My Roleplay System
Chapter 54: Golden Fate Farming Operation!

Chapter 54: Chapter 54: Golden Fate Farming Operation!

Lake was stunned when he saw the system notification.

He didn’t expect to get the chance to absorb another power from a creature’s fate. The last time he had such an opportunity was when he had killed the Goblin King during the exam and absorbed his fate.

Since then, it had been almost a month and in that time the number of creatures he had killed crossed into the thousands and yet he still hadn’t received another chance to absorb power from fate.

This made Lake realize exactly how rare of an opportunity he had come across when he killed the Goblin King.

Now that he had gotten the chance again, Lake was extremely excited. The last ability he gained was the King’s Demeanor, a small passive skill that he was able to derive the powerful buffing and debuffing skill King’s Aura from.

When Lake looked at the message asking him whether he wanted to begin the absorption process, he decided to wait for a bit. Right now he was in the open and he still had something to deal with before he could focus on the absorption process.

Turning his head, Lake looked towards the survivor group, specifically Romero.

Lake had actually arrived on the battlefield a little earlier but had decided to hide and watch after he had seen the changes being made to Romero’s fate.

Romero’s fate had gone through a complete evolution from the original blue to the now golden strands. During the battle between Romero and the Shadow Beast, Lake took the chance to investigate the reason for this change by looking through Romero’s fate.

However, no matter how hard Lake searched, he couldn’t find a reason for the change. To Lake, it seemed as though Romero’s fate had naturally evolved. However, Lake knew that such a thing was genuinely impossible.

After all, if someone could just change their fate like Romero could, what would be the point of the Master of Fate? As the words, "Master of Fate" crossed Lake’s mind, he suddenly came to a realization.

What if it was the Master of Fate that changed his fate?

As soon as the thought crossed his mind he immediately started looking through Romero’s fate, and certainly enough, he found something that sounded vaguely familiar to him in Romero’s past.

When Lake saw this, he turned his head to Eliza who was fighting alongside Romero and read through her fate and found the moment where she eavesdropped on the conversation Lake had with Leah outside the Martial Arts Arena.

After watching Eliza’s fate, Lake had gained a new understanding of what kind of effects he could have on fate. Even a few words from him could lead to a drastic change in someone’s fate.

Lake also thought of another problem at this point. He gains RP whenever he roleplays as the Master of Fate, wouldn’t changing someone’s fate like this still count as roleplay?

To answer this question, Lake opened up his status screen to check his RP points and certainly enough, it had increased by over 100 points without him doing anything at all!

[RP Points = 862.521]

After seeing the increase in RP, Lake was completely convinced and decided to look at the other question that had popped up in his mind.

From Lake’s understanding, a white colored fate represented a normal destiny that wouldn’t achieve anything amazing. This was the fate that most people possessed.

A green colored fate was the representation of luck and vitality. Anyone with a green colored fate was destined to live a long and happy life. Lake had seen a few people with this fate, Evelyn being one of them.

Golden colored fates were linked to wealth and achievement. People with this color of fate were destined to live a wealthy life full of victories and achievement. Lake had only ever seen two people with a golden colored fate. One was Harper, who he had met only a short while ago, and Leah, Evelyn’s best friend whose fate was only slightly golden and still mostly white.

Blue colored fate belonged to martial artists or creatures that had absorbed mana. Lake still wasn’t sure why the mana had such an effect on fate but after seeing Romero’s fate turn Golden, he came up with a hypothesis for the reason.

Lake guessed that mana had the ability to change or improve the fate of whatever absorbed it, meaning that a creature with mana had a fate that had been evolved and strengthened by it. Lake also had a piece of evidence to support this claim.

A long time ago, when Lake first acquired the Master of Fate role, he had obtained two skills along with it. One was the Observer of Fate skill he had been using all this time to look into people’s fate and see their past, present and glimpses of their future.

The other was Writer of Fate, a skill that allowed him to change the fate of others. This skill had the limitation of needing mana to use it and because of this, Lake had been ignoring it all this time, waiting for the moment he finally found a suitable technique to absorb mana and start using it.

However, since the skill was used to change the fate of others and required the use of mana to do it, it got him to start thinking about the possible effects of mana on fate and the link between them.

As for the reason why Romero’s fate had changed from its original blue color to its new golden color, Lake guessed that this was because the golden colored fate was of a higher rank than the blue fate and the mana had little effect on it.

Since the golden color fate was of a higher rank, it replaced the lower colored blue fate and evolved into the brilliant golden colored fate in front of him.

As Lake’s mind filled in the blanks, he realized the immense value of a golden colored fate. Suddenly, Harper, Romero and even Leah’s value in Lake’s mind skyrocketed by a few ranks.

"Harper and I just met and she owes me a debt for saving her group. The same could also be said for Romero. It should be easy to reap a large amount of benefits from them. Leah and I started off on a bad foot, maybe I should try being nicer to her in the future. However, her fate isn’t fully golden so she isn’t a priority for now. When the time comes, I’ll reap a large amount of benefits from all of them! Wait, I should cultivate them some more first. That’s right... I’ll nurture them and watch them grow up before harvesting them for an even greater reward. I even have a name for it. I’ll call it the Golden Fate Farming Operation!"

While Lake was fantasizing and planning for the future, the survivor group had taken this time to recover some of their mana. Since the beast was dead, Romero and Eliza had taken this chance to calm themselves and absorb some mana to replenish their reserves. As for Professor Sun, even though the beast was dead, he was still in no mood to meditate with the death of his family still looming in his mind.

After a while, Romero was the first to recover to the point where he could move, although with great difficulty.

As Romero got up, he walked over to the figure covered in blood who was standing still.

"Thank you for saving us." Romero spoke as he cupped his hands and bowed with great difficulty.

Hearing Romero’s words, Lake was pulled back from his fantasy. Looking at Romero’s brilliant golden colored fate, Lake set his eyes on the first "crop".

"Don’t mention it, Romero. Are the rest of you ok?"

When Romero heard his name he was surprised and raised an eyebrow, "You know me?"

"I’ve heard about your name in passing."

When Romero heard this, he nodded his head slightly. He didn’t suspect a thing since he knew he was considered a small gossip topic among hunters due to his talent and history.

"We’ve all used up our mana and are exhausted from staying inside the rift for a few days now so it’s going to be difficult to move for a while but we haven’t sustained any serious physical injuries."

"I know a place where you can gather some fruits to help recover your mana... Although it’s a little messy. When you recover enough to move I’ll guide you there. For now, your other party member is resting at the bottom of the cliff-"

Before Lake could continue speaking he was interrupted by Professor Sun who had his head down all this time, "Are you talking about Harper?! Did she survive the fall?!"

Lake looked at the old man lying on the floor. From what he had seen from Harper’s fate he knew that he was her grandfather.

"Yes, she survived the fall and has already received emergency treatment from me. However, my medical skills were extremely rudimentary. I’ll guide you to her now so that you can meet up and take over her recovery."

"Oh... thank you, thank you..." Professor Sun spoke with tears in his eyes. He seemed to be overjoyed at the news.

"I also thank you for saving her. It was my responsibility to protect her and I failed at even that. Now that she is still alive however, I feel like a weight has been removed from my heart. I really mean it when I say I am grateful for this."

Romero said as he bowed once more, this time however, Lake could sense a lot more sincerity from it. It seems that saving Harper had more of an effect on him than saving himself.

"If you really feel that grateful, there is something you could do for me."

When Romero heard Lake’s words he was slightly stunned before releasing a soft sigh. He had almost forgotten that this was the world of hunters, a vicious place where everyone looked out only for themselves and their group.

After all, poking your nose where it doesn’t belong can oftentimes leave you dead, and some of the times it wasn’t even a monster but by the hands of another hunter.

For someone to go out of their way to save him, he should’ve expected that he wanted something.

However, Lake’s next words had left him completely stunned.

"If you could, I would like for you to treat me to a drink and give me a few tips about being a hunter."

"W-What?" Hearing Lake’s words, Romero was so shocked that his brain froze for a few moments.

"Is that a no?"

"N-No, I was just slightly stunned by your request. If that is all you really want then I can accept it." Romero didn’t know why, but he suddenly felt a chill go up his spine.

Did I just get asked out by a guy and agreed to it?

Another chill went up his spine at the thought of this. However, what Romero didn’t know was that this was exactly what Lake wanted. By first getting close to him, he would be able to slowly watch over his growth until he deemed Romero ripe for the harvest.

"Good, then let’s move on immediately. We shouldn’t keep the poor girl waiting by herself."

At that point however, Lake and the rest suddenly felt the ground shake as a loud shriek echoed through the rift.

Looking towards the origin of the sound, Lake saw that a thunderstorm had formed over the top of the large golden tree. Lightning was sparking between the clouds and Lake could hear the loud cries of a bird even from the mountain top that was more than 30 kilometers away.

When Lake saw this he immediately knew that the Empress and the Wolf King had finally made their move!