The Legacy System

Seeing Eric's lost and trance-like expression on his face, and that stone Samurai suddenly thrust his katana towards her Master, Ren Jia jumped forwards with every dreg of strength she had.

Inside her, she knew that it was almost impossible for her to reach before that katana had reached Eric's neck or body, but she couldn't just stay put and watch it happen.

She had fully subjugated to that guy, in body, mind, and soul so there was no way she was going watch him get hurt, or die in front of her, without doing anything.

But the truth was that her scream was more than enough, as before she could even approach that dark tunnel behind the door, she saw Eric suddenly move and dodge the attack.

Not only that, but after dodging the closest attack towards him, he went clashing on the sidewall, and then quickly standing up, and jumping towards the stone Samurais.

When he jumped towards his targets, he gave off the vibe of a wolf, or a tiger hunting his prey, fearless, and decisive.

The next moment, a punch hit one of the stone Samurais, while a round kick took the others for a flight. 

The one who was able to handle his round kick the best was thrown more than 3 meters away, and that was the team leader of these stone Samurais.

According to the Legacy System evaluation, that team leader stone thing was level 85 which made things quite interesting for Eric.

But the fact that his strength had already surpassed the common strength of a level 100 fighter, made that thing look like some kind of amateur in front of a real master.

Certainly, these guys weren't weak, but in front of Eric, they were just toys he could use to better master his new strength and skills.

At the same time though, there was something he had managed to understand from his previous experiences and now this.

He was finally able to understand the explanations from his Legacy System, to be able to possess strength and power it is required a perfect vessel.

The stronger his body was while he leveled up, the stronger would he be in the same level, but even beyond.

Just like in those novels where people would be able to fight across realms, he could do the same, only that his advantage was due to his physical vessel strength.

Of course, all these things were noted down deep in his conscience, as he would truly need these things in the future.

But now wasn't the time to think about that, as he had much more important things to take care of, like for example, finding a way to deal with these stone Samurai puppets.

Clearly destroying them wasn't possible, as every time that he crushed them to rubble, they would still patch up again, and come attack him, so he had to find another way.

Destroying the formation that made all this possible was a way, but not a feasible one, as he didn't know how deep he had to go, and what was awaiting him once he got deeper.

He could feel that there were some strange energy fluctuations around him with kept these puppets able to patch up and fight again.

But the deeper he went inside the tunnel the stronger did these fluctuations get, so there was impossible for these things to be the only guardians of this place.

So, he would have to find another way to deal with them.

Trapping them in one place wasn't really feasible either, as he didn't have a rope strong enough to tie them down.

As he was thinking hard about what to do, and how to do it, he finally heard a notification sound in his head from his system, and a suggestion appeared in front of him.

***Stone Puppets recognized in front of the Host! 

The Stone Puppets are eligible for the Hosts, Puppet Seal!

Puppet Seal available in Shop!

Would the Host like to purchase the Puppet Seal first level for 1000 SP points!?      YES/NO

Eric had been racking his brains out to find a way to deal with these Stone Puppets when his Legacy System suddenly gave him such a solution.

He felt like he had suddenly hit jackpot, as not only would he be able to deal with these puppets, but also make them his, and use them later.

Each of the normal Stone Puppets was level 75-78 while the team leader was level 85. In the outside world, only fighters of these levels could be considered as true fighters.

There was a reason why his father-in-law didn't think much of his talent or strength, and that was because it wasn't enough.

Certainly, he could overbearingly show his strength in front of the waste Young Masters from the 2nd rate families, and below, while being competitive to the Young Masters of the big families.

But in front of his father-in-law, Master Yoshida, or people of their level, he was nothing more than a clown who was searching for attention.

The only reason his father-in-law or all the Masters of the big families agreed to his terms and conditions without trying to pull anything was that he was extremely weak in their eyes.

No matter what he tried to do, or what he tried to pull off, at the end of the day he was nothing more than an ant that they could crush whenever they wanted.

Master Ito thought that his strength was enough to compare to the big families, but in fact, he was under the illusion just like everyone else.

The big families didn't need to use tricks in order to cripple him, but they did so in order to create an illusion.

So that whoever reached that level would think it was enough, and challenge them, then they could weed out the problem before becoming a true problem.

It was only at that moment that Eric understood this issue, as even with his current strength, he felt far inferior to the pressure that Master Takeshiba gave off unconsciously.

He had underestimated these guys a lot since he had been based on the fact of these guys disappearing quickly after the S-day, but he found out that he was wrong, extremely wrong.

The fact that they had sent only weaklings in this place to deal with him, and accepted his deal was probably just to send him over the edge.

Making him believe that he had everything under control and that everything was going according to his plan when he was in fact just dancing on their palms.

That truly made him quiver inside because if it weren't for this place, he would have never been able to understand the situation.

He had been too cocky, thinking that his previous life memories were enough to deal with these guys who had controlled the country for hundreds of years.

But now he would surely act more cautiously, even if that meant changing his plans once again. it would be difficult, but it didn't matter, if he hadn't realized this, he would be just like these Stone Puppets.

All this realization and enlightenment entered his body and his mind abruptly and didn't last long, but it was enough for him to make sense out of it.

Without losing time, as the current situation didn't permit him to waste much time, he pressed YES on the system's interface, and the Puppet Seal knowledge appeared in his conscience sea.

It was much different from the Slave Seal that he was putting on living human beings, as the first was a connection to them, while this was a property mark.

To explain it in simple terms it was the same as picking up a toy from the ground, the action of picking it up and take it with you, was enough proof of your property.

Puppets were the same, he only needed to put his 'mark' on them, and they would easily become his.

He could try and control them himself if he so wished, but that would be a burden on his body, just like those clones.

But normally these puppets could act autonomy according to the instructions in the formations of their creation.

It was the same as driving a semi-automatic car, he could let the car take the shifts by itself depending on the speed, and gas, or he could do the same manually.

The moment he received that knowledge an idea suddenly sprung inside his mind, but it was just an idea at the moment, and he would have to experiment on it later.

Right now, he had to return to the situation at hand, as he let the puppets assemble once again, before he bit his showing finger, and started using his blood to make seals over the puppets.

Another important piece of the Puppet Seal was when the caster placed the seal on an already marked puppet.

He would have to erase the mark inside, as he placed his own at the same time, which was extremely difficult to handle.

For that reason, he first decided to use it on the team leader Stone Puppet first, and then overpower the rest with its help.

The moment his seal was done, he sent a shred of his conscience to the seal, and activated it, as his blood started vanishing from the surface of the Stone Puppet.

Like it had been sucked inside it, and just as he was thinking that there might be a problem with it, he felt a headache hitting him.

He felt like something, or someone had hit him on the back of his head, as even his dodging movements became rather sloppy, but he still managed to escape the attacks.

Then the next moment, he quickly concentrated on the shred of conscience he sent inside the Stone Puppet, only to see himself trying to fight with some other guy using spirit power…