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

While keeping an eye on a law firm half a block away from him and the signs all around him, he kept going until he found what he was after. The familiar scenery bounced around in his memories, he remembered seeing this vision once before.

There were television screens playing some advert or song, skyscrapers all around, and traffic.

That was when he saw the man he was after.

With a smile, John flew towards the man he found and used the time element again to freeze time. When he arrived next to the man, he created an Information Sphere with some of his basic information and placed it on the man’s forehead.

When that was done, he created a few threads, unfroze time, and when the time was right, John used the threads to push the man into oncoming traffic.

Sorry, but this already happened. I’ll make it up to you somehow, Danny.

When Danny died on the street, John grabbed his soul by his black fingernails. At the same time, he created a single thread to take one of Danny’s hairs then flew into the air.

He created a few threads and wrapped them around the soul, seeing if they could touch and hold the soul. It worked, so John created more threads from his back to keep his hands free while the threads wrapped around the entire soul to protect it while he travelled.

John then used the time element to travel back to the present time before he flew towards Las Vegas.

When he arrived, he used his time element again to travel back in time to the year he wanted. He then entered this huge stage where he floated above the seats to watch a magician’s show.

When the show was over, he followed a woman while using the time element again to get to the point where she died due to an accident. For the first time in almost sixty years, John couldn’t watch a person die and he closed his eyes as it happened.

His threads wrapped around the soul that came out of the woman’s body and brought it next to Danny’s soul behind him. He didn’t need to take a hair from the woman like he did with Danny.

Kelly wasn’t lying to us when she told us her life story.

John then flew back to England. It only took him a few minutes at casual speed.

Turning back time again, he went to the Royal London Hospital. He watched Sarah’s life for a while and saw how much dedication it took to become a surgeon. At the end, like with Kelly, he couldn’t watch Sarah get stabbed to death.

When he opened his eyes and saw Sarah lying on the ground, covered in blood, he could hear his heartbeat in his ears as his hands went towards the attacker’s neck. They stopped only a few millimetres away before the red in his eyes disappeared.

I need to calm down. This has already happened! Unless I pay a price, this past won’t change. I shouldn’t change it anyway, or else Sarah wouldn’t come to the other universe and we wouldn’t meet.

When this is all over, I’ll let Sarah deal with this man if he’s still alive at that time.

He used his threads to wrap around Sarah’s soul before bringing it next to the other two souls. He then used a single thread to grab a hair from her body like what he did with Danny.

Turning back time even further, he went to the place where Lisa, his fiancée back on Earth, was killed. He watched the whole thing, but he realised that he didn’t feel grief about her death anymore.

Flying north to the house he owned before he died, he fast-forwarded time to the moment when he died. He was hovering in the air, above his car, and he was still invisible.

However, while he was watching, his past self made it to the car and drove off.

Knitting his brows, he watched the car drive off for a few seconds before turning back time again.

This time, when his past self came out of the house, he created a few threads to burrow in the left arm and travel through the circulation system before he made the threads wrap around the heart and squeezed.

He watched his past self collapse on the floor and a few seconds later, his soul came out of the body. Doing the same pattern, he made some threads to wrap around the soul and brought it closer to the other three souls.

He then used a single thread to take a hair.

I remember feeling pain in my left arm when walking towards the car. I didn’t think much of it at the time, and then the heart attack happened.

If what O’Malley said is true about how the past has already happened and we just go through time to make that past really happen, then it was the future me coming back in time to kill me.

But I saw my past self drive off, safe and sound. Then I turned back time and changed it, so how come I’m not getting punished for it? Unless the rule about changing the past isn’t as simple as O’Malley explained... Am I immune to the punishment somehow?

Anyway, now that I’m at the point in time to travel back, I’m just repeating what the future me did in my past.

Does this count as suicide, then?

Even though the system has made me smarter due to some skills, my brain still hurts when trying to think about all this time jumping.

John walked up to his past self’s dead body, picked the keys out of the pocket, and used them to open the door of the house.

Walking upstairs, he turned on the computer and searched the Internet for information about something he had been wondering about for many years now.

Back on the battlefield, Keket said that the goddess, Bastet, was the one who gave her a new life, but John had never heard of that goddess, so he looked it up.

The information revealed