I open my eyes to a year of famine. There's only half a sack of bran left at home.
I'm just about to curse when a ding rings in my mind.
[Life and Death System bound. Host can extract the life force of anything. Transferring it grants only half the effect.]
There's a century-old locust tree outside the window, so I try activating the ability.
The very next second, the tree visibly withers, and a warm current surges through me: fifty years of life force!
I leap out of bed and pour that bit of life force into the little jujube tree in the courtyard.
In the blink of an eye, it shoots up three stories tall, covered in red dates.
My mother stares in shock. “Son, you... have you become a spirit?”
I grin.
And that's not all. There's also a hypnosis ability in the System, so I try it on the starving pig, all skin and bones.
The pig immediately stands upright and bows to me. “Master, who are we killing today?”
I can barely keep from laughing.
Later, I discover the ability works on people, too.
The bachelor next door is always stealing firewood from my family, so I use hypnosis on his back.
He turns around and drops to his knees. “Father! Your son will fetch water for you right away!”
The whole village is dumbfounded.
I clap my hands and look up at the sky.
A famine? A world in chaos?
Come on, let's hurt each other.
I've got a hundred ways to make you kneel and call me Daddy.
