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  Ding!

  [The {Sin of Gluttony} feels satisfied after havien so many delicious things and sources energy so far.]

  [The Curse that permaly decreases your Stats by 90% within the Fw: [Triple Shattered Meridian Physique (Legendary Grade)] has been reduced to 70%.]

  [Keep the {Sin of Gluttony} well fed, or the Curse might eventually worsen!]

  So far, Paul had never read about Fws ever beier over time; in fact, it was the norm to believe Fws and Traits would remain mostly the same forever. Although only a week has passed sihe game’s release, this is a on belief.

  Aside from those that chose Random Backgrounds and Avatar geion, people were able to choose which Traits and Fws they wanted acc to the background they wrote about their Avatar character.

  This made it possible for Pyers to min-max and create builds through this choice. Those that would dedicate pletely to physical strength would get Fws that decreased their Ara, something they wouldn’t use as much, and vice versa, for example.

  And Vd immediately felt the ges ohe Curse was lifted lightly; the fivers of his muscles, his bones’ weight, his blood flow, even the heat of his body, slowly came back; it was as if he had bee twenty pert stronger!

  “I feel so much better now; this is insane!” he celebrated. “Chris, you won’t believe this!”

  “Hm? What now?” Chris wondered, drinking the elixirs, and gaining some power himself.

  “The curse I had lifted a little bit!”

  “…PFFFF!” Chris ended up spitting some of the elixir into the ground. “W-Wha?! Agh, dammit! No, I lost some of it!”

  After taking care of that, the two were able to talk things out more rexedly, and when Chris learned what happened, he felt rather happy. Maybe there was truly hope not only for Vd but for Alitheus as well.

  “Maybe my curse could also be lifted if I do certain things?” he wondered. “But what could it be? Gluttony is easy, you just have to keep eating monsters and stuff, but what about a curse of Lust?”

  “Hm, I do have quite a few ideas…” Paul said with a rather serious expression, as if what he was thinking wasn’t something lewd but very serious and important.

  “I would rather not know about those ideas for now!” Chris felt embarrassed, growing red.

  “Why? Well, weren’t you the most eager before?” Vd smiled, his crimson eyes being rather seductive. “You even… Well…”

  “S-Shut up! That’s that, and this is this: different stuff, different times… A-Anyways, it got pretty te, I think I’ll be logging out for now…” he said. “Tell your mom I sent my regards or something.”

  “Ah, fine, but wait! About the videos we recorded yesterday…” said Paul.

  “Don’t worry, I’ll take care of them myself; we should be uploading them tomorrow or past tomorrow, I believe,” said Chris. “Anyways, bye~!”

  “Ah, take care…”

  Chris logged out, making Paul feel slightly lonely, but he decided to trate on the game so he wouldn’t feel so alone. Quickly moving towards his stash of items he had stored so far. There was a lot to look at.

  Aside from all the Raid rewards, there were also Raid Points to use so he could purchase from a weird Raid Shop, and there were also all the preaterials he had secured.

  He also o fix his armor and improve it, hopefully. While also probably upgrading his staff and perhaps some of his accessories. And make some new armor.

  Paul had always loved crafting games, especially RPGs with crafting elements. And the new materials he got, especially that Pyrocrystal, seemed very tempting.

  “I had thought about making magis out of this…” he said. “I had researched, and apparently there are no such ons, or they have not been discovered so far… Well, there’s only three Realms open at the moment.”

  Out of the Nine Realms of Genesis, only three have been open for the public to py in. The most pht now due to its avaibility of cool and edgy races, and a dark and gothic atmosphere was obviously Obscuritas, the Realm of the Eternal Night.

  However, there were also two other widely avaible Realms, whole worlds Pyers could visit. The first was the Realm of Fantasia, a whimsical Realm of fairytales where elves, fairies, gnomes, lepres, trolls, spirits, and other creatures lived—the plete opposite of Obscuritas.

  It was said that this Realm was governed by a pletely different pantheon of deities, whose biggest and stro was the World Tree of Life, Yggdrasil. In this world, Pyers were expected to always have a tracted Soul Spirit as their maihod of power and cultivate it alongside their Spiritual Heart to grow in strength.

  Over time, they tract more spirits, spread out their abilities, specialize, and create their own fantastical builds. It was a Realm ideal for those who wao see magic more than anything else.

  Moving on there was the other of the three Realms avaible, Ennead, the World of the Nine Rulers. It was a world posed of a gigantitastical desert, where Arabid Egyptian culture seemed to be its biggest inspiration.

  It was said to be even more dangerous than Obscuritas, filled with the tombs of a kings and with powerful monsters, especially giant sandworms, roaming the endless seas of sand. Large cities and a wide sea were also avaible, along with tropical areas, isnds, and pirates.

  This was the Realm where the least number of people had chosen an Avatar to live in, as it was very harsh, but it also offered even more opportunities with all the hidden tombs, treasures, relics, and a iances of the Nine Rulers, the a Egyptian Pharaohs-like rulers of this Realm, which were like their deities at the same time.

  In this Realm, everything was based on the Cultivation of Relics, with a special Relic Soul that people of this Realm possessed upon birth and that any Pyer that chose their Avatar’s in to be here would obtain.

  By robbing the dungeons and tombs of their treasures, they could refihese Relid add them to their Relic Soul while stantly growing the amount of Time Sand Essehe power that was used to activate all Relics.

  Simirly to Fantasia with their Spirits, people here could expand their repertoire of Relid obtain tremendously strong builds, but the level of starting difficulty was very hardcore; any izable Avatar would always stay in poverty, for example.

  Only if you chose Random and somehow got to be a prince or princess of a Desert Kingdom could things be better, but usually, the difficulty disces new pyers from joining this dangerous pce.

  But Vd was sure that eventually, those brave enough to enter Ennead would get a tremendous advantage over the others due to the nature of this Realm’s Relic Cultivation, which even included things such as evolving, fusing, and transf Divine Relics.

  “I am sure that eventually there’ll be events that will allow pyers or even other NPCs to cross Realms,” he thought. “There’s no way they’ll stay separated forever. And with Chris, I’ve already learhat NP already cross Realms, although it is not widely known, his Father, a King of Fairies, came to Obscuritas to be with his mom after all…”

  Chris was a very odd case where he had the bloodlines of two Realms, his father came from Fantasia and his mother was from Obscuritas. This gave him the ability to cultivate both the powers of Fantasia, Spirit Energy, and the ability to tract Spirits, as well as the demonic powers of Obscuritas, mostly reted to draining energies such as life and blood from foes.

  “The curse he received is mostly to bahis, he would be way too overpowered otherwise…” Paul thought, smiling. “Now, should I get this over first?”

  He took out all the Skill-reted items and decided to use them.

  [Skill Book: Bzing Soul (A Grade)]

  [Skill Book: Dual Bzing Bde Arts (S Grade)] x1

  [Random Skill Book (A Grade)] x1

  [Skill Fusion Ticket (A Grade)] x1

  [Skill Evolution Ticket: Raid Boss Soul (A Grade)] x1

  [Skill Book: Bzing Doppelganger (A Grade)] x1

  [Skill Book: Vessel of Fmes (S Grade)] x1

  “Should I leave something for Chris? After all, we did promise we would share…” Paul thought. “I’ll leave him two at least.”

  Paul decided to leave for Chris the Random Skill Book and also the Vessel of Fmes Skill, which seemed pretty strong and could give Chris a very powerful fire elemental ability.

  The rest? He decided to use it, even though they had creepy descriptions. These items weren’t cursed after he checked them with his Sin of Gluttony, meaning he could e them a quick power.

  His Skill Slots, however, were already almost full, and although Skills from Skill Books could be equipped anywhere, he only had two Skill slots left.

  “A Skill Fusion Ticket…” He g the ticket, allowing him to bine Skills. “…”

  For a moment, he had a crazy idea—something that definitely wouldn’t really work normally. But well, he was not normal at all himself. He had just eaten the curse out of a sword, and he knew he could evehe sword or any magifused equipment if he wao.

  He opened his mouth and, rather awkwardly, ate the Skill Fusion Ticket. It had a pstic, metallic fvor that was very disgusting, but somehow, his fangs easily crushed through it until he swallowed it with some water.

  “Ugh… Hm? It didn’t work… Fuck, I wasted this for nothing!” Paul realized nothing had ged. “e on Gluttony, stop being so- Ungh?!”

  BA DUM!

  Before he could say anything else, he felt his entire body in fmes, and his heart started beating faster and faster—something not normal for a vampire at all, whose hearts would beat once a day at most.

  BA DUM!

  He felt his entire body abze as Vd fell to his knees, coughing blood, yet the power of the ticket he ate was still there, slowly melting away, fusing with him.

  FLUOSH!

  “Hahhh… T-This fug hurts like hell!”

  As he screamed in pain, he felt like passing out, but barely held on. The fmes over his body were illusory; there was nothing burning him.

  Slowly, the visions and halluations he saw dissipated, and things went back to normal. Thanks to his vampiric ability [False Immortality] he was able tee the internal damage caused by trying to i su item.

  And…

  Ding!

  [You have successfully devoured the [Skill Fusion Ticket (A Grade)]!]

  [The power to bine Skills has been absorbed by the Sin of Gluttony.]

  [Through the power of Gluttony, you ow Fuse Skills in exge for Credits.]

  “No way, it worked?!”

  He was incredibly shocked and joyous too! However, he dared not do the same with the other items, he was holy afraid of what other torture he would gh.

  Fusing Skills for someone who could obtain an endless amount of them through dev things was incredibly necessary, but everything else? Not so much.

  “Hahaha… Now that I have this, the possibilities are truly endless!”

  As he ughed internally, he quickly decided to get all the Skills he could, aside from the ones he was gifting to Chris.

  FLUOSH!

  Each book opened, revealing colorful runes from its pages and then exploding into particles of light that imbued themselves into his body, giving him a new Skill each. For now, he decided to keep all the Skills unequipped ohey were learned.

  Ding!

  [You have used the: [Skill Book: Bzing Soul (A Grade)] [Skill Book: Dual Bzing Bde Arts (S Grade)] x1 and [Skill Book: Bzing Doppelganger (A Grade)] x1!]

  [You learhe Skill: [Bzing Soul (A): Lv1]!]

  [You learhe Skill [Dual Bzing Bde Arts (S): Lv1]!]

  [You learhe Skill [Bzing Doppelganger (A): Lv1]!]

  “Two A Rank Skills, one S Rank Skill, not bad. If I want to use that sword, that Dual Bzing Bde Arts will e in handy,” Vd’s handsome face smiled ingly. “Now, let’s try some Skill fusions. How do I do this? Is there a System Tutorial?”

  Ding!

  [You have activated the {Skill Fusion} fun of the Trait: [Insatiable Gluttony (Legendary Grade)]!]

  [You bine as many Skills as you want, but the more you bihe higher the Credit Price will be.]

  [As you grow strohe price might increase even more.]

  [Fused Skills ot revert to their fredients, and the Skills used to create them will also disappear permaly, and you won’t be able to relearn them again.]

  [These Skills be equipped in any Skill Slardless of their ingredients.]

  “Iing…”

  Currently, Vd had less than four huhousand Credits, but he knew he could afford a couple of Skill Fusions.

  “Hmm…”

  He quickly chose a few Skills to try it.

  [You have chosen the Skills: [Obsidian Bones (D): Lv1] [Ogre’s Muscles (C): Lv3] [Chimeric Body (A): Lv1] [Bat Transformation (C): Lv2] and [False Immortality (S): Lv3] to Fuse.]

  [Do you wish to Fuse these Five Skills for 150.000 Credits?]

  [Yes] [No]

  “150k?! That’s… a lot,” he muttered. “But I am sure this could either give me an insane Skill, or something horrible.”

  Vd was in the mood to gamble a bit.

  “Okay.”

  He pressed [Yes] without hesitating too much.

  [Initiating Skill Fusion…]

  FLASH!

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  Pach