When the figure landed its feet on the floor, Rigid saw that it was a beautiful woman wearing a bartender uniform from the bar he visited last night. She had long ponytail ash pink hair and sparkling turquoise eyes. Setting aside her exquisite beauty, she emitted an extremely dense aura of darkness around her and made Rigid who was in front of her alert.
'I don't know whose room I'm in right now, but the appearance of that hideously beautiful woman makes me wonder more,' Rigid thought. 'If I look at the vortex on the ceiling, I can probably guess if she's a main character.'
The woman took a scroll out of nowhere. She unrolled the scroll and smiled. "Oh..., look at this evil smile," The woman said excitedly as she walked toward Rigid. "This evil smile looks like it wants to say that the world and everything within it will be easily conquered."
"Who are you?" Rigid asked as he stood up.
"You don't know who I am? How strange..., you're the one who summoned me into this world," the woman said as she threw the scroll in her hand into the vortex. "Your hopeless will about changing this broken world has touched my heart and I decided to descend into this world."
"So that means..., what I saw that night wasn't a hallucination?" Rigid asked as he kept his distance from the woman. "Are you what they call a God, Goddess, Devil, or the like?"
The woman chuckled. She suddenly disappeared from Rigid's sight and appeared right in front of his face. Rigid who was shocked suddenly fell to the floor and tried to look around him for items he could use for self-defense. He accidentally saw his rusty sword under the bed and took it swiftly.
Rigid pointed his rusty sword at the woman as he tried to keep his distance from her. "Are you a main character?! Did you come here to kill me?!" Rigid shouted frantically at the woman. "Just tell me who exactly you are!"
Hearing what Rigid said to her, the woman couldn't help but sigh. She tried to smile kindly at Rigid as she crouched down in front of him. "I'll give you a chance to guess who am I," the woman said as she pulled a jet-black rapier with a crimson hilt out of nowhere.
Suddenly Rigid swung his rusty sword at the woman's neck and she could easily block it with just one finger. The smile on the woman's face disappeared and showed her serious face to Rigid.
The woman gripped Rigid's rusty sword with her bare hand and crushed it. "You think something like this can hurt me? Even though you have received incomparable strength and intelligence, you don't even use them."
'What nonsense did this woman say to me while pulling a sword out of nowhere? I never received anything like what she said and I only saw a screen message in front of me this morning,' Rigid wondered himself as he tried to remember what happened to him last night. Slowly, Rigid began to remember what happened to him last night. 'Wait..., this woman is the female bartender from the bar I visited last night?'
The woman stood as she sighed. "I don't want to waste my time, so let's keep this short."
"Wait, you didn't even answer one of my questions-"
The woman stamped her foot on the floor and shook the room they were in. "Shut up, don't ask me questions, and go check your status right away."
"My status?" Rigid asked as he frowned.
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Name: Rigid
Age: 19
Title: None
Job: Farmer
Level: 2 (13/25)
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Strength: C
intelligence: C
Vitality: D
Agility: E
Dexterity: D
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Advancement Strength Development (Passive)
Advancement Intelligence Development (Passive)
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A screen message appeared in front of Rigid with data about his personal information, stats, and skills. Rigid who realized he had two skills was confused because as far as he knew, the main characters only had one skill.
"You realize that right? I have given them to you, one free and one not," the woman said as she sat on the bed. "Since you got both, it's obligatory for me to charge for the one that isn't free."
"Alright, I got it," Rigid said as he nodded. "So..., what do you want from me? My soul? Or maybe..., my body?"
The woman chuckled. "What a silly thought, you think I want something like that?" the woman said as she threw her rapier into the vortex. "What I want from you is your effort, kill every single main character in this world who does not submit to me and I'll give you the opportunity to become my Emperor."
[You received a Main Quest]
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Title: Ten Years to Glory
Rank: SSS+
Time: 10 Years
Objective: Kill every single main character in the world who does not submit to Asmoday, the Demon Empress of the deepest part of Hell (0/153,378)
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You're fallen into the desperation to take revenge on the main characters because they killed your parents. Asmoday, the Demon Empress of the deepest part of Hell is interested in you and giving you the opportunity to get your revenge. However, because of your greed for her kindness, she gave you the task of killing every single main character in the world.
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Reward: Gain a favor from Asmoday and become the Emperor of the deepest part of Hell
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Rigid carefully read the screen message that appeared in front of him. He felt like something was off with the main quest he had received. 'Wouldn't this main quest only benefit me? Why would she give me this main quest in the first place?'
Asmoday stood up and turned around. "I will wait for good news from you in the next ten years, meet me at the seventh gate of hell and I will give your reward afterward," Asmoday said as she jumped into the vortex and disappeared with it, leaving Rigid alone in the messy room.
'She gave me an opportunity to get my revenge, and she asked me to kill or make every single main character submit to her,' Rigid thought as he stood up. 'I don't think it's a bad exchange, though I don't know her real purpose.'
Rigid heard the sound of footsteps in front of the door. He looked under the crack at the bottom part of the door and confirmed that there is a person on the other side of the door.
"Sir? Are you all right?" the person said as he knocked on the door. "I'm sorry, but I have to go inside."
The person opened the door and Rigid could see that the person was the bartender who gave him the cocktail from the bar he visited last night. The bartender looked so surprised when he saw the room was messy.
"Sir?! What happened?! Look at the mess you've made here!" the bartender shouted as he looked around the room. "I will make you pay a high price for this!"
Rigid sighed. "Alright, just tell me the price."
The bartender held his chin and entered into a deep thought for a moment. He snapped his fingers and walked towards Rigid. "Give me at least this much," the bartender said as he raised two fingers. "No negotiation, I will report you to the main character Dave if you don't provide the appropriate amount."
'If I kill him, can't I leave without paying him a single gold coin? After all, this is a lawless town,' Rigid thought. 'Wait, how could I even think of killing him out of the blue?'
The bartender looked impatient and immediately searched Rigid's robe and found four gold coins. He looked so pleased in his eyes when he saw those gold coins. "I changed my mind, I'll take them all," the bartender said as he put Rigid's gold coins into his pocket.
Rigid who heard and witnessed that couldn't help but get angry. He clenched his fists and punched the bartender in the face causing him to fall to the floor. It didn't stop there, Rigid sat on the bartender's stomach and started hitting his face repeatedly.
"Stop! Please! Stop!" the bartender shouted as he tried to cover his face.
Rigid ignored the bartender's words and continued to beat him non-stop until he finally ended up killing him without realizing it.
[You received 100 experience points]
[You leveled up]
Rigid regained his sense and realized that he had killed the bartender without realizing it. "Fuck! What have I done?! I killed him?!"
[Advancement Strength Development activated]
[Advancement Intelligence Development activated]
Suddenly, the body of the bartender who had been killed by Rigid turned into particles of light which were then absorbed into his body.
[You managed to absorb Carlos]
[Your Strength slightly developed permanently]
[Your Intelligence slightly developed permanently]
Rigid fell into deep thought for a moment since he had just discovered the fact that he could become stronger if he killed someone and absorbed them.
'What if I kill everyone in this town? Won't that make me stronger? After all, they are a bunch of criminals and I might even be able to kill the main character Dave in the middle of it,' Rigid thought as he chuckled. He put on the hood of his robe and walked out of the room.