Chapter 8: Chapter 8 Answering with nonsense
'little sister's system'
|Name:Deva Yelena Race:Human Lv:05 Class:None Strength:50^ Dexterity:51^ Defense:85^ Magic:61^ Charm:96^...
Titles:
Ambitious heart(Increases defense by 40 and by 10 all other stats.Increases one's all companions' stats by 10...|
|Name:Velena Race:Human Class:Assasin Lv:05 Strength:40^ Dexterity:70^ Defense:45^ Magic:25^ Charm:65^...|
|Name:Ira Race:Ice elemental Class:Mage Lv:05 Strenght:25^ Dexterity:40^ Defense:30^ Magic:85^ Charm:80^...|
Since every level up you gain 5 attribute points to freely alocate them in your status,with these two titles alone it seems I leveled up by 34 times while the other two by 20 times,isn't this too overpowered?Let's not think too much about it.Since it seems there's no level cap meaning I can find an enemy with a level higher than a hundred,a thousand or maybe even a million.
Ah.Just by thinking about it makes me excited,giving shivers to my body.Ah,I want to find one and fight it to death.I wan-
[Find the room of the trial of Meekness and Wrath.And pass it.]
"Oh,we've get stronger again without doing anything at all.Deva,I'm going,see you later."
"Ah!Wait a moment,Velena.I have something for you",I hand her Kind and Envious from my bag."Here."
"This!Is for me?Only for me?"She beams glancing between her new daggers and me.
"Eh...Yeah..."I scratch my neck embarassment, why I'm feeling like this...This is a strange sensation.Shaking off the feeling of my heart throbbing, I continue to watch Velena's reaction and before I could even react I feel something or rather someone tightly hugging and crushing me.
"Oh!I'm so happy!Deva!Oh Deva!"
"I....mhpmm!can't...breathe....let go Velena!"
"Oh my,sorry.Well then I'm going.Heheheh."Finally releasing me I gasp for air.
"Haaah haaah...Well then Ira let's go."I glance at Ira who is now walking away,"Eh?Ira?Hey wait for me!"Jogging,I managed to catch up with Ira.
"Hey,Ira.What's wrong?"I asked while peeking at her expression.
"Hmph!"
Eh?Is she perhaps jealous.Heeh.So cute!Let's hug!
"H-hey!What are you doing!Let go!"
"Forgive me,okay?I'll give you one too,okay?So don't sulk like that,okay?"
"H-hmph!Y-you better give me that as soon as possible,you hear me?"
Hehe,Is this what teacher said about dere?
"Why are you smiling that much?"
"Because you're too cute!"
"C-c-cute!Auuu..."Her voice lowering in this point."You are even cuter..."The last part despite being a mumble I still heard it.
Haaah!The dere!Okay,okay.Let's stop teasing her,she might punch me to hide her embarassment.
After an hour...
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"Why?I gave a proper answer to Kindness while ignoring Envy yet...'barely passable'?What's this?..."The sound of heavy footsteps approaching the direction of the princess could be heard."Oh no.Nononono!Not this again!Troops!In formation!"
"N-no way!""Damn monsters""Alfred...I'll avenge you and tell your wife that-ugh!""Sebastian!No!"
Well then time for another plundering and trial.
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Before me instead of two statues there's only one and that is of a sheep.
[Mhh?Ah!A Candidate?Are you ready?]
"Yes." I respond back.
[Well then welcome in our test]
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[Those who act in meekness are praised yet bullied and those who are wrathful are condemned but feared.But!Gods cannot be bullied and condemned but only praised as they are feared from their wrath.Then what can we lowly d-do?Praise them and bow to them?!]
[Answer me.Candidate.]
This...I don't know at all...
"I've been thinking...by far you guys seems to dislike a bit the gods while at the same time know and fear their powers..."
[That cannot be changed.We are Sins and Virtues.Created by them at the same time rejected and only you,lowly beings, embraced us and accepted us.Now.Your answer?]
Damn.Er...Can't think anything...let's just improvise then.
"No,I won't bow to them and praise them..."
[That's goo-]
"But!"
"Wrath makes you a mindless predator while meekness a self-conscious prey.If sooner or later I have to fight them then I'll be like you,a wolf in a sheep's clothing.Faking being meek while ready to rebel and attack with anger those above the stars." Well,I totally made up the last part.I don't really know what to do about the gods.
[A good candidate indeed]
[Yup,a intesting one.Lying as if its part of her.She will be a good wolf in a sheep's clothing]
Eh...he found that I was lying in the last part.
The sheep er-the wolf sai-wait, that wasn't from its mouth then who...
I watch as the skin of a sheep detaches itself from the body of Wrath being a grey wolf and instead of lying on the floor, the skin rises giving a disgusting sight and revealing itself as Meekness.
[[Congratulation!You passed!9/10!]]
[One cannot lose themselves in wrath as they'll be only mindlessly chasing their targets]
[And one cannot remain meek as they'll accept to be hit without hitting back]
[[A being who will only provoke the gods or accept everything from the gods is doomed to eventually perish.Then instead be the one to strike at the right moment, feining meekness,hiding and controlling their wrath.]]
Eh?What's this?Nonono.You got it wrong,that wasn't-nevermind.Haah.Wait aren't my trials like too fast?Just in ten minutes I passed three trials.And the princess that is too slow to deal with the monsters and we have to wait for her to fall in our traps too.
[Haah,that was a good candidate.]
Nonono,I was lying you know?About the rebelling against the gods.
[Regrettably she seems not that interested about the gods.Oh,well as long as walks in her own path...]
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[Congratulations!You've passed the trial of Wrath and Meekness with 9/10 in being one of the first hence the title[A wolf in world of sheeps] and the rare treasure [Storage ring] will be given.The descriptions are the following:
[A wolf in a world of sheeps]:It is still not the time to slaughter,so for now conceal yourself amongs the sheeps.Increases strenght by 40 and all other stats by 10.Increases one's companions' stats by 10.
[Storage ring]:A rare treasure found in dungeons.It has the special property to store 2000 items.
Oh.It seems this time I'm not the first one this time.Either way the rewards are still good.Now time to-
[Find the room of trial of Diligence and Sloth.And pass it]
"Deva!"
Standing in front of me there's Ira intensely looking at me.The word 'expectation' was written all over her face,unfortunately.
"I'm sorry...maybe next time I'll be luckier.Ha,haha..."
"Muu...Hphm!" "Oh my,it seems that a certain someone did not receive a gift from Deva,my my..."
They glared at each other.So I made up my move,stepping between the two.
"Now,now.Velena do as usual and let's meet later,and you Ira just wait until I find something worthy of your caliber."
"Sure thing!See you later,Deva...my only and only darling..."
Something make me think that the last part that I didn't hear is something I should't pry on...
"N-now let's go Ira..."
"Yes!Heheh!"
She is sure is expectant for her gift...
Skipping the part of the exhausted,mad and suspicious,that something wrong is going on,the princess and her remaining party figths the monsters we have thrown to her.
[*yawn* Finally...]
[Are you ready?]
"Yes"
[[Welcome in our trial]]
This is what the statue of an old woman holding a libra and the sloth on her back,said.
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[[No matter who you are,what you are,where you are or how you are,you've atleast heard the gods' will:give birth, learn,pray for the gods,work for the gods. devote to the gods and die for the gods, by following their will you are guranteed to go to one of numerous heavens.Yet!Some of the diligent ones were thrown in the hells while some sloths were sent to the heavens.The virtue cast away while the sin welcomed.This is not fair.What are Diligence and Sloth for then?]]
"No...it is not fair."
"At the same time it isn't unfair as well."
"It is like a market."
[Mar...ket?] The old woman tilted her head in confusion.
"Yes.A market is place to trade.The vendor(gods) sells goods to the client(us), the client(us) have to pay with a currency that is following their will then after paying(living for the gods) we receive the goods(heaven) but sometimes the vendor(gods) is a scammer so the goods(heaven) is in reality a damaged one(hell),what they care in the end is that you gave yourself to them."
[[Mhh...a strange anology.Your answer?]]
"Whether Diligent or Lazy,the result will be always the same,in fact Diligence and Sloth, the Virtue and Sin of effort and mood, do not and cannot change anything at all.I'll be diligent or lazy whenever I want to."
[Diligence...?]
[Sloth...?]
The two asked at the other at the same time,seemingly at loss.
In fact I cannot blame them...I too find my own words nonsense,in fact I too would feel the-eh why are you creepily smiling at each other?
[[Congrats!10/10!The Virtue of Diligence and Sin of Sloth cannot in the end do anything at all.No matter how much you work hard or just give up,nothing will change,nothing will start and nothing will end.Because there wasn't in the first place a start meaning the inexistence of an end, and because there wasn't an end meaning the inexistence of a start.Despite just by existing they change something they at the same time do not.]]
That's really confusing...I don't even understand anymore...Is it that the subject too complicated?Or I am the one here that is dumb?Did my silver tongue break the two?Or did I say something so confusing that in the end I managed to make the confusion in enlightenment?Huh,who knows.Cannot even talk to them anymore as I'm being telepo-.
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[Congratulations!You managed to say something so confusing that even a Virtue and a Sin confused it as a unique mindset,but what's important is that they thought it as the perfect answer hence they gave you 10/10.You passed the trial of Diligence and Sloth in an eccentric and most likely not repeatable way hence the titles [The foolish Fool who fools the fools],[The fruit of laziness is sweet] and the unique item[Immediate End].Its descriptions are the following:
[The foolish Fool who fools the fools]:A legendary title of a Fool that managed to fool a foolish God to kill himself.Triples all the effects related to deception.
[The fruit of laziness is sweet]:Those who never work yet obtains the best results are the best/worst.Increases by 60 dexterity and by 5 all other stats.Increases all one's companions' stats by 10.
[Immediate End]The gift of the wife of a god to her disloyal husband,those who wear it might feel the end of their lives or maybe not.An azure ring that can grant the power to reduce the chants to an immediate end.]
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