God of Systems: Maker of Heroes and Villains

Keith didn't really sleep.

Instead, he silently watched the two people he placed a lot of importance on, getting ready to face each other.

Fabian hadn't listened to Keith's words and instead, decided to fight Vincent as he could guess from the quest's clues that the person who was coming for him, was Vincent himself.

Vincent silently crept closer to the village and saw that the whole place was on an alert. Every single person was outside their small huts, walking around as if searching for something. or someone.

He recognised all their faces and he was surprised to see that the whole village had unified to do just one job. He looked everywhere, but he was unable to spot Fabian, the one person whom he wanted to kill as soon as possible.

'The whole village seemed to have grouped up and... they're actually doing things without having a sour face. There's no way that's possible unless the chief himself changed a lot and this is only possible if he also got a system. Just like I did...'

Vincent felt weird. A sense of fear began to creep into him the more time he spent hiding in the bushes. He stared at the villagers, the ones who watched his father getting whipped in public, and heard his mother's wails through his home's walls while she was getting ravaged, only to whisper amongst each other.

Only to call his mother a loose woman and his father a greet hat when they themselves were doing the same things.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

No, there was one difference. His parents were getting punished.

His parents were getting punished while the others tried to appease their village chief even if they didn't like it. The events of the time when he was tied up and forced to watch his parents getting torture resurfaced.

Tears welled up in his eyes and he felt like something hard had gotten stuck in his throat, making it difficult to breathe. In just a few seconds, he began to hyperventilate.

He crawled backwards as his whole body shook, his chest heaving up and down as he desperately breathed.

Vincent didn't like it. He didn't want to go back to the village, but he knew that he couldn't back out right now. Not when he had news that Fabian had also received a system.

He leaned against a tree and took deep breaths, trying to calm down his wildly beating heart and as he did, he realised something important.

'It's already been more than a month since I got the news, which means that he's had enough time to get strong. I don't know his limits and capabilities anymore... I don't know if he knows whether I'm coming or not. My system was able to notice his system, so there's a chance of the same thing happening in reverse right?

What if his system has also managed to sense the system inside me? What if he knows everything and has prepared for my attack? Yeah, there's no way the behaviour of these people can make sense if not for this possibility.

My system has also not spoken to me since the previous quest and I also lost the option to upgrade my skills with money...'

Vincent's thoughts raced as his subconscious mind tried to keep him busy, doing it's best to pull his attention away from the village.

But there was a limit to how much his subconscious mind could influence him.

He steeled his heart and took a deep breath, "I don't care anymore... I shouldn't care about this village anymore. I'll...I'll burn everything. My past, my fears, my pain.... and give my parents a proper cremation. It's my responsibility to free their souls." he muttered, trying to use the sound, the words to push himself.

But before he could even do a thing, he heard the sound of a twig snapping at his right and immediately turned around to see a body disappear behind the tree.

He didn't need high level intelligence to figure out what was going on. He knew that when he had crawled backwards thanks to his fears acting out, he had made quite a bit of sound. It wasn't much, but enough for people to figure out the direction.

Which was exactly what they did and Vincent knew that he was getting surrounded right at this moment.

Without any hesitation, he raised his gloved hand up, his palm facing the sky as he created a huge ball of flame. It looked like a miniature sun, but for the people around him and also himself, all of whom didn't know the concept of stars, only had one thing in mind.

'It is bigger than the sun.'

People screamed and ran, praying for their lives while Vincent focused on his gloved hand. The cursed artifact amplified the heat of his flames and while it also had a side effect of burning his hands, he managed to negate it thanks to his SSS grade red hot fists.

He continued to pump out more and more into the fire ball until it was half the size of the village and this time, he knew that he was reaching his limits. He stopped increasing it's size and was about to scream out Fabian's name when he saw him walk out of his house.

"Like I guessed, you're really here huh?" he said as he walked towards him fearlessly.

Vincent could tell that there was something different about Fabian. He looked younger, the wrinkles on his face were nowhere to be seen and for some reason, Fabian looked slightly tanned unlike his usual fair skin tone.

"I'll... kill you, you damn bastard!" Vincent yelled, his face turning red from anger, but right at that moment, he saw a familiar face.

It was a face that he hated more than Fabians. It was his son, the guy who took it upon himself to punish his mother.

"Father, let me help you! I'll ki- what in the god's curse is that?!"

Fabian's face was tinged with worry as he saw Vincent's face warp into a maniacal smile as he locked on to his new target.