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The roulette’s arrow nded on, supposedly, the hardest spot it could ever reach randomly, as it covered barely a few timeters of the entire roulette. It was also the same type of reward that Vd had received before, which left him, and Chris fbbergasted.
It was an additional background!
Ding!
[gratutions! You’ve received a Legendary-Grade Additional Background for your character!]
[The background is randomized, and it has already been decided.]
Chris looked at the system messages with nervousness. Although he knew a new Background could give him a neowerful Trait, it also meant he would also get a Fw as bad as the Trait good.
And it was Legendary Grade, one of the highest Grades a Background could obtain. Usually, only Randomized Avatars could get such high backgrounds; ized avatars, at most, could get a Rare Grade.
So whatever Chris got, it might be as bad as Vd’s one.
“Shit…”
“Wait, calm down; it might actually not be so bad. Check what it is.”
“Ah, it’s there!”
Chris poi a sphere of golden and silver light that flew towards his chest, fusing into his entire body and bining itself with him.
Visions surged, appearing inside of his mind; it was as if he were experieng a ematic se in a video game, and well, that was what it was.
He saw tless angelic figures flying across the skies, with long, feathered wings and glowing golden halos above their heads.
They had silver-colored eyes and long blonde hair, shining like glittering gold.
They moved across the skies with their various pairs of wings, g against an ining menace, a single being shrouded iernal darkness and crimson light.
His crimson eyes pierced their souls, but the brave, feathered angel-like beings did not falter, flying and g against him.
Hundreds against a single man.
Explosions of light and darkness covered the heavens, twisting their colors and the fabric of space itself.
“You will never defeat me, you pathetic mutts!”
With a tenacious roar, the man, with long bck hair like the night and crimson eyes as red as blood, moved directly towards a gigantic golden pagoda.
It floated above the heavens, which the angel-like beings were proteg.
“Heavenly Demon! You will not get past me!”
Chris felt like he eaking now, with a much stronger, manlier voice, yet that still carried a delicate, feminine charm to it.
A beautiful angelic being with six feathered wings, long blonde hair, and sharp silver eyes cshed against the man.
The Heavenly Demon of the Realm of Murim.
CLASH!
An explosion of light and darkness engulfed the two; the heavens seemed to divide betweewo spectrums.
“You’re not bad, you bastard!” ughed the Heavenly Demon, as demonic hrew from his forehead and bck scales started emerging from his skin. “But this is not even my full power!”
“I won’t let you pass, you filthy demonister! After sughtering so many, do you think we’ll let you get to the Heavenly Treasury?!” roared the Argel-like man. “Over my dead body!”
“Heavenly Emperor!”
“Heavenly Demon!”
Both of their fists and powerful Auras cshed against one another as the two began to kill each other, tearing clothes to shreds as they bled.
Each fist broke each other’s bones, puncturing their skin and tearing through their flesh. The entire world of Murim trembled; a battle betweero beings in that realm shook the world and its entire foundations!
RUMBLE!
Eventually, the twasping for air, looking at each other with hateful eyes, bleeding, with their legs torn apart and their arms broken and dislocated.
“Hahh… You monster! I won’t let you pass…”
“Let’s see… Who dies first, then!”
With crazed ughter, the Heavenly Demon’s Ki Aura expanded, filling the heavens with eternal darkness and crimsohousands of beams of red light rushed towards the Heavenly Emperor.
“You monster…! Your existence is a sin! I won’t five you for what you’ve done!”
The Heavenly Emperor expanded his own Ki Aura; the heavens were illuminated with bright light, and golden eyes spread across them all, firing golden and silver beams.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The beams of gold and red light exploded upon tact with one aheir domains shaking and growing weaker as they destroyed each other’s own foundations.
“Just die already, you feathered bastard!”
“I won’t let you do as you please!”
The Heavenly Demon rushed forward, summoning a bck spear out of his own powers, as if he materialized his own darkness into pure bck steel.
The spear pierced the Heavenly Emperor’s chest, and he vomited blood before he could even reach his eternal foe.
“Ugh…! Y-You…!”
He gritted his teeth, but he could no longer muster the strength to fight anymore.
“It looks like you were nothing but a wimp at the end.”
With maniac ughter, the Heavenly Demon mocked the Heavenly Emperor, flying into the skies and taking with himself the Heavenly Treasury before hundreds more angelic-like people attacked him at once.
The Heavenly Emperor fell from the skies, his lifeforce fading away rapidly. He felt frustrated as the Heavenly Demon sughtered the remaining soldiers and escaped with the Heavenly Treasury.
His sacrifice, and everyone else’s...
Was in vain.
“Aah!”
Chris suddenly came back to his senses, feeling agitated; that whole ematic se was more like a dream as he woke up from the flasping for air.
“Are you alright?! You passed out for a few seds there." Vd said. “That never happeo me when I got a sedary background.”
“Aah, I guess it might be because I got the short end of the stick,” sighed Chris. “I think I know which background I have. And surprise, it’s probably very simir to yours…”
“Wait, what? Simir to mine?!”
Paul was shocked; he didn’t want to guess what it could be, but he was already guessing anyway!
“Yes, and—ah.”
Chris quickly noticed the flood of system messages.
[gratutions, Pyer Alitheus Lilithie! You’ve been assigned a {Legendary-Grade Background} for your Character!]
[Your new background is called {The Heavenly Emperor Reinates}!]
[You’re the Heavenly Emperor that once protected and brought order to the Realm of Murim, being a bea of hope for all people in the Realm.]
[However, in a battle to protect the Heavenly Court’s Heavenly Treasury from the Heavenly Demon’s cws, you were sin by his Bck Heaven Cursed Spear.]
[As you died pitifully against the cws of that monster, your soul harbored the deadly curse of the Heavenly Demon, f you to reinate with past grudges and bee an unholy demonic being instead of your former, angeli.]
[Because of this Curse, you were reinated as a half-incubus and half-fairy boy, kicked out of his house, with no mother or father, and with a cursed existehat requires draining the lifeforce of other living beings to survive; your existence couldn’t be more pitiful.]
“Woah, so I’m like this for a curse your past life set on me? What the hell kind of background is this?” Chris ughed.
Paul was still trying to process what he was even talking about.
[Yet, as the former Heavenly Emperor, you simply couldn’t let that fact upset you! You might have lost almost everything, but the knowledge of your past life remains within your soul as the Heavenly Library. By accessing it, you will be able to relearn former teiques and harness your Holy Ki like before.]
“Ah, of course! So you get the Heavenly Treasury, but I get the Heavenly Library? A bit samey…” Chris sighed. “I ’t pin though~”
[The Heavenly Library within your soul is tained inside a golden and silver sphere; it looks cracked and damaged, but it is still the same as before.]
[“This is... My Heavenly Core?!”]
[The Heavenly Core you cultivated in your previous life has somehow remained after your reination, but it has grown severely weakened.]
[By cultivating it and feeding it with all kinds of patible resources, you will be able tain your Holy powers and once again bee the Heavenly Emperor!]
“So aside from the Spirit Magic, I even obtain Holy Power? Now that’s nice.” Chris smiled. “Maybe I could bee a real threat in Obscuritas, where everyone is weak to the holy light element.”
[With the {Heavenly Library} and the {Heavenly Core}, bee stronger and show all those who have looked down on you who you really are!]
[And perhaps use this sed ce at life to find yourself a handsome husband.]
“Handsome… husband?”
Chris' eyebrows twitched cutely.
[The secret that the Heavenly Emperor never revealed to anybody]
[He was gay.]
[And he always fantasized about marrying a handsome, manly, tall, and strong man who could hold him like a princess…]
[Despite his persona as a mighty Emperor with no equal within heaven, he had a much softer side inside of his heart, a man who wao be treated kindly and with love.]
“You’ve got to be kidding me.”
[Hidden Requirement: For the Curse left behind inside your Soul to nate and pletely destroy it, you must embrace your feelings and find a husband. Only when your Heavenly Core pletely attunes with your deepest feelings and the love you feel for that other person will it pletely heal your soul from the deadly curse left behind.]
[Hidden Requirement Timing: 365 Days.]
[If you don’t fulfill the Hidden Requirement in time, your character’s soul will be pletely corrupted by the curse, and you will bee a Cursed Fallen Angel, losing trol over your Avatar and bringiru to the Realms.]
“W-Wait, isn’t this a bit simir to yours? Lol…” Chris didn’t take this as seriously as Paul, showing it to him iail.
“W-What the hell?” muttered Chris. “This means… so you got the background of the Heavenly Emperor?!”
“This is too much of a ow! Is this because I’ve ied with you? Was there such a hidden dition? Fuck…” Chris sighed. “It doesn’t ask me to find a cute male bride, though; it asks for a manly husband too!”
Actually, Chris was kind of annoyed about it but wasn’t upset; it seemed he didn’t actually mind the entire fact, but he still found it bothersome and stupid.
“It looks even more dangerous than mine; you’ll bee a Fallen Angel? What? Your Avatar might end up being some sort of Boss for the game…” ughed Paul. “Now this is hirious, haha!”
“Hey, why are you ughing at my misfortune?! We’re in the same boat here, dude!” Chris pouted slightly angrily, hitting Vd’s chest with his small fists.
BAAM!
“Guh?!”
And Vd vomited blood, almost feeling his ribs break.
“Ugh… Why did you do that…”
Vd ended up falling to his knees.
“Right, you’re super weak, lol… Sorry dude,” Chris sighed. “Maybe I could heal you? What did I eve as a Trait or Fw though?”
Chris looked at his Status with some i.
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[Pyer Name]: [Alitheus Lilithie]
[Titles]: [Troublemaking Brat]
[Lust Stigma]: [Energy Absorption Realm (Tier 1: Rank 4)]
[Heavenly Core]: [Shattered Holy Core Realm (Tier 1: Rank 1)]
[Race]: [Half-Incubus (Fairy)]
[Css]: [Mischievous Demon: ★]
[Subcss]: [None]
[Sin Power]: [1.800]
[Strength]: [580]
[Ara]: [700]
[Vitality]: [1.400]
[Dexterity]: [1.300]
[Charm]: [2.450]
[Character Background Traits]: [Fairy Spirit Heart (Legendary Grade)] [Heavenly Emperor’s Soul (Legendary Grade)]
[Character Background Fws]: [Insatiable (Legendary Grade)] [The Lonely Emperor’s Last Wish (Legendary Grade)]
[Racial Skills (4/5)]
[Flight (B): Lv3] [Dream Eater (A): Lv1] [Charming Aura (B): Lv2] [Lifeforce Stealing Attack (B): Lv2]
[Css Skills (2/5)]
[Illusionist (B): Lv2] [Shenanigans (C): Lv3]
[Subcss Skills (1/5)]
[Detailed Observation (D): Lv2]
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“I got the Holy Core thingy... Ah, and there they are... Look, Paul!” Chris showed Paul his status.
“Hmm, I see...” nodded Paul. “Wait, what?! The Traits and Fws names are the same as mine! But yours is the Heavenly Emperor... It feels like by being friends, we somehow got the hidden dition for you to i it. It feels like both backgrounds are interected.”
“Hmmm, yeah,” Chris nodded.
“But do you have a voice speaking inside your head?” Paul asked.
“Wait, what? No? I am not a schizophrenic for that. Chris raised an eyebrow. “Don’t be dumb-”
[Good heavens! What sort of vocabury is that my young ination? Could you please refrain from speaking so vulgarly?]
“Huh?”
Chris was uo process the voice he just heard.
[Yes, as your former self, I naturally remain within your soul as a split Ego of sorts… But that does not matter at the moment! What truly matters is for you tain your former strength, and—ah, that man in front of you—he’s really quite handsome.]
“No way… This is not real…”
[But besides that point, I would reend you begin your cultivatiht away! If you enlighten yourself ihe Heavenly Library and then do some good deeds, you will be able to absorb the Hope, Gratitude, and Happiness of people as you help them, which will enhance your Core’s growth and-]
“Yep, there’s a voiside my head.”
Chris looked at Vd in the eyes.
Both sighed as Vd patted Chris’ shoulders.
“You’ll get used to it.”
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