Daddy !!!

The blood river began to boil and bubble releasing a horrible symphony of screeching and anguish.

The noise it released was deafening and could only be described as the anguish of seventy thousand souls. It was a sound that could shake the souls of all who heard it and destroy their minds.

As the river continued to boil and bubble all the nearby plants began to wither and wilt. Although they had long ago been transformed by Heins's blood curse the power of the unholy sacrifice somehow released a power so horrid that most of the nearby vegetation died within minutes. A little luckier all of the nearby animals and creatures had long ago run off scared by 15's mere presence.

15 was completely unaffected by the unholy screams. In fact, he found them quite pleasing to the ear.

15's pale green eyes were locked onto the boiling river unblinking. 15 was quite entertained by the immense show of power before him and was quite unwilling to look away.

As he was holding the book 15 felt a slight tugging. A force was trying to lift the book out of his hands and in the direction of the ritual. 15 frowned a little and attempted to prevent the manual from flying out of his grasp. It was only after the system sent him a notification reminding him the book was needed if he wanted it to be upgraded that he relented. After a bit of playful resistance 15 released his grip and the leather manual flew out of his hands and levitated above the boiling river.

The arrival of the book took the boiling of the river to an entirely new level. The boiling river became much more violent and turbulent, some of the blood spilling over its banks. With an unceremonious plop, the levitating book suddenly dropped into the bubbling blood.

Instinctively 15 took a step forward and reached out his arm before stepping back.

He was mildly concerned the book would be damaged by the raging river, but he chided himself reminding himself that it was probably part of the ritual needed to upgrade the book. If he could 15 would have asked Heins what was happening, but strangely enough, the demon had gone quiet as soon as the ritual had started, his floating skull was nowhere to be seen.

Soon enough one subsystem was hard at work refining the large sacrifice that it had just received and calculating how to upgrade the damned manual with the enormous amount of souls it had just been sent.

It was in quite the dilemma. Although it had created the strawman creation manual as a reward for an event it was as a human would put it " Kind of a Crappy Reward". The instructions were only readable to only one tribe of a nearly extinct species. The strawman creation technique was convoluted and wasteful and the end result was somewhat unworthy of the effort.

But to its annoyance, someone had prompted an upgrade procedure through the sacrifice system meant to encourage infighting among species.

And to its utter horror that someone had demanded it to upgrade the manual with a good seventy thousand souls. When it had created the manual it had expected it to be left to the dust after a few years, possibly slightly upgraded through the use of some other subsystem or reward. NOT THROUGH THE USE OF SEVENTY THOUSAND SOULS !!!

And so after burning through a good ten thousand of the souls 15 had sacrificed all the system had done was translate the manual to English, and upgrade the strawman technique. Fifteen minutes later it used one-seventh of the offered souls and was scratching its head.

And so an interesting scene occurred .... a young boy stood staring unblinkingly at a boiling river of blood with a silly look on his face unbothered, accompanied only by hellish screams let out by the boiling blood. On the other hand, the sub-system assigned to dealing with soul sacrifices was crunching numbers like nobody's business in an attempt to find some way to upgrade the manual.

Well that was before it realized it could just give up....

Suddenly a screen of light appeared before 15.

-- The -- Strawman Creation Technique -- has been completely upgraded using 1/7 of the souls offered... Continuing the ritual to upgrade the technique may waste some souls. --

-- Continue ?? --

-- Yes-- -- No--

Of course to the sub-systems grief without even blinking 15 innocently pressed yes.

This was completely irregular and unprecedented.

After running 15 emotional response and reasoning calculations the system had calculated that 99.97 percent of humanoids that would be presented with that prompt would select --No -- . This was completely unfair !!!!

I don't want to deal with this stupid human anymore !!!

Time to Call daddy !!!

-- Sub system S- 666-2-1 Has requested Sub System S-666-2 to interfere--

Unknown to 15, Sub System S-666-2 was just as stumped as Sub system S- 666-2-1 as to why anyone would ever waste seventy thousand souls upgrading an F level manual, but the customer is the boss.

Since Sub System S-666-2 had more authority it was allowed to mess with the manual even more and decided to re-work the whole thing.

The -- Strawman creation manual -- was no more.

Instead, the -- Paper People Creation Manual -- was created, and to keep the book consistant with its previous identity there was an entire chapter on strawmen creation in the book as well. The new Manual was three times as thick, with its contents in plain English and easily understandable. It detailed 15 different ways to create Paperman or related varieties of plant based humanoid creatures. These creatures included Paper People, Paper men, Blood paper people, Blood paper men, Straw people, Straw men, and leaf people.

And so after a good thirty minutes of staring at what seemed to be an eternally boiling river of blood 15 finally noticed the boiling to begin to come to a stop. And to his delight, an even bigger blood-red book flew out of the depths of the now calm river. Strangely enough, the book flew towards him quite fast... and right towards his face...

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A good fifteen minutes and a new black eye later 15 was floating upon a much smaller blood river holding his newest possession.

-- Paper People and how to make them, Blood Edition --

- Materials -- ?????????????

- Refined from a similar book through the use of Seventy thousand souls this manual was created for the personal use of 15. Due to the overwhelming amount of souls used to upgrade this book the techniques contained within are top tier. Although due to the slight annoyance of a sub system the book will emit an unpleasant aura.

- Craftsman - This book is system made.

" Hmmm I quite like it "