God of Systems: Maker of Heroes and Villains

Keith held himself back and just headed back to his inn as he had gotten what he wanted the most. He could always just buy the plants directly from Medicine church tomorrow like a normal person would, so he wasn't really worried.

He dived to his spatial dimension and planted the flowers at the corner where the bee hive was and expended his mental energy to pull up some soil and compressed it to the point where it was as hard as a rock.

With this, he formed a wide rectangular frame that was half a meter away from the ground with two legs going deep inside to keep it stable. He then placed the hive at the bottom of the frame and let the bees do their thing. He also made a fence for his goats so that they wouldn't mess with the bees but he didn't bother with the pond as they'd need water to survive.

Once the preparations were done, he got back to the real world and sighed, feeling tired.

'This shit consumes too much mental energy...' he thought before shaking his head, 'No, on a positive note, it'll help me exhaust my mental energy, which will help me increase my total mental energy's capacity.'

As he closed his eyes and waited for sleep to hit, his thoughts wandered, 'Well, most of my mental energy was taken up to build those fences, which was a lot of them so I guess it's not too much as long as I don't try to create something out of nothing.'

The next day, Keith rushed over to the church and saw Maria and Clara waiting for him silently at the main hall.

"You're finally here. I've done all the preparations and the doctors are also ready to go." Maria said as she got up from the bench and began to move while the other two followed her.

As they walked side by side, Keith leaned closer to Clara and whispered, "Hey, where are you guys even staying at?"

"Here, at the church. They provide rooms for staff, you know? I mean, when we first came here, we were supposed to spend time in those rooms but Edward stopped us." she explained, whispering just like he did.

The two of them continued to talk until they reached the ritual room where the five doctors were silently sitting. Maria pointed at a small silver platform and looked at the two of them, "Go and stand on it while you hold each other's hands. This thing will be short, but you'll feel a certain warmth once I'm done reading the prayer."

"Oh, the marriage?" Keith asked as he looked at Maria, who nodded silently while taking out a small book, "Now will you just go there please? We got other things to do too."Nôv(el)B\\jnn

"Yikes, so impatient." he commented as he headed over to the platform with Clara and held her hands. Her face was slightly pink, so he couldn't help but ask, "Were you looking forward to this?"

Clara nodded with a complicated look on her face, "I mean, yes. But not like this.. I'm literally wearing my uniform and it doesn't suit the occasion."

"I'm wearing my uniform too... and well, don't worry about it. Just consider this as an extra step that'll boost your awakened ability even more than what the ritual is supposed to. We can always plan a proper marriage in the future." he said and waited for her reaction.

"Okay." she said meekly as she kept her head down to hide her smile from him. She just couldn't stop smiling after she heard him talk about a proper marriage. After all, she wanted everyone to see them getting married, she wanted everyone to know that she was his and he was hers.

Maria began to recite the prayers and they didn't have to wait too long. After just thirty minutes, they felt a sudden warmth envelope their bodies. For a few seconds, both of them felt like there were two hearts beating inside them.

They stared at each other, speechless as they didn't know how to describe their experience. It was like they were in an entirely different body. The feeling quickly passed, but the two of them were still in a trance-like state.

Maria wanted to snap them out of their reverie, but she decided against it and headed over to her doctors before giving them orders, the same ones she gave them yesterday and two hours ago.

Keith slowly recovered and gave Clara a slight jolt, making her jerk out of her dreamlike state.

"Oh god, that felt weird." she said and saw Keith nod, "Yeah, it did. Now, let's get to work."

He went ahead and lied down on the small platform, letting the doctors cut up four of his arteries partially so that the blood could leak out, which it did. The process began but unlike before, Keith didn't add slime bodies into the oil and instead, it was just his blood and Clara's.

She didn't let out too much blood as she had already done it two days ago and didn't have regeneration capability. Instead, she simply sat in one place and read a book to pass time. Hours slowly passed by as the day turned to night and Keith still continued to donate blood.

It went on for a few more hours until Maria clapped her hands together, "Alright, three hours and thirty minutes left. Let's get to work."

Keith nodded and got back to his feet as he ate a blood clotting pill before drinking a vial of healing medicine. His wounds quickly began to clot, blocking the pathway while his arteries closed. He waited for a few more minutes before scraping off the clotted blood and saw a layer of skin form instead.

Once done, he grabbed a fire torch and looked at Maria who nodded and took out a book.

Since he had gotten the signal, he took a step forward to go and light the oil, but stopped midway before shaking his head. He put the torch back into it's place and grinned, "I should be using my flame control instead."

With a snap of his finger, four fireballs popped up in front of him before they shot towards the oil trench, lighting it up almost instantly.

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