Chapter 193: Chapter 192: The Perfect Trap

“So, where’s Bihena at?” Balu asked as she brought her hands down from her head, her ears perking up. “She was… resting, right? I think you mentioned that.”

I gave a brief nod at that. “I planned to see if she was free to come out and meet you once we were done.” Given that everyone was resting after expending so much of their divine power, I didn’t want to bother them quite yet. I was even pretty sure that Leowynn wouldn’t be able to get much help from Irena for right now.

“Okay!” Balu energetically nodded her head, her ears flopping back and forth. “You wanted a consultation, right? Well, show me whatever you want to, and I’ll give my opinion.” She beamed a smile at me, her furred cheeks puffing up slightly.

I had no intention of showing her everything. The races in the world, as well as their current path of advancement would be kept secret. That way, even if something happened, the information leaked would be within a manageable level. Nothing more than what could be observed through the meetings if someone watched closely.

As such, I created a piece of paper, a list of the systems that I had purchased. The biggest thing that I needed to check required her to only have this much information. Whether there was a flaw in one of the systems, or if there was another system that was drastically needed in order to make things work more smoothly.

“Oooh!” Balu grabbed the paper in her paws, bringing it up and holding it in front of her face. “Uh huh… looks good. Ooh, I’ve never seen that one before.” She lowered the paper, her ears twitching as she looked at me. “The legacy classes, and the quest contracts, those were your creations right?”

When I nodded, she tilted her head. “Well, obviously I can’t tell you the secrets of something that you created yourself. I’d have to study those two systems on my own to come up with an answer. But I can tell you about the rest!”

“Have you ever managed a world with a game system before?” I couldn’t help but ask that, since I knew that she had been around a while.

“Mmm, yeah. It was one of my first. I think I still have the template for it written down somewhere back home. I’ve had a few since then to test things out, but I typically stick to cultivation worlds now. Those are the best for my job, I think!” As she said that, she flipped the paper over, where I had listed the various classes that were in the world.

As she read through the list, she occasionally nodded her head, humming lightly to herself. Only when she reached the end did her ears shoot up in alarm, her fur starting to stand on end. “No, no… wrong… very wrong. Bad.. why is it bad?”

“Balu..?” I saw her clenching the paper in her paws, a look of focus on her face.

“Perfect… No, trap. Trap! Trap class!” She finally seemed to catch her trail of thought, before suddenly looking up at me. “You can’t train the Perfect Self class! Absolutely, positively can’t!”

“Uhm.. okay? Why not?” Seeing how drastic of a reaction she was having, I knew that it had to be something pretty major.

“Think, think…” She began to mutter again, bringing one paw up and balling it into a fist, rubbing it against her own head. “Why why… Right! I remember now!” Lifting her head up, Balu showed another bright smile. “The Perfect Self class, it’s a trap!”

Before I could ask another question, she rapidly began to explain. “It’s a trap designed to make Keepers kill themselves. Nobody knows who came up with it, and it might not have even meant to be that way in the first place. But we don’t know a single Keeper that has survived practicing this class!”

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“In order to form the ‘perfect self’, you need the ‘body of perfection’. That’s the only way to properly fuse ki, mana, and spiritual energy all together in the ratio needed for the class. To do this, you have to first begin to merge your spiritual energy with your ki, and with your mana. Then, you have to destroy your own body, using the spiritual energy to construct a new one!”

“However, in the process of doing this, the world recognizes you as dead the moment you destroy your own body. Our guess is that the system doesn’t wait for you to try to piece together a new body. Keepers only get one life, and that is the ironclad rule of the system. So as soon as you destroy your own body, the system considers you dead, and begins selecting the next Keeper.”

I felt chills going down my back as I heard that. I had never seen anyone practicing the class, as it had not yet been unlocked by anyone in my world. “Is there a way to do the fusion without destroying your body?” She ran a cultivation style world, so I assumed that meant she had experience fusing energies.

“Yup!” Balu gave a happy nod. “Just not the way that class wants. The Perfect Self class is great for your people, as it is actually really powerful… but a Keeper absolutely must never train it themselves!”

Balu looked down to the desk in front of me, and at the piece of paper again. “Uhm… do you have anything that I can use to write?”

I nodded, and created a pencil and another sheet of paper, passing both to her. She fumbled around with the pencil a bit, before her paw began to shift, elongating to look more like a hand. Once she was able to properly grasp the pencil, she leaned forward and began writing.

“With the class list you have, I can guess that you use the four basic energies. I don’t know how they are configured in your world, though, so I can’t give you any specifics. I can give you a few energy combinations to try out, though.”

I gave another nod as I heard that, though it did help me come up with a question. “If there are so many energy combinations, why did everyone just use ki or mana at the fighting tournaments in the meeting?”

“Hmm?” Balu looked up at me, and then tilted her head. “I dunno! Never been to those fights.” She shrugged her shoulders as she finished writing, before sliding the paper across the table at me. I took a moment to pick it up, reading through the list.

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