[Mysterious Black Orb.
Class: Item
Description: An object capable of helping you more than you think.
Effect: Absorbs fragments of divinity and allows them to be transferred without side effects even to the weakest existing being, evolving their existence and ignoring natural limitations.
Note: The absorption limit equals 1,000,000 synchronization points.
Note 2: Impossible to remove from the inventory or transfer to another person.]
"What is this?"
[The description says it all.]
"Then this will help me, but it will not make me stronger or anything, why would it be useful to me? I cannot even give it to someone else to help me."
[I am sorry, I cannot reveal the details, but this will definitely help you.]
"So I sacrificed three useless items for one even more useless?" Kaito was extremely irritated by the result, but when he was about to keep complaining, he remembered something.
"Impenetrable Mind, activate it at 100%."
The system obeyed immediately and Kaito felt his mind enter absolute calm, like a still ocean without waves, all the anger and frustration toward his rewards disappeared, he even regretted sacrificing the other three a little, perhaps if he had looked more closely they might have had some useful application.
At least the reward he obtained in exchange was not that bad, since he trusted the system and that it would be useful for something.
"Alright, if you say so, anyway I sacrificed three useless rewards to get it, and based on your attitude so far I do not think you would scam me.
Leaving aside those useless rewards, although there are some not so useful among the rest, there are also several quite good ones." Once calm, Kaito began to properly review the rest of the rewards.
[Tower of Order
Class: Tower
Description: Those who do not respect order are only destined for death.
Effect: This tower influences the collective mentality within everything considered your territory, making them 75% less likely to break rules, whether legal or moral.
Note: This depends on the individual's concept of morality.]
[Ownerless Status
Class: Skill
Description: If the status is not truly yours, why should it respect your privacy?
Effect: Allows you to review the current status of others.
Note: This ability uses the target's memory as an intermediary, so it can be avoided using stronger mental protection abilities.]
[Time Pendant
Class: Item
Description: The Demon of Death and the God of Time have been at odds since the beginning of their existence, siding with one will protect you from the other.
Effect: While wearing this pendant, once you die, time will reach your soul before death does, taking you ten minutes into the past and successfully preventing your death.
Note: Due to the nature of the object, special cases that reject the pendant may exist.]
[Attraction Tower(Social)
Class: Tower
Description: If unity creates strength, then the one who unites more people will be stronger.
Effect: This tower unconsciously attracts people who align with your thoughts to your territory.
Note: Aligning with your thoughts does not necessarily mean they cannot be enemies.]
[Negative
Class: Skill
Description: The ability "Evil" has evolved to a new level thanks to a deadly energy.
Effect: Allows you to observe and track any type of negative feeling or energy nearby, whether directed at you or not, from detecting slight annoyance to perceiving the energy of death itself. It is impossible to hide the origin, although stronger individuals can break the link by force.
Note: This is the evolutionary limit of this ability.]
[Enhanced Death Note(5 uses)
Class: Item
Description: There are two types of gods, power gods and conceptual gods, the Death Note has been enhanced at a conceptual level.
Effect: Simply by writing the real name of any individual while thinking of their face, they will die instantly regardless of the difference in power.
Note: Although enhanced at a conceptual level and capable of bypassing "power" defenses, conceptual beings can still resist it.]
[Reflection
Class: Skill
Description: Everyone has a bad side, right?
Effect: Split yourself into two versions that share the same mind, one version can only use abilities with evil alignment, while the other can only use abilities with good alignment. In exchange, all usable abilities triple their power.
Note: For an ability to count as evil, it must have at least 50% mana of negative origin, and vice versa.]
[Regression Card
Class: Item
Description: A single use, who decided that?
Effect: Allows you to return your body to a previous state, either completely or partially, restoring temporary benefits, resetting the use of an ability and its cooldown, or simply returning to a better physical state.
Note: The duration of the effect depends on its use.]
"Can you explain the part about power gods and conceptual gods?" Kaito asked while reviewing the information.
[It is simple, power gods are those considered gods purely because of their strength, while conceptual gods are gods because they dominate a concept of reality. A power god can be as strong as a conceptual one, but as long as the latter uses the concept under their control, the power god cannot do anything to defend themselves.]
"Then, most likely the god of earth is a conceptual god, while the gods of this world are power gods."
[...I cannot answer that.]
"I expected nothing less" Kaito sighed, knowing his system well. "By the way, am I a conceptual being?"
After all, his ability and species were called Original Demon of Speed, and it even stated that speed was one of the primordial concepts born from evil, one of the two original concepts.
[You are, although you are extremely weak and for now you can only use speed instead of controlling it.]
"I do not know how strong that is, but I suppose it is fine. By the way, about what we discussed earlier, did you calculate it already?"
[I did. The simulations are under the direct command of the central system. If you wanted a simulation to continue even without any Lord present, you would need to use a total of 100000 synchronization points, are you sure?]
"If it is not for this, what would I use them for? Besides, I only need a few to synchronize myself, and we are still in the low level zone, so to speak, the worlds that appear are still easy with occasional medium mode exceptions, and there is no possibility of hard modes, is that correct?"
[That is correct.]
"See? As long as I do not end up in debt like last time, it is fine" Kaito said confidently.
Kaito was quite different from other Lords. Normally, a lord gains power from the tower of worlds and levels up in Gaia, but they soon get stuck, needing to return to the tower and grow stronger by other means.
This means synchronization and extraction points are very valuable for most Lords, especially since they do not gain 10000 per round like Kaito.
However, Kaito, having obtained a broken ability from the start, had not yet reached, and likely never would, the point where he needed to improve in the tower of Lords because he could no longer grow in Gaia.
Thus, the synchronization points that others considered valuable, he had in abundance and could afford to use them not on himself but on the people he cared about.
Of course, with this experience, he would not spend them all again and fall into debt, but saving a few would be enough. After all, in the Detective Conan world, it only took a small amount of divinity fragments, so small it did not even affect his rewards, to restore his power to the maximum.
And considering that even medium level worlds would still appear rarely according to the system, he was more than qualified to say, 'If it is not for this, what would I use them for?'
Even so, remembering something, he decided to organize his points better this time.
"Let's see, because of the debt I have 176000 synchronization points left. Shiho told me last time through Hinata that I would face a situation where, if I did not want to die, I would need 50000 points, so in reality I only have 126000 usable points.
That means I have more than enough to give her the normal life I promised, and I still have 26000 usable points left." Facing such perfect numbers, Kaito felt uneasy, as if something did not quite add up.
"Something feels wrong. The future Shiho said she would punish me if I did not summon her as soon as I returned, right? She even said the rest of the promises did not matter. Then, should something happen that prevents me from fulfilling that promise?"
As someone from the future, Shiho should know how the tower works, the points, their functions, and all its rewards.
And knowing that, she would know his points should not be enough. After all, no one would say something like "The rest of the promises do not matter" if it were possible to fulfill them all.
[Actually, right now you have a summoning card obtained from a low level world, it cannot be used on characters from a medium level world. If you want to do that, you would need to use 30000 synchronization points in addition to the card or obtain another card, this time from a medium level world.]
"So that is the problem" Kaito realized. "Since once I summon her here she stops existing within the simulation, I can only continue her simulation first and then summon her, but if I do that I will not have enough points left to summon her immediately, which would break the promise of doing it as soon as I return."
A simple paradox where fulfilling one promise makes it impossible to fulfill the other. Faced with such a decision, Kaito...
"Obviously I will make the simulation continue, I am not going to take away her chance to enjoy the life she desires so much with her family.
I am not selfish enough to take away an entire perfect life just so she can be with me."
The system, as if it truly wanted to interfere in every decision Kaito made, intervened.
[Are you sure? Although I do not know how she could punish you, they say never underestimate a woman in love, even less an angry one.
And after breaking two promises in a row, she will surely be furious.
Who knows when you will get points again to summon her. She is a girl who knows the future, I do not think you should underestimate her "punishment".]
"That is fine, even if she punishes me somehow I will endure it, it is better than taking away her dream life, besides I can ask the others for some points to summon her now, execute the order." Kaito said. Even though the system's analysis made sense, he still preferred his own choice.
[Understood... Executing order... Synchronization points -100000.
Current points: 76000.]
As if it were a signal that Kaito had finished his matters, at that moment the doors of the hall opened and a varied group of people entered.
On one side, Mashiro, Ai, Kaguya, Lala, Kirito, Asuna, Megumi, Eriri, Tomoya, Chika, Utaha, Hikigaya, Miura, Kaori and Arima.
On the other side, Koneko, Hope and Gwen.
Kaito did not have time to notice how much his group had grown, as his attention immediately focused on Kaguya, or more specifically, on what surrounded her.
"What happened to her?" he asked, frowning.
Kaguya floated in the air completely still, wrapped in a thin bubble of sacred mana that shone intensely, while a black mist leaked from her body at an alarming rate.
"We do not know, but it should be something good" Ai replied.
Seeing Kaito's obvious confusion, Ai continued explaining.
"When we finished the previous mission, Kaguya suddenly asked us for help, she said she felt her body was about to evolve and needed synchronization points from us. However, no matter how much we transferred, it did not work. In the end, we could only give her 99% of all the points we had gained before she reacted.
But the reaction was not good, she fainted and her body started leaking that strange energy. As soon as we touched it, our bodies began to decompose at high speed, so Mashiro wrapped her in that bubble of sacred energy, which seems to be the only thing that can contain it."
"Show me" Kaito said.
Mashiro, who understood immediately, brought Kaguya closer and opened a small opening in the barrier.
The mist slowly extended toward Kaito, who brought a finger closer to it.
As soon as his finger made contact, the skin began to age rapidly until it turned to ash and scattered into the air, his regeneration reacted immediately, reconstructing the tissue from the base of the finger, only for the process to repeat again and again.
Kaito suppressed a slight groan at the constant cycle of destruction and regeneration and signaled Mashiro to close the opening.
"Death energy" Kaito murmured. He had already noticed it before with his new ability, but he still needed to confirm it for himself.
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