First Target Acquired

Keith first made sure that he was in his room and then locked the door before clicking on "Yes".

His surroundings immediately changed and he found himself standing in an extremely small room small room.

There was barely enough space for three people to sleep side by side and that was it. In a sense, it looked like a Japanese internet cafe's cabin but without a computer. 

It didn't take Keith any effort to spot Norn who was sleeping soundly on the bed that took up half of the room's space. His suitcase was neatly placed beside his bed. 

A few seconds passed in silence until he saw the door open slightly. Frowning, he observed the person who had just opened the door and noticed that he was wearing a plain reddish brown clay mask.

The man silently walked in, took out a dagger and swiftly brought it down at Norn's neck, puncturing it. Before Norn could move even a bit, the masked man held him down for a few seconds until he died.

Once he was done, he let go of Norn and stood still while looking down at the person he had just killed. 

"You might be lucky in evading us all this while, but looks like your luck runs out now. Or maybe just like Boss said, you could be an awakened with the ability to stay lucky. Does your luck go back to normal when you sleep? I better tell this to boss." he muttered as he continued to stare at Norn's dead body. 

He then took out a small circular object and placed it on the stab wound before leaving the place.

Suddenly, a lot of smoke surrounded Keith and he was back in his room a second later. 

'...' he stared at the wall in front of him in silence for a few seconds before taking a seat on his bed. 

'Luck runs out when you sleep huh? I didn't know about that... and I need to test it out.' he thought as he imagined the gacha wheel. 

The moment he did, it appeared in front of him and this time, he felt a little more "powerful" like something within him had grown. In just one glance at the wheel, he could tell that it's size increased. 

There was a slight change too, a very slight change. The white area was the same, but the others increased in width along with the increase in the wheel's size. The increase was extremely small, so he didn't really think that it would make much of a difference from the first time he had used it. 

'Increase in my abilities... it should only be possible if Norn accomplished his mission, which is revenge but I never received a notification about it. Oh well, it's not like I won't accept freebies.'

He mentally pushed the spin button that was at the bottom of the wheel and saw it spin for an entire minute before slowing down. He watched in anticipation as he slowed down near a yellow section and was excited until he slightly moved forward to stop at a white one. 

"White again..." he muttered as the information about the new system flooded his mind. 

He closed his eyes and waited until he digested the information. Once he did, he nodded to himself as he looked up at the gacha wheel that still hadn't vanished. But unlike before, there was a huge difference. 

There were only white sections on the wheel this time and the rest were nowhere to be seen. 

'So now I can give two systems simultaneously as long as they're both low level ones.' he came to a conclusion as he pressed the spin button once again and waited for the cycle to repeat. 

Information flooded his mind and once he was done absorbing everything, he let out a smile. 

"To think that I'd be able to merge them together... but should I do it?" he asked himself and sat silently to think about it. A few minutes passed and once he made up his mind, he silently walked out of the house to search for his new system hosts. 

At this point, he had no solid goals to invest too much into one single person. Instead, he wished for instantaneous growth, which would work only if he gave his system to two different people and took something from them as a tax; notably their awakened powers but he didn't mind taking their physicality as that was what he currently lacked at the moment.

Keith's first stop was the Church of the Money God. Unlike the Goddess of Protection's Church which was simplistic, this one was adorned with gold sculptures. The stone walls were beautifully carved and there were a lot of paintings hung up on the inside of the church. 

As he was walking towards the confession room, which was also called the confessional and on the way, he spotted three guards escorting a young lady from the other side of the room. 

All the churches had a similar layout, so Keith could tell that they were bringing her in to make her a part of their church. And with three escorts like that, there was a high chance of this person being someone important, or someone who had recently awakened. 

'Based on her clothes, she's a middle class family's child and based on the policies of the Money church, there's a high chance that her parents gave her away to the church and received money in return.' he thought as he followed the four with his eyes until they left the main hall. 

After having acquired his target, he had no wish to stay her anymore, but he continued to walk toward the confessional and blabbered nonsense. He was then forcefully pushed to donate money to the church, so he took out a small brak coin and pushed it into the donation box's opening slit. 

Once done, he headed out of the church and went straight to the district's training area that was right beside the empire's army barracks.