Chapter 51: Battle God's Regeneration

Grace was the second daughter of the richest businessman in Morose Kingdom and was also the one who held the most power in her family. She was also a great artifact enthusiast, so Keith had some expectations for this quest.Money was secondary to him, but he put a lot of importance on artifacts as their importance was higher than even awakened humans.

There were two types of artifacts, both formed through different means. One type was called the Blessed Artifacts while the other was called the Cursed artifacts.

In simple words, artifacts were the amalgamation of an awakened human's ability and emotions. Negative emotions gave birth to cursed artifacts while the blessed ones were formed from positive emotions.

The emotions had to be extremely strong and the last condition was for the awakened user to die.

Due to these strict conditions, finding artifacts was extremely hard. On top of this, the number of blessed artifacts were very low compared to their cursed counterparts but this just increased their value.

Cursed artifacts were called cursed for a reason and it was because, while the artifacts granted various powers to people, they also came with serious drawbacks such as reduced life span for each use, losing eye sight, etc.

Blessed artifacts on the other hand, had no negative effects and this was another reason why their value was so high up.

'Let's just hope that he gets something valuable. She should have pissed off the princess of Morose almost an year ago, so there's a high chance of seeing Vincent escape scot-free. But if he does get punished, then it's a direct ticket to the gladiator ring so there's no problem there.' he thought as he switched from text to video mode.

Vincent stared at the quest notification with depressed look on his face, "You're sending me out to such a dangerous mission and I only get two free upgrades? This is just unfair!"

'Indeed, it is unfair. But that's just life isn't it?' he thought as he sent out a message, not trying to explain his plans and instead, he simply gave Vincent the pill of truth.

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[Quest Update: Upon ignoring the quest, user will permanently lose access to the system.]

"Wha... this is just.. damn it!" Vincent cursed, but Keith just watched as he knew how much he would have to invest into Vincent in the future to quickly make him a strong fighter.

This needed a lot of money and resources, which he had no plans on emptying his own pockets for.

'I'll use the money you give me for your sake. Though, I'll pocket some for myself.'

Keith didn't regret his actions as the value of getting a permanent boost to one's strength was incomparably more valuable than money in his eyes.

He watched Vincent throw a tantrum, but didn't bother responding as he had expressed his thoughts directly. The rest was in Vincent's hands.

It took Vincent a few minutes to gather his thoughts and he finally agreed.

'Human greed knows no bounds. Luckily this guy is smart.' Keith thought as he smiled and switched the screen back to text mode.

Vincent sat in the room he had rented for a day and let out a defeated sigh, 'If I refuse, I'll lose the chance of getting strong. If that happens, there's no way I can get my revenge against Fabian and I also won't be able to pay Keith back for his help.

But in case I manage to fulfill the quest requirements, I should be able to get quite a lot of money which I can use to upgrade my physique and then I can use the free upgrades to improve my strength even more.

I probably would have a choice if I didn't piss off the system administrator.... haaaa, I don't want to lose my lovely system so I'll do anything to keep it. Even then, maybe I should show some kind of resistance towards the system administrator, or he'll just push me around.'

Keith could easily read his thoughts, so he simply chuckled and shook his head, 'Have fun trying. But don't worry, I won't give you a dangerous quest like this for a few months.'

He then glanced at his other screen and focused on the numbers beside the Tax Timer.

00 Days: 00 Hours: 12 Minutes: 19 Seconds

'Welp, time to take some tax for now.' he mused as he recalled the amount of money he had made through his indirect betting.

'There's no need for money right now, so I'll try picking something else.'

Minutes slowly passed by and once the timer hit zero, he immediately checked his options before grinning.

'Looks like I can pick one of his skills.' he thought as he read through Vincent's stats and skill information.

[Vincent's current stats:]

Physique: Grade C

Genetic Physique Type: Endurance

Awakening Status: Awakened

[Battle God's Body]

Battle Instinct: Grade D

The more you fight, the more you learn from the fight. This knowledge will be permanent and cannot be erased under normal circumstances.

Battle God's Regeneration: Grade E

Improves stamina recovery and boosts the rate of regeneration of wounds.

[Unarmed Combat Arts]

Fists of Steel: Grade E

Increases the hardness of your arms from the fingers to the elbows, directly improving their defence and offence.

Red Hot Fists: Grade E

Increases the internal heat of your arms, making them resistant to flames and heat.

'Currently, my physique is only slightly worse that Vincent's so there's no point in picking that one. Battle instinct is a good option, but it won't really help me out as much as Battle God's Regeneration as I'll be in the training camp.

Based on what Edward said, they'll mostly focus on physical training and won't give too much importance to combat. Both skills under unarmed combat are the same as they won't really help me as much as regeneration will.' he thought before picking Battle God's Regeneration.