Without that secret treasure, can you command those ghouls of yours? This isn’t even your own power. My ancestor’s witchcraft is my power. If you lost your treasure now, you can only become my underling,” Alex said with disdain.

Valery stared at him and refuted, “I was just unlucky. I thought the Eastern Dragon God would only appear in China? If I knew it earlier I would have hidden all my ghouls underground.”

Just as the two were about to start a fight, the door was pushed open. A man with a pale face walked in.

“Why are both of you drinking in such a secluded place? Eh, I thought you guys were planning to go and become the head wizard of the Guifang Country and be worshipped by millions of people?” The evil looking man said.

Alex and Valery were both hot-tempered guys. They stood up immediately.

“What do you want, Brook?”

Brook smiled and said, “Nothing, I am here for the same thing. I want to invite you two to become part of our Snake-worshiping Brigade.”

“No way, you bunch of evil lunatics!” Valery rejected immediately.

“Oh my, what did you just say? A person who breaks into the cemetery to revive ghouls is telling us that what we do is evil? I’ve never met such a shameless person in my life,” Brook opened his arms before turning and laughing towards the people outside.

“Haha, this is one of the funniest jokes I’ve heard in this century.”

A group of tall guys entered while laughing uncontrollably. A shorter man wrapped in black cloth was standing out among the group of men.

Valery said angrily, “Do you think we have no idea what you guys did? Your favorite thing to do is cover a secluded village with a mist and kill everyone inside. We only take away newly buried corpses, and we’re kind angels compared to you guys!”

Brook laughed sadistically, “That is the reason why we are inviting you two with our group. We will do the killing while you two can work your magic and revive more ghouls to help us kill more people. We will gain our own benefits by working together to achieve power. This is what a perfect production line looks like.”

Alex started surrounding his hands with blue light after hearing his words. He was filled with dangerous murderous intent.

He said coldly, “You bunch of sadistic crazy people, get out of here!”

Brook said helplessly, “I came to discuss on the possibility of working together, why can’t you two just listen to me? Do you think you still have morality in you? Stop lying to yourself. If you guys can accept that earlier and work with us by making more ghouls, that Eastern Dragon God will no longer defeat you two easily. All he can do is run when he sees you!”

Valery replied angrily, “What will the world become if you do? When everyone is killed by you guys, where can we get more corpse to be revived?”

Brook wagged his finger and said, “No, no. We will not kill everyone. We are all civilized people, not some stupid wizard from the middle ages, who has never learned about labor reproduction. Relax, we are looking to build our own empire. In that place, fear will rule everything and everyone, and you two will be one of the manifestations of that fear.”

When evil learned to use modern theory, they would evolve and become even scarier and stange…

Valery heard him and thought about it, before rejecting him, “No, what you guys are doing is overboard. You will face your demise one day. We cannot work with you guys.”

Alex was more straightforward, “We don’t have anything to talk about with this bunch of lunatics! We want to become the head wizard of a country and be worshipped by the citizens, not some demons that everyone fears!”

Brook shook his head and gave the others a signal.

A cloud of mist covered the restaurant and towards the small town.

“Everyone will submit to fear!” A deep voice appeared in the mist.

Valery and Alex looked at each other and yelled together, “We will only submit to death!”

The two of them jumped out of the window and started running…

Their belongings had been confiscated regularly by the Eastern Dragon God to the point that Fang Ning no longer had the effort to investigate them again.

Brook and the others were getting ready to fight any attacks the two would throw at them. When they saw what happened they were furious.

The mist was not something easy to create. It took them a lot of fear energy to create it, so they will never allow that two to get away from them.

“Move! I want them back here, dead or alive! We need the treasure Valery has!” The short guy in black cloth suddenly said.

“Yes, Lord Hebimaru,” the men bowed towards him and moved strangely before disappearing into the mist.

…

Inside Vigilante A’s farm villa.

“Sir, do you want to get more Experience Points?”

“You humans love to start your conversation with something pointless before ending it the same way…”

Fang Ning replied helplessly, “That’s because we are not as alert as you, Sir. We need to get attention with something pointless. Before that let me ask this. When you are killing those monsters, how do you determine whether they are ok to be killed or not?”

Experience Points was the trump card of Sir System because the System was originated from one of the video games Fang Ning was playing…

So long as the topic was related to getting more Experience Points, Sir System would pay full attention to it.

It immediately answered, “This system evolved when your obsession interfered with it. Basically, there are three categories. So long as the monster did a crime, it will be labeled a color from red to black according to its seriousness, and they are all ok to be killed. They are also killable if they are a threat towards humans or those that threaten us two.”

Fang Ning nodded, “Looks like that to ghouls that were revived by the Russian wizards are classified as the latter two categories. They don’t have control and have no criminal record. Now that I know that, we can do this easier.”

The System heard him and said, “I already know what you are planning. You want me to capture those wizards and order them to revive more ghouls for me to kill, right?”

Fang Ning replied, “You guessed… Anyway, this thing should be against your righteous rules, so we don’t need to think about it.”

The System asked, “Eh since you already know that, what are you planning to do?”

Fang Ning laughed and replied, “You will understand after I tell you a story.”

The System said, “I don’t want to listen to stories. Get to the point.”

Fang Ning didn’t listen to it and told his story anyway. That story happened in a body of a human with a group of good germs, bad germs, and neutral germs.

…

The System felt enlightened after listening to his story, “What good germs, bad germs, neutral germs… What you wanted to say is to defeat those threatening monsters but leave those wizards alive. Let them go and conquer the underworld while I go and kill those monsters from time to time to control their size. This is such an easy task, yet you just need to beat around the bush.”

Fang Ning replied, “What do you know? I am trying to convey a wise theory to you like how a parent teaches their stupid children. What we need to do is become more active instead of waiting around. We need to form a new world according to our needs.

“The new world must support your growth while following the rules set by your righteousness, and also allows me to slack… I mean, allows other people to live peacefully.”

The System said, “Oh, then your theory is very heartless. No, no. It’s too smart…”

Fang Ning replied, “You think I want to do something heartless? Will I suggest this if there were no threats appearing all over the place, and one was greater than the other? You are growing stronger, but so are your enemies. By the time you two grow till the point you can destroy a planet with a single punch, how are the commoners going to survive when there’s a clash?

“You never think about the bigger picture, so you will not think about this. I need to find ways to help you gather more Experience Points to be prepared for the unpredictable. When the time comes and you don’t have any Experience Points to fight back, then we will all face our demise.”

Fang Ning rubbed his head and said after thinking, “However, you should not allow this to happen in China. The Fang family is considered a large family with a long history, so I should have many ancestors. I don’t want you to kill any of them… Don’t let those necromancers enter China.”

The System replied, “Oh, you are so smart, but why didn’t you say so when you saw me killing that two necromancers?”

Fang Ning said, “I was making sure that my plan works to its perfection.”

The System replied, “You are just lazy… You thought of this because you are afraid of that Great Reversal of Heaven and Earth Technique.”

Fang Ning refuted its idea, “We are one. You are using my body to work is equivalent to me working, so how can you say I am being lazy? By the way, you are part of my ability. While the others were awakening their special abilities, I awakened you from my body.”

The System said, “… I’ve never met someone as shameless as you.”

Fang Ning replied, “Thank you.”

The System was speechless, “…”

Fang Ning continued, “Stop acting like you are stuck. Get moving to form a new world. I am estimating that a lot of people are planning to shape the world to their liking. I am fine if they are good people, but we cannot allow those criminals to do what they want.”

Vigilante A flew to the sky and towards the North of China.

…

Just as predicted by Fang Ning, everyone else other than commoners were trying to shape the world to their imagination in this vitality-rich era…

The Truth Department had already started their work since the start of the era. Those spiritually-controlled mechs were one of the manifestations of their ideas. It allowed commoners to be part of the new era, instead of waiting to be butchered due to their lack of abilities.

The Greater Rat Clan was doing the same. They wanted to conquer the underworld and build their own empire.

There were also other evil monsters and criminals hiding in the dark, waiting for their chances to jump into the trend. That was just the start of what’s to come.

As for who would soon be the one shaping the world, and who could push the wave of the era towards his likings, will be determined by their true strength. This world would never revolve around one person only…