Chapter 4: Farmer’s Tool
“That’s very nice. It’s very inspirational.” Tulland kicked at the ground. “It’s a very good way to gloss over the fact that you’ve betrayed me.”
A System has to eat. And sacrificing the willing to The Infinite is one of the few ways we can do that.
“The others being?”
We also feed off accomplishment, although I expect little of that. I’m sorry that I could only spend the bare minimum I could on your class.
“I guessed,” Tulland spat.
Which means that any successes you have from here on out, benefit me as much as they do you. What advice I can give from this point on, I’ll give. What help I can manage for you, I’ll manage. Because from the first major checkpoint in the dungeon on, you are a source of profit for me. Something that makes me stronger.
“So you can go back and hurt my family?”
Of course not. Why would I? But if you don’t believe me, then know this. I simply do not have the strength to be both here and there at once. I am tied to this place as long as you are. It is only when you fall that I gain the power to return.
That lined up with just enough of what Tulland knew about why System prophets were taken away that he was willing to provisionally believe it.