The Idle System (A LitRPG series Book 7): Family by Pegaz (good books to read for young adults txt) 📗

Sarah examined the metal, too. It was just like the metal that John had used on his shield. No Life Power could come close to it, but it was soft and even a mortal could easily rip it apart.

A minute later, John started to use his metal element to sink further down, causing Sarah to jump back into his arms. He then used his metal element to cover the hole he made afterwards.

It took a few seconds for them to travel through the twenty feet of metal and what came into view was a large, open area with greenery and a Life Power mist.

“I don’t believe it!” John exclaimed. “It’s just like the other mortal planet! Deflecting metal layered to stop the Life Power from reaching the surface and immortal creatures living below.”

Sarah looked around and saw the hornet-like beasts John had once described to her. “Why don’t these creatures destroy this soft metal and go above ground?”

John could only shrug his shoulders for he had no idea, but he knew he wanted to try an experiment.

He smiled and asked Sarah to wait there before he flew down a little.

When he was in range, he used his threads to capture one of the creatures and brought it towards him as he flew back to Sarah.

His threads had wrapped around every part of the creature, besides its eyes and the top of its head.

As he got closer to the metal above Sarah, he noticed the creature had started squirming much more frantically as if it was meeting its natural enemy.

When he was next to Sarah, he lifted the creature up so its head touched the ceiling.

As soon as its skin made contact with the deflecting metal, the creature’s head exploded.

John and Sarah turned their threads into shields to block all the brain matter and blood that spewed out.

Afterwards, Sarah asked John to unwrap the creature and she quickly grabbed its arm and took out the microscope she had created to examine it.

After a few minutes, she put it away and turned to John. “These creatures are basically a mass of Life Power that’s shaped into their current form. It’s no wonder the deflecting metal keeps them at bay.”

“So, they can change their shapes at will, then?” John inquired.

Sarah let go of the creature after she finished examining it before shrugging her shoulders. “Maybe their ancestors did, but over time, the creatures got used to that shape and might have lost that ability.”

John sighed. “As long as they can’t get past the deflecting metal, then it’s fine. I’ve always wondered why they didn’t break through to the surface since they’re much stronger than the mortals.”

They explored the area for a few hours, but they didn’t find anything interesting. It looked like no humans had ever lived there as there weren't any buildings like there were in the other place.

They returned home after having their fill of exploration and John made sure he closed the hole up after they left.

Chapter 15: The Royal Entourage

During the next month, John tried something different with his mind parts.

He had only one of them working on the Scan while the rest remained unused and that had been bothering him for a while.

It wasn’t until he went through his Complete List for ideas that he had an epiphany.

He kept his mind part working on the Scan. After some trials and errors during the last month, he enabled some of the other mind parts to do something inside the Scan.

One mind part was lip reading each individual within the Scan’s range. He could gather loads of information every second doing this. It wasn’t long after figuring this ability out that he learned that the royal entourage was here to inspect the town and its people, before they went back to the capital for their wedding.

This royal wedding would bring the two kingdoms together as allies, but before that, the prince and princess were touring both kingdoms. The tour had started years ago and this town was one of the last stops.

Other than that bit of information, John ignored most of the other things he learned.

Another mind part was filtering what he didn’t want to see in the Scan. He used to have to turn the Scan off when people went to bed naked or was doing something John wouldn’t be able to remove from his memory. This mind part was stopping these cursed images from entering his mind and John almost wanted to celebrate his achievement.

Seeing people’s rank was another mind part’s job. Even though the Scan couldn’t show any status like Controlled, Sealed, Manipulated, or even Pregnant like his Immortal Eye skill could show, he could see if any immortals and, more importantly, if any Transcendents snuck into the town.

The last one was just keeping his Storage Space open, even though he had no use for it at the moment.

This meant that all but two of his mind parts were working on something, so he could only hope that one of the working mind parts was the Demon.

Once he had everything figured out, he told Sarah about it. She was excited to be able to filter out those things she didn’t want to see, too, but she couldn’t use the method yet because she still had to use the mind parts for the absorbing and merging techniques—she hadn’t reached the maximum amount of Toxin Power yet.

For the next few days, everyone in town was cleaning and preparing for the royals to arrive. It was imperative that they impress the royal family as it could mean bringing in new business and citizens. It was something both John and Sarah hoped for but didn’t speak about very often.

John’s previous students had successfully gone off to become knights and his newer students weren’t that great. Most of them were school-aged or unwilling to put in the effort for proper training. It left John frustrated and he often thought about quitting, but with the