2 The System

A place like a vacuum, darkness without any touch of light, a bloody sky and a dim atmosphere, a deserted world where no one exists.

Yet at this moment, a figure of a young man in a state of unconscious popped out from nowhere. His body was smoking and there was also a roasted fragrance lingering in him, he smelled like an over grilled chicken.

Because he was unconscious, he was lying on the reddish sand without any protection from dirt.

Am...

Suddenly, the young man's hand-stretched wide. Like a normal person who was just walking up, he first stretched both hands before he lazily opened his eyes. The boredom was there as he looked around the place where he was. After looking for a few seconds, he closed his eyes and intended to sleep again. Yet after a while, he suddenly snapped and panicked appeared in his face, from a nonchalant protagonist, he turned into something like a little girl who just saw a ghost without any warning. Although he doesn't want to show his scarred face, he can not help it as he was the type of person who was scared of the unknown the most. Although he was known as a powerful person he was at the end of the day a teenager...

The panic in his face was visible and you can also see his leg trembling in fear. His whole body hastily turned drenched in sweat and his smell turned sour.

A sense of helplessness and fear gave birth in his heart that you can feel within his watery and trembling eyes. He seemed no idea where he was currently or why he was in this place where looked like an underworld.

Amidst his helplessness, a voice suddenly rang in the whole world that almost caused him to explode in a startle. It was an unexpected one.

[Host has been summoned, the heavenly palace system are asking permission for the system to be part of the host]

[Please state your decision in 10-9,8,7,6]

"What the heck even are you?! " Seeing the number kept counting down, the first thought -because of his mind was in mess-  entered in him was, it was a bomb and would explode once it hit the zero. He hastily interrupted the voice that was counting down with a question.

Hopefully, the voice also wasn't an unreasonable one, when the question was yelled, the countdown stopped and it began to explain, [After the great war or the waste war, the heavenly plain was severely destroyed and may not be able to build or operate for a long period. The heavenly palace isn't able to do its job for a time being. The heaven needed somebody's help as the proxy of the palace.]

'Mm? Does that mean I have to do what they should do? '

The young man was startled and at the same time a bit excited. Just thinking of himself having a power like a god or immortal, a touch of greediness and excitement built-in within his heart. Although the voice didn't emphasize what he needed to do, he wanted to agree as soon as possible. That was the heavenly palace, a mythical place, and legend, how could he let it slip when it was already within his grasp? This was a once-in-a-lifetime offer. On another side, if he took the offer down, he doesn't know what would go to happen to him if he stayed on the earth where his power was too strong where no one could defeat him anymore, which also causing his power to feel stagnant for being unused. Once he disagreed, he might not long after go to the broken heaven or broken underground, it depends on his carma and merit. Might as well do what the system wanted to, to have another chance or maybe a better future ahead of me. It doesn't seem that difficult what the system wanted him to do. But of course, to make me sure that I have nothing to lose or to regret shortly might as well ask while the voice was here to explain.

*Ahem* The Young Man first cleared his dry mouth, after a while of summarizing his words, he finally opened his lips and asked, " Then you~ whatever you are, what do you want me to do? " To make things easier he also added his own opinion, "Do you want me to help you build the heavenly palace and connect it with the earth plain once again? " The Young Man wasn't sure about his own guess, yet of course, guess was a guess, of course, it wasn't a hundred percent accurate. And also, it was a bit difficult than he really expecting. He just blurted some random nonsense.

Fortunately, the system wasn't that cruel, it once again spoke and this time, it explained the Young Man's task, [You doesn't need to interfere with the trouble of the heavenly palace, really, but you would work with the heaven itself. The lightning tribulators died when the waste war occurred. The true problem was, the number of humans who were cultivating immortality surging once again after hundreds of years, yet no tribulators were there to give them a tribulation and grant them a bit of difficulty on their breakthrough -which was set by heaven-. If this mess continued, the balance of the world would be destroyed sooner or later, thus, heaven only wanted you to work as a tribulation, you would be responsible for making the way of the cultivators towards the power and for making it hard for them to successfully make a breakthrough. You will be responsible for performing tribulations and help the heaven from giving restriction to cultivators until the heavenly palace once again stand up]

Haha*

"Cool! "

He only felt a bang in his head and a bit unbelievable. Easier than he had thought. He thought he would be assigned to be a mortal in the land and take care of the humans by killing the villains. Turned out he just needed to command the thunder and strike the cultivators at their head.

"For real? That's what I needed to do? "

The Young Man asked again. Although he heard it himself, it was a bit difficult to believe what the voice stated. He cannot help but ask for another confirmation.

[Yap. That's it]

Heard the confirmation, the Young Man only felt like his soul was bout to fade in joy, he wanted to fly to heaven and go there on his initiative. This job was way better than he had expected. This was also way better than being a cultivator himself where he needed to defy heaven's will and Gods' just to obtain power. If he can play with the cultivators, that really was a good idea. 'I think I want to smell something like fried meat. My fragrance is a bit off, but I don't know what burnt cultivators smell like'

'Cultivators shit, get ready for your tribulation! Haha! ' He cannot help but let his mind goes wild and thought too many fantasies.

Fun and cool, that was what words entered his mind. He has the rule of heaven and the ability to give a punishment to the cultivators, nothing was better than being a retributor.

Think about others having a dream to become a cultivator, while on my side, I'm beating them. Haha

'If I can become something like that, It was worth it! ... At least it shouldn't be as boring as the earth! '

A/N:

Retributor came from the word retribution, yet because I wanted to use it as the one performing the retribution (Just like reincarnation into reincarnation) I turned it into retributor.

Thanks for understanding and God bless...