My Idle System

"Instability in cell structure. It's something they've long since discovered, but they were unable to find a solution for it." Annabelle said.

It was the exact point he had wanted to arrive at, and finally hearing it mentioned, Christian intended to start explaining things himself at this moment, but his sister, seemingly not finished, continued, "And until now, they've always avoided the problem and gone around it. But their initial purpose of making ordinary people able to train in essence, or hold great strength, has still not been fulfilled."

Was that really their purpose?

While wondering about this piece of information he hadn't known… or more like, hadn't cared to find out, Christian still immediately understood where this was going.

Ordinary people… did that not include Vincent Quinn too, after all?

Someone like him, who held immense wealth and power… the only thing that could still interest him, was his own life. Prolonging it. So, Christian didn't find it strange.

Shaking his head, since this wasn't something he truly cared about, Christian said, "Let's return to cell instability. Do you know the reason behind it?"

Seeing both of them shake their heads, Christian answered his own question, "It's about the talent that the ancient families, others… or even I, test."

"Talent is divided into two parts: essence affinity, and essence attunement."

"And the instability in cells… it's related to essence attunement."

Christian continued explaining things in even more detail.

But where was he going with this conversation?

It was about the nature of these experiments… changing the structure of cells. Or more correctly, reinforcing them.

Just like how experiments done by many institutes and governments in the outside world were conducted on people with decent attunement but low affinity, Christian intended to do something similar with his sister and Eva. Something that would fall under the same principle.

But unlike those experiments, which were actually more based on the abominations, the transformed humans… his were based on the basic use of essence techniques. Or more correctly, on his Flawless Body skill.

He would reinforce their cells with essence, after they exhausted themselves, through the said exercises.

And again, unlike those researches, he read about, where everything was done crudely and purely through science, Christian's method was not the same.

All these people were researching mostly how strength increased through instability in the cells. They tried to induce that instability, and then stop at a limit, so that people would get an easy power-up.

But Christian didn't intend to touch that side at all.

He would never do something that would endanger his sister's or Eva's life.

And luckily, with their talent, it was nearly impossible for them to ever arrive at that point.

Most importantly, he would help them through essence usage.

He was someone who had the Essence Manipulation skill, after all.

A skill that, if advanced enough, he could eventually reach a point where they wouldn't even need to do the said exercises, and he'd still be able to help them raise their strength, safely.

Was that everything there is to this topic?

Naturally, no.

He had come to understand that reinforcing the cells through essence… was a lot more significant than he had initially thought, after all.

Initially, he had based his assumptions on his Flawless Body skill, and thought that while this kind of training could help his sister and Eva raise their physical strength, perhaps even extend their lifespan… it would still only do so to a certain extent. And even that came with a limit.

But he was greatly wrong… no, completely wrong!

Because even if what he was trying to do was based on a part of the Flawless Body skill… it was still not the same. So he had been wrong about the very nature of what he was attempting.

If Christian's thoughts weren't wrong this time, then he had actually discovered a new power system… a system focused on the usage and development of the body, unlike all the ones he had come across from the people of the other worlds, or from the ancient families scattered across the world.

And that would mean… it held immense potential.

That would mean he wouldn't just be raising his sister and Eva's strength or extending their lifespans slightly through this method, but immensely.

Naturally, his current usage of essence was still insufficient to let them reach that level. But the Essence Manipulation skill was still in his Idle slot, meaning he was constantly raising his mastery of it.

That aside… did that mean he was really pioneering a new power system now?

Christian didn't think so.

Something he came to discover and understand just through his measly ability, before he even reached the first mastery stage in the upgraded Breath of the Shadow Blade technique, was bound to be something that many, many people had already known.

Then why had he not discovered anyone training like this before? Why had no one talked about it?

That, he still didn't know.

And that was why he was still a little apprehensive.

Was there something wrong with this power system? Something that made it forbidden, perhaps?

He couldn't know for now, but Christian wasn't without means. He had Talent Detecting, Essence Manipulation, and Human Biology skills, after all.

And naturally, he had conducted experiments to test the safety of this method, and any changes that might happen to the body after he reinforced the cells.

And through these experiments, he found no problem.

Not even with those who had very low talent. One man barely reaching talent rank one, and another not even reaching that. They couldn't be any lower… and still, he found no issue.

Then why was there no one around the world training their bodies like this?

Or… more accurately, why was there no human doing so?

Because there actually were non-humans, beings who trained their bodies through a system somewhat similar to Core Creation, but one that focused far more on the physical aspect than anything else.

Those aside… Christian hadn't found any human counterpart.