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

To ensure that he wouldn’t be detected, he stopped his breathing and turned on the Hover option before creating a few threads that were too small for the naked eye to see. He positioned the threads close to the king, setting them up to restrict him at the perfect moment for the rest of his plan.

John floated next to the king and waited for the others to stop talking.

When he saw the perfect time, he leaned in next to the king’s ear and whispered, “Stay calm.”

Just like he thought, the sudden voice in the king’s ear caused the king to jump in fright while trying to move his head towards where the voice was coming from, but John’s threads made it impossible for the king to move at all.

The others were completely oblivious to what was happening, as they couldn’t see or hear John, nor did the king show any signs of distress.

John carried on with his plan. “I received your letter and I’m here to see what it is you’ve got to trade. I’m not sure what you want in return, but let’s discuss this properly. Order your men to leave the throne room and I’ll show myself.”

He removed the threads from pushing against the king as soon as he was finished talking. He then watched the king dismiss everyone, saying he wanted some peace and quiet.

John stopped using his light element when everybody was gone and he could see nobody hiding with his Scan.

“Welcome!” The king stood up and bowed to John. “I didn’t expect you for another month or so. The rider that my son hired must have worked overtime and deserves a promotion when he gets back.”

Chuckling, John shook his head a little. “It wasn’t due to him working hard, but a series of coincidences that led me here.

“I was training my daughter when the prince of Gralux tried to put a crappy plan into action. I didn’t kill them all and wanted to see how my daughter dealt with him and his knights.

“Your daughter recognised that badge you traded with me last time and apologised to my daughter, but because of that, my daughter wanted to know the truth and went along with the prince instead of dealing with him.

“Your messenger met the prince’s men on the road while I was watching. Your man was attacked and almost killed, but I managed to save him and I found your letter.”

John went on to tell the king exactly what happened with Carola and the prince. The king’s face fell when he heard his daughter was near death, but he was relieved to learn that John and Sarah had saved her in time.

Straightening up from his bow, the king replied, “Thank you for saving my Carola. I will forever be grateful and if you need help with anything, then I will help to the best of my abilities.

“As for Roland, the Prince of Gralux, I’m completely fine with you letting your daughter kill him. If, for some reason, she does not follow through, I surely hope that you will secure the kill. Given you fail to do so, I’ll finish him myself, even if it means going to war.”

John nodded and reassured the king that both him and Kelly were more than capable of completing the task.

Returning to his throne, the king continued speaking. “I asked you here because I have something that might interest you.” He opened a small box next to him which contained a page from the ancient book. “My ancestor, the founder of this kingdom, was an immortal. He wrote this book and it’s been handed down for generations. I figured you might be interested in trading for it.”

John eyed the page and asked a few questions about how long ago his ancestor was alive and if the book mentioned what immortal rank they were.

The king answered everything he could before handing the loose page to John.

John had seen the page inside his Scan long ago but didn’t use his Scan to read it because this was a fair trade—only his enemies were worthy of being robbed.

He then read about the killing intent on the page and how it was a mistake trying to control it.

This makes sense.

Every time the killing intent came up before I gained full control, I couldn’t control my emotions.

Fighting Jeremy May and stopping that man from killing Sarah in the tournament caused me to lose my rationality due to anger. Those were just two of the times when the killing intent showed up without me controlling it.

It got worse as my strength increased, but it got better when I slowed down and went into a closed-door cultivation for almost nine years. Probably because I was asleep for so long and nothing had set me off emotionally, letting me calm down and gain as much control as I did.

I used to think I had full control, but when Kelly was born and I was forced to be on the battlefield, my anger flared up, though no killing intent showed up then.

When my killing intent froze a part of the forest after reading Kelly’s note, it made me realise that there’s no way to completely control emotions—even the system can’t.

This is only one page of the book, and it made me realise how unstable I was when I was weaker.

This changes things, too. I thought gaining control of the killing intent was a good way to train, but now I won’t let Kelly do the same thing when she becomes an immortal.

This book might have many more things that have been lost because the king said his ancestor ran from a war millions of years ago.

The war mentioned was more than likely the beastman war which was the cause of the decline in cultivation methods and other knowledge due to unknown reasons.

John handed the page back to the king. “What is it you want for the book?”

“Immortality for me and my family!” The king’s voice was unwavering,