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Chapter 9: Not Just Yet
Chapter 9: Not Just Yet
Sizzle!
Mark suddenly came back to reality as he heard the sound of meatballs sizzling on the fire, and Art hurried to grab them off and brought them to the table before putting them beside the spaghetti! Mark sighed as he took his eyes away from the screen that had haunted him with the same message for more than four years now!
Ever since that day, Mark has tried everything he could to wake the system up! But nothing works! Mark did everything that he has seen characters in light novels do! he trained, he meditated and he even went to really dangerous places to try and see if the system needed him to be in danger before it could wake up! But all he ended up doing was putting himself in danger for no reason!
Trying to wake up the system was the entire reason why he even started fighting against Anima in eh first place! He thought that he could wake up the system by collecting stat points from killing Anima and passing some mysterious threshold, but after some time, Mark realized that this was also a waste of time! Now, he just fights against the Anima because he feels it is the right thing to do! Even though Mark doesn't have a system, he is still as strong as a regular A rank using only his regular human strength!
It was now that Mark really understood what the god of games meant when he said that Mark would be burning his future potential! Fighting against Armageddon was something that Mark could not regret because that bastard took away his parents from him! It had to pay! And Mark also knew that if he didn't do it, then the entire world would have crumbled and been destroyed! But in exchange for that, Mark gave up his blessings and it really sucked!
Mark had no blessings, and he also had no power; he was basically fighting against the Anima using nothing but pure physical strength from his superior body! With only this superior body, Mark could handle Disaster class Anima with some effort. That was enough for him to take care of many of the stray Anima that appeared around his vicinity.
Mark had no idea how long it would take for him to finally get his system back. He thought that it would have come back by now, but every year that he wishes for it to come back is only another year for him to feel disappointed when it doesn't come back! Mark would rather just stop wishing for something like that if it was only going to end up in disappointment every time!
Over time, Mark slowly allowed himself to forget about the god of games and his system, and he began to enjoy the life that he currently had with Arit. Mark closed the system tab that he opened and moved closer to the table with the food.
Once Mark smelled the food, he felt his mouth begin to water immediately! Arit was an amazing cook! She was probably one of the best cooks that he had ever seen in his life, and there was nothing that she made that Mark could say wasn't the best he tasted! Arit would always blush and deny that she was a good cook whenever he brought it up, but Mark knew that she was just being humble! She was damn good at cooking, and Mark knew that she wouldn't lose against any of those celebrity cooks that he sees on TV or anime!
Arit noticed how Mark was staring at her food, and she felt a giddy sensation fill her entire body as she tried to hide her smile! Making food like this every morning for them was very hard, and she had to wake up very early to do it! Most people would be completely shocked if they saw the amount of effort she put into waking up early just so that she could cook for Mark! She felt like a housewife trying to please her new husband whenever she did it, and she would always chuckle to herself when she thought about this while cooking!
[System functions Recovering...]
[Time Elapsed: 4 years: 1 day: 10 hours: 32 minutes: 15 seconds...]
[Time remaining: 0]
[System functions can be awakened. System Functions are being recalibrated. System functions are being recalibrated.]
[System Awakening -]
"Not just yet. Let's calm down a little."
[A/N: I know this will piss some people off, but just wait. I have a surprise waiting for you guys in future chapters]
A playful voice laughed jovially as it caressed the system and stopped the system recalibration. The God of Games released another joyful laugh as he looked into the possible future and saw something that would be far more entertaining for him. The system could not awaken yet. Not until all the pieces have been put in their right place.
[System functions temporarily stopped. System Awakening paused.]
All of the system messages that appeared immediately cleared out again before Mark could see them and a certain God of Games laughed with even more mirth as it slowly made itself scarce again.