So, whatever was over lording this world seemed to have the ability to give out systems as he chose. I don’t know if I would call this cheating now that these two miscreants were part of my party, but I was paying for every advantage with attempts on my life so far.

“Sorry, I guess I can’t kill you either with that little snake of snakes wrapped around you. Well, we have the wood, now you need to pile it! Also, are you going to burn that Troll or not?” Jilly asked me with impatience. ​​

“Umm, if you can help me out, I can start the fire while you pile the wood unless you know how to cook the meat?” I questioned Jilly as I watched the hard hat slide off the top of her head and rest on her bare back just below her neck.

“What’sss going on?” Mary hissed up from my arms.

“Uck, fine, but this better be worth it! Stupid man, can’t even kill him! Probably would just leave me wanting more after anyways!” Jilly grumbles as she starts to rip the planks off of the ground with ease.

Some boards were buried up to a meter deep, driven into the ground. Yet that didn’t bother this Hercules beetle of a woman in the slightest.

I saw a vast gap already between the two of us, and it was starting to make me second guess my choice. I decided that for now, I would learn how to do things with Mary attached to me.

This female had made it very clear that she would kill me if given a chance, and I wasn’t about to let my time in this world end yet. Maybe I would have to try and ditch her at some point.

She clearly was nothing more than an acquaintance to Mary, considering that she tried to kill her as well. I wondered what Mary thought of Jilly in terms of whether or not she would be considered a good monster or not.

If she was, then that just meant that the rest of the monsters in this world would just be different variations of bad. I could see how she might take on that outlook of other monsters, but it would be something that I would have to clarify with her.

Unlike Mary, I didn’t possess some kind of superpower that let me avoid danger like she could, and I wouldn’t want that. I wasn’t completely averse to getting some kind of superpower that I could train and grow with; that would be cool.

Jilly almost had a path cleared for me to get out, and I was briefly reminded of the large gap in our strength. If I got a chance for a superpower, I wouldn’t pass it up.

<What do you think I am? I am not a Djinn in a bottle! You had your chance, now. If you want to be some looney toon superhero, you will have to search for the power yourself!>

Not so all and mighty then?

<Watch your mouth with me, or I will convince the Oomukade to try harder to kill you.>

Hey! So it was you that has been slating my path! Why did you give the girls the systems?!

<Believe it or not, I did this to help you, not to hinder you. Since you have decided to take the hard way, I need to make sure that you can get out in the world and do something of value!>

Value? Oh, I get it! So, because I don’t have one of those system things, you aren’t getting any… points? What is this kind of big game?

<Everything in life is a game! So yes, I need you to complete tasks and quest to earn me standing to spend on the game I am playing!>

…What?

<I am a god-like entity that presides over this world alone, and so do all the others. They each have their own, and we have to cultivate the idiots we trick from the seed world to complete tasks in this world. If I can get enough points to move up in the standing, your world will improve somewhat.>

What is the whole point of it all? Is there a point?

I was walking out of the lumber forest, and I got a glare from Jilly and was told to go get working or I would be the one going on the fire. If these two were my help, I was not excited to find out who my enemies were going to be.

<The path that you choose is your choice in this world, do what you like. If you help the girls complete their missions, then your life will get better, and you can blame any boosts you get on your kind heart or idiocy.>

Not going to spill all the truth about what your real game is, hmmm? Fine, I didn’t mind helping with girls as long as I was the one making a choice on whether or not I would be helping.

“Mary, can you hold on to my back? I am going to start getting the fire ready, and then I will go cut up some meat, okay?” I asked, but Mary was already snaking around back.

I smiled as I felt the warm, soft press of her chest on my back as I dug into my pocket. I only had a couple things on me, but a lighter was one of them, and that meant I wouldn’t have to go bushman and tried starting a fire by rubbing sticks together.

I pulled out my lighter, but it did not look like a light. Instead, it looked like some kind of pen torch now. I pressed the bottom on the side, and a thin but solid stream of flame appeared about a meter long.

I almost dropped the thing in shock; what the hell was this thing? It looked like a homemade lightsaber or something that was made in some anarchist basement.

“How did you get a Magical Flame Blade? You didn’t just have that before! You made me pull all of those out for nothing?!” Jilly screeched from behind me.

I whirl around awkwardly as Mary giggled on my back, making them far too close Jilly rear back in from my vicious barbeque lighter.

Ha! Now I had the fire and a weapon… that I had never used before. Can I get a skill for this?

<BWAHAHA!>