The Strongest Assassin Reincarnates in Another World
Chapter 168 - 168 - Deal with the system?!

Aiden was currently thinking as to what the deal could be, he wondered if it was going to be an impossible demand that he would never be able to achieve.

He knew one thing though.

He knew that if the system were to propose a deal that would restrict his freedom, then he would refuse right away and simply use his [Return Stone].

Because the one thing that Aiden wanted was freedom. He wanted to be free without anyone controlling him from the shadows, even if that was already kind of the case with the system.

However, who knew the demands that this system of his could ask?

Then, he heard a beeping noise inside his mind, which declared that the system had finished preparing the deal between the two of them.

*BEEP*

[A deal has been created.]

Aiden reading this was anticipating what the system was about to propose to him, he didn't know what it was going to be, but he was curious.

[Deal: The system will give you the method to use Qi and, in exchange, Aiden Nightshade will be unable to turn against the system or do something that could harm the system for the rest of his life.]

Aiden reading this didn't completely understand what he had to do. He needed to not turn his back against the system.

Aiden just didn't understand how such a thing was even possible, how could he turn his back against the system?

Was it a person who was operating that weird system that gave him strength?

Aiden wasn't sure, but that deal made him think that maybe the system wasn't a machine or anything like that, but simply a person or even a group of people who were organizing everything about it behind the scenes.

However, the same question always popped up inside his mind. Who could even manage such a thing?

How could someone be so strong that he could control several worlds, and make people do trials on them?

Who knew how much power was needed to have such a thing?

But the most shocking part was that this entity or whatever it is was, to ask Aiden, who isn't that strong, to not turn on him for the rest of his life.

'Why?' thought Aiden, directly asking the system, as he just couldn't begin to understand why he would need to do something like that.

Was he really such a big threat to the system?

He knows that weird thing had revolved around him, but was it so bad that the system wanted to take protective measures against him?

Then, after asking that question, a beeping sound once again resounded in his head.

*BEEP*

[The system can't reveal the reasons for this deal. Do you accept?]

Aiden read this message and only scuffed as he had already what sort of response he would be getting.

Aiden wasn't sure if the best decision here was to accept, he knew that he didn't want to restrict his freedom.

He also knew that the system could potentially do such a thing, so he wasn't sure if it was in his best interest to accept.

*BEEP*

[The system would never make actions that will negatively affect you, and the system will never control you, Aiden.]

'Stop reading my mind,' thought Aiden as he knew that he had to make a choice fast as the people around him were starting to wake up slowly, realizing that they still had a war to win.

However, what the system had just added at the end pushed him towards accepting. But Aiden wasn't naive, how could he even trust the system?

It was an entity that he knew absolutely nothing about, so how could he even know that it would its word?

Aiden needed some type of assurance that it would respect its part of the deal, or else he wouldn't accept.

*BEEP*

[The system gains nothing from slowing down your growth, it wants to see you grow as fast as possible.]

'Then, give me answers you stupid system,' thought Aiden as he saw more and more people standing up around him.

He knew that the time was ticking and that he had to make a choice fast or else who knew what would happen.

'Why do want to see me grow stronger, why was I sent to this world? What's the point of all this?' thought Aiden in his mind, as he was starting to have a mental breakdown.

So many answers that he ignored, so many things that he wanted to know about. However, no matter how much he wanted to have those answers, he couldn't.

There was simply no way for him to find them without the help of someone really powerful or the system.

The other option was the system, and it was the first that Aiden was actually having a conversation with it.

Then, as he started to lose hope that the system would be answering, another beeping sound resounded in his mind.

*BEEP*

[Make your choice in five seconds, or else this deal will disappear forever.]

[5]

'Fuck, fuck, fuck,' thought Aiden as he was thinking as fast as he possibly could.

[4]

The more he thought about it, the more he realized that there weren't any disadvantages to refusing this deal if he trusted everything that the system had mentioned.

That was why he was doubting whether to accept this deal.

[3]

'I need to get stronger, and… that's the best way right now,' thought Aiden as he had made up his mind.

He would accept this deal from the system even if he didn't really want to.

'I accept,' said Aiden in his mind, knowing that the system had won this time.

He needed to get stronger and from what he had seen that energy called Qi had to be extremely useful because from what he had seen from those around him, almost everyone had gotten ridiculously strong from it.

*BEEP*

[Transferring the method...]

Aiden seeing this immediately opened his system's interface as he saw that the method to learn Qi wasn't there, however, there was something else there.

'What's that?' Aiden thought, confused.