Chapter 104

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Seeing all these new possibilities, I wanted to use them right away and do something amazing with them, but I lacked Proficiency Points and Experience Points as it was all automatically spent. But now that I was given this power, I asked the System to hoard half of the ones I earn, so the progress of my levels and so on will continue alongside my skill levels, while I still get some of both points to develop other things.

This way, I get a steady pace in exchange for slowing down my own progress by half… but I just have to put in double the effort though I can do it, no problem!

The System had also said something about enhancing my Allies with it. You see, it seems that the power of the Soul Grimoire can connect to other Soul Books. This way, I could register friends as Allied Units within my Grimoire. The same way any being I create is registered there.

“As you can see, the Grimoire has many pages. There is a section with Allied Units,” Explained the System.

I had woken up early this morning, and I was currently speaking with him.

A flashy grimoire of dark cover and strange phantasmal decorations on it emerged, emanating a strong dark aura. The white pages flipped around as it suddenly stopped in an area where there were small sockets, and in such sockets, cards were saved.

Each card was a created being that was registered as an Allied Unit.

I cannot directly change their stats nor Abilities, though, but what I can do with them is interesting. I can enhance the stats and abilities of a group of such cards by spending Experience Points, Proficiency Points, or a new “currency,” magic crystals. The higher the grade of such crystals, the greater the boost I can give to the Allied Unit Cards.

“These cards represent the beings you’ve created, but you can also register non-created friends into this category by acquiring their permission and directly touching their Soul Books. After that, a card representing them will emerge,” Said the System.

I looked at the cards and noticed that those of the Undead that “died” disappeared, obviously, but the Cards of those that remained alive were still here. The most important ones to me were Lucifer, Partner, Kuro, and Raven. These four Undead were part of the main group, and I had created all four of them.

They seemed to have colored cards depending on their types and Rank. It was just like TCG…

“System, tell me the truth, where did you get the inspiration for all of this?” I asked.

“The System shapes itself based on the user’s memories and knowledge, shaping his power to fit what it seems to be more comfortable with. These Allied Unit Cards can be enhanced and also equipped into your Deck temporarily,” Said the System.

“What?!”

“Calm down. You can equip them temporarily by spending Experience Points or Magic Crystals in tremendous quantities, depending on the equipped card’s strength. When equipping a card, your stats raise accordingly to the equipped card’s stat, which is around 20% of their total stats. They are then temporarily added to yours, and the unit itself merges into your body. The time you can keep up the process is also dependent on how many Experience Points and Magic Crystals you utilize,” Said the System.

“Of course, not only are stats shared, but you can temporarily use certain abilities of this Card. Quite an easy explanation, isn’t it? Additionally, you can spend Experience Points and Magic Crystals to enhance the growth speed of levels, stats, and skills. This way, your allies will level up faster, develop skills faster, and increase their stats faster. The bigger buffs are only temporal and not permanent, but these growth enhancements can become permanent,”

“Ooh… I see… It is barely understandable, but I suppose that my Allies can be used to a greater variety of things. I feel like I am playing Pokémon now,” I muttered.

“Well, it would be a misunderstanding to call this System Function ‘Pokémon,'” Said the System.

He was way too serious sometimes.

“I see, alright, thanks for your explanations. By the way, what happens if I take the cards outside the Grimoire?” I asked.

“They can either be destroyed by you so you can instantly kill these units, or you can recycle them, utilizing the entire unit and exchanging it back into Experience Points, but Magic Crystals won’t be created,” Explained the System once again.

“Wait, this means I could raise Undead and simply constantly convert them into EXP?” I asked.

“No, there’s a limit, you can’t abuse this method constantly unless the Undead you made used EXP too, but even then, you don’t get the same amount you utilized, only being around 20% of the original amount.”

“So that’s how it is… It seems that all of this has a lot of potential, but I cannot abuse it completely. I guess that makes it balanced, somehow,”

“It is far from balanced as you’re the only being with the Soul Grimoire in this world.”

“I see… Hmm, I already got some ideas on utilizing all of this power. Perhaps using them on my allies back in the Goblin Village, so I could build up a sizable army to defend the entire place… it would take some time, but maybe I could do it. System, can I build up buildings or something?” I asked.

“Certainly, there is not such an Ability, have I not made myself clear? However, if you can grow strong enough, the System might find a way to add such a feature,” Said the System.

“Okay, you don’t have to get so angry over it. I was just asking because there seem to be so many surprises out of nowhere… Maybe I got a bit greedy there,”

“Certainly, the host is very greedy.”

“You’re growing more and more sharp-tongued as we talk, aren’t you?” I asked.

“…”

The System fell silent, and I decided not to talk to him for a bit. Maybe he felt exhausted by giving me so many explanations.

After checking out the book, I decided to move back to the room and found Lucifer outside the room, looking over the window of the corridor.

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