Wait, System! Stop Helping The Protagonist!

"Then how did ’The Untouched Commoner’ die? Who was able to kill this being?" Now that he has experienced the Limitless Eyes, only now does he understand how broken this pair of eyes is. However, what stumped him the most was what kind of thing ’The Untouched Commoner’ experienced that led to his demise.

"System, is this the same one ’The Untouched Commoner’ had, or did you make a new one?" A thought kept brooding inside him. The power he received was massive, but it also came with the price of great karma. If the system created the Limitless Eyes, then that meant ’The Untouched Commoner’ has yet to be dead. So, ’The Untouched Commoner’ was still alive. However, if ’The Untouched Commoner’ is dead, then he has to prepare himself for this unknown horror.

[ There can’t be a second Limitless Eyes in this universe. Only one pair can exist. This is the restriction the universe has set for it. After the current holder of the Limitless Eyes dies, then it will wait for the next destined one. ]

What Ashton feared the most happened. Shaking away his jumbling mess in his head, he sighed. "The Untouched Commoner, I pray you live a blissful life in the afterlife."

Now that Ashton inherited this legendary figure’s core power, he felt indebted to him, as he felt great reverence for him when he read about his story in the book. So, he decided if he had power to avenge him, he would do it without any hesitation.

"Okay, system. Give me the basic martial arts talent."

Ashton’s mind flooded with all the basic knowledge of martial arts. He felt the martial arts his instructor taught him at the school were too superficial. He could do those moves better now subconsciously and can even perfect them more.

Ashton then brought out five packs of Life Essence Booster. He heard and saw this for the first time. He had never read anything about this in the original book.

"This might be the system’s original creation." Just as Ashton thought, a brief item description appeared before his eyes for the first time.

[ Life Essence Booster: A basic booster potion that helps the consumer increase their Life Essence by one third of the Bronze Life ring. ]

"Direct one-third boost of Bronze Life ring. Hmm... somewhat like the Dust-Haver Fruit. These fruits are monopolized by top-tier forces to cultivate their scions. The protagonist got this at the start of his journey through sheer luck. But those fruits have the side effect of losing life essence if you don’t have a top-tier cultivation method. These Life Essence Boosters on the other hand...have none."

Ashton was amazed yet not so much. If a powerful entity such as the system can’t make such things, then he would be disappointed in it and its parents for raising it wrongly.

And you must be wondering about the Bronze Life Ring or Life Ring in general. It delves into this world’s power levels.

Inhabitants of this world have Life Rings inside them from birth, but only those who can find their Inner Bons and spark them with their life essence can manifest their Life Rings and awaken abilities related to them and becoming a Ringer.

The Life Ring levels this world has are Bronze, Silver, Gold, Rainbow, Holy Fire, Imperial, Transcendence, and lastly, Ascenders. Every Life Ring has to be refined three times, so every major Life Ring has its own sub-levels.

Baron Krestic was at Silver Ring, Refinement 3, and he was also one of the top three strongest beings in this region that encompasses the entire Maple Leaf town.

"However, I can’t use these Life Essence Boosters yet. I have to spark my inner bon first. If I remember correctly, anyone who has passed the age of 18 can try to spark their inner bon, and to do that, you need a Chaos Shard to open the Life Palace first. I am currently 19 years old, so I can try to spark my inner bon. But where can I find the Chaos Shard?"

Ashton sighed in distress. The system gave him great newbie rewards, yet it forgot to give him the key to start the car. "It’s okay. Let’s take one step at a time. I just arrived. There will be more opportunities in the future."

First, he had to find out which timeline he was in. The first major villain was still alive, so the protagonist has yet to begin his journey. It’s just that he was worried if he had already left his village. He worried if something might happen to him as the system talked out plot alteration.

Ashton knew he was jealous of the system giving the protagonist rewards instead of him, but he couldn’t do anything about it. Instead of brooding over it, he should get those little rewards from the task. He needed everything possible to become stronger.

After he properly planned for everything, he went outside to bring some food.

As for why he didn’t eat outside? Because he still couldn’t muster up the courage to stay long outside without any strength.

For the remaining time, he would do some basic exercise to keep himself busy. Giving him the illusion that he was getting stronger.

As the night came, he finally blew out the lamp; he muttered to himself. "I hope nothing goes wrong tomorrow.

MOO~

The sound of a herd of cow mooing woke Ashton up in the morning, and hooves beating the dirt road made him sit straight. He quickly went to wash up himself. Then grabbing the bread piece he saved last night, he left his house in a hurry.

No matter what, he couldn’t make Krestic unhappy today.

For just a five-minute jog, he arrived in front of Baron’s mansion. The main gate wasn’t open, and two guards could be seen standing upright.

Ashton was about to tell them about his dealings with the baron when he heard them say.

"You came right on time. The baron is waiting for you."

"Thank you, brother. Please, lead the way."

’It looks like Krestic really wants to be his second daughter’s royal retainer.’ Ashton thought to himself.

In that same office room.

Along with Ashton and Krestic, there was another individual that was present.

Looking at the Krestic second daughter, who was rubbing her groggy eyes, he couldn’t help but say the first female lead was indeed beautiful despite being a tsundere.