GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Chapter 1868: It Has To Be Worth It.



His hands were shaky at the prospect of cutting himself, but he didn't drop the sword. He stretched out his left hand and sliced through it with the sword.

The pain was instantenous and ravenous. It wanted to eat and become his whole existence.

There was something different about it compared to the normal pain in the game. It felt more like his arm was burning to ashes.

He could feel his arm still there despite being cut off. Only that something invisible was burning his invisible arm until he lost sensation of his arm completely.

He fell face first and allowed himself to cry. The pain was so great that he rolled around on the ground and cried for an unknown amount of time. The gods found it amusing. Many of them snickered and laughed.

He didn't stop crying until he stopped feeling his lost arm completely. The burning sensation had also stopped. When he came, he was already in his room back on earth. There was also a notification in front of him.

-You have received the Swordman Class.

-You have unlocked the stat screen.

He smiled when he saw this. "I was right. Sacrifices do work."

This victory made his pain feel a little better. His smile only faltered when he tried to stand from his bed and realized that he didn't have two arms to help him up.

One of his arms had gone slack. It was still there, but he couldn't feel it or move it. This realization struck him like a thunderbolt. He remained frozen on his bed for a long while.

He was thinking to himself in panic and confusion, "But it was just a game."

He couldn't believe what had happened to him. Everything felt like a dream. It felt like he had a nightmare where he had to cut off his arm, but the nightmare followed him into the waking world.

Eventually, he recovered from his stupor and managed to stand. He tried to be hopeful and optimistic about his arm. But he had a sneaking suspicion that the game had changed his life forever.

That's why he said to himself, "This sacrifice for power must be worth it. If not for her, but for me."

This is the only way he can accept the loss. He must gain something very valuable in exchange for his arm, or his world will crumble and he might commit suicide.

He still wasn't resigned to his situation, so he returned to earth and went to see doctors. They performed a lot of tests on him to determine what went wrong.

Fortunately, they discovered the issue. The nerves of his hand had simply died. Unfortunately, that didn't help his situation. If anything, it served to give finality to the situation. His arm was truly gone.

Things became awkward when one of the doctors suggested that he get the elixir that the Heavenly Corporation claims can cure any disease.

He became angry when he heard that. But he couldn't fault the doctor for it. Besides, he had more to think about. It was specifically about the warning that the Heavenly Corporation gave concerning possible permanent death caused by death in the game.

"Something that happened in the game happened to me in real life. How did they manage that?"

"If it is true that there are some deaths in the game that will kill me in real life, I have to be extra careful in God's Domain."

He went online immediately to confirm his theory. It was then that he found the news about the many people that had died in the third survival trial.

Apparently so many deaths had caused an outcry. But that outcry went without the proper response. What the Heavenly Corperation did was release the video of the Superman who was immune to bullets. It was the video he saw before he did his research about how to please gods.

Many people had called the video fake. He too was skeptical about it. But not anymore. He is a true believer now.

He didn't complain anymore about the loss of his arm after seeing that many people had lost their lives. Not only would complaining not change anything, but the heavenly cooperation can make the case that they warned him about the extent of damage he would go through before he cut his arm.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

He made up his mind instead of giving up. "I have reached this point. It is of no use giving up now."

His days in God's Domain became busy after that. He had to fight off the lady and her friends that came looking for him. He also had to manage exercising with only one arm.

His life became full of challenges one way or the other. It only became worse when he returned to the real world.

He didn't need to eat, go to toilet, or have his bath in God's Domain. So while the lack of a arm was bad and difficult to get used to in God's Domain, it couldn't compare to the stress he was experiencing on earth.

He could only tell himself that it was going to be worth it. That's the best thing he could think of to encourage himself. It worked in that it made him refuse to give up. He worked even harder in God's Domain. Not even the absence of his left arm could hold him back.

He is like a gambler who has gone too far. He needs something to make up for everything he has lost. Giving up now will mean everything he has lost will go in vain. So he decided to continue gambling.

He spent most of his time in the weapon training facility. It is the facility that trains weapon usage, or, as Ragna said, "the skilled usage of weapons, not the usage of weapons by blundering fools."

He didn't have any training points to buy the advanced training access, so he had to settle for the basics. It included going through the motions of cut, slash, stab, and block.