The Idle System (A LitRPG series Book 7): Family, Pegaz [learn to read books txt] 📗

It was different this time because it was the first time he had been completely helpless and couldn’t think of anything he could do. He couldn’t find out what Kelly’s system was and she would soon find out the truth. Even after uncovering the truth, there was still a possibility that she wouldn’t tell them about her system or her past life.

Nothing he could do could change that.

John sighed and proceeded to tell Sarah his plans. “After Kelly becomes an immortal and once we’ve explained everything, I’ll transfer all the skills and give her all the beastman cores. I’ll be leaving not long after.”

Sarah sat up and turned around to look John in the eye. “Where to?”

“Remember that map I won from the Adventurers’ Guild’s auction?”

Sarah nodded her head.

“A little while ago, my system managed to find out where that map leads to. I’m not sure if it’s correct since it’s different from the world and area maps I bought from the Adventurers’ Guild. If it’s real, I might be able to figure out how to transcend. If I do, I’ll come back and help you transcend when you’ve reached Rank 9, level 9.”

Sarah tapped her chin with her index finger. That was her habit when she was thinking, so he became quiet and waited for her to finish.

“I figured out what was bothering me. That map you won from the auction was over an eon old, right? That’s a billion years! Mountains and rivers can form or disappear in that time. The maps you obtained are probably up to date, so of course it’s different.”

“That... actually makes sense,” John replied. “No wonder it took my system over thirty years to figure out where that map leads to. Not only was it comparing the old and new maps together, it was calculating how all the worlds might have changed over time. I never thought about landscape changes due to time passing.”

Sarah then asked, “Why do you want to go so soon anyway? You could wait a few more years before leaving and that time could be spent training Kelly as an immortal.”

“Because”—John clenched his fist—“I don’t want to keep hiding from that transcendent. While we’re hiding right now, who’s to say he won’t find us next year? The longer we wait, the longer he’s got to find us.

“It’s already been sixteen years since I disappeared and he’s probably searched hundreds of thousands of different planets for us, there’s no guarantee that the next planet he visits isn’t this one.”

Sarah placed her hand over John’s clenched fist. “Then you need to transcend and come back as soon as possible.”

John’s fist unclenched and held her hand. “Of course.”

Sarah leaned back and rested on John as they spent the next few hours talking about how to explain things to Kelly when the time was right.

While they were still talking, knights on horses entered their Scan’s range. The knights were whipping the horses to go as fast as possible.

John was slightly stunned by the information his Scan picked up.

“You noticed it, too?” Sarah brushed her hair out of her face as she focused on her Scan as well.

John nodded his head. “Yeah, those are the Gralux knights that were here earlier, but they’re wearing Bahan armour now. Something must have happened in the last few hours.

“We can figure it out because of our Scans, but Kelly might not be able to tell through their disguises. Should we do something?”

“Well,”—John paused to think—“Kelly has trained in martial arts and can even hunt most of the monsters in the jungle, so these knights won’t be much of a threat to her.

“I’m not sure what she experienced in her past life, so this is a good chance to show Kelly how ugly human nature can get in this universe.

“We’ll be here to protect her if anything goes wrong, and this will be an invaluable lesson to her. That being said, I think we should wait to see how this plays out. If anything does go wrong, I hope you won’t complain when I kill them all.”

“Fine,” Sarah replied.

* * *

Kelly was sitting at the kitchen table and hadn’t moved for over an hour. Her hands were shaking slightly due to the earlier conflict.

She had killed plenty of monsters, but that was the first time she ever saw a human on the brink of death. Even though the lightning was a freak thing she had nothing to do with, the image of the burnt and dying man was stuck in her head.

The smell of the burnt skin lingered in her nose, and the disgusting feeling she got from her fingertips when she checked the man’s pulse was still fresh in her mind.

A smile suddenly appeared before she slapped both sides of her face with her palms.

“What's wrong with me?” she mumbled. “I’ve seen countless corpses of monsters and killed plenty of them through the years, but seeing a man like that affected me? Why? Because he’s human? Does that make such a big difference?”

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The knock on the door startled her out of her thoughts.

Who can it be at this time of night? I hope it’s not another medical emergency. I’m not as good as mom yet.

Knitting her brows, Kelly got up and opened the door.

She saw four people standing only a few feet away from the door. They were wearing full suits of armour and couldn’t see their faces because of the helmet. Each person held up a glass lamp that was lit to see in the dark.

Seeing them surprised her at first, but then she thought they might want to speak to her father since he was a retired knight.

“My dad isn’t here.”

“Unfortunately,” the knight at the front replied, “We’re here to take you into custody due to the incident that happened earlier today. It’s only for formalities.

“We just need you to tell our supervisor what happened in your own words since this involves both kingdoms. If