Black God Suit

Half a month later.

Tianhe City.

"Xiaoqian, I have to say, you're excellent material for martial arts. How about becoming my live-in grandson-in-law? This martial arts school will be yours."

"Sorry, Master, well, I have a girlfriend. She's in the military, stationed in Juxia City."

Things weren't safe these days, what with aliens and all. You should move somewhere soon, maybe the countryside. That would be pretty good too.

Long Qian felt embarrassed that the old master was so determined to make him his live-in grandson-in-law.

If his granddaughter had really been delicate, soft, and easy to sweep off her feet, he might have gone along with it and given it some thought.

But that girl was practically a hulking Barbie. She was something else.

She was pretty, sure, but she wasn't his type. It wasn't like he fell for every pretty face he saw.

As the saying went, lips red as vermilion went untasted, yet one punch could kill a young man.

The girl next door had just come of age, her strength enough to pull up mountains and overpower the world.

Those biceps were beyond fierce.

They made Long Qian instinctively take several steps back.

"Ah, what a pity. I'd originally intended to take you on as a true disciple. What a gifted martial arts prodigy. We'll be leaving for the countryside tomorrow and staying there for a few days. Come find me again after the aliens have been driven away."

After saying that, the old man waved his hand and walked back into the martial arts school.

"Why did you suddenly make things so emotional? If you'd persuaded me a little more, I'd have been too embarrassed to refuse."

Half a month ago, after Kayle dealt with Morgana, Long Qian had suddenly felt like learning something. Otherwise, he would be letting those four doses of Super Soldier Serum go to waste.

He consulted Kayle and wanted to learn swordsmanship, but Kayle's swordsmanship was a skill. He had no way to trigger or learn it, while the rest was too profound for him to grasp.

After thinking it over again and again, he decided to learn some hand-to-hand combat. In the end, he chose Xing Yi Quan and paid 8,800 yuan in tuition, guaranteed to learn it.

There was a saying: ten years of Tai Chi and you still would not leave home; six months of Xing Yi Quan and you could beat a man to death. He had only studied for two weeks, but he was absurdly talented. In just over ten days, he had grasped its essence.

He had even squeezed every last bit of the instructor's sword techniques out of him.

If he could borrow—no, summon—one of those suits of armor from anime, then combine it with his martial arts, he should be able to beat a Taotie to death with ease, right?

Should he discuss it with the system and have it pull some strings behind the scenes?

Best case, it could summon the Infinity Gauntlet. Wouldn't that send him straight into the sky? One punch per little kid.

"I never thought having an insanely good memory would be this great. Learn it once and you know it. Wouldn't that make me invincible across the world?

Ah, what a shame. The Super Soldier Serum can't help me remember my past. Otherwise, I could recall the plot."

Long Qian strolled down the street, completely unaware of the coming storm. A new storm had already appeared.

"System, are you there? Are you there?"

Long Qian bought a cup of milk tea and walked into a park.

System: "Host, I'm always here."

"Since I've got nothing better to do, let's use this month's draw. System, you'd better pull through this time. If it's another trial card, I'll be furious, you hear me? And don't give me stuff like stockings. What would I need that for? I can't eat them, I can't use them—well, I can use them, but there's really no need."

Long Qian was already speechless at this scammy system. His standards were not high. Just give him something useful, at least something useful to him, something that could help him improve himself.

After all, Old Man Jia was still in the authorization process. He needed some way to protect himself.

He had studied martial arts for so long precisely so he could find the Taotie and avenge his villa.

The destruction of his villa was an unforgivable grudge.

The Taotie destroyed his villa, so destroying one of their cross-shaped warships in return was not excessive, right? Perfectly reasonable, right?

System: "Host, manipulating things behind the scenes like that is against the rules. As a system, I must have principles."

The system was helpless about Long Qian's request. She was currently stealing—no, borrowing—the origin of someone else's system.

It was not a good time to manipulate things in secret. If she did not perform a random summon and interfered instead, it would affect her backend recovery and upgrades.

Still, she could not exactly say that outright. How could she admit to stealing someone else's origin?

If Long Qian found out that she had once devoured all of his systems, he would explode with rage.

She recalled there being something called a Tycoon System, and something like a Top Student System. How could such trash systems possibly be worthy of her host?

Those trash systems did not deserve to exist in the same host's body as her.

If she had been at her peak, she could have forcibly summoned a Great Luo Golden Immortal in minutes. Unfortunately, summoning had been restricted in that world, and she had been sabotaged during the trip between worlds. That was why she had fallen from grace and become despised even by her host.

"Tch. Your principles? What principles do you even have?"

Long Qian dismissed the system's words with contempt. A system that did not look out for its host was not a good system.

System: "Host, you can't put it that way. Haven't you used or experienced everything you summoned? It may not have increased your own strength, but haven't you enjoyed it?

"Kayle could appear during a crisis, and you could use the Hero Trial Card, couldn't you? And the King's Long Johns—you could use those too. The System Space has even preserved their temperature from back then."

The system had a firm grasp on her host's thoughts. She had spent more than twenty years with Long Qian. How could she not know what he was thinking?

"The System Space can actually do that? Really?"

Long Qian's eyes lit up at the system's words. He immediately coughed a few times and said, "Ahem, ahem. That's not what I meant. I meant that I can have a bowl of steaming hot noodles anytime, anywhere."

"By the way, System, is the chance of summoning things from the same world very high? I keep feeling like you can only summon things from game worlds.

"Or maybe you can only summon things from Honor of Kings and LOL, and you've been fooling me by calling yourself some kind of Summoning System for all heavens.

"Actually, you're an LOL Summoning System, or maybe a Penguin Summoning System. You just want to package yourself as some high-end system and then swindle people. Go ahead and admit it. I'm a magnanimous man, so I can let bygones be bygones.

"We've been together for so long. I won't uninstall you, don't worry. I may not have much else, but I'm generous."

Long Qian did not know which wire in his brain had suddenly crossed, but a flash of inspiration struck him, and he thought of that possibility. He immediately questioned the system about it.

But after voicing that idea, he became more and more convinced that there was something wrong with his system. Something seriously wrong.

There was a ninety percent chance his guess was right. As for the remaining ten percent, it did not matter.

After all, his system never did anything useful. That alone made him doubt its integrity.

System: "Host, is something wrong with your head? Are you summoning or not?"

The system was practically about to have her CPU burned out by this host who loved overthinking. Was she really such an improper system?

"Come on, come on. Start the summon."

Ding. Congratulations, Host, on completing this summon. The summoned item is an evolvable Black God Suit from the great world of Swallowed Star. Please check and receive it.

"Holy crap, System, just treat everything I said earlier as bullshit. My admiration for you is like a surging river. I love you so much. Sure enough, my system is different from all those gaudy, cheap bitches."

System: "o(′^｀)o(`へ′*)ノ(.-`ω′-)"