Surviving in Woman's world as a novel villain.

Chapter 286 284. Artifacts

"Brother!! Ask her to stop, please."

Amara was begging for help from her brother while trying to defend against agile and quick Xiao Bai who wanted the shiny choker of hers.

"Why can't you just give it to her? I can buy you a new one."

Alex looked at their shenanigans through the rear view mirror and couldn't help but say to Amara that she can just give her jewelry to Xiao Bai.

This little girl likes shiny things. There is only one way to stop her once she lands on something.

One is if he himself commanded her or second one is to get her the thing she wanted.

He didn't want to command her as commands are infallibles, The moment he commands it whether she wants or not, She would be forced to do it.

This would mess up with her psyche and her unconditional trust for him might get hit, It's a rare chance of that from happening but he didn't wants to take a risk unless it's absolutely necessary.

Amara can let Xiao Bai borrow her choker, That sound so entitled but that's the only way and he would unlike with Rebecca's thing, make sure she would be paid for her troubles.

"I can't brother, Its artifact mother gave it to me to keep my strength in check, So I would not accidentally bump and destroy a few buildings."

Amara was helpless as she answered to Alex, If it was something else she would have gladly given it to her.

It's just that this is a thing that she can't take off her body.

This choker she was wearing is an artifact discovered in ruins in an ancient cave when there was an expedition in search of things before the fall.

This artifact is one of the few things they found in it.

At first they didn't know what this artifact did, Though there were obvious defenses, boost and other stuff like any other gear but it took them time to know the unique ability of it.

Which was nothing but restricting the powers of S-Rank and above, It didn't have any effect on lower ranks for some reason.

This unique ability is in the passive category, It restricts the powers of its wear from S-Rank to the normal mortal huwoman.

Only when the master of this artifact actively wants, They can use their full S-Rank powers if not they would be like any other mortal.

The purpose of this artifact is obvious, It is a training wheels for new S-Ranks to make sure their normal subconscious would not demolish their surroundings.

Seeing this is the only unique ability it possesses, Which was useless for below S-Rank and all other S-Rank old and experienced enough to know their powers.

So it was put on auction by the merchant guild.

Her mother saw this and knew it was the best thing for her, So she brought it at a huge price as even if its unique ability was useless for others it was still a legendary grade product of age before the fall.

Don't get it wrong, Her mother didn't brought it for her nor safety of her surroundings, The sole purpose behind this purchase was too keep Alex safe from her.

Even if at that point Alex ran away from home, Her mother knowing she would one day run off to see him brought her that too to ensure safety of her son.

Amara too only decided to wear it because it would keep Alex safe from her, As at that time even at her best controlling her strength, she was cracking ground and destroying buildings.

*Slam* *Break*

"Wait what?!!!"

Alex didn't know anything about this but the moment Amara said it's an artifact, Alarm goes off in his head.

He quickly slammed the breaks halting the speeding car on the road.

Thankfully it's late at night and there is no traffic, If not this would cause a big accident.

But he didn't care at this moment, He quickly turned around in shock and asked her to disbelieve.

Artifacts.

As in every power fantasy frictions they are types of gears to improve and enhance one's own stats and abilities.

So of course the wishfulliment generic novel like this world is also going to have those in it.

Alex is not surprised by that at all but the fact that these things only supposed to appear in the middle-late part of Nathan's plot just a few months before reawakening or more mainstream term Riki recovery.

It was also when Nathan finally went from being face slapped and beaten like a dog from everyone to the only run away from the strong that came out afterwards.

In this time he got many boosts and chances that made him from little good at cultivating to a genius.

It is also this time that the world power system focus changed. It went from being superpower centric with slight cultivation touch to the full cultivation stream with added superpower at side as auxiliary.

And the scary thing is, As protagonist of this world Nathan gets many broken things.

So if these things popped-up in the world then that is a clear sign that the world plot skipped all the beginning stuff and was heading towards the late one.

'System explain.'

Alex quickly entered in system space "slowing down" time in surroundings.

He needs an answer, Though currently he is overpowering both Nathan and Jake but that is because of his hard work in these few days.

And it's also their early plot so nothing game breaking is given to them, But if plot skip in the middle-late part then things would change.

There is no saying when those protagonists find a world grade artifact or technique to jump the ranks to catch up with him.

Yeah, as protagonists they can do anything they want without caring if it's reasonable or not.

[Ding! Host please don't worry, System already expected and warned you about this before.

Right now you destroy most of the plot of both Nathan and Jake and conquer their early plot womens.

And they currently in no state to attend their remaining plots, So heavenly will as protection measures pushing the plot forward.

But you don't have to worry though, System monitoring the changes in the world and would notify you when plot of it would come close.

Also as the added benefits for pushing the protagonist so much that heavenly will has to take an action of pushing plot forward, the Host would be rewarded.

And of course because of such an action heavenly will was also going to be weak and was on cooldown decreasing protagonist halo luck effect tremendously.]

System quickly responded to him and in detail explained to him what was happening.

He broken all the early plot of Nathan and Jake especially the he took away their main heroine, Alia from them.

She was a huge help for two of them that gave them jump start connecting them to all important people and connections.

He took that away from them giving them a huge blow, Plus Jake's invincible heart was pretty much broken being beaten by F-Rank.

Nathan was also bedridden to do anything, Alex didn't know about but's condition but he knew he too was not able to attend because of the system's prompt.

So it's reasonable heavenly will fear for its beloveds and take drastic measures.

'*Sigh* I have to speed up."

Alex know this would happen but not this quickly, He thought it could at best make late stage characters show here and there.

But he never thought that it would change to this degree.

Then again the character of late stage was showing up here and there but that just strengthened him more, So this is the only way left for poor heavenly will to protect its basterds.

"Huh? Its artifact brother, Wait? Do you want one? Mo- Mada-...She also brought it for you, I can ask her to send it here."

Just as Alex came out of his system space time flowed normally and Alex heard Amara saying this to him.

It took him half a second to process what she was talking about as no matter how many times he did it, It's still hard to get used to sudden time changes.

"....We have to deal with the issue with mommy later but right now none of this is a matter of concern yet.

We will talk about this later. Tonight we enjoy ourselves without worry. Also if there is one me, You can ask her to send it, I also want one."

Alex is quick to detect the unresolved issue in Amara's tone, And know he has to resolve it before it turns for worse.

But it can wait. Tonight he didn't want to think about this at all. He can deal with those stuff in the morning.

Tomorrow he has to do many things, So he has to relax tonight to have energy to deal with what the world throws at him.

"As for you Xiao Bai, Come here, I would let you play with this."

After that he told Xiao Bai to come to the passenger sit, and even offered a tempting offer she could not refuse.

Xiao Bai quickly come back and sat on the passenger seat looking at him expectly.

He looked at her and then throw the diamond necklace of Rebbeca at her to play, Which she happily accepted and started playing with.

Amara was relieved that Xiao Bai was not on her. She wanted to say something but Alex started the car and headed straight towards his dorm.

It's going to be a long night.

(A/N : I know it's quite a long time but this is the last chapter. Next would be in the dorm.

Like always thank you for reading and have a good day 😁. )