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Kapitel 16: Parents' POV

<Mark mom's (Maria's) POV>

Ever since I got pregnant with my baby, things just seemed to get better and better.

My husband's business idea turned out to be successful, thus now we are going on a trip around Asia that will last the whole Summer and a bit of Spring to celebrate this success and we are also using this chance go on a honeymoon as well.

I hope the baby will be a girl, we do everything that my Peter doesn't want to do with me.

'No matter how much I love and know about you, I can't physically fathom how can you like shopping or going to large party events' so he says. And I believe him though if you get to know him, you wouldn't believe this.

One time we went to this club in Persia and there is a lot of things going on. Drinking, dancing, drunkards fooling around. I tried to make him talk to a lot of people and yes, he talked, but after 10 minutes of talking, he forcefully talked to over 20 people and left alone.

'You can be here alone, but don't drag me into talking through force' or so he said.

You couldn't believe how surprised I was when he told me he's an introvert. When we are talking, I have so much fun, so I thought he was an extrovert like me.

He doesn't care much for his appearance or what he eats. As long as the food he eats is healthy, he doesn't mind eating the same thing for days and he only showers or cleans his house at all is because 'bugs are a pain to deal with'.

*Sigh* How did I fall in love with such a guy

Though he is so sweet.

A couple of months before our wedding he secretly found out about a wedding traditions of carrying daggers so he decided, in secret to learn how to forge and decided to make our rings as well, so he remembered how to do goldsmithing.

Apparently his father is a goldsmith and Peter was thought how to goldsmith, so he made jewelry until college. He was forced to end his goldsmithing career because there was no forge that he could use close enough.

He secretly went on a trip, saying, he will get us the wedding rings and he must meet his father alone as part of his family tradition. I said 'nonsense, you are lying' at the time, but before I realized, he was gone and only then did I realize how much he was doing for me.

He was doing all the annoying household chores like cleaning the dishes and cleaning up the mess we made after my surprises, pranks and other things. Now I was forced to do it all alone.

He was gone till there was only two weeks left before our wedding carrying two mysterious boxes. If only I knew what was inside. My husband hid those boxes so well that I though that he threw out these boxes.

But I didn't give up. I tailed Peter everywhere, I searched through our house in it's entirety.

I never found those boxes and even to this day I am curious as to where did he hide them, but I'm definitely going to find out where he hid them. I'm strangely suspicious about where he hid them as every time I ask him, he ignores my question, at first he started sweating, but now he ignores it like it isn't even there.

I only found out what was in these boxes on the day of my wedding. Turns out he forged a dagger and two beautiful rings for us and the only rings that match their beauty cost at least 10 million euros (~16.3 million euro in todays money).

I almost burst into tears if happiness from this. According to his father, he spent almost 1 month on just designing and he spent the majority of his time in the forge, where the average temperature is 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit).

I can't imagine how much he suffered from this.

'This ain't much knowing that he came from a family of blacksmiths' said Jack, Peter's father, but I still worry for him, I can't even begin to imagine how many times he must've gone to the hospital due to this.

Luckily, he doesn't deal with a lot of harm these days.

Now, we are calmly relaxing in our home. Thanks to our business, we have no debts remaining and he makes sure that both him and me are properly educated on the financial side, so things have gone only for the better. I hope we will reach 50k per month within the next year.

<Mark father's (Peter's) POV>

Being born in a family of smith grants you thick skin, literally, but when I say I have thick skin, my friends think that I'm talking about my calmness.

*Sigh* If only my wife realizes how many all-nighters I have pulled, *Shiver* the couch would be my best friend for a while.

Maria's a very lovely woman, albeit a tad spoiled, but I managed to mostly erase the spoiled-part off of her.

I wouldn't consider myself lucky for falling for her, but she's one hell of a woman.

Her talent in sewing and painting all most rivals mine in forging and leather-working and dad says I'm a genius.

Her energy is also amazing, her ability to socialize too. So after her financial knowledge got better and she learned what I considered the bare minimum about psychology and talking, I had her attend events that had a lot of people attending and were important for our company.

Before her I lived a good life, by my standards only apparently.

When I told her for the first time how I live, she looked at me with eyes that looked like they were about to fall of, with her mouth opening and closing at the same time. Heh, I bet I impressed her with my life.

But on the next day she came to my apartment and took me for a shopping spree. Good God, please make me forget that experience.

The whole day I was shopping and occasionally relaxing, Maria's presence and cheese cake with chocolate doesn't help.

I was under-furnished, under-clothed, under-almost everything, or so Maria has said.

I mean I lived in a good apartment. It had everything I needed - A shower, a bedroom, a normal functioning kitchen, the closet and anything that was necessary to me, but NO, it wasn't.

Maria said that what I had didn't even qualify as basic living needs, so she took me out on a shopping spree. I was the one paying for everything.

And 2k are just gone like that.

But besides that, I have to say, I'm not even sure how I succeeded.

When I look back to it, it doesn't feel real, I mean it quite literally, something about that success doesn't feel right.

I constantly started to experience this strange feeling everywhere around myself. And this feeling got especially strong around people, especially around Maria's belly. The day I felt this feeling from her, I told her to go to the doctor.

Turns out my wife is pregnant.

That event still brings tears to my eyes.

"Honey, why do I see tears in your eyes?"

"I'm reminiscing about the past"

"Do it later or I'll make you go clean the roof"

As I said before, she's on hell of a woman.

Though I occasionally wish that I go back to the simple times of when I went to my parents to forge that dagger and the two rings. Wake up, breakfast, work, lunch, work, dinner, work, shower, sleep, that's it.

Simple, efficient, just my style.

When going back, I thought where to hide it and knowing my wife, she would search anywhere and with her ability to make friends, even hiding in a hotel wouldn't work, so I had to ask my ex to hide these boxes.

She asked for an outrageous price.

To cheat on Maria with her, luckily it was a one time event, but it's a stain that I would so anything to remember.

Sophia, I apologize for playing on your feelings, but it was necessary.

Maria, if you ever find this out, I hope you will leave my forge alone.

Either way, before the baby even my consultant was saying that this was a failed idea, but then I felt as if something changed in me and I started to do things differently.

The me I know of would've started paying to create a good jingle that would be played on TVs and Radios, but I, instead payed a newspaper to do a positive review on my beginning business and then also payed other groups of people to mail flyers, postcards and so on.

This is far too suspicious.

Thanks to this, the inner child in me wishes that my baby would be the God's incarnation or something like that.

God, I once again thank you for this gift you have bestowed me


AUTORENGEDANKEN
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Yes, I will leave religions in this world even after the start of main plot. I think that it adds a more realistic feel to a story. And I have never read a LitRPG that included real religions.

I hold no grudges against any religion.

If you see me mentioning certain religions and ignoring others is because of the place I'm writing about, so in Europe, Christianity will dominate, In India, Hinduism, In Japan, Shintoism and so on

Kapitel 17: Quest of the century

[...generating the quest...]

[Name: Punishment to the Greedy

Rank: SSS

Description: You greedy bastard, you wished for too much, now you pay the price for it.

Task: Reach 70 base stat in at least 2 stats, and 15 in everything else

Punishment: Your soul gets transferred to the Catholic Hell till 7 years after 'The First Mana Wave'

Reward: 'Gathering', 'Foraging', 'Butchering', 'Skinning', 'Sewing', 'Forging', 'Tailoring', 'Basic rune' and 'Basic enchanting' at F- rank (both skill and knowledge version), 13 gold coins, 'Multiple cores', 'Prodigy', 'Dense Muscles', 'superhuman skeleton', 'Hard skin', 'Worm', 'Steel Will', 'Impossible reflexes', 'Fearless', 'Night resistance', 'Battle Foresight', 'Water-breather', 'Fast adaptation', 'Astral Body', 'Irrational resistance', 'No presence' or it's variations, 'Iron grip', 'Poison body', 'Dulled nerves', 'Bloodhound's nose', 'Eagle Eye', 'Mole's touch', 'Bat's ears', 'Durable body', 'Resistant body'.

Duration: 7 years

Remark: You have plenty of time to enjoy before hell time]

[The quest will begin after you get back to your body]

Then return me

[Ok, but first for your sake, I will transfer the memories first.]

This way there will be more pain, right?

[No, it's to help you assimilate your role as a child faster, plus if I do memory and soul transfer at the same time, you will experience things you wish not to]

Like what?

[The biggest side effect may or may not be stat reduction]

Ok, then, begin memory transfer

[Understood]

[Memory transfer beginning]

DDDDDDDDDDDAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMNNNNNNNN YYYYYYOOOOOOOUUUUUUUU, SSSSSSSSSYYYYYYYY-

[Congratulations, you have gained the 'Pain resistance' skill]

Oh, a skill, sweet, continuing on the shouting, DAMN YOU,

SSSSSSSSSSSYYYYYYYYYYYSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEMMMMMMMM

[You're welcome, I wish you a lot of pain)

BBBBBBBBBBAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDD

[The term "bastard" historically refers to a person born out of wedlock or of parents not married to each other. As I am just a system, not a living being, the term "Bastard" doesn't work on me]

BBBBBBBBUUUUUYYYYYYYY MMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEE KKKKKKNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDGGGGGGGEEEEEEE OOOOOOOONNNNNNN CCCCCCCCCUUUUUUURRRRRRRRSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS AAAAAAAAFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTTEEEEEEERRRRRRRRR TTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSS

(Buy me knowledge on curses after this)

[No]

Yes

[Fuck you too]

Be more creative with cursing.

[Ok, but first, I need a couple of earplugs and headphones, give me a sec till I put them on, continue screaming after this, ok?]

Sure, why not?

...

[Done, feel free to moan as much as you want]

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHNNNNNN-

[I meant to shout]

Oh, ok

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

AAAAAAAAAAAAAANNnnd done

[That was kinda long]

Nah, your allowance to moan was pretty funny though

[I'm learning how to use irony for joking purposes]

Oh, that's kinda good, if used correctly, it's pretty good

[Yeah]

Fuck

[How bad are the memories?]

Wait, you don't know what memories I got

[Since the source is clean and trustworthy, I only acted as the deliveryman, only delivering the package, not seeing what's inside]

Oh

[So, how bad is it?]

It's bearable, that's all I can say for now, the memories are still in shambles, so I need to organize them.

[Ok]

[Congratulations, the skill 'Memory palace' has ranked up to F- rank]

Thanks for the upgrade, me

[You're welcome]

Now, can you see my memories?

[Yes]

Then look at what I got

[Ok]

...

...

...

..

.

[Yeah, that's bad]

[The artificial soul malfunctioned, thus now you are a super emotionless kid, though at least you will get little embarrassing memories]

[Congratulations, 'Acting' has bean acquired]

[Congratulations, 'Acting' has ranked up to G rank]

[Congratulations, 'Acting' has ranked up to G+ rank]

[Congratulations, 'Acting' has ranked up to F- rank]

[Congratulations, 'Acting' has ranked up to F rank]

[Congratulations, 'Acting' has ranked up to F+ rank]

[Congratulations, 'Acting' has ranked up to E- rank]

[Congratulations, 'Acting' has ranked up to E rank]

[Congratulations, 'Acting' has ranked up to E+ rank]

[Congratulations, 'Acting' has ranked up to D- rank]

[Yeah, I was waiting for that to happen]

Me too, though I wasn't expecting to get it to such a high degree

[That's kinda low I must say, if anybody else got the memories of somebody acting with SSS rank 'Acting' skill, they would have gotten at least to C rank]

So apparently I have shit talent in acting at acting

[Yeah]

Sweet

[If it's good for you]

Yep, what else do I get for this malfunction?

[HQ has given you a gift, a trait and a title and a 'knowledge coupon' to be precise]

What kind of trait and title?

[Emotionless outside is the trait, while the title is "Emotion controller"]

Those are kind of OP for me

[If you fail your quest, you will lose this gift, don't worry, the quest hasn't changed, though you can use the coupon right now]

Then I'll use it later, though what's the knowledge limit?

[S rank]

That's pretty OP

[This is the first time this has happened in the last few trillion years, so you are given quite the big apology]

Oh really

[Yes, if it was something like a glitch, you would only receive the 'free quest annulment token', which allows to null the quest without a single punishment, while that's also good, but your reward is almost guaranteed to be permanent]

Oh, yeah, though now I kinda hope I will get the token you mentioned

[You could by it or request it for a reward if the HQ decides to give a similar quest, where you can decide what reward you get, though I'm not certain about it]

Oh, then I will use the coupon to get knowledge on 'The Ten gates of Impossibility', the highest rank you can give me

[Host, how do you know of this technique?]

Ancient text found in a ruin barely standing, only the name of this technique was present and it only mentioned about seals, that's it

[That technique is the last remaining thing of the Old Humans, this technique was their most prized possession. Be ready for a torture session from this as this technique contains, pardon for my choice of words, a shit-load of information.]

Ok, now hurry up

[Ok, transfer beginning]

...

Where's the pain

[Give it a few minutes, there is so much pain, that it will take a while for the pain to be processed]

Ok

[Congratulations, your skill 'pain resistance has ranked up to G rank]

Shit

[Yes, shit indeed]

[The pain is about to be processed]

Gimme a count down

[Understood]

[Congratulations, you have acquired 'Insanity resistance']

I will shout 'Fuck' after the pain begins

[Ok]

[Countdown begin]

[19]

[18]

[17]

[16]

[15]

[14]

[13]

[12]

[11]

[10]

[9]

[8]

[7]

[6]

[5]

[4]

[3]

[2]

[1]

[0]

[Pain, pain, come here]

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

WWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYY DDDDDDDDIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDDDDDDDDDDDD IIIIIIIIIIIIIII AAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSKKKKKKKKKKKK FFFFFFFFFFFOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRR SSSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHH KKKKKKNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEE

(Why did I ask for so much knowledge?)

[You're getting S rank amount of knowledge, of course it's gonna hurt]

A/N: This will be a scream fest, so feel free to skip, thanks to this 'memory palace', 'pain resistance' and 'insanity resistance' will rank up quite a bit, I will tell you when it's over.

OOOOOOOKKKKKKKKKK, NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW TTTTTTTIIIIIIIIIIIMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEE TTTTTTTTTTOOOOOOOOOOO WWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW IIIIINNNNN SSSSSSSSSAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDNNNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS OOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFFF GGGGGGEEEEEEETTTTTTTTTIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGG RRRRRRRRREEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTTTAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNCCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEE TTTTTTTTTTOOOOOOOOOOOOO IIIIIIIINNNNNNNNSSSSSSSSAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTYYYYYYYY

[Congratulations, 'Memory palace' has ranked up to G rank]

[Congratulations, 'Pain resistance' has ranked up to G rank]

FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGG SSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTT

NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Congratulations, 'Insanity resistance' has ranked up to G rank]

[Congratulations, 'Pain resistance' has ranked up to G+ rank]

SSSSSSSSSSSYYYYYYYYYYYYYSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEMMMMMMMMM, SSSSSSTTTTTTTOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPP TTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEE IIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNSSSSSSSSAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTYYYYYYY RRRRRRRREEEEEEESSSSSSIIIIIISSSSTTTTTTTTTAAAAAAANNNNNNCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEE RRRRRRRAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNKKKKKK UUUUUUUPPPPPPPPSSSSSSSS

[No]

Why

[Because I can't, it's a natural process because of 'Adapt']

Oh, ok, time to continue the screaming

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

A/N: Scream fest ended

[Congratulations, you have gained the training skill 'The Ten gates of Impossibility']

Let me rest for a bit

[Should I gift you a rejuvenation pill

Nah, struggle, pressure and discomfort are the three things that allow real men to improve the most.

They crush and push you so hard that after a certain point, nothing else can push or crush you, be it physically or metaphorically

[That's deep, got anything else]

Any thing that's worth it required you to work for it one way or another.

You want to win a difficult competition, go practice, you can always improve as nobody has ever reached their total, complete limit.

The two biggest differences between men and women is that, for men, conquering is an instinct, that's why men like gaming so much, it's an easy conquer way, the same can't be said for women.

The other difference is the harm that rest can bring. For women, rest is pretty harmless. For men, though, rest can potentially bring hell.

[Somebody told you that or you learned both yourself]

Life though me. Life is the best teacher, life brings the most wisdom to you if you have the brainpower to learn what it is trying to teach you.

I have a story for both, wanna hear them?

[Sure, I probably know about them, but I'm interested in how you will portray them]


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