All Chapters of ANOMALY: I HAVE COUNTLESS SYSTEMs: Chapter 121
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Chapter 121: 17 years old
[You are 15 years old. The great general summoned you one morning and spread a map before you. The borders of your plot of land had been drawn in red ink, but those borders were considerably wider than you had known them to be. He had likely transferred a portion of his own territory to you as well. When you looked carefully you noticed that the added section contained a gold mine. The great general placed his finger on the map and spoke: this is yours now. You will learn to govern it.][The great general began with the city's economy, the balance of income and expenditure, the tax collection system, the importance of trade routes. Then he moved to military defense, where the city's walls should run, where towers should be built, how the water sources should be protected. Then he addressed the governance of the people, how complaints should be heard, how disputes should be resolved, how the trust of the public should be earned. Each lesson began early in the morning and ran until midd
Chapter 122: The great general suspected
[The nobles watched these developments in silence, but their silence did not mean acceptance. The judges they had paid were gone, they could no longer win in court the way they once had, and their economic power was steadily weakening. They needed to do something, and they did.][They began applying pressure to merchants who carried goods to your lands. It wasn't an open prohibition — the nobles were too refined for anything so crude. It was something subtler. The business of merchants who traded with your territory was made difficult in other cities across the kingdom. Licenses went unrenewed. They were held up at customs. The nobles who had been their partners quietly withdrew. The merchants understood the message.][One by one they stopped coming to your lands.][When the trade routes were cut, some of the families who had settled in the city began to leave. First the merchants went, then the craftsmen dependent on them, then the small traders who sold goods to those craftsmen. The
Chapter 123: The old sorcerer
The great general looked at the old man.The man turned to Leo and opened the box. Inside was a small, dark blue stone with fine runes engraved across its surface."As long as you carry this stone with you, your consciousness won't drift off the same way again," the man said. "Whenever your consciousness begins to wander, the stone will warm and bring you back to yourself."Leo looked at the stone. Then at the great general.The great general was still looking at the wall. Leo felt a flicker of genuine surprise when he realized that the man had noticed the pattern and gone to the trouble of finding an unfamiliar sorcerer to address it. Apparently the great general truly thought of him as a son."How long have you been preparing this?""Since the second time."And there was the proof.Leo took the stone and held it in his palm.It warmed immediately. It warmed so intensely that Leo dropped it.The sound of the stone hitting the floor echoed through the room.Everyone present heard it.
Chapter 124: Princess
The princess was wearing a single-piece dress. She leaned against the door frame to pose for Leo, extending one leg to the other side of the frame.The dress stretched with the movement, and Leo realized in that moment that he could see the skin of her legs through the fabric. Which meant if the dress stretched enough, or if a strong light came from behind, everything underneath would become visible.Leo swallowed, and the princess, who caught him doing it, let a smile appear on her face.It was a light smile. Her eyes moved to the desk, to the letters, to Leo.Then she walked.No hesitation, no pause. She came to the side of the desk and sat sideways in Leo's lap. A natural movement, as if she did it every day. She leaned one hand on his shoulder and picked up one of the letters from the desk with the other."What's this?"Leo didn't answer for a second. The scent of the woman's hair that reached him caught him at a completely unexpected moment.He had read about all of this in the s
Chapter 125: You are not Nael
Leo stared at the door for a while.Then he fixed his eyes on the ceiling and thought. The princess was eighteen, he was seventeen. One year between them. But that one year had determined the structure of this marriage, and the structure was clear. During the day the man was king, at night the woman was queen, apparently.Leo undid the top two buttons of his shirt and let himself cool down.He turned back to the letters.This time he could read without difficulty.Though while he read, one corner of his mind was occupied with something else.The time skip hour.The people around him had noticed the pattern, that much was clear now. The hour needed to change. Evening, while everyone was asleep, after getting into bed — that was the most sensible option.But now, before he got into bed, something else was waiting for him.Leo thought about it for a moment.After every time skip, when he opened his eyes, the body picked up exactly where it had left off. From the point where the system con
Chapter 126: Mael the sorcerer
Leo paused for a second. Nael was his name in this simulation.After a moment's thought, he understood what the man was referring to.The man who had just been in the great general's room, who had taken the stone, said something like this has happened before, no problem, and walked out.For a seventh-level Rune Lord, doubting a magical object of his own creation wasn't possible. A sorcerer of that level would know every rune, every layer, every potential point of error in his own work from memory.But that was what the man had said.And he had smiled.Leo was now reading that smile differently. The man had grown suspicious when he saw the stone heat up, but he hadn't shown the suspicion. Instead he had offered a simple explanation, settled the atmosphere, and quietly left. He had put the great general at ease, yes, but at the same time he had bought himself time. Time to go and think, calculate, and make certain.And now he had come back.Leo looked at the man. The man was still waitin
Chapter 127
"Even if you failed, using this spell created a small effect in the past. Like a butterfly flapping its wings. That's why I met you much earlier than in the original timeline. And now think about it." The man stopped. "If I start training you immediately, without wasting any time, perhaps before I die your future self will manage to use my spell. In its completed form. And you'll send it back to the past. Then you'll pass the message from the future on to me. This way both of us will have come to possess this spell."The room went quiet.Leo had listened to the man, every word, every connection. The logic was consistent, at least internally. But something was missing.If what the man said was correct, the moment he decided to take Leo on as a student, memories from the future should have arrived in Leo's mind.At least as someone who had watched dozens of time-related series and films, Leo considered himself to have a better grasp of time than this old man.Actually, looking at it from
Chapter 128: 18 yers old
[You are 18 years old. With your father's help, you established a trade caravan and brought signature goods from various countries at low cost to your city. With the trade problem resolved, the first genuine wave of population migration toward your lands began. Workers brought in to expand the mine and their families started settling, followed by small traders who served these people, and after them, young families chasing the opportunity to buy houses cheaply in a newly established city. The city was growing slowly but steadily. Without the nobles' pressure, it would probably have developed at least twice as fast.][Maren's training was consuming the majority of your time. Managing the region alone had become impossible. You trained and appointed people for different departments, tax collection, oversight of the house of law, and construction coordination. But within a short time, you noticed that things were slipping in certain departments. Reports were arriving late, some decisions
Chapter 129: 20 years old
[You are 20 years old. Your wife was waiting for you in the study early one morning. On the map spread before her, an area running along the eastern border had been marked. Sandstorms were the problem. Families who had newly settled on your lands were filing complaints, some structures had been damaged, and the mine workers' output had fallen. Your wife had tried different solutions for weeks, walls, ditches, windbreaks, but none were permanent, and each required high cost.][While you were looking at the map, Maren teleported into the room without any warning. He asked what was happening and why you still hadn't come to the lesson. When you explained, he said simply that the answer was hidden in the forests, that you should order some tree seeds, and teleported away. Hearing what he said, you assumed he would perform some magnificent spell and turn the entire desert into a forest.][The following morning, you placed orders for seed pouches to be brought from foreign countries. The fi
Chapter 130: 21 years old
[You are 21 years old. The greater part of the year was spent with Maren. The Area Lock spell turned out to be more complex than you had anticipated. The theory was understandable, but the application was something else entirely. To seal a defined area completely, you had to control every point of that area simultaneously, without leaving a single gap, without a single weak rune. In the first attempts, some air seeped through, then light, then sound. If the things seeping through had been your deliberate choices, that would have been one thing, but since they were happening outside your control, you were technically failing the spell each time. Maren simply watched every time and said nothing. You wanted to punch him in the face and call him a smug teenager for the way he kept standing there acting cool, but you still weren't strong enough to beat him. You repeated it, repeated it, repeated it.][Alongside this work that stretched across months, the forest along the eastern border con