Almost an hour later when most of the guests had arrived, Keith and the others saw the princess walking towards the place where everyone was gathered.
Beside her, was a man with a potbelly. He had a large crown on his head which looked more like a golden helt. In Keith's eyes, he was soone who was a great example of having a dad bod in this world.
He saw Alia and the third prince standing up from their chairs, so he also did the sa.
The princess walked towards the center while her father raised his hand to get everyone to shut their mouths.
A knight beside them took a step forward and announced, "Princess Silvia has arrived, gracing us with her beautiful presence. Today's coming of age ceremony will also function as a place for all the eligible bachelors to compete for her love!
We will have three events today. The first one is where Princess Silvia shows everyone the qualities that make her special. Second event will be a small tournant where the ones who wish to impress her, can fight in various topics. It can be duels for warriors or debates for the scholars.
The third event is where the selected candidates will dance with the princess and get to know each other well so that she can make a decision."
Mathew leaned towards Keith and sneakily pointed at a particular direction, "See that red haired guy? He's the third son of one of the grand dukes and he's the son of a concubine. He's way better than his elder brothers when it cos to fighting, but his father doesn't like him much.
I have a feeling that once Silvia reveals her plans, he'll try to win her hand in marriage. He's not a bad guy, but he's one of the strongest in the current age group so he is the best person for you to prove your strength again.
Just beat him up and withdraw later. As for the dance, once Silvia's dance is done with the selected partners, everyone else will be allowed to share the stage so feel free to show off there too."
"Sure." Ketih nodded and glanced at the people who were standing close to the red haired guy, "I have a new plan. I'll threaten all these nobles directly and I'll do it in front of your father."
Mathew slowly turned to look at Keith, his expression filled with utter disbelief, "You... what?"
"Don't worry, he won't do anything if I take his side and accuse the nobles for faking their profits to reduce the amount of taxes they'll have to pay. I've heard rumors that your father is pretty greedy."
"Well, he is greedy..." the prince said and sighed, "But he's just way too ek and doesn't openly go against these people. I'd say that he's happy with his current life but he won't say no to a free chance of getting more money."
Keith nodded as he kept his eye on the emperor, 'I know.'
Silvia smiled widely and looked around her before bowing slightly four tis in four different directions.
"Firstly, I thank all of you for attending my coming of age ceremony. I believe that I've talked to almost everyone who has gathered here in the past so I'll refrain from talking about the things that most of you already know." she said.
"I am the youngest, and I know that most of you don't expect much from . But there's a reason that everyone still ca here despite that and I know the real reason why. We royals only reveal our awakened abilities during our coming of age ceremonies.
And it's my turn now, so without wasting any ti, let demonstrate." she said and turned around to look at a familiar face.
"Brother Zander, why don't you help do the honors?"
Keith turned his head to look at the blonde haired guy who was standing between multiple nobles.
Zander nodded and walked over to her with a smirk on his face before standing beside her. The crowd cheered for him, which was a clear indicator that he was famous among this crowd.
"A part of my ability helps with the healing people. I can go as far as bringing the dead back to life as long as it isn't too late." she said, getting multiple gasps as response from the nobles.
Keith stood with his group and humd, "Interesting. She's only telling them the positives of her ability while hiding the negatives huh?"
"Right, they don't need to know. As for the ones who already know, they are powerful people and they won't really care too much about it."
"Can we get so context?" Alia joined in while the rest of them nodded, looking curious.
Keith silently watched the princess cleanly slice off the second prince's arm. A golden light enveloped the prince and his arm, which was swiftly brought back to his body. By the ti the golden light dissipated, his arm looked as good as new but the sleeve that had been cut off was still on the ground.
"Tch, I didn't expect this." he said, clearly annoyed at the turn of events but instead of making a big deal out of it, he looked at everyone who was watching the two of them and grinned.
"My sister has promised to take my side in the future so I hope that all of you support her." he said and imdiately left as he walked towards the palace.
Once he was gone, Keith looked at his group before glancing at Mathew, "Why don't you tell us about your sister's ability?"
"You sounded like you knew about it so why ?"
"It was just a hunch." Keith said as he shrugged, "I have great senses."
"Yeah, sure." Mathew scoffed before looking at everyone, "Well, she has to kill soone if she wants to help soone heal. She has to kill them with her own hands and well, it's not a great ability if I'm being honest. The cons far outweigh the pros.
Even if she wants to heal a small cut with her power, she'll have no choice but to kill one person. The best trade is to bring soone powerful back from the dead by using the life of soone weak, but there are a few conditions for this to work too.
She only has a ten seconds ti window. She'll have to kill soone on the spot before using her ability to bring soone back from the dead. When it cos to healing injuries, be it major or minor, she can store her healing chances for a year." Experience more on empire
Keith nodded before giving his opinion, "It's actually a great ability if she was a fighter since it'll be extrely useful in war. But from what I can see, she's like a delicate flower. Though, I am pretty surprised that she actually killed people with her own hands."
"She probably killed the prisoners that were in the royal prison." Mathew said and shook his head, "My ability is clearly better, but I can't bring people back to life. On top of that, I can only heal ten people in a day so it's pretty restrictive I'd say."
The group continued to talk while most of the other nobles were busy talking to each other. There was till an hour left until the next event and Silvia had already been surrounded by multiple young n, including the red haired guy who was the son of a grand duke.
'Hey system, how much longer will I have to wait to accumulate enough divine energy to create the system I planned before?'
[You currently have more than enough divine energy to create your planned system. This is mostly due to you not taking any taxes from your system users for the past few months.]
Keith silently stared at the screen in front of him. He was slightly annoyed with the current developnt even though things were going great since he could have had to wait for a few more weeks to be able to make his system.
'Couldn't you have told this earlier?' he asked and the system promptly responded.
[User did not give such instructions in the past.]
'Basically you're telling that I never asked huh? Oh well, at least I got it early.' he thought as he turned to look at his group.
"I need so alone ti to think about a few things so I'll go take a seat right there. Call once the dueling event starts."
Caleb and the others nodded, "Sure."
Mathew then added, "You have like an hour and feel free to take more ti too. We'll call you once we see our target move."
"Thanks." Keith said as he walked towards an empty table and sat down before closing his eyes.
He sat down on a 1m x 1m plot before boosting the ti inside it by ten tis.
'I'll need this extra ti so that I can make sure that I don't make any mistakes. I'll check everything twice or even thrice before finalizing.' he thought before he began to plan his system's functions.
He simply had three rules for the foundation.
The first rule was that the system had to have the ability to extract all the information on the person that it was attached to.
Second rule was the one that forced him to make a new system from ground up, the ability to spread from one person to the other without direct action from Keith himself.
As for the third rule, it was to give him access to the awakened abilities of all his system users but he knew the restrictions. He couldn't use the abilities for himself, but it didn't stop him from giving one person's ability to another.
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