Fallen Corpse

Despite being shattered through every inch of his body, his tortured self, the old, cracked wooden room, his destroyed senses... He forgot all of that for a moment.

Frozen and shocked by what his eyes had fallen on.

It didn't take even a second until he felt a shiver running down his spine. An electric current coursed through his body, emanating from his mind which suffered from being mentally corrupted. In addition to the shocking revelation of the mysterious relics in front of him.

'Negative?! 1 whole million!! What is that supposed to mean?!'

Up until that moment, his sick, weakened mind kept focusing on just two relics.

[-1M SP] and [Survive!].

Although the [Survive!] relic disappeared before the [-1M SP] one had shown up, his mind still clung to it, struggling to keep it caught in his destroyed, shattered mind.

Realizing his current state, he knew that those relics had such deep logic hidden behind its luminous words... [Survive!] being connected to his-Not away from death-state while the other relic, his shattered mind couldn't comprehend what it meant or what was the purpose of showing itself to him.

'SP? What is that?' Forcing his mind to keep focusing on the relics, he spotted another two letters placed along each other, but he still couldn't do anything or even think! His mind wasn't capable of doing so.

At that moment at least.

The young man didn't know anything, his mind was some sort of an embodiment of corruption, and couldn't think as anyone normal could. Add to all of that, his fragile mere corpse that resembles that of a body.

He was just a fallen corpse, living with only suffering, and had to fulfill that main quest... Like his shattered body would be able to even lift a finger, he wouldn't even complete it if he was healthy enough! It's impossible to complete it no matter what happens.

...Maybe!

'Ugh! That pain. Am I just going to rest with all of that pain and can't do anything at all?! Damn! It!'

Anger and fury coursed through his veins as if they were in a race. Adrenaline rushed and joined them shortly after. Realizing the adrenaline rush in his veins along with his shattered heart, pumping blood faster... Of course, he felt his heart was going to explode from this small, tiny effort. He still didn't give that pain any attention.

'Damn it! Damn All Of This! I won't just sit like this... Trapped in this state for eternity!'

His anger reached its pinnacle as he channeled every bit of fury and adrenaline into his right arm. Squeezing his right arm's muscles, pain rushed and joined the others and brought adrenaline into a fierce fight. Eventually, adrenaline was much stronger because it had two allies who boosted its own effects. The victor was the adrenaline, causing pain to be bearable for a bit.

Only for a bit!

That was enough for him to give all of his might in an attempt to make his anger and fury drift away from his shattered mind... With a single punch!

With all of the power he could muster, all of the adrenaline he could control in his veins, and all of his anger, teamed up together to make him feel relieved for a bit. Finally, he pulled his right arm out of his torn blanket that covered almost all of his body and posed his arm to deliver a punch through the naked air with all of his might.

Squeezing his fragile muscles more and more, the pain was starting to get on its feet against adrenaline but it couldn't withstand the magical powers of its opponent.

"...aaaaAAHHHHHHHH"

Screaming with every bit of his damaged vocal cords, he delivered a blow into the air, releasing with it all of his suffering in one, single punch.

He felt relaxed, but only for a moment.

In fact, he was so relieved as all of his anger slightly drifted away from his corrupted mind.

"... Urgh! AHHHHHH!!"

He felt pain!

Not any pain!

Unbearable, horrific pain!

He felt like a gargantuan mountain fell on top of his shattered body, crushing and tearing every bit of his bones into some white powder under his skin, his veins exploded from that horrific pressure that struck them all at once.

Blood rushed out of his fragile body like it was freeing itself from a prison that enslaved them for a long time. His viscous red blood scattered everywhere, railing down on his skin, bathing him with the bed that he rested on.

Soon, he was bathed in a pool of blood!

It didn't take long until he fell unconscious... well, not just unconscious!

He Died!

All of his bones were broken and crushed, and his veins were torn apart from that devastating effort he made, despite being just a shattered corpse. Pain found its way to power up like it had found a mythical enchantment that gave such a horrific force, destroying the adrenaline alongside anger and fury. His body was a domain of pain, shattering and corrupting him furiously from head to toe.

His arm dropped helplessly, unable to have any power to keep it stable. Eventually, his body and his presence fell in utter silence.

The young man is Dead!

Ding!

***

Shortly after that torture, the young man went through, he woke up again... After his first Death!

For the second time, he slowly opened his eyes, struggling again to open them completely as they were only half-opened.

Scanning the interior of the room, he saw everything still in place, the wooden chair, the wooden table, and the wooden plate along with the opened window on his right.

Sounds of birds and waterfalls, everything was still in its place without any change.

The torn blanket that covered his fragile body and his shattered corpse with his corrupted mind didn't change either!

Wait...

'Huh?! What is that blood?' Indeed, he was bathed in a massive pool of blood that flowed everywhere from his exploded veins...

But how? he is fine now without any injuries! On the exterior of his body at least.

Although all of that blood was sticking to every inch of his body, he wasn't bleeding at that moment. His body was also the same as it was… shattered from within.

Once his consciousness came under his control, another familiar sound resounded in his shattered ears, but he still could hear it.

It was transmitted directly to his mind after all.

[Deaths: 1]

'Deaths?! What the hell! Did I die before?! Oh!' Finally, he could comprehend something with his corrupted mind. He died once and that adds up with the amount of blood he was bathed in. He shifted his gaze from the relic and looked upward only to see...

A familiar relic changed!

[-999K SP]