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

“Don’t get me wrong, though. I’m not saying I wouldn’t kill innocents. If Sarah or Kelly were in danger and killing innocents would somehow get them out of it, I would kill all the innocent people in this universe without a second thought.

“The difference is the motive behind it. To protect those I love, I would do anything and everything.

“I’ve gone through a lot since you were born, and I’ve realised that you could help me become stronger if we worked together. Even after transcending, that doesn’t change.

“But keeping you alive would be like having a sword across my neck. There would eventually be a day where the sword would kill me. If I die, who will protect Sarah and Kelly from then on? You? I wouldn’t let you get anywhere near them, even after my death.

“If I ignored the sword across my neck and used your method of gaining strength, the guilt and regret I would feel afterwards would only eat away at me.

“I would become somebody else after they take their toll on me. I would no longer be able to protect those I love, but instead I would fear myself influencing them. I would have to leave them for their own good.

“While I’m no Saint, I’m no Demon either! I’m at peace with my actions! My conscience is clear!”

John lifted his hand and placed his index finger on the Demon’s forehead. “I don’t need you alive, I don’t want our personalities to merge, and the reason you were born wasn’t real. Go to hell and don’t come back!”

As soon as he finished speaking, a white light shone on his fingertip and travelled throughout the Demon’s body. The black Daoist robes the Demon donned started turning white like the others. Starting from the shoes, the colour change worked its way upwards.

The Demon tried screaming, but his mouth wouldn’t move.  All John heard was a muffled noise. When all the clothes turned completely white, the bloodshot eyes of the Demon turned peaceful before they closed.

The Demon personality was gone!

Chapter 48: Finished Helping

John closed his eyes while inside the conscious centre. When his eyes opened again, he was back outside.

Tilting his head back, John roared with laughter. It was a good thing he was high in the sky at this point or else all the mortals in the nearby area would become deaf. His past self would’ve heard him and would’ve tried to find the source of the noise, too.

After transcending, I stopped the system from messing with me. Now, I’ve gotten rid of the Demon personality that threatened to take over my body! I have no more worries about my mind being taken over!

I am me, and all ideas and thoughts are truly my own from now on!

Feeling something on his right hand’s nails, he looked down. He saw his black nails becoming long once more.

Knitting his brows, John concentrated on trying to shrink them again and after a few minutes, it worked.

That Demon was taking over my body one piece at a time! Now that it’s gone, I’ve gained control over my nails. Did it take over anything else? Why did it start with my nails?

He tried a few tests but couldn’t find anything else that the Demon had taken control over, so John went to turn off his Scan, but he saw something in the system that he hadn’t seen in a long time.

Title: A Selfish Punisher.

Now I know the Demon is really gone and this isn’t one of its tricks.

After staring at the title for a second, he made all mind parts use the absorbing technique before he continued watching his past self. John had a smile on his face the entire time.

His past self fought the immortal creatures in the middle of the planet, went to the Adventurers’ Guild’s auction house, got arrested, and killed all the prisoners.

John watched Sarah wake up from the coma he caused before his past self went into his closed-door cultivation session. So, he started following Sarah.

He heard Sarah and Camellia’s talk before Sarah went to the elder’s meeting room and convinced the elders that she was a poison specialist and she was willing to teach a few people.

John watched Scott Maddox place himself in the path of four people that weren’t paying attention, poison himself, lie down on the floor, and waited for the four people to find him.

Going to Sarah’s medical practice, he watched as Sarah treated the man who she’d eventually kill. When Scott stood up and introduced himself, John saw a small ball of Soul Power exit Scott’s forehead and fly towards Sarah.

Using the time element, he reversed time for a few seconds before arriving in front of Scott, reached out and grabbed that ball of Soul Power after it left Scott’s forehead once more, before squeezing hard to destroy it.

I remember Sarah telling me about Scott’s last words.

Scott wondered why his Soul Manipulation technique didn’t work. He tried it once after Sarah cured him inside her medical practice and another time when they hunted the Rot Elephants.

Sarah told me that she saw a flash in front of Scott’s face when it failed both times. Now I know it was me destroying the technique before it had a chance to work.

If I wasn’t here, would Scott have succeeded in manipulating Sarah?

Once again, John’s hand was only millimetres away from the neck of the person he was going to kill before he stopped.

After taking a deep breath to calm down, John continued watching Sarah as she carried on with her life. She went and gave Luke all her maps, heard about Lexis, and started to travel with the elders and grand elders to help investigate.

As he continued watching, John realised the older and stronger their past lives got, the less amount of help was needed from him. However, when he followed Sarah to the location of Elder Kian’s death, John had an idea.

Turning back time,