My Bugged System Made Me Too OP!-Chapter 49: Strange Object

Then another thought crossed his mind.

The supreme points...

He still had ten of them remaining.

There was no reason to save them, not when they could immediately strengthen him.

’Allocate supreme points.’

The system responded instantly.

He didn’t bother with complicated calculations.

Instead, he chose the simplest option.

Two points to each stat.

[Supreme Magus System$&@?!]

[Host: Noah Whiteheart]

[Level: 9]

[EXP: 100/100$&@?]

[Rank: Core Magus (mid)]

[Elements: Ice, Lightning]

[Mana: 1120/1120]

[Health: 200/200]

[Strength: 17]

[Agility: 18]

[Stamina: 17]

[Endurance: 16]

[Sense: 21]

[Supreme Points: 0]

Noah examined the numbers carefully.

He had simply allocated two points to each of his stats, distributing the ten supreme points evenly.

The increases were small individually.

But collectively, the improvement was noticeable.

His body felt slightly lighter, and more responsive.

The increase in Sense was particularly noticeable, subtly sharpening the way he perceived the environment around him.

Noah nodded slowly, feeling a bit satisfied.

His progress today had far exceeded his expectations.

But just as the thought settled in his mind...

His expression slowly changed.

The faint smirk on his face faded.

Instead, his brows drew together slightly.

A frown formed.

’I’m still sensing it...’ he thought.

The strange sensation from earlier hadn’t disappeared.

That subtle pull.

That faint tug on his spirit.

It was still there.

Noah closed his eyes again.

Immediately, he extended his senses outward.

The invisible awareness spread through the surrounding forest once more.

The thick mana in this area was still clearly present.

But as he focused more carefully, he noticed something interesting.

The concentration of mana directly around him had reduced slightly.

The difference wasn’t massive.

But it was noticeable.

Noah already understood the reason.

It was because he had absorbed most of the mana in this immediate area earlier.

The rich energy that once surrounded the tree had been drawn into his body.

But nature had a way of balancing itself.

Even now, he could feel the mana in the surrounding forest slowly drifting back toward this spot.

Like invisible currents flowing through the air.

The energy was gradually gathering here again.

Replenishing what had been taken.

Yet as Noah continued observing the flow of mana more carefully...

He noticed something else.

Something strange.

There was another direction where the mana seemed to be gathering.

A subtle current that could easily be missed if one didn’t observe carefully.

The energy drifting through the forest wasn’t only flowing back toward the tree’s surroundings.

Part of it was moving somewhere else.

Noah’s eyes snapped open.

The moment they did, his gaze immediately dropped from the thick branch he sat on, scanning the ground below the towering tree.

’The mana’s flowing... to the bottom of the tree?’

For a brief second, all he saw were patches of uneven grass swaying gently with the wind.

Nothing unusual, and just ordinary forest ground.

But Noah’s expression didn’t relax.

If anything, the sharpness in his eyes only deepened.

Because while his physical sight revealed nothing out of the ordinary, his senses were telling him something completely different.

He could feel the subtle mana flowing down.

Right around the roots of the tree he had been sitting on.

Noah stared down at the ground silently for a moment.

Then his body moved.

Tiny sparks of lightning suddenly crackled around his legs.

The lightning quickly shaped into a crude boot, its edges rough and jagged.

Without wasting another second, Noah pushed off the branch.

His body dropped from the tree.

The lightning boots flared briefly as he descended.

Thud!

He landed softly on the ground below.

The moment his feet touched the earth, the lightning surrounding them flickered then completely vanished.

The forest returned to silence.

Noah straightened slightly before immediately lowering himself again.

He bent down, placing one hand flat against the ground near the thick root of the massive tree.

The soil was cool, and slightly damp.

But that wasn’t what he focused on.

The moment his palm touched the earth, his senses spread outward again.

And this time—

The feeling became clearer.

His eyes narrowed.

’I was right...’ he thought. ’The connection indeed feels stronger here!’

The strange pulling sensation he had been sensing earlier...

It was definitely coming from somewhere beneath this very spot.

Noah slowly lifted his hand from the ground.

Then he reached into his clothes and brought out the small knife he carried with him.

Without hesitation, Noah plunged the knife into the soil.

Scrrk!

The blade scraped against the ground as he began clearing away the grass covering the surface.

The knife wasn’t sharp enough to slice cleanly through the earth.

But with his current physical attributes, even a dull blade could become an effective digging tool.

He forced the knife deeper into the soil, using it to loosen the dirt before scooping it aside with his hands.

They slowly piled beside the hole he was creating.

Minute after minute passed as Noah continued digging.

The hole slowly grew deeper.

His movements remained steady.

Because the deeper he dug...

The stronger that strange sensation became.

Something was indeed down there.

Noah pushed the knife down once again.

Then—

Clink.

The blade struck something solid.

Noah froze for a moment.

Then his eyes widened slightly.

His grip on the knife tightened as excitement flickered through his gaze.

Inside his mind, a thought surfaced immediately.

’I’m sure of it now...’ he thought. ’That weird feeling is coming from whatever this is!’

His digging immediately became faster, and in no time, the solid object beneath the ground slowly began revealing itself.

The surface was smooth, almost unnaturally so.

He dug around it more carefully now, clearing away the surrounding dirt piece by piece.

Eventually—

The object finally emerged fully from the soil.

Noah stared at it.

Resting within the hole he had dug was a perfectly round sphere around the side of an apple. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

Its surface was completely black, and seemed to absorb the light around it.

Even with bits of soil clinging to its surface, the sphere somehow looked... unnatural.

Noah slowly reached forward, brushing away the remaining dirt.

The moment his fingers touched it—

That strange sensation he had been feeling earlier suddenly intensified.

His brows slowly furrowed.

’What the hell...’ he thought, his gaze fixed on the strange object. ’...is this?’