Gains and Losses

Diving through the wall, Pro barely made it back at the 2 seconds mark.

Pro then tumbled back weakly and sat on his butt on the living room floor.

"W-what happened to me?" Pro muttered as his face scrunched up in fatigue.

Pro grabbed his dizzy head as he stared blankly at the ceiling. He then sighed in melancholy, "Revenge ... it's so sweet, but yet so dangerous. If I had lost myself in it ..."

Thinking about the ending of all the revenge seekers in the novels he read, Pro had a sad smile, "Revenge usually doesn't lead to a happy ending does it?"

Pro took a deep breathe before he weakly got up, "Fortunately, the death timer woke me up ... or else I might have turned into an irrational monster."

Pro weakly dragged himself into his bathroom and entered the toilet to recover. He spent a much longer time in there than usual, but he still felt a bit wrong after fully recovering.

Pro felt a shiver as he fearfully thought about his insanity and the close call from death. Even now, he still felt a weird rage inside of him, and he had to forcefully suppress it. Pro thought for a bit before he swiftly went into the bedroom to get Alice's assistance in helping him douse the fire.

After 'recovering' until he felt the weird rage inside him was completely gone, Pro sat in the chair at his desk while feeling refreshed.

He then glanced at his status screen that was stacked with notifications. Staring at his system notifications with a wry smile, Pro began to calculate his gains and losses.

"I originally had 950 points. I first repaired my domain with 100 points so that I can expand my domain. Then, I expanded towards the bedroom which docked 200 points, then I forcefully expanded towards the bathroom which cost 400 points. This brought my total down to 250 points," Pro muttered with a painful smile, "What a loss, that could have been an extra small room! But it was necessary. If anything, I was fortunate I was even allowed to do so or smashing the mirror may be much more difficult. For one thing, I might not have done it within the time limit of 5 minutes."

Moving on to the next set of notifications, Pro then saw that his domain still needed repair due to the final struggle of the evil spirit. He could only helplessly spend the points on repair, "Repair domain."

[Consuming 50 life points to repair the barrier of the domain ...]

[Domain barrier repaired.]

Next, Pro saw his reward for killing the evil spirit.

[Host has eliminated an intruder in your domain. Domain is now absorbing the remains of the intruder ...]

[Absorption completed. Intruder was determined to be a Mid-Level Baleful Spirit. System Library updated with new info.]

[After absorbing a powerful spirit, host gains 800 life points.]

"Sweet, that recovers the cost of the expansion plus repairs and gives me an extra 50 points!" Pro exclaimed in excitement, "It was definitely worth it to expand my domain over before I killed the evil spirit. If I hadn't, I would have lost out of 800 points in addition to its memories!"

Checking the system library, Pro saw the profile of the female evil spirit.

[Name] Unknown

[Gender] Female

[Life Details] The spirit has clear memories of when ...

As Pro read the biography of the spirit, his mouth couldn't help but twist in disgust. The evil spirit was originally a police officer when she was alive; however, her mind was distorted as she enjoyed secretly torturing criminals. Her favorite thing to do was to lay out plans to trap 'criminals' and then arrest them before playing with them under the guise of interrogation. Her colleagues gave her the nickname, the 'Spider', the leaders above didn't take action as she had a powerful background.

However, karma eventually came back to smack her on the face. She planned a trap for a seemingly innocent 'criminal' like usual, but she ended up kicking an iron plate. The seemingly innocent 'criminal' was actually a woman who was tortured and lived in despair. She was originally prepared as a sacrifice by the elder of the Black Death Society in order to replenish the spirit farm. However, the police woman disrupted this plan. So, the elder decided to make the police woman 'disappear'.

With that, the evil spirit woke up in the mirror of room 444's bathroom after recalling being drowned in the bathtub nearby. She watched in fear as the elder in black robe left. The evil spirit slowly bid her time in the mirror and slowly got stronger. It wasn't long before she was able to break out of the mirror as a baleful spirit.

She then began exploring, and it wasn't long before she discovered a surprise in room 446 next to her. She discovered the lingering spirits of her innocent 'criminal' targets! Her evil desires arose and she didn't let them off. After arduous torture of the spirit and infusing her , the spirits were meshed together to form a spider monster, which she trapped in the bedroom as a pet and guardian.

That was about all the memories of grudge she had. Even though she wanted revenge on the elder, the evil spirit had an instinctual fear of the elder, and every time a man in a black robe comes, she always hid the deepest. She even conquered a secondary possession object in room 446 as a retreat plan. Who would have known that it came in handy when she attracted the attention of an exorcist. She managed to escape to the her second possession object; however, she was still injured badly and needed to recover.

Pro raised his eyebrow as he learned this new info, "It's possible to have a second possession object? And this evil spirit actually had the intelligence to find it? What the hell? She had the smarts to do that, but didn't have to smarts to let me sh*t before killing me?!"

Pro grumbled in anger for a bit before calming down, "Now that I think about it, there was a special option on the bathroom of apartment room 446 wasn't there?"

Pro strolled through the rooms and arrived at the bathroom of apartment room 446. He then checked the info for the room.

[Room Name] Charred Bathroom

[Room Category] Small

[Specialty] Extra Toilet

"Extra Toilet?" Pro muttered as he searched it up in the system library.

[Extra Toilet] An extra toilet for sh*t to go in. It will also serve as a secondary possession object for the host. If host's main possession object is destroyed, the secondary possession object will become host's main possession object. Host can also recover in the secondary possession object.

Pro's eyes sparkled in excitement, "An extra life! Not bad! Although no one has figured out that the toilet is my possession object so far, someone will probably be able to do so someday. When that time comes, I will be in danger, but now I have this life saving trump card."

Pro then glanced at his updated status screen.

[Name] Pro Ye

[Title] None

[Level] Top-Level Baleful Spirit

[Yin Energy] 500/500

[Possession Object] Toilet

[Abilities]

Toilet Attraction, Constipation, Toilet Paper Illusion, Bathroom Illusion, Yin Claws, Spirit Isolation, Master Key, Pain in the Ass, System Library, Extra Toilet(1)

[Domain]

Small Bathroom(444), Small Bedroom(444), Small Charred Bedroom(446), Small Charred Bathroom(446), Medium Living Room and Kitchen(444)

[Life points] 1000

"It seems that the apartment room number is now attached to the room name. Also, Extra Toilet 1? It counts the extra toilets I have ... does that mean that I can have even more extra lives as I collect even more toilets?!" Pro exclaimed in shock before calming down, "That's the best case scenario, but I'm sure there is a limitation somewhere. Maybe the bathroom design has to meet a certain requirement? Otherwise, the female evil spirit will truly be difficult to kill assuming she conquered all the mirrors on the floor. Fortunately, there was no such thing in her memories."

Glancing out at the charred living room of apartment 446, Pro then checked the expansion price, "Expand to living room?"

[Expansion Name] Charred Living Room and Kitchen(446)

[Room Category] Medium

[Expansion Cost] 1000 Life points

"As expected, 1000 points. I do have enough for an immediate upgrade, but that will bottom out my points. If my domain gets invaded by someone powerful, I might really capsize if I can't repair the domain. Not only that, I might even let the invaders or visitors escape," Pro concluded as he decided not to upgrade, "I just need to wait a bit and harvest a bit more points from the service workers first. Then, I can expand."

Pro then went back to his bedroom to begin making calls in order to schedule more service workers. After more than a week of harvesting this set of leeks, Pro started to notice a sharp decline in the amount of successful schedules he could make. It was unknown if the word got around or simply because he already called all the workers, but the coming days, Pro's schedule was slowly starting to free up.

"I guess I'll have to find another point source again. I can't harvest the same people over and over again or they will eventually discover something is wrong. Then, I will have no choice but to kill them. This will attract attention, but even if I let them go, I will still draw attention," Pro sighed as he scratched his head in frustration.

"Although it seems the police force won't come to bother here, I still have to worry about the organization behind that exorcist I saw the other day. Based on my understanding from the collected memories and recent events, those organizations won't intervene unless the situation involves death that passes a certain threshold or the local police calls for help."

As Pro touched on this topic, he couldn't help but think, "Then, why did they come for the evil female spirit? That was only one death, and it is an unknown nobody me."

As Pro thought longer and harder about it, he couldn't help but frown grimly, "It seems that it is truly not a coincidence that I'm here. Some unknown being has secretly pushed for this to happen."

Pro ruffled his own hair in frustration, "Ugggg, that's not something I should worry about for now. In the end, if I don't want to be under the control of others, I will need to get strong enough."

Seeing the sparse sunlight slowly spilling through the window, Pro pushed these problems aside and got ready for work, "Another day of harvest begins once more."

Tidying up the mess caused by the fight in the living room, Pro then went to retrieve the gun he left behind in room 446's bathroom and stashed it back into the kitchen drawer after reloading it. Pro counted 17 rounds left in the box before putting away the ammo box. Seeing the smoke cleared out, Pro shut the front door of both apartment rooms. With that, Pro was ready to welcome visitors to Toilet Wonderland.

"Hopefully they won't complain that the hallway is too smoky ..."

After another day of work, Pro only harvested 120 points as he couldn't fully book his schedule.

"However, this is enough safety net for an expansion. Pro then glanced at the living room of room 446 from the room 446's bathroom, "Expand to living room and kitchen."

[Expansion Name] Charred Living Room and Kitchen(446)

[Room Category] Medium

[Expansion Cost] 1000 Life points

[Are you sure you want to add Medium Charred Living Room and Kitchen to your domain?]

"Yes!"

[Deducting 1000 points. Expanding domain, please wait ...]

[Expansion completed. Current host domain size: 4 small rooms, 2 medium room]

[Congratulations to host for assimilating a complete set of Charred Apartment Rooms into host's domain. Host gains a special bonus, 5% resistance to fire damage, in host's domain.]

"Oh, a special set bonus! Never knew that existed, but it's better than nothing, so I won't complain. Also, I finally meet the domain requirements to upgrade to a blood spirit!" Pro exclaimed in excitement, "It seemed so far away, but now it's already so close. Of course, I still need to grind the largest chunk of points for the upgrade, a total of 2500 of it. But now, the points from my harvest is dwindling. I will need to find a new source soon ..."

Pro returned to his bedroom and began to come up with new income streams as he sat in front of his computer.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

"Huh?!" Pro sat up in shock due to the sudden gun shot sounds, "It seems to be coming from downstairs?"

Peeking out the window, Pro saw the empty street, but as he continued to listen carefully, he could faintly hear human voices coming from below. Besides occasional gun shot sounds, there were also flashes of light that Pro felt a bit of danger from.

"Could it be that mystics are here?"