God of Systems: Maker of Heroes and Villains

"Captain, we have no clues on this... gang. Based on what we gathered until now, they used to be active for quite a while and suddenly disappeared. There are new drugs being sold and people being threatened, but we're always too late to the scene. It's like someone already knows what we're doing." Caleb said as he walked alongside Keith as they roamed the market.

Keith nodded, frowning slightly, "Yeah, and the two guys whom we caught... they don't even know who their superiors are. Our torture methods did not work either."

He knew that they really did not know who their superiors were as he could dive into their thoughts using his system seed.

'It's been almost three months since I've started shooting my system seeds at everyone I saw, but I've been unsuccessful in finding anyone important in the gang... meh'

Caleb silently walked beside Keith until he voiced out his thoughts, "It's like... there's someone who is always following us. The big things only happen when we're asleep, be it night time or day time. Two gangs from the neighbouring towns were massacred at the borders and it was too late by the time we found out."

Keith did feel this way, but his danger sense had never acted up, which meant that they weren't in any danger. But for some reason, he did not feel great.

"Let's go back, we need to change our strategy." he said and rushed back home.

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There was no one inside, but Keith knew that it was only a matter of time for the other three to get home, which they did.

Caleb saw them dragging a man and looked at Laura, "Was it Lady Clara again?"

"Yeah, ever since Keith told us to split up, we've been able to catch people with relative ease even though it takes a lot of time and luck. The first time was a fluke, but the second and third time, Clara managed to capture two more."

Keith ignored the lack of prefix on his name as he didn't really like it. His attention was focused on Clara, "Looks like my theory came true."

"Yes... and I've only been able to catch them when my armor is on."

"Which means that the cause isn't something external, but instead, it's internal." he muttered as this fit the description for his own system seed. He mostly used it to spy on others and it looked like the person who was keeping an eye on them, was doing the same.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

'Hmm... but can they look into the minds like me? or is it just like regular spying where they can only see our actions? Oh well, let's first get the experiment done.' he thought as he looked at the others.

He pointed at Clara and said, "Form a circle all of you. Clara will give you her divine armor, which is just like Nathan's but has a few extra features. Fast."

The trio nodded and formed a circle in front of Clara, who got herself an armor first and then gave an armor to the other three.

Right at this moment, Keith saw three black strands shoot out of the shadows of the trio before merging into his shadow.

'Hmm... shadows huh? Troublesome...' he thought as he looked at Clara, "Now me."

He immediately felt a sense of warmth, but he didn't get distracted. His eyes were focused on his shadow and he saw a thin but longer strand shoot out and merge into the shadow of the couch nearby.

Keith then looked at the other four looking slightly confused. Four system screens popped up he read the stuff that was going on in their heads.

'Hmm, no one saw the black thread huh? Interesting... but this also gave me an idea. It's troublesome, but I gotta thank the person behind this.'

"Alright, feel free to roam the district however you want, but only when you have armors on. I have something to do so I'll be focusing on those preparations. Also Caleb, go get the weekly salaries for us from the church will ya?"

Caleb nodded and ran off to get the money while Keith silently headed to his bedroom.

'Splitting up shadows and making them move sneakily... for some reason only I'm able to see them. Anyways, let's use this to make my system seed better.'

Immediately, he willed for his system seeds to get a new feature where they can produce more and more system seeds automatically and spread to new people without his interference.

Unlike before when he didn't have any problems, this time a system error popped up in front of him.

[Error. The base system seed cannot be changed. The feature you wish to add should be included when you created the system seed and now it's too late to add.]

'Hmm... explain how it works and also, will it work if I just create a new system seed instead?' he asked. As someone from earth, he had seen people fail multiple times and the failures had to be discarded while also learning from them.

If he simply latched onto the first system seed he had created, then there won't be much hope for improvements.

[Currently, your system seeds work linearly. When you first created it, you wanted to be able to give system seeds to others whenever you wanted and take information from them. So in simpler words, it works like very basic spy app. It has no ability to spread and multiply.]

[If you want to automate the spreading process, you must make changes to the base. To set up a new system and make it share the actions and thoughts of the people, you'll need a lot more divine energy compared to what you have at the moment. Based on my estimations, you'll have to wait for slightly more than five months to reach this level]

'Well, it's going to be a battle of information since we both have similar powers. Five months is fine, I can wait this much. The war will start soon and I don't want to see internal chaos happen in the empire.'