Chapter 376 Group's Meeting



"Okay, guys, let's break it all down, one thing after another," Mathew said once all of the important members of his group gathered in one place, ready to discuss all the changes that establishing the settlement brought to their situation.

The group of Mathew's closest allies didn't only involve his former wives but also Norbert and two of the workers, each of whom was responsible for writing down the bullet points that would be discussed so that the information could be passed over to Daniel and Peter respectively.

"First thing first," Mathew looked over at Daria whom Leila brought over from the showers in a hurry. "I'm no longer able to able to claim any further wives. And, in fact, you girls are no longer my wives either."

Mathew started with the biggest of the changes… even though most of those to who it applied already knew about it. What's more, after giving it some thought, the young man realized that for how grand it appeared to him at first, there was hardly any real meaning behind this change.

"Wait, what?" Daria opened up her eyes wide, freaked out by the sudden drop of the news just like everyone else was when Mathew first brought it up.

"Wait!" Mathew called out to the girl, raising his hand to make the girl stop with her questions before she could freak out any further. "It's really hard to explain it in short words. Basically, your power is no longer directly related to me and I'm no longer able to bestow systems like yours upon the girls I would claim for my wives."

Seeing Mathew's reaction to her own, Daria somehow managed to keep her cool, patiently waiting for her former husband to explain himself.

"Basically, somehow I made this decision without making it, but I've ended up changing my system to unlock the full extent of my power," Mathew said, finally finding the right approach to the topic. "And for how strange it is, you girls didn't lose even a speck of your power because of that."

This was Mathew's greatest concern when it came to him changing his class and thus system. Even though having his stats limited to about a hundred in each of the categories was a massive downside… but when he considered the possibility of his wives losing their power as an effect of his changing his class, he opted not to do it.

And yet, Mathew always knew that a time would come when he would have no other choice but to go beyond that point, even if just for the sake of not becoming a weakling that any random zombie could kill with a mere scratch.

In the end, Mathew never made the decision to advance his class. This decision was taken for him by some force that he didn't really understand. Thankfully, his greatest worry didn't come to be as all of his wives managed to not only keep their current status but also retain their ability to grow stronger.

"I would love to say that I'm now as powerful as all of you combined, at least in terms of raw stats, but that's not the case," Mathew then moved over to the next topic that was directly related to the first one he brought up. "Right now, my stats are as follows. I have three hundred points in vitality, one hundred and fifty points in brawn and agility, two hundred in mind, and nearly three hundred in arcane," he revealed for everyone to know.

Mathew took a deep breath before turning his eyes away from his direct and closest allies to one of the two former classmates of his that he tasked with the job of recording everything that would be said during the meeting.

"You can omit this entire part," he ordered while looking at the guy responsible for writing down the information that would be sent to Peter at a later date.

"Sure thing," Mathew's former junior from a class below smiled before quickly dragging his pen across the line that he just finished writing.

"Moving back to the topic, I managed to keep all my skills intact. And from what I can see, they grew a tiny bit stronger than before, even before accounting for the spike in the statistics I can now access."

Up until this point, Mathew never really brought the topic of everyone's stats to anyone's attention. His group consisted of fighters and fighters alone. And as they kept fighting together through all this time, there was no need to put their strengths into numbers as everyone was aware of the power of the other members of the group.

But this was no longer the case for everyone's knowledge about Mathew's powers, given the sudden spike in his stats.

"We will have to put your newfound strength to a test," Beatrice muttered under her nose from the corner of the group she occupied. "We can't have you unleash hell upon the zombies anywhere near the premises that we want to keep intact before that," she then pointed out in a slightly louder voice.

"I wholeheartedly agree," Mathew said as he nodded his head. "I wouldn't want to kill some unfortunate passersby just because I'm not aware of the full extent of my strength. It's one thing to see how much my stats have grown, but another thing to see them play out on a practical basis."

"That's not all," Beatrice then said, her voice once again raising in volume. "You said that you cannot bestow your system anymore," she pointed out before looking all over the faces of everyone present in the crowd. "Wait, seriously?" she twitched when she saw a complete lack of interest in anyone's face. "Are you guys not concerned by that at all?!"

'It's my first time to see her freak out that much,' Mathew thought, gently biting down his teeth against his bottom lip to keep his mouth from forming a smile.

And as Mathew looked slightly to the side, he could tell that Beatrice's outburst was something new for Norbert just as well.

"Guys, are you seriously blind to how this was our greatest asset?!" Beatrice now freaked out for real. "Your ability to grant the one and the only thing that allows others to keep up with the rate at which the zombies evolve and grow stronger?!"

"Ah," Mathew twitched as a short sound escaped from his mouth. "If that's what you are worried about, then there is no need for you to freak out like that," he stated before putting a wide smile on his face. "Because right now, I can purchase system seeds from the merchants and bestow them upon others without any need for me to sleep with them!"