Chapter 1868: It Has To Be Worth It.
His hands were shaky at the prospect of cutting himself, but he didn't drop the sword. He stretched out his left hand and sliced through it with the sword.
The pain was instantenous and ravenous. It wanted to eat and become his whole existence.
There was something different about it compared to the normal pain in the game. It felt more like his arm was burning to ashes.
He could feel his arm still there despite being cut off. Only that something invisible was burning his invisible arm until he lost sensation of his arm completely.
He fell face first and allowed himself to cry. The pain was so great that he rolled around on the ground and cried for an unknown amount of time. The gods found it amusing. Many of them snickered and laughed.
He didn't stop crying until he stopped feeling his lost arm completely. The burning sensation had also stopped. When he came, he was already in his room back on earth. There was also a notification in front of him.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
-You have received the Swordman Class.
-You have unlocked the stat screen.
He smiled when he saw this. "I was right. Sacrifices do work."
This victory made his pain feel a little better. His smile only faltered when he tried to stand from his bed and realized that he didn't have two arms to help him up.
He went online immediately to confirm his theory. It was then that he found the news about the many people that had died in the third survival trial.
Apparently so many deaths had caused an outcry. But that outcry went without the proper response. What the Heavenly Corperation did was release the video of the Superman who was immune to bullets. It was the video he saw before he did his research about how to please gods.
Many people had called the video fake. He too was skeptical about it. But not anymore. He is a true believer now.
He didn't complain anymore about the loss of his arm after seeing that many people had lost their lives. Not only would complaining not change anything, but the heavenly cooperation can make the case that they warned him about the extent of damage he would go through before he cut his arm.
He made up his mind instead of giving up. "I have reached this point. It is of no use giving up now."
His days in God's Domain became busy after that. He had to fight off the lady and her friends that came looking for him. He also had to manage exercising with only one arm.
His life became full of challenges one way or the other. It only became worse when he returned to the real world.
He didn't need to eat, go to toilet, or have his bath in God's Domain. So while the lack of a arm was bad and difficult to get used to in God's Domain, it couldn't compare to the stress he was experiencing on earth.
He could only tell himself that it was going to be worth it. That's the best thing he could think of to encourage himself. It worked in that it made him refuse to give up. He worked even harder in God's Domain. Not even the absence of his left arm could hold him back.
He is like a gambler who has gone too far. He needs something to make up for everything he has lost. Giving up now will mean everything he has lost will go in vain. So he decided to continue gambling.
He spent most of his time in the weapon training facility. It is the facility that trains weapon usage, or, as Ragna said, "the skilled usage of weapons, not the usage of weapons by blundering fools."
He didn't have any training points to buy the advanced training access, so he had to settle for the basics. It included going through the motions of cut, slash, stab, and block.