Healing System

"Elder Mujin, could you please take a look at this?"

"Put it down on my table. I’ll check it out later," Michael replied with exhaustion. Enjoy exclusive adventures from NovelBin.Côm

A year and three months had already passed, and in the meantime, the system disappeared around the seventh-month mark, which made it so he couldn’t access the trials for the time being.

He had no clue where it had gone, nor where he could even begin finding it.

One thing he did know, however, was that after the Golden Dragon Sect finally fixed all their assets and other stuff, he was assigned to the Elder’s position.

At first, Michael wanted to deny it since he wouldn’t be able to get as much free time—which, up to date, was a correct assumption.

However, the lucrative proposal of being given 30% of the entire sect’s funds was enough to motivate him.

Initially, he expected to merely get around 5% or 10%, which—judging from what he had seen in the former Azure Dragon Sect’s treasury—would have been more than he was bargaining for.

But the 30% was like night and day.

He simply couldn’t refuse.

But still... the workload was a bit too much.

"Eld—"

"Put it on the table." Michael interrupted yet another disciple who had some sort of application ready.

He was the kind of elder who dealt with disciple applications to join the sect, basic outings, funding, and all sorts of other jobs.

At first, it was simple—just dealing with funding.

However, some time down the line, Sect Leader Li noticed Michael’s swift working speed and offered him the 30% deal in exchange for more work.

And now, Michael was beginning to regret his choices since, if he did not have mana, he would have passed out from the lack of sleep.

Though I wish they’d stop coming so frequently, he grumbled. Especially you. Fuck you, system. Where are you when I need a little break, huh? You could take over the workload free of charge—I’d just give you more mana in exchange. What do you say?

But of course, no answer came—just like the thousands of other times he tried contacting it.

Of course, he hadn’t been dawdling around for the last 15 months either—he had grown stronger, considerably so.

In the meantime, he pushed Hu Rong into Tier 4 after gruesome training, Kai into Tier 3, and lastly, Mimi.

Mimi was a bit more troublesome than the rest since it was technically a monster.

However, Michael was able to feed it some information regarding skills, so its strength had now risen to around Tier 4 as well.

Statistics-wise, the Golden Dragon Sect was now the strongest of all the sects in this particular region of the world since not many were Tier 4. @@novelbin@@

As for Michael? He was stuck.

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Name: Michael

Age: 14 -> 16 years old

Race: Draconic ???

Affinity: Light [Supreme]; Darkness [Supreme] (LOCKED); Origin [???] (LOCKED)

Mana Purity: 1000% → 1322%

Mana Core (1): Flow

Mana Core Rank (1): Tier 3

-:- 0% → 100% Progress to next Tier -:-

Mana Core (2): Speech

Mana Core Rank (2): Tier 1 → Tier 6

-:- 17% Progress to next Tier -:-

Seraphim Progress: 1/7

- Titles:

Ruthless Combatant: Raise all your stats by 1 Minor Rank when facing enemies at least 1 tier above you.

Being of Light: Increase the effectiveness of your Light-affinity-based spells by 25%.

Bringer of Order: Increase mana absorption by 1000% when fighting a being who disrupts the balance of the universe.???

- Stats:

HP: 100/100% / Regen 5% HP Per Hour

MP (1): 100/100% / Regen 10% MP Per Hour

MP (2): 98/100% / Regen 10% MP Per Hour

STR: Tier 3 [E] 100 {Total = 1824} → Tier 3 [S+] 1000 {Total = 2824}

END: Tier 3 [E] 100 {Total = 1918} → Tier 3 [S+] 1000 {Total = 2918}

AGI: Tier 3 [E] 100 {Total = 1920} → Tier 3 [S+] 1000 {Total = 2920}

INT: Tier 3 [E] 100 {Total = 2190} → Tier 3 [S+] 1000 {Total = 3190}

CHA: Tier 3 [E] 100 {Total = 851} → Tier 3 [B+] 630 {Total = 1381}

- Skills / [Skill Merging] / [Skill Sacrifice] / [Skill Synthesis]

Passive Skills: Herald of Light [Advanced] [Passive]; Mirage of Light [Intermediate] [Passive]; Physical Enhancement [Intermediate] [Passive]; Eyes of The Healer [Intermediate] [Passive]; Hand-to-Hand Combat [Beginner] [Passive]; Shooting Mastery [Beginner] [Passive]; Discipline [Basic] [Passive]; Heat Resistance [Basic] [Passive]; Cold Resistance [Basic] [Passive]; Swordsmanship [Beginner] [Passive]

Active Skills: Sanctuary [Superior] [Active]; Purify [Superior] [Active]; Heavenly Judgment [Advanced] [Active]; Aegis of Light [Intermediate] [Active]; Piercing Light [Intermediate] [Active]; Sword of Light [Beginner] [Active]; Charm [Beginner] [Active]; Flashbang of Light [Beginner] [Active]; Time Stop [Elite] [Active]

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Michael had the easiest time tiering up his second mana core, and apparently, already two of his birthdays had passed.

Nonetheless, back to the mana core. It had taken several months at a time to tier up, but now, it was at Tier 6, and its strength was immense.

He also scrapped dragon words since, in the end, they were just imitations in the throat that pushed out mana—which he could simply simulate using mana while speaking.

However, Michael was a bit salty since the system had promised to give him a new skill, one that should have been given to him the moment he tiered up.

Similarly to how he managed to obtain the halo and reach Tier 2—a skill of similar level to Sanctuary.

But then again, the system was a bitch.

Michael also managed to synthesize two skills fully, with the other one taking a bit too long.

Swordsmanship [Beginner] - [Passive]

[Skill Description: Attacks with the sword increase your accuracy by 50%, damage by 20%. Higher understanding of the sword.]

[Note: The skill can evolve depending on the user’s proficiency.]

But that was not all.

Time Stop [Elite] - [Active]

[Skill Description: Freeze time in a 50-meter radius for 5 seconds. Duration depends on the strength of the opponents.]

[Cooldown: 5 minutes]

This was the skill he had been aiming for from the start—an overly overpowered skill that only took him 13 months to obtain.

Yet in the end, it was totally worth it.

Every day, he funneled all of his mana into it, and now, he had something similar to what the system had.

Safe to say, he felt satisfied.

But... fuck, is this annoying. Michael grumbled while scribbling on a piece of paper.

There were still documents left to fill—specifically the ones regarding the yearly tournaments.

However, due to what happened and the Azure Dragon Sect being disbanded, everyone mutually decided to make each tournament happen once every five years instead.

Michael spent the next couple of hours sorting everything out until, finally, it was finished.

He had freed up a couple of hours of his time, and now, he would be doing something he had wanted to do for a long time.

One of the main reasons why Michael had acquired Time Stop in the first place was to recreate the system’s storage.

While casting it, he could use his mana to peer open the stopped space and pull out some interesting items.

But alas, the duration was a mere five seconds.

However, the fact that their storage was connected in the first place, and not a single item had moved in the last half a year, was a bit troubling.

Nonetheless, Michael had pulled out Sect Leader Ji’s mana core and now headed straight for where he was supposed to be hiding.

After the disbandment of the Azure Dragon Sect, each disciple either joined the remaining sects or migrated to another city.

As for Sect Leader Ji, he was forced to stay in the city and repent for some crimes he had committed.

Which I definitely did not have a part of. Michael snickered before finally arriving at a cave near the mountainside.

There was a huge boulder blocking the entrance.

It obviously could not do anything if Sect Leader Ji truly wanted to break out, but since he was still under the effects of Michael’s mind control, it worked out in the end.

He walked up to the boulder, and with a simple word—"Move"—the boulder began hovering off the ground, making way for him to pass inside.

That little usage of his Speech mana core merely used 1% of his mana, which, by all means, was not much considering the size of the boulder.

But now, he had to talk to the mind-controlled guy, who, by now, had likely already snapped out of it.

As Michael approached the end of the cave, he soon spotted Sect Leader Ji lying on the ground, eating some sort of breadcrumbs.

Yet as his gaze landed on Michael, he flashed a cold, murderous glare—which soon died down under Michael’s pressure.

"I see you’ve come to your senses." Michael chuckled. "Took you quite some time."

"...What did you do to me?" Sect Leader Ji asked with wariness.

"I took away your mind, and from the looks of it, isolation seemed to have brought it back," Michael replied with a smile. "But your use is over, I’m afraid."

With those words, Michael focused in on Sect Leader Ji—especially on his arms.

Soon, they burst to bits, blood gushing all around.

"You’re being promoted." Michael grinned. "You’re now my key to even more riches."