Chapter 258: The Unexpected Gift
"Okay, but first you gotta give me information." Juliet said and looked around, "Am I supposed to stand for who knows how long?"
In response, Keith snapped his fingers and three chairs made of extremely compressed soil came out of the ground.
He sat down first and looked at the other two, "Alright so basically, he's a future version of myself and he's pretty evil.
He's currently recovering from a serious wound so based on my estimates, we have around two years of breathing room. But even with that, he still has the capability to send his army of undead to get us and he has a really big army that's extremely strong."
Juliet thought for a while and then smiled cutely, "And what makes you think that I'll side with you when I can just leave this continent?"
"You would have done that already if you could." Keith said directly, shutting up her argument in an instant.
He then let out a soft sigh, "Look, if I could have done things on my own, then I wouldn't have come to you guys at all. On top of that, as far as I know, he's out for you and he probably wants your abilities." he said and saw the expressions on their faces change.
"Yes, even I have the ability to copy the powers of others but I promise you that I won't touch your awakened ability." he said and added, "After all, unless you're unique, you won't be able to become a third awakened. I mean, a really strong third stage awakened."
Juliet stared at Keith and nodded, "So you do know about it huh…. Alright, I'll join you but that's only for my own sake. I don't want my ability to get stolen so as long as you have the means to protect me in that area, I'll offer my services to you."
"Thanks and as a token of our new alliance, I promise to help you awaken. Or make an attempt for the second time." Keith said and brought his hand forward for a handshake, which Juliet grabbed.
"I can also give you something more… a system that can potentially give you more power or add a new variety to your already strong arsenal. Same thing with you Ken."
Ken nodded, "Do what you want. It's not like I have a say in this…"
Keith in turn, looked at Juliet, "He's got feelings… and well, I don't think it's right to keep him working for you as a slave since feelings are what makes us humans. His body composition does not matter."
"Says the person who literally spies on others. Why don't you tell me how your powers work? I have a guess but I don't really know the details. You probably already know everything about me already since I showed myself to you." she said.
"Your instincts are just… impeccable. Well, I basically give people systems and these systems make them stronger. In return, I get to copy their awakened abilities and also lets me give them something called quests.
Yeah I know, it's hypocritical of me to ask you to free Ken since I'm basically making people do as I want them to, but just in an indirect way. Oh well, at the end of the day, it's your call. I won't interfere in the relationship between you two." he said and let out a sigh before standing up from his chair.
The other two followed him and stood up before Keith pushed the chairs back into the ground. He then snapped his fingers to bring the two of them to his herbivore land, the place where he was breeding goats and rabbits.
"These are food for my wolves and that's the whole goal of this plot of land." he said and brought them to the wolf land next, "Here's the wolves. I've got thirty adults and ten pups so they do need some more time to properly develop and to increase in numbers."
Keith had other plots of land that was solely meant for the time boost of these three plots of land, so he didn't bother showing those to Ken and Juliet.
"Welp, since you guys are on my side now, I should introduce you to my small team." he said and teleported to the small plot of land that spanned five hundred meters on all four sides.
Alpha, Beta and Gerald were all busy sparring with each other but the moment Keith got there, they noticed him and stopped immediately.
"Welp, introduce yourselves and get along. I gotta go now, but I'll be back s-" he said but stopped all of a sudden as a bunch of warning notifications popped up in front of him.
"Give me a second." he said and took a look at the notifications.
[Warning! Needs Immediate Attention. The time flow in the outer world has been decreased to two times it's normal.]
[Warning! Needs Immediate Attention. The time flow in the outer world has been decreased to three times it's normal.]
[Warning! Needs Immediate Attention. The time flow in the outer world has been decreased to four times it's normal.]
[Warning! Needs Immediate Attention. The time flow in the outer world has been decreased to five times it's normal.]
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[Warning! Needs Immediate Attention. The time flow in the outer world has been decreased to ten times it's normal.]
'What? Is that even possible? Wait….' Keith thought to himself and spoke directly to Emma, knowing that she was right inside his system and could read his thoughts.
'Do you think that this is related to my clone? I mean, I technically did awaken with the ability to manipulate time even though it's not directly connected to the real world… or well, maybe I should start calling it outer world now?'
[Well, it's very much possible. The outcome of an awakening is mostly based on your genetics and special resources. In your case, you had access to a bit of mine and Seraphina's divine energy and on top of that, you used the second awakening method to awaken for the first time.]
[My divinity is way stronger than Seraphina's so it probably consumed it and what do you think my power is? It's reality warping but it's limited to this universe. I don't really have the power to alter time and space easily but you can.]
[If I did try, I'd probably just faint from exhaustion and the outcome would probably be the time flow getting sped up by two times it's normal speed.]
[So based on my speculation, my reality warping synergized with your time and space manipulation to give birth to spatial dimension. In this place, you're technically just doing what I can do but with a lower efficiency.] Your journey continues with My Virtual Library Empire
[For example, I can just create a huge mountain of gold out of nothing and it'll take me very less effort meanwhile you know how much mental energy you consume when you try the same.]
[You probably got your own world because I already had control over the outer world and as you already know, two same powers cannot exist at a higher level.
And since you technically used my own divinity, which is extremely potent, it just refused to compete with the rest of my divinity and chose to rule over a pond instead of competing with someone who can control an entire ocean.
Don't take it literally since I'm just making a speculative comparison.]
[As for the other Keith… it looks like he took a different path and we know for sure that he has the ability to control time to a certain extent.]
[Also, you're wrong about the connection between your time control to the outer world. Your spatial dimension's time flow is connected to the outer world so this should have an effect on your time boosts. You should check that out first.]
'The time flow for the entire world slowed down by ten times… does that mean that the time flow for him is the same? Which means that for him, the time currently flows at ten times the pace compared to everyone else. Doesn't this mean that he can recover faster?'
[I said check your plots first… also, can you let me use some of your divine energy? I think I should be able to spot him since he used something that effects the entire world. And this world belongs to me so there's a high possibility of me being able to get him.]
'Feel free to use as much as you want.' Keith said mentally and then took a look at the time flow of his plots.
'System, give me the statistics on the current time flow in every single plot please.'
[Affirmative]
[Collecting Data… Calculating…]
[Time Flow Statistics]
Camphor Plot = 150x outer world's time flow
Wolf Plot = 150x outer world's time flow
Herbivore Plot = 150x outer world's time flow
Three Empty Plots = 0.0066x outer world's time flow
[Note: The statistics are based solely on the sudden change of time flow in the outer world. If the user changes the time flow in any of the plots, the limit will be 15 times compared to the outer world whether it is time slow or time boost.]
'I see… this is a great advantage. Who would have expected his ability to indirectly help me out too…' Keith thought and turned to look at the five people in front of him.
"Something important came up, so I'll take my leave. Man I just wanted to spend some time with my family but fuck…" he cursed and disappeared from their vision before appearing in his room.