Reincarnated into a Doomed Novel as an Unknown Extra

"Argh…. Thankfully… no one is here."

I lay exhausted on the ground as the pain finally stopped.

For 20 minutes… I had to endure that pain with a towel in my mouth for 20 fucking minutes!

I thought that my pain resistance would be enough to resist the pain of the aether seed, but how foolish I was.

I felt like that seed shattered both my cores, devoured them slowly while burning my entire body, then planted itself in my brain aggressively.

'I'll… keep painkillers with me from now on.'

I wasn't a masochist protagonist for all this — and I wasn't planning to become one.

Anyway, I had finally used the aether core's seed after several hours of getting it.

I wanted to make sure that it wouldn't cause me any troubles in the future like turning me into a lab rat, but thankfully, Aria told me it was safe to use.

Why?

Because I wasn't the only one that got it.

Aria got one, Selene got one, and both Zephyr and Celestia got the same. Only Alfred didn't get that seed for some reason.

According to Aria, it was the most common reward from that show. The people that got rewarded weren't only those who chose Yami but also who chose someone that survived.

Additionally, in the land of challenges, Yami had encountered it once. It was the same core that the duchess had in her head. If he was joining the government, then he would probably give it to them.

In other words, there are enough lab rats out there. The real treasures I got were the other 3 items, which I wasn't planning to show.

I stood up with a groan, and decided to test my physical power.

Standing beside the closest dummy, I threw a direct punch.

*Bam!*

A small crack spread across the dummy's head, but it was the same as before. My physical power didn't change.

'Well, now for the aether…'

An unfamiliar colourless energy came out of my head and covered my hand. Clenching my fist, I threw another punch.

*BAM!*

This time, the crack was much wider, but it was almost equal to my normal enhanced punch. Unfortunately, the enhancement was the same.

'Now the magic.'

I made lightning aether and sent it to gather at the ceiling, then with a simple thought, it turned into purple lightning and struck the dummy, burning it in an instant.

Nothing changed.

That was probably why it was a common reward. It only saved me time and efforts because I'd need to just focus on one core.

No more of refining 2 cores separately.

No more switching into using aura because I didn't have enough mana.

No more fear of trying to cast a spell and end up using aura instead.

But the most important thing was that it could absorb the anti-mana, which would help me too much if I ended up in their territory.

Satisfied by the results, I took the talent Elixir from my storage and drank it immediately.

A bitter, colourless liquid entered my body. I closed my eyes, ready for any reaction or pain… but nothing happened.

No pain, no surge of power, and no reaction. I was confused by the result.

'Strange… maybe it's because the talent isn't really visible.'

The last thing to do was seeing the cosmic egg.

With just a thought, a black egg materialized on my hand. It didn't seem special if I ignored the fact that it was half my size.

I had to feed it my will, and what was the only thing in my body that had my will?

Obviously, my aether!

I channeled my aether into the egg, and immediately, it began to devour it like a black hole.

A few moments later, a smile spread across my face as it stopped devouring my aether.

'Let's hope that you hatch quickly.'

I was genuinely happy about this reward. I mean… who didn't want to be a father of a cute spirit girl?

There were many novels that I didn't drop just because of those adorable spirits.

Giving my future daughter one last kiss, I put her back in my storage again.

'Now all I have to do is to train until the academy starts. I hope that nothing else happens until then.'

Returning to my room and saying goodnight to Aria, I gave up to my exhaustion and let the darkness swallow me.

•••

'Everyone should be seeing the show today… it's the first day of the month.'

When I was leaving the Land of Challenges, only one place appeared in my mind…

My old home.

I didn't have family or real friends, and I wanted to use the time I had to rest properly, so I decided to return there.

Thankfully, despite that my room was a little chaotic, no one seemed to be living there.

The first thing I did when I returned was releasing Andrea and Maxwell from my abyssal pocket, and in an instant, they were pulled away so fast that I couldn't follow them.

That was a good sign. They were probably reincarnating. I was… so glad they were reincarnating. I hoped their new lives would be happier and better…

The next thing I did was checking my rewards after all that hell. Thankfully, I was left satisfied.

I got 5 Elixirs that could heal anything, no matter if it was physical or spectral.

I got a one-time use teleportation artifact that could send me to any place I visited before.

I got another soul Grimoire, but it contained more advanced knowledge and had information about my last talent, soul inscribing. It was the last thing I needed to start making soul-bound artifacts.

Additionally, I got a guide for the abyss. I finally understood what it was and how to enter it, but from what I had read — I'd get crushed into pieces if I tried to enter it now.

I got a new trait that was named abyssal authority, which gave me a shortcut to enter the abyss.

I got an item that fused all my traits into one single trait. All their effects remained in my new trait but were stronger.

Also a piece of paper that showed me all that and gave names to my traits before and after the fusion.

Then the last thing and the most interesting of them all — photos for 11 different people.

A boy and a girl. They had purple eyes and black hair with purple highlights.

A silver half-dragon girl.

A boy that had golden hair and a pair of golden eyes.

A boy that seemed to be an elf. He had long white hair and a pair of bloody red eyes.

A man covered in red fire that had flaming hair and orange eyes.

A girl that seemed to be blind judging by her eyes and had platinum blonde hair.

A male, humanoid, abyssal being with a pair of blackish blue horns that were shaped like a crown.

A woman with black hair and eyes which seemed to reflect the space itself.

A huge bald titan with blue skin and a pair of cold blue eyes.

And lastly, a woman that had a strange mist hiding her face, only revealing her long white hair.

Those were my VVIP and VIP viewers according to the description. I didn't know what I would do if I met one of them, but that was a matter for the future.

Now, I was sitting on the bed, eating a bunch of donuts. I didn't have my bracelet to buy them, and I didn't have anything to hide my face. So I stole them secretly.

'Glad that I can taste food…'

I didn't really need to eat, but that made me feel more like… a living human.

All of a sudden, as I was looking through the wall, I saw a woman in black suit approaching my room.

'They have finally seen it…'

Everyone probably knew that I won now. I had expected some visitors that would want to see if I returned to my home. But I didn't know which side they would belong to.

Thankfully, no one knew my rewards, so even if someone wanted me dead, they wouldn't attack me recklessly.

*Knock knock*

The woman knocked the door gently and asked:

"Are you… okay now?"

"Ye̷͠s̡." I answered simply, taking another bite of the donut as I asked: "And yờ̷͜͟u̸̷͟͜͝ are…?"

"Oh, let me introduce myself. I'm Amelia Black. I was sent by the government to ask you — do you still want to join us?"

I didn't hesitate to answer.

"Yes, I'll follow you now."

Her lips curled into a happy smile when she heard my answer. I stood up and grabbed Yamato from the bed.

There was a piece of blue paper beside it. It was the artifact I used to see the effects and the abilities of my new trait.

Unfortunately, I couldn't use it again.

'I don't need this anymore…'

With a small touch, the paper started to decay. Written in the middle of it was my new trait's name.

[Trait Name: Sovereign of the Abyss]

❖End of Volume 2: Sovereign of the Abyss❖