Chapter 72: Daily Reminder

The incident of the Lightning Sage's death 

shook the Wayne Kingdom. He had been the pillar supporting the Royal Family. One man like him had a very high value and was the biggest pillar that held the Royal Family's power over the Wayne Kingdom.

His death was like opening the cage of the hungry wolves all around the Kingdom. Now everyone would want to rule this place. Hell, even the Heavenly Demon Sect and its Leader might start moving. 

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( Alex POV )

875,688… that's how many possibilities I could think of how this whole decision to mine will end up affecting me and the world. And 79,000 of those include my death in one way or another. It's inevitable since I knew myself best, I also knew how to best kill me.

Still, though, this world had people who could read the future. So they can probably make a good trap that would kill me no matter what.

Plus they could use the Mind Flayers, which would suck out all of my power till I turned back to a Level 1 Strength. Hell, getting a Mind Flayer wouldn't be that hard at this time, as long as someone had a way to go to the Demon Continent. They were quite common there.

What a scary world indeed. I need more power to survive. One week had passed since I killed the Lightning Sage. I had flayed his daughter and wife and crucified them in the front of Sword Mountain.

Of course, I was gentle with them and got rid of their sense of pain. After all, them feeling pain would be needless, I just wanted to send a message, not torture people. I don't enjoy doing things like this.

Still though, this week Lily hasn't contacted me at all. Is she dead? Unlikely, her guardian wouldn't let her die so easily. Meaning that she had betrayed me, huh. Well, I saw that coming before I even went into my three-year hibernation, where I spent around three hundred years in my Mind Palace to create my Legendary Spell.

Still though, Lily knows that betraying me would have consequences. After all, I need to set an example that if people betray me, then they wouldn't have a good ending.

Maybe torture? No, that would be too soft, I will need to have her be mentally broken before physically torturing her. Physical torture was so the others could be intimidated. After all, a body could only handle so much before it broke down. But the mind was different, I could torture someone for a thousand years in there and their body wouldn't die at all, even though the pain would be real.

Anyway, the Sect Buildings have been repaired thanks to some Rank 4 Spells and Golems I created. Though the Sword Mountain was as empty as a ghost town.

Still though-

"The time for the test has come," a voice whispered in my ear.

This was the Disease Hell's Creature I had summoned. We made a deal, he can test me mentally every day, and once I slip up he would be free to take over my body. But as long as I resisted it, then I would be able to use its power for another day. 

The deal if the course was only completed because I offered a bunch of my lifespan too. This was the strongest energy in this world, life, sacrificing that gave people strong power. It allowed me to complete the deal with a Disease Hell's Creature. 

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Something that only appeared in myths, at full power this Hell's Creature had the ability to even affect the Divine Realms. Even Avatars of Gods wouldn't dare attack me or their energy would be infected by Disease that could potentially kill them.

The best victories are those that there was no need to fight for. Gods are all high and mighty, at least they like to appear so, but if anyone with malicious intent got close to me then they would die, whether they were Gods or Immortals. That was the game me and thus Hell's Creature of Disease was playing. It was a reverse version of Tag, no one could touch me if they had negative intentions.

This body won't live for over twenty years of age and I will no longer be able to bear children. But it was a good deal, after all, this Hell's Creature had no idea what I knew of its kind. There were many ways to get rid of a contract, though most are a pain to do so since it always required heavy sacrifice. Even giving my life wouldn't break this deal that we have.

A Hell's Creature's power was absolute though, so no matter who. If they had negative intentions and hit close to me, then they would die. This was also a very convenient tool that will allow me to tell who had malicious intent toward me. 

My current plans have over a million alternatives at the moment. Yet all of them could fail if someone like Camilla decided to interfere. She wasn't dumb, her intelligence matched mine or even surpassed it. Plus I highly suspect that one of the vampires had the ability to see the future. 

"Torture will start now." Said the Hell's Creature, its voice as robotic as always.

Fwosh!!

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It felt like I was hit by a wave, and when I came to. Around me was a shabby apartment, no tables or furniture, only a mattress on the ground. On it laid a young woman with dark hair and blue eyes.

She looked at me. "Brother, what should we do? We have no money and both of our savings barely cover the apartment for a month. Sorry… I got us into this…"

I looked at her and could see my sister, dark hair and blue eyes. A very beautiful combination, people like this would almost always stand out in a crowd and be considered beautiful.

The genetic lottery had us blessed. *sigh* What a shame that by then we had already started playing our 'games'. It started as something innocent. A kissing practice, and then it evolved into us having sex regularly.

By the time we knew what we were doing, we no longer could stop. No... that's a lie, by then neither of us wanted to stop. 

What a stupid hope we had. Our lives were too perfect, we had good parents who genuinely cared for us, a little sister we could dote on and even our grades were amazing. In school we were popular in both sports and studies, our futures were bright. But then this happened, what a bother. 

"Andrew… what should we do?" She asked again, looking at me with despair. Her reaction was so perfectly copied that anyone could mistake this for the real world.

Also being called Andrew… It feels so nostalgic. "Oy, Jessica, wanna go and get some dinner?"

I knew that thinking of this as an illusion and trying to break it was useless. That wouldn't release me from this, no, instead I had to get a happy ending on this.

Or at least something along those lines, the rules were very shallow. Except that raw power wouldn't help me with anything in here. Already I have played eight games, each of them at a key point in life. Multiple times I could see how I made my mistakes.

Still, every time I made the same mistakes in this world too. Why? Because there wasn't anything I regretted. Was laying with my sister wrong? Welp, who decided what was wrong with what we did with our lives? I don't care what other people thought.

Incest? So what? I never cared about such things. Though even I couldn't tell if I loved my sister truthfully in a romantic way or if it was all lust for her physical appearance. Sure, the past me would say that he had loved her with all his heart and even would give his life for her… but would I? Now looking back at it, all people say that, but when the time comes. 

Could I love my sister if her body burned and she was disfigured? Sure, as a sister I would love and support her. But would I still love her romantically, would I be willing to spend the rest of my life with a disfigured monster-looking sister?

Ha, that's easy to answer. Obviously not, so in the end, I was only attracted to my sister due to her beauty and excitement of eating the forbidden fruit.

Welp, I just need to go on a date with my dear sister and make her happy the-... wait… this isn't right. Something is wrong…

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A/N: This is a flushed-down version of Alex's thoughts. Though in the back of his mind, there were thousands of calculations going on. Also, he knows this is a fake world, so he won't get emotional for no reason. 

He will think about his deepest secrets and fears because he doesn't see them as his weakness anymore. Plus, Alex isn't someone who will leave himself emotionally vulnerable, especially in a world like this. 

P.S: Alex's backstory is a little messed up, and it will be revealed in intervals along the story. Not in a clump of chapters all mushed together.

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