NOVEL WEB Chapter 5: The System
Inside an office located in one of the highest buildings in the city, a woman sat behind a desk.
Her elegant white short gown exposed most of her cleavage, revealing her round G-cup breasts. Her jet-black long hair poured across her shoulders, and her fiery dark eyes stared intensely at the two men standing before her.
They were trembling, as if it was hard just standing before this woman. This woman was one of the three bosses of the Triad—the elegant Madame Freya.
The men did not dare to utter another word until she spoke.
"What do you mean he survived? Didn't you confirm he was dead?"
"W-we… did, but it… seems like he managed to get to a hospital."
"Shut the hell up!" She slammed her fist on the desk, her eyes raging with fire. "How can you fuck up a simple no-brainer task like this?"
"All you had to do was kill two defenseless people, and you couldn't even do that. I don't know how you both became officers," she hissed.
The other officer, who had been quiet all this time, finally spoke. "Don't worry, Madame. We will make sure to fix our mistake before it causes you any problem."
But his words only seemed to make her even more irritated. "I said you should shut up. Do you even know what would happen if Angel was to hear that I was involved?"
"It would cause a full-scale war between the Yellowsaber gang and the Triad. You have to kill that boy before Angel's men can get to him. Do you understand me?"
The two men bowed their heads in shame, unable to meet her gaze. "Yes, Madame."
"Now go, before I skin you both alive," she added with disgust.
Shortly after, another man stepped in. He was at least six feet tall, with sleek blonde hair and a handsome face.
"Is anything the problem, Madame?"
"It's fine, James. I'm just a bit stressed out."
"Then maybe I can help you with that." He unbuttoned his shirt, revealing a body straight out of the movies. His muscles were well-defined and taut, like that of a model—perfect, without a single flaw.
"Thank you, but I'm not in the mood right now. Send some men to assist those two idiots."
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Back at home, Vincent was busy studying his new system.
From what he understood so far, the system was actually capable of changing anything about him—from his appearance to his strength and so on. It was truly a path to a new world.
With this, all his days of suffering were over. He could choose to do whatever he wanted using this cheat system. The only requirement was pain, and fortunately for him, it didn't even have to be his pain.
[Current Upgraded Stats]
[Regeneration: +41]
[Endurance: +40]
[Points: 0]
The system didn't give him a particular number for his stats but would instead show him the ones he had improved and how many points had gone into it.
"Both my endurance and regeneration have increased."
But he couldn't really notice the effects at the moment, although he was sure that was the only reason he was able to survive last night's encounter.
The doctor had said he was healing at an incredible rate, but it probably wasn't at a superhuman level. If it were, they wouldn't have let him go so easily. They could have easily attributed everything to a lucky miracle.
So that helped him analyze that it would take a while before he would be able to increase it to an unnatural level.
That was just the theory—he still needed to actually see it happen to believe it.
He went to the kitchen and took out a sharp knife. This was the only way to properly understand the limits of his new ability.
"Ow," he winced.
A sharp pain flushed through his body as he made a small cut on his hand.
[Mild pain extracted: +6 points]
"Hmmm, so it's not always the same."
That made sense. He couldn't compare what he felt from getting shot to this.
"So there's some kind of scale for measuring the pain. System, can you show it to me?"
[Sure thing, here's the list:]
Level 1: Mild Pain (1–15 points)
Description: Noticeable but tolerable. A dull ache or light discomfort.
Level 2: Moderate Pain (16–35 points)
Description: Persistent and harder to ignore. Sharp or throbbing at times.
Level 3: Severe Pain (36–60 points)
Description: Intense and dominating. Focus is often pulled toward the pain.
Level 4: Excruciating Pain (61–85 points)
Description: Overwhelming and often accompanied by involuntary reactions (crying, shaking, etc.).
Level 5: Catastrophic Pain (86–100 points)
Description: The highest level. All-consuming, often described as "unimaginable." May cause loss of consciousness or shock.
The list provided the points that accompanied each level of pain, so it was easy to grasp.
"I got 81 points from getting shot, so that is what counts as excruciating," he nodded in understanding.
After a few seconds, Vincent noticed something else.
"The cut has totally healed!"
He stared at his hand in surprise. It was a small cut, but he didn't expect it to completely heal on its own.
"T-this is incredible!" A wide grin tore across his face.
He also noticed that the pain from the bullet wound had greatly reduced. "But I shouldn't take off the bandages just yet."
But that wasn't the point. The point was that the system was super efficient. If just a few points in regeneration and endurance could do this for him, then who knows what else this system could do.
The system said he could change anything by extracting pain—what if he could really change anything he wanted? The whole world was simply one grasp away.
Just then, there was a knock on the door.