Chapter 4: Exchange [2]

With his glowing eyes, one as dark as the night itself and the other brighter than the sun itself, black and scarlet, Theos stepped forward.

"I want to be the most powerful to rule all, I want to be the ruler of all... I want to be the epitome of excellce."

"And for that, I want to trade with you."

Theos' statemt was another tse momt in the room.

But Theos did not take a step back: silce was nothing to him, it was impossible to disturb his determination.

'If I fail here, I'll never get out alive,' he thought to himself with a certain fear in the depths of his being, but more than determined to prove his worth against the tity of hidd infinite mysteries he could never discover.

A blood-red eye glowed in the darkness. No, it was not Theos' eye, but one that pierced the darkness.

The eye stared at Theos, its size t times that of Theos' body.

"Ugh," another mouthful of blood spewed out of Theos' mouth after he stared at the big eye staring at him.

"Huh? Who am I?" he wondered in confusion. His gaze, full of determination, vanished and was replaced by one of fear of the unknown, the terror of not knowing who he was.

His memories were erased as if they were part of his imagination; every image, every difficult situation he had faced... everything was forgott as if it were nothing.

His confused face turned into one with a childish expression, staring at the Scarlet Eye with curiosity.

After all, it was the first thing he saw after losing all his memories.

"Ugh," he spat out another mouthful of blood from his lips, his legs weaking, but his willpower demanded that he not kneel.

But out of the innocce of his ignorance, he didn't know where he was. He could only stand there; he could not ev remember how to speak; he ev forgot how to stand. All he could remember was that he had to make an exchange, a deal, with the creature that now stood before him.

He did not kneel directly, it was only by sheer force of will, as if something inside him forced him not to kneel, no matter what.

"You are someone interesting, only two people have not knelt before me, but you have more merit... after all, the first person is more powerful than many gods!" the voice shouted, now sounding ev more indescribable.

Instinctively, Theos covered his ears with his hands, no longer wanting to list to the voice that sounded extremely deep and sharp at the same time, like a blunt knife trying to cut through steel and rock.

Taking a few steps forward, Theos found himself face to face with the large eye, which was now a few feet away.

"The Heroine Snatching System or whatever ordered you to be expelled from my body," Theos exclaimed.

[Are you sure, host?] A panel appeared in front of Theos, displaying the confirmation .

"Yes" confirming the command, a fist-sized transpart orb shot out from the cter of Theos' chest.

The orb passed smoothly through Theos' body and flew high into the dark space.

"Okay, now it's your turn," he said, addressing the large eye in front of him.

Any object that remained in that space of infinite darkness automatically belonged to the tity in front of him. Only that tity would decide whether it would leave that space or not.

So he did not worry about the system being left wandering or ev feel a sse of loss or reluctance, knowing that what he would have next would be a thousand times better than the system.

"As we agreed, I grant you the ability to manipulate, create, and control negative ergy in its purest state," the voice said. Immediately, the large eye began to glow a deep blood red.

Like a sun that illuminates the darkest place, but is swallowed up by the darkness itself.

The darkness itself began to behave abnormally, as if it were the liquid itself, and th turned into smoke and th into small particles of darkness.

These small particles were attracted to Theo's body.

Unlike the rest of his surings, he did not ev move but blinked in confusion at everything that was happing a him. However, there was a cold smile in his heart.

The reason for Theos' calm and serity in this situation was that he knew that nothing could happ to him.

"All curses cannot break a deal by their mere pride, let alone this creature, it would not ev be capable of cheating," Theos concluded in his mind as he recalled the information about the curses in the original novel.

Soon the particles of darkness tered Theos' body, th his soul, and corrupted it.

His right eye began to turn into a kind of black hole, while his left eye looked like a sun, ev brighter than the Great Eye.

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