NOVEL WEB Chapter 172: Dread or Rich
[MoonWhoEatHerself was trying to send you 1.2 million causalties]
[Do you accept]
[yes]
[No]
Without thinking about anything, with a broad smile etched on his face, Leon quickly accepted the causalties transfer.
His fingers tingled with anticipation as he clicked the option, the faint electric hum of the system brushing against his skin.
heheh I had to rob an entire kingdom to get 600k causalties and now in one go without doing much I got 1.2 million
[1.2 million causalties had been added to your account]
Then another message came, which made his eyes bulge in excitement and shock.
[LimbDealer was trying to send you 6.7 million causalties]
[Do you accept]
[yes]
[No]
Fucking hell, LimbDealer sure is rich
Leon didn't feel anything wrong with these numbers. He had experienced firsthand how the value of causality changes for the same platinum bar, so they should be adjusted to the realms.
Otherwise, the 790 million price for the divine item would be too cheap.
He accepted the causalties once again with a broad smile on his face while rubbing his hands.
[6.7 million causalties had been added to your account]
Seeing the message, he couldn't help but his body shook in joy.
A tremor of exhilaration ran down his spine, his shoulders twitching with laughter he barely managed to contain.
The air seemed to vibrate with his excitement, the taste of triumph almost sweet on his tongue.
"7.9 million causalties in such a short time, it won't be long before I get my hands on the divine treasure worth 790 million"
He had already collected more than 1% percent of the total.
Leon's palms warmed as he rubbed them together, unable to suppress the childlike giddiness bubbling beneath his calm facade.
And he was still not done yet.
He didn't even know what other hundreds of people had done wrong, but he didn't care. He just had to give his punishment and get the fair kek compensation he deserves.
He just had to act it out.
Elemental Paragon:
@MoonWhoEatHerself and @LimbDealer, you have been given your chance. It will be up to you how you follow it through to the end or not. I am merciful, but that doesn't mean I give another chance.
Your Fate lies in your own hands now.
MoonWhoEatHerself:
My Lord, I will not disappoint you
She knew those 1.2 million causalties might not be much to him, but it was only due to his kindness that she had survived today; she could never ever think of failing to fulfil his kind demands. She might forget her own name, but never the price she had to pay for her sins.
LimbDealer:
I will never forget your generosity, my Lord.
Leon looked at their responses, his brow furrowed, lips parting as he searched for logic in their reverent replies, unable to grasp the depth of their fear.
He had understood they were too terrified of Lords and him, the one they thought was a Lord also, but didn't understand what these Lords had done to make them act like such docile creatures.
They are all immortal beings, likely similar to a God in his current world.
Who cares, I just had to fill my pocket nicely.
Asking for such a thing would definitely bring suspicion to him, so Leon doesn't care at all.
Elemental Paragon:
Good
Now he moved on to those hundreds of others who, for some reason, were also begging for his forgiveness earlier.
Fuck I don't know what they are guilty of to begin with!
But surely I won't be as bad as these two, who had directly disrespected me because of their ignorance.
He would be shooting his shot in the air; he just hoped no one would be suspicious of him.
I have to sound confident and overbearing.
Taking a deep breath and having a few moments of thought, Leon finally decided on their punishment also.
He had no interest in harming; he just wanted causality, the more the better, but he couldn't go too hard this time.
Whatever they had done couldn't be equal to those before.
Elemental Paragon:
For those who have also made mistakes, please submit 25% of your current causalties to me. You must also submit 25% of the monthly casualty earned forever.
Do you accept your punishment?
After sending the message, Leon held his breath in fear and anticipation. There were hundreds of them now. What if someone disrespected him directly or, in the worst case, challenged him? From what he had seen, it would likely not happen.
But who knew, some psycho might be present in here.
A bead of sweat trickled down his temple, and the silence seemed to press in on his ears, heavy and suffocating.
----
The six other Supremes of the Divine realms, who were currently observing the exchange, felt that this Lord was quite humble. He even gave these lowly pests a chance to accept; a formality on his part, but it only underscored his humility.
Even the punishment given by him seemed to them like a light slap, their memory still sharp with the day when the whole planet was frozen in time and space with thousands of Lesser Divinity, hundreds of Greater Divinity, along with a few Prime Divinity like them.
The memory of icy, suffocating stillness clawed at their minds—the world suspended in eerie silence, every breath crystallising in reality.
Especially, they can never forget the actual death of Supreme like them, not any Prime Divinity.
And the millions and millions of other humans inside the planet, she didn't even care. She froze everything in her masterful brilliance of time and space without even blinking twice.
Lord Elemental Paragon seemed too generous and kind.
But one thing they did understand from this exchange—this Lord sure loves causalties quite a lot, they can't understand his thinking as causality can only do so much, yet knowing this, all of them think there had to be something, even a Lord showing interest in them.
Or it could be that it was used as a means to make them feel punished. Either way, even for the tiniest bit of possibility, their interest in researching those causalities which no one even cared about arose now, because of the new Lord Elemental Paragon, they think they might find some secrets about them, if they understood them well.
Besides the current understanding they have of them.
----
Leon's worry was unjustifiable as he could now only see the golden screen blur past, with messages like "Thank you for your generosity", "I am forever grateful", like them.
That wasn't just with their messages. Along with them, hundreds of notifications from the system were popping up in front of him.
His vision blurred under the barrage of golden flashes, the sharp chime of each alert stinging his ears like melodies.
"Hahahahaha!!"
This made Leon burst into laughter, his whole body brimming with joy.
Laughter erupted from his chest, raw and unrestrained, his hands clenched together as his body shook with glee.
As in one go, with just his thought, he accepted all the gifts they were giving him.
[A Total of 187.5 million causalties had been added to your account.]
Seeing the number, another full-blown laughter couldn't help but burst out of him.
"Hahahaha, I am rich! kek kek"
But his laughter was cut short, and a feeling of dread washed over his entire body down to his single cells.
It was replaced by a cold weight settling in his gut. A chill prickled up his arms as the new message seared across his vision.
[Lord of Illusion and Mystery had joined the chat.]
A sudden, icy draft swept through the air, raising goosebumps across his skin. His pulse slowed, as if time itself had thickened.