Experiments

After Sion gave Augustus a run down on how the world works there, he proceeded to train Augustus for an entire week to let his lord familiarize himself with his new abilities.

Day 1

If Augustus wasn't running through a swamp full of Acid Toads that day, then Sion would have made Augustus eat plants and animals that were either extremely sour or extremely bitter to make sure that Augustus's Corrosion Resistance was working.

"Senior Sion, help! The Sour Match Bear you told me eat is corroding me from the inside! Gah! I can feel the stomach acid within me adding fuel to the fire!" Augustus clutched his stomach tightly as smoke was wafting out of his body.

Day 3

If Augustus wasn't being boiled alive in the deep depths of a volcano, Sion would be pouring cooking oil on Augustus in his sleep before lighting him on fire to make sure his burning resistance was working.

"Argh!!! I'm on fire! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off! GET IT OFF!!!!"

Day 6

If Augustus wasn't being mauled by black bears or getting scratch to pieces by a horde of red eye baboons, Sion would have made Augustus run through the forest naked to let him familiarize with his own body along with his pain reduction skill.

"Aaaahhh! Why must I be chased by Fire Wolves?! I can't outrun them!" Augustus wailed as he could sense that the Fire Wolves were closing in on him.

'Just shut up and run.' Sion scolded.

After escaping from the pack of Fire Wolves and returning to his little shack on the hill, the exhaustion he felt from the entire week hit Augustus like a truck.

He collapsed onto his hay bed before falling asleep.

Sion who was watching and instructing Augustus this entire time couldn't help but show a warm smile. 'You've done well, my lord. It's time we move on to the next phase of the plan.'

Day 7

'You're currently 10% stronger than an average human but still weaker than a 1st stage Body Tempering cultivator. As a member of the Undead, by making you go through all of this rough training, I'm actually helping you to get used to your body as well as make sure that your passive skills are working without fault.'

Sion explained as Augustus devoured an entire mountain boar raw which he had hunted in the morning.

'Are you sure you're not gonna cook that?'

"After becoming an undead, germs and bacteria don't affect me anymore. Although the taste and smell are both disgusting and rancid respectively, I want to quickly leave this forest and explore the world ahead..."

Hearing Augustus's thoughts from a corner in the Underworld, Sion soon revealed a thoughtful look.

'This dude is willing to eat his last meal raw just so he can escape my experimentations quickly. Hahaha, I never knew my lord was this naïve...'

"Uhm, you do know that I can hear your thoughts, right?" [Augustus]

'Oh...shiet.' [Sion]

As August recalled those bittersweet memories of his, his gaze unexpectedly fell upon an ordinary looking youth with the most ordinary hairstyle and ordinary look.

The youth was swiping his finger at the empty space in front of him.

Curious, August put down his spoon before focusing his gaze on the ordinary looking youth.

'He seems to be swiping air? Or is he practicing the legendary Omnibeast Swiping Art made by a renown Foxman thief named Swiper?' August wondered.

Swiper the Foxman created the Omnibeast Swiping Art in hopes that he could resist the beguiling art of his sworn nemesis, Dora the Blind Explorer.

Just as he was about to steal something precious every time, it was his sworn nemesis Dora who came in and snatched it away from him time and time again.

After perfecting the art, Swiper managed to gain the upper hand and swiped away Dora's flower and thus, they ended up getting married before they were both assassinated by Dora's cousin, Diego.

This was also the most bullshit story August has ever heard in his past life.

Seeing that he couldn't perceive what the other party was interacting with, August blinked his right eye twice before his right vision became 100 times sharper and 10 times clearer than before.

This was his active skill - Crimson Right Eye.

The Crimson Right Eye was an active skill bestowed upon by Sion when he successfully hunted down and killed 100 J-grade Crimson Kingfishers.

Upon activation of the skill, Augustus' right pupil will turn into a vertical slit as his right field of vision turns crimson red.

Squinting his eyes at the ordinary looking youth once again, August was able to perceive the minute changes of the youth's facial expression yet he couldn't see what the youth was interacting with.

Feeling frustrated within his heart, August was about to activate another one of his perception skills when Sion's voice popped in.

'Stop wasting your energy, that youth is a system user.'

"A system user? What's that?"

'It's a type of cultivation resource where it gives the user quests and rewards after completing those quests. The rewards they'll gain after completing the quests varies with the difficulty of the quests itself. Most systems were made with no pain, no gain, this saying in mind.'

Listening to Sion's explanation, August couldn't help but ask, "Then, how do I get a system of my own?"

'Either code one yourself using the Laws of the Heavenly Dao, or die with a lot of regrets in mind and pray that your soul will be chosen to be reincarnated into another world with a system.' [Sion]

"Then, couldn't you code one for me before killing me?" [August]

'F*ck no! Do you know how painful it is to even code the initial interface of the system? Adding up with the status increases, status balance, connecting the Inventory to another space and thinking up quests and rewards...There is no f*cking way I'm ever gonna code one out! Not unless you bring me to the core of a system, hehehe.' [Sion]

Hearing that the great Ghost God might be able to give him a system if he brought his great senior a system core, August became excited.

But his mood soon returned to normal as he wondered to himself, 'Where would I even get that?'

After his meal, August dragged his worn down body to his room on the 2nd floor of the tavern.