Chapter 16- Rewards And Pain

-Week 2, Day 13/Saturday, Mayort City-

-Time: 8:34 P.M.-

Inside a rather large apartment with a living room, a kitchen, and 3 bedrooms, there were two young people sitting on one of the 3 grey couches in the living room. Aside from them, there was a dining table behind the couches and front of it.

On a coffee table in the middle of the three couches, there were five items.

The two unoccupied single couches out of the three, are perpendicular to the large four-seat one.

"So, this is a reward from your inheritance… Honestly, you're way too lucky to have found such a godly fortunate. I'm happy for you… Someone like you really deserves it... But I'm not really sure you should give me any of these things… You could make good money selling them, instead… It's not like I did anything to deserve this from you yet." After hearing Nivril's lie of an explanation, Sasha rejected the notion of deserving to take any of it, as she didn't believe she earned it at all.

"As you just said, this was a stroke of luck for me, so I'm no better. Just take the ring, the sutra book, the grey pill, and the quarter stuff, since you can't really use the other things.

"You have to remember you're my wife and if anything were to happen to you… I would blame myself regardless of the circumstances, so at least let me feel a bit better and safer by allowing me to spoil you with a few extra resources on your path. Don't worry, if you really want to pay me back that bad, just let me pound every cents worth out of you, later when we have some fun." Nivril responded with a smile and using his right hand, pulled her close by her waist, hugging her.

"Fine… no butt stuff though!… You can have the rest of me though. Evil hubby… buying off your wife's body with presents! Just bringing me my chocolate and giving me attention would have been enough." Shasha blushed deeply, her pinkish-red hair glistening under the moonlight, making her red eyes feel as deep as the starry sky.

To Nivril it felt as if he was looking at a moon goddess who had yet to consume both pills of immortality, one who would instead be able to share one with her beloved, Gods together instead of a mortal yearning for a goddess who once cried for him.

"You've always been like a red moon… rather rare, but you've come to me enough times, that I almost forgot how special you are… beautiful yet overlooked. Though, I believe that was my luck since no one noticed until I already had you with me." Nivril opened his mouth expressing what he saw.

"What are you saying?! God! I did not know you were so cheesy! You lovable goof! You're such a dork! Awwww!" Sasha punched Nivril's shoulder before hugging him tight with a wide smile.

"Don't ask me... The words just left my mouth… it was bad. Anyway, just take my gifts." Nivril replied after cringing.

"I'll take them… except the quarterstaff… mine is not a normal one…. It's a dual whip quarterstaff, so… this one isn't for me, but I think it would be nice to have you use it." Sasha responded.

"Fine… but you'll have to teach me how to use it." Nivril nodded.

Following that, Sasha picked up the grey pill and ate it. Then grabbed the book, which turned into a tattoo on the cover symbol on her hand.

Right after, she handed the ring to Nivril and said. "Put it on my hand."

Nivril took it and put it on her left hand ring finger.

Then as he did so, a floating screens popped up in front of him.

[Harem ring(Harem Empress Ring): If there is a woman the Lust Ruler whiches to protect and keep by his side the most, it is the wielder of this ring, she's the one true wife, standing above all the others. This ring is proof of such and gives her authority over the #€£¥£$&$@$, other users of harem rings, and finally it gives her 9 extra lives. Once a day take the user to the Lust Ruler.

Rank: Z(Law)

Type: Lust Marriage Ring

Quality: Peak-Tier

State: Normal, Active

•Perks:

Extra Lives Left: 9

#€£¥£$&$@$ Authority

Harem Empress Ring Command

Lust Ruler Transportation(Once Per Day)

Sexual Capacity Enhancement]

(It's great… I hope she always keeps it on…) Nivril was happy with the effects as he picked up the quarterstaff and the white pill.

[Sun Phoenix Bloodline Pill(Yang Type): Among the various species out in Nullus, there is a subspecies of Phoenix that gets its powers from stars, which they feed off and eventually consume to become whole. Their clan resides on the 7th plane/layer, Dunenthron, of this Reality, Nullus, as a High-tier clan.

They can produce and control their own flames precisely, turn into full Phoenix form, and fly in that form as well as mold their bodies to their desires being able to become as thin as 1cm in that state. Consuming this pill will allow a male to become one of them in blood.

Rank: C(Super Rare/SR)

Type: Bloodline Cultivation Pill

Quality: High-Tier

State: Normal, Active

•Perks:

Personal Flame Control

Sun Phoenix Form

Flame Creature Malleability

Intense Flame Light

Sun Flames]

[Sea Dragon King Quarterstaff: A weapon that used to belong to an extremely powerful celestial, one of the Sea Dragon Kings, 533rd Sea Dragon King, Ramus Ishu, The Disaster Of 3 Planes. The staff is capable of extending from the earth to the moon or shrinking to the size of a penny.

Rumors say that a scale of the Sea Dragon King was used in its making together with high-tier energy stones. It was apparently stolen from him by the 68th Lust Ruler, Darkios D. Lust, The Enchanter Of Multiverses. As a result of that, it was cursed and has been made useless and powerless ever since.

Rank: I(Inferior) | (True rank: XX(Phantasm))

Type: Bladed Blunt Weapon- Quarterstaff

Quality: Upper-Tier

State: Sealed, Active

Attributes:

Attack- 60

Durability- 100/100

Maintenance- 100/100

Perks:

Extension

Shrinking

Energy Tolerance

Water Attribute/Affinity

Energy Counter]

(System, wasn't there only one Lust Ruler?) Nivril questioned.

As he was distracted by that, Sasha got up from the sofa holding onto her stomach, and began slowly making her way to the bathroom.

[Report. No. There can only be one Lust Ruler at a time, but there have been 68 Lust Rulers throughout all of time and space, so you would become the 69th Lust Ruler if you became one. While the system and all the inheritance you can get is a combination of things left behind by them all, it was mainly organized by The 68th, for whoever became his successor.]

(I see… so I'll actually be the 69th… That's quite appropriate for someone like me… always too late to make history… then again, I don't remember what I did in my second life, so it might have been glorious… but who am I kidding? Knowing myself, I probably got carried by someone powerful… However, this time I'll rise my own way to the top as much as I can.) Nivril sighed a bit surprised by this information even though he should have expected something like this.

His thoughts about his past intensified and memories of the betrayal that brought him down, everything flashing in his mind. Even though there was still the huge blank of time he spent on his second life missing, it all still led to what happened when he acquired the system and what the school ruffians did to him, only making him boil further as his urge for revenge got stronger, unfortunately, he had a plan and could not allow his feelings to ruin it, hence why he kept his distance from them until he was ready.

Meanwhile, in the bathroom, Sasha was going through a similar process to the one Nivril had experienced when his body was optimized, her body ripping and tearing apart only for it to slowly but surely reconstruct into a proper body. It was painful, slow, worrying, and scary… she couldn't keep herself together through it, even so, she refused to shout or scream in pain, keeping it in.

At that time, without putting too much thought into it, Nivril consumed the white pill to distract himself from his mind, and only then did he realize that Sasha was not there, which made him get up to start looking for her, and quickly he found his way the bathroom, knocking on the door to no response.

Seeing as that was the case, Nivril backed up and was ready to force it open with a kick, going in and doing just that, pushing his leg against it!

"Sasha! Are you there?" Nivril called out to her.

However at the last minute, the door opened Nivril fumbled himself around, and fell to the ground hitting the wall after slipping on some gluey sticky substance, before he noticed the very strong stench in the room and immediately understood what was going on. It was just like when his body was optimized, she was shedding her impurities and now he had accidentally lost his shoe, which got glued onto the sticky impurities on the ground making him slip off it.

A sigh of relief left his mouth as he was calm knowing that she was fine, whether the shoe was ruined or whatever else, he was not bothered by it at all. It was at the time when he calmed down that he remembered he could have just used the system's harem management function to make sure she was okay, and this was a bit of an overreaction from him, but he didn't regret it even for a second. To him, the fact it happened just proved he wasn't dead inside quite yet and he wasn't planning on allowing that to actually happen.

"Hubby?!… Are you ok?!" Sasha ran to him to check up as soon as she saw him fall, though she herself didn't all too great being covered in impurities and hunched over because of the incessant grueling body pains.

"I'm fine… just glad to see you." Nivril got up and began rushing outside going around the small pond of impurities with his shoe in the middle, before closing the door behind himself with a hurried movement carried by the slight embarrassment of his performance.

He began waiting until he started feeling funny, and got up before going to another bathroom, taking off all his clothes and letting the pain take him as he could feel himself being axed down to his most basic structure and form, like some sort of severance of his very atoms, followed by the protons, elections , and neutrons held together by the quarks inside them down to the oh so theoretical strings playing the binary code of his whole existence! Everything was broken down and rematched like he was no longer him, but a superior copy of what he used to be similar to a robot of himself or a perfect clone often seen in the fiction side of media.

(So much! So much! Please stop! I'm… God! I want to die! But I can't! Stay! Stay! Hold on!) Nivril forced himself to handle it.

The pain and remodeling did not stop and went further and further and further! A vicious cycle of break and build! Break and build! Nothing seemed like it could stop this and even Nivril questioned if he wasn't fully broken with no repair at this point, but he handed on, pushing through what could only be considered a personal hell, a mockery of the fact he was still alive at all.

(No! No more! I'm tired! I'm so tired! Please just kill me already! If you're going to! Just do it! Cause I refuse to let myself die!) Nivril pulled through.

Over, and over, and over, and over again!

The Pain soon became the only state of being, Nivril was aware of shutting down for all other senses and perceptions like he was being engulfed by the flames of eternal damnation in purgatory, making him nothing but a sinner pushed for whatever deeds were deemed sins in the eyes of the all-powerful one.

(Hahahahaha! What am I? What's my name?… Hahaha!!! WHATS MY NAME?!… no… no… What is a name?) His mind was beyond confused and his thought were getting more gibberishy every second.

Every time, it felt like he had experienced the worst, it surprised him with just that, even more, and it was never enough his body was but a toy being ripped apart by children playing aggressively with no care or worry whatsoever.

(End me! Love me! HaHahaha hah!….

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Meanwhile, Sasha came into the bathroom to check on him once again.

"Are you sure, there's nothing I can do?!" Sasha asked.

"No! Just let me focus on keeping him stable… this fool! Who the hell told him to just eat that pill?! It was clearly too potent for him?! What was that holographic b*tch doing instead of warning him?!" Ishmaya was mad as she tried to focus on not just letting him die, though unfortunately, she couldn't heal him she could at least do this much.

"… Ok… just tell me once I can clean him and take him to the room… I'll call Dramil, they will both get mad at me if I don't…" Sasha nodded weakly her eyes full of worry as she left the bathroom.

On that day, the state of Nivril Mortalis was that of existing between life and death. A simple mistake derived from emotions and distraction was about to end his journey.