Chapter 259: Great Synergy
Originally, Keith planned on giving his close ones a chance at second awakening once every two weeks, but now that the time boost had gone up even further, he could do it more often.
Now, he simply had to wait for thirty four hours to be able to harvest the fruits.
Clara had already undergone her second awakening, but Amelia hadn't. Miya on the other hand, had still not awakened her powers yet.
"Hey Emma, if I try to awaken more than one person at the same time, will that have some sort of impact on them? Like negative impacts." He asked as he headed over to Fabian who had finished his second awakening.
[Depends on the people you include in the awakening process. It's similar to a chemical reaction so their awakened abilities will influence each other. Whether the result is positive or negative is unpredictable.]
'So it's safer to just go with my current method… Oh well, got it.' Keith thought as he flew over the ritual formation and saw Fabian silently meditating like a sage.
'Show status screen.' he gave out a mental command and Fabian's information was out for him to read.
[Body Cultivation System]
Name: Fabian Rikolph
Physique: Grade SSS
Genetic Physique Type: Endurance
Awakening Status: Awakened
Awakened Ability: Divine Regeneration, Personal Bone Manipulation
Divine Regeneration: Boosts the regenerative ability to a godly level. Relies on the elusive spare energy particles in the atmosphere to fuel the process. If there is a lack of energy particles in the atmosphere, then supernatural regeneration will activate automatically.
Personal Bone Manipulation: User can use their own bones as a raw material to do or create anything they wish to. They can also survive without any sort of bone for a minimum of one hour.
Body Cultivation: Allows the user to cultivate their body beyond human limits.
Body Upgrades:
Skin Hardening: Grade SSS
Builds the foundation by fortifying the body's outermost layer, increasing resistance to physical harm.
Muscle Strengthening: Grade S
Muscles thicken and become denser without increasing mass excessively. It enhances flexibility, endurance, strength, agility, and resilience, allowing the user to exert superhuman force.
Tendon Strengthening: Grade A
Fortifies the connective tissues to withstand extreme strain and improve explosive power.
Bone Forging: Grade C
Reinforces the skeletal structure for unyielding durability, letting them withstand immense stress, strain and absorb tremendous shock.
Marrow Cleansing: Grade SSS
Purifies the bone marrow to rejuvenate the body and enhance vitality. Provides improved blood production, faster healing, and extended longevity.
Blood Purification: Grade SSS
Enhances the quality of the blood to improve energy circulation, by increasing the concentration of oxygen in the blood. Provides increased stamina.
Organ Refinement: Fortifies internal organs for greater endurance and resilience. Additionally, the heart pumps more blood, lungs have higher capacity, Liver and Kidneys become more efficient, helping with detoxification and poison resistance.
Grade: None
'Supernatural regeneration became Divine regeneration huh? And personal bone manipulation… pretty cool. Maybe he can do wolverine stuff?' Keith thought as he flew down to the ground.
"Congratulations, junior." Keith said and looked down at Fabian who opened his eyes.
Fabian bowed slightly, "Thank you for your generosity, master…. I mean young master."
"All is well, all is well… tell me about your new abilities will you? You should have gained an understanding once you awakened."
"Indeed master, I did." Fabian said and nodded before he grabbed his index finger. With one fluid motion, he twisted it and pulled it apart from his hand before showing the open wound to Keith, "Before, I used to feel tired after a few hours of doing this, but now…"
Keith nodded, "Now you don't feel as tired as before because you use the energy from the atmosphere, which is external instead of your internal energy types whether is is mental or physical."
'System, can you tell me how this whole divine regeneration works? Like what kind of energy particles does it mean when it says elusive spare energy particles?'
[Elusive spare energy particles are the particles that are expelled by other human beings, which have either turned into natural energy particles that belong to the planet, or are in the process of turning into them.]
'I see…' Keith thought and moved the system screen to the side to see a new finger in place of the open would that was there a few seconds ago.
Keith nodded and pointed at the spare finger that was in Fabian's hand, "Show me how your new ability works."
"Like this, young master…" he said and three small bones flew out of the finger, leaving just a mass of flesh, skin and a nail behind.
Fabian tossed the waste aside and with the simple power of imagination, and a mental command towards the three bones, they began to behave like slime.
They wiggled around and merged with each other before they began to take shape, slowly turning into five long needle darts.
Then, Fabian began to control them the way Beta controlled his blades and made them float on top of him.
"I can give them commands in advance and set up traps this way." Fabian said and paused for a few seconds before he continued, "I gave it a command to shoot at the ground right there if anyone hits me. Young master, please smack me."
"….." Keith silently stared at him for three seconds before nodding. Then, with all his might, he let his palm fly toward Fabian's cheek, hitting him with such a force that his jaw dislocated.
Fabian himself flew for a few meters before rolling on the ground. He then silently got back up and grabbed his dislocated jaw before pushing it back in.
But while he did this, Keith's attention was on the location that Fabian had pointed a few seconds ago since now, there were five darts deep inside the ground.
'Programming your bones to work as you wish as long as certain prerequisites are met huh? This is way more overpowered than Beta's awakened ability but Beta still hasn't undergone a second awakening so he still has some potential I guess.' he thought and turned to look at Fabian before nodding.
"You've made me proud junior. But I'll need you to stay back here and help some of my people with their second awakening too. You might already know one of them, and you might also have a grudge against him but I hope that you can keep that aside and treat each other like brothers." Keith said as he began to float up into the sky.
Hearing this, Fabian couldn't help but frown.
"Could you tell me who that is, young master?" he asked but in his mind, he had different thoughts, 'If it's that kid Vincent, then there is no way I can forgive that dog for killing my son. There's no way!'
Keith, who could read Fabian's thoughts felt a little awkward since he wasn't really going to talk about Vincent. Instead he simply wanted to say his own name and get Fabian to help him out but since he had helped Vincent directly in his escape, he did not know who Fabian would react to this.
"Ahem…" he gave out a fake cough and spoke, "His name is Keith, the one who fought you for a bit and ran away like a mouse with it's tail tucked between it's legs. He's the one who saved that kid named Vincent."
Fabian stared at Keith for a few seconds before opening his mouth sightly, "Oh… I totally forgot about that guy… well, as long as it's not Vincent, I can adjust…"
Keith could tell that Fabian wasn't completely okay with the idea, but he still went on with his plan since his priorities had changed and he needed a team of strong people whom he could trust completely.
And Fabian was the kind of guy who would fight the whole world for the ones who were close to him, given that they were close enough.
'Well, this will take a lot of time and effort to earn his loyalty and… respect.' Keith thought to himself before he raised his hand to the side and erected a huge box.
"I hope you two can get along." he said and pointed at the box, "I've created a training space specifically for you so you can efficiently train your body. I'll send Keith to this place in a while and all I want you to do is help him and his people with their second awakening. Your blood, it will prove very useful for them."
Fabian nodded and bowed slightly, "As you wish, young master."
Keith then disappeared from the place and then harvested the camphor trees for the third time this week. Then, he returned back to his room and saw that it was empty.
With one quick glance at his system screens, he figured out where Amelia, Miya and Caleb were at and headed out.
First, he found Amelia who was sparring against her brother. Then it was Miya who was outside and was doing the same but he stopped himself from going to Caleb since the guy was busy having his own private time with Laura.
Keith took both Amelia and Miya to his spatial dimension and instead of going to Fabian, he teleported close to Gerald.
"Juliet, I need your blood. Second awakening." He said and the girl immediately nodded, "Sure, but you do know that there must be some sort of synergy between mine and the other party's powers right?"
Keith nodded in response and patted Amelia's shoulder, "She's the midnight princess. Will probably have a great synergy with your shadows."