Mixed Blessing System



"Now it's time for you to get the medicines, Viktoria," Lothur said, confident that all the dangers in there had been eliminated. "I intend to stop by your family treasury and pick up the valuables we left behind on that previous occasion."

Viktoria and Annaliese heard that and nodded, soon leaving to scour the surroundings of that estate.

Elke decided to help them and went after them, leaving that space controlled by Lothur to move through the abandoned headquarters.

Virtually everyone near this area was people of the Ritter Motor Company's sphere of influence, so there was no problem for them to show themselves there.

Lothur had not allowed them to freely move when he entered there with them moments ago because there were dangers in the area, and he didn't want to risk having to show himself.

But with everything finalized, nothing in the surroundings could endanger them.

Lothur then looked at the treasure of this family once more and quickly reached its entrance.

There, he paused for a moment, looking at the large entrance door that he now realized had something entirely different than when he had entered it.

As he looked at this thing, he noticed that the consciousness of the Frost family treasure was there.

Not only that, it seemed to want to show itself to him.

So he didn't simply walk into that place to collect everything in his path in readiness.

He looked up at the top of that entrance and saw a crystal shining in a greenish light.

Then he listened.

"You have cultivated for a long way since the last time you were here, young man." A voice that sounded like a mixture of many people speaking said, but only Lothur could hear it.

"You have once again done something amazing for our Frost family even though you have received so little from us. Boy, thank you.

From now on, we, the Frost ancestors, recognize you as the patriarch of our family!"

With those words, an energy flow shot from that glowing thing into Lothur's body.

Noting that it was not something evil to him, Lothur accepted it, curious as to what it was all about.

[A large amount of information trying to connect to the host's memory...]

[Does the host agree to absorb this information?]

Lothur did not hesitate, 'Yes.'

Then he closed his eyes and saw several old scenes, receiving generations of ancient knowledge, things he would learn at the Morning Star Academy if he went back there, but a lot of other information already lost in the river of time.

'Singularities, huh?' He opened his eyes and understood why the Frost family had one of the leaves he was searching for, understanding the name these people gave it and the danger they posed.

The Frost family was an ancestral power even older than the Leopoldine family. Their history goes back to the remote past when great wars between humans and demons occurred across the continent.

In particular, the last great war between these beings and humans had a great deal of Frost family involvement, with the Frost family being given the task of protecting one of the items sought by the demon leader of the time.

Another family to be given this task had been a noble house annihilated by the Leopoldine and Welzel families a thousand years ago.

The Singularity that the Welzel family had lost decades ago had been the possession of this other ancient noble house for a thousand years.

The other Singularities had been hidden in other places around Concordia, among those places, Secret Realms, places that were harder to get to.

But these Frost ancestors only know who had been left with the responsibility of hiding each leaf on the day of the task division and had no idea where each organization had taken them afterward.

So Minos had no idea how to use this information to locate the next leaves.

But he now knew that Leopoldine's imperial family had virtually no chance of owning one of these leaves.

However, Lothur had finally understood more about what the system was searching for!

He wasn't sure how accurate the information he had received about the origin of the Singularities was since even the Frost family had received them long after their appearance. But by the theory of the seven experts who decided to hide these leaves, Lothur had discovered that the demons could release a supreme being trapped in the Lost Tree through them.

By the theory of the seven experts, the Lost Tree was an ancient sarcophagus where an abominable creature was trapped.

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, this tree had borne the fruit of something terrible and had been consumed by a rising demon. By consuming the tree's fruit, that being had supposedly reached the peak of cultivation and became immortal.

Massacres and terror struck this world, with every species being threatened by the being's destruction.

Then a group of mighty beings emerged and gathered against this immortal, fought an epic battle that had practically destroyed the world as it was, and created new landforms, islands, and continents.

But even that group had been unable to defeat the immortal demon.

On the threshold between life and death, the warriors sacrificed their powers to manipulate the Lost Tree, separating the seven parts of the fruit consumed by the demon and trapping him inside the tree.

He was still immortal but trapped, and as long as the Seven Singularities were not used to free him, the world would be safe.

Generations and generations after, others took it upon themselves to protect those leaves and ward off the threat of that abominable creature's resurgence upon the continent.

However, everything had changed since the Frost family's last Saint!

'If I'm not mistaken, some group is behind the decay of the families that were supposed to be hiding those leaves.' He immediately thought of the hypothesis of those remnants of the Frost ancestors.

'Hmm, I wouldn't be surprised if the demons behind this have changed their strategy. Maybe they are...' As he was thinking of something, Lothur suddenly opened his eyes and realized the incorrect information he had received from Anneke.

"Is that something from those behind these things?" He wondered as he clenched his fists.

'System, what would happen if someone interested in these Singularities found out I have them? Is there a method for them to be extracted from me?'

He asked, thinking about the possibility of that being a trap not for people with information about the leaves but for people with their essence.

At that moment, the system, for the first time, informed him about something important.

[Analyzing the host's question...]

[Access authorized!]

[Responding to the host...]