Chapter 108: Chapter 108 - A Cat's Worry
Inside the expansive and luxurious villa nestled within the Golden Arey Society, I was sleeping quite peacefully on the floor of the room where I had leveled up and went unconscious. At that moment, I was enjoying a particularly pleasant and vivid dream where the contents of it remained for r18+ readers to read.
However, something was irritating me. A sticky and gooey substance seemed to be adhering to my face, and I tried to brush it away and angrily said to it.
"Go away, don't annoy me… I just want to sleep for a few more minutes." I said and pushed it away again.
But that didn't work. The thing persisted in using its sticky appendage on me until I became frustrated and sat up to yell at whatever it was.
"Come on, let me sleep a little longer. I was just getting to the good part with the voluptuous lady." After I finished shouting, I rubbed my eyes to clear them of the sand and see who was disturbing me.
Opening my eyes, I saw Clawdia looking at me with a worried expression. When she saw my eyes open, she became overjoyed, thinking her method had worked. She joyfully licked me again, this time even more fervently.
"Al-Alright, stop-Stop it, Clawdia. I'm awake now. You don't need to do this anymore. P-Please stop it." After countless pleas, the beast finally ceased her actions. She looked at me happily and said,
'Finally, Master, you're awake. I thought you would never wake up.'
"Was something wrong while I was sleeping?" I asked, unaware if there were any side effects left from the advancement.
'You were sleeping deeply, Master, very deeply. Like those beasts back where I lived who slept for months and months.'
I understood what she was implying. It seemed I was sleeping so deeply that it might have appeared I was in a hibernation state. I surmised that the reason for my deep slumber might be my complete exhaustion after the harrowing experience I had endured.
But I was puzzled as to why it seemed that way and how long I had been out, which had worried Clawdia so much. So I asked her,
"Clawdia, first of all, thank you for waking me up. It was just that your master was exhausted from all the training I went through."
'It's alright, Master. It's my duty as your sole guardian to protect you by any means necessary.' Clawdia replied with a radiant smile on her face.
I smiled at her and nodded.
"Yes, you're right about that. But how did you know I was like this? Didn't I tell you not to come into this room no matter what happens?"
'I know you did, Master. But it was getting late, and you were not responding to any of my calls.' Clawdia said in a concerned tone.
I was nodding at her words until I heard her next sentence.
'So when the ghost told me to 'go and see you,' I went towards you as immediately as possible.'
I was bewildered about who this "ghost" was.
"Clawdia… Who's the 'ghost' you're talking about?"
Clawdia pointed upwards towards the ceiling and told me, 'Master, it's that thing. That ghost who suddenly started talking to me out of nowhere.'
'It seems to not be dangerous, so I didn't do anything about it.'
I looked up to where she pointed but didn't see anything. After pondering for a while, I understood what she meant then I said loudly,
"Arthur, is she talking about you?"
[ Yes, Sir. It was I who notified your beast soul about your predicament. ]
"Hmm… How long have I been asleep?"
[ For approximately six hours and thirty-nine minutes, sir. ]
[ I apologize, sir, if it was inappropriate for me to awaken you. But it had been a long time, so I had no choice but to make your beast soul heed my call and wake you. ]
"No, no. It was actually good that you had awakened me. Otherwise, something might have happened to me… that I might have enjoyed a little too much."
I looked towards Clawdia and told her,
"Clawdia, the 'ghost' you're talking about is actually our house's AI system."
'AI System?' Clawdia tilted her head as she asked me.
'Cute,' I thought and tried to find the words to describe an AI system to her.
"Umm, Clawdia, when I said AI system, it's actually a helpful friend which many homeowners get when they buy a new house… or something similar to that."
"What you really need to know is that Arthur is a friend who you can trust and talk to if you ever feel the need to."
Clawdia nodded but then thought about something and said to me,
'But Master… where is Arthur's body?'
"It's… it's everywhere. Arthur can look and be everywhere in this house."
Clawdia, instead of taking it in a friendly way, only became more alarmed. Her hair stood up as she said,
'EVERYWHERE!! Can Arthur also look when I am trying to eat from my secret stash?'
'What secret stash!'
I finally understood the sudden aggression she was feeling, and as I was about to reassure her, a simple and effective idea came to my mind.
I looked towards Clawdia and said in a mysterious tone,
"Yes, It can look everywhere and at anything, no matter where you hide, Clawdia. So don't do anything I wouldn't like, okay? You know the consequences of what might happen to you if you were to do that."
Clawdia, at first, didn't realize what the 'consequences' were, but slowly her face turned to a shade of gray as she finally understood what my underlying meaning was.
'Al-Alright, Master.'
Clawdia looked towards the walls and the empty spaces above and snickered towards them while thinking to herself,
'Arthur isn't a friend. Arthur is the enemy.'
'Need to find a way to hide from Arthur.'
As I was lost in talking to Clawdia, I completely forgot about the main thing that suddenly came to my mind as I jerked up from that place.
'I f*cking forgot to look at what the end results were.'
So I opened the system again to see the same prompts that were shown before but unknown to me.
[ You have LEVELED UP ]
[ You have unlocked a new category ]
[ You have unlocked 'Items' ]
I looked at the words 'LEVELED UP' in glee as I also saw the new 'Items' category that had shown itself to me.
'Wasn't there already a category like that?'
I put that behind my mind as I opened my stats to look at them.
[ William's Stats ]
[ Name: William Trust ]
[ Potential: Godly ]
[ Level: TWO ]
[ Realm: Beginner ]
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[ Stats ]
[ HP: 101 ]
[ Mana: 500 ]
[ Mana Regen: 150 Per Min ]
[ Strength: 151 ]
[ Agility: 151 ]
[ Constitution: 151 ]
[ Luck: 52 ]
[ Affinities: Light and Darkness (Complete Mastery) ]
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[ Skills ]
[ Money Generator 1.0 {Innate} ]
[ System Shop 1.0 {Innate} ]
[ Penetrate {Innate} ]
[ Light and Darkness Dual Breathing Art - Breathing Skill - Fusion - Super Special Rare - Level 01 ]
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[ Spells ]
[ Level ONE ]
[ Light Sword (S) ] [ Darkness Arrows (S) ]
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[ Beast Souls ]
[ Level SIX - Thunder Burst Tiger (Clawdia) ]
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As I looked at the stats, I could only say one thing,
'What the F*ck.'