Everyone Else Has a System

"Though, the permanent effect, to control your ability,… I won't be giving it for free."

Peter stared at me for a few moments and Michael looked at me with a stupefied gaze, along with Sabrina, who was shocked to no end. Her eyes almost came out of their sockets, and her mouth was agape.

"What do you want from me?" He asked my favourite question with my all-time favourite grim expression, as if he was preparing to make a deal with the devil. Made me smile a little more deeply.

"Wait a sec, will ya? I've got to make a deal with these two spies of the western continent," I spoke, looking at Michael and then at Sabrina. Their expressions turned ugly and both of them looked at me with an ashen face.

They nodded at each other before Michael sent a light sphere attack at Amelia and then proceeded to run away while Sabrina covered his way, using a mana-filled whip trying to cover his escape.

Though before he could escape,

"Blood Sacrifice: Zeroth Moon," I muttered before appearing in front of Michael, turning his expression a bit surprised. Even still, he did not stop and kept running towards me with all he had.

He used his lightsaber and tried to attack me, however, easily dodging it, I stopped his fist with my hand before casually punching him after concentrating my palm with dense mana.

-Boom!!

He gets pushed back before gaining back his momentum and stops on his feet, barely standing right in front of Sabrina. He held his stomach tightly with his hands, which were profusely bleeding.

"[Healing of the Sun God]" he said, healing himself back to normal and then angrily glaring at me. It only made me chuckle a little bit more than I looked at him, as if I were looking at a piece of shit standing in front of me.

"It is going to be a pain in the ass so you better be ready for extra charges," I said as I looked at Amelia and she glanced at them before speaking in a slightly mocking tone,"come on. Don't tell me oh so great Zero, can't even change a bunch of kids when he managed to win over those monsters?"

I shook my head as I spoke,"easier to manipulate a person who is at their worst than those who are lost causes. It's not impossible, but just a pain in the ass."

Michael looked at Sabrina and said,"I will divert them and you escape." Though that made me chuckle out loud before I spoke,"if you are going to plan something, it would be better not to announce it, you know?"

Sabrina then started chanting something before a scroll appeared in front of her and Michael drew his saber and created a shield that covered the whole area around Sabrina.

Without wasting time, Sabrina almost started chanting, but before she could even begin, I amplified my voice using Blood Magic and spoke,"stop."

It was a type of Charm Magic utilising my voice, though it worked only on people much weaker than me. Still, observing Sabrina standing there without moving, I believed it worked perfectly fine… so fine that it made me grin widely and I ended up speaking,"I am sorry Miss Sabrina and Mr. Michael but your departure from the Arcadia Academy has been delayed… permanently."

My eyes were red and Michael looked at me with a serious expression, as if he was preparing to fight with me to the best of his ability, as if he was prepared to die right here, right now.

I saw Peter looking at me as if I were the devil as well and he was having doubts about the prospect of making a deal with me. Amelia was observing with a keen expression as she just stood there doing nothing. Sabrina had already torn apart that transportation paper and now was looking blankly at me.

"Now, let's calm down all of us, shall we?" I spoke as I started moving towards the nearest sofa and continued under the constant gaze of everyone present there,"first, what you do here has nothing to do with me or the Principal as well. We already knew about you and everyone from your clan who is here to collect information, people, and other stuff. If I want, I can wipe all of you at once, foiling all of your plans you are making to conquer the eastern continent, but I am not doing it, am I?"

Michael didn't let his guard down, but he wasn't attacking me. I continued,"there are many things that you need to understand, but first is that this world is about to go through a catastrophe in the upcoming future."

Michael spoke,"You mean the prophecy that was revealed a week ago about the upcoming war that was going to happen and the alien race that is going to attack us?" Michael knew about it, but Sabrina and Peter had a shocked and puzzled expression before Michael continued,"I don't believe it. It is just bullshit made up by that Reaper guy to gain the favour of the higher ones. All he did was find a strong monster and make everyone believe that it was an alien… Mark Leeway must have been involved in this scheme as well, there must have been something profiting for him as well…"

I chuckled a little before speaking,"that is an interesting way to look at things but… why do you think everyone believed it then?"

Michael looked at me and spoke with a slightly wide eyed expression as,"that… I don't know."

I smiled again before looking at Amelia and speaking,"close the curtains," and the room was closed off from the outside world for a fixed amount of time. Looking at Amelia, you can never underestimate an SS-Grade, I suppose…

"Now… the reason why they are believing it is neither because there is a really strong monster, nor because it involves Mark Leeway… it is because.." I spoke with my eyes turning dark red slowly and Asteria coming up right behind me as she stood there with my whole aura covering in darkness as I took out my scythe.

"They had felt my power through that video. They had seen it and when they compared that to Mark and his best friend Oliver… they saw something that sent shivers down their spines…" I spoke as I moved closer towards Michael, one heavy step at a time, with the suit of the reaper on and an angel right behind me.

Michael was scared and so was Sabrina… Peter at this moment, felt like he was trying his best not to faint while Amelia too looked a bit scared. Though I just continued,

"They are preparing themselves to become strong enough to take me on. Cause they know that they have nothing against me… not even an ounce of information about my weakness, my strong points, heck they don't even know about my limits. They don't even know whether I exist or not, as only those whom I have allowed… know about me. They are scared about my mysterious nature and this is what is prompting them to get stronger and stronger."

I reached closer and closer towards Michael, now almost a metre away and stared directly into his eyes before turning off my Blood Magic and Spirit Magic, and then using my Regeneration Magic, turning my eyes green again.

"So when someone like me says that I am preparing an army… you think they will just stand there and do nothing? They are preparing for a war against me, which they would later use against the Parasites that will invade from space. Michael Lorentz, this is what they are preparing against," I spoke as I sighed and patted his shoulders before speaking.

"Michael Lorentz. I, Reaper, ask you… what is that you want to do now?"

He looked at me for a few moments, speaking,"why are you telling me this? What do you want from me?"

I looked at him before turning to glance at Sabrina and Peter and spoke again,"is it really that hard to figure out?"

This made all three of them simultaneously realise what I wanted from them and Peter spoke on behalf of all three of them,"you… you want us to join… your army?"

I nodded before continuing," I won't be harming you in any way, nor will I create any trouble for you. You can continue your spying, though how much you tell will have its consequence accordingly. I don't mind sharing a few details that would make the King happy every now and then," and he looked at me with a narrowed gaze before speaking,

"Don't you think we can backstab you?"

"Well, you can try that too, I suppose. It will have its own consequences, of course, one which I would rather not share right now." I narrowed my eyes at him with a cold smile before looking at everyone around me and then speaking,

"So, what's it going to be?"