[Quest 4: Praise the Fool]
[Radhaan is approaching the Host's location. Quest 4 triggered. Choose wisely.]
The familar system voice felt like the voice of a close friend who you meet once every year.
Johan's pupils dialated to the limit, he already knew that Leor had their location, but learning that his plan failed so fast? Starting the new life, disguising themselves, now Radhaan himself was coming…
'Does he have some kind of clarevoyance ability or something?' an invisible frown manifasted on his face. There were many people in Empire with those kinds of ability, with his system, he just has to befriend them.
Melodis had already flowen out of Johan's body, entering Kirin's. Trying to keep Kirin's soul at Limbo by entering her body, and grabbing her soul before it passed in afterlife..
The blue sphere glowed violently on the burnt, destroying and devouring everything around it, but suddenly it calmed down, shrinking to the size of a palm.
Sebastian cautiously closed in, and carefully picked up the energy the dense mass of energy.
Johan removed a saphire blue ring from his middle finger, and tosssed it towards Sebastian without much thought.
Sebastian instantly caught it, shoved the mass of energy in the diamond ring's blue gem.
For a while, the ring just floated in air, trembling like it could explode any moment.
'It's like a pokeball, when thrown on a pokemon…" Johan mused to himself.
Sebastian silently grabbed the floating ring, and put it in his black pants pocket carefully.
Johan turned his gaze back to the white text on the blue screen—
[Option 1. Let Radhaan wipe out everyone present and take the God tree with him (Rewards:300 milllion points, and The reincarnator card)
(The reincarnator card: Allows its user to reincarnate on this planet in either past, present, or future as a completly new fetus maintaining the user's current powers, with me still acompanying.)
'What the…' his whole body shook violentely just after reading the first choice, this was too good, and a perfect choice for any transmigrator.
300 million points, and going back in any timeperiod, like a time even before the creator was born, or even being born as creator's child…
It simply meant unimaginable power, and full control on the life—a new start, a third chance, with much better odds at survival.
'The 100000 spins rewards were so good, what will be it like for 1 million points, or even 100 million…' tempetation was strong, but he instantly crossed it out.
First it meant, just watch Kirin, and Sebastian die, leaving everything his heart was building attachment to, and most of all, leaving his fellow transmigrator free to do anything in this world. It would be just dumb.
And it also sounded very boring, there was no thrill… just raising your level completely alone, with the pain that he abandoned everything he begun to care about.
'No! Definitely No." Johan took a deep breath, calming his nerves.
The first choice bieng so enticing only made his heart tremble in fear towards future, if maybe the system gave something like going back to your old world, he could actually fall for it.
[Option 2: Kill Radhaan without assistance]
(Rewards: 1 million points)
This too, was out.
Sure, he felt a ridiculous surge of power after devouring Olivia's arm. But defeating Radhaan? A man who could literally wrestle with Gods?
It was suicide.
Also… just 1 million points? This was Radhaan! The system was being stingy as hell.
[Option 3: Escape harmfree with Kirin and Sebastian (Rewards: The Maskless sin)
(The Maskless sin: Allows it's user to change his or others appearence to genetic levels, required if the host would like to continue to run like cowards.)
Johan's mouth twitched, but he quickly schooled his expression.
[Option 4: Molest Marino violently (Rewards: 500,000 points)
Johan turned his gaze towards Marino's wrinkled face, heavy snot running from his old nose with every breath he took.
He took a deep breath.
He moved his finger, pressing a button on the blue screen—
[Option Three: Choice Confirmed!!]
Gold coins started falling on the screen. An epic war drum beat playing loudly in the background.
'You literally just gave me one option I could choose from…' Johan mumbled a complaint to the system before walking up to Kirin on the ground.
Abandon everything you care about, fight a God, or Molest poor Marino… only sane option left was the third one.
Rustle! Rustle!
Cold wind hit their faces. The atmosphere becoming tense.
Kirin's body glimmered violently with Melodis's flames, brightening the dark sky.
Johan crouched down beside her, staring closely at her dry red lips, and skin tearing apart.
He had fully recreated the organs of the body, stitched the donut hole in her stomach, only the blood she lost was a minor problem, but right now it didn't matter much—
She had died, without soul, the gentle, perfectly healthy body was just a meatsack.
Sebastian cautiously approached Johan, his blue lips curled in an awkward smile, as if approaching an autistic child.
"Master… is everything… alright?" the words escaped his lips on their own, which he immediately regretted noticing the serious expression on Johan's face.
"Of course, I will definitely save Kirin, don't worry!" Johan, thinking Sebastian was just worried about Kirin said nonchalantly with firm eyes, then remembering something, he continued
"Oh, and tie that guy up." pointing a finger towards shivering Marino, his voice cracked a little, "And keep an eye on the area…" not stating outright that Radhaan was coming.
Ofcourse he didn't tie Marino as to keep him as a backup choice if everything fails, so he could earn atleast 500000 points… right?
Sebastian whipping the sweat forming off his forehead, nodded instinctively,
"Master… I know a few therapists here and there, tell me if you need help… it's not shameful, I fully support you!" mumbling the words, he instantly flew towards the Marino trying to crawl away, and escape.
Johan froze, he remembered the fact that he just ate an arm of a young woman who used to 'serve' him.
His mouth twitched, really thinking about the therapists offer.
Taking a deep breath, he focused inside his body.
Whisss! Whisss!
His eyes shut open, his breathing ragged as if the air suddenly got heavier.
'What the hell was that…" he panted hard on the ground, clutching the burnt ground so hard his finger began to suffer from burns, but it was nothing compare to what he just saw—
Thousands and thousands of blood vessles, nerves, organs, and weird lumps of flesh mutilating into slimmy goo and white puss, with some transforing into hideous creatures made of rotten flesh.
Ugggghhhh!
White vomit rushed straight from his stomach, getting to the edge of his mouth, but he suppressed it. Swallowing all of it back with an ugly face.
Hah! Hah!
'I am underastimnating the God tree way too much! It's all Melodis' fault! Bitch tree my ass!' his throat cracked from swallowing the slimy liquid, he even felt something sharp cut against the inner walls of his throat; probably Olivia's nails.
He finally remembered; God tree was the manifastation of the planet. Like how humans aether abilities are manifestation of their souls, the God tree is the manifestation of the earth's will, energy, and life force.
In other words, he was trying to digest a planet, without trying to being corrupted by it.
Suddenly he felt a strange warmth inside his body, like he just drank a perfectly hot coffee in winter.
He turned his head downwards, bright red liquid gushed out from kirin's nose, mouth, and ear canals, entering Johan's body through his skin.
'Melodis…' he sighed, feeling grateful to the new parrot friend he made. Focusing back on his breath.
Inhale… Exhale… Inhale
His stomach growled like he just ate a million extra large pizzas, his organs moved violently as if concious, and trying to escape from his throat, making him swallow some parts of his lungs that he felt at the back of his tongue.
[Harbringer of life: level up available]
Johan's eyes widened, his eyes moving back to the blue screen. He eagerly pressed the button, praising the system for convenience.
But—
"AHHHH"
A roar, straight from the throat. His stomach as if stabbed with thousands of spears over and over again, then it was set on fire.
His head felt heavy, overloaded with pain.
"Stoppp!" he tried to stop it, but stopped mid sentence.
He bit his lips hard, blood pooling from them—covering his chin. His jaw trembled, but he clenched it hard.
It only had been just a few seconds, but to Johan time seemed to be slowed down, it felt like a thousand years have passed, and he was about to die, but… it stopped—
Ha! Ha!
He greedily swallowed air, trying to gain his senses back.
*Ding!
[Harbringer of life upgraded]
[Echos 77 upgraded]
[Spirit pact upgraded]
[Perfect Clone upgraded]
Tens of bells rang at the same time in his head, making the headache much worse, he felt like being shot at the head would be less painful.
Ha! Ha!
Slowly the pain subsided, as his blue eyes gained clarity. He rubbed his eyes, a maniacal grin slowly manifesting on his face.
'Status window… open!
[Status Window]
Name: Johan Von Matilda
Rank: Stage 0 (S+ class)
Occupation: Rotten Monarch
Title:
HP: 1200/1800
MP: 1700/3500
[Stats]
Strength: 4000
Stamina: 8000
Agility: 10000
Intelligence: 210
Sense: 20000
[Skills]
Passive Skill: Servant of Death, Aura of
Active Skills: Harbringer of life, Echos 77, Spirit pact, Perfect Clone
Johan's pupils constricted, he looked down at his hands in shock as they brightened with a pitch black aura, exuding a deadly pressure on everything in the surrounding, as if darkness itself was seeping from them, even darker than the slime on Olivia's corrupted form's body.
He clenched his hands, these were divine general level stats. From now on… he is a stage 0 sorcerer.
Sebastian sharply turned his head at the massive sudden changes in the Aether, only to find Johan.
His stomach twisted, a wild guess forming in his mind.
'Is master a devil worshipper!?" That's the only thing that could make sense, only by worshipping those Godly Devils in Mythology could one gain such power so fast.
Sebastian, as any other normal person, he didn't knew either about the corruption, or the God tree.
He still vividly remembers the pressure he felt when Johan released aura of Death in the cortroom, but it was not violent atleast, but this time the raw energy felt like it was trying to consume him.
Just as he was about to descend to Johan on the ground to check on him, his eyes widened—
A blinding flash of dark purple lightning lit up the sky—at first glance, it looked like ordinary lightning. But there were no clouds, no storm, and instead of fading after a moment, the light surged toward them like a spear of wrath.
Sebastian knew what this power was…
Radhaan was here!
A.N.= This was a 2000 words chapter, my usual was 1000. You noticed it right? My ideal is two 2000 words chapter daily, I love reading and writing long chapters! Thoughts? (Burnout goes brrrrr)
And writing this chapter was very hard, took me longer than expected, sorry for the delay :)