08 Dark Past, System Re-evaluation

Mark spent most of his time focused on mining, forging and crafting many things for the next two months. He had made many spear heads, arrow heads, shields, helmets and pauldrons. He was able to do much as he discovered a large coal deposit in a cave nearby the swamp area. He now realized that for him to be able to gain a foothold in the Mission World he must start to make his own private force.

During the first month he had made a large work shop and many tools that he might need from the knowledge he has from Basic Forging and Intermediate Crafting. Though still not complete, Mark felt it was enough for now, as it was just the initial things he needed for his plan on earning so called 'Time'. He really wanted to be able to travel in Marvel and DC not because he was fan-boying but he needed something that might help him here in the Mission world.

Last he remembered there were many Gods besides the Chaos gods that watch the mission world. Thus he just planned to lay low for now, thus he has started to experiment on the things he could do inside the backyard and the manor because due to some reasons unknown the system sometimes doesn't respond to his questions.

Mark also realized that although the back yard was large and had a diverse set of environments, there was something still missing and that was noted when the system issued a mission to remind Mark what was needed. The backyard lack any sort of Fauna except for those he had received from the random minion rolls.

[Make a proper biodiversity]

[You have a large Island as your backyard but it is missing something. Host is tasked to gather various animals, insects and fishes to populate the large Island.]

[Rewards]

[Unlock Function: Migration= Host is now able to move the Manor to other places, but only twice a year.]

[Unlock Function: Chest Shop]

[Side-Job: Rune Smith]

[Skill Book: Basic Rune Inscribing]

[Gold coins 10,000]

[Time Limit: Twenty years in the Mission world]

[Mission Failure: The Host would not be able to unlock the two functions in two hundred years]

[Progress: 0.015%]

"System, does this progress talk about population of living things here or the variety of species present?" Mark asked instantly as he was making sure.

[It is based on Variety to determine the Host is successful in making the 'Backyard' more of a balanced diversity.]

"Shit!" Mark said as he felt he must hasten his plans as he felt the Function of Migration would make his plans easier now that he doesn't need to stay in this waste of a Dukedom called Mousillon. But then Mark stopped and thought where should he go then? The whole world is so chaotic here that there is no safe place to go, even in the lands of the Empire.

Last he remembered there is currently a civil war in the empire where the two religions are fighting each other by claiming the legitimacy of Sigmar being a god. Thus two people used this to fuel their ambition to become emperor by asking support from a Cult. Mark remembered this as this was one of the schemed of the Chaos gods to weaken the mortal world.

Now thinking about it, isn't Kislev currently a newly raised Kingdom, maybe he could go there and build enough influence. He might also gain the goodwill of Tzarina Shoika, he knows they are currently rising as a country but it would be better for him to be able set a foothold on the country earlier. It has just been 25 or 26 years since its founding, Mark felt it would be easy to snatch some profits as he knew what the Country needed the most.

It was weapons as they are always defending the empire from the hordes of ruinous powers that come from the Chaos Waste. Mark might also be able to do his mission there as Erengrad is one large trading hub. Maybe he could also build a dominant household there. As this thought seeded in his mind various scenarios were played on how he should approach this matter in the easiest manner he could.

Unbeknownst to him the old training his grandfather instilled to him is starting to emerge that his stats are changing in real time.

[Ding!]

[System re-evaluating]

[Stats Updating]

[Traits Unlocked]

[Skills Updating]

[Mark Johnson: LVL-23 :Male]

[Race:Human???]

[Titles: N/A]

[Stats- HP 310/310 MP 760/760]

[*STR-31] [*END-26]

[*AGI-24] [*DEX-34]

[*INT-68] [*WIS-76]

[*CHA-22] [*LUK-65]

[Skills]

[ACTIVE: Hypnotize lvl. 33]

[PASSIVE: Iron Will lvl. 45, Basic Swordsmanship lvl. 6, Basic Forging lvl. 5, Intermediate Craftmanship lvl.3, CQC lvl. 26, Marksmanship lvl. 34, Hacker lvl. 56, Eloquence lvl. 45]

[Traits]

[Eidetic Memory, Cold-Blooded Logic, Business Minded]

[INVENTORY]

[Gold coins-281, Ring of Fire]

[PETS]

[Goofy Pug, Bastiladon 2x, Diabetic Rat, Grumpy Cat, Almost Healthy Horse, chickens 34x, Rabbits 23x, Knight Golem, Farmer Skeleton 2x]

[TERRITORY}

[N/A]

[Remarks: Host potential is being unearthed]

Mark suddenly was assaulted mentally as various memories of his were being pulled out of his head, it was his days as a teenager. Mark instantly started to remember, why he always acted the way he did. Why he never shown interest in handling the family business, he was supposed to be the successor at an early age but he found something that made him learn to lock his mind away.

He was a failsafe made by his grandfather as he was never the successor even if the family elders wanted him to be as he was just a bastard son of that old man. In other words he's the half-brother of his supposed to be father, a child made because his 'grandfather' couldn't keep his pants on himself. His mother is still his which means his grandfather slept with his mother, his daughter in-law.

He learned of this because of his eagerness to inherit the Family's business he hacked his 'Grandfather's' computer. There he learned of what really happened, it was a family gathering and his mother was drunk she lost her way in their house. She accidentally arrived inside his 'grandfather's' room where he too was drunk but not drunk enough.

Because Mark saw from the footage that was hidden by the old man that he was still able to get out of the room an hour later to call some maids to carry his mother back towards her room. He kept the footage but deleted the ones in the guard room, he also saw the things the old man did to the witnesses. He lastly saw the test results after he was born as well as the faked results.

Mark was scarred deeply as he also saw the fact that his mother didn't die of an accident with her brakes not functioning. He learned that the family also did many deeds that would make them qualified to be called degenerates even here in the Mission World. It was then he saw the truth of the business empire he was almost given hold to.

It was a large Crime Family Syndicate, thus with his genius and talents he learned to hypnotize himself at a young age. He locked most of the things he just saw and made himself appear as a self-indulgent young master that was sour because his family didn't choose him as the successor. But he still learned how to pull himself out yet it would take time, that was how he was able to learn other skills to protect him.

Being a dandy acting carefree and spends a lot of money, there are time he was able to smuggle some to do things in private such as learn how to fight in close combat and practice on guns. He was still young then but he learn to keep his face neutral as he knew that the old man is still a very shrewd person. Even if he is a genius he still couldn't risk the chance his face showing things that might make the old man take note.

Mark sat there as memories of his past surged back very quickly, he realized that he never tried to extract himself since he was brought here randomly as his subconscious always thought he was just in a dream thus his denial kept him inside. Now that he started accept it as well as taking things seriously, he was now able to assess deep inside to get out.

Mark breathed in deeply as familiar memories now kept coming back and skills and talents also came out themselves. Looking at the System Screen means that even such a heaven defying thing is still prone to deception. Mark's mind went on hyper drive as he stood up and polished the plans he had made before. He went to the forge to start making thing that he remembered just now.

He reviewed the materials available and then traveled to various parts of the backyard and gathered many things at the self-made workshop. He had seen the plans made by him when he was still the 'Dumb' one and it made him want to sigh heavily in exasperation.