While waiting in the back courtyard of his estate for Abyssa's investigation report on the Cult of Ten Thousand Faces, Kael grows bored and decides to explore parts of his system that he had never paid attention to before. To his surprise, he discovers several hidden functions: Streaming, Acquire, Business Store, Bank, Converter, Safe Room, Partner, and Exclusive EXP & MP Generator.
The Streaming function allows him to broadcast live content across worlds, including dungeons, battlefields, and training grounds, much like a live-streaming platform. Acquire grants him ownership rights over conquered territories, businesses, mines, and resources. The Business Store functions as a massive inter-world marketplace where treasures, cultivation manuals, spirit beasts, and artifacts can be bought, sold, or auctioned. The Bank stores wealth, loot, spirit stones, and valuable resources while also allowing investments. Converter purifies demonic or corrupted materials into usable resources. The Safe Room acts as a private dimension where Kael can remotely control clones, puppets, armies, and territories. Partner allows temporary or permanent alliances similar to shareholders in a company. Finally, the Exclusive EXP & MP Generator secretly stores excess experience points and mana that Kael does not directly use.
Realizing how much power he had overlooked, Kael laughs and remarks that what one does not know is often greater than what one does know.
Curious, he activates the Streaming function. The system asks him to create a username, explaining that a username serves as a unique identity recognized by other users. Kael chooses the name "Protector." Upon entering the streaming network, he discovers countless broadcasts from Eldrathin. One stream immediately catches his attention: his younger sister, Amara, is clearing a high-level dungeon alone.
Amara demonstrates her terrifying talent as a Special-Class Mage, unleashing devastating elemental and forbidden magic that wipes out monsters by the hundreds. Kael quietly joins the stream and sends her an extremely expensive gift worth millions of digital system coins. The moment the gift appears, the livestream chat erupts into chaos.
Numerous wealthy young masters, noble heirs, and famous geniuses from Eldrathin flood the chat with disbelief. Usernames such as MadDog, GoldenLion, CrimsonPhoenix, IronPrince, HeavenlyWolf, ShadowDuke, DragonHeir, and CelestialKing immediately begin asking whether the mysterious donor is the legendary Protector. The entire livestream becomes chaotic as viewers speculate about Kael's identity.
After leaving the stream, Kael experiments with another hidden function. He switches his class to Cultivator Mode. The system presents all major cultivation realms, from Body Tempering, Qi Gathering, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Soul Transformation, Void Refinement, Body Integration, Mahayana, Tribulation Transcendence, True Immortal, Earth Immortal, Heaven Immortal, Golden Immortal, Immortal King, and finally Immortal Emperor.
Curious, Kael selects the Immortal Emperor realm.
Immediately, the system deducts four million digital system coins.
Confused, Kael checks his balance and is shocked to discover that he possesses over 930,000 trillion digital system coins. He has no idea how such an absurd amount accumulated but suspects that many hidden system functions have been quietly generating wealth and resources behind the scenes.
The Immortal Emperor class also unlocks a special mission. To truly master the realm, Kael must eventually create and govern a world of his own.
Recognizing the scale of future challenges, Kael creates two autonomous clones. Unlike ordinary clones, these versions can think independently, make decisions, and carry out missions while still remaining connected to Kael's consciousness.
The First Kael receives the mission of searching for the missing fragments connected to Fortune and Abundance throughout Eldrathin.
The Second Kael is assigned to assist Abyssa with her investigation into the Cult of Ten Thousand Faces and report any discoveries immediately.
Both clones vanish to begin their assignments.
Kael then creates a Third Kael. Unlike the first two, this clone is sent directly to the Jin Estate. Once the clone departs, Kael returns to his room and falls asleep while transferring his consciousness into the Third Kael.
The transition feels seamless. To Kael, the clone's body feels exactly like his real body.
Upon arriving at the Jin Estate training grounds, he finds thousands of family members gathered for announcements, mission assignments, rewards, and training evaluations.
The individual overseeing the proceedings is Jin Yu-Jin, a 7-Star Grand Mage who cannot cultivate but is one of the Jin Family's most important figures. Using the Eye of Extraction and Truth, Kael examines him.
The system reveals that Jin Yu-Jin is on the verge of breaking through to the 8-Star Grand Mage realm but suffers from severe mana blockage. He serves as the leader of the Right Family Branch, one of the major branches of the Jin Family responsible for military logistics, magical warfare, defense systems, fortress construction, magical formations, intelligence networks, and strategic planning.
The report further reveals that Jin Yu-Jin has two wives and several children and is respected throughout the family for his dedication and leadership.
Remaining invisible above the training grounds, Kael quietly observes as Patriarch Jin Seong-Hwan and several elders attend the gathering. Among those present are Elder Jin Seok-Min and other important family leaders.
After the announcements conclude, silence fills the training grounds.
To everyone's shock, Jin Seong-Hwan suddenly addresses empty space.
"Master Kael, welcome. We are honored by your presence."
The entire training ground becomes confused. No one can sense Kael. Even the elders detect nothing.
Elder Jin Seok-Min questions the Patriarch's statement, insisting that Kael should be occupied with the Cult of Ten Thousand Faces investigation.
Jin Seong-Hwan simply laughs and insists that Kael is indeed present.
Moments later, Kael removes his invisibility.
The entire crowd erupts in shock.
Even experienced elders stare in disbelief.
Kael smiles and compliments Jin Seong-Hwan's perception before turning his attention toward Jin Yu-Jin. He begins discussing advanced mana theory, magical pathways, mana circulation, and the cause of Yu-Jin's blockage, demonstrating a level of magical understanding that surprises everyone present.
The conversation is interrupted when Elder Jin Seok-Min asks why Kael has time to visit while supposedly investigating the Cult of Ten Thousand Faces.
Kael calmly reveals that the person standing before them is merely one of his clones.
This revelation shocks the elders even further.
Kael then explains that the investigation has become extremely complicated because the Cult of Ten Thousand Faces has infiltrated numerous powerful noble families.
He reveals that twelve major noble families are suspected of maintaining connections with the cult, including the Blackthorn Family, Silvermoon Family, Ashford Family, Ravencrest Family, Valerius Family, Stormclaw Family, Ironhart Family, Drakenhall Family, Frostveil Family, Crimsonstar Family, Nightshade Family, and Goldspire Family.
According to Kael, the cult's influence extends far deeper than anyone imagined.
He warns the Jin Family that if they desire total victory, they must first remove the rotten eggs hidden among their own allies.
Before anyone can respond, Kael suddenly raises his hand.
A young disciple is instantly dragged from the crowd toward him as though seized by an invisible force.
Kael grips the man's throat and calmly asks how long he has been spying within the Jin Estate, who sent him, and what mission he was assigned.
The disciple immediately begins trembling.
At that moment, Kael releases a fraction of his Immortal Emperor Aura.
The atmosphere changes instantly.
The ground shakes.
Air becomes heavy.
Many disciples collapse to their knees.
Several elders struggle to remain standing.
Fear spreads across the entire training ground.
The most shocking part is that this overwhelming pressure comes not from Kael's true body but from a single clone.
As the terrified spy realizes there is nowhere to run, the interrogation begins, leaving the Jin Family stunned by both Kael's strength and the terrifying scale of the hidden conspiracy surrounding the Cult of Ten Thousand Faces.