The Idle System (A LitRPG series Book 8): Redo, page 1
The Idle System
Redo
Pegaz
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
Contents
Title Page
Copyright & Disclaimer
Chapter 1: Starting Over
Chapter 2: Differences
Chapter 3: Agent
Chapter 4: Security
Chapter 5: Massacre
Chapter 6: Touring
Chapter 7: Too Risky
Chapter 8: The Cause
Chapter 9: New Equipment
Chapter 10: Mistake
Chapter 11: Meeting Once More
Chapter 12: Changing Luke’s Mortal Life
Chapter 13: The Specialist
Chapter 14: Champion
Chapter 15: Sharing Again
Chapter 16: Tracing Memories
Chapter 17: Power Levelling
Chapter 18: Relief
Chapter 19: Progress
Chapter 20: Puppets
Chapter 21: Trading Favours
Chapter 22: Proposal
Chapter 23: Home
Chapter 24: Workers
Chapter 25: Surprise
Chapter 26: Record
Chapter 27: Preliminaries
Chapter 28: Round Robin Starts
Chapter 29: Prolonging the Fight
Chapter 30: The Hans
Chapter 31: Theory
Chapter 32: Killing Them Again
Chapter 33: Reverse Trade
Chapter 34: Friends Once Again
Chapter 35: The Spies Are Dead
Chapter 36: *Spoiler*
Chapter 37: Iwan Veurink
Chapter 38: Back to the Death Sect
Chapter 39: Present
Chapter 40: Birthday Meal
Chapter 41: Fear
Chapter 42: Riley
Chapter 43: I’m Going
Chapter 44: They’re Coming
Chapter 45: Black Flame
Chapter 46: Waiting
Chapter 47: Invading
Chapter 48: Leaving
Chapter 49: Family
Chapter 50: Luring
Chapter 51: End
Afterword
Chapter 1: Starting Over
John abruptly opened his eyes and took a deep breath. He was lying down with his head hanging over a cliff.
He could see different shades of green on top of a bunch of trees and a loud buzzing sound came from a small distance away.
Placing his hands to his side, he pushed himself up off the ground; however, his movement’s speed, the strength in his arms, and his ability to think had all dropped to what felt like nothingness.
It took him over a minute to stand up, and during that time, he couldn’t think of more than a few sentences.
His body wasn’t sending him any sensations at all. Even his clothes—a pair of leather boots and short shorts—were weightless to him.
Turning his head with a sore neck, John looked around to see where he was.
A raging river stood near a waterfall on the other side of the fan-shaped cliff. There was a mountain that pierced the clouds with a small cave opening at the bottom, and tree tops were all he could see in every other direction.
I’ve… returned?
John closed his eyes and tried opening the system, but nothing happened. However, at the top right of his blackened vision, he saw the letter ‘I’ in the middle of a small grey box.
He waited a while, and the box gradually grew into his entire right eye’s vision.
But unlike before, the system was transparent.
Loading…
John opened his eyes and waited for the system to finish loading before he read the information.
Welcome to the Idle System 1.9
Name: John
Title: A Selfish Punisher
Age: 15
Idlers: 2160/2160
HP: 10
Attack: N/A
Defence: N/A
Stamina: SS (2h 30m)
It seems the system version is maxed out and all my skills are still here… The Idlers are maxed out too.
Below that information were all the options he had before he prestiged, and under those were the skills that he remembered from when he was a mortal. The usual attack and defence lists were there, but John only cared about the skill that would currently help him the most.
Mind Strength - Idlers 0/2160, Thinking Speed - 0/100, Memory - 0/2, Senses - 0/10
He placed all the Idlers into the Senses skill without turning on the Continue option. The first sense was time, which would keep track of the amount of time needed to complete the skills—his mind was too weak to do maths in its current state.
It took only a second for the skill to complete and the Idlers to return to him.
He then turned the Continue option on and placed all the Idlers into the Thinking Speed skill so he could get rid of the cobwebs in his mind.
For the first seventy-five seconds, John gained one skill level each second. But after that, the skill needed two seconds, three seconds, six seconds, and twelve seconds for the next four levels, and it kept increasing the time after each level.
After one minute and thirty-eight seconds, John had gained a total of seventy-nine skill levels, so he turned the Continue option off. After another twenty-four seconds, the level was completed and he got his Idlers back.
Although his mind felt less foggy, he could still feel the difference compared to when he was an immortal.
It worked! I used the Prestige skill in time! If it worked like any other idle games would, then I’ve returned to the past.
But, how did the system do it? If it used the time element, then I can’t change the future or else I’ll get the punishment. However, it was a skill, so maybe it used something else? Afterall, the system has the ability to defy the universe.
If the system had a body, I would kiss it! I have another chance to be with Sarah and Kelly! This time, I’ve got to use my knowledge of the future to my advantage.
Let’s see… After prestiging, it looks like the system has kept all the miscellaneous skills. That must be why I’ve retained so much information.
The Max Idlers, Max Workers, Idler Speed, Sprinter… All the skills that gave me options and most of the passive skills were in that miscellaneous list.
If I remember correctly, the Sprinter skill is what got me the SS ranking in stamina last time and I’ve already got that. The Transparent System skill is in that list too, it all fits.
Wait, do I still have Storage Space?
John went into the Completed List tab. Just like he thought, all the miscellaneous skills were already completed and the storage skill was there too.
He opened the Storage Space, hoping to get a set of clothes, but it was completely empty.
The prestige didn’t carry over my items! Damn.
After closing it, John looked at the list of skills in the system and decided to test if anything else was different compared to last time. He placed all his Idlers into the Flesh Strength’s Placement skill since it only had one level.
Flesh Strength - Idlers 2160/2160, Regeneration - 0/100, Immunity - 0/2, Placement - 0/1, Time - 24s
John’s eyebrows shot up in surprise at how little time was needed to complete it. He waited for it to complete, but when it was done, he didn’t feel any different.
Last time, I got this skill while a freaking bear was lying on top of me and it placed all the broken and dislocated bones back in place all at once. Despite going through decades of time as an immortal, that’s still one of the worst experiences I’ve ever had!
This time, John turned the Continue option on and placed the Idlers in the Flesh Strength’s Immunity skill. The first level needed twenty-four seconds too, and when that finished, the time for the second level had doubled.
Two other skills, Mind Strength’s Memory and Organ Strength’s Stomach Acid, had less than ten levels.
John remembered that the memory skill gave him the ability to identify pictures and writings perfectly and the acid skill let him eat or drink whatever he wanted without worry.
Oddly enough, he already had the Filter option which would remove anything he had consumed that couldn’t be absorbed. This led him to wonder if the Filter option wouldn’t work unless he got the Stomach Acid skill, or if something else would happen entirely.
Tossing the thought aside, he placed all the Idlers into the Stomach Acid skill. When it finished twenty-four seconds later, a sudden pain forced him to his knees. John clenched his teeth and gripped his stomach for a minute, waiting for the pain to pass.
It feels like my stomach is being ripped to shreds!
When the pain subsided, John took a deep breath, wiped the sweat of
After he recovered some strength, he looked through the rest of the skills. Although most of them had one hundred levels, there were a few that only had ten. He took note of these and proceeded to test some other skills.
For the next test, John left the Continue option on and placed all the Idlers in the Mind Strength’s Senses skill which he had already gained a level in.
His jaw dropped at the results.
It only took thirty-two seconds to get the remaining nine levels!
He tried it again with the Bone Density’s Cell Production skill. This time, it took thirty-three seconds to get all ten levels.
He levelled up the remaining ten-level skills, Blood Capacity’s White Cells and Transportation, but when they were complete, he didn’t feel anything different. Regardless, he trusted the skills because he had seen them work first hand.
After that experiment, John decided to get all of the one-hundred-level skills up to level eighty, just like what he did with Mind Strength’s Thinking Speed.
It took two minutes and two seconds to get eighty skill levels and there were thirty-two skills that needed levelling, which took him a little over an hour to get them all.
If I remember right, Alan, Peter, and Cyril will reach the bottom of this mountain in about an hour.
John climbed over a nearby boulder which was in the way and jumped down to the other side. He focused his hearing, but there weren’t any sounds. With this, John knew that his future self hadn’t scared the bats out of the cave this time.
John scaled down the mountain while being careful of his footing. When he reached the bottom, there were no animals in sight.
That was when he thought about his appearance. He lifted his hand to run them through his hair, only to find that he had none. He could feel the short bits of hair like it was recently shaved though.
Looking down, he saw that he had a six pack and found only a little bit of body fat on his legs, arms, and neck.
When the skills are all fully levelled, it should get rid of the excess fat. I guess I’ll sit here and wait for Alan and his party.
He decided to check his attack points in the system, but he was confused when he saw them. Last time, John’s attack points only rose so much per level, with the Bone Density’s Toughness skill multiplying them.
This time though, it looked like he was getting twenty attack points for every level in the attack list’s Power Level skills.
The times for the skills had changed too.
He had the Max Idler, Max Worker, and Idler Speed skills completed and that should’ve been enough to complete these skills in a few minutes at most.
But in an hour’s time, he had only been able to get eighty skill points in each skill, and John had a feeling that the time needed for the last twenty levels would be quite a bit for the remaining thirty-four skills.
The time needed was nothing compared to when he was an immortal, but as a mortal, his time was limited. He only had less than six years to train all the skills’ levels and travel to the immortal village.
John opened the system again and looked at his information after the power levelling.
HP: 720
Attack: SS (8,000 Points)
Defence: D (525 Points)
Stamina: SS (2h 30m)
I’m still in the same situation with the defence points. This time though, I know what I’m doing.
John placed all Idlers into Blood Capacity’s Cell Speed skill. That was the only one left before getting the skill’s completed bonus.
He remembered that the bonus for maxing all the Blood Capacity skills was the defence points being multiplied by ten. That would shoot his Defence into SS rank like the Attack and Stamina rankings.
The time came up as forty-five seconds and it was doubling every level. By the time John spotted Alan and his party, he had gained another six levels, and then he noticed something was completely different from before.
Chapter 2: Differences
They’re casually walking, not being chased by the continuous bear. I was hoping they would lure a bear here for me to kill and skin, so I could buy some clothes at the Adventurers’ Guild. Now I’ve got to go hunt one.
John stood up and walked toward the party of three.
When he was closer, he noticed something was off about the three men.
Alan had curly, brown hair with a thick, ginger beard. Cyril was clean-shaven with blond hair, while Peter had thinning, red hair and he was much skinnier than John had remembered.
This is all wrong. Their hair colours and physiques are different from before.
John tried using his Immortal Eye on them, but it only showed that they were all mortals with no sins.
Ignoring the changes, John waved his arms and shouted, “Hello!”
All three of them placed their hands on their weapons as they walked towards him, stopping about twenty feet away.
“Hello,” Alan greeted. “Why are you dressed like that?”
John smiled. I knew that would be their first question!
“I haven’t quite figured out what happened yet,” John answered. “I think I got…”
“Amnesia, right?” Cyril laughed.
“What are you talking about?” John asked. “I think I got robbed! I took off my clothes to take a swim in the river around the side of the mountain. When I came out, my things were gone! I’m lucky I didn’t swim buck naked! I don’t know if it was a human or animal that did it, but I’m not thrilled about this.”
“You’re not a Sider?” Peter questioned.
Knitting his brows, John asked, “What makes you think I’m a Sider? The way I’m dressed? From what I’ve read in the Sider’s biographies, they come fully clothed!”
“What are you doing here, then?” Alan changed the topic.
John shrugged. “I turned fifteen today and was going to register at the Adventurers’ Guild. I travelled quite a bit to reach the newbie area, so I thought I should come take a bath before registering.
“I didn’t have any money for a room at the inn, so at the same time, I thought I’d hunt something to eat and make a bit of money. You know what happened next.”
“Sorry to hear you’re having trouble. My name’s Alan. This is Peter and Cyril.”
At least their names haven’t changed.
“I’m John. Are you adventurers on a mission?”
Let’s see if they’re going to be truthful and tell me about their bat faeces quest.
“That we are,” Peter answered. “We’ve got to go to the sea and find a herb that grows on the beach.” Peter took out the quest poster and showed it to John.
What the hell? Not only are their appearances different, but their quest is too. Was it random that they even met me on the same day and time as last time, or did my future self have something to do with this?
Looking at the party of three, John asked if they had a decent skinning knife he could borrow, but all they had was a normal knife. He borrowed it and asked them to stay there for an hour at most.
Opening the system, John checked the area map. There were a few red dots and loads of grey dots in the area it covered.
Why are the dots already on the map?
I asked the system to scan this area last time I was here as a mortal. Are these different coloured dots a continuation of the last scan?
John ran to the nearest red dot to see if it was actually a Continuous Bear or not.
On the way, he tried using his Immortal Eye skill on the knife hoping that his Analyser skill would show how strong the objects were like it did last time.
Unfortunately, all that came up was the knife’s rank.
When he got close to the dot, he saw the large, round ass of a bear swaying side-to-side. John could hear chewing sounds so he knew it was eating its prey.
Without alerting the animal, John got next to it before slamming his fist down on its head. When it was unconscious, John lifted its head, grabbed its neck, and crushed its windpipe.
‘Ding!’
Upon opening the system, he was surprised to find that he had unlocked the Time Pool counter after killing the bear. He got an hour in the Time Pool from the bear like last time.
John closed the system and salvaged what he could from the bear. Using the bear’s pelt, he wrapped up the meat, claws, and gallbladder since he remembered they were needed for a quest.
He trekked back to Alan and the others, leaving the bones behind.
