Inventors system

Chapter 16: Lilildam 5

After putting the marble away Morana remembered something.

'Now that I remember there was another secret price for upgrading my 'seer' powers to 100% affinity.'

[Yes, there is a master. It's in your space you can check it out.]

With the system's confirmation Morana checked her system space and saw an old looking chest in front of her Lab building. In fact, her space was not that large and it was not small, about the size of a small village.

Space was barren and there was nothing except things she put in, the lab building and the new chest. As she now could enter the space, she decided to open the chest there.

Inside was an old book, Morana felt if she picked it up the book would turn into dust, it had unknown snakeskin cover, purple in color with rips here and there.

After hesitation Morana decided to ask the system.

"Are you sure it's safe to pick it up? It looks too old."

[don't worry master, this book is a bit different, anyway just pick it up and you will know.]

Hearing the system's confirmation Morana no longer hesitated and just picked the book up, seeing that it was not falling apart on the contrary was quite firm Morana finally relaxed.

Then she tried to open the book but somehow, she was unable to do so no matter how hard she tried.

'System'

Hearing impatience in its master's voice system didn't delay anymore.

[master, you need to drop your blood.]

After getting an answer, Morana without hesitation bit down on her snow-white finger and dropped some blood on the book.

As it came in contact with the blood, the book lit up and as if alive flipped itself on the first page. At first it was blank but within seconds words and diagrams and other symbols started appearing on the book and somehow, she understood everything.

After finishing the first page Morana wanted to see the second but somehow, she was once again unable to flip the page.

[Master, you will only be able to see the second page after you perfect what's written on the first.]

"Hmm."

The book was teaching about how to use the power of the seer.

Even though she had her cultivation manual which helped her grow affinities, some powers like seer, witchcraft, and so on were not as simple as abilities like fire or water. They needed special teaching, spells, items, books, and even their own cultivation.

Since this kind of powers were much rarer to inherit and even harder to practice, they eventually went extinct and even forgotten. If Morana didn't have a system, she would be unable to practice them as well.

This first page of the book was beginning for her seer powers sub-cultivation. It taught her basic control.

Her knowledge affinity was the same, it also needed special practices to understand fully, but some of its abilities could still be used without practice.

Witchcraft was no different. Not only did it need another affinity, it also needed a spell book for this time of affinities witchcraft.

So, the only power she could use currently was her common Fire and soon her seer powers.

It was not that system didn't have these practice books, the problem was that even the simplest once were few million system points, so she was just unable to afford them.

After cultivating her seer powers for the remaining days before the competition she managed to perfect about 60% of the practice on the first book.

This was an unimaginable feat achieved only because of her huge INT.

After washing up it was barely morning when she and Samael met up with each other and left for the annual competition.

When they got there, they saw raw of hundreds of people. Samael held Morana in his hands as their appearance draw lots of attention once again.

Of course, it was solely because of their good looks.

After finally signing up was done there were 1176 competitors and so, the first knockout part began.

For the first stage they were all thrown into the large arena that looked like coliseum, only way larger.

And as the competitors looked around the announcer finally came out. It was a tall man, a little bald, he was wearing glasses.

"Hello everyone, I am Stefan and I will be the host for this competition with my beautiful partner Marina." As he announced it, a beautiful blond, woman came into the platform. She was wearing long, burgundy dress. She seductively walked to the Stefan.

"Hello, I am Marina your second host. First of all, I want to thank all the founders and announce this year's competition open. As she finished her words loud cheers and claps were heard from everywhere in the tribunes.

"This year's competition will have 3 stages. First, 'The arena", here competitors will go in all out brawl until only 300 contestants out 0f the said 1176 are left on the stage." Said Stefan and after a little pause to get a reaction he continued.

"The second stage is hide and seek and the third stage is one on one I am sure the last one does not need explaining as for the second stage well you will have to wait to find out about that." His last words earn Stefan a loud booing from the crowd.

He didn't take it to heart and just laughed loudly.

The first stage was nothing much for Morana and Samael in fact this whole competition was pretty easy for them.

When the first stage ended and there were only 300 people left Samael was still holding Morana and they didn't even have a speck of dust on their clothes.

In fact, Morana didn't even make a move this whole time she just enjoyed the princess treatment and as if this whole thing had nothing to do with her, she even fell asleep, giving a hard blow to all other contestants.

Both she and Samael got pretty noticed one for his power while other for sleeping.

Stefan and Marina were making some jokes about her when Samael finally woke her up with a helpless expression.

This few days they got along pretty well, Samael treated her like a little brother(sister) instead of his master. He pampered her a lot and carried her around.

Well he was a very good bro(sis) con turns out, Morana just needed to look once in his way and he would do anything.

His loyalty soared up to 63% which made Morana very happy. In fact, Samael was the one most surprised by all this.

He never thought that someone could touch his cold and frozen heart after all this time. Now he was glad that he agreed on Morana's offer that day.

After being waken up Morana batted her watery eyes.

"Is it over?" She asked.

"Hmm." Answered Samael.

"I am hungry."

Hearing her, already trained bro(sis) con took out some snacks from his space and gave it to Morana.

Looking at their casual interactions both viewers and contestants were speechless.

While other people were bleeding out for this competition, this pair was acting as if they were sightseeing.

Unfortunately, it didn't matter how dissatisfied they were, they could not change the outcome.