God of Systems: Maker of Heroes and Villains

While his team kicked each other's asses, Keith looked at the priest who had leaned close to his eat.

"Don't forget about the double awakening." he whispered and Keith nodded.

He looked at his team and walked over to Amelia before taking the leather pouch from her. Then he looked at Clara.

"Follow me, the archbishop said that she wants to talk to you." he said and glanced at the others, "You guys are free to go now. Just come back to the church by tomorrow morning so that we can leave together."

Brandon nodded and immediately ran for the entrance with Amelia right behind him. The inquisitor trio looked at each other's faces before they too walked out.

Keith and Clara followed behind the priest until their reached Maria's room. Once they were there, the priest stood outside while Keith walked in with Clara right behind him.

"You're back... and looks like you chose this woman. Hmm.... what's you're name?"

"Clara. Clara Glynov." she said and didn't add anything more.

Maria nodded and shifted her gaze to Keith, "Did you tell her about it? If not, I'll have to do it..."

"She doesn't know."

Hearing this, Maria nodded and turned to look at Clara, "Do you know about double awakening? Well, you probably don't but it's still my responsibility to ask."

"No, lady archbishop."

"Well, it's basically an awakening that happens second time. It'll either boost your existing powers, give you a new one or both. It's something that has a high chance of making you strong." Maria said and pointed at Keith before walking towards him.

She patted his hand and continued, "I told him that I'll help him awaken a second time along with one other person if he gets our church to the first or second place during the training program, but he exceeded my expectations and did a lot more.

He picked you and didn't tell you anything prior to this so now I have to explain stuff. Anyways, now that you know what a second awakening is, do I have your permission to start the ritual?"

Clara's mouth opened slightly as she looked at Keith, who gave her a silent smile before nodding.

Seeing his response, she looked at Maria and nodded, "I give you my permission."

"Great, now follow me." Maria said and walked out of the room. Keith and Clara silently followed behind her, walking down the stairs and going underground. Minutes slowly passed and Keith lost count of how far they had come.

The stairway was lit with a reddish crystal type stone that was embedded in the wall, but the light that it emitted was barely enough to see his surroundings. The distance between each stone being 15 steps each didn't help his case either.

Time quickly passed and Maria finally came to a stop, panting slightly as she placed a palm on something in front of her that Keith couldn't see. A rough sound of metal scraping against the ground was heard, something akin to a thick door opening.

"Walk ten steps forward and that'll be good enough." Maria said and walked forward while Keith and Clara followed, taking ten steps before stopping.

"Okay, you two just stand there while I close the door. This process shouldn't be seen by anyone."

Five seconds later, the sound of metal grating against the ground was heard once again and it happened a total of two times before a loud ka-chink was heard.

"Phew, these things are heavy even with my physical strength." Maria commented as she walked past the two of them and suddenly, with the sound of a slight scratch, a match stick was lit up.

She brought the matchstick closer to a doused firetorch, but this one looked different from the regular cloth head fire torches. They looked like honey dipper sticks with grooves in them, but the grooves looked different. It looked more like a cup with holes that looked like a honeycomb.

"Oh it's empty." Maria said and tossed the matchstick away, killing the little bit of fire that she had and Keith heard her walking to the left.

'Luckily, I have my eyepatch.' he thought as he followed the sound while his right hand grabbed Clara's arm. She directly looped her arm around his while he was too focused on Maria's position.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

The footsteps stopped and Keith heard an unfamiliar sound. It was clear that something hit something else, but he couldn't tell what was going on. But even without this, he still had a guess on what it could be.

'Is that the waterwood? They were supposed to be close to getting extinct but it also makes sense for the churches to have it.' he thought as he recalled more information about the waterwood.

It came from an huge underground plant, which looked like a large brown coral under the water. When taken out of the water and dried, it could be used as a very strong sponge.

It was hard like wood but also had the liquid absorption capabilities of a sponge. But that was just something that made it slightly better. A lot of people still used cotton cloth to absorb water as it was readily available but the thing that set the water wood apart was the fact that it's first priority was water when it came to absorption.

Thanks to this, people began using the waterwood as a long term oil stove. They would make it absorb oil and whenever it caught fire, the oil would be pushed outside and consumed as a fuel instead.

Even a small piece that was the size of a brick could last a common man upto six months and the best part about it was that as long as they submerged in it water, it would push out any foreign liquid and go back to absorbing water.

It was basically an auto clean function which people absolutely loved, especially the middle class families and the nobles who had no problem with buying oil.

[A/N: Alright guys, the burnout is getting crazy. I have so much in my head but lately I've been feeling like I'm unable to put it on out in the right way. It looks like I need some rest so for the next 2 to 5 days, depending on how much time I need, I'll be posting 2 chapters per day. In my free time, I'll read some other novels to relax my mind for some change. Thank you for understanding, have a nice day.]