The Bug Bundle

Huvel was frustrated when something awakened in his pants while he was playing dead!

"Any sane person would be scared to death if they saw a dead boy with a boner!" He sighed inwardly.

He did not continue to peep at the current scenes and moved on. As he recalled his memories from his past life, Huvel came to learn that he liked males despite him being a male himself. There were many people like him in that world and they called themselves 'gays'. This finding deeply shocked Huvel. When he was younger, he noticed that he like to look at men, even much more than women. And that worried him very often.

He never knew relationship between two men could be a thing! Now that he knew, he felt relieved. Before, when he slept with prostitutes, he did not really feel good. He realized that his approach was wrong.

"Since it is a thing, can I be like the Goddess of the Underworld, being surrounded by many men? My father also has more than one wife anyway. But this thing might be very controversial for this world. And more importantly, will there be someone who want to be with me?

.....

Anyway, let's analyse the goddess's blessing for now. This blessing will decide my strength. My future plan will change depending on it."

When Huvel tried to decipher the 'Blessing of the Goddess of the Underworld' inscribed on his soul, it explained itself automatically in his mind. The blessing had four smaller components - a soul inscription called 'Death Excuse', Dark Prowess Key, Dark Grimoire, and Soul Detection.

Death Excuse was a spell inscribed on Huvel's soul. The spell linked his soul to his body very strongly that when he died of an accident and his soul left the body, the body would be reverted to its peak condition in 31 seconds and then, the soul would recombine with the body.

"... Eww... sound creepy!" Huvel thought. "But this must be the spell that brought me back to life! I don't even have a scar on my chest where I was stabbed and I don't feel weak at all now! Among the magic spells I've ever heard on this world, this must be the most ridiculous spell. It is basically a 'full revive' spell!"

"With this, I won't die even if I am killed!" He laughed inwardly.

But then, his face got gloomy again. "But it requires a huge amount of mana to keep the link between the soul and the body, and to revert the body to its peak condition. This time it used the goddess used her own mana to run the spell so I am really in my peak condition. But if I don't have enough mana on me, won't the link break? Or I might just die of blood loss when the injuries are not reverted because the mana is not sufficient!

My current mana capacity is nowhere near enough to even keep the soul link! I must work hard to increase my mana capacity. For now, I must always stay on guard. They used many types of poison in the past year and even had a maid stabbed me when the poisons did not work. There is no telling they won't do that again."

With such thoughts, Huvel decided to continue pretending the good-for-nothing idiot like before. He then looked through the other components of the blessing. The Dark Prowess Key was something mysterious that could immediately awaken Dark Prowess in someone, and the Dark Grimoire was the complete manual of the Dark Prowess! The last thing, Soul Detection, was a passive skill to detect the whereabout and the exact people of the incarnations of the goddess's lovers.

"This blessing is very OP, almost like a bug in games. From now on, I will call it 'Bug Bundle' - the Blessing of the Underworld Goddess Bundle!

Even so, this Dark Prowess Key is absurd! How can it awaken a prowess easily? Every magician in the world would vomit a mouthful of blood if they heard awakening a prowess is this easy. And this grimoire was a perfect guide to dark magic, something that humans could not make till this day even after the long history of magicians!

I feel bad that the Light Prowess that saved me multiple times from poisons might be destroyed by this Dark Prowess. But since there is a perfect guide for dark magic, I better practise Dark Prowess than Light Prowess!"

Huvel immediately used the Dark Prowess Key and awaken Dark Prowess in him. He felt something changed in his body which he could not tell what. But to his surprise, his Light Prowess that already existed was not replaced or deleted as he thought.

"Can this two opposite prowess really dwell in me without any conflict and danger? I need to broaden my knowledge on magic. For the starter, I'll study the basics of Dark Prowess first."

Unlike the four elemental magics - Fire, Water, Earth and Wind - that conjured visible masses or energies, dark magic could work both visibly and invisibly, physically and mentally.

"No wonder people want to forbid the use of dark magic!" Huvel exclaimed after skimming through some dark magic spells.

A high-tier dark magician could even perfectly enchant a person! That might be the main reason people despised dark magic. People are afraid of something they cannot see or understand. If a visible attack like [Fire Ball] flew to them, they could block or evade in some ways. But for the type of spells like mental attack, people did not know how to deal with them and thus they tried to exterminate the origin itself, the dark magicians, in the name of justice!

"Young master ... Young master..."

He was so lost in thought that he did not notice someone was already beside his unpleasant coffin. He was startled to hear someone called out for him but he still feinted dead.

"Young master, I'm ashamed! I could not protect you!" The owner of the voice continued, with a trembling voice.

"After mistress passed away, I made a promise in front of her grave that I'll protect young master from then on. But I failed... I failed miserably. When young master was ridiculed, even by the servants, for drinking too much wine, for playing too much with women, I could not protect you from the gossips. And now I could not even protect your very life! How can I show my face to mistress when I meet her in the afterlife?! Without mistress and young master, I don't deserve to live here. I want to apologize in advance that I cannot visit your grave after tomorrow.... hik... hik..."

Tears dropped from Karl's red eyes. He thought he would never cry again after his mother's death. But when he thought about the past and his poor young master, he felt nostalgic and could not control his tears.

Karl reached out his hand to Huvel's cheeks to touch the young master he loved like a little brother one last time. But then, suddenly, a cold hand firmly grabbed his!