The stingy System [C7]
The next day. Morning in the same room of an unknown house.
When Shu Himo woked up the first scene that greeted him was an enormous man in front of him. Upon better look, he noticed that in the room there were 2 men and the woman from the day before, they were all seemingly middle-aged persons, one was a tiger-man, with orange ears and tail, another was a wolf-man with grey ears and tail, while the woman, was a cat-woman with black ears and tail; Seeing them together staring at him weirdly he was puzzled, so he was about to ask what was happening when they asked first.
"You, what did you do yesterday to fill the room with blood? Do you think that you can just stain everywhere as you like?" The first phrase was already unreasonable, stunned, Shu Himo was about to answer the tiger-man when he noticed that now he gained all the memories from the previous Shu Himo.
Shu Himo is the son of the leader of the Shu family, an influential military family of the kingdom of Arsia. His parents doted him which made him feel like he would be fine forever, so he never bothered to cultivate seriously, making a completely unstable fundament, the news spread quite quickly and his laziness got hated by a lot of people, especially the one that had to work every day to just survive. He gradually got despised by everyone, but he never cared too much about it, after all his father would protect him from anything, and is also not like he did anything that would make someone wanting to kill him. Usually, children would cultivate hardly from 3 years old, but he started at 4 and never bothered too much about it, just the strength of pills was enough for advance.
Knowing that he was extremely weak, these 3 in front of him abused the situation so he got kidnapped to be a pawn in exchange for a cultivation technique from the family;
This panicked him greatly and once got reclused in the room he started fanatically cultivating to get out of this situation, sadly due to not being used to cultivate his cultivation went berserk and died on the spot. Then came the Shu Himo from the other world as the substitute for him.
"Oi! Are you answering me or not?!?" Hearing the displeased voice of the man Shu Himo was about to answer with a scared voice when he suddenly remembered something extremely important! As an expert from reading novels, how could he have forgotten that? He almost felt shame due to a moment of weakness! But now he finally remembered one of the most important rules of being the main character: Always be cool and cold and answer as indifferently as possible!
Using the cold face he trained for ages in front of the mirror, Shu Himo looked toward the man who just talked, gazing at him as if he were a dead man.
"?!?" Shocked, the man jumped back hitting the wall, but he acted like he did not even notice the pain, as being watched like that from a person he deemed as trash completely startled him.
Seeing the reaction from the man, the other two who did not see Shu Himo's face got surprised and almost started to laugh, but as they felt something wrong, they increased their alertness and stopped question about the happening the day before.
"Here is your food. Have fun eating." Said that they proceeded to go out of the room, locking again Shu Himo alone in there.
Once they were out, the two decided to question the tiger-man about what happened inside.
"Jerry, what were you so scared about?" Asked Shera, the cat-woman.
After a moment of hesitation, he decided to talk. "Seeing his face for a moment I felt like if I was locked on by death itself, an incredibly bad feeling, I felt all my back get shivers, and my instinct said to me to get out of there... still, I believe that it happened because I lowered my guard because I considered him a trash... I think we should stop underestimate him or we might get bitten to death without notice." Hearing the nonsense from the man, the other two felt like laughing but still decided to higher a bit their guard against the kid, just to be sure.
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Back at Shu Himo point of view.
Seeing the three go out, Shu Himo calmed down again, feeling proud of his acting level.
[Nice job. You successfully alerted the three enemies reducing your chance to escape or to kill them.]
"System, can you act a bit more proud? As a transmigrator I have my own reputation to protect, I can't feel fear toward a couple weaklings!"
[Those weaklings could easily kill User by themselves... Whatever. User can keep speaking nonsense as much as User want.]
"..." Speechless, Shu Himo started to look around when he heard a sound came from the system.
*Ding!*
[User successfully caused fear toward an enemy! User successfully learned the skill: Intimidation lv_1.]
"Hoho! It seems what I did wasn't useless!" With a smug smile feeling happy having beaten for the first time the system, Shu Himo then proceeded to check his status. "Status!"
[Shu Himo, 6 Years old]
[Hp: 100%] [Mp: 45]
[Strength: 0.3] [Resistence: 0.2] [Agility: 0.5]
[Dexterity: 3.2] [Intelligence: 4.5] [Wisdom: 8.9]
[Realm: Mortal] [Stage: None]
[Skills: [Intimidation lv_1].]
[State: Sooo weak!]
[A number equivalent to 1 is the same as an average mortal person.]
[1 point of intelligence give 10 mana points.]
"So it means I'm extremely weak... but wait, how can you even give a value to 'wisdom'?"
[Wisdom is the value based upon the knowledge User have compared to a normal person. The value "10" is the maximum for a Mortal. Seems like your old life reading novels was somehow useful for something.]
Ignoring again the sarcastic tone of the system, he thought back to the reward of the quest.
"System, what is a Sky graded weapon?"
[Any weapon is normally divided into multiple qualities: Scrap, Human, Earth, Sky, Legendary. Each quality is divided into further 3 subqualities called Low-grade, Mid-grade, and High-grade. For higher qualities is required a system upgrade.]
"I see... System, what about the levels of cultivation and cultivation techniques?"
[The levels of cultivation techniques are divided into the same as weapons: Scrap, Human, Earth, Sky, Legendary and then further divided into 3 subqualities as Low-grade, Mid-grade, and High-grade.]
[The levels of cultivation are: Mortal, Body Strengthening realm, Dantian Core Formation realm, Nascent Soul realm, Longevity realm. Every realm possesses numerous sub-realms. To get information about higher realms is required to reach the Nascent Soul realm and complete Special Quests.]
[The body Strengthening realm is divided into 5 phases: Muscle Strengthening phase, Bone Strengthening phase, Blood Strengthening phase, Meridians Strengthening phase and Acupoints Opening phase.]
"I see... the cultivation technique learned from the Shi family which grade is?"
[The cultivation technique imparted by the Shi family is Low-Earth quality. In this location, it is an extremely high-level technique. it's not a surprise that someone risks their life to get their hands on it.]
"System is it possible to buy cultivation techniques from the shop? Especially Legendary grade ones?" Saying this, Shi Himo's eyes lit up in excitement: what kind of system don't even possess such a basilar cheat?
[Opening the Shop...]
[Welcome to the Shop. Searching for Legendary cultivation techniques.]
[Legendary Moon-breaking cultivation technique. Cost: 600000 BS points.]
[Legendary Sunflower calling cultivation technique. Cost: 400000 BS points.]
[Legendary Death Swordhearth cultivation technique. Cost: 800000 BS points.]
[Legen... BS points.]
"..." Speechless and heartbroken, Shu Himo said with an extremely weak voice: "A discount?..."
[User could buy a fragmented part of the cultivation technique. The cost is lower but it can be used only until a certain realm. It is then possible to buy the next part to proceed later. But the total price will be higher than the normal price.]
This is a scam. Of this Shu Himo was certain. But this doesn't mean he will give up! "System! Which cultivation technique do you believe is more fit in the long run?" Hoping to not get cheated, Shu Himo decided to trust the System for once.
[Advised cultivation technique: Legendary Myriad of Ways cultivation technique. One of the few cultivation techniques that permit a future upgrade from Legendary to a higher rank and work perfectly with any weapon, so the User can try to act cool toward other by showing many weapons.]
Gritting his teeth, not because of the last phrase, but by knowing the implications of such a technique being extremely pricey, Shu Himo finally asked with a trembling voice: "Price?"
[Opening the Shop...]
[Welcome to the Shop. Searching for Fragmented Legendary Myriad of Ways cultivation technique.]
[Fragmented Legendary Myriad of Ways(Muscle Strengthening phase) Body Strengthening realm cultivation technique. Cost: 1 BS point.]
[Fragmented Legendary Myriad of Ways(Bone Strengthening phase) Body Strengthening realm cultivation technique. Cost: 5 BS points.]
[Fragmented Legendary Myriad of Ways(Blood Strengthening phase) Body Strengthening realm cultivation technique. Cost: 15 BS points.]
[Frag... BS points.]
Speechless, unsure of because the price is lower or higher than he thought, or just for the fact that the technique got divided even for each phase, Shu Himo still brought the cultivation method for the Muscle Strengthening phase while cursing at how stingy the system is.
[Dectracting 1 BS point...]
[You now have 0 BS points.]
[Proceeding at integrating "Fragmented Legendary Myriad of Ways(Muscle Strengthening phase) Body Strengthening realm cultivation technique" into user's memory.]
Feeling the string of information slowly entering his memories, Shu Himo got ready to cultivate following the Legendary method.