The glint in the J's eyes quickly subsided and, dragging his eyes off of the scroll to him, he flustered a smile and nodded, "All legit. Hundred percent legit. No side-effect at all."
Fero felt he would explode, 'Of course there is a side-effect! The greater the power... the greater the side-effect.'
He clicked his tongue, 'Wait, this one sits better—No power comes without a cost!'
Fero nodded in appreciation of himself, before suddenly freezing, 'Wait... that's not the main issue.'
His eyes thinned, his expression slapping a 'really' on their faces, making them cough dryly.
As Fero looked on and read more, he realized there were even more busted powers.
Like Heaven's Sword, the sword with the power to beckon heaven to do one's biding.
And the Hell Master, with which he could open portals to hell and unleash calamities upon the world.
But of course, he instantly scrapped away all these powers. For he had no clue what the side-effects, that hadn't been mentioned, were.
'I need to pick a useful ability that I find not so busted to have a not so terrifying side-effect.' Fero bit his tongue and read on. Realizing that there were quite a number of things. Even potions and traits and what not.
'Hoh! There's even a gacha roll!' Fero chuckled and moved on.
Suddenly, his breath hastened and his eyes blew wide, 'Shit, shit! Womaniser? The ability to charm any women?? And any number of women???'
Fero felt his heart crash against his ribcage, trying its hardest to break free and cling to the skill, 'I-I don't give a shit. Any side-effect is good enough as long as all the women are mine.'
Fero let loose a triumphant roar and stood up, firm of resolve, "Sir J".
J shuffled a few steps back, worried of what he would say, and quickly gulped and composed himself, "Go on."
"I wil—" Before his words could come to a complete, the archangel quickly pocked his back with her pointy tail, the two demonic eyes on her bat-like wings opened and peered at Fero.
Who, in a dazed state of mind, shut up and looked down at the scroll. Before quickly tapping at somewhere random.
"I will take this." As the words left him, Fero came back to his senses. And silently, muzzily, stared as all the skills, traits, weapons and on and on got blurred and left only a single option remaining, which he muttered aloud in confusion, "Gacha Roll."
With a loud pa sound, the scroll erupted like a fire-cracker and the name that Fero had muttered aloud stood up in the air... in front of his eyes.
"Huh?" Fero's head leaned sideways as he pointed at it and asked oddly, "What's this, Sir J?"
J paused, his lips thinned into lines, as he directed a shaky set of green vertical pupiled eyes toward his assistant.
With a raspy tone, he muttered mellowly, "This part wasn't supposed to be rigged."
The archangel, feigning aloofness, trembled and stiffly stared at her boss, "Really?"
J chomped on the air, as if intending to rip her throat out, and growled, "Don't play pretend. There's no way you didn't know."
The archangel rolled her eyes and shrugged, whimpering pitifully, "But all those were precious treasures. There's no way I would let the good ones be taken away".
J forced a broad smile, seeing Fero listlessly gaze between the two, and clapped lightly, "Damn assistant," He growled, compelling the succubus to gaze over timidly, "The firecrackers!"
The air stilled, and a loud pa erupted from behind Fero as he got showered for the third time by the shameless succubus.
"Hoho!" J nodded and flung his arm across Fero's shoulder, "A nice choice you have, my friend. A nice choice."
"Womaniser..." Fero muttered, his eyes blank, "Give me my Womaniser."
J pitifully ruffled his hair, 'Poor guy is traumatised.'
"Uwahhhh!" Fero, bawlling like a little kid, tromped toward the succubus—smiling sheepishly—and started banging his fists lightly in her soft, bouncy breasts.
"Ha-Haha!" The succubus coughed dryly, seeing the guy taking his revenge by groping her tits while feigning to be crying and depressed.
J snorted and clasped his hands behind him, "Appease the guy now."
After a little while, Fero, suddenly feeling a strange coldness in his body and his legs, starting to go limp, halted and quickly pushed off from her, "Wh-What's happening?"
J chuckled and shook his head, "You can't play with the master of players, you are still too young for that."
Hearing his words, sweat drenched his back, 'My life-force was being drained by her! Shit... I could've died.' Fero glanced down at his sodden shirt in terror, "But wait... I am already dead!"
J burst into laughter, "Indeed, a dead person can't be killed. But she can still make you feel like you are dying. You can proceed if you wish too... though I can't guarantee she isn't something more than what you presume."
Fero paused and directed a peek at the smug lady lifting her chest high in pride.
"No... I am a magnimious person. I forgive her treachery." Fero grumbled and looked away, 'Nope... she isn't that hot anymore.'
J chuckled and the archangel's expression twisted, as if hearing what Fero had said in his head.
"But still though... my Womaniser!" Fero grounded his teeth and hatefully stared at the words floating in the air, noticing that it was actually Gacha Set Roll instead of just Gacha Roll.
"Hey! Since I was clearly led into this choice. Can't I re-pick my choice?" Fero directed a stern glance to J.
And the latter just shook his head, "Sadly no... this artifact, once used, cannot move into its previous stage."
Despondency once more kicked at his lungs and made him look at the sparkly floor like a dead fish. "My Womaniser."
J, seeing the misery dripping from his face, clicked his tongue and looked into the ceiling, voicing aloud in a distant and aloof manner to his assistant, "Um, my archangel assistant. Should me not ease up the side-effect on Womaniser? Reducing the PP size to 2 inch is quite too much."
The succubus, getting his hint, stared into the ceiling, "If only we could... boss."
Fero, trembling as he heard the two discuss secretively to one another, hurriedly pulled back his pants and glanced down. Before heaving a healthy and joyous sigh, "I am saved. Thank you, archangel— What's your name?"
The archangel scoffed and turned away, "Address me as Master Miss."
"Alright, thank you archangel MM!" Fero nodded with a bright smile.
"MM?" MM's face distorted, "Is... Is that any way to address me?" She clicked her tongue, her face flushed as she looked away "Quite a sexy way of hitting at a girl."
Fero's expression twisted, 'She's that easy?'
MM's face instantly darkened. While J chuckled and looked him in the eyes, "Anyways, let's proceed with your Gacha Set Roll, shall we? And," Turning a daggerish gaze toward MM, "Due to someone's blunder, I shall bless you some luck."
Fero cutely stared at the on-going stare-off.
Before shuffling back a little as, abruptly, J and MM squeezed him in between on the sofa and a screen appeared in front of him, where the floating words were earlier.
It looked like the screen of that rigged machine in which you had to match three same icons to win a reward. With the difference being their were only two sections with a blinking cursor, as if awaiting some input.
"What's this? Is this gacha? I don't see any pre-listed rewards." Fero murmured.
"This is Gacha Set Roll!" J exclaimed, "You will get some sort of set. And that will be chosen randomly on the two alphabets that you type in."
Fero glanced at the holographic keyboard on his lap in understanding.
It had all the English alphabets, dancing seductively in Fero's eyes, making him gulp and fall into deep contemplation
"Once I choose an alphabet, it will become a skill right?" Fero glanced at J.
"A Skill Set, a skill with various skills in between." J confirmed.
"Then what should I choose?" Fero whined and pinched his chin, his eyes squeezing together.
"Aww!" Fero closed his eyes and randomly punched on the keyboard to MM's and J's ogling eyes.
"E!" MM muttered. And the alphabet typed into the screen.
"R!" J stared at the screen as the letter settled in.
When both the words had been made at home, the wheels started to spin and multiple names flashed by.
A few that Fero caught made him tremble from either dejection or anticipation.
"Emperor, Eternal, Ent, Egg." Fero turned his eyes to the other side, "Rock, Reverence, Right, Rose."
Fero buried his face in MM's chests and started praying, "Let it be something good. Let it be something good."
The machine crisply dinged, and a round of popping sounds began.
MM's breath halted, she slowly pushed Fero away while muttering, "Rebirth!"
J stared at the screen in thought and completed the term, "Evolve!"