The System In My Head
Weak Grass Manipulation
Sitting on the ground in the garden, Ben had achieved success using the Weak Grass Manipulation! The description of the skill does not lie! It worked! He actually gained telekinesis over plants, being able to move the grass with his mind! So why is he frowning?
Because it only moves one millimeter!
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The change is so small, you need a magnifying glass to see it, and it only works when there is no wind. That's not even enough to tickle someone!
However, it seemed like he could not make it grow as well. In fact, he could not even pluck the grass, having tried and found out that it made his skill stop working. So Ben is now a superhero, but he can only move a blade of grass by a millimeter!
"Dead!" He's karate mowing the lawn!
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Like that, the once hopeful top Pokemon met its end...
It was a short life, and did nothing wrong except to exist.
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However, Ben only follows the tradition of slaughtering. In reality, it happens to all useless Pokemon. After all, what do people eat? There is no pacifist vegan in a world where even salads live...
While no one talks about it openly, and there have been no documentaries yet.
It was a world for children where everything that people killed and ate was intelligent.
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Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Ben, when he sent out pieces of karate, sending grass leaves to isekai into his own story in the distant Tang Sect, an acquaintance who has seen it all.. .
After stopping his steps as soon as he observed the pieces of karate...Professor Tremblay sighed. 'I have to work harder to properly educate these students ...'
After debating whether to call the mental hospital, she decides not to, because she doesn't understand Ben and vegans are doing unusual things lately...
Instead, he went to return to his office, having rekindled his passion for teaching. He has discovered a new desire to spread knowledge, and even a stronger urge to rid the world of ignorance.
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After lying in the grass with his head buried for a while, Ben found the strength to get up and keep moving forward. 'I refuse to believe that the system will give me trash skills that will not be god level. It's not finished!'
His face was confident again. 'This is just my misunderstanding for sure. I have full confidence that one day, this weak grass skill will reveal itself as a grass emperor skill ...'
Ben knew there was a precedent for something like that.
The 63rd strategy: if something receives a noteworthy introduction, the more useless it seems, the more useful the result will be.
Like most novelists and anime writers, Ben holds firm to his cliche beliefs...
As for the metal arm, he could not even think about it, burying his greatest desire deep down. He did not dare to talk about it anymore, for fear of falling into deep and silent unhappiness ...
Instead, Ben walked back to his dorm room, to handle his 33000 points, and also prepared his grand plan tonight.
He could not help it, as several weeks had passed since he had left the city. After all, Ben understood that humans are not too different from animals; so just how being cooped up in a familiar place would make a dog restless if it did not go for a walk, he said, Ben also feels the urge to stroll the streets of nightlife; experiencing, exploring, and spraying everything...
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Later that night, Ben is in his room getting ready to go out to meet the Fracking Crew.
In the end, he chose to save 33,000 points, taking a different approach than usual. He did it for two reasons. First, his heart could not resist disappointment anymore ...
If he gets a useless loot drop again, Ben believes it might lead to a new supervillain origin story ...
Though, it was not because his spirit was fragile, but because most of the supervillain origin stories were...
Second, Ben had a hunch that if he saved 50000 points, there might be new items available. Since he did not need anything urgent, he decided that for now, it was worth trying to achieve that goal.
So, after putting that aside and doing some errands, he started getting ready for the night adventure. In fact, at the moment, he is making the most important step in preparation for dating the boys—and that is not referring to Antonio and Beluga, but to his ball.
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In the bathroom with an electric razor, Ben follows the Kardashians ...
It was something he started in the last few weeks after Beluga told him that women liked him more, and to date, Ben has received no complaints. There was one problem of course: he was like a member of the Phantom Troupe that crashed into Kurapika, nervous about having a sword so close to stabbing her heart...
At that very moment he regretted not being able to protect the ball with Nen!
After that, Ben constantly felt the danger of spiders...
So, with a little sweat on his forehead, he tried to give his all, and in fact, manscaping was the only time in his life that he had ever given 110%...
However, due to that intensity, he gains super focus, time slows down, he sees wings flying, etc.
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He also realized this exact situation was an inspiration to all emerging writers with slow-motion abilities, such as in The Matrix, Wanted, and even to Flash/Quicksilver...
In addition, Ben becomes convinced that this is what super soldiers are training for in real life...
At least the Brazzers Brigade.
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Thankfully, a while later, thanks to Gillette's generosity...Ben finished it without an accident.
So after getting dressed, he went to where they all met, and it wasn't just any place. Beluga insists they visit special destination — most prestigious nightclubs in town — ******!
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*Author Note: 99% of authors miss small moments in the bathroom, ignoring that their characters use them every few hours. In my mind, it can sometimes be the most entertaining moment ...
On a more serious note, I just published a free prologue in volume 0 as the second chapter of the day. It adds a lot of context to the system and world-building aspects of the novel, and I'm very happy with how it turned out. I am announcing this here because it will not appear as the latest chapter on the pages of the novel. You should go to Volume 0 and read it, which I recommend you do because I guarantee you will enjoy it. If you haven't read it, do it. Trust me, you won't regret it.
