29 If you can't make something, get someone else to do it.

"Hic, your fur is so comfy, Hic."

Aki, who looked like a big tiger right now, was dealing with the very drunk helper from the other guy from earth. Who just happens to need to spend tons of energy to look like her mature self, so right now she looks like a little girl who just got to middle school and somehow already has B cup breasts.

Nevermind being an ass lover, Aki was not neither a virgin protag nor a pedophile, so even while she hugged him with her whole naked body he didn't really get much excitement.

'Note to self: don't offer alcohol to divine or semi divine entities.'

*****

Aki only left after playing for a bit with the drunk girl like he was her mount, but after magically sobering her up, she had herself in shame and screamed at him to get out, so he did. The girl was obviously not in the state of mind to come to an agreement with him.

Leaving the time dilated space, Aki was greeted by Alice poking a bulging belly of a blonde american.

"It's been years since you last ate junk food and you forgot how stuffing it was or did you simply think that after becoming a cultivator you could eat as much as you wanted withouth repercursion?" The only thing Aki got as an answer for that was a groan. "I will take that as meaning 'both'. Here, some stomach medicine." Aki pushed it into his mouth after lifting his head.

After the boy finished his ridiculous breakthrough that came out of nowhere and finally became a nascent soul cultivator withouth any tribulation at all, they actually started talking.

"So, i see here you are eighteen years old phisically and forty something mentally, but you still somehow are only a nascent soul cultivator, so, talent problem?" Aki said while trying to break the ice.

"You have a system with appraisal function? But no, my talent is actually considered quite good, my lightning root are almost perfect and my golden core has six dragons, isn't that plenty for a eighteen year old?" Asked the youth while a bit worried that he was going to be thrown in a much more powerful realm.

"I mean, it is, but only if you do things the stupid way. I literally only got a problem when i first tried detecting ki, but after that i didn't really have any problem with oppening myself up a bit at a time and looking for the path of least resistance in my body, mind, soul, so on so forth. Granted, i have an absurd amount of energy in reserve, maybe I'd be able to one hit kill a god if i got then by surprise with the main batery exploding, but if i wasn't reborn in the body i was, than i'd problably still reach the godly realm after one year or so anyway. Though my survival chances would be infinitly lower." Aki explained his point of view.

"If only..." Said Alice with a sigh.

""WHAT?!"" Both the american boy and the loli in his pendant screamed.

"Yeah, i mean, why defy the heavens if litteraly everything has a flow of energy? Just captalize on the natural flow with a simple breath technique while splitting your focus into absorving the energy into your body, allowing it to flow how it wants and oppening up pores, meridians and such with the help of said circulation, and you will problably be becoming one with the universe instead of trying to dominate it. From there you can simply use your will against the world to do anything you have the knowlege how to do and bang, afk cultivation plus tons of energy at your dispossal." Aki explained while demonstrating with a hologram walking around while doing Qi qong breathing.

"Before you short circuit, please understand that what idiot here says is correct, but also not easy to replicate without extreme will, self loathing, mutable personality and an iron mind, nevermind that it gets harder the more you practice, so it can only be done in the start of the cultivation journey. Said technique was also further facilitated by his extremely conductive body and the availability of the energy." Explained Alice while drinking some coke. Aki did a peace sign as he finished gloating.

*****

Most of the time Aki and Charles, who somehow still had that name after reincarnating, talked about earth and determined that the later had died two years earlier than the former. The young man was sad for not being able to get any news about his family on the other side, but he had expected that.

"I mean, you can problably find about then in hell, they have WI-FI connection and a very fucked up comcept of time. Even I don't have the nescessary goods to write a comment on my favorite webnovel, nevermind actually contact or see my family. It's easy to get out of a mana stale area, but it certainly is hard to get back in." Aki ranted before taking a huge bite out of his double chesse.

"Why?" Asked a completely serious man.

"Ever read about Kumoko-sempai? The spider." Charles was confused at first, but then remenbered and nodded. "All versions of earth have a 'D' overseeing it. If one of those fuckers doesn't want something to happen, it won't. Each and every overseer is at least two existencial levels higher than the girl in your necklace. A great example would be Alice here. She could problably beat the weakest of the overseers. Just that much would require being above level ten thousand, which is the system's cap, so it is not a feaseble idea." Aki said with a sigh.

"How do you do it then?" The boy still wasn't discouraged.

"You can only beat then into submission against all odds." Aki said with a grin.

*****

As Aki's ragged breath resounded in her ears, she was once again surprised by the idiotic dungeon core. His reactions, his theorical knowledge, his way of using others to brag, and now the way he trained.

"Come on, I know I'm not a natural dancer or cook, but supervising my training can't be that bad." Aki said with a post as it put the plate of food in front of her.

"Remind me how that discussion from before led to this." The angel asked with confusion obvious even to one who didn't know her.

"because I just needed eight more skill levels to get a talent point out of the crafting line of skills and fishing is boring, besides somehow being categorized as a social skill. Now, tell me how it tastes so I can get a bit more XP. It's not like your opinion matters to me or something." It said while rolling it's eyes and doing a bad impression at being a tsundere.

The system moderator ate. She didn't really have an impression on the taste or texture, but it could probably be a restaurant level meal. When she told so to Aki, he had a difficult face, but nodded and started doing it again.

"Aki, why are you cooking for me, specifically? I'm sure you could nab some points with that princess or some other possible romantic interests, but not me." She was truly confused.

"You sure the effort doesn't count? Ok, jokes asside, you're the best taste tester for the beginner me. Alexander is almost evolving his skill, so I'd feel inappropriate to ask him to help the noob me, and Teresa is actually quite mean. As for love interests, I don't really want to start seeing this place like a game and start farming affection. Even if I'm lonely, doesn't mean I don't want friends either." Aki said and smiled at her.

Similar to Aki though, Alice didn't have the necessary bodily functions to blush, so she just nodded.

"Besides, a man needs three fundamental skills to get a woman. Know how to make them laugh, know how to cook and know when to shut up. Not very good at the last one though, so I need to compensate, preferably not in sex." He explained as the fire roared like in food wars. "You think the naked apron would get me some points though?" She had to nod at that.

*****

As Aki entered the training grounds, plenty of eyes looked at him. As he approached the grand blade slaughterer demon that had taken residence there and asked to be teached the way of the sword, they expected something to happen.

Instead they just stared at each other for five minutes and the demon said he was tenacious enough.

They couldn't see it, but Aki had been dismembered and decapitated some times while they looked. It's just that he kept every part connected to his body by regeneration or magic.

Starting there, he went on to develop his own sword technique. He'd began with the name though.

"But laughing gives out a strange vibe, what about 'sorrowful smile of a passed autumn'" Aki asked while tipping a pen on a notepad.

"We're getting somewhere. Now, is it something versatile or focused? Cuss depending on it you won't be able be able to put sadness and autumn together." Rebuked the blade demon, whose voice sounded like the gritting of several swords colliding. It was like he was a walking special effect producer equipment really.

"It should focus on space-time, mind, arcane and nature magic, so of course it's versatile, but I can't look like I'm trying to yield warglaves either."

"Fair enough. Even I don't use those things."

*****

"Haaa... " As Aki exhaled all air alway from his new lungs as he looked at the hundred or so men and women threatening him. He himself was followed by a couple dozens of D1s. *Inhales* "How can I kill you today ladies and gentlemen?" He said as he grabbed the handle of the great O-katana he'd just forged. It was even part of a set of three floating by his side.

Ignoring what the effeminate fellow in front of them said, the oldest looking fellow stepped forward in the air and released some pressure.

"We come in the name of the Lord..." *Thud*x5. As the old man talked with contempt in his tone, the heads of the five closest to him fell.

"I don't like flowery language old man. If you are not reading this off a poem, you have no excuse to talk like a quack. You're just here to insult me and them attack. Throw your best sword arm at me and I will at least listen, but otherwise, I have no reason not to kill you all right now." And so he massacred them. Only leaving one young and wound covered man run away.

Having teleported away, he imediatly appeared in his quarter in the inner sect, but he immedialty ran towards the palace to report to the patriarch. Before he could open his mouth while in front of the palace door though...

"Yup, efficiency confirmed. Stabbed right in the heart, just like in the blueprint." Aki said, right behind the man.

He thought making a extremely long tanto would be cliche, so instead he made one that could assasinate people marked by the other swords.

Standing besides Aki, was a small woman in white leather armor with two short swords by her sides and a bow over her shoulder. Her red hair and green hair were her only identifiable feature, since she didn't actually show any bit of skin and wore a simple, smiling, white mask.

"Jeane, be a dear and don't let anyone escape, would you?" Aki asked his best huntswoman with his own smile, who simply nodded back at her master and dissapeared.

"Now... Shaw we dance?" Aki imediatly raised his wakisashi over his head and blocked the blade that the middle aged man with black hair tried to use to cut him in half. He'd come out of nowhere, but didn't seem surprised that his attack was stopped. His partisan was certainly exquisitive and emaneted a dangerous aura though. "Oh, you also use cursed items? Let's see who can take more punishment them." Aki said before he swung his sword to the side and sent the man flying a bit.

When he striked again, the white haired beauty now held a glaive, the spear kind. "Teach me lots and lots, will you~." She said with a inocent smile.

Hearing that sickly sweet voice, the sect master felt dread, but he shoved it to the back of his mind. He'd show to this vixen who she was messing with. Moving from the dead lock, the man rapidly thrusted his spear while flowing his movements in an almost indecifarable pattern.

"You're focused? That's new, but certainly very good as well. Now, show me what a level two thousand can do." Aki said, this time with a wicked grin. He had multiple organs perforated, the man was sure. There just wasn't any blood. "Lets see how many i can defend on the next wave then." Aki stated madly slashing withouth concern for his safety, twirling, dodging by a hair's breath, getting stabbed over and over, kicked, getting sealed once even.

"You, what are you?" The man was almost breathless. It had only been two hours since they'd started fighting and normally he'd be able to fight at full power for much longer, but he'd already used his full arsenal twice, and that had consequences. He was also questioning how this could keep happening while he was sealed and his attacks ignored, but his enemy had only succesfully hit him once. As the cloud of dust from his second use of his ultimate settled, the patriarch felt fear in a level he'd not felt for a long while. The bloddied and dismenbered Aki threw away his clothes with telekinesis and took new ones from his storage before giggling and fully regenerating in a blink.

"You surprised with something like this? I can barely use it. If only i actually learned Azarinth magic... *sigh*, nothing i can do about it though. Neither can you, but hey, I've still to manifest and spear intent, so keep hitting me. I will even be a good guy and heal you and your energy, so get a..." Aki suddenly stopped. The woman in white from before suddenly the barrier surrounding them. She was bloddied and her clothes in tatters. When she hit the ground and started to get up in trembling limbs, the patriach tried to attack, but he noticed he could barely move his eyes in their orbits.

The next thing he knew, the three pilars of the sect were impacting the ground with their bodies. As the white figured got closer to the woman, he could hear the sound of bones breaking multiple times.

"Jeane, dear, you are not fine. I thaught you to call for reinforcements if something like this happened." He said with a sad voice as the woman was healed. Tears fell to the ground as his hand patted her back.

"I'm sorry my lord! I thought..."

"There's no need to be sorry. You are stupid and did something stupid." He interrupted her and got her up to look at him, but she refused to look up. With a hand he held her chin to look at her better and them smiled. "That's why we train and study. We're all stupid, so we got to get better. Look at me, i can't even fanthom how to make you stop crying." He pulled her hair back and touched her forehead with his. "You already did a good job, so just get better if you feel like it wasn't enough. Don't hurt yourself so much next time either, ok?"

The woman was crying and had her nose filled with snot, so she gulped and hummed in affirmation. She swore to herself to not interupt the lord ever again. To so easily be ambushed and knocked back, she was going to train her pill intake and perception a lot more! Not getting hit once before those old man showed made her complacent! Though she also felt guilty about enjoying the lord's attention like that after a failure. She was still going to chear for him while he trained with the spear though.

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