Seized by the System

Bohai Bay, on the ocean surface where there were slightly surging waves.

Twelve Arms waited over here with its partners the black and white dolphins, the leaders of two octopus tribes, who were the arbitration targets of this conflict, and Sir Tom the black cat who had a kind heart though it seldom smiled.

Looking from afar, they looked like a dense mass, which was actually quite a horrifying scene. After all, other than the black cat, all other fellows were not of small sizes.

In the past, this was a hustling and bustling shipping lane, but it was already abandoned now. Not only were there few cargo ships and passenger ships, even fishing boats were rarely seen.

Occasionally, a big ship would be seen passing by, with some cultivators were aboard at the front line. When they saw them, each of them became more alert.

Twelve Arms was not concerned about this at all, but his two partners kept discussing this upon seeing the situation.

“There are significantly fewer boats nowadays.” The black dolphin said.

“Yes, I used to be afraid of coming near here, there were too many nets set up here, and too many boats as well.” The white dolphin looked around them.

As Tom the black cat stepped on water, it laughed and said when it heard what the dolphins said, “This clearly explains that the ocean is returning to its true owner…”

“Sir Tom is right, the sea definitely belongs to the Dolphin Empire.” The black dolphin said proudly.

The one-eyed octopus was disgruntled after hearing it. “How is that possible? You dolphins have no arms or limbs and have limited potential, the sea is destined to be the Octopus Empire’s.

“That’s because we have the smartest brains, the most useful limbs, which are far better than humans’ fingers. We can do whatever humans can do and we can even do them much better.

“As for you, you can only be our carriages, just like cows and horses for humans. It happens that your sizes are big enough and you move quite fast, so you’re not slower than humans’ trains.”

In order to prove its words, the one-eyed octopus immediately ordered eight of its limbs to show off some tricks.

Its limbs instantly started to move around, performing all kinds of dazzling movements, such as tangling, curling, pinching, and holding. It was simply agile to the extreme, which was indeed not inferior to humans’ fingers, and was even more advantageous.

“That’s right, that’s right, but us octopuses are kind. We’ll let you have full meals instead of making you our transportation with empty stomachs, hahaha.” The seven-limbed octopus that was at another side nodded in agreement too, it was delighted.

Although they were currently competitors, they needed to act in concern for other people.

As the black and white dolphins looked at each other, they looked aghast and were immensely frustrated, but they could not deny a frightening truth.

It turned out that octopuses who were only their source of food in the past had equivalent potentials as humans. In the worst case, their children and grandchildren would only become their servants in the future, so they should simply kill them beforehand…

Hence, the black dolphin said madly, “How abominable, so much for warning fishermen to ‘not eat speaking ocean clans’. It wasn’t easy that the handful of humans who liked to target us were dead, you’ve outdone yourselves, you’re thinking about treating us like cows and horses again! Today, one of us two must die!”

The white dolphin nodded heavily too.

They waved their strong caudal fins to accumulate power, and was ready for a scale assault as they wanted to chop off the heads of these two octopuses.

Thus, in the process of waiting, these two newborn intelligent clans of the ocean were about to explode into a bloody encounter…

Tom the black cat was secretly delighted as it watched, in just two days’ time, it had taken the opportunity to instill many benefits of building an empire into these groups of newborn ocean intelligent beings…

It had put it this way, “As long as you build your own empires for your own clans, you’ll be able to become founding members of an empire. When that happens, not only will there be people who especially farm fishes for you to eat, people will build tall, luxurious, and exquisite underwater palaces for you. The benefits are much more than these…”

Its words made these naive fellows yearn for it and they drooled from the thought of it, most of them started to privately discuss starting an empire.

When Twelve Arms saw the situation, it quickly dissuaded them, “Peace, we need peace.

“Brother White, didn’t you say that you symbolize love and peace?

“One-eyed, Seven Arms, keep your limbs, don’t shatter unity, we’re all partners.”

However, this time round, all the parties turned a deaf ear to its words. They only looked at each other with glaring looks, as they were dead set on fighting one another beforehand for their future ranks in the ocean.

Twelve Arms was deeply troubled, just as it was about to invite the Heavenly Book out to stop this mess, the look on its round head changed all of a sudden. It then moved aside immediately.

Tom the black cat immediately followed.

When Twelve Arms reached the ocean surface far away, it lifted the dark black-colored bag with a grave expression.

The golden book flew out from the bag and was fluttering the pages.

Twelve Arm’s face turned ghastly at once.

“Oh Heavenly Book, I see you’ll miss home too. That’s right, this is probably not far from where your true owner stays, I often see him flying to the ocean from this direction.

“Yes, it’s time for us to part, you should return. I’ll forever remember the pointers you’ve given me, and I swear that no matter what happens, I’ll keep to my original aspirations, I’ll forever remember to build an honest oceanic world…”

Tom the black cat thought to itself, ‘This octopus is a silly bird…’

When Tom the black cat heard all of that, it imprinted a mark on the twelve-limbed octopus at once.

How could it return the artifact back to its owner so easily?

If it was the cat itself, it would have thought of ways to identify the true owner, or hid it far away. It would certainly not let its original owner find it. Oh right, the most reassuring way would be killing the original owner.

A brief moment later, it turned its eyeballs and came to a sudden realization. From the words of that silly octopus, it deduced a horrifying fact… This magical book belonged to Vigilante A!

While Tom the black cat was caught up in its own thoughts, it saw the golden book shaking in the end, and indeed left Twelve Arms then flew towards land.

Tom really wanted to follow after it quietly to stop that magical book, but after some thought, its good habit stopped it from doing so.

‘That won’t do, it’s more adequate to neglect it and put it aside.’ It thought to itself.

Vigilante A possessed the Heaven’s Eye, how could he be clueless if he had lost something?

He must definitely be using it to fish, that was right, and for all it knew it was fishing for Sir Tom.

He must have noticed from the beginning, but Sir Tom was hidden due to his Death Skill, so he could not be found no matter what.

This was why he used such a method to fish for it, as expected, it was a cunning fellow. Everyone else thought that he was an honest person by just looking at his thick brows and big eyes, in actual fact, he was the most crafty one.

“Hahaha,” Tom could not help but laugh out loud, he was particularly pleased with itself for seeing through Vigilante A’s evil intentions.

After Twelve Arms sent its mentor and friend off which had accompanied him for days, it was extremely downhearted. Needless to say, a group of its own species and partners who were about to kill one another were putting it in a more terrible mood.

Right then, it saw the black cat who was laughing out loud aside, it was truly unhappy at this instant.

From the way it looked at it, the cat was mocking it, just like those fellows in its former clan who exceptionally rejoiced whenever it encountered misfortunes.

They said things like “The strong and might Twelve Arms can’t catch fishes either…”

As well as “No matter how strong you are, no octopus would date you anyway…”

This black cat had a bad conscience.

The innocent Twelve Arms had also given Tom the black cat a heavy mark…

…

Vigilante A’s farm villa.

Butler Zheng was doing well, when faced with the danger of the sky collapsing, Vigilante A’s animal followers were not idle at all.

Zheng Dao was rushing to arrange the movements of forces from all sides, so to aid the Venerable One in making the best selection.

As for the animal followers, some had already rushed over to Truth Department’s Heritage Realm in China one the same night to cultivate as soon as they could.

Both the black dog and his loyal partner the Dragon Carp had gone, lest they could not keep up with their owner in the future.

Some of them continued on their daily tasks instead as they tried to perform new meritorious services, for example, the yellow dog.

As for the white hamster which the Dragon Carp claimed to be “doing nothing and eating all day”, it decided not to avoid anymore hence it secretly went underground and tried to contact its previous clan.

Since Cang Gongzi used to have a cowardly character in the Greater Rat Clan, it had no prestige at all.

Nonetheless, it believed that its royal blood and its Morality Cultivation base now were enough for it to rope in a group of gigantic rats.

On one hand, it could not let all of them become war machines for that person. On the other hand, it was thinking that if they were able to open up some evacuation points underground in advance, it would be helpful for many spiritual creatures for evacuation purposes in the future. Regarding this, humans were really not as efficient as gigantic rates, as funds and manpower were huge problems.

After being stimulated by the Spirit Bear, his ally the Sky Eagle made a new decision. It wanted to contact the local eagle species with help from Jin Hui’s relationship, trying to expand its foundation in the path of godhood in order to elevate its strength speedily.

Since it had succeeded in cultivating the path of godhood, it could already do so.

In the System Space, the true leader that they’re following, Sir System, was being overpowered by a deceitful follow.

“I only know that with the salvation foundation, I won’t have to borrow money from you anymore; but I have no idea that I’ll actually have to borrow experience from you too…” Sir System said in a grieving tone.

Fang Ning did not listen to a word it said, it only held his precious game book in his arms and comforted it.

After not seeing for a few months, the form of his precious game book did not change, but there was way more content in the pages.

There were countless newly added monster characters, various new figures from all sorts of clans, and there were many human characters as well.

It seemed like Twelve Arms was really not a geeky “fish” after all, it had its aspirations and traveled everywhere.

Though it looked innocent, most of the time, innocence meant perseverance, which meant determination.

Many people who had more complicated minds and became smarter once they grew up realized that they were not advancing as fast as when they were young and naive.

Fang Ning said cheerfully, “Last time you’ve always talked about harvesting experience from my precious, you didn’t think that my precious recognizes me as its owner. Of course I’ll have to agree as its owner, before you can legally obtain it, Hero System. Or else, your own Chivalry Rules won’t allow it.”

Sir System said angrily, “Rich-man Host, you’re too cunning, I can’t believe you didn’t leak any of that information out.”

“Hahaha,” Fang Ning was not very bothered about Sir’s gloominess, he only praised his previous game book with relief, “Mmm, my precious, you’ve been working hard. In just a few months, even though your strength is still at Bucket-level, you were able to earn thirty million experience points. You even advanced yourself to level 25, and especially left twelve million experience points to show filial respect to your owner. Ah, I really didn’t love you for nothing.

“That being said, my precious, experience points are useless to me, it’s better that you use it to strengthen yourself.” After complimenting it, Fang Ning said this in the end.

His precious game book fluttered its pages to show that it was extremely elated.

“It’s useful to me, I think it’s better that you give them to me.” Sir System tried to gain an advantage from the situation.

Upon hearing it, Fang Ning said in a serious manner, “I won’t talk nonsense with you, I know the significance of this. These experience points need to be accumulated for future purposes.

“Just now, my precious has already reported its whereabouts for these few months, as expected, the situation is changing. The rising force of the ocean clans can’t be stopped.”

Sir System kept muttering to itself as it could not forget about the experience points, then it said, “I don’t understand, I only know that with experience points, the world belongs to me. You better let your ‘mighty, kind, intelligent, wise, distinctive…’ precious game book of yours to transfer those experience points to me for safekeeping. After all, it is too small, it is only a few months all, so it’s not suitable for it to have such huge savings.”

Fang Ning could not be bothered about this idiot at all, if it had possession of it, where would he stand then?

He turned on his computer and started drafting a proposal.

The knowledge gained by his precious game book made him realize that the world in the future would be impossible for humans to be the only mighty ones.

Since that was the case, the salvation foundation needed to be established among the rising ocean clans as well…

Essentially, if the moon fell down, apart from the humans who would suffer from misfortune, the fishes in the sea would not be able to escape too. He needed to make them present offerings to the sir o Fang Family too.

He was not a superman, thus he disliked doing unpaid work.