Chapter 168 Chapter 168 - Deal with the system?!
Aiden was currently thinking as to what that deal could possibly be, he wondered if it was going to be some impossible demand or something like that.
He knew one thing though.
He knew that if the system would propose a deal which would restrict his liberty then he would refuse right away and simply use his [Return Stone].
Because the one thing which Aiden wanted was freedom. He wanted to be free without anyone controlling him from the shadows even if that was already kind of the case with the system.
However, who knew the demands that this system could ask?
Then, he heard a beeping noise inside his mind which declared that the system had finished preparing the deal between the two of them.
*BEEP*
[A deal has been created.]
Aiden reading this was anticipating what the system was about to propose to him, he didn't know what it was going to be, but he was curious.
[Deal: The system will give you the method to use Qi and in exchange, Aiden Nightshade will be unable to turn against the system or do something that could harm the system for the rest of his life.]
Aiden reading this didn't completely understand what he had to do. He needed to not turn against the system.
Aiden just didn't understand how such a thing was even possible, how could he turn his back against the system?
Was it a person who was operating that weird system which gives him strength?
Aiden wasn't sure but that deal made him think that maybe the system wasn't a machine or something like that, but simply a person who was organizing everything about it behind the scenes.
However, the same question always popped up inside his mind. who could even manage such a thing?
How could someone be so strong that he could control several worlds, and make people do trials on them?
Who knew how much power was needed to have such a thing?
But the most shocking part was that this entity or whatever it is was asking Aiden, who isn't that strong, to not turn on him for the rest of his life.
'Why?' thought Aiden, directly asking the system as he just couldn't begin to understand why he would need to do something like that.
Was he really such a big threat to the system?
He knows that weird thing had revolved around him but was it so bad that the system wanted to take protective measures against him?
Then, after asking that question, a beeping sound once again resounded in his head.
*BEEP*
[The system can't reveal the reasons for this deal. Do you accept?]
Aiden read this message and only scuffed as he had already what sort of response he would be getting.
Aiden wasn't sure if the best decision here was to accept, he knew that he didn't want to restrict his freedom.
He also knew that the system could potentially do such a thing, so he wasn't sure if it was in his best interest to accept.
*BEEP*
[The system would never make actions that will negatively affect you, and the system will never control you, Aiden.]
'Stop reading my mind,' thought Aiden as he knew that he had to make a choice fast as the people around him were starting to slowly wake up realizing that they still had a war to win.
However, what the system had just added at the end pushed him in one direction. But Aiden wasn't naive, how could he even trust the system?
It was an entity which he knew absolutely nothing about, so how could he even know that it would its word?
Aiden needed some type of assurance that it would respect its part of the deal or else he wouldn't accept.
*BEEP*
[The system gains nothing from slowing down its growth, it wants to see you grow as fast as possible.]
Then, give me answers you stupid system,' thought Aiden as he saw more and more people standing up around him.
He knew that the time was ticking and that he had to make a choice fast or else who knew what would happen.
'Why do want to see me grow stronger, why was I sent to this world? W-what the point of all this?' thought Aiden in his mind, as he was starting to have a mental breakdown.
So many answers that he ignored, so many things that he wanted to know about. However, no matter how much he wanted to have those answers he couldn't.
There was simply no way for him to find them without the help of someone really powerful or the system.
The other option was the system and it was the first that Aiden was actually having a conversation with it.
Then, as he started to lose hope that the system would be answering, another beeping sound resounded in his mind.
*BEEP*
[Make your choice in five seconds or else this deal will disappear forever.]
[5]
'Fuck, fuck, fuck,' thought Aiden as he was thinking as fast as he possibly could.
[4]
The more he thought about it, the more he realized that there weren't any disadvantages to refusing this deal if he trusted everything that the system had mentioned.
That was why he was doubting whether or not to accept this deal.
[3]
'I need to get stronger, that's the best way right now,' thought Aiden as he had made up his mind.
He would accept this deal from the system even if he didn't really want to.
'I accept,' said Aiden in his mind, knowing that the system had won this time.
He needed to get stronger and from what he had seen that energy called Qi had to be incredible because of how strong everyone around him was.
*BEEP*
[Transfering the method...]
Aiden seeing this immediately opened his system's interface as he saw that the method to learn Qi wasn't there, however, there was something else there.
He had obtained a new skill or something similar, however, he couldn't even remember when he had gotten it.
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