Seized by the System

Fang Ning watched the puddle of black water disappeared, and a bad feeling emerged from within.

“Why didn’t you destroy it?”

“You finally spoke. I thought you swore an oath of silence forever,” the System was elated.

“Cut out the crap and answer my question. I don’t have the energy to talk nonsense with you,” Fang Ning said in a gloomy tone.

“It’s simple. It didn’t even appear at all. It was just an illusion, but the dead fishes were real,” the System said firmly.

“If that’s really the case, then we’re doomed!” Fang Ning was frightened and his face turned pale.

“What’re you worrying about?” the System asked.

“This means that they could launch a mass killing any time, and we can’t do anything about it! Gods will be gods after all, it’s not easy to deal with them now that they’ve already found our weakness. The pool of dead fishes was clearly a warning!” Fang Ning exclaimed.

“Damn it, I can’t believe they’re threatening me. Do they think that I’m easily scared?” the System was furious.

“Gods are vicious beings. In their eyes, a human being is as worthless as an ant. They won’t show any pity and mercy when the situation’s critical,” Fang Ning was concerned.

“What would happen then?”

“If their rules couldn’t be enforced, the fable about the genesis flood would probably be their precedent, only the ones who obeyed God were allowed on Noah’s Ark,” Fang Ning was a man of wisdom, at least he was more visionary compared to the System who existed only for less than three years.

“No wonder he chose the lake as a place to execute tyranny, it’s actually symbolic,” the System came to a realization.

“That’s right. If we persisted on our own rules, his next step could be polluting all the rivers, lakes and seas, even all the groundwater. Can humans even survive what that happens? He might not be able to defeat us, but he could easily destroy the living environment of all human beings. The people who Vigilante A swore to protect will cease to exist.” Vigilante A said solemnly.

“I guess I’m still innocent and my way of thinking is too simple, their malicious and shameless ways are way beyond my expectations,” the System was shocked.

“You’re too naïve, this is just the beginning. Seeing that they’ve lived through centuries, I believe that they still have numerous evil tricks lining up. They aren’t like the non-player characters in a game who blindly follow the script and only do what they’re told. We’ll never know how powerful they truly are. Catching the thieves would always be wiser than preventing theft,” Fang Ning took the opportunity to educate the System.

“…” the System did not speak for a long time.

Fang Ning did not urge him to, he believed that the System was still willing to learn from his mistakes. The truth would teach him a lesson and so he could be wiser.

“Alright, I made a mistake of presumptuousness. I shouldn’t have acted willfully. What should I do now?” the System said earnestly.

“It’s simple. Acknowledging reality is real wisdom. Our powers are still far behind theirs, we could only strive for better treatment on behalf of the human race and prevent the worst situation from happening. In this case, we could join forces with the gods who still have a good conscience, and compromise on the grounds that our core interests wouldn’t be affected,” Fang Ning said flatly.

He realized now that once he reached a high and influential position, he could never think of only himself.

Unless it was life-threatening, if not he had to take into account the wellbeing of the entire human race.

That was simply because his interests were tied to humans.

Manpower was his biggest wealth. For his property assets to continuously generate wealth, the survival and development of mankind had to be sustained.

Times like these he was glad to be seized by the System, and not an evil god. The System did not need any human or blood sacrifice, he only needed humans to provide him with wealth and a flow of villains.

He was also glad that his values in life were ethical. Otherwise, he would have been a cultivator for evil.

Now he and the System already had the powers to do that, and not a lot of forces could go up against them.

After all, he owned two of the biggest arcane realms, both areas summed up to be more than 25,000 square kilometers. With the use of magic and technology, it was sufficient to cultivate billions of malevolent spirits.

One malevolent spirit was worth 300 experience points, and a cycle was twenty years long. This meant that it would take twenty years to get the experience points equivalent to a deity from the Upper Realm.

“Your idea is not bad,” the System was delighted.

“Your chivalry points decreased,” Fang Ning said coldly.

“Well, it did drop a little. Damn it, I can’t believe a genius plan like this can’t be implemented,” the System was depressed.

“Be grateful, they’ve already shown us mercy to allow us for cultivating the malevolent spirits. This is actually a neutral matter that deviates to the evil side. I guess it’s somehow neutralized because we’re doing it in the name and purpose of righteousness,” Fang Ning said in a condescending tone.

“You have a point. Then you go ahead and contact the deities,” the System said regrettably.

“I don’t have time for this. This can be handled by the Alliance of Good Gods, Bodhisattva might be able to help us to put in a good word,” Fang Ning showed his true colors right away, evading responsibilities as usual.

“I look down on you. You sounded like you had big plans to accomplish for upholding justice. Your strength of will did not even last longer than three seconds, you’re really good-for-nothing,” the System said in a contemptuous tone.

“A man who works using his brain is bound to be a great ruler. Don’t you know that? The sage said it himself.”

“I think you talk more than you work.”

…

On Lunaette a few days after.

The deity in white and a figure in black met up in a trough valley.

“He gave in as expected. He agreed to separate the gods and humans, and also agreed that gods would preside over humans. He only asked that they retained the right to survive.”

The deity in white shook her head. “I thought he had some way of getting the gods to change their minds.”

“He’s a wise man. I’m fond of people like him who are smart and consider themselves as righteous. Once they get the hint, they’ll be willing to back down because they’ve too many concerns,” the figure in black sounded like he everything was within his expectations.

“Alright then. Although we had to use degrading means, at least we got our job done. It’s time to move on to the next phase. Where do you think we should place the mortals?” the deity in white said flatly.

“Place them within the sight of Devil Deity since they can’t stay on Earth anymore. Didn’t you say that they were preparing for exoteric emigration? Then we should just make use of this opportunity to help them and also to show our compassion. Hahaha,” the figure in black suddenly laughed.

The deity in white had no expression on her face, she just shook her head. These ignorant mortals were delusional to go against Devil Deity. It was impossible unless they were still of use and the universe had no better options. Their endings were fated to be like the ones in their fantasy novels.

“Bam!” They would turn into fireworks in the dark universe.

At least they were luckier to have someone powerful to help them fight for their basic rights, so they did not have to be like a lamb to the slaughter.