Strongest Superhuman System

The Syndicate would not have much of an online presence, and if they did, then at best, they would have an ultra-private Local Area Network that they use only for communication amongst members. It would be like trying to find a needle in a field of hay.

But still, Mark told Pat to try. They couldn't just give up on trying because it seemed impossible. Mark would also do his best on his end, but he had faith that Pat could find something if he searched deep enough.

[I'll try to scrape what I can from the dark web without alerting anyone that I am searching for them, maybe I can pose as a member and infiltrate the network. But I'm not making any promises. If people like these exist, then I don't think we should be getting involved with them. They seem dangerous. Far more dangerous than some Anima that we can just kill by hitting them hard enough.

These guys are the kind of people that have webs everywhere.]

This was the response that Pat gave Mark to try and get Mark to not look for the syndicate, but that was not enough to stop Mark and Mark just told him to push forward. According to what the killer said, the syndicate was after Mark for some reason. Mark was not going to sit on his hands and wait for them to come and try to kill him.

As for why they wanted to kill him, Mark could only guess that it was because he was KING and they somehow knew about that. Maybe they saw him fighting the Armageddon four years ago? Mark didn't know for sure.

[Does the user wish to send the stat points to the selected stats? Yes/ No]

Mark was currently sitting on his bed inside his room and looking through his system to put his stat and skill points in the proper places. Mark was glad that he got some rewards from that fight against the superhuman killer, and Mark wondered if the system knew that the killer was after him before Mark even found out about it.

[Yes, I did.]

Mark blinked in surprise as a message from the system answered his question and Mark finally furrowed his brow and leaned back. Was this the system talking, or was it...

"Sozin?"

[Comment from GoG: Hehe~! You got me! I thought you would start talking to the system so I can get some juicy information!]

"What sort of juicy information could you possibly want!? You can read my fucking thoughts!"

[Comment from GoG: Yeah, yeah, don't get your panties in a bunch. It's not like people always think about the same thing while conversing with different people. Your thought process changes from person to person, so I figured it would be nice to see what you are thinking about while talking to the system. But about your question, yeah, I knew about the killer.]

"Why didn't you tell me? It would have been far easier to deal with all this if I had some help from you."

Mark chose yes on the system prompt that asked about the distribution of stat points and he watched and felt his conditions changing while still talking to Sozin. Mark decided that since he only had a small amount of stat points as a reward from that mission, he would spread them out among his stats to get a more balanced power system.

…

[The User has added +200 points to Strength]

[The User has added +50 points to Stamina]

[The User has added +100 points to Agility]

[The User has added +50 points to Durability]

[The User has added +100 points to Mana]

…

Well, maybe not so balanced. His strength was still much higher than the other stats, but Mark was fine with that. He needed strength above everything else for his fighting style, so he could slowly build the others while keeping strength as his ultimate focus.

[Comment from GoG: If I had to help you out with something as basic as that killer, then what would have been the point of all the blessings that I gave you? Someone like that is not worth being worried over, I knew that you could handle it, so there was no need for me to intervene.]

Mark hummed as he heard what Sozin said and he watched the system bringing up his new stats. Mark was convinced that Sozin had very high expectations of him and that is why he did not help him, but that does not mean that Mark would not have appreciated a heads-up. This crazy bastard probably just wanted to watch Mark fight the killer since he thought it was entertaining.

[Comment from GoG: You hurt me with your lack of trust in me.]

Mark scoffed.

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SUPERHUMAN SYSTEM

Name: Mark Vanitas

Race: Human

Title: [He Who Perseveres Through Hell. [+10% increase to all stats.]] [He Who Defies Destiny]

Rank: S [4730/5000]

Affiliation: Unlawful Neutral

Unused Stat Points: 0

Unused Skill Points: 1000

…

Strength: 2080 [+208] [+516]

Stamina: 1400 [+140] [+350]

Agility: 1250 [+125] [+125]

Durability: 1260 [+126] [+63]

Mana: 1220 [+122]

…

[Stat Improvements Due to Application of Mana]

Strength: +26%

Stamina: +15%

Agility: +12%

Durability: +5%

…

Mark read through the tabs from his system and he hummed as his eyes trailed towards his affiliation. Mark started off as True Good before going to True Neutral, but now his affiliation is Unlawful Neutral. Mark didn't know what sort of measure the system used to create these affiliations, but Mark knew that he got the Unlawful tag because he killed the superhuman killer and his Arit's crimes.

Well, Mark wasn't really bothered about it at all, so he didn't let it occupy his thoughts for too long.

"Sozin, do you know anything about the Syndicate?"

Mark suddenly spoke up as he started allocating points to his skills and he waited patiently as Sozin went silent. Mark wondered if Sozin would even bother to help him out at all. Sozin has always been adamant that Mark should deal with situations on his own, so Mark knew that there was a high chance that Sozin would simply tell him to deal with this alone as well.

But surprisingly, Sozin didn't do that.

[Comment from GoG: Those fossils? They're a pretty old group. They've been around since humans first started to walk on two feet.]

Mark blinked and he had to pause what he was doing once he read through the comment. Did Sozin just say that the Syndicate has been around since humans first evolved? And he called them fossils? Doesn't that mean that they have been around before even Sozin was born?

[Comment from GoG: You wouldn't understand primordial anatomy even if I started giving you a crash course in it for the next hundred years, so don't try to analyze what I said like that. Just keep in mind that they have been in existence long before this version of my psyche was made conscious of its own godhood. My main consciousness is older than your universe.]

What the hell?

[Comment from GoG: Yeah, that's why I said you wouldn't get it. But you should look out for those fossils though. They are the quintessential definition of what extremists are, and now that they have their focus on you. Well… haha, things should be quite interesting moving forward.]