Chapter 17: Cheat Abilities

"What's up?", I ask my teammates.

They look at me with an expression showing surprise and confusion.

The dragon mountain is filled with a lot of huge boulders and several mountains that have a cave where some of the dragons are living in there.

The dragons in these mountains might get extinct after slaying most of them.

"How powerful are you right now?", I ask my teammates and land on the ground.

They thought for a while and summon their system interface and even though they have a system, it can only show stats and doesn't have inventory or task function.

They look straight at nothing since their system can't be shown to anyone except for themselves and it can be seen only if they allow the person to see it.

The first to reply to my question is Zale.

He told me that he is level 2167 and despite the huge level, his highest stats is only 12 million and the lowest is 5 million.

They told me their level after Zale told his level.

Sophie is level 1821, Mathew is level 2102 and lastly, Aerin is level 2734.

I found out that she has a 50% increase in obtained exp that's why she has a higher level than them despite farming exp together with them.

Even though I don't have any skill that can boost exp, I still have the system, and with the help of the system task, I will be much more powerful since most of my task rewards are stats absorbed from the enemies that I have defeated.

With the help of the system task rewards, I don't need to increase my level and I only obtain a little amount of stats when I level up.

"Did you learn a new spell? I feel like I can run a hundred miles after you cast the spell!", Zale exclaims.

'I can't reveal anything about the system yet. I still don't trust them because we haven't gone through fire and water and experience death situations together and not to mention that we had only met recently.'

'I still need to think of a faster way to earn system coins and increase the system level.'

"I invented the [Restoration] skill by myself. It's convenient to use since we will need it when feeling fatigued or if we need to restore our stamina.", I reply to my teammates while casting [Restoration] and a flickering white light shines and emits from my hand whenever I cast it.

"I feel like you have too many cheats when you reincarnated into this world.", Zale says to me while feeling depressed for not having as many cheats as I have.

"Why am I unlucky?", Zale added.

Every hero that is summoned or reincarnated into this world will obtain at least one cheat ability.

Whether it is a useless cheat ability is still a cheat ability.

"Look on the bright side, we all have cheat abilities and how about we reveal it so we can increase our trust and bond with each other. After all, we haven't shared any secrets so this will be the first secret that we will keep to ourselves.", Sophie comforts Sale and suggests revealing our cheat abilities.

All of us stared at each other for a while, waiting for each other's response and opinion.

After a minute of thinking, we all agreed to reveal our cheat abilities to each other.

"I have a cheat ability that allows me to completely conceal my presence. I can also hide in the shadows and I can even manipulate the shadows without using any mana.", Sophie is the first one to reveal her cheat ability.

'Using a magic skill without the use of mana is indeed formidable and not to mention that Sophie can completely conceal her presence. I'm not sure if she can conceal her presence in front of the demon lord or a god but we might find out sooner or later.'

"My cheat ability is opportunity magnet. I can attract any opportunity that is within the distance of my opportunity magnet ability which is at least a hundred kilometers. I can also use earth magic without the use of mana.", Zale tells us while summoning golems.

There are three golems made out of rocks that are at least 14 feet tall and are at level 600 or above. The golems stand still like a statue and wait for Zale's command.

I can't sense ant mana used to summon and manipulate the golems so Zale is not lying about using earth magic without the use of mana.

"My cheat ability is Universal Steal. I can steal anything and the distance of Universal Steal is the whole universe. The only side effect of using it is it accumulates an emotion known as greed to the point where I become insane.", Mathew says.

"The more items I steal, the greedier I become. The stronger the items I steal, the greedier I become. My luck stat is also multiplied twice. Universal Steal can be activated without the use of mana.", Mathew added.

"How about I demonstrate my ability so that you can have an idea on to what extent my Universal Steal can do?", Mathew asks us.

Mathew walks around us while waiting for our response.

Since we didn't respond, Mathew is getting bored so he fiddles with the air like he is holding a dagger and he keeps waving his hand and after he stops waving it, a dagger made out of iron that has no enchantment appears out of thin air and he throws it at a tree.

The dagger went through several trees before it got stuck on a tree.

Mathew directs his hand towards the direction where the dagger was thrown.

He clasps his hand and after opening it, the dagger that he threw appears out of thin air.

Mathew then keeps throwing a lot of daggers and it appears as if he stored them in an inventory.

Barrages of daggers are traveling at a fast speed which displays Mathew's strength since he can throw it at a fast speed and a far distance.

He keeps throwing many daggers and it is like he is a machine gun that instead of shooting bullets, shoots daggers instead and it is like he has an infinite amount of daggers since he keeps throwing it in the same direction and five minutes have passed right now.

Mathew stops throwing daggers, waves his hand and all of the daggers that were thrown disappear as if it wasn't there, to begin with.

When Mathew throws a lot of daggers, he kind of reminds me of an antagonist I watched from an anime. The anime antagonist has blonde hair, pale white skin, wears a vampire outfit, and is a vampire because of the stone mask and not to mention that he can stop time. He also shouts 'Muda, Muda, Muda!' whenever he throws knives or do a barrage of punches at his enemies.

I forgot the name of that anime antagonist.

Mathew places his hand on the ground and after removing his hand on the ground, a piece of gold ore appears on his hand.

'This guy is boasting too much about the capabilities of his cheat ability.'

"Okay, that's enough. I now know the capabilities of your Universal Steal ability and I have got to admit that it is very powerful and can be used whenever we face financial troubles. You have earned my respect!", I say to Mathew while patting his shoulder.

"I thought you said that the side effect of Universal Steal is it accumulates greed but why are you not feeling anything?", Zale asks Mathew.

"I didn't steal anything strong or something valuable and even though I stole a lot of daggers, it is very weak so I didn't feel greedy despite stealing a lot of it."

"Can you steal one of our eleven treasures which are known as Nature's Magic Staff and it is made out of the branch of the world tree.", Aerin asks Mathew.

"I can but the possibility is high that I will feel very greedy to the point where I might go insane and besides, I might get caught for stealing your nation's treasure.", Mathew replies to Aerin.

"You don't have to worry about getting caught because if you do get caught, I will bail you out of prison. You also need to control your greed so this will be a test for you.", Aerin says to Mathew.

"Aerin is right! We need to help you control your greed or else we won't get stronger treasures if you will go insane whenever you activate Universal Steal.", Zale backups Aerin's suggestion.

'Is stealing all you can think of? That's just... GREAT!'

'We can just take a shortcut in getting stronger if we get stronger equipment!'

"I also agree with Aerin and Zale", I say to Mathew.

"You don't have to worry about your mental health since I can use [Restoration] to restore your mental health.", I added.

Mathew is thinking for a while if it's a good idea but after a minute, he decides to do it.

"Here I go! [Universal Steal]!", Mathew shouts and activates his cheat ability.