God of Time System: Harem in the Zombie Apocalypse

Chapter 243  Ether

"Hey, is this really safe? You aren't selling our souls to the devil, are you?" Adam asked, a bit scared as he looked at all the preparations that Walter made.

"Yeah. You can ask Sir Michael about it," Walter spoke as he continued doing whatever he was doing.

George looked at me nodding and he relaxed a little as he spoke,"Since Sir Michael-"

"Shut up George," Blake, similar to Adam, was scared too. Irritated by George's response, he glared at him before continuing,"I am not saying we don't trust you… but we don't completely trust you."

'Is it a yes or a no?' I thought as I looked at Adam, who was observing Walter, pondered a little before speaking,"I will be going first. Then you guys can follow."

Though skeptical, the others nodded as they observed Walter sitting at the center of everything and chanting something as he closed his eyes. In the beginning there was nothing going on but as time passed, the entire area started shaking as our eyes witnessed the metals and the chemicals reacting and melting each other before evaporating into air.

The smoke that evaporated soon spread throughout the entire area except where we were standing and soon that smoke started glowing. It was like a fairyland. Various colorful stripes of energies started swirling around. If it looked eerie before, now we felt like we were in a garden… and just a few moments later, that energy started gathering at the center of the area where Walter was sitting.

The energy flew inside his heart, slowly and slowly melting into his body as we saw his skin glowing a little. The whole process took a few minutes, but for us, since we were mesmerized by the whole phenomenon, it seemed to be ending within a moment.

[Inspect!]

[Name: Walter Ignis

Race:Human

Class: Arcanist

Description: Son of a professor, he aims to become just like his father. Now he is trying his best to save his father, whom the ruffians have captured in exchange for him to work for them. Life has never been easy for Walter as he tries his best to avoid bullies in school and works hard at night to save some extra money for his family.

Status: Healthy(Advanced)

Passive Skill:

-Aura of the Light: Allows the user to manifest his true form and becomes twice as strong in darkness and thrice as strong in light.

Stats:

Strength: 9(+9)

Constitution: 7(+7)

Dexterity: 9(+9)

Intelligence: 9 (+9)

Wisdom: 11 (+11)

Charisma: 10(+10)]

'Nice skill!' I spoke, a little delighted by the results. While it did cost a bit of money, if this was going to be the result of it, I am more than satisfied by it. A Skill that could do that would be really helpful to me in the future, given my [Child of the Universe(Locked)] class that will be unlocked at level 10. If both the effects were to be added, it would really become something to be honest.

"Did anything happen?" Adam spoke confusedly as he looked at Walter, opening his eyes and turning to Adam. Adam shrieked out a little as he spoke,"Walter… you okay?"

Walter, who was in a bit of a mischievous mood, jumped at him in an instant as a crazy smile formed on his face.

"AAAAAA!!!!!!" Shouted Adam and Blake and George followed as all of them ran behind me. While Walter, who was enjoying the process, turned towards me and ran at the same speed as before…

-Thud!

Though using my [Eyes of the Timekeeper] it was pretty easy to put him down as I saw him fall to the ground.

"Ow!" he spoke as he rubbed his head where I hit him and complained a little,"come on now. Couldn't you have at least followed along if you have figured it out?"

I just chuckled a little as I spoke,"Shouldn't have included me from the start. Anyway, I am next, right?"

He looked at me with a slight glare before he shook his head,"wouldn't hurt to have a little fun," before following behind me as he helped me sit there at the center.

George and the others who figured it out that it was a joke played by Walter, hit him on the head as hard as they could for scaring them so much. Though, when Walter displayed his prowess, they forgot to even breathe as they looked at him, getting so strong within minutes.

"It gets better in the light," he said with a mysterious smile, making them all look really excited about it. One can even see stars glistening in their eyes.

With that being done, my turn came as I closed my eyes and Walter started chanting the same things as he stood behind me with both hands on my back.

[A strange energy is trying to enter into your body. Would you like to proceed with it?]

I chose the [Yes] button as I waited for the time being for anything to happen. And luckily, I did not have to wait for long as a cooling sensation entered my body slowly and slowly.

[The System has found the Nature of the Energy]

[The nature of energy is Pure Mana: also termed as Ether. One of the 5 fundamental forms of Elemental Energy. The user will now be able to sense Ether if he focuses hard, but further learning of this energy can only be done on its native planet: Orion]

[New Skill gained: Light Aura]

[Light Aura(Rare)(Level 1)]

[Effect: The user can use the power of Ether to absorb light and coat the entire body of the user with Aura or choosing to absorb it within one's body.

-When the Aura is used to coat the entire body: Defense increased by 100% based on user's Stats

-When the Aura is absorbed by the body: All Stats increased by 250%

Duration of the Skill: 5 minutes

Cooldown: 2 Hours

Skill Points needed to level up the Skill: 1]

'Hmmm… not the Skill I expected… Neither was the one which I wanted,' I grumbled a little as I saw the description of the Skill and compared that to what Walter received.

'Hopefully, since it's a [Rare Skill] I will get more out of it as I level it up,' I tried to see the bright side as I comforted myself.

"Is there anything wrong?" asked Walter, with a bit of worry on his face. I looked at him and smiled,"not really. Just not what I was expecting."

He looked at me a bit confused as I stood up and observed the others there before wondering who would be next. Finally, after a grueling battle of rock-paper-scissors, they finally came to a conclusion that Adam should be the one going next.

speaking,"You guys. It's your turn next."

Hearing my words, they were all excited as they almost quarreled among themselves, wondering who would be next. Finally, after a grueling battle of rock-paper-scissors, they finally came to a conclusion that Adam should be the one going next.

The process was the same as the one with Walter and Adam, too, received the same Skill which Walter did, that is [Aura of Light] with the exact same effects. It wasn't just him, but George and Blake too were the exact same.

'Is it because I have the System?' I thought as I wondered why I received a different Skill from the others. Well, not like I was going to receive any answers to that.

"All right. Now I would like everyone to get used to these newfound powers and not end up killing anyone for real. I know we might have superpowers in a sense, but honestly, this is something that is going to do more harm than good if we can't control ourselves properly," Walter spoke as he looked at Blake and the others.

The others nodded, as they could feel the difference between their previous self and this current self. They knew that they could easily do a lot of things that most people considered only possible in movies and stuff.

'Now the question is that… will they choose the path of righteousness or will they succumb to their own power?' I gave it a deep thought. And I wasn't talking about just the present situation, but also the future.

What choices will they make and what those choices will make of them? It will be interesting to see.

For now, their answers were,

"We understand. So how should we do it?" Asked George as he spoke for the trio and Walter nodded before speaking,

"It's okay, we just need to do a set of proper exercises and see if we can do it the right way." 'That process… is kinda slow?' I thought as I looked at the method designed by Walter. It wasn't wrong by any means as it would lead to the perfection that the trio might reach, but… we don't have time for this.

In the end, I sighed deeply as I helped them out on how to do it. I perfected their positions and [Time Rejection!] used this ability as much as I could, making them get the feel of the 'perfect' way of using their power.

Using Walter's method and my own fine tunings over it, we ended up reducing the time to merely an hour, at the end of which all three of them knew how to control their power and not end up destroying anything further.

"And now that we have finished learning how to use our power in darkness… let's try it in light," spoke Walter as slight horror entered in the eyes of those bright faced kids and I could only sigh as I recalled that the power triples in light…

'Well, at least we still have time,' I thought before all of us moved out in the open area.