BXBX NOVEL Chapter 81 - [Bonus ] Joren's Status Board Again
"A human…?" Kidrith was full of doubt. Even if Joren is a human, in her knowledge, humans don\'t have the capabilities to blast through walls!
Furthermore, Joren\'s soul was even detached from him, so how could he say…
"Wait, where\'s your soul?"
Kidrith looked around Joren\'s body and didn\'t see him carrying it.
"Can\'t you figure it out?" Joren laughed, "The logic is pretty simple. My soul is gone because it returned to me, so now, I\'m a human."
"..."
Kidrith went silent as she stared at Joren, waiting for him to say he was just joking.
She was still in his arms as Joren ran through the empty lands of black sand. It hadn\'t been an hour since they first left the palace, but the giant palace was already out of sight. Joren was a lot faster than before.
"WHAT!??"
"Ah…" Joren\'s ears rang after Kidrith\'s delayed reaction.
"That\'s impossible!" Kidrith firmly said but began to doubt her knowledge, "What? But from what I know, once a living being dies, their souls can\'t enter back to their body again unless they go back to the surface world."
But Hades didn\'t like souls leaving his world. In other words, resurrection is practically impossible unless another method is used.
"No, I\'m not wrong. I haven\'t forgotten it! If that\'s true, then there are not half-deads right in the underworld since they should\'ve fused with their original soul already, so what did you do!?" Kidrith interrogatively looked at Joren.
"Umm… willpower?"
"Are you stupid!?"
"Then don\'t ask if you\'re not going to believe the answer." Joren refuted, but he was still smiling wide.
The reason for this expression was his status board. He forgot that he even had this ability. He could make this translucent board that only he can see appear with just a thought.
When he and Kidrith were about to hit the ground, he fused with his soul and turned human again. Immediately, he saw his status board as it got updated. Everything returned to normal again!
Not just that, Joren accepted the reward for completing his side missions before landing on the ground.
[Name: Joren Vierei]
[Race: Human]
[Title: Thug Underling]
[Level: 3]
[Experience: 00/40]
[Health: 100/100
Toughness: 10,582
Strength: 2,920
Agility: 71
Stamina: 86
Talent: 117
Thugness: 675
1 Free Stat Point]
Joren hasn\'t opened the system even once since he knew nothing would change as long as he\'s a lesser undead. And, about his stats, he wasn\'t surprised, just overjoyed.
The stupid training where he kicked down doors and repled a greeting with a \'Huh!?\' paid off. Joren did this stupid training for a whole week with a few little breaks in between. He didn\'t sleep a wink.
But still, his stats on Toughness and Strength are crazy, even for him!
Joren needs to kick down 100 doors upon entrance to gain one point on Toughness and shout 20 \'Huh!?\' for one Strength point. However, he \'cheated\' it with his stupid training and did both simultaneously for every two to three seconds. Continuing for a whole week, it\'s no surprise that his stats got to that point.
\'I bet the fish didn\'t expect me to do it that way.\'
Joren was no longer a strong human. He\'s much more than that. As for his speed, it can be attributed to his strength. After all, speed is not just agility. Each step he makes brings him forward.
That\'s why he\'s so confident that as long as he can turn human again, he\'ll have a greater chance of survival.
But what Joren did not expect was his Thugness level. From what he knows, Thugness is the hardest to increase.
\'I still haven\'t accomplished escaping the UnderWorld, but why did I reach a giant milestone?\'
Joren didn\'t look at his stats board for a while, so he didn\'t know that when he overcame his fear and entered Tartarus, his Thugness increased, and it reached that point when he acquired a Fury\'s heart and punched the Lord of the UnderWorld on the face.
Those are pretty significant accomplishments, but Joren didn\'t think of them that way.
Joren then thought that after successfully escaping, he should grind the side missions again and come here to the underground to slap Hades\' face without him being able to do anything about it and slap the Furies\' asses; because… it\'s poetic.
He then looked at his Mission Tab and saw no more side missions.
\'Ah… I guess I abused the loophole when I was still a lesser undead, and now it\'s gone.\'
Not letting himself get dispirited, he noticed that he still hadn\'t accepted one mission reward.
[Mission Complete: Survive Virena, the Vampire
Accept Reward?]
\'Yes!\' Joren forgot since he\'s human again, he technically survived Virena!
[Reward: Straight to Level 5, earn the title; Street Thug]
\'...\'
He forgot that even the titles are stupid, but he could let it pass by since he went straight to Level 5.
\'So, I have three Free Stat Points.\'
Joren then added them to agility for extra speed. Although it wasn\'t much, it\'s still an increase in strength.
Afterward, he noticed that he had three main missions.
[Mission: Take Virena\'s virginity.
Time: Five years
Reward: +50 Stamina, +50 Strength, 10 instant level up]
Seeing this mission again, Joren realized that the fish was right.
\'The fish once said that after some time with the Gangsta System, I\'ll just do what I desire….\'
Back then, he hated this idea. Joren lived in conformity, doing what others wanted and being kind.
\'Am I returning to my old self?\'
Joren hated the fact that he no longer hated this idea. However, as for the next mission…
[Mission: Take Ness\'s virginity.
Time: Fifteen years
Reward: +1000 Stamina, +1000 Strength, 100 instant level up]
\'Ness is too cute to be lewd!\' he couldn\'t imagine Ness with his lover, but then, it struck him.
\'How about the mature Ness!?\'
Joren\'s face turned solemn. After some serious pondering, he then looked at his third and newest mission he didn\'t know he received...
Sometime later, the two arrived at the UnderWorldLand. Kidrith, who got knocked out after overthinking what Joren did, woke up.
"The UnderWorldLand… wow…."
Even though she was weakened, Kidrith couldn\'t help but be fascinated by what she saw. All her life, she lived inside the palace. Although grand and giant, the palace was too small to be anyone\'s whole world, yet this was true for the palace servants.
"Joren… thank you."
Tears dropped from her eyes without her being able to stop them.
Joren just grinned.
"Let\'s return later for your friends and family at the palace."
"Y-you still want to return there…?" Kidrith sniffed and wiped her face.
"Of course, I still haven\'t failed Hades\' trials. I have three brides to return for. Good thing, time for them is quick. I\'ll be back before they know it."
It sounded like a joke, but Kidrith felt like Joren was there.
"Yeah…" Kidrith nodded and no longer thought that Joren was just spouting empty words since this man just punched Hades, the Lord of the Underworld, three times on the face!
"A decade for them is short!" she then went along with Joren\'s determination, but the latter frowned at her.
"A decade?"
Kidrith realized that a decade must be too short for Joren since he would be going against a God.
"Then, several decades!"
"Eh?"
"Huh?"
"I\'m thinking of more like before summer ends, so maybe, two-three months?" Joren said as he entered the outskirts of the city.
"Hahahaha…"
"It\'s not a joke, so you don\'t have to force your laughter."
"..." Kidright blinked a few times before profusely shaking her head, "No no no, even if you\'re a one-in-millennia prodigy, you\'re against Gods here. Please say you\'re joking."
When Joren was about to reply, Kidrith asked as her attention was taken by the festive atmosphere.
"But why are we here? I still don\'t know how you\'re planning to escape."
"I\'m going to escape through the River Styx."
"I know for sure Charon wouldn\'t let you into his ferry since you\'re considered an Underworld dweller."
Kidrith was getting interested in what miraculous plan does Joren have to escape.
"I\'ll… swim?"
"!?"
"Joren, you\'re not going anywhere."
Kidrith could not rebuke Joren when an old man\'s voice called the latter out. The two of them looked at the source and saw a three-headed man with hoods over each other his heads.
"C-cerberus…" Kidrith gulped. Since they barely escaped Hades\' grasp already, she wasn\'t that scared. However, Cerberus is still the Cerberus, no matter what she feels.
"As expected, you\'re here to create trouble. I don\'t know how you escaped the palace, but your cunning plans won\'t get to me." three of Cerberus\' heads all spoke at the same time, making his voice eerie and otherwordly.
"Umm… excuse me?" a ghoul confusedly pointed at himself, "Sorry, but I think you got the wrong person."
"Hahaha! What a cheap lie! Although I forgot how you look, how could I forget your foul smell, lesser undead? I sniffed that familiar smell, and are there any lesser undead here beside you!? Your little tricks won\'t get me!"
Cerberus laughed in confidence while Joren walked around them before running away.
"Cerberus is getting senile…!" Kidrith almost shouted in joy but then noticed Joren\'s dark expression, "W-what\'s wrong?"
"I didn\'t know… I stink that much…."
"E-eh?"