Mixed Blessing System

Chapter 888 Level 27

A few months passed after Mabel announced that she was pregnant.

In the meantime, Lothur's family had several conversations about the subject, what they should do about it, and their previous plans.

There were several points to consider, and the family was divided on what to do.

For example, Elke and Annaliese thought they should all stay and raise this child until he became a Saint. After that, they would leave as planned, leaving Blood and Smoke to help Lothur's first offspring.

But Viktoria and Rebecca saw things differently. They felt the best demonstration of love was not to give Lothur's descendant everything he needed. The best thing they could do would be to give him the chance to grow up and become important on his own merits.

They didn't want Lothur and themselves to be completely absent. But they didn't want to take away the young Ritter's first son's chance to grow up on his own and become someone great like his father by following his own destiny.

If they did that, he would be grateful for the opportunities he had, and his power would be based on his own efforts, not something given to him by other people.

In their opinion, if they were to leave anyway, it would be best to do so before Lothur's child with Mabel was born to make sure they didn't get attached.

But even from afar, they would take care of the little one, leaving people to watch him and even creating opportunities here and there.

How do you do that without taking his credits? That was easy. Merit was something that had nothing to do with luck but with skill and competence.

You could be fortunate and have merit for your powers. One didn't contradict the other.

Someone with merit wasn't necessarily someone who got to the top through a difficult path full of defeats. That could happen, but having opportunities didn't diminish one's efforts.

So they wanted to leave this child with opportunities, opportunities that he could seize or lose.

As for Mabel and Anneke, the child's mother understood her family's two ways of understanding but felt Lothur should not be stopped. No one knew what might lie beyond the sea, so it was better for him to leave while he was still young and had time to grow.

If he stayed behind for his son, he might postpone his departure forever and miss the best time to continue his cultivation journey.

On the other hand, Anneke was undecided and had said nothing regarding the matter, only telling Lothur that she would decide to accompany him no matter what he chose.

Meanwhile, Mabel hadn't changed much. Although she had been pregnant for months, she still hadn't shown the characteristics of a pregnant woman.

But that wasn't strange. Being at level 26, the same level as the child's father, this was no ordinary baby. It would take years for him to develop enough to be born.

So life continued more or less as normal for the whole family while they stayed in that paradise area, waiting for Lothur's decision.

...

This afternoon, it was boiling in the area where Lothur and his wives had been living.

Given the good weather for relaxing and drinking cold drinks, the group didn't train today, which they still did, even though they were already the strongest on the continent.

Everyone in the family had space to improve their physical attributes through training, so since the end of the war, they had always taken the time to train their bodies, trying to raise their Strength, Agility, and Dexterity attributes to the same level as their Constitutions.

Amid these training sessions, they had all improved their Wills and affinities, their resistances, but also the progress of their bones, and through this, they had also strengthened their Perceptions.

And just at that moment of peace, while everyone was resting in the pool of their building, they all felt the same sensation coming from the center of the continent.

Turning his attention to the sensation, Lothur opened his eyes and saw a golden glow in the sky in the direction that feeling came from.

"That..."

Viktoria had the second strongest Perception in the group and immediately realized what it was.

Lothur opened his mouth and said. "Someone has reached the level of an immortal." 

After hearing these words, they all fell silent as they looked in that direction, not knowing who on this continent could have reached level 27 before them.

"What are we going to do?" Rebecca asked.

"Is there anything we should do?" Elke didn't understand what the woman meant.

Lothur agreed with his redheaded wife. "There's nothing for us to do. By entering the immortal realm, whoever this person is, they will lose their freedom to interfere directly with our world. 

That person won't be here long after their ascension, so they're no threat to us."

Mabel clenched her fists and said. "Lothur, make your choice. We know nothing of what lies beyond the sea. If there's some kind of scarcity, selection, or whatever that might limit you, we can't risk it.

Many resources in the world right now have no owners. Many people may have a chance to rise to the level of immortality because of the Soul Bones you've scattered across the continent.

So make up your mind. I don't want you to regret it later because you didn't do the right thing at the right time!"

They all looked at Lothur and felt this was the decisive moment.

The moment this unknown person started to advance to level 27, everyone in Concordia realized that there was something beyond level 26 that could now be achieved since there were so many Soul Bones scattered around the world.

It would only be a matter of time before others succeeded, and more people would surpass Lothur and them.

With that in mind, they all wanted him to make a decision now so there would be no regrets in the future. Either he would stay and take responsibility for any loss he might incur by staying behind, or he would go ahead and accept the consequences of missing out on his son's growth.

Lothur closed his eyes, and suddenly, the system showed him his status without his command.

[Name: Lothur Ritter]

[Physique: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger]

[Bloodline: Life Devourer]

[Soul Cultivation: level 26]

[Body Cultivation: level 26]

[STR: 37,508] [CON: 77,000] 

[DEX: 41,706] [AGI: 43,805] 

[INT: 2,577] [PER: 60,000] 

[WIL: 20,000] [SOU: 181,000]

[EVF: 223,637]

Seeing this in his mind, Lothur opened his eyes and smiled, seeing the answer to all his problems.

'So this is the alternative.' He laughed as he imagined that he wouldn't have to lose anything or be left behind.

"All right, I've made up my mind. I'm going into seclusion tonight to ascend to the level of the immortals. Anyone who wants to join me on this journey, please do it too!" He said as he looked at Mabel, planning to spend the rest of the day with her so he could say goodbye correctly.