Some time passed and the room was still as it was without any change. Well, more blood was spilled all over the bed, and no more.
Again for the third time almost in a row, the young man slowly opened his eyes with all of his fragile, broken, and shattered tiny power. He still couldn't open them more than half its way. He was just like a nonchalant, anonymous guy, but... It was the exact opposite.
'Hello, fragile body and shattered mind.' Welcoming his own selfless identity, he once again heard the sounds of birds which felt like they were no longer migrating and were actually living nearby along with the waterfalls that flowed their water on the helpless rocks at the bottom.
His first action was to shift his gaze immediately to the anonymous relics that hovered slightly above his paled face.
[-999K SP]
[Rashin]
[Deaths: 2]
'I heard it again. Shit! Shit!' Indeed, he heard the same relic sound before his second death once again. It seemed to be related to his death's meter, but... He completely dismissed that idea and threw it out of his corrupted mind. Feeling the same tiny bit of that surge of strength in his veins again, an idea popped into his mind, or rather a question.
'Could it be that the number of deaths and the SP are connected altogether?! With this thought in mind... Uh, corrupted mind, he focused once more on the SP relic only to make him freeze in his place...
[Main Quest: Reach 0 SP]
[Current SP: -999,998.98 SP]
'Wait! I might be dumb because of those unseen chains that are tied around my mind, but that number has changed! Shouldn't it be only ( .99) SP instead?!'
Feeling a bit of hope because the path to the answer he wanted was finally engraved on the extension of his gaze. He saw the road to his awaited answers. The answers that would grow him stronger!
'Is it really tied to death?! I got (0.02) SP and I died twice. Are they really connected?!' The only thing he could conclude was that it was related to the death meter. Hence, in order to get stronger, he must die! Over... And over again.
'Hehe, so that's how it is. Death? Let it be. I don't care anymore. Huh? Why do I feel that I...'
Clank! Clank!
Sounds of swords clashing against each other had cut his thoughts. Two swords to be exact. Outside of his wooden old room, a fierce fight took place.
'Like I can do anything to defend myself.' Surrendering to reality, the young man focused on his current mission. A crazy out-of-mind... Well, the out-of-corrupted mind mission was about to initiate:
'Die! Die as many times as possible...'
With this goal set in his shattered mind, he took action instantaneously. He raised his right arm and punched the air once more. It was the only way to get himself killed after all.
Ding!
Shortly after that, he died... As expected. Coming to his senses once more, he glanced at the relics. Only one relic to be exact... The relic expanded to its variants recurrently.
[Main Quest: Reach 0 SP]
[Current SP: -999,998.97 SP]
'Yes, it's the number of deaths. I get to suffer this numerous amount of deaths over and over again for only (0.01) SP! How ironic.' The young man had hit the spot.
Really!
How ironic.
However, he won't stop killing himself until he loses his mind...
Silent: "Corrupted… It is corrupted!"
Once more he raised his arm to deliver another punch through the air. Shortly, streams of blood scattered out of his fragile body... As always, he died!
Ding!
He died again.
Ding!
And again.
Ding!
And again.
Ding!
Death!
Ding!
After death!
Ding!
After death!
Ding!
Road... To infinity!
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!
***
3 hours had passed since that self-slaughter. He died so many times. An unbelievable amount of deaths had occurred upon this poor young man.
Coming back again to his senses for... Whatever the number of this time is, he realized a familiar relic appeared in his line of sight.
[10 minutes has passed!]
[Minimum SP concluded!]
[A new reward shall be granted!]
'Yea, yea. Give me that damned 1 SP.' As if answering his thoughts, the relics responded to his corrupted mind.
Well, now it's... Less-corrupted, let's say.
[1 SP granted!]
[The reward has been served!]
Shifting his gaze to the relics that he saw numerous times, the relics hovered silently above his head. His messy hair was now being bathed in his own blood, and drops of blood railed on his forehead that reached his blurred eyes, forcing his vision to become even worse.
[-999K SP]
[Rashin]
[Deaths: 93]
The last death he suffered was his 93's. After all of those deaths he experienced, he became accustomed to it like it was a part of him.
Focusing on the relics again, they expanded to give the info he thrived to read.
[Main Quest: Reach 0 SP]
[Current SP: -999,981.07 SP]
Till now, all SP he could get wasn't even a complete 1 SP, it was just near that specific number.
The anonymous reward helped him so much in an unexpected way. He thought it was a one-in-a-lifetime reward. In the end, he was wrong! And he felt fortunate to be on the wrong side.
Reaching 93 deaths, accumulated nearly 19 SP in his relics, he felt so much stronger compared to his very beginning. Of course, he was still as fragile as he was. Such a shattered selfless corpse, but he could feel his strength grow much stronger with every passing... Death!
Going back to his self-slaughter habit, accumulating 7 more deaths to his relics along with another 1 SP from the 10-minute reward, he reached 20 SP in only 190 minutes.
...Only!
[Current SP: -999,980 SP]
Coming back to his senses for the 100 and one's time, another relic shone in front of his line of sight with another anonymous revelation!
[Death, First Milestone has been passed!]
[A new reward shall be granted!]