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

He told the king how good the cultivation techniques were at the back of the book and he would give the king and his family twenty Grade 9 Life Stones each. He then explained how the Life Stones were ranked as well as how to use the cultivation techniques.

After explaining everything, John asked, “You sure about giving your son immortality? I’ve already seen a prince kill the king to claim the throne because he couldn’t wait to be king, but now you’re going to gain more than a hundred years of life which you could be king for the entire time. Can your son wait that long?”

“I planned to retire anyway,” the king responded, shaking his head. “With the extra life expectancy, I can enjoy life more.”

John nodded and asked the king to bring his son to the vault, too.

An hour later, John used his threads to place a single unit of Life Power inside the centre neuron of both the king and his son, turning them immortal. He placed forty Grade 9 Life Stones on the table next to their ancestor’s book before disappearing.

Back at the hospital, John repeated the process on the princess. To bring her back to full health, he transferred a lot of vitality into her before teleporting her back to the capital and giving her twenty Life Stones. When she woke up and got over her initial shock of what happened, he explained part of the deal to her but said that her father would have to explain the rest. She agreed and left to arrange for her knights and the messenger to get back on their own.

John took over looking after Kelly after everything was said and done. He updated Sarah on the situation and, together, they waited to make their next move.

It took another two months and seven days for the prince’s carriage to reach the outskirts of the capital.

When they were only a few miles outside the gates, the knights and carriage veered off the road to their left and travelled for an hour before they reached an abandoned old house in the woods.

Kelly hopped off the carriage to take a look around. Seeing the rundown house made of old wood that was rotting and could collapse at any moment, she knitted her brows as she knew they weren’t in the capital like the prince had promised.

Without giving her a chance to question the prince, one of the knights drew his sword and shouted, “Get inside!”

Kelly was just about to run towards the knight and disarm him, but the rest of the knights drew their weapons and she heard Roland clear his throat. “We have left two knights near your parents’ house and all it takes is for this messenger pigeon to fly to them for your parents to get killed.”

He raised up a bird cage that had the messenger pigeon inside. One of his hands was on the cage’s door, ready to open it and let the pigeon free.

Wringing her hands, Kelly turned around and walked inside the house.

When she entered it, she saw someone sitting on a single sofa in the hallway, about twenty feet away.

He was dressed in a black and silver overcoat and a weird mask. One leg was resting on his knee and his arms on his stomach as he sat there comfortably.

She thought this was the mastermind in whatever the prince had in mind. She opened her mouth to speak, but was cut off by the head knight entering the room. “Who’re you?”

The man ignored the knight and fixed his gaze on Kelly. “You done playing around now?”

When the knight heard the man, he thought the question was directed towards him. Gritting his teeth, the knight charged at the man with his sword as high in the air as he could get it without hitting the ceiling.

Bang!

The knight disappeared right in front of Kelly’s eyes.

Wondering what happened, she crept towards the man while on high alert. As she passed the doorway to the room on her left, she noticed there was more light than she expected and a wind caressed her face.

Turning her head to look inside the room, she saw there was a massive hole in the wall. Outside the house, she could see the grass and dirt were untouched.

That meant that if the knight was hit outside the house and made that hole, the force of the impact was strong enough to make the knight fly through the air for a long distance, too. The knight, however, was nowhere in sight.

“Kelly, I’ll ask you in another way,” the man huffed. “Are you done screwing around with your fishing expedition?”

Kelly turned around as soon as the man had said her name, but she couldn’t figure out how the man knew her or what he meant by screwing around. She didn’t recognise the voice, but it did sound like it was muffled, like the man was trying to change his voice.

She then saw the mask start to move like a liquid and it only took a few seconds for her to recognise the person. “D-dad?”

John smiled at Kelly as he took out a piece of paper and read it. “Dear Mom and Dad, I’ve gone with the prince to help with an investigation, but don’t worry. It’s my turn to protect you now. I’ll be back soon! Love, Kelly.”

Kelly ran towards John and tried to grab the piece of paper off him, but John smiled and placed it inside his Storage Space, causing Kelly to look around for it.

“Let me say this.” John looked at Kelly. “It’s not your job to worry about or protect your parents—that’s our job. You can do whatever you want without worry. You might not believe me, but even if both kingdoms declared war on me or your mother, either one of us could wipe them out before day’s end.

“The prince outside the house has been lying to you, but I guess you already figured some of it out and