The Idle System (A LitRPG series Book 7): Family by Pegaz (world best books to read TXT) 📕

I had always wondered what the odds were of Sarah and I, two Siders in this vast universe, meeting like we did. Both of us always said it was fate that we met.

Now I know it wasn’t fate at work, but me. If I tell Sarah, would she be upset? She might think I took her options away from her.

I think I’ll keep this bit to myself for now. When she transcends, then I’ll show her how hard I worked to make it happen instead.

John teleported to the planet where his past self and Sarah would meet then used the time element to return to the point where he left to help Sarah’s past.

Knowing that he couldn’t help with anything while both his and Sarah’s past selves trained and fell in love, John skipped time to the point where they went on their first date.

He watched as they found the Sider king of this planet and as Sarah took the Puppet System.

I thought I had to do something to make this happen, too, but this had nothing to do with me and it was just pure luck that we found another Sider.

Their past selves then created the two fighter puppets while his past self used the killing intent on Sarah during the training.

That’s still one of the hardest things I’ve had to do in life, even after everything that has happened to me since. It was for her own good, but going through with it left a nasty taste in my mouth that still lingers to this day.

When their past selves arrived on the Sword Sect’s public planet, everything panned out how John remembered it. During the meeting with the sect master, the Rogue Sect’s spies were outed and killed without any incidents, making their past selves Honourable Elders.

After the meeting, he watched his past self make two wedding rings and propose to Sarah while on one knee.

Sect Master Frank and his father, Fred, came to visit his past self’s new house, only to get a dagger at their throats before leaving.

John decided to follow them since his curiosity got the better of him again. He listened to Fred and Frank’s conversation and thought Frank was lucky he didn’t try to get rid of John and Sarah like he said.

He decided that he had to repay Fred for convincing Frank to honour the agreement that was made when their past selves joined the sect.

John knew their past selves were going to the sect’s library to gain all the knowledge possible for the next few years, so he used the time element to skip it.

Next would be the tournament of the decade, but John knew he couldn’t do anything to help their past selves here or inside the pressure tunnel, so he skipped that, too.

John watched as their past selves were summoned to the elder’s meeting room and convinced to kill the black gryphon to save lives.

He watched it all play out, then Elder Han and his son Chris ambushed them.

Since he started helping Sarah’s past at the Anti-assassin Sect, John had been watching Chris because of this moment in time. There was always something bothering him about the situation that was about to happen.

However, even after all this time, John had never seen Chris use even one of the five basic elements, which confused him.

There’s no way Chris can control lightning like Sarah and I can. At best, he’s got to use the four elements together to create lightning like we used to before eating the beastmen’s cores, but I don’t think he can even use an element at all.

There’s no way this egomaniac who uses his father’s power, money, and influence to get whatever he wants wouldn’t show off his control over an element.

I’ve seen other people inside the sect challenge Chris, but if Chris could control even one element, the sect would consider him a once-in-a-millennium genius and wouldn’t let it happen.

What am I missing, then?

John watched his past self and Elder Han fight, but there was nothing his future self could do there.

Turning his head, he watched Sarah and Chris’ shouting match before they fought. Afterwards, Chris used the capturing rope which expanded after being thrown. When it touched Sarah, it wrapped around her tightly, rendering her unable to move.

Sarah then used her teleporting skill to get behind Chris.

I got it!

John used the time element to pause time during this crucial moment. He then flew to Chris, lifted his palm, and created some lighting which danced around his hand.

Using the space element, he captured the lightning inside a bubble floating above his palm before he used the lightning element again to reduce the power of the trapped lightning.

He took out all the destructive force of the lightning, leaving only the electricity.

Looking at the frightened Chris that was about to get killed, he moved the space pocket with the trapped lightning to Chris’ forehead which then disappeared inside his body.

Now I get what was wrong in this situation!

Chris couldn’t control any element at all and that “battle cry” he shouted just before Sarah killed him wasn’t his last desperate act to strike her with the lightning, it was his terrified cry for help! He knew that he was about the die, so he tried to call for his daddy to save him.

Sorry, Sarah, it was actually me that put you in a coma! But, it has to be done or else the Anti-assassin Sect wouldn’t have gotten destroyed and I would have never gained two ranks as fast as I did. If I didn’t gain them that fast, I wouldn’t be able to protect you in the future.

At least I became a Transcendent while doing this; that means I’ve got full control over the lightning I used and know there’d be no damage done to Sarah.

John then flew in the sky and unpaused time.

Chris screamed and the lightning John placed inside him shot out and hit Sarah in the forehead.

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