God of Systems: Maker of Heroes and Villains

"Looks like my luck has begun already." he muttered as he crawled to the bed and fished out the thing that was glinting, only to find himself staring at a small glass shard.

With a disappointed look on his face, he threw it into the trash bin and walked out of the room. Once he went down, he paid the people 20 Baroms for the cups and left the inn, heading straight towards the hunters' black market in Baroma Kingrom.

It was a very secretive place, and the location was only known to certain small cults and multiple well known hunters. The reason Keith knew of this location was the same old reason; due to the novel. He walked for a few minutes until he reached a small butcher's shop. Instead of walking inside, he silently walked around it through the alleyway as he took out his bloodied handkerchief to cover the lower half of his face. . Enjoy more content from empire

'Like I expected.' he thought as he saw a young teenager smoking a pipe while he sat on top of some crates.

He got closer to him and took out a stack of Barom notes before handing it over to him, "I'd like to see some rotten meat, the one that has maggots crawling all over it."

The teenager silently took the money and stuffed his pockets before placed his hand on one of the crates, turning the top part of the crate pitch black.

Keith didn't question a thing and silently grabbed the crate, put it on the ground and jumped inside. For a second, all he could see was pitch black darkness and instantly, he felt his feet touch something hard.

He looked around and found himself in an island which he knew was very small. The island didn't have any official name, so it was called the hunters' black market for the ease of remembrance. It was small, at most it was the size of Auberg district.

But the land that was used by the people here, was actually like an elevated platform. It was similar to a ring that had a tall pillar in the middle which was also extremely wide. This elevated platform helped the people at the top to stay safe from high tides and offered slight protection from storms too.

When Keith considered just the used land in this island, he could tell that it was barely just 30% of the size of Auberg District. He looked around and the descriptions from the novel did not betray what he was seeing at the moment.

Every single stall had some kind of monster put up on display and the entire place was filled with hushed murmurs and whispers. Keith silently walked, taking a look at the stalls on both his sides.

All of them were actually selling monster meat or monster carcasses which were basically the animals that had undergone mutation.

'The mutations vary a lot here, but using this method will boost my capabilities by a huge margin. I'll need to find something that has the most stable evolution or something that is in large quantities.' he thought and he continued to walk. Most of the carcasses that were being sold, were cold and buried in ice boxes.

There were weird looking birds, ones with no feathers, ones with just bones and some that didn't have legs. Then there were the aquatic creatures which were mostly fishes of varying sized and creative mutations. Octopuses with more than ten tentacles, crabs with scorpion tails, and there were also some creatures that he couldn't even describe.

Land mammals were easier to look at as the mutations weren't too drastic.

Almost twenty minutes later, he stopped in front of a board that made him feel a certain pull, a pull that he couldn't say no to for some reason.

Feeling good about this, he walked over and saw a paper pinned to the board.

"Hmm, a hiring service huh?" he said as he glanced at the guy who was sitting on a chair right beside the board.

"Yes, I can only do land creatures but I'm highly efficient. I only do barters and I don't take cash."

Keith heard this and nodded before going into a deep thought, "I know that it's taboo to ask where you're catching these creatures from, but I want to know what kind of creatures I can get."

He didn't bother asking them about the location because he already knew about it. Unfortunately, his memory wasn't good enough to remember about all of the animals that were available in that place and even the novel didn't go into detail about it.

The guy sitting on the chair nodded and crossed his arms across his chest, "Sure, my name is Agar by the way and I'm an expert hunter."

"Ki-" he paused for a second and continued "Kira. My name is Kira Brokalee."

"Mhm, nice to meet you. Well, here's the list of things that I can catch for you. The way they act, taste and the uses of their body parts is all mentioned here. Just read it and if you have any questions about specific creature, feel free to ask me." Agar said as he handed Keith a thin book that didn't have any binding.

Keith silently took it and went through the pages. Most of the creatures had the word "unknown" written in most of the slots, especially the uses of their body parts. The book also had data on the population of the species.

'I don't have knowledge on most of these animals but oh well...' he thought as he continued to skim through the pages until he was done with the entire book. There were only thee animals that stood out in his eyes.

"Tell me more about this One Winged Snake, Iron Centipede and Six Legged Crocodile please. They seem to have the most population compared to the others, so they must be special right?" Keith asked and the Agar sighed before nodding.

"Yeah, they're special alright. They're all extremely hard to catch so if you want them alive, you'll have to pay more. As for the specifics...."