Have you ever imagined if your life could be an endless, fun-filled RPG game?
In any case, Xing hoped for just that. And she was about to live such a life.
The Alliance creates a unique second life for each retired special-grade honorary citizen. After Xing was matched with a suitable low-dimensional world, she signed the second life agreement and was about to start her new life in another world.
Simply put, she would be playing an endless RPG game in a real world—of course, she had to abide by the Alliance’s Low-Dimensional World Human Rights Law.
The system’s voice echoed in her mind: “Dear player, welcome to your second life. World anchor: Curse Spirit Extermination. Please begin designing your preferred appearance and body attributes.”
There’s no rush to customize her appearance. Spending hours on it might not even look as good as the system’s auto-generated one based on charm attributes. She swiped to the attribute value interface and looked at the random allocation button below, feeling her inner grinder’s soul burning fiercely.
If manually allocated, the total attribute points are fixed at 50, with a maximum of 25 for each attribute. But if she chose random allocation, she might get more or fewer total points.
For a grinder, of course, she had to endlessly refresh the random attributes.
Let’s just casually refresh it 1,000 times.
So, after refreshing 1,325 times, she finally got a total of 55 attribute points and stopped her grinder’s hand.
At this point, her initial attributes were:
Age: 3 (Life starts from childhood. The toddler phase has been skipped for you.)
Strength: 4 (Please don’t compete with chickens in strength. If you need to go out, let someone open the door for you.)
Constitution: 5 (Do you need to call the Children’s Protection Association for help?)
Agility: 5 (You might trip even on flat ground.)
Intelligence: 15 (You can easily achieve what others work hard for. Daydreaming in class? No problem, you’ll always get full marks.)
Perception: 15 (You can vaguely sense non-human entities. Think of a way to open the door to a new world.)
Charm: 20 (You are a favored child of the gods.)
“Confirm these initial attributes?”
“Confirm.”
Although her strength, constitution, and agility were ridiculously low, these attributes could actually be trained, and they were easier to acquire than perception and intelligence. The charm value was almost maxed out, making it a pretty good initial setup.
Of course, what players cared about most was the perception attribute.
This attribute was quite special, almost determining whether she could participate in the hidden world.
Swiping to the initial appearance interface, the system-generated 15-year-old image based on the charm value was very beautiful, with ebony black hair, fair skin, and gentle eyes like wisteria flowers. The charm value of 20 made players dare not look a second time, with a beauty that seemed to drain sanity.
…She was a bit curious about what a 3-year-old with a charm value of 20 would look like.
Thinking about it, Xing directly adjusted the simulated age to 3, and a… beautiful little girl appeared before her. Her appearance didn’t exceed human limits, but there was a peculiar aura and demeanor that attracted people at first glance.
…She originally thought she could see what an absolutely beautiful baby looked like, oh well.
“Next, please draw your character traits and talent skills. Based on different attribute values, hidden traits and skills may appear.”
Xing looked at the list. There were quite a few character traits, but most were hidden traits with special requirements. For example, the Six Eyes trait required a full perception value of 25 to possibly appear, and of course, its strength was quite outrageous.
Not only could it see through all skills and speed up the upgrade of jujutsu skills, but it was also bound to the identity of a divine child and the silver trait “Golden Rule · A”.
She stared enviously at the glittering Six Eyes for a while before regretfully switching to the card drawing interface.
Currently, players could only draw one character trait and one skill, but in the subsequent game, through character development and achievements, there would be opportunities to gain other traits.
Xing drew them together, and finally, a five-star trait and a five-star skill appeared.
★★★★★ Fool’s Faith · B
(“[Growth/Mutation Possible] When someone believes in you, your skill and attribute growth rate will increase. The more people believe, and the more devout the belief, the greater the enhancement.
Be careful, overly intense belief may turn into excessive love and desire.
When faith shatters, betrayed believers will turn against you.”)
Xing was quite satisfied. Although the five-star golden trait seemed to have significant negative effects, if handled well, the negative effects could actually be avoided. Being on par with a bug-level trait like Six Eyes, this growth trait surely had room for exploration.
She glanced at the talent skill.
Talent Skill:
★★★★★ Itchy Monster [Growth Possible]
Description: After contact with you, all negative emotions will disappear, bringing joy and hope to the mind.
Impact: You are a vegetarian, loving all animals (especially humans).
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“…Itchy Monster?” Xing couldn’t help but laugh.
She had read the world introduction and roughly knew that this world had non-human entities and extraordinary powers. Not to mention her constitution and strength were very low, this talent skill seemed to have almost no self-defense capability, only feeling like a mascot.
But Xing knew that the second life designed by the Alliance for special-grade honorary citizens couldn’t be careless. This seemingly unremarkable golden skill must have a lot to explore.
If combined with the Fool’s Faith trait she drew, it might produce some unexpected effects.
Next was the final item, family background.
This attribute determined what kind of family she would be placed into.
The Alliance had developed to the point where the concept of family relatives no longer existed. All children were born in nurturing pods and cared for by society. Therefore, Xing was quite looking forward to the new experience of “family”.
“Congratulations on drawing a 2-star family background.
You have obtained a father: a health product salesman from the “Lies That Kill” company.
You have obtained a mother: a descendant of a fraudulent exorcist priestess.”
Xing: …
This family seems quite criminal.
But you can’t undo a card draw, and one can’t choose their parents. The player lady hesitated but clicked to start the game.
“Character deployment begins.
Deployment successful! Welcome to your second life.”
She hadn’t had time to carefully observe her birthplace when she was startled by a woman’s scream from outside the door.
“No—don’t hit me!! Ahhh—”
The room was plastered with eerie talismans, and a thin woman wailed and rolled on the ground as if enduring violence. Her hysterical appearance frightened the others in the room.
An old man grabbed the scammer mom in a cheap priestess outfit: “Why is it useless?! Save her quickly!”
“What are you doing! Let go of my wife!” The scammer dad was shocked and rushed over, and the three of them tangled into a mess.
Mom seemed flustered too, waving talisman papers and muttering things like “bind the ghost, subdue the evil” and “dispel a hundred ghosts”.
The next second, the woman let out a nearly terrifying scream.
The three of them froze in their actions.
“System prompts you: Your parents are about to be beaten to death for their exposed fraud.”
Xing: …
Anyway, let’s salvage this scammer family first.
In the chaos, behind the constantly rolling and wailing woman, an ominous aura grew thicker, and some indescribable creature opened its eyes.
In the moment when the malice of death gripped their throats, a few ordinary people finally caught a glimpse of the hidden side of the world.
A monster covered in scarlet eyeballs, drawing despair from countless victims of domestic violence. At this moment, the curse spirit born from the fear of domestic violence finally absorbed enough nourishment.
Destruction, chaos, venting, misplaced anger, disdain for others.
They would die.
The moment this thought emerged, with a “tap,” a bare foot stepped on the floor, and the tiny sound drew all attention.
The rustling of clothes, the sound of flesh meeting the floor, the faint breathing…
Even though it was just the slightest sound, it was like a deaf person hearing sound for the first time, drawing all senses, making them forget the threat of death, and simply follow their instincts to look at her.
It was a child.
She wore only a simple white robe, her frail body walking slowly. At first glance, an infinite tenderness arose in the heart—how could such delicate feet touch the ground?
She walked past them, and fear, anger, despair, panic all dissipated.
She walked to the woman’s side, her small white hand mimicking her mother to draw a talisman in the air.
The monster did not flee.
It looked at her with the confusion of a newborn child, its initial murderous intent and madness gently soothed. When the girl reached out her hand, it obediently lowered its head, and when it touched her fingertip, its eyes widened.
…So warm.
It closed its eyes.
“Bind the ghost, subdue the evil, dispel a hundred ghosts.”
The three-year-old master of deception, bravely using the Itchy Monster skill, still didn’t know what eliminating negative emotions meant.
The young descendant of the priestess stood before her terrified parents, purifying the soon-to-form special-grade curse spirit with just a gentle touch.
The woman, tormented day and night by mental illness, lifted her head, and the light points formed by the shattered curse spirit illuminated the dark room, seemingly lighting a glimmer of hope in her heart as well.
“Don’t be afraid.” The small hand wiped away her tears, and behind the girl, she saw the loving gaze of her elderly mother… the heart drowned in fear finally felt warmth again.
“Divine Child…”
She murmured.
Author’s Note: The skill has a source.
Heavy Mary Sue warning.