Chapter 139 A New System Upgrade, Emma's Help
Keith rushed back to Bromburge town and went to bed, only to wake up in the afternoon. He grabbed some lunch and passed some time until it was night so that he could get into the underground cage fights.
He registered himself under the alias "Newbie" and asked for a fight against the current strongest with certain conditions.
The middle aged woman sat on a chair while Keith stood in front her her. A small table stood in between them.
"Kid, you're very new here and you want to fight the strongest? Like are you mad? It's not only a risk for your life, but it also is a loss for my business. Everyone with bet against you and I don't want to see something like that. I want to see some close fights where the chances of winning is close for both fighters."n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
Keith sighed softly and took out a briefcase before putting it on the table. He opened it, to show her stacks of Moros. As her mouth opened in shock and greed, he grabbed one thick stack and put it on the table before making the briefcase disappear.
"I'll pay you to arrange the fight and I don't expect any money after the fight. I take full responsibility for my own life and I'll also make sure that my opponent doesn't die. I want to fight someone who can challenge my way of fighting, someone who can beat my martial arts." he said, knowing very well that he knew no martial arts.
He simply wanted a fight that could push him beyond his limits so that he could make full use of his SSS grade battle instinct.
The woman happily took away all of the money and looked up at Keith, "There's a guy who can transform into a black cat and he can also transform into a humanoid version too. He's like our third best fighter but when it comes to raw fighting style, he's better than the first two. Our best one can control lightning and our second best one can turn his skin into literal steel."
"Okay, I'll fight the black cat guy." Keith said when he heard about the awakened abilities of the first two rankers.
"Great, I'll set up a fight for you in... two hours. Will that be fine?" she asked and Keith nodded, "Sure, I'll be back in two hours then."
The woman raised her hand and paused for a second before pointing at his face, "Um, are you going to wear that mask?"
"Yeah, my identity must remain a secret."
After saying that, Keith promptly left the place and headed over for some nice supper at a local restaurant.
He ordered some boar meat, plain brown rice and some boar meat curry to go along with it. As he ate, his thoughts wandered to something important.
'Mental energy...' he thought and frowned before using his one month's worth of divine energy to give his system the ability to receive a question/input and give out an answer/output. He used his own brain as a computing unit for his system since he knew that he wouldn't be able to use his entire brain on his own.
Once done, he asked it a question, 'Hey system, grade the mental energy capacity of mine, Caleb's, Vincent, Clark and Fabian.'
[Idiot, your system needs some form of information source to even give you answers. Welp, I'm feeling generous so I'll help you with it. Also, I'll create something like a super server for your system to use instead of your brain. Thank me later when you meet me again (づ。◕‿‿◕。)づ]
[Mental Capacity]
Keith: Grade A
Caleb: Grade SS
Vincent: Grade B
Clark: Grade F
Fabian: Grade E
Keith read the message and smiled as he shook his head and then he silently looked at the results and tried to understand how Caleb's mental capacity was higher than his own, or how Fabian's capacity was just E grade.
'Fabian at this point in time, should be able to literally regenerate limbs like... four times in a row. If I consider one limb alone, then that's like sixteen fucking limbs and you're telling me that his mental capacity is just E grade?
Caleb on the other hand, can't even use his awaken ability properly and his capacity is literally just one grade less than SS... ugh. System, tell me how Caleb doesn't have enough mental power to use his abilities while Fabian can do it so many times while his grade is just E.'
[An indivitual's capability depends on both their capacity and efficiency. Caleb's efficiency of using his mental energy is close to zero and Fabian's efficiency of using his mental energy is above 90 percent.]
"....." Keith silently stared at his screen as he stuffed his face with food, 'Then can you tell me what my efficiency is?'
[Your efficiency varies based on the awakened ability you use. Spatial dimension's usage has 100% efficiency, but the other awakened abilities have a much lesser efficiency and it's tied to the user from whom you copied the ability from.]
'Can efficiency be increased? If yes, then tell me how.'
[There is no way of increasing efficiency other than second and third awakening. But even these do not guarantee an efficiency increase.]
'Oh well, I wanted to copy Caleb's awakened ability but now it feels like it'll just be a waste to do that. Oh well, I guess I'll just go for others instead. Hmm, you said that my efficiency of using an ability is dependent on the source, so is mine the same as the others? Like do I have the same efficiency as Fabian when I use Supernatural Regeneration?'
[No. You'll have a decreased efficiency ranging from 20% decrease to a 50% decrease. This is based on the type of system you get from the gacha wheel. White systems give you a 50% efficiency decrease, yellow forty, orange thirty and red is twenty. Here's an example, if a person's efficiency is 90 percent and you give them a white system, then your efficiency will be 45%. Which means that the decrease in efficiency is only in comparison to the system user.]